An imprint of WM. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Eerdmans Books for Young Readers publishes board books, picture books, novels, nonfiction, and religious titles for children and young adults. EBYR seeks to publish books that create conversation and open minds to a larger world.
Lord's Prayer
By Tim Ladwig
Our Father in Heaven, Hallowed by your name. . .
The beloved words of The Lord's Prayer serve as the text for this remarkable book, in which Tim Ladwig illustrates how the words of this ancient prayer can have real meaning in our lives today.
In Tim's paintings, a young girl and her father spend a day together helping an elderly neighbour.
The love and guidance the child experiences in her relationship with her dad reflect the heart and will of our Heavenly Father in concrete ways children of all ages will understand
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Release Date: September 2002
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How the Sea Came to Be And All the Creatures in It
By Jennifer Berne, Amanda Hall
A poetic, amazingly illustrated journey through the history of the ocean from its dramatic evolutionary past to its marvellously biodiverse present.
Spanning 4.5 billion years of evolution, Jennifer Berne's extensively researched book is an accessible introduction to geology, oceanography, and marine biology.
Entrancing verse, awe-inspiring art from Amanda Hall, and wide-ranging back matter capture the mysterious beauty of the ocean and the incredible organisms who call it home.
Berne spent years studying evolution and the undersea world to tell this story with lyrical, rhyming verse that makes it an accessible and intriguing introduction to geology, oceanography, and marine biology.
Ideal for STEM/STEAM learning, the book also features comprehensive back matter that includes author's and illustrator's notes, an illustrated timeline, key terms and concepts, recommended reading, and more.
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I Wanted to Know All About God
By Virginia Kroll
I wanted to know all about God, So I went looking for him in signs of His creation . . .
In simple, poetic language this engaging book explores the kinds of questions children ask about God:
What does God do in the morning? Where is God at night? What colours does God like? What does God's love feel like?
The warm, colourful illustrations depict children of diverse cultural backgrounds wondering about God and experiencing God in their daily lives.
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Little Naomi, Little Chick
By Avirama Golan
Little Naomi has a busy day! She gets ready for school, plays with all her friends, builds with blocks, bakes mud pies, colours pictures, eats lunch, and helps mom with the shopping.
Little Chick has to stay at home with the other barnyard animals, but that doesn't stop him from having adventures of his own.
In this sweet and fun book, two parallel stories run side-by-side, linked by the implicit friendship between Naomi and Little Chick and brought to life by endearing illustrations.
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Release Date: November 2013 34 pages
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Vincent Van Gogh and the Colors of the Wind
By Chiara Lossani, Octavia Monaco
A beautiful and honest picture book biography of artist Vincent van Gogh, inspired by letters to his brother Theo.
Vincent van Gogh was a complicated person, and no one understood that better than his younger brother, Theo. While others saw Vincent as a madman, wandering into the fields with his canvases and paintbrushes, Theo knew that he saw the world like no one else did. And even though Vincent struggled with mental illness and poverty, Theo recognized his incredible artistic talent as the rest of the world now does.
Inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s letters to his brother Theo, this lyrical account from author Chiara Lossani provides a thoughtful and fresh look at the life of one of history’s most beloved PostImpressionist artists.
From childhood to his time as an evangelist to his discovery of Impressionism, eventual hospitalization and death, the story traces van Gogh's challenges and the passions that drove his craft. Octavio Monaco’s bright, evocative mixed-media art adds to the mood of the story and even includes fourteen reproductions of Van Gogh’s works.
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Ninos
Poems for the Lost Children of Chile
By Maria Jose Ferrada, Maria Elena Valdez, Lawrence Schimel
Moving poetry pays homage to thirty-four children lost during Augusto Pinochet's violent dictatorial rule of Chile.
On September 11, 1973, a military coup plunged Chile into seventeen long years of dictatorial rule Only the return of democracy could reveal the full horrors of Augusto Pinochet's regime: 3,197 people dead or disappeared including thirty-four children under the age of fourteen.
This poetry collection is a stirring memorial to those victims and the cost of extremism. Thirty-four poems one for each child lost consider the diverse hopes of these fragile young lives from Alicia to Jaime, Hector to Paola, Soledad to Rafael, they were brave and creative, thoughtful and strong.
In these pages, some children watch for the changing seasons. Some listen for new sounds on rainy afternoons. And some can't wait for their next birthday. Featuring gentle, emotive poems and soft, pastel-toned illustrations, Ninos is an unforgettable tribute to the children of Pinochet's Chile and all those threatened by political violence across the world.
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The Pack
By Amanda Cley, Cecilia Ferri
If you try to fit in with the pack, you’ll look the same as everyone else. You’ll be a part of the group, but you’ll lose parts of yourself. Eventually you won’t even recognize yourself anymore. Resonant and haunting, The Pack imagines what happens when a human being wears wolf’s clothing. This poetic, powerful book will start unforgettable conversations about identity, peer pressure, and finding one’s own path.
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The Miracle Seed
By Jago
A heartwarming reminder of life's blessings. This bright, lyrical book offers readers of all ages and backgrounds the perfect chance to reflect on all the things that they have to be grateful for. Thank You, God is a celebration of family and friends, of homes and food to share, and of the wonder of creation from the first light of day to the calm, peaceful night.
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By Martin Lemelman
The brutal Emperor Titus ordered the destruction of everything precious to the Jews: towns, villages, even their beloved Judean date palm trees Centuries passed and the Judean date palm faded into extinction. Then, in 1963, two-thousand-year-old date palm seeds were discovered. What if those seeds could bring the Judean date palm back? Dr. Sallon recruited her friend Dr. Elaine Solowey, and their amazing experiment began...
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When Daddy Prays
By Nikki Grimes, Tim Ladwig
"When Daddy prays my fear of darkness disappears and angels tiptoe down the hall. I hear them through the door and wall ...when Daddy prays." In this collection of new poems by Nikki Grimes, a child learns about prayer from his father, whose prayers carry the family through each day no matter what the circumstances. Complete with illustrations rich with tenderness and touches of affectionate humour
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Parachute
By Danny Parker, Matt Ottley
A heartwarming story about facing your fears Toby doesn’t like heights. That’s why he always carries a parachute with him. His parachute makes him feel safe when he has to climb down from his bunk bed or when he’s playing on the swings. But one day, Toby’s cat gets stuck in a tree, and its up to Toby to rescue him. With the help of his parachute, Toby reaches his cat and lowers him safely to the ground. But now Toby is stuck in the tree, unless he can conquer his fears. . . . This compelling book, perfectly complemented by Matt Ottleys expressive artwork, lends a sympathetic ear to children’s fears while simultaneously assuring readers that they can overcome them.
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The Second Sky
By Patrick Guest, Jonathan Bentley
An inspiring story about finding your true element Ever since he first hatched, Gilbert has wanted to fly. But with his big, clumsy feet and small, fluffy wings, learning to fly is a bigger challenge than Gilbert anticipated. His fellow penguins tell him to give up, but Gilbert is sure that if he keeps trying, he'll be able to soar... Young readers will fall in love with this sweet, motivating story about overcoming obstacles and discovering your hidden talents.
