Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras
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| Author | Rita Nakashima Brock |
| ISBN | 0807067970 |
Rebecca Parker was a young minister in Seattle when a woman walked into her church and asked if God really wanted her to accept her husband's beatings and bear them gladly, as Jesus bore the cross. Parker knew, at that moment, that if she were to answer the woman's question truthfully she would have to rethink...
| Author | Lillian Daniel |
| ISBN | 0802864759 |
This Odd and Wondrous Calling offers something different from most books available on ministry. Two people still pastoring reflect honestly here on both the joys and the challenges of their vocation. Anecdotal and extremely readable, the book covers a diversity of subjects revealing the incredible...
| Author | David R. Kinsley |
| ISBN | 0520063392 |
As a Hindu, I'm always on the lookout for books explaining the complexities of the world's oldest religion. Usually, I've been disappointed, as most of the material I find consist either of children's picture books or essays dry enough to cure insomnia.
But Kinsley's book was a delight, even...
Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve.
Award-winning author and columnist Cathleen Falsani says, “People regularly ask me why I believe in God. The simple answer … is grace.” In Sin Boldly:...
| Author | Nora Gallagher |
| ISBN | 0679775498 |
"Gracefully written and moving ... Things Seen and Unseen starts with Nora Gallagher entering the labyrinth of her life ... and ultimately it leads to the center of her being."--The Boston Globe
It started with an occasional Sunday, a "tourist's" visit to a local church. Eventually Nora Gallagher...
| Author | Harvey Cox |
| ISBN | 0061755524 |
“A beautiful book and a Cox classic….Readers will be grateful that they joined him on his journey.” —E.J. Dionne Jr., author of Souled Out
“Insightful, provocative, and inspiring—I even found myself uttering a hearty evangelical ‘Amen!’” —Richard Mouw, President,...
Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 0938077635 |
Love In Action is unique among the books of Thich Nhat Hanh that I have read. It is a collection of essays written between the time of the war in Vietnam and the book's publication in 1993. Many of the essays vary in character from one another, some very topical and, unlike most of Thay's writings that I have...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0060786841 |
The HarperCollins Study Bible—Student Edition is the landmark general reference Bible that offers the full text of the New Revised Standard Version as well as in-depth articles, introductions, and comprehensive notes by today’s leading biblical scholars for the Society of Biblical Literature....
| Author | Paula Fredriksen |
| ISBN | 0300084579 |
In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. A new introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on...
| Author | Jay Bakker |
| ISBN | 0446539503 |
Jay Bakker explores the radical, transformative, and inclusive message at the heart of Jesus's message: grace.
If anyone ever had a reason to leave the faith, Jay Bakker did. The son of mega-televangelists Jim Bakker and the late Tammy Faye Messner, Bakker was only 11 years old when his parents'...
This is the third volume of Walter Wink's trilogy on the "principalities and powers" mentioned in the New Testament. Like the other volumes, it is written in a scholarly style with copious footnotes that can make it a difficult read at times. After getting about half way through this book, I got a little...
| Author | John Howard Yoder |
| ISBN | 0836191609 |
Binding and loosing, baptism, eucharist, multiplicity of gifts, and open meeting; these five New Testament practices were central in the life of the early Christian community. Some of them are still echoed in the practice of the church today. But the full social, ethical, and communal meaning of the...
| Author | Robert Ellsberg |
| ISBN | 1570755817 |
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Dorothy Day (1897-1980)--co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, and one of the most inspiring figures of recent history. By her lifelong option for the poor and her devotion to active nonviolence, Day fashioned a new face for the gospel...
| Author | Sarah Coakley |
| ISBN | 0521552281 |
God, Sexuality and the Self is a new venture in systematic theology. Sarah Coakley invites the reader to re-conceive the relation of sexual desire and the desire for God and - through the lens of prayer practice - to chart the intrinsic connection of this relation to a theology of the Trinity. The goal...
| Author | Glen H. Stassen |
| ISBN | 0830826688 |
A Christianity Today 2004 Book of the Year In this masterful and innovative book Glen H. Stassen and David P. Gushee join profound ethical reflection with faith in Jesus Christ, a life of discipleship and the hope of the present and coming kingdom of God. The result is a challenging, comprehensive treatment...
| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0060608765 |
Was Jesus born of a virgin? Did he know he was the Messiah? Was he bodily resurrected from the dead? Did he intentionally die to redeem humankind? Was Jesus God?
In The Meaning of Jesus two leading Jesus scholars with widely divergent views go right to the heart of these questions and others, presenting...
| Author | Gayathri Ramprasad |
| ISBN | 1616494751 |
A first-of-its-kind, cross-cultural lens to mental illness through the inspiring story of Gayathri’s thirty-year battle with depression. This literary memoir takes readers from her childhood in India where depression is thought to be a curse to life in America where she eventually finds the...
| Author | Jennifer Wright Knust |
| ISBN | 0061725587 |
“An explosive, fascinating book that reveals how the Bible cannot be used as a rulebook when it comes to sex. A terrific read by a top scholar.” —Bart Ehrman, author of Misquoting Jesus
Boston University’s cutting-edge religion scholar Jennifer Wright Knust reveals the Bible’s...
| Author | Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza |
| ISBN | 0824513576 |
So, I had high hopes for this book when I picked it up. It is a classic of feminist biblical interpretation from a world-class scholar. That said, there were just too many methodological problems, cases of special pleading, speculations passed off as fact (upon which subsequent speculations passed...
| Author | Abraham Joshua Heschel |
| ISBN | 0824505425 |
This is a great introduction to Heschel's thought. A great way to read a little bit of Heschel everyday and ruminate on this great theologian's words. There is also a really good introduction by Dresner on the life of Heschel so that the reader can understand a little context of Heschel's words with his...
Introduction to Christian Worship
| Author | James F. White |
| ISBN | 0687091098 |
Introduction to Christian Worship, Third Edition traces the development of the major forms of Christian worship, and includes discussion of the newest service books of the principal churches of North America and the British Isles. This staple of liturgical history is used widely in Protestant seminaries...
| Author | J. Denny Weaver |
| ISBN | 0802849083 |
This challenging work explores the history of the Christian doctrine of atonement, exposing the intrinsically violent dimensions of the traditional, Anselmian satisfaction atonement view and offering instead a new, thoroughly nonviolent paradigm for understanding atonement based on narrative...
| Author | Peter L. Steinke |
| ISBN | 1566993296 |
Drawing on the work of Bowen, Friedman, and his own many years' counseling experience, Peter Steinke shows how to recognize and deal with the emotional roots of such issues as church conflict, leadership roles, congregational change, irresponsible behavior, and the effect of family of origin on...
