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  • The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance

    The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance

    Exploring the religious impulse known as mysticism — the "silent cry" at the heart of all the world's religions. Mysticism, in the sense of a "longing...

    9780800632663

    $32.00

  • Saving Jesus from Those Who Are Right: Rethinking What It Means to Be Christian

    Saving Jesus from Those Who Are Right: Rethinking What It Means to Be Christian

    In this theological resource for spiritual transformation and social change, Carter Heyward rethinks the figure and import of Jesus for church, academy, and...

    9780800629663

    $29.00

  • Families of Faith: An Introduction to World Religions for Christians

    Families of Faith: An Introduction to World Religions for Christians

    The major world religions once seemed far away, but now are in our neighborhoods. How can Christians understand them? How can we respond in a way that is...

    9780800632229

    $21.00

  • Introduction to Christian Theology

    Introduction to Christian Theology

    An attractive, accessible introduction to systematic theology for college students. Rooted in classical theology with strong sensitivities to ecumenical,...

    9780800629847

    $49.00

  • I Am a Palestinian Christian: God and Politics in the Holy Land: A Personal Testimony

    I Am a Palestinian Christian: God and Politics in the Holy Land: A Personal Testimony

    Mitri Raheb explores the recent history of the Palestinian Christians, and the complex meeting of the world's three major monotheistic religions. Clearly and...

    9780800626631

    $23.00

  • Liberation and the Cosmos: Conversations with the Elders, Revised Edition

    Liberation and the Cosmos: Conversations with the Elders, Revised Edition

    These imagined dialogues between the elders on freedom, liberation, and more offer rich reflection and a unique vantage point for understanding the luminaries of liberation through the generations. An important resource for the contemporary task of Black liberation.

    9781506488424

    $29.00

  • Corpse Care: Ethics for Tending the Dead

    Corpse Care: Ethics for Tending the Dead

    This volume develops robust, constructive, practical ethics of corpse care that address economic, environmental, and pastoral concerns for caring for the dead.

    9781506471310

    $29.00

  • The Arc of Truth: The Thinking of Martin Luther King Jr.

    The Arc of Truth: The Thinking of Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King Jr.'s significance for humanity is not only exemplified in his contributions as a preacher, pastor, civil rights leader, and world figure--he was and remains equally impactful as a theologian, philosopher, and ethicist whose life and thought evince an enduring search for and commitment to truth.

    9781506484761

    $35.00

  • Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion, 20th Anniversary Edition

    Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion, 20th Anniversary Edition

    What is the heart and soul of African American religious life? Anthony Pinn searches out the basic structure of Black religion, tracing the Black religious spirit in its many historical manifestations. In this new edition, Pinn reflects on the argument and invites a panel of five scholars to examine what it means for current and future scholarship.

    9781506474731

    $29.00

  • Interrupting a Gendered, Violent Church

    Interrupting a Gendered, Violent Church

    Working at the intersections of gender studies and Christian theology--particularly diverse feminist and queer theologies--this book points to the real ways churches foster violence around gender. This volume discusses this violent reality while also exploring church as a nexus for resistance to gender-based violence.

    9781506431598

    $23.00

  • Beyond Dalit Theology: Searching for New Frontiers

    Beyond Dalit Theology: Searching for New Frontiers

    This book is a critique of Dalit theology, with proposals for the future directions of a theology of social transformation in India. It explores new ways of doing Christology, pneumatology, and ecclesiology, and ultimately argues for the need of a new public theology in the changing religious-political contexts of India.

    9781506478852

    $29.00

  • The Way of Abundance: Economic Justice in Scripture and Society

    The Way of Abundance: Economic Justice in Scripture and Society

    In The Way of Abundance, economist and minister Edith Rasell examines the Old and New Testament teachings on economic justice through the evolution of ancient economic orders and systems. While scriptural instructions address economies in the past, Rasell identifies consistent, recurring principles to construct a vision for a just economy today.

    9781506469829

    $34.00

  • Interconnections of Asian Diaspora: Mapping the Linkages and Discontinuities

    Interconnections of Asian Diaspora: Mapping the Linkages and Discontinuities

    This book paints a portrait of the widespread dispersion and establishment of distinctively Asian Christian communities in their places of settlement. The essays argue that migration has made Asian Christianity more global and explores how Asian-diaspora communities are playing a decisive role in transforming and advancing Christian faith.

    9781506478289

    $26.00

  • Unmasking the African Ghost: Theology, Politics, and the Nightmare of Failed States

    Unmasking the African Ghost: Theology, Politics, and the Nightmare of Failed States

    Africa is continuously redefining itself in the face of Eurocentrism, misery, and oppression. Unmasking the African Ghost is a theological exploration of why the political and economic systems of so many African countries have failed and a proposal for paths toward renewing the social order.

    9781506479439

    $9.75

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  • Binding the Ghost: Theology, Mystery, and the Transcendence of Literature

    Binding the Ghost: Theology, Mystery, and the Transcendence of Literature

    Binding the Ghost considers the theological depth, resonance, and mystery of the acts of reading and writing. Ed Simon presents a lyrical, incisive, and humane sacralization of reading and writing that takes into account the wonder, enchantment, and mystery of the very idea of poetry and fiction.

    9781506478777

    $32.00

  • Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves: How Art Shapes Empathy

    Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves: How Art Shapes Empathy

    In order to truly love and welcome others, we need to exercise our imaginations and see people more as God sees them instead of according to our own inadequate and ungracious labels. Mary McCampbell examines how narrative art expands our imaginations and, in so doing, emboldens our ability to love our neighbors as ourselves.

    9781506473901

    $28.00

  • The Promise of Not-Knowing: A New New Testament Reading

    The Promise of Not-Knowing: A New New Testament Reading

    In The Promise of Not-Knowing, David Fredrickson challenges readers and interpreters of the New Testament to engage the text not simply for its usefulness or practicality, but rather to explore the text with a sense of mystery, expecting and hoping to have one's world shaken by the otherness that haunts the familiar.

    9781451496314

    $34.00

  • Telugu Christians: A History

    Telugu Christians: A History

    By confessing the Lordship of Christ, taking on Christian practices, and affiliating with the global church, Telugu Christianity is truly Christian. This volume analyzes the social life of Telugu Christians, local worldviews, and historical realities that shaped the evolution of Telugu faith.

    9781506469430

    $39.00

  • Texts of Terror (40th Anniversary Edition): Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives

    Texts of Terror (40th Anniversary Edition): Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives

    In this seminal work of biblical scholarship, Phyllis Trible focuses on four variations on the theme of terror in the Bible as she reinterprets the stories of four women in ancient Israel. Trible shows how these neglected stories--interpreted in memoriam--challenge both the misogyny of Scripture and its use in church, synagogue, and academy.

    9781506483269

    $29.00

  • Miracle in Isaiah: Divine Marvel and Prophetic World

    Miracle in Isaiah: Divine Marvel and Prophetic World

    Isaiah is a miracle. Divine wonder can be found in its testimonies to God's communication with people, in reminders of God's acts long ago, in reports of God's acts of rescue of his people, in God's promised acts of restoration in the future, and in God's extraordinary acts toward other peoples. The extraordinary binds the prophecy together.

    9781506481791

    $6.00

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