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  • A Case for Character: Towards a Lutheran Virtue Ethics

    A Case for Character: Towards a Lutheran Virtue Ethics

    Contemporary Lutheranism has struggled with the appropriate place of morality and character formation, as these pursuits often have been perceived as being at odds with the central Christian doctrine of justification. A Case for Character explores this problem.

    9781451477917

    $32.00

  • Augustine on War and Military Service

    Augustine on War and Military Service

    Philip Wynn uncovers a nuanced story of Augustine's thoughts on war and military service, and gives us a more complete and complex picture of this important topic.

    9781451464733

    $12.25

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  • Interpreting Bonhoeffer: Historical Perspectives, Emerging Issues

    Interpreting Bonhoeffer: Historical Perspectives, Emerging Issues

    Interpreting Bonhoeffer explores the many questions surrounding the complexities of Bonhoeffer's life, work, and historical context and what they might mean for how we understand and interpret Bonhoeffer now and in the future.

    9781451465419

    $29.00

  • Religion and Culture: Contemporary Practices and Perspectives

    Religion and Culture: Contemporary Practices and Perspectives

    This rich, broad-reaching anthology explores everyday religious practices across several of the world's religious traditions. Organized thematically—politics...

    9780800698980

    $44.00

  • The Emergence of Judaism: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Perspective

    The Emergence of Judaism: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Perspective

    This brief survey text tells the story of Judaism. Through the lens of modern biblical scholarship, Christine Hayes explores the shifting cultural contexts--the...

    9780800697495

    $13.50

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  • Thinking Theologically: The Preacher as Theologian

    Thinking Theologically: The Preacher as Theologian

    Preachers are not simple representatives of a particular theological world. Each preacher manifests characteristics that arise from that person's particular...

    9780800662325

    $24.00

  • The Horrors We Bless: Rethinking the Just-War Legacy

    The Horrors We Bless: Rethinking the Just-War Legacy

    Is war inevitable? Is it so woven into the fabric of our being that it always was and always will be? "Early Christians," says Maguire, "were...

    9780800638979

    $9.99

  • Ethics in the Community of Promise: Faith, Formation, and Decision, Second Edition

    Ethics in the Community of Promise: Faith, Formation, and Decision, Second Edition

    In this excellent and accessible introduction, now in a second edition, Childs helpfully articulates the shared features of Christian faith and shows how that...

    9780800637972

    $19.00

  • Ending Hunger Now: A Challenge to Persons of Faith

    Ending Hunger Now: A Challenge to Persons of Faith

    Ending Hunger Now brings together three powerful voices behind a shared conviction: that helping the millions who lack basic provision for food has become a...

    9780800637828

    $12.00

  • Spiritual Lemons: Biblical Women, Irreverent Laughter, and Righteous Rage

    Spiritual Lemons: Biblical Women, Irreverent Laughter, and Righteous Rage

    Putting body and bones to the biblical stories, Brakeman explores the passions of biblical women, such as Sarah's laughter, Jephthah's daughter's anger, and...

    9780806690155

    $13.99

  • En la Lucha / In the Struggle: Elaborating a Mujerista Theology, Tenth-Anniversary Edition

    En la Lucha / In the Struggle: Elaborating a Mujerista Theology, Tenth-Anniversary Edition

    Ten years ago En la Lucha offered the first systematic presentation of mujerista theology – the liberating religious reflection of Hispanic women –...

    9780800635992

    $29.00

  • Mother Church: Ecclesiology and Ecumenism

    Mother Church: Ecclesiology and Ecumenism

    Carl Braaten here issues an energetic call for a truly ecumenical church, including a Lutheran rationale for recovery of the historical episcopacy and papal...

    9780800630829

    $20.00

  • God Beyond Gender: Feminist Christian God-Language

    God Beyond Gender: Feminist Christian God-Language

    The Christian use of God-language has become a matter of debate among laypersons, theologians, worship leaders, and others. Such debates are often heated,...

    9780800627744

    $24.00

  • The Man Who Moved a Mountain

    The Man Who Moved a Mountain

    This is the definitive biography of Reverend Bob Childress of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Often compared to Mark Twain's tales of the Mississippi, the style...

    9780800612375

    $18.99

  • My Name Is Child of God ... Not "Those People"

    My Name Is Child of God ... Not "Those People"

    This personal and provocative look at poverty in America is shaped around the author's own engaging stories, song lyrics, and poems, including the well-known...

    9780806656243

    $14.99

  • Bethlehem Besieged: Stories of Hope in Times of Trouble

    Bethlehem Besieged: Stories of Hope in Times of Trouble

    The pastor of Christmas Church, a Palestinian Lutheran congregation, Mitri Raheb here presents a powerful collection of compelling personal stories of...

    9780800636531

    $19.00

  • Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches

    Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches

    Issues surrounding homosexuality threaten to divide the Christian churches and the people within them. This unique resource presents short pieces from some...

    9780800631864

    $19.00

  • A New Climate for Christology: Kenosis, Climate Change, and Befriending Nature

    A New Climate for Christology: Kenosis, Climate Change, and Befriending Nature

    For decades, Sallie McFague lent her voice and theological imagination to advocating for the most important issues of our time. In this final book, finished before her death in 2019, McFague summarizes the work of a lifetime with a clear call to live in "such a way that all might flourish." The way, she argues, is the "kenotic interpretation of Christianity: the odd arrangement whereby in order to gain your life, you must lose it."

    9781506478739

    $19.00

  • Luke's Jesus: Between Incarnation and Crucifixion

    Luke's Jesus: Between Incarnation and Crucifixion

    In Luke's Jesus, Joseph Blenkinsopp provides a chronological reading of the Jesus of Luke's Gospel, beginning with Jesus's close relations with John the Baptist, turning upon Jesus's decision to leave Galilee and travel to Jerusalem, and extending to the narrative of Jesus's crucifixion, death, resurrection, and ascension. Blenkinsopp's study of Jesus focuses upon Jesus's humanity, his interaction with others, and his teaching on poverty and wealth. Blenkinsopp provides a fresh rendering of Luke's powerful and fascinating story, one that reveals a vivid portrait of Jesus.

    9781506471839

    $5.50

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  • The Forgotten Luther III: Reclaiming a Vision of Global Community

    The Forgotten Luther III: Reclaiming a Vision of Global Community

    This book, the third in the Forgotten Luther series, invites congregations, with the help of five prominent church leaders and Luther scholars, to consider the shape of global mission in today's world. This study draws global implications from Luther's reforms and from the theology that shaped them. Accompanied by a discussion guide and videos of lectures and interviews, this book provides an excellent tool to help congregations engage the global mission of the church.

    9781506466910

    $19.00

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