This thoughtful collection of prayers emerged from Brueggemann's thirty-five years of teaching in seminaries. Full of reflection, faith, and dialogue, they reveal another side of this gifted author from what his many readers are accustomed to. These deeply felt and sparklingly articulated prayers reflect a wide range of life experiences. As ......
Continuing his earlier treatment in volume 1, which covered the period from the Reformation through the eighteenth century, Baird takes on the formative era of the nineteenth century in a balanced and readable fashion.
The Penitente brotherhood of New Mexico soared in popularity during the early nineteenth century. Local chapters of the brotherhood, always exclusively male, met in specially constructed buildings (called moradas) to conduct their business and engaged in a variety of religious rituals, including flagellation. The traditional view, still very much ......
In this comprehensive study, Enrique Florescano traces the spread of the worship of the Plumed Serpent, and the multiplicity of interpretations that surround the god, by comparing the Palenque inscriptions (ca. A.D. 690), the Vienna Codex (pre-Hispanic conquest), the Historia de los Mexicanos (1531), the Popul Vuh (ca. 1554), and numerous other ......
Composed in Spanish by leading U.S. Hispanic theologians, each essay in this collection relates a biblical passage to a specific ministerial theme: the baptismal call to ministry, the power of God's word in witness and service, communication as a central component of ministry, and the transforming power of the Resurrection in our lives and ......
This is the final volume in Wilberger's comprehensive treatment of Isaiah 1-39. In addition to verse-by-verse commentary, the author provides a systematic overview of the entire Book of Isaiah. This "introduction" to Isaiah covers: the book and the text, the formation of Isaiah 1-39, the prophet Isaiah and his religious roots, the theology of ......
"The anonymous early church order that became known as the Apostolic Tradition and conventionally attributed to Hippolytus of Rome has generated enormous scholarly discussion since its discovery in the nineteenth century. Surprisingly, however, there has never before been a comprehensive commentary on it such as there is for other patristic works. ......
With Parallels from the Gospels of Mark and Thomas
The International Q Project has been working for many years to establish the text of Q--the source for sayings of Jesus utilized by both Matthew and Luke. This edition includes a glossary of QUs vocabulary, with English definitions, plus an introduction that provides orientation on the nature of Q and a brief history of research.
