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Embodied Word : Preaching As Art And Liturgy
$16.00Liturgy as the work of God’s people gives the preacher a place to stand-an organic connection with an intentional sacramental community, says Rice. The place of preaching is the community, Christ’s body, and the hermeneutic that governs homiletical exegesis, style, and presentation comes from the liturgical situation of the sermon.
The Embodied Word puts preaching in its proper place-in the presence of the baptistry and close to the table. As Rice explores the implications of that placement for the specific concerns of homiletics, the use of Scripture, and the appropriation of the arts, he concludes that the movement of the sermon is from text to table and that the action of the liturgy both depends upon and empowers the word.
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Organizational Revolution
$45.00SKU (ISBN): 9780664251970ISBN10: 0664251978Editor: Milton Coalter | Editor: John Mulder | Editor: Louis WeeksBinding: Cloth TextPublished: January 1991Presbyterian Presence Twentieth Century ExperiencePublisher: Geneva Press Print On Demand Product
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Teaching Minister
$28.00The authors says the clergy, regardless of their appointment (as parish clergy or judicatory executives, for example), should understand themselves primary as teachers of the Christian faith. They claim it is both wrong and disadvantageous to mainline churches when clergy act as administrators or psychotherapists or in any other way that is fundamentally different from acting as a teacher. The first half of the book shows the urgency of recovering the understanding of ministry and demonstrates that the church has always witnessed to the importance of teaching as an indispensable component of ministry and of the life of faith itself. The latter half of the book provides examples of how the primary role of teaching can be used in the church.
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New Testament Apocrypha 1 (Revised)
$70.00This English translation of the new and thoroughly revised sixth German edition of the extensive extra-canonical gospel literature is an absolutely indispensable collection of sources for every student of the New Testamen and of the history and literature of ancient Christianity . . . The important newly discovered gospels from the Nag Hammadi Library, only reported in a preliminary summary fashion in the previous editions, are now presented in their complete texts with excellent introductions.
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Black Preaching : The Recovery Of A Powerful Art (Revised)
$20.99Learn how black culture and preaching style empower black congregations—and what methods all preachers should know. In this one-volume collection of The Recovery of Preaching and Black Preaching, Mitchell shows you how to add power and vision to your sermons through storytelling, imagination, and other aspects of preaching style that are rooted in black culture. .
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Understanding Fundamentalism And Evangelicalism
$25.99In this historical overview of American fundamentalism and evangelicalism, Marsden provides an introduction to these growing religious movements and a deeper analysis of two themes that have been especially prominent and controversial in these traditions–views of science and views of politics.
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Mennonite Encyclopedia 5
$99.99Purchase Volume 5 of the Mennonite Encyclopedia, containing updates on materials in the first four volumes plus nearly 1,000 new articles edited by Cornelius J. Dyck and Dennis D. Martin.
This gigantic resource covers the 435-year history of the faith, life, and culture of Anabaptists in Europe and Mennonites throughout the world. Presented are people, movements, and places in their relation to Mennonites. A few of the many articles covered are Argentina, Arminianism, Baptism, Baptist, Brazil, Calvin, Church, Communion, Congo, Deaconess, Education, Farming, Furniture, Grebel, Hubmaier, Hymnology, Industry, Literature, Marriage, Publishers, Reedley, Ukraine, and Zurich.
The Mennonite Encyclopedia was jointly edited by historians and scholars of the Mennonite Church, General Conference of Mennonites, and Mennonite Brethren Church. More than 2,700 writers contributed articles to this reference work.
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Gods Power : Traditional Understandings And Contemporary Challenges
$40.00With this book, Anna Case-Winters provides a reconstruction of the doctrine of God based on process theology and feminist thought. She takes a fresh approach to the problem of theodicy (the justification of God’s goodness and omnipotence in view of the existence of evil) and contends that traditional attempts to address this problem are unsuccessful because they do not discuss the meaning of omnipotence. Once the dispute is recast, it is not a question of how much power is attributed to God, but what kind. Case-Winters provides a coherent and theologically viable doctrine of omnipotence that avoids the pitfalls of traditional beliefs.
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Gods People In Gods Land
$32.99In recent sociological approaches to the Old Testament, Christians have been finding unexpected resources for their ethical reflection and action relative to the modern world’s pressing social and economic dilemmas.
