Die bewegende Lebensgeschichte der »Bischöfin der Herzen«Wie wurde Margot Käßmann zu einer der populärsten und angesehensten Persönlichkeiten Deutschlands?
Russell Jeung's spiritual memoir shares the difficult, often joyful, and sometimes harrowing account of his life in East Oakland's Murder Dubs neighborhood and of his Chinese-Hakka history.
Jimmy Creech, a United Methodist pastor in North Carolina, was visited one morning in 1984 by Adam, a longtime parishioner whom he liked and respected.
From a familythat inspired Big Love’s story of Bill Henricksonand his three wives, this first-ever memoir of a polygamous family captures theextraordinary workings of a unique family dynamic, and argues forthe acceptance of plural marriage as an alternative lifestyle.
Leading Scholar Explores Paul's Teaching on the MindThis major work by a leading New Testament scholar explores an important but neglected area of Pauline theology, Paul's teaching about the mind.
Das Buch mit knapp 200 Quellen aus der Vorgeschichte und Frühzeit der Reformation stellt eine völlige Neubearbeitung des 1917 von Karl Kaulfuß-Diesch herausgegebenen Werkes: "Das Buch der Reformation" sowie weiterer Neuauflagen dar.
One of the key foundation books of the English Reformation, The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528) makes a radical challenge to the established order of the all-powerful Church of its time.
By utilizing the contributions of a variety of scholars theologians, historians, and biblical scholars this book makes the complex and sometimes disparate Anabaptist movement more easily accessible.
The Mission of Todays Church is a compelling collection of twelve essays from current Baptist leaders addressing three major questions: (1) What does it mean to be a Christian today on individual, group, and societal levels?
Theodore Beza (1519-1605) was a talented humanist, Protestant theologian, political agitator, and prominent minister of the reformed church in Geneva during the second-half of the 16th century.
Lawrence Kessler uses the Jiangyin mission station in the Shanghai region of China to explore Chinese-American cultural interaction in the first half of the twentieth century.
Kein kirchliches Fest, kein politisches Ereignis, kein gesellschaftlicher Diskurs in den vergangenen Jahren, zu dem in der Öffentlichkeit nicht die klare Stimme Wolfgang Hubers zu hören gewesen ist.
Ethics is the culmination of Dietrich Bonhoeffers theological and personal odyssey and one of the most important works of Christian ethics of the last century.
Exactly 450 years after the solemn closure of the Council of Trent on 4 December 1563, scholars from diverse regional, disciplinary and confessional backgrounds convened in Leuