Augsburg Fortress

To Pray and to Love: Conversations on Prayer with the Early Church

To Pray and to Love is for all persons who want to pray but do not know how, who pray but feel uncertain about it, and who pray happily but want to grow more...

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Making Moral Decisions: A Christian Approach to Personal and Social Ethics

The question "What am I to do?" needs the balance and completion of "What are we to do?" With clarity and insight Jersild addresses the particular need of...

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Interpretation and Obedience

Drawing on specific texts that speak to cosmic hurt and personal possibility, Walter Brueggemann demonstrates the essential connection between faithful...

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The Embodied Word: Preaching as Art

Liturgy as the work of God's people gives the preacher a place to stand—an organic connection with an intentional sacramental community, says Rice. The...

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There Is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King Jr.

The sources of Martin Luther King, Jr.,'s phenomenal and prophetic impact on life in America and beyond have never been adequately understood. In this...

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Thinking the Faith: Christian Theology in a North American Context

"As the Christian movement nears the end of its second millennium, it faces a crisis that could not have been anticipated at the close of the first thousand...

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God, Dreams, and Revelation

What does the Bible say about dreams? Does God actually speak to us through them? How can they become a source of spiritual insight into life? Morton T....

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The Meaning and End of Religion

Wilfred Cantwell Smith, maintained in this vastly important work that Westerners have misperceived religious life by making "religion" into one thing. He...

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A Theology of the Cross: The Death of Jesus in the Pauline Letters

In Paul's epistles the crucifixion story reveals a God who is free and in no way bound by human categories or expectations. Yet God in Christ chooses to be...

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Theology Is for Proclamation

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Reframing: A New Method in Pastoral Care

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The Pastor: Readings From the Patristic Period

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God's Gifted People: Discovering Your Personality as a Gift

This book is gift-wrapped as a present. God's Gifted People is a present to yourself or to someone you love because it helps you discover the gift that you...

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Ethics in Ministry: A Guide for the Professional

An ethical guide for clergy and laypersons who deal with "the vexing questions that arise in the daily life of a minister at work." The authors discuss...

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God the Economist: The Doctrine of God and Political Economy

"God does not appear in the modern market. For most economists this is as it should be. It is in no way necessary, according to modern economic theory, to...

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Preaching and the Literary Forms of the Bible

Long argues that the literary form and dynamics of biblical texts can and should make a difference in the kinds of sermons created from those texts, not only...

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Matthew as Story: Second Edition

This work uses literary (narrative) criticism to explore the world of the evangelist Matthew. The focus is on the plot of the gospel story, with discussions...

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Israel's Praise: Doxology against Idolatry and Ideology

Atgues that, rightly practiced, the Psalms of Israel make available an evangelical world of Yahweh's sovereignty—a world marked by justice, righteousness, mercy, peace, and compassion.

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Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life: Revised and Expanded Edition

Among the topics treated are: Christian ethics as community ethics Charting the moral life Elements of character formation Character and social structure...

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To Love as God Loves: Conversations with the Early Church

Being a Christian means learning to love with God's love. But God's love is not a warm feeling in the pit of the stomach. It has definite characteristics we...

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