This unique survey by Christopher Wright examines life in Old Testament Israel from an ethical perspective by considering how the economic facts of Israel’s social structure were related to the people’s religious beliefs. Observing the centrality of the family in social, economic and religious spheres of Israelite life, Wright analyzes Israel’s theology of land, the rights and responsibilities of property owners, and the socioeconomic and legal status of dependent persons in ancient Israel – wives, children, and slaves – showing the mutual interaction between such laws, institutions, and customs and the nation’s covenant relationship with God.
While primarily exegetical, God’s People in God’s Land contains many useful insights for Christian social ethics: Wright suggests how the ethical application of his findings might proceed as Christians with different theological perspectives and cultural contexts seek to work out the relevance of the Old Testament for today.
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Jews And Christians
$24.99This eye-opening dialogue between a rabbi and a Christian scholar challenges Jews and Christians to examine their misconceptions and prejudices about each other’s faith. Here a Christian and a Jew stand on common ground. Rather than simply interpreting their own respective heritages each seeks to present his own insights into the other’s religions. Topics discussed in this volume include Scripture,God concepts, Jesus, the Holocaust, election, covenant, and mission. This book is a living dialogue of faith designed to foster mutual understanding and respect between the two religions.
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Mind For What Matters A Print On Demand Title
$35.99Compiled by F. F. Bruce himself shortly before his death, this collection of eighteen of his essays (updated where necessary) represents those fields of study that particularly attracted Bruce’s interest during the previous half century. Topics covered include the humanity of Jesus Christ, women in the church, the Pauline epistles, the Acts of the Apostles, and early Judaism.
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Must God Remain Greek
$29.00PART ONE: PROPHETS, HEALERS, AND LIBERATORS
African Indigenous Churches
The Church Of The Lord (Aladura)
The Cherubim And Seraphim Church
The Church Of Jesus Christ On Earth (Zaire)
Zionist Churches In South Africa
Church Of Christ In Africa (Kenya)
Ingigenous Elements Of WorshipCaribbean Indigenous Religions And Churches
Haitian Voodoo
Cuban Santeria
Trinidadian Shango
Jamaican Churches And Traditional Religions
Native Baptists
Myalism
Kumina
Jamaican RevivalismLiberation Theologies In Afro Cultures
South Africa’s Apartheid Culture
South African Liberation Theology
Caribbean Liberation Theology (Rastafarianism)PART TWO: AN AFRO GRAMMAR OF FAITH
Christian Theology And Afro Cultures
Culture And The Grammer Of Faith
Salvation, Sin, And Death In Afro CulturesGod: Traditional Motifs
God In African Traditional Religion
Attributes Of God
Divine Ubiquity
Divine Creator
Divine Pastoral CareThe Religious Worldview Of Africans
Christ: A Son Out Of Egypt
Boundaries Of Christology
Christ As The Anointment One
Christ As Lord Of The Heavens
Christ As Healer
The Liberator And The LiberatedSpirit And Spirits: Pneumatology And Afro Cultures
The Biblical Tradition
The Dogmatic Tradition
The African Tradition
Evil Spirits And Lordship In Afro Cultures
The Spirit And Black American Religion
Spirits In Black CultureAncestors And Saints
Hagiolatry And The Ancestors
Ancestorship In The Caribbean
Ancestors And Black American Religion
Hagiography: Christian Saints And The AncestorsEpilogue
Selected Bibliography
Index
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Good And Evil
$29.00What does it mean to be human in a world filled with tragedy? With creativity and insight Edward Farley, one of today’s most respected theologians, addresses this universal and haunting question of evil. Farley anchors his discussion firmly in interhuman (I-thou) dynamics as a key to unfolding the personal and social spheres of human existence.
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Good News To The Poor
$27.99This provocative volume illuminates a dimension of John Wesley’s theology that has received insufficient attention: his deep and abiding commitment to the poor. By focusing on the radical nature of Wesley’s “evangelical economics,” Theodore W. Jennings, Jr., provides an important corrective to the view that Wesley was concerned with the salvation of souls only, and not also with the social conditions of human beings.