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Different
A Story of the Spanish Civil War
By Monica Montanes, Eva Sanchez Gomez
A young brother and sister are caught in a dark chapter of the Spanish Civil War in this captivating, award-winning book for middle grade readers. Between 1936 and 1939, a civil war raged across Spain, and for almost three years, ordinary citizens lived in fear of bombs dropping from the sky. And when fascist dictator Francisco Franco declared victory, he began to persecute everyone who had once opposed him. Spain became a country of secrets, where anyone who was different was in danger. Different explores this turbulent period through the voices of seven-year-old Socorro and nine-year-old Paco. Dramatic oil-pastel illustrations and poignantly chosen words express the emotions of two children coming of age in a time of extremism and fear. Based on the author's family history, this middle grade story is a stirring depiction of the Spanish Civil War, its tragic aftermath, and the timeless struggle for freedom from political violence.
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Watcher
By Nikki Grimes, Bryan Collier
Jordan lives in fear of Tanya, the class bully. But Tanya has worries of her own, no matter how much she tries to ignore them. It seems impossible that Jordan and Tanya could be anything other than enemies, but the Lord is watching over them, guiding each of them along a path that might just help them to understand one another.
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Brigid's Cloak
An Ancient Irish Story
At Your Baptism
By Bryce Milligan, Helen Cann
The wind groaned and swirled that night and likely it seemed to tear the thatch from the roof. But when the baby gave her first cry, the wind shushed to a whisper and the stars began to sing. Brigid's Cloak retells an ancient tale about one of Ireland's most beloved saints. Bryce Milligan's eloquently told story about Brigid is a moving tale of compassion and wonder. Beautifully illustrated by Helen Cann, Brigid's Cloak sparkles with the timelessness of legend and the transcending power of faith.
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By Carrie Steenwyk, John D. Witvliet
Through the sacrament of baptism, God shows his love. Using simple text adapted from the French Reformed Church liturgy and paired with vibrant illustrations and straightforward explanations on every page, At Your Baptism provides the perfect way to show young children how baptism is a sign of God's love and promises.
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Psalms for Young Children
By Marie-Helene Delval
A collection of expressive and emotional psalms is paraphrased for young readers and uses simple yet powerful imagery to help children talk about their feelings to God.
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Release Date: April 2008
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A Greek Reader Companion to
a Primer of Biblical Greek
By Mark Jeong
Too often, Greek readers include difficult primary texts encumbered with glosses, but this reader from Mark Jeong is instead comprised of originally written texts keyed to the vocabulary and grammar taught in Clayton Croy's Primer of Biblical Greek It is a companion resource for use with N. Clayton Croy's text, featuring dozens of simple, enjoyable narratives to reinforce the content and skills introduced by Croy.
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Romans
Text, Readers, and the History of Interpretation
A Reader in Biblical Greek
By Stephen Westerholm
A wide-ranging study of the interpretation of Paul's letter to the Romans throughout history, from Origen to Karl Barth. After two initial chapters discussing the letter's textual history and its first readers in Rome, Westerholm provides a thorough overview of over thirty of the most influential, noteworthy, and representative interpretations of Romans from nearly two thousand years of history.
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By Richard a Wright
This intermediate reader is for students, clergy, and scholars who have completed at least one year of Greek instruction and want to build reading proficiency. Notes within each selection gloss low-frequency words and clarify syntactical intricacies, and each new section of texts gradually increases in its level of difficulty, so that lessons can be worked through sequentially or as stand-alone exercises, as needed.
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The Pronunciation of New Testament Greek
Judeo-Palestinian Greek Phonology and Orthography from Alexander to Islam
By Benjamin Kantor
A pioneering, comprehensive study of the pronunciation of Judeo-Palestinian Koine Greek. Kantor's work integrates traditional methodology and statistical analysis of digital databases to examine spelling variations in the chosen texts. Kantor covers this cutting-edge approach, the primary sources, and their contexts before explaining the pronunciation of each Greek phoneme individually.
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9780802878311
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A Discussion Guide for Studies in the Sermon on the Mount by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
By J D Flanagan
Rediscover a spiritual classic. Since its publication over half a century ago, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones has inspired generations of Christian readers. Now, J. D. Flanagan revisits Lloyd-Jones's classic work of exegesis with this fresh discussion guide. Moving chapter by chapter through Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, Flanagan's detailed study guide encourages readers to consider both what the Scripture passage says and how Lloyd-Jones explicates it. Together, Studies and this guide expound on the meaning of Jesus's iconic sermon and its implications for the life of faith. Flanagan's work encourages readers to apply their reflections to issues that face Christians today. This book includes discussion questions, practical exercises, and scriptural and literary citations.
Augustine's Preached Theology
Living as the Body of Christ
By J Patout Burns
Augustine is not usually thought of today as a preacher, but he delivered sermons weekly over the course of nearly forty years to his congregation in Hippo Regius and occasionally also in Carthage and other Roman cities he visited as bishop. The differences between his sermons and his theological treatises are striking but not surprising considering that the treatises targeted an elite, educated audience while his preaching was intended for Christians who lived then as now by the spoken and remembered rather than the written word. Where Augustine's treatises were intellectual, intricate, and theoretical, the rhetoric of his sermons is characterized by conviction, emotion, and a firm commitment to putting faith into action. This volume by renowned Augustine scholar Patout Burns explores the theology of Augustine's preaching.
Calvin's Ecclesiology
A Study in the History of Doctrine
By Tadataka Maruyama, Richard A Muller
In this fresh and original monograph on the ecclesiology of John Calvin, Tadataka Maruyama sifts exhaustively through the corpus of Calvin's writings in both Latin and French to crystalize the French reformer's conception of the Christian church. After elucidating Calvin's influence from other reformers such as Jacques Lefevre, Guillaume Farel, and Martin Bucer, Maruyama shows how Calvin's ecclesiology evolved throughout his life while remaining firmly rooted in key principles and interests. Maruyama discerns three phases in Calvin's ecclesiology: Catholic ecclesiology, Reformed ecclesiology and Reformation ecclesiology
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Christian Dogmatics
An Introduction
By Gijsbert Van Den Brink, C Van Der Kooi
A fresh, inviting text on the content of Christian faith in our contemporary context. This one-volume systematic theology presents an accessible, orthodox overview of the Christian faith for students, teachers, pastors, and serious lay readers. Cornelis van der Kooi and Gijsbert van den Brink not only cover all the traditional themes creation, sin, Jesus Christ, Scripture, and so on but also relate those classical themes to contemporary developments like Pentecostalism, postmodernism, and evolutionary theory. Consisting of sixteen chapters, the book is ideal for classroom use. Each chapter begins with engaging questions and a statement of learning goals and concludes with a list of recommended further reading. Written in a student-friendly tone and style and expertly translated and edited, van der Kooi and van den Brink's Christian Dogmatics splendidly displays the real, practical relevance of theology to the complexities of today's world.
Daily Scriptures
365 Readings in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin
By Jacob N Cerone, Matthew C Fisher
Pastors, students, and scholars not in the midst of language coursework often find it difficult to maintain their knowledge of biblical languages like Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. For those looking to do so in a meaningful but manageable way, this devotional offers 365 short daily readings, pairing an Old Testament passage in Hebrew and Greek with a corresponding New Testament passage in Greek and Latin. Lexical notes in English are included as a way of facilitating a comfortable reading experience that will build one's confidence and ability in reading the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Greek New Testament, and the Latin Vulgate.
