Michael Glazier imprint: 170 books
Laughing with God
Humor, Culture, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
When Sarah overhears God tell Abraham that she will give birth to a son, she laughs. She laughs to herself at the impossibility of her, in her old age, bearing a child (Gen 18:12). But God’s ways are not Sarah’s ways; God is far more wonderful than Sarah imagines. Of course, Sarah does give birth...
Philosophy
The Quest for Truth and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Philosophy begins, Aristotle said, with wonder; it addresses the great questions of life. This process of self-discovery through philosophy leads one to ask questions not only about human existence but also about God. In *Philosophy: The Quest for Truth and Meaning,*Andrew Beards introduces readers...
by Paul V. Niskanen
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The last chapters of the book of Isaiah offer a vision of new hope at the dawn of the postexilic period. The dense and complex imagery of light, espousal, and victory gives expression to the joyful reality of a return to Jerusalem and to the as-yet-unrealized dreams of rebuilding and repopulating...
Beauty's Vineyard
A Theological Aesthetic of Anguish and Anticipation
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Beauty’s Vineyard: A Theological Aesthetic of Anguish and Anticipation, part spiritual memoir, part systematic theology, opens with an interpretation of the parable of the tenants and concludes with the parable of the workers in the vineyard. In between unfolds a systematic theology of anguish and...
Being about Borders
A Christian Anthropology of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In an age of globalization, where borders seem to be disappearing everywhere 'between nations, religions, and even within families 'it is easy to believe our reactions to difference are vanishing as well. Bringing together the latest insights from constructive theology, contemporary continental theory,...
Wealth, Wages, and the Wealthy
New Testament Insight for Preachers and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Fulfilling what he has called a “grave responsibility,” Pope Francis has often addressed the issue of economic inequality and the use of personal, corporate, and national wealth. Francis’s teaching is rooted in the teaching of Jesus, preserved in the pages of the New Testament. The Bible has...
Scripture
History and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
"Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ." What Saint Jerome said centuries ago is surely still true today; any serious theological study must be grounded in Scripture. While there are plenty of biblical scholars today, few authors are able to introduce Scripture to students the way...
Sexual Diversity and Catholicism
Toward the Development of Moral Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The Roman Catholic Church has in recent decades sent mixed signals with regard to discrimination based on sexual identity. On the one hand, official documents have condemned violence and verbal abuse directed at persons of different sexual orientation; on the other hand, the Church has approved and...
by Jerome T. Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
The pages of the Hebrew Bible are filled with stories - short and long, funny and sad, histories, fables, and morality tales. The ancient narrators used a variety of stylistic devices to structure, to connect, and to separate their tales - and thus to establish contexts within which meaning comes...
by Tod Linafelt, Timothy K. Beal
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Some ancient works of literature survive in fragments that appear so simple and complete it's hard to imagine them as being part of a larger narrative. Such is the case with Ruth and Esther. On first reading they appear so simple, so whole, and their meanings so completely self-evident. Yet the closer...
Berit Olam: The Twelve Prophets
Volume 2: Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
There is generally no common material that binds together the works of the individual prophets that comprise the Twelve, but through Sweeney's commentary they stand together as a single, clearly defined book among the other prophetic books of the Bible.
The Book of the Twelve Prophets is a...
Women Who Wrestled with God
Biblical Stories of Israel's Beginning
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Israel's story as a people of God is a tale of women, men, and their children. Moving past a patriarchal reading of the Bible, Fischer presents a new interpretation of neglected biblical narratives. From a gender-balanced perspective, she reveals the political dimension and narrative continuation...
by Alan C. Mitchell PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Scarcely any book of the New Testament (with the possible exception of Revelation) is so perplexing as the Letter to the Hebrews." Not really a letter, but a sermon with some features of a letter added to it, not really by its putative author,Paul, but by an anonymous Christian who wrote some...
by Jan Lambrecht SJ
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Second Corinthians is often regarded as the most personal of Paul's letters. In this letter Paul more than once fiercely counters the attacks of his opponents. He extensively describes both the quality and circumstances of his apostolic existence: the sufferings he endures, the opposition he encounters,...