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Recovery Of Virtue
$39.00By developing a philosophical reconstruction of the moral philosophy that underlies the Secunda Pars of the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, Jean Porter illuminates Aquinas’ theory of morality and shows its relevance to contemporary Christian ethics.
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Paul In Other Words
$48.00The focus of this book is an anthropological perspective that will open the writings of Paul to a challenging new range of questions and issues. Jerome Neyrey introduces the reader to critical access thorough a wholly convincing method of cultural-historical analysis. Paul comes alive in time and place. Biblical theologians and students will find ample stimulus in Neyrey’s analysis of Paul.
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1 Corinthians : A Self Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$11.99Exploring the Bible’s message is easy and exciting with these complete do-it-yourself Bible study guides. Each study includes helpful outlines, charts, maps, diagrams and explanations. For personal, group or classroom use.
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From Generation To Generation
$35.00Based on years of experience as a pastor and professor of theology, John Leith reflects on the dilemma of the church today as primarily “a crisis of faith.” He states that renewal is found within Scripture and the tradition of a believing, worshiping community–in hearing the word of God, particularly in preaching, in teaching, in the sacraments, and in Christian conversation.
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Church With Aids
$40.00This book looks at the experiences of people with AIDS as a means of examining the way Christianity views the problem and deals with it on both personal and community levels. This book begins by sharing the experience and ministry of those living with AIDS. Also presented is a series of theological reflections on what living with AIDS means for the renewal of the church. Russell also asks how the traditional church might be seen differently by those struggling with AIDS. The final section, is designed as a tool for study and discussion groups.
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Call To Personhood
$49.99“What is a person?” Although the answer is given in largely theoretical terms, the primary concern of this book is to identify the personal, social and political practices required to live as a human in community with others. Christian trinitarian theology is accordingly interwoven with contemporary social thought to provide an account of individuality and of the various dimensions of personal existence (the psychological, the interpersonal, the material, the institutional, the political, the spiritual) in terms of communication. The basic theme of this book is that we become the people we are as our identities are shaped through the patterns of relation, communication and exchange that surround and incorporate us.
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Meaning And The End Of Religion
$34.00The Meaning and End of Religion is a classic in the study of religion. Smith integrates care in examining historical and philosophical particulars with a large scope in the range of data he considers. He makes us conscious of the way we have perceived religious life and invites us to look at it again in a new way.
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Galatians : A Self Study Guide (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Exploring the Bible’s message is easy and exciting with this complete do it yourself Bible study guide on Galatians. Each study includes helpful outlines,charts,maps,diagrams and explanations. For personal,group and classroom use
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Life Of Christ (Student/Study Guide)
$11.99Contents
Introduction
1. Before The Event Of Bethlehem
2. The Gospels’ Four Portraits Of Jesus
3. The Geography Of Jesus’ Public Ministry
4. Jesus The God-Man
5. Life Of Christ: A Survey
6. Preparation Period
7. Beginning Of Public Ministry Period
8. Early Judean Period
9. Early Galilean Period
10. Middle Galilean Period
11. Later Galilean Period
12. Later Judean. And Perean Periods
13. Passion Week
14. The Resurrected Christ
15. A Concluding Study
BibliographyAdditional Info
What would it have been like to know Christ during His life on earth? What was He really like? How can we live more Christ like lives? This Self-Study Guide follows Christ’s footsteps from birth to death and gives us a clearer understanding of His purpose for the world and for each of us as individuals. It shows us how to apply Christ’s teachings to our daily lives.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Short Meditations On The Bible And Peanuts
$21.00Robert L. Short, author of the best-selling The Gospel According to Peanuts, presents a book of biblical meditations on everyday life. Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Snoopy, Woodstock, and friends consider their religious beliefs, and the resulting cartoons offer some delightful insights into life. Short seizes the opportunity to explore these insights one step further, to help us laugh at our own foibles and learn from our own collisions with reality.