Feasts for the Kingdom
Sermons for the Liturgical Year
By Khaled Anatolios, Cornelius Plantinga
The liturgical year centres on the story of Jesus his birth, ministry, death, and resurrection. To attend to the feasts of the church is to enter into the life of Christ. Khaled Anatolios invites us into this perpetual mystery with 41 homilies for the feasts of the church year. As a patristic theologian, Anatolios illuminates the traditional doctrines of Christology and the Trinity, in a style reminiscent of the sermons of the great fathers of the church. Originally delivered as part of the Eastern Christian Divine Liturgy, the homilies look toward its Eucharistic fulfillment. Feasts for the Kingdom covers Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and other important holy days along the way. Also included are sermons for a federal election, funerals, and a wedding.
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Book of Deuteronomy, Chapters 1-11
By Bill T Arnold
In this text, Bill Arnold treats the book of Deuteronomy as the heart of the Torah and the fulcrum of the Old Testamentcrystallising the themes of the first four books of the Bible and establishing the theological foundation of the books that follow. Arnold provides an original translation of the first eleven chapters of Deuteronomy along with verse-by-verse commentary
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The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah
Book of Numbers
By Hannah K Harrington
The books of Ezra and Nehemiah represent a significant turning point in biblical history. Harrington combines analytical research on the language and culture behind the books of Ezra and Nehemiah with challenging thoughts for the Christian church today, bringing to bear a unique perspective on these books not as the end of Old Testament history but as early documents of the Second Temple period.
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By Timothy R Ashley
This comprehensive and erudite commentary presents a thorough explication of this significant Hebrew text. Timothy Ashley's introduction discusses such questions as structure, authorship, and theological themes, and it features an extended bibliography of major works on the book of Numbers. This second edition includes revisions that reflect Ashley's decades of experience
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The Book of Jeremiah
By John Goldingay
Of the Major Prophets, Jeremiah is perhaps the least straightforward. After a thorough introduction that explores matters of background, composition, and theology, Goldingay provides an original translation and verse-by-verse commentary of all fifty-two chapters, making this an authoritative and indispensable reference for scholars and pastors as they engage with Jeremiah from a contemporary Christian standpoint.
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God's Righteousness and Justice in the Old Testament
By Joze Krasovec, Craig G Bartholomew
A semantic study of God's righteousness and justice in the Hebrew Bible. The first part of the book analyzes occurrences of the Hebrew root ṣdq (meaning righteous) and other synonyms, working through the entire Old Testament canon. The second part builds off this lexical study with a more broadly exegetical, theological, and philosophical exploration of guilt, punishment, forgiveness, and reconciliation.
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Introducing the Old Testament
By Ross McCullough, John E Hare
If God is the creator of all that is, then God is the creator of everything we do. Freedom and Sin resolves this conundrum through a classical position known as compatibilist indeterminism: the idea that God can determine our free choices while not determining all our choices. It provides a detailed defence and exposition of compatibilist indeterminism, showing how human freedom is not compromised but perfected by being fixed to the will of God.
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By Robert L Hubbard, J Andrew Dearman
In this student-friendly text, Hubbard and Dearman bring decades of scholarly study and classroom experience to bear as they introduce readers to the context, composition, and message of the Old Testament. Each chapter orients readers to the Old Testament book or books, outlining historical and cultural back-ground, main characters, and structure
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Mark's Gospel History, Theology, Interpretation
By C Clifton Black
C. Clifton Black has been studying and publishing on the Gospel for over thirty years. This new collection brings together his most pivotal work and fresh investigations to constitute an allin-one compendium of contemporary Markan scholarship and exegesis. The essays cover scriptural commentary, historical studies, theological argument, and pastoral considerations.
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Paul, Then and Now
By Matthew V Novenson
Reckoning with the hermeneutical struggle to make sense of Paul as both a historical figure and a canonical muse. Matthew Novenson has become a leading advocate for the continuing relevance of historicalcritical readings of Paul even as some New Testament scholars have turned to purely theological or political approaches. In this collection of a decade's worth of essays, Novenson puts contextual understandings of Paul's letters into conversation with their Christian reception history. After a new, programmatic introductory essay that frames the other eleven essays, Novenson explores topics including the relation between theology and historical criticism the place of Jews and gentiles in Paul's gospel, the relevance of messianism to Paul's Christology, Paul's eschatology in relation to ancient Jewish eschatologies and more.
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9780802881717
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New Testament Apocrypha, Vol. 3
More Noncanonical Scriptures
By Tony Burke
An expansive compilation of New Testament apocrypha in English translation, featuring fascinating but heretofore unpublished texts. New Testament Apocrypha, vol. 3, continues to unearth the vast diversity of Christian Scripture outside of the traditional canon. This new collection encompasses a broad range of languages Greek, Church Slavic, Old English, Coptic, and more and spans centuries, from the formation of the canonical New Testament to the high Middle Ages. The selections here represent some of the least studied apocryphal texts, many of which have not previously received an English translation or a critical edition. Notable newly edited and translated selections include The Martyrdom of Zechariah, The Decapitation of John the Forerunner, The Birth of John, The Revelation about the Lord's Prayer, and The Dialogue of Mary and Christ on the Departure of the Soul
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Shaping the Past to Define the Present Luke-Acts and Apologetic Historiography
By Gregory E Sterling
Uncovering ancient texts and rethinking early Christian identity with the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, Shaping the Past to Define the Present comprises both new and revised essays by esteemed New Testament scholar Gregory E. Sterling on Jewish and early Christian historiography. A sequel to his seminal work, Historiography and SelfDefinition, this volume expands on Sterling's reading of Luke-Acts in the context of contemporary Jewish and Greek historiography. These systematically arranged essays comprise his new and revised contributions to the field of biblical studies, exploring the genre of apologetic historiography exemplified by Josephus and Eusebius, the context of Josephus's work within a larger tradition of Eastern historiography, the initial composition and circulation of Luke and Acts and more.
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The Apostle and the Empire
Paul's Implicit and Explicit Criticism of Rome
By Christoph Heilig, John M G Barclay
Was Paul silent on the injustices of the Roman Empire? Or have his letters just been misread? The inclusion of anti-imperial rhetoric in Paul's writings has come under scrutiny in recent years. Pressing questions about just how much Paul critiques Rome in his letters and how publicly critical he could have afforded to be have led to highprofile debates most notably between N. T. Wright and John M. G. Barclay. Having entered the conversation in 2015 with his book Hidden Criticism?, Christoph Heilig contributes further insight and new research in The Apostle and the Empire, reevaluating the case for Paul hiding his criticism of Rome in the subtext of his letters.
The Book of Ruth
By Robert L Hubbard
An award-winning commentary on the book of Ruth by a renowned scholar of the Old Testament Winner of the 1989 Best Commentary Book Award from Christianity Today, Robert L. Hubbard Jr.'s The Book of Ruth has helped scholars, students, and pastors interpret one of the most beloved books of the Bible for decades. The classic commentary, now available in paperback, remains one of the best explications of the story of Ruth and Naomi and its relevance to Christians today. In his introduction Hubbard discusses the issues of text, canonicity, literary criticism, authorship, date, purpose, setting, genre, legal background, themes, and theology, concluding with an outline of the book and a thorough bibliography. The commentary proper is based on Hubbard's own translation and is annotated by footnotes on textual, philological, and literary matters.
