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The Hermeneutical Spirit
Theological Interpretation and Scriptural Imagination for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
In the contemporary biblical studies climate, proposals regarding the theological interpretation of Scripture are contested, particularly but not only because they privilege, encourage, and foster ecclesial or other forms of normative commitments as part and parcel of the hermeneutical horizon through...
The Missiological Spirit
Christian Mission Theology in the Third Millennium Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
The field of the theology of mission has developed variously across Christian traditions in the last century. Pentecostal scholars and missiologists also have made their share of contributions to this area. This book brings the insights of pentecostal theologian Amos Yong to the discussion. It delineates...
The Kerygmatic Spirit
Apostolic Preaching in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
This collection of fifteen sermons by one of the leading pentecostal theologians today provides insight into the form, style, and content of preaching in the pentecostal tradition while also being suggestive of normative homiletical theory and practice. The Kergymatic Spirit argues that Spirit-empowered...
The Spirit Renews the Face of the Earth
Pentecostal Forays in Science and Theology of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
This collection of essays was first presented at the 37th annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, held jointly with the Wesleyan Theological Society at Duke University in March 2008, under the conference theme, Signs, Sighs, and Significance: Pentecostal and Wesleyan Explorations of...
Remembering Jamestown
Hard Questions About Christian Mission
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
For many Americans, Christian missionary efforts have usually involved distant and exotic places. Sometimes, however, we can learn more about missions and interreligious engagement by looking in our own backyard. This collection of essays deriving from a consultation on missionary history and attitudes...
Queer Theology
Beyond Apologetics
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
What do Christianity and queerness have to do with each other? Can Christianity be queered? Queer Theology offers a readable introduction to a difficult debate. Summarizing the various apologetic arguments for the inclusion of queer people in Christianity, Tonstad moves beyond inclusion to argue for...
Puzzling Passages in Paul
Forty Conundrums Calmly Considered
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Few Christian writings have had the world-changing impact of St Paul's epistles to the churches, and yet from the very beginning these works proved themselves to be tricky texts. The Second Letter of Peter, commenting about them, says: "There are some things in them that are hard to understand"...
Understanding Pannenberg
Landmark Theologian of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Wolfhart Pannenberg has forever changed the face of twentieth-century theology. His book on Christology constituted a turning-point away from Bultmann's existentialist theology, and convincingly vindicated belief in the bodily resurrection of Jesus and its importance for theology. His numerous other...
by Anthony C. Thiselton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
"These recollections of a life-time in the Church and in different universities give rise to a diverse series of anecdotes, which provide, first, some entertaining humor, second, a glimpse into both academic and church life, and third my attempted contributions to Christian theology. Teaching...
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,...
Braided Selves
Collected Essays on Multiplicity, God, and Persons
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
What if we are more multiple as persons than traditional psychology has taught us to believe? And what if our multiplicity is a part of how we are made in the very image of a loving, relational, multiple God? How have modern, Western notions of Oneness caused harm--to both individuals and society?...
Reexamining Love of Wisdom
Philosophical Desire from Socrates to Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
What is philosophy? Why does it matter? How have philosophy and its relation to religion and science changed from the ancient to the medieval and modern periods and beyond? What are the central philosophical ideas, from Socrates to Nietzsche? Reexamining Love of Wisdom addresses these questions. It...
Jesus the Everlasting Hope of Humankind
Biblical Theology Prompted by Visions and Dreams from the Holy Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Jesus the Everlasting Hope of Humankind: Biblical Theology Prompted by Visions and Dreams from the Holy Spirit begins with a vision that came to Don Eckhart of two persons: one a Spirit-filled Christian and the other in the lake of fire. The vision depicts Jesus saving the desperate one crying out...
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,...