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Yankee Bride And Rebel Bride
$12.99For some reason at just that moment, Garnet glanced up at the house and thought she saw a shadowy figure standing at the window of the downstairs master bedroom in the wing Malcolm shared with Rose. With a little clutching sensations, Garnet wondered if Rose had seen her talking with Malcolm and if she minded that Garnet’s had been the last farewell. Garnet shrugged and walked back into the garden. What difference did it make one way or the other? Malcolm belonged to Rose in a way he could never belong to her. All she had of Malcolm were memories of by-gone days. Suddenly she remembered Malcolm’s parting words: “Comfort Rose if you can, and be kind to her and little Jonathan.” Garnet gave her head a careless toss as if casting off such tiresome requests. Rose and Jonathan were not her responsibility! And she had no intention of taking them on, in spite of what Malcolm had asked. Besides, there were plenty of servants to care for Jonathan, and Rose seemed content enough with her endless Bible reading and piano playing and walks in the woods. It is not any concern of mine, Garnet assured herself. “I have enough to do just taking care of myself!” — Yankee Bride and Rebel Bride is set against the turbulent backdrop of the Civil War South, and chronicles the life of Garnet Cameron, whose plan to marry the man of her dreams, Malcolm Montrose, is thwarted when he chooses a Northern bride. On the rebound, Garnet married Malcolm’s brother, thus entwining the lives of all four at Montclair, the magnificent ancestral Montrose family home.
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Wordly Saints : The Puritans As They Really Were
$24.99Dr. Ryken’s presentation of the Puritan view and style of life is perceptive and accurate. He allows the Puritans to speak for themselves on topics ranging from “Church and Worship” to “Money” and “Marriage and Sex.”
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Power Providence And Personality
$30.00Prominent biblical scholar and author Walter Brueggemann studies three passages from the books of Samuel, using the methods of literary criticism and rhetorical analysis. He examines the ways the themes of power, divine providence, and David’s personality cohere in the biblical narrative to explain David’s rise to power and assumption of the kingship and his dominance over Saul.
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Luke (Student/Study Guide)
$11.99Exploring the Bible’s message is easy and exciting with these complete do-it-yourself Bible study guides. Each study includes helpful outlines, charts, maps, diagrams and explanations. For personal, group or classroom use.
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Preaching In And Out Of Season
$23.00This excellent resource provides help for ministers who must plan their sermons not only according to the liturgical church year but also in response to the secular calendar of national holidays and public ceremonies, and in response to the program calendar of local and denominational emphases. Individual chapters discuss preaching about racial relations; family, church, and nation; the global witness of the church; work; evangelism; stewardship; and giving thanks. Suggestions for sermons on each theme are provided as well.
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Addictive Organization
$15.00Schaef and Fassel show how managers, workers, and organization members exhibit the classic symptoms of addiction: denying and avoiding problems, assuming that there is no other way of acting, and manipulating events to maintain the status quo.
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Theology Of Peace
$35.00This gift from one of the greatest twentieth-century Protestant theologians, Paul Tillich, is a collection of hopeful, realistic writings on peace from the years Tillich spent in America. Beginning in 1937, the book documents Tillich’s pre-World War II hope and resistance to Hilter and moves to the time before his death in 1965, when Tillich preached frequently on hope. It includes the first public political speech in America, on anti-Semitism, essays on planning for peace, and criticism of the peace thought of John Foster Dulles and Pope John XXII. The essays on nuclear weapons and German boundary questions illustrate the continuing timeliness of Tillich’s thought.
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Road To Daybreak
$19.0023 Chapters
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When Henri Nouwen left the world of academe and headed for the village Trosly in France, he sought a place that would lead him “closer to the heart of God.” Arriving at the L’Arche community in Trosly, he felt as if he had finally “come home.” Indeed, it was destined to change his life forever.This book is Henri Nouwen’s intimate diary that records the poignant year at L’Arche that began in the summer of 1985, a precious time of inner renewal and self-discovery. With simplicity and honesty, he describes how the experience changed his attitudes and enriched his spiritual life. Here he recounts the struggles and self-doubts he faced along this rocky road to a new vocation and introduces us to the people of L’Arche and many others whose impact on him was deep and life-lasting. Such was the impact of this experience that he chose to say yes to the call to go to the L’Arche community in Toronto, called Daybreak, and make it his permanent home and ministry.
Rich in insights and sparkling with touching and inspiring anecdotes, THE ROAD TO DAYBREAK invites the reader to join this renowned spiritual writer on his journey to a deeper understanding of God and the human family.