The Church's Book
Theology
of Scripture in Ecclesial Context
By Brad East, Stephen E Fowl
What role do varied understandings of the church play in the doctrine and interpretation of Scripture? In The Church's Book, Brad East explores recent accounts of the Bible and its exegesis in modern theology and traces the differences made by divergent, and sometimes opposed, theological accounts of the church. Surveying first the work of Karl Barth, then that of John Webster, Robert Jen son, and John Howard Yoder (following an excursus on interpreting Yoder's work in light of his abuse), East delineates the distinct understandings of Scripture embedded in the different traditions that these notable scholars represent. In doing so, he offers new insight into the current impasse between Christians in their understandings of Scripture one determined far less by hermeneutical approaches than by ecclesiological disagreements.
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The Gospel of Matthew, Vol 1
Matthew 1-13 Volume 1
By Walter T Wilson
What was the original purpose of the Gospel of Matthew? For whom was it written? In this magisterial two-volume commentary, Walter Wilson interprets Matthew as a catechetical work that expresses the ideological and institutional concerns of a faction of disaffected Jewish followers of Jesus in the late first century CE. Wilson's compelling thesis frames Matthew's Gospel as not only a continuation of the biblical story but also as a didactic narrative intended to shape the commitments and identity of a particular group that saw itself as a beleaguered, dissident minority. Thus, the text clarifies Jesus's essential Jewish character as the "Son of David" while also portraying him in opposition to prominent religious leaders of his day most notably the Pharisees and open to cordial association with non-Jews.
The Letter to the Romans
By Frederick Dale Bruner
In the wake of his widely appreciated commentaries on the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of John, noted theologian and exegete Frederick Dale Bruner turns his attention to Paul’s letter to the Romans. Bruner engages historical interpreters from the patristic period to the present including Augustine, Chrysostom, Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin while also offering his own lucid translation of the text and relevant pastoral applications. The result is a holistic understanding of the book of Romans informed not only by one scholar’s lifetime of ministry, teaching, and learning, but also by the full depth and breadth of church tradition.
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The Word of the Cross
Reading Paul
By Jonathan A Linebaugh, John M G Barclay
A collection of exegetical, historical, and theological essays on Paul's letters, including reception history and comparative readings in conversation with other texts. This collection of Jonathan Linebaugh's most important work on Paul explores the merciful surprise at the heart of Paul's gospel: a grace that, while strange and weak in worldly terms, is nothing less than the power of God, full of comfort and promise. Through twelve essays two of them new Linebaugh contextualizes and interprets key Pauline passages, does comparative readings of Paul in conversation with early Jewish texts, and enters into dialogue with Reformation theologians such as Martin Luther and Thomas Cranmer. Thorough and multifaceted, Linebaugh's work is at once exegetical, historical, and theological in scope.
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Gospel and the Gospels
Christian Proclamation and Early Jesus Books
By Simon J Gathercole
Do the four New Testament gospels share some essence that distinguishes them from noncanonical early Gospels? The tendency among biblical scholars of late has been to declare the answer to this question no-that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were grouped together by happenstance and are defended as canonical today despite there being no essential commonalities between them.
Simon Gathercole challenges this prevailing view and argues that in fact the theological content of the New Testament Gospels distinguishes them substantially from noncanonical Gospels. Gathercole shows how the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John each include four key points that also formed the core of early Christian preaching and teaching: Jesus's identity as messiah, the saving death of Jesus, the resurrection of Jesus, and Scripture's foretelling of the Christ event.
In contrast, most noncanonical Gospels-like the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Truth, and Marcion's Gospel-only selectively appropriated these central concerns of early Christian proclamation.
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Harvest of Hope
A Contemplative Approach to Holy Scripture
By Mark a McIntosh, Frank T Griswold
Encountering the living Word in the words of the Bible. When we read Scripture, we learn about God. When we pray the Scriptures, we experience the mystery of Jesus Christ and inhabit his life.
In this book, Mark McIntosh and Frank Griswold bring to bear their decades of combined experience in both the church and the academy to introduce and explore the idea of praying the Scriptures.
As McIntosh and Griswold demonstrate, this contemplative approach to the Bible integrates theology and spirituality and fosters genuine hope by bringing us into an encounter with the living Word.
After first laying the foundation of what it means to pray the Scriptures, the authors guide the reader through vital biblical passages from different points in the church year, showing how the seasons of the liturgical calendar provide the soil in which the seeds of the Gospel can be nourished by the Holy Spirit, yielding in time a harvest of hope.
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Jesus Tradition, Early Christian Memory, and Gospel Writing
The
Long Search for the Authentic Source
By Alan Kirk
Breaking a 200-year impasse on the origins of the gospels Biblical scholars want to get to the roots of the gospels the very earliest memories of Jesus and his world. Though scholars know about all the major concepts at work Q, the Urgospel, priority it seems like a definitive solution to the Synoptic problem is hopelessly unattainable.
Why the impasse? And where do we go from here? In Jesus Tradition, Early Christian Memory, and Gospel Writing, Alan Kirk guides us through the history of biblical scholars' quest for the authentic source. Kirk reveals that outdated assumptions about ancient media realities have caused the past two centuries of academic deadlock.
Using cutting-edge scholarship on orality, memory, and tradition formation, he shows how the origins of the gospels may be found in the memory practices of the earliest Jesus communities. Jesus Tradition, Early Christian Memory, and Gospel Writing is an essential resource for scholars and students looking to better understand this complex and rapidly changing field.
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The Bible in the Early Church
By Justo L Gonzalez
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AUD$: 111.00
A concise history of the Bible: its creation, use, and interpretation.
What is the Bible? To answer this question we must understand the Bible's origins in the early church.
In this book, celebrated church historian Justo Gonzalez introduces the reader to some important features of the earliest Bibles for instance, the Bible's original languages, its division into chapters and verses, and even its physical appearance in its first forms.
Gonzalez also explores the use of the Bible in the early church (such as in worship or in private reading) and the interpretation of the Bible throughout the ensuing centuries, giving readers a holistic sense of the Bible's emergence as the keystone of Christian life, from its beginnings to present times.
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Son of Man
Early Jewish Literature Volume 1
By Richard Bauckham
Who is the "Son of Man"? In pre-Christian Jewish writings, "Son of Man" was not a title, and it certainly did not indicate divinity. It was simply an expression for a man. Yet the term has held considerable interest among scholars of Christology for its use in describing Jesus in the gospels. In the first volume of this landmark study, Richard Bauckham pushes the conversation forward, explicating the phrase "Son of Man" as it appears in Jewish interpretations of the book of Daniel and in the apocryphal book of 1 Enoch. With philological precision and sensitivity to his sources, Bauckham attunes us to the realities of early Jewish eschatology. Thorough and comprehensive, Son of Man, vol. 1, offers scholars a solid basis for understanding the context of the messiah in the centuries leading up to Jesus.
