"A good time to be the church is right now," declares Bishop H. George Anderson. Rather than lamenting the lost influence of the church or dreaming of some golden age, Christians can see the spiritual hunger of our time as a special opportunity to speak and act boldly. Solidly grounded in the Bible and Christian history, and keenly aware of ......
Cho Chi Song, Yeongdeungpo Urban Industrial Mission, and Minjung
This book introduces the life story of Cho Chi Song, from whom emerged three critical elements in Korean mission and theology: valuing workers, the urban industrial mission, and the platform for Minjung Theology. The subjects of this book were the sparks for Minjung Theology, which is still best known within Korea.
With Texts from the First to the Twenty-first Century
The history of Christian theology can be a daunting, even forbidding field for the novice, who sees neither the need for nor pertinence of rummaging around dusty old texts. This people-friendly volume, a full-scale reader in the history of Christian theology, offers an easy, non-threatening, occasionally humorous yet quite thorough entry into ......
The only one-volume anthology of twentieth-century theology. Indispensable to understanding the advent and import of today's radically pluralistic scene, this unique historical anthology presents thirty-seven signal readings from key theologians of this century. Outstanding interpreters of these figures and their generative ideas, Braaten ......
Explains Christianity's indispensable moral conviction about God's care, rapport with the earth, the nature of ownership, the bond between justice and peace, the nature of enmity, the illogic of militarism, and the creative potential of the human species. This book also includes questions for group discussion.
Essays on Eschatology, Authority, Atonement, and Ecumenism
Gerhard O. Forde has stood at the forefront of Lutheran thought for most of his career. This new collection of essays and sermons-many previously unpublished- makes Forde's powerful theological vision more widely available.
Reframing Hegemonic and Fragmented Identities through Subjective In-Betw
The author resists identity politics through a postcolonial political pastoral care and praxis that decolonizes biopolitical governmentalities, reframes hegemonic and fragmented identities, and restores the in-between spaces and in-between subjectivities of Ethiopians.
Based on the author's twenty years of teaching and on her own experience in pastoral care, this is a basic pastoral-care text to assist in the emotional and spiritual preparation of pastoral caregivers. The author sees pastoral care as the interconnection and interplay of love of God, love of neighbour, and love of self.
Christian and Transreligious Resources for Transformation
A Process Spirituality argues for a hopeful and relational vision of the God-world relationship characterized by mutuality, value, change, and transformation, which incorporates a constructive re-imagining of the work of Whitehead and Jung.
The Doctrine of Assurance after the Westminster Confession
From the very earliest days after its completion in 1646, the Westminster Confession's position on assurance has been a subject of controversy. In this work, the author considers the Westminster Confession's statements on assurance as a position of consensus among a diversity of viewpoints.
A classroom staple for nearly 30 years, this new third edition presents over 100 carefully selected primary documents edited for even greater concision to capture the energy and moment of that tumultuous time. The saving of space results in a shorter book that now includes even more readings!
This book has earned wide acceptance as an outstanding single volume history of doctrine. It is ideally suited for classroom and seminar use as well as research and independent study. With remarkable conciseness and clarity Lohse, shows how doctrinal development has occurred in the various periods of the Church's history from the first century ......
If God exists, why is there so much pain and suffering, and why isn't his existence more obvious? In A Theodicy for a Suffering World with a Hidden God, Philip Pegan develops a theodicy in answer to these questions. This theodicy is consistent with theological determinism--the belief that everything is determined by the will of God--and with the ......
A Theology of Divine Vulnerability: The Silence that Gives Light uses three claims for confidence in the idea of God. The first is that God is responsible in some quite fundamental way for the existence of the universe--for the fact that there is anything at all. The second is that God's own existence, and essential goodness, are not vitiated by ......
Toward the end of his career, Karl Barth made the provocative statement that perhaps what Schleiermacher was up to was a "theology of the third-article" and that he anticipated in the future that a true third-article theology would appear. The author investigates this claim, and argues for a Barthian pneumatology.
A Visible Witness presents a fresh, innovative perspective on Protestant theology in Latin America liberation theology. The volume underscores the 'common theological interests to the Roman and Catholic traditions: the praxical nature of theology, Christology, and soteriology.
