Augsburg Fortress

The Psalms and the Life of Faith

Walter Brueggemann's unique gift of joining historical-exegetical insights to penetrating observations about the traumas and joys of contemporary...

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Jesus Christ for Today's World

Jürgen Moltmann formulates necessary questions about the significance of Jesus the Christ for persons today. He offers a compelling portrait of the earthly...

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The Way of Jesus Christ: Christology in Messianic Dimensions

The Way of Jesus Christ discusses the following topics: 1. The symbol of the way embodies the aspect of process and brings out christology's alignment...

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The Crucifixion of Jesus: History, Myth, Faith

Jesus of Nazareth died on a cross at the hands of Roman justice around the year 30 C.E. Thousands of others perished in the same way, and many people before...

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Soul in Society: The Making and Renewal of Social Christianity

Gary Dorrien's major work addresses the roots of and remedy to the current crisis in American Christian social ethics. Focusing on the story of American...

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Healing and Christianity

The classic history of healing in the Christian church from biblical times to the present.

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The Paradoxical Vision: A Public Theology for the Twenty-First Century

Robert Benne elaborates a basic theological-–ethical framework for engaging the Christian vision with its surrounding public...

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Hollywood Dreams and Biblical Stories

An accomplished biblical scholar here juxtaposes movies and New Testament themes to uncover the mythic dimensions of each and to explore the primary...

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Healers-Harmed and Harmful

"This book explores the factors that can lead a religious professional either to become depressed or to interact with others in inappropriate ways. ... ...

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Woman Battering

This book was written as a practical response to many ministers who approached the author after they did not know what to say to a woman suffering violence...

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The Spirituality of African Peoples: The Search for a Common Moral Discourse

Current interest in Afrocentricity is but one moment in the longstanding post-colonial search by African peoples, both on the continent and in the diaspora,...

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Counseling Men

Counseling Men opens the way for men to discuss and discover their fears and losses in conversation with clergy, pastoral counselors, and lay caregivers.

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They Cried to the Lord: The Form and Theology of Biblical Prayer

Both compellingly and clearly, Patrick D. Miller introduces biblical prayer in all its varied forms and from different angles: the prayers of Israel's...

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Ecumenism: The Vision of the ELCA

English text with Spanish, German, and French translations. This volume presents the policy statement on ecumenical commitment of the Evangelical Lutheran...

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Brief Pastoral Counseling: Short-Term Approaches and Strategies

Most pastoral counselors, clergy, and psychotherapists assume that truly effective counseling requires months or even years. Research suggests otherwise....

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Integrative Family Therapy

Pastoral counselors, therapists-in-training and clergy are usually introduced to one method of family assessment and treatment, which works better in some...

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The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology

With an eye to recent proposals on Paul's view of the Law and his relation to his first-century context, N. T. Wright looks in detail at passages central to...

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The Church in the Power of the Spirit

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God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God

The title expresses the book's intention: not to go on distinguishing between God and the world, so as then to surrender the world, as godless, to its...

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The Trinity and the Kingdom

“A creative rethinking of the Trinity in Light of human suffering. . . In the suffering of Christ we see that we have a God...

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