Jesus and Nonviolence

Walter Wink

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• More than ever, Walter Wink believes, the Christian tradition of nonviolence is needed as an alternative to the dominant and death-dealing "powers" of... Lees meer

The Horrors We Bless

Daniel C Maguire

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• Is war inevitable? Is it so woven into the fabric of our beingthat it always was and always will be? "Early Christians,"says Maguire, "were unanimous ... Lees meer

Does the Bible Justify Violence?

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• Renowned biblical scholar John J. Collins asks tough questions about the relationship between the portrayals of violence in the Bible and how they hav... Lees meer

Who Is Christ for Us?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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• In the summer of 1933, Dietrich Bonhoeffer delivered powerful lectures that insisted Christians encounter Jesus Christ as a living person today, as we... Lees meer

Slavery as Moral Problem

Jennifer a Glancy

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• Recent US and UN reports document the startling incidence of human trafficking in the world today. Yet the situation is hardly new. The fact that some... Lees meer

Faith and Human Rights

Richard Amesbury

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• The UN's 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights stands as ahighpoint of twentieth-century moral deliberation, yet sixty yearslater human rights ar... Lees meer

Crucifixion

John Bowden, Martin Hengel

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• In a comprehensive and detailed survey on its remarkably widespread employment in the Roman empire, Dr. Hengel examines the way in which "the most vil... Lees meer

The God You Have

Patrick D Miller

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• In this bracing call to serious thought, esteemed biblical theologian Patrick Miller looks to the First Commandment in the fight against the misapprop... Lees meer

What Christians Can Learn from Buddhism

Kristin Johnston Largen

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• It is a truism in the study of religion that to understand one's owntradition truly one must inhabit another's deeply. Kristin JohnstonLargen in this ... Lees meer

Jesus and Spiral of Violence

Richard A Horsley

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• From this engrossing portrait of first-century Palestine, Jesus emerges as the catalyst of nonviolent social revolution that anticipates the renewal o... Lees meer

God a Brief History

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• This brief tour through three thousand years of religious history shows how the Christian doctrine of God evolved in response to tensions within the i... Lees meer

Crucifixion of Jesus Ppr

Gerard S Sloyan

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• Jesus of Nazareth died on a cross at the hands of Roman justice around the year 30 C.E. Thousands of others perished in the same way, and many people ... Lees meer

On Christian Liberty

Martin Luther

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• This timeless little classic communicates essential teachings of Martin Luther. The subject of Freedom is both timely and poignantly relevant today. F... Lees meer

The Bible in Human Transformation

Walter Wink

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• Historical biblical criticism is bankrupt. That startling affirmation began The Bible in Human Transformation when it first appeared in 1975. Wink ass... Lees meer

Spirituality of the Psalms

Walter Brueggemann

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• Based on the bestseller, The Message of the Psalms, this condensed version offers readers simple insight for how the Psalms apply to every season of l... Lees meer

The Measure of a Man

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• Two brief yet powerful meditations from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. defining humanity's worth and completion relate to strides toward social justice. ... Lees meer

Virtues and Values

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• This brief volume is excerpted from Peter Paris's popular and influential work The Spirituality of African Peoples on African and African American Spi... Lees meer

The Call to Discipleship

Karl Barth

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• In this brief essay, drawn from Church Dogmatics, Barth articulates what it means to follow Jesus in faith. He emphasizes that discipleship involves a... Lees meer

What Is African American Religion?

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• Is there really a monolithic "black church"? Distilling the arguments of Pinn's important and provocative work in Terror and Triumph , this brief work... Lees meer

Understanding and Dismantling Racism

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• More than 15 years have passed since Joe Barndt wrote hisinfluential and widely acclaimed Dismantling Racism (1991, Augsburg Books). He has now writte... Lees meer

Wit of Martin Luther, the PB

Eric W Gritsch

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• Eric Gritsch ties Luther's wit and humor to his sharp polemical exploitation of the absurd or incongruous in service to his Reform. At a deeper level ... Lees meer