Pickwick Publications imprint: 381 books
CALVIN@500
Theology, History, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Calvin@500 is an exercise in appreciative criticism and appropriation of the Reformer's work for church and society. The collection serves as an introduction to the life and thought of this sixteenth-century Reformer in his context. The book also traces Calvin's continuing legacy for political, economic,...
Revivalism and Social Christianity
The Prophetic Faith of Henri Nick and André Trocmé
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
How does one become a Righteous among the Nations? In the case of Henri Nick (1868-1954) and Andre Trocme (1901-1971), two French Protestant pastors on whom that title was conferred by Yad Vashem (Jerusalem) for their acts of solidarity toward persecuted Jews, the answer seems to be: by being immersed,...
Inaugurations
Inaugural Lectures Delivered at McMaster Divinity College
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
The inaugural lecture is a tradition that has been practiced in western universities for centuries. These lectures originated in the great universities of continental Europe, spread to Great Britain, and then to North America. The tradition has now been appropriated further by universities around...
Christian Mission
Old Testament Foundations and New Testament Developments
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
How did a first-generation Jewish messianic movement develop the momentum to become a dominant religious force in the Western world? The essays here first investigate the roots of God's mission and the mission of his people in the Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism, specifically in the Psalms,...
Christian Worldview and the Academic Disciplines
Crossing the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
This book--an edited compilation of twenty-nine essays--focuses on the difference(s) that a Christian worldview makes for the disciplines or subject areas normally taught in liberal arts colleges and universities. Three initial chapters of introductory material are followed by twenty-six essays, each...
Pillars in the History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 1
Prevailing Methods before 1980
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
This two-volume set is part of a growing body of literature concerned with the history of biblical interpretation. The ample introduction first sets key players into the story of the development of the major strands of biblical interpretation since the Enlightenment, identifying how different theoretical...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
How does a Christian render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and unto God what is God's? This book is the result of the Bingham Colloquium of 2007 that brought scholars from across North America to examine the New Testament's response to the empires of God and Caesar. Two chapters lay the foundation...
Pillars in the History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 2
Prevailing Methods after 1980
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This two-volume set is part of a growing body of literature concerned with the history of biblical interpretation. The ample introduction first situates key players in the story of the development of the major strands of biblical interpretation since the Enlightenment, identifying how different theoretical...
The Letter to the Romans
Exegesis and Application
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Written at a time when his ideas and practices were provoking opposition even from fellow Christians, the Apostle Paul articulates in his Letter to the Romans his understanding of God's plan for humanity and discusses the implications of this plan for different groups of people. Romans is considered...
Understanding Religious Pluralism
Perspectives from Religious Studies and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Our contemporary world is fast becoming religiously diverse in a variety of ways. Thanks to globalization and migration, to mention only two current worldwide trends, people of diverse and sometimes mutually hostile faiths are now sharing neighborhoods and encountering one another's religious traditions...
Learning from All the Faithful
A Contemporary Theology of the Sensus Fidei
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Do various members of the church--regardless of their generation, gender, race, sexual orientation, country of origin, and whatever their doubts are about official church teachings and policies--have any role in determining, safeguarding, and assessing the authentic teaching and praxis of the faith...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Since being elected to the Chair of St. Peter on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis has given unique shape to the meaning of the new evangelization. With his emphasis on the concept of encounter, and his stunning expression of pastoral ministry in Evangelii gaudium, the present pontiff has breathed new...
Drenched in Grace
Essays in Baptismal Ecclesiology Inspired by the Work and Ministry of Louis Weil
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The importance of baptism within Christian history, theology, and practice is of the first order. Rooted in Christian Scripture, baptism is initiation into Jesus Christ and the sacramental beginning of engagement with the church, the body of Christ. In recent decades, the relationship between baptismal...
Reasonable Radical?
Reading the Writings of Martyn Percy
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
One of the most interesting voices in the Academy and the Church today is Martyn Percy. Percy, the Dean of Christ Church Oxford and a leading voice in the Anglican Communion, is both theologically orthodox, yet deeply unconventional. While remaining engaged in the scholarly community, Percy writes...