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Teenage Q And A Book
$12.99Contents
1. .Parents
2. .Self-Image
3. .Peer Pressure
4. .Friends
5. .Dating
6. .Love
7. .Sex
8.. Abuse
Selected Bibliography P. 197Additional Info
Here are the ANSWERS You’ve Been Wanting…To the QUESTIONS You’ve Been AskingIn The Teenage Q & A Book you’ll find answers to more than 230 questions like:
* How can I get along with my parents?
* Why do I feel the way I do about myself?
* How can I resist when all my friends do drugs?
* How can I make more friends and keep them?
* How can I get a date?
* What’s the best way to turn down a date?
* How do I know if I’m really in love?
* How far can I go physically before it’s wrong?
* How can I handle the feeling I have from being sexually abused?In The Teenage Q & A Book no question is off-limits. Josh McDowell and Bill ]ones answer your questions with honest, frank and straight-to-the-point answers. You’ll find simple, biblical solutions to your life’s toughest issues!
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Theological Dictionary Of The Old Testament Volume 6
$78.99This multivolume work is still proving to be as fundamental to Old Testament studies as its companion set, the Kittel-Friedrich Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, has been to New Testament studies.
Beginning with ‘abh (‘ab), “father,” and continuing through the alphabet, the TDOT volumes present in-depth discussions of the key Hebrew and Aramaic words in the Old Testament. Leading scholars of various religious traditions (including Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Greek Orthodox, and Jewish) and from many parts of the world (Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States) have been carefully selected for each article by editors Botterweck, Ringgren, and Fabry and their consultants, George W. Anderson, Henri Cazelles, David Noel Freedman, Shemaryahu Talmon, and Gerhard Wallis.
The intention of the writers is to concentrate on meaning, starting from the more general, everyday senses and building to an understanding of theologically significant concepts. To avoid artificially restricting the focus of the articles, TDOT considers under each keyword the larger groups of words that are related linguistically or semantically. The lexical work includes detailed surveys of a word’s occurrences, not only in biblical material but also in other ancient Near Eastern writings. Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, Ethiopic, Ugaritic, and Northwest Semitic sources are surveyed, among others, as well as the Qumran texts and the Septuagint; and in cultures where no cognate word exists, the authors often consider cognate ideas.
TDOT’s emphasis, though, is on Hebrew terminology and on biblical usage. The contributors employ philology as well as form-critical and traditio-historical methods, with the aim of understanding the religious statements in the Old Testament. Extensive bibliographical information adds to the value of this reference work.
This English edition attempts to serve the needs of Old Testament students without the linguistic background of more advanced scholars; it does so, however, without sacrificing the needs of the latter. Ancient scripts (Hebrew, Greek, etc.) are regularly transliterated in a readable way, and meanings of foreign words are given in many cases where the meanings might be obvious to advanced scholars. Where the Hebrew text versification differs from that of English Bibles, the English verse appears in parentheses. Such features
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New Testament Theology
$24.99This work is not a history of New Testament times, nor an account of New Testament religion. Nor does it proceed from a view that the New Testament was written as theology. We must bear in mind that the writers of the New Testament books were not writing set theological pieces. They were concerned with the needs of the churches for which they wrote. Those churches already had the Old Testament, but these new writings became in time the most significant part of the Scriptures of the believing community. As such, they should be studied in their own right, and these questions should be asked: What do these writings mean? What is the theology they express or imply? What is of permanent validity in them? We read these writings across a barrier of many centuries and from a standpoint of a very different culture. We make every effort to allow for this, but we never succeed perfectly. In this book I am trying hard to find out what the New Testament authors meant, and this not as an academic exercise, but as the necessary prelude to our understanding of what their writings mean for us today. — From the Introduction.
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Ill Quit Tomorrow
$15.99This bestselling recovery classic has helped untold thousands of alcoholics onto the road to recovery. Written by the founder of the Johnson Institute in Minneapolis, one of the country’s most successful training programs for treatment providers, I’ll Quit Tomorrow present the concepts and methods that have brought new hope to alcoholics and their families, friends, and employers. Abstinence is not the only objective of Johnson’s breakthrough methods — his therapy aims at restoring the ego strength of the victim to assure permanent recovery. Johnson outlines a dynamic plan of intervention and treatment that will block the progress of alcoholism and lead to a richer, more productive life.
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