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Race and Rhyme
Rereading the New Testament
By Love Lazarus Sechrest
The narratives and letters of the New Testament emerged from a particular set of historical contexts that differ from todays, but they resonate with us because of how the issues they raise "rhyme" with subjects of contemporary relevance. Listening for these echoes of the present in the past, Love Sechrest utilises her cultural experience and her perspective as a Black woman scholar to reassess passages in the New Testament that deal with intergroup conflict, ethnoracial tension, and power dynamics between dominant and minoritised groups. After providing an overview of womanist biblical interpretation and related terminology, Sechrest utilises an approach she calls "associative hermeneutics" to place select New Testament texts in dialogue with modern-day issues of racial justice.
Reading Theology Wisely
A Practical Introduction
By Kent Eilers, Chris Koelle
"Could reading theology turn you toward God in astonished worship? Could it enliven your reading of Scripture? Could it move you toward your true self in Christ? Could it turn you toward your neighbours in self-giving love? Could it unmask your prejudices? Should we hope for anything less?" In this illuminating introduction, Kent Eilers invites Christians of all backgrounds into the practice of reading theology. With a classroom-tested approach, Eilers shows how theology can form the imagination and enhance "the human capacity for perceiving reality beyond the surface of things" allowing Christians to see and experience God in the everyday. He then guides readers through the essential facets of theology so that it can begin to feel familiar and accessible, even (and especially) to beginners with no prior experience.
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Rethinking the Filioque with the Greek Fathers
By Giulio Maspero, Sarah Coakley
Does the Holy Spirit proceed only from the Father or also from the Son? Historically one of the major obstacles to Christian unity across the East-West divide, the Filioque the part of the Latin translation of the Nicene Creed claiming the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son still bedevils Trinitarian theologians today. How can the church possibly achieve unity in the face of this dogmatic difference, implacable for over a millennium? Examining Syriac traditions as an example, Maspero observes that both Syriac and Latin lack the linguistic precision to describe the nature of the Holy Spirit's procession from the Trinity in the same way as Greek, hence the ambiguous Filioque With rigorous theological argument, Maspero ultimately proposes a way forward for East and West one based not on centuries of polemics, but on a common tradition established by the Greek Fathers.
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Seeing God
The
Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition
By Hans Boersma, Andrew Louth
To see God is our heart's desire, our final purpose in life. But what does it mean to see God? And exactly how do we see God with our physical eyes or with the mind's eye? In this informed study of the beatific vision, Hans Boersma focuses on "vision" as a living metaphor and shows how the vision of God is not just a future but a present reality. Seeing God is both a historical theology and a dogmatic articulation of the beatific vision of how the invisible God becomes visible to us. In examining what Christian thinkers throughout history have written about the beatific vision, Boersma explores how God train s us to see his character by transforming our eyes and minds, highlighting continuity from this world to the next.
Sex, Tech, and Faith
Ethics for a Digital Age
By Kate Ott, Mihee Kim -Kort
A values-based, shame-free, pleasure-positive discussion of Christian ethics in response to a range of pressing issues in the digital ageincluding online pornography, dating apps, sexting, virtual -reality hookups, and sex robots. Digital innovation has rapidly changed the landscape of sexual experience in the twenty-first century. Rules-based sexual ethics, subscribed to by many Christians, are unable to keep up with new developments and, more often than not, seem effective at little other than generating shame. Progressive ethicist Kate Ott steps into this void with an expansive yet nuanced approach that priorities honesty and discernment over fear and judgement. Rather than producing a list of don'ts, Ott considers the possibilities alongside the potential harm in everything from the use of internet porn to the practice of online dating to human-robot intimacy.
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The Destruction of the Canaanites
God, Genocide, and Biblical Interpretation
By Charlie Trimm
How can a good God command genocide? In this short, accessible offering, Charlie Trimm provides the resources needed to make sense of one of the Bible's most difficult ethical problems the Israelite destruction of the Canaanites as told in the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, and Judges.
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The Incomparable
God Readings in Biblical Theology
The End of Theological Education
By Brent A Strawn, Collin Cornell
God's incomparability is a truth lodged deep within Christian Scripture. In The Incomparable God, Old Testament scholar Brent Strawn offers thoughtful insight into this theological mystery. This volume collects eighteen of Strawn's most provocative essays on the nature of God, several of which are published for the first time here.
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By Ted A Smith
The dominant model of theological education is coming to an end but Ted A. Smith looks to its ultimate ends as sources of hope and renewal. Smith locates the crisis facing theological education today in a history of religion in the US, then connects today's challenges to shifts in contemporary society
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The Word of a Humble God
The Origins, Inspiration, and Interpretation of Scripture
By Karen R Keen, Michael Graves
Discovering the Bible's origins makes all the difference for fostering redemptive interpretation of Scripture. In this concise presentation of a breadth of scholarship usually only found across multiple volumes, Karen Keen offers a vital introduction to the material origins of the Bible, theories of inspiration, and the history of biblical interpretation with reflections on what this all means for us as we read Scripture today.
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Trauma-Informed Evangelism
Cultivating Communities of Wounded Healers
By Charles Kiser, Elaine Heath
"We are at the forefront of a new reformation." So declares Elaine Heath in Trauma-Informed Evangelism, aiming to recover the God of love from the structures of hate that pervade Christian communities in America today. In their new guide, she and Charles Kiser work toward bringing this reformation to fruition through ministering specifically to the spiritually traumatized. Over the course of their study, Kiser and Heath amplify the voices of those who suffered misogynistic, racist, or homophobic abuse at the hands of the church. While carefully listening to these stories, Kiser and Heath bring them into conversation with the passion and resurrection of Jesus. Engaging with womanist and liberation theology, they see in the crucifixion a God who does not valorize suffering but shares the experience of the traumatized.
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What Is a Gospel?
By Francis Watson
When Christians speak of "the gospels" they're usually referring to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Other ancient writings about the life of Jesus are generally considered noncanonical or heretical. But what if these other gospel writings including the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Judas, and the Protevangelium of James aren't fundamentally different from the four canonical gospels? In this follow-up to Gospel Writing: A Canonical Perspective, noted biblical scholar Francis Watson makes the case that viewing early gospel literature as a unified genre sharing significant similarities in sources, content, and goals allows us to discern important interrelated aspects that are lost amid the usual categories. Watson's critical approach enables modern readers of the Bible to break free of fraught scholarly assumptions in order to better understand early Christian identity formation and beliefs.
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Why Can't Church Be More Like an AA Meeting?
And Other Questions Christians Ask about Recovery
By Stephen R Haynes
Do Christians need recovery? Or is recovery something needed by the church itself? Addiction whether to a substance or to a behaviour is a problem within faith communities, just like it is everywhere else. But because churches are rarely experienced as safe places for dealing with addiction, co-addiction, or the legacy of family dysfunction, Christians tend to seek recovery from these conditions in Twelve-Step fellowships. Once they become accustomed to the ethos of vulnerability, acceptance, and healing that these fellowships provide, however, they are often left feeling that the church has failed them, with many asking: why can't church be more like an AA meeting? Inspired by his own quest to find in church the sort of mutual support and healing he discovered in TwelveStep fellowships, Stephen Haynes explores the history of Alcoholics Anonymous and its relationship to American Christianity.
