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  • Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition, Second Edition

    Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition, Second Edition

    An accessible, introductory text first published by Fortress Press in 1983, Her Story: Women in Christian History has sold over 30,000 copies of the first...

    9780800638269

    $49.00

  • Religion, Politics, and the Christian Right: Post 9-11 Powers and American Empire

    Religion, Politics, and the Christian Right: Post 9-11 Powers and American Empire

    Princeton theologian Mark Taylor analyzes right-wing Christian movements in the United States amid the powers of religion, politics, empire, and corporate...

    9780800637767

    $17.00

  • The Gift of Grace: The Future of Lutheran Theology

    The Gift of Grace: The Future of Lutheran Theology

    This landmark volume, the first of two, assesses the prospects and promise of Lutheran theology at the opening of a new millennium. From four continents, the...

    9780800636869

    $32.00

  • Witnessing for Peace: In Jerusalem and the World

    Witnessing for Peace: In Jerusalem and the World

    The rapidly deteriorating situation in Israel/Palestine has dashed hopes of any imminent peace or even accommodation between the Israeli people and the...

    9780800635985

    $24.00

  • Church and State: Lutheran Perspectives

    Church and State: Lutheran Perspectives

    In an age marked by controversy over public support of religious schools, federal encouragement of religious providers of social services, and sexuality...

    9780800636043

    $29.00

  • Christians in Society: Luther, the Bible, and Social Ethics

    Christians in Society: Luther, the Bible, and Social Ethics

    Disagreement on ethical issues overlays a lack of consensus today on even deeper issues of method and authority in ethics. Yet a major ecumenical resource and...

    9780800632922

    $34.00

  • The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance

    The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance

    Exploring the religious impulse known as mysticism — the "silent cry" at the heart of all the world's religions. Mysticism, in the sense of a "longing...

    9780800632663

    $32.00

  • Saving Jesus from Those Who Are Right: Rethinking What It Means to Be Christian

    Saving Jesus from Those Who Are Right: Rethinking What It Means to Be Christian

    In this theological resource for spiritual transformation and social change, Carter Heyward rethinks the figure and import of Jesus for church, academy, and...

    9780800629663

    $29.00

  • Families of Faith: An Introduction to World Religions for Christians

    Families of Faith: An Introduction to World Religions for Christians

    The major world religions once seemed far away, but now are in our neighborhoods. How can Christians understand them? How can we respond in a way that is...

    9780800632229

    $21.00

  • Introduction to Christian Theology

    Introduction to Christian Theology

    An attractive, accessible introduction to systematic theology for college students. Rooted in classical theology with strong sensitivities to ecumenical,...

    9780800629847

    $49.00

  • God and Human Suffering: An Exercise in the Theology of the Cross

    God and Human Suffering: An Exercise in the Theology of the Cross

    Professor Hall has written a major work on an agonizing subject, at once brilliant, comprehensive, and thought provoking. In contrast to many writers who...

    9780806623146

    $29.00

  • Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods

    Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods

    Our Trespasses uncovers how race, geography, policy, and religion have created haunted landscapes in Charlotte, North Carolina, and throughout the United States. By carefully tracing the intertwined fortunes of First Baptist Church and the formerly enslaved North family, Jarrell opens our eyes to uncomfortable truths with which we all must reckon.

    9781506494920

    $30.00

  • Walking with Our Ancestors: Contemplation and Activism

    Walking with Our Ancestors: Contemplation and Activism

    Contemplation is a necessary step of activism. Barbara Holmes reveals that the justice movements in the twentieth century came from consistent contemplation practices of those seeking liberation. Through both contemplation and activism, our ancestors paved the way while showing us how to continue the fight for justice.

    9781506499239

    $14.99

  • Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition

    Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition

    M. Shawn Copeland demonstrates how Black women's historical experience casts a different light on our theological ideas about being human. This new edition incorporates recent theological, historical, and political scholarship; engages with current social movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo; and presents a new chapter on the body.

    9781506463254

    $26.00

  • Erotic Defiance: Womanism, Freedom, and Resistance

    Erotic Defiance: Womanism, Freedom, and Resistance

    Erotic Defiance considers the sacred and transformative power of the flesh, investigating the ethical and theological dimensions of the erotic experiences of Black women and performances of Black womanhood. Bryant approaches the erotic as a divine energy that manifests love through the flesh and makes healing, resistance, and self-making possible.

    9781506478692

    $29.00

  • Good Book: How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves

    Good Book: How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves

    Good Book shows how white evangelicals in the US make the Bible the "Good Book". As social norms change, evangelicals confront interpretive challenges as they render the Bible ever benevolent. Good Book shows the negotiations that Bible-benevolence projects demand, as evangelicals seek to maintain moral authority in a diverse religious landscape.

    9781506485850

    $28.00

  • Injustice and the Care of Souls, Second Edition: Taking Oppression Seriously in Pastoral Care

    Injustice and the Care of Souls, Second Edition: Taking Oppression Seriously in Pastoral Care

    Injustice and the Care of Souls, Second Edition, explores injustices in church and society and their impact on pastoral caregiving. The book offers pastoral and spiritual caregivers broader contexts, knowledge, and skills to respond effectively to marginalized people and to reflect on how their own social locations affect their work.

    9781506482477

    $39.00

  • The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-century America

    The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-century America

    The Habit of Poetry brings together the work of mid-20th century American nuns to reveal a notable Catholic literary renaissance of women religious poets. It is a case study of how women negotiate tradition and individual creativity.

    9781506471129

    $28.99

  • Sacred Pregnancy: Birth, Motherhood, and the Quest for Spiritual Community

    Sacred Pregnancy: Birth, Motherhood, and the Quest for Spiritual Community

    Sacred Pregnancy is a retrospective on evolving feminist discourse of motherhood, a sociological study of religious demographics and experience in the U.S., and an exploration of the spiritually guided reproductive health services. The book allows readers to more deeply understand the life-changing experiences of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood.

    9781506485560

    $28.00

  • Liberation and the Cosmos: Conversations with the Elders, Revised Edition

    Liberation and the Cosmos: Conversations with the Elders, Revised Edition

    These imagined dialogues between the elders on freedom, liberation, and more offer rich reflection and a unique vantage point for understanding the luminaries of liberation through the generations. An important resource for the contemporary task of Black liberation.

    9781506488424

    $29.00

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