Pickwick Publications imprint: 381 books
The Conclusion of Luke–Acts
The Significance of Acts 28:16–31
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The conclusion of Luke-Acts is regarded as one of the most important chapters of Luke's two-volume work. Several significant Lukan themes are found in Acts 28, all of which make some contribution to the purpose and aim of the author in writing Luke-Acts: the Gentile mission, the triumph of God's Word,...
by Yolanda Dreyer
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
This book is about the names given to Jesus by those followers responsible for putting his words and deeds into writing-the earliest Christian scribes. In the first-century Mediterranean world, the first name of male person was his proper name. The second name indicated the family or clan to which...
Daring to Share
Multi-Denominational Congregations in the United States and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Multi-denominational congregations offer rich soil for new interpretations of what it means to be a church. These parishes have chosen to covenant together for worship, service, ministry, mission, and nurturing of faith across two or more denominational traditions. Daring to Share tells their stories,...
A Place Somewhat Apart
The Private Worlds of a Late Nineteenth-Century Public University
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
The story of secularization and religious disestablishment in American higher education is told from the standpoint of a lively community of professors, students, and administrators at the University of Michigan in the late nineteenth century. This campus culture--one of the most closely watched of...
Transforming Faith
Individual and Community in H. Richard Niebuhr
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
In the face of apparently rampant individualism, there has been a steady call for a return to community and tradition, particularly in religious communities and in recent Christian theology and ethics. The form of contemporary life upheld by modern ideals like freedom and universalism, the story goes,...
China's Urban Christians
A Light That Cannot Be Hidden
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
China's Urban Christians: A Light That Cannot Be Hidden looks at how massive urbanization is redrawing not only the geographic and social landscape of China, but in the process is transforming China's growing church as well. The purpose of this book is to explore how Christians in China perceive the...
From Historical to Critical Post-Colonial Theology
The Contribution of John S. Mbiti and Jesse N. K. Mugambi
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
What is post-colonial theology? How does it relate to theology that emerged in historically colonial situations? These are two questions that get to the heart of Robert S. Heaney's work as he considers the extent to which theologians predating the emergence of post-colonial theology might be considered...
by Siu Fung Wu
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Most of the Jesus-followers in Rome would have been familiar with socioeconomic hardship. Suffering was a daily reality either for themselves or for someone they knew. Many lived below or just above subsistence level. Some were slaves, homeless, or chronically sick. Followers of Christ might have...
Fascinatingly Disturbing
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Michael Haneke's Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Michael Haneke is one of Europe's most successful and controversial film directors. Awarded the Palme d'Or and numerous other international awards, Haneke has contributed to and shaped contemporary auteur cinema and is becoming more and more popular among academics and cinephiles. His mission is as...
The Gospel of God
Romans as Paul's Aeneid
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
When Paul pens his letter to the Roman believers, he writes as a missionary to strengthen a church at the center of imperial power, choosing language that is familiar to his recipients. Paul responds not only to the influence of Judaism but also to the wider culture by contrasting prominent Roman...
Spirituality and Growth on the Leadership Path
An Abecedary
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Spirituality and Growth on the Leadership Path: An Abecedary offers lessons not usually taught about leadership, lessons learned over the author's more than thirty years in higher education and nonprofit organizations. Few resources on leadership and administration attend to the inner life of a person...
The Fit Shall Inherit the Earth
A Theology of Sport and Fitness
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
What does it mean, as a person of faith, to maintain and even strengthen one's physical body? What does it mean to "glorify God in your body" (1 Corinthians 6:20) in a time when bodily perfection is popularly defined by advertising firms, while food degradation has led to the worldwide obesity...
Scientific Models for Religious Knowledge
Are the Scientific Study of Religion and a Religious Epistemology Compatible?
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Most comparisons of science and religion are really comparisons of science and Christianity, or science and Islam, and so forth. In Scientific Models for Religious Knowledge, the author aims to get outside typical polarized debates between traditional, a priori theism and radical, scientistic naturalism....
Boundless Grandeur
The Christian Vision of A. M. Donald Allchin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Donald Allchin was an ordained priest in the Church of England, an historian, ecumenist, and contemplative theologian. The essays, poems, and memoires in this book represent what his Christian vision has brought forth in the lives of the contributors. You will meet poets, historians, bishops, archbishops,...