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Willingness to Die and the Gift of Life
Suicide
and Martyrdom in the Hebrew Bible
By Paul K -K Cho
One particularly challenging aspect of the Hebrew Bible is its treatment of various forms of voluntary death: suicide, suicide attack, martyrdom, and self-sacrifice. How can people of faith make sense of the ways biblical literature at times valorises these sensitive and painful topics? Willingness to Die and the Gift of Life surveys a diverse selection of Hebrew Bible narratives that feature characters who express a willingness to die, including Moses, Judah, Samson, Esther, Job, Daniel, and the "suffering servant" of Isaiah 53. The challenging truth uncovered is that the Hebrew Bible, while taking seriously the darker aspects of voluntary death, nevertheless time and again valorises the willingness to die-particularly when it is for the sake of the group or in faithful commitment to God.
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Navigating Faith and Science
By Joseph Vukov
Religious belief is often perceived as being in conflict with science-but does it have to be? In this short, accessible guide, Vukov advances three models for Christians to utilise when navigating the relationship between science and faith: conflict, independence, and dialogue. Through a philosophical approach grounded in compelling real-world examples, Vukov shows how no single model can be universally adequate, and how Christians must proceed with discernment according to the nature of the matter at hand. Considering a wide variety of illustrative issues-including cosmology, evolutionary biology, extraterrestrial life, miracles, brain death, and theoretical physics-Vukov introduces and describes each of the three models of interaction between faith and science, surveys their applications, and evaluates the effectiveness of each.
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The Abuse of Conscience
A Century of Catholic Moral Theology
By Matthew Levering
How important is conscience for the Christian moral life? In this book, Matthew Levering surveys twentieth-century Catholic moral theology to construct an argument against centring ethics on conscience. He instead argues that conscience must be formed by the revealed truths of Scripture as interpreted and applied in the church. Levering shows how conscience-centred ethics came to be both prior to and following the Second Vatican Council and how important voices from both the Catholic and Protestant communities criticized the primacy of conscience in favour of an approach that considers conscience within the broader framework of the Christian moral organism. Rather than engaging with current hot-button issues, Levering presents and deconstructs the work of twenty-six noteworthy theologians from the recent past in order to work through core matters.
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Bioethics for Nurses
A Christian Moral Vision
By Alisha N Mack, Charles C Camosy
If you are one of the millions of Christian nurses or nursing students in the United States, you already know that there is no real way to separate your faith commitments from your professional vocation nor would you want to. Especially amid the bedlam of the COVID-19 pandemic, faith has given countless nurses the strength to carry on and be there for their patients, one exhausting shift after another.
Bioethics for Nurses, the first book of its kind, is for nurses and nurses in training who still believe in treating the whole person not just their medical condition. With the combined wisdom of Alisha Mack, a professor of nursing with many years of clinical experience, and Charles Camosy, an award-winning bioethicist and theologian, this books advances a vision for a holistic Christian notion of health care with practical applications for everyday relevance on the job.
Through a series of case studies in the second part of the book, Mack and Camosy explore the ethics of specific situations with far-reaching implications for nurses working in a range of fields.
In the last part, the authors reflect on the future of nursing after COVID-19, making this an especially timely book for a pivotal moment in the history of the profession.
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Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity
By Helen Rhee
What did pain and illness mean to early Christians? And how did their approaches to health care compare to those of the ancient Greco-Roman world?
In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary study, Helen Rhee examines how early Christians viewed illness, pain, and health care and how their perspective was influenced both by JudeoChristian tradition and by the milieu of the larger ancient world.
Throughout her analysis, Rhee places the history of medicine, Greco-Roman literature, and ancient philosophy in constructive dialogue with early Christian literature to elucidate early Christians' understanding, appropriation, and reformulation of Roman and Byzantine conceptions of health and wholeness from the second through the sixth centuries CE.
Utilizing the contemporary field of medical anthropology, Rhee engages illness, pain, and health care as sociocultural matters. Through this and other methodologies, she explores the theological meanings attributed to illness and pain; the religious status of those suffering from these and other afflictions; and the methods, systems, and rituals that Christian individuals, churches, and monasteries devised to care for those who suffered.
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Women and the Gender of God
By Amy Peeler
God values women. While many Christians would readily affirm this truth, the widely held assumption that the Bible depicts a male God persists as it has for centuries. This misperception of Christianity not only perniciously implies that men deserve an elevated place over women but also compromises the glory of God by making God appear to be part of creation, subject to it and its categories, rather than in transcendence of it. Amy Peeler shows how the Bible depicts a God beyond gender and a saviour who, while embodied as a man, is the unification in one person of the image of God that resides in both male and female. From the doctrinal centres of Christianity of Mary, Jesus the second Adam, and the Bible’s use of the “father ” language, Peeler leads the way in reasserting the value of women in the church and prophetically speaking out against the destructive idolatry of masculinity.
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Women Who Do Female Disciples in the Gospels
By Holly J Carey
Meet the women who followed Jesus even when the Twelve failed. To be a disciple is to follow Jesus. And that requires action. But in the Gospels, the disciples often falter. The Twelve even abandon Jesus at his crucifixion in many of the narratives. Yet it is female disciples who remain faithful to Jesus to the end. What do we make of this? In Women Who Do, Holly J. Carey examines what it means to be a disciple and contends that it's the women who best embody discipleship in the Gospels. Carey describes the expectations and social roles for women in first-century Greco -Roman and Jewish contexts. Then she offers a close reading of each of the four Gospels, as well as Acts of the Apostles.
Finding Phoebe
What New Testament Women Were Really Like
By Susan E Hylen
Forget what you think you know about women in the early church. In this learned yet accessible book, Susan E. Hylen introduces first-century primary sources to illuminate readers' understanding of New Testament women. Perfect for clergy, spiritual reading groups, and all curious minds, Finding Phoebe combines incisive scholarship and instructional sensibility to encourage readers to develop their own informed interpretations of Scripture. Contrary to popular conceptions of "biblical womanhood" as passive and silent, women often served as leaders and prophets in their communities. Through careful examination of "modesty" and "silence" in the Greco-Roman world, Hylen reveals the centrality of these virtues to both men and women practicing selfcontrol in service of communal good.
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An Invitation to Joy
The Divine Journey to Human Flourishing
By Daniel J Denk, Christopher J H Wright
Jesus came to bring joy to the world. What happened? In a world full of suffering, the declaration that God wants us to be joyful can sound tone-deaf at best or hypocritical at worst.
In An Invitation to Joy, Daniel J. Denk invites readers to cast off hopelessness and rediscover joy. Yet, as Denk reminds us, "we don't find joy by pursuing joy; we find it by pursuing something else," namely, the kingdom of God. This joy is not naive optimism but a profound sense of purpose and peace.?
Throughout his reflections, Denk approaches the topic of Christian joy with sensitivity and nuance, supporting his argument with Scripture and theological scholarship. But An Invitation to Joy is not primarily academic Denk is just as likely to share his personal experience or his favorite passages from Lord of the Rings, all in an easy manner akin to a friendly conversation over coffee.
Life-affirming, empathetic, and, above all, joyful, An Invitation to Joy is a salve for the wounds of the world-weary. If you have lost your joy, this book will help you find it again.
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At the Blue Hole Elegy for a Church on the Edge
By Jack R Reese, Wesley Granberg-Michaelson
On New Year's weekend, 1831-32, two churches came together in Lexington, Kentucky, in what is often known today as the Restoration Movement. Among the churches that emerged from this movement were Churches of Christ, which grew in the nineteenth century and then flourished in the twentieth. At their zenith, around 1990, there were over 13,000 Church of Christ congregations in the United States with nearly 1.3 million members.
