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  • God and Human Suffering: An Exercise in the Theology of the Cross

    God and Human Suffering: An Exercise in the Theology of the Cross

    Professor Hall has written a major work on an agonizing subject, at once brilliant, comprehensive, and thought provoking. In contrast to many writers who...

    9780806623146

    $29.00

  • Erotic Defiance: Womanism, Freedom, and Resistance

    Erotic Defiance: Womanism, Freedom, and Resistance

    Erotic Defiance considers the sacred and transformative power of the flesh, investigating the ethical and theological dimensions of the erotic experiences of Black women and performances of Black womanhood. Bryant approaches the erotic as a divine energy that manifests love through the flesh and makes healing, resistance, and self-making possible.

    9781506478692

    $29.00

  • Good Book: How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves

    Good Book: How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves

    Good Book shows how white evangelicals in the US make the Bible the "Good Book". As social norms change, evangelicals confront interpretive challenges as they render the Bible ever benevolent. Good Book shows the negotiations that Bible-benevolence projects demand, as evangelicals seek to maintain moral authority in a diverse religious landscape.

    9781506485850

    $28.00

  • Sacred Pregnancy: Birth, Motherhood, and the Quest for Spiritual Community

    Sacred Pregnancy: Birth, Motherhood, and the Quest for Spiritual Community

    Sacred Pregnancy is a retrospective on evolving feminist discourse of motherhood, a sociological study of religious demographics and experience in the U.S., and an exploration of the spiritually guided reproductive health services. The book allows readers to more deeply understand the life-changing experiences of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood.

    9781506485560

    $28.00

  • Charging Interest: Medieval Wisdom for a Modern Financial Crisis

    Charging Interest: Medieval Wisdom for a Modern Financial Crisis

    Charging Interest explores the explosive tract written by Martin Luther which summarizes his views on poverty caused by an economic system that stopped caring for the well-being of God's children. Luther exhorts clergy to ex-communicate those causing poverty through their ruthless economic behavior or risk God's judgment alongside the perpetrators.

    9781506488462

    $19.99

  • 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

  • Scapegoats: The Gospel through the Eyes of Victims

    Scapegoats: The Gospel through the Eyes of Victims

    Christians today tend to read the New Testament as victors, not as victims. The Gospels then become one story about individual salvation rather than distinct representations of Jesus's revolutionary work on behalf of victims. Scapegoats revisits the Gospels through the lens of the scapegoats' stories where the kingdom of God is revealed.

    9781506469379

    $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

  • 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

  • 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.

    9781506481388

    $25.00

  • 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

  • Letters to a Young Theologian

    Letters to a Young Theologian

    In this volume, Van der Westhuizen has assembled an outstanding and diverse array of theologians who offer their wisdom and reflection on what it means to be a theologian. Each contributor's brief letter considering the vocation is as unique as its author. Together the letters form a rich symphony on the art and craft of being a theologian.

    9781506478791

    $19.00

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