Pickwick Publications imprint: 381 books
Women and the Landscape of American Higher Education
Wesleyan Holiness and Pentecostal Founders
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The post-millennial vision of nineteenth century America led to greater educational opportunities for women, but these were focused on women's domestic efficacy in developing messianic mothers to help create the kingdom of God on earth. Yet, by embracing the doctrine of sanctification, Wesleyan Holiness...
Making Disciples in a World Parish
Global Perspectives on Mission & Evangelism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In this collection of inspirational and challenging essays, Methodists from around the globe reflect on the practice of disciple-making in their own contexts. From their own perspectives, they address questions like: What are the challenges you face? What biblical images shape your missional practice?...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
To what degree is Wesleyan theology part of the church's catholic witness? This book explores this question from a number of angles and goes on to embody some of these possibilities in conversation with other major traditions and figures within the Christian church. Overall, the volume shows that...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Holiness is a topic that is rarely discussed in Christian colleges and seminaries, yet the rationale for the existence of these institutions is that they provide environments where people can grow into the image of Christ. In other words, these places exist so that Christians can grow in holiness....
Priest, Prophet, Pilgrim
Types and Distortions of Spiritual Vocation in the Fiction of Wendell Berry and Cormac McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Priest, Prophet, Pilgrim: Types and Distortions of Spiritual Vocation in the Fiction of Wendell Berry and Cormac McCarthy provides a reading of characters in the novels and short stories of two important contemporary American writers through the lens of spiritual theology. Applying the work of Rowan...
Embracing Our Inheritance
Jubilee Reflections on Korean American Catholics (1966–2016)
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Korean American Catholics are celebrating their jubilee after having been officially recognized by the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1966. This occasion affords the flourishing Korean American Catholic community to take stock of their identity, celebrate this milestone, and prepare for the future....
An Immigration of Theology
Theology of Context as the Theological Method of Virgilio Elizondo and Gustavo Gutiérrez
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
The theological reflections of Virgilio Elizondo and Gustavo Gutierrez are examples of the ecclesial fruitfulness of the second half of the twentieth century. Following the directives of Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council, Elizondo and Gutierrez present the Gospel message in relevant terms...
Gathering Together
Baptists at Work in Worship
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Concerned to think intentionally about liturgy in Baptist life and thought, this book aims to address the practices of Christian worship in a theological light, examining how each brings individual Christian believers and communities of faith to a greater understanding and embodiment of the gospel....
Theology in Missionary Perspective
Lesslie Newbigin’s Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Lesslie Newbigin was one of the most significant missionary strategists and theologians of the twentieth century. With the breakdown of confidence in some of the central philosophical and theological paradigms that have been shaped and sustained by the culture of modernity, Newbigin's approach to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Lutheran tradition has in various ways influenced attitudes to work, the economy, the state, education, and health care. One reason that Lutheran theology has been interpreted in various ways is that it is always influenced by surrounding social and cultural contexts. In a society where the church...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
In a world where almost all societies are multi-religious and multi-ethnic, we need to study how social cohesion can be achieved in different contexts. In some geographical areas, as in the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, people of different religious belonging have, through the ages, lived...
Exploring a Heritage
Evangelical Lutheran Churches in the North
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
From a historical perspective, similarities among the Lutheran churches in Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden are easily understood. But these previously homogeneous northern societies, built on a Lutheran tradition with close ties between church and state, are now considered to be among the most...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Since the Reformation in the sixteenth century, Lutheran traditions have had a great impact on culture and politics in many societies. At the same time Lutheran churches have impacted personal faith, basic morality, and ethics. Modern society, however, is quite different from the time of the Reformation....
The Logic of Evangelism
Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
The publication of William J. Abraham's The Logic of Evangelism in 1989 marked a turning point in the field and practice of evangelism. Almost thirty years later the book still provokes discussion as it stimulates both theorists and practitioners to comprehend evangelism as initiation into God's reign....