Like many communities of faith, these churches are now in rapid decline. The numbers are devastating. At the current trajectory, Churches of Christ in America, with a membership of just over a million, will be less than a quarter their current size in thirty years. As they awaken to their crisis, many of them are beginning to see themselves at the edge.
This book is an elegy for those churches. But it is also a story of hope and promise. As from the "Blue Hole" the tiny, hidden spring from which flows the San Antonio River, near where Jack Reese ministers there is still abundant life and grace to be found flowing into Churches of Christ, waiting to be uncovered.
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Bringing Up Kids When Church Lets You Down
A Guide for Parents Questioning Their Faith
By Bekah McNeel
After the implosion of her ministry career, Bekah McNeel was left disillusioned. But rather than leaving the Christian faith altogether, she hung out around the edges and began questioning oversimplified categories of black and white that she had been taught were sacred.
Then she had kids. From the moment someone asked if she was going to have her first child baptized, Bekah began to wonder if the conservative evangelical Christianity she grew up with was really something she wanted to give her children.
Soon, Bekah found that other parents were asking similar questions Could they raise their kids to live with both the security of faith and the freedom of open-mindedness? To value both Scripture and social justice? To learn morality without shame?
In Bringing Up Kids When Church Lets You Down, Bekah gathers voices from history, scholarship, and her own community to guide others who, like her, are on a quest to shed the false certainty and toxic perfectionism of their past to become better, healthier parents while still providing strong spiritual foundations for their children. She writes with humour and empathy, providing wise reflections (but not glib answers!) on difficult parenting topics while reminding us that we are not alone, even when we break away from the crowd.
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Care
How People of Faith Can Respond to Our Broken Health System
By G Scott Morris, Jim Wallis
Our health system doesn't work for the most vulnerable. It's time for people of faith to respond with concrete action to demonstrate God's love and effect real change. Here's how.
The dialogue on how to fix US health care is mired in partisan policy debates. Rather than idly waiting for the gridlock to resolve, people of faith can live into their call to care for the underserved right now.
Drawing from his experience as medical doctor, pastor, and founder and CEO of the nation's largest charitably funded faithbased health-care center, Scott Morris sheds light on how we can live out a crucial aspect of discipleship by ministering to the vulnerable and underserved among us.
Through the stories of people too often ignored or dehumanized, Dr. Morris addresses the financial and social barriers to health care for low-income and undocumented individuals, the lack of affordable medications, the challenges of chronic disease and behavioural health issues, and the promising outcomes of faith-based care that treats the whole person. As we continue to reckon with the effects of the Covid19 pandemic and the inequities in our health systems it has highlighted, Dr. Morris's book calls readers to awareness, action, and advocacy in their local communities on behalf of those who have no one else to turn to for quality care.
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Christ Among Us
Sculpted Images of Jesus from Across the History of Art
By Joseph Antenucci
Becherer, Henry Martin Luttikhuizen
No single figure has been featured with greater frequency in Western art than Jesus Christ. In this 'catalogue for an imagined exhibition', two prominent art historians - one from the Roman Catholic tradition, one from the Protestant tradition - offer a guided tour of fifty-two sculptures of Jesus Christ from throughout the Western world.
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279 X 216 mm
144 pages
Release Date: December 2022 B&W THROUGHOUT
9780802874061
AUD$: 83.99
Even the Devil Quotes Scripture
Reading the Bible on Its Own Terms
Encountering Mystery Religious Experience in a Secular Age
By Robyn J Whitaker
As it turns out, the uses of Scripture within Scripture are flexible, open to frequent reinterpretation, and rarely literal. Robyn J. Whitaker looks to the Bible as a guide to interpreting the Bible, and her findings breathe new life into our understanding and use of Scripture. Ultimately, Whitaker ascertains one definitive characteristic of inner-biblical interpretation: love.
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216 X 140 mm
Release Date: August 2023
9780802882035
Paperback
189 pages
AUD$: 40.99
By Dale C Allison
Through a close look at phenomena such as moments of inexplicable terror or rapturous joy, visions, near-death experiences of the afterlife, encounters with angels, heavenly voices, and premonitions, Allison shows how ordinary practices of faith need not be at odds with individual religious experiences.
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Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
227 X 154 mm
Release Date: October 2022
9780802881885
Paperback
263 pages
AUD$: 40.99
Faith and Fake News
A Guide to Consuming Information Wisely
By Rachel I Wightman
Share if you love Jesus. Scroll past if you follow the devil. Most Christians have encountered phony posts on our feeds meant to rile us up. Rachel I. Wightman has seen this problem firsthand as a librarian with over a decade of experience instructing students in information literacy. This essential guide explains the information landscape and offers suggestions on ways to engage with our neighbours online while bearing witness to Christ and the truth.
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214 X 138 mm
Release Date: August 2023
9780802882455
Paperback
192 pages
AUD$: 35.99
Gaslighted by God
Reconstructing a Disillusioned Faith
By Tiffany Yecke Brooks
What happens when the God we've been taught to believe in seems powerless to help us in the struggles of life? What do we do when the God we personally encounter no longer resembles the God we've been shown in narrow interpretations of the Bible? Many of those raised in the world of fundamentalist Christianity have been manipulated into accepting a false reality that runs counter to lived experience. The result is confusion, isolation, fear, shame, and trauma, often carried throughout one's entire life. This book is for the victims of this spiritual abuse anyone looking to reclaim their faith from legalism, nationalism, sexism, anxiety, intolerance, and other mechanisms of control utilized by God's self-appointed gatekeepers.
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224 X 148 mm
256 Pages
B&W THROUGHOUT Rel Date: August 2022
Gospel Witness Through the Ages
A History of Evangelism
By David M Gustafson
A definitive history of Christian evangelism including noteworthy persons, movements, and methods from the past Christians have been sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with nonbelievers for two thousand years. Within this deep history is wisdom for today including numerous models for understanding what evangelism is and how it should be done. In Gospel Witness through the Ages, David Gustafson introduces readers to evangelism's noteworthy persons, movements, and methods from the entire scope of church history including both examples to emulate and examples to avoid. With this thorough historical approach, Gustafson expands the reader's conception of the evangelistic task and suggests new ways to shape our identity as gospel witnesses today through the influence of these earlier generations of Christians.
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226 X 152 mm
464 Pages
B&W THROUGHOUT
Rel Date: May 2022
9780802877284
AUD$: 73.99
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
By Mark a Noll
Mark Noll asks why the largest single group of religious Americans— who enjoy increasing wealth, status, and political influence have contributed so little to rigorous intellectual scholarship. While nourishing believers in the simple truths of the gospel, why have so many evangelicals failed to sustain a serious intellectual life and abandoned the universities, the arts, and other realms of "high" culture?
Over twenty-five years since its original publication, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind has turned out to be prescient and perennially relevant. In a new preface, Noll lays out his ongoing personal frustrations with this situation, and in a new afterword he assesses the state of the scandal showing how white evangelicals' embrace of Trumpism, their deepening distrust of science, and their frequent forays into conspiratorial thinking have coexisted with surprisingly robust scholarship from many with strong evangelical connections.
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218 X 147 mm
304 Pages
Rel Date: June 2022
9780802882042
AUD$: 53.99
Hope A User's Manual
By MaryAnn McKibben Dana
Hope is not optimism. It's not toxic positivity. It's not a promise of future success or progress. And it's definitely not something that can be reduced to a scripty-font platitude on an Instagram post. So what is it? One thing is certain: real hope demands that we do something with it. That we live it out. It doesn't matter whether you're a person of faith, or someone disillusioned with faith, or someone who hardly ever thinks about faith: if you're a human being who longs for a spiritual counternarrative to live by, this book points to one resilient enough to endure crises and crushing defeats. If you're tired of hearing about some heavenly hereafter amid the pressing need for justice here and now, this is a book about hope for this world-not the next.
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215 X 140 mm
189 Pages
Rel Date: November 2022
9780802882318
AUD$: 29.99
Humbler Faith, Bigger God
Finding a Story to Live by
By Samuel Wells
Finding a renewed Christian story in a time of skepticism and doubt Is Christianity just a fairy tale for the infantile? Or worse, a cruel fantasy the perpetrator of terrible harm and the cause of endless conflict? At most, one path among many? Such questions reflect the skepticism of outsiders and the doubts of insiders some perennial, some underscored by recent events and movements. The answer to these objections isn't a louder faith to shout them down it's a humbler faith that points to a bigger God. Samuel Wells shows the way through his generous, respectful, and earnest engagement with ten difficult questions about Christianity. In each case he portrays the traditional position and the skepticism of the modern age as two rival stories. Transcending both, he then offers a revitalized Christian story that better renders the radical, courageous, and vulnerable nature of authentic faith.
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Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Hardback
218 X 145 mm
248 Pages
Rel Date: June 2022
9780802879318 AUD$: 42.99
Knowledge for the Love of God
Why Your Heart Needs Your Mind
By Timothy Pickavance, Lee Strobel
What is the role of the intellect in the life of faith? Jesus commanded us to love God with our minds-but why? Isn't simply believing enough? Confused on this point, many Christians choose to focus only on the role of their hearts in shaping their faith and consider that adequate. Some Christians go even further, arguing that knowledge exists in opposition to faith-that one must choose either the truth of science or the truth of the Bible. Knowledge for the Love of God is for followers of Jesus needing to better understand the crucial connection between faith and rationality. With stories from his own experiences wrestling with this aspect of faith, Pickavance relates a compelling vision of how cultivating the intellect strengthens our Christian worldview, helps us gain freedom in Christ, and enables us to love God with our whole being.
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216 X 140 mm
179 Pages
Rel Date: November 2022
9780802881953
AUD$: 33.99
Leading Christian Communities
By C Kavin Rowe
How to cultivate a thriving Christian community in a disconnected culture What does it mean to be a Christian community? C. Kavin Rowe addresses these topics and a multitude of others in this collection of keen essays. Bite-size and conversational, yet deeply rooted in Scripture and recent pastoral theology, the essays in Leading Christian Communities reflect on the shaping of Christian leaders for the flourishing of their communities.
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Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
216 X 140 mm
Release Date: September 2023
9780802882721
Paperback
144 pages
AUD$: 36.99
Songs I Love to Sing
The Billy Graham Crusades and the Shaping of Modern Worship
Living Under Water Baptism as a Way of Life
By Edith L Blumhofer, Fernando Ortega
In Songs I Love to Sing, Edith L. Blumhofer narrates the "biographies" of some of the most beloved songs in modern hymnody with verve and affection. Move beyond mere nostalgia. Discover the fascinating stories behind the soundtrack of American Christianity.
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229 X 156 mm
187 pages
Release Date: October 2023 B&W THROUGHOUT
9780802875297 AUD$: 42.99
By Kevin J Adams, Cornelius Plantinga
Our truest identity isn't something we create or build ourselves. It's a gift we receive. In Living under Water, Adams shares stories that illustrate how baptism shapes one's identity and enters us into an alternate narrative, one ongoing since the dawn of creation, through which we understand our truest selves with all our joy and trauma and by which we are united with a group of people unbound by race or language, continent or generation.
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213 X 140 mm
Release Date: April 2022
9780802879639
Paperback
266 pages
AUD$: 36.99
The Pastor's Bookshelf Why Reading Matters for Ministry
By Austin Carty, Thomas G Long
For busy pastors, time spent reading feels hard to justify But what if reading felt less like a luxury and more like a vocational responsibility a practice that bears fruit in every aspect of ministry The Pastor's Bookshelf shows how worthwhile reading is more about formation than information and how, through reading, a pastor becomes a fuller, more enriched human being
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267 X 137 mm Paperback
Release Date: May 2022
9780802879103
182 pages
AUD$: 40.99
A Son Picks Up the Pieces of His Father's Rage
By Arthur Boers, Andre Dubus
A sensitive and penetrating reflection on coming of age in a Dutch immigrant family scarred by violence. Arthur Boers's earliest memory was of shattered glass. His father threw a potted plant at his mother, and she ducked as the plant crashed through a window of the family home. His mother cleaned up the shards that day; later in life, he would find himself called upon to pick up the pieces as well. In Shattered, Boers reflects on coming of age in a family scarred by violence. Breaking with this silence and complicity, Boers reflects candidly and empathetically on his tumultuous relationship with his father.
Chasing the Devil at Foggy Bottom
The Future of Religion in American Diplomacy
By Shaun A Casey, John Kerry
Understanding the role of religion in global politics is crucial for effective diplomacy. Many American policy makers are squeamish about religion's role in diplomacy. Nevertheless, religion plays a crucial and complex part in global affairs, such as in sustainable development, various human rights issues, and fomenting and mitigating conflict. Shaun A. Casey, the founding director of the US Department of State's Office of Religion and Global Affairs, makes a compelling case for the necessity of understanding global religion in Chasing the Devil at Foggy Bottom. In this fresh and provocative narrative, Casey writes frankly about his work integrating sophisticated, research-driven policy into the State Department under Secretary of State John Kerry.
Into the Headwinds
Why Belief Has Always Been Hard And Still Is
By Terryl Givens, Nathaniel Givens
A deeper look at how people individually and collectively form religious beliefs and what that means for faith in an increasingly secular culture. Secularism is increasingly a fact of life in Western society. But that doesn't necessarily mean that faith is harder than it has been before. Even in the past when organized religion enjoyed more widespread cultural acceptance, there were still obstacles to true belief. Today, the obstacles are different, but faith is still viable. Acclaimed author Terryl Givens and his son, Nathaniel Givens, combine their respective areas of expertise to offer a fresh take on religious belief through the lens of contemporary research on psychology, cognition, and human nature. They also address two of faith's foremost modernday antagonists: rationalism, the myth that humans can or should make the majority of their choices based on logical thought, and scientism, the myth that science is the only reliable means of discovering truth.
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211 X 165 mm
216 Pages
Rel Date: August 2023
9780802882462
AUD$: 42.99
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Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Hardback
235 X 161 mm
269 Pages
Rel Date: April 2023
9780802881700
AUD$: 55.99
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222 X 149 mm
140 Pages
Rel Date: January 2023
9780802882431
AUD$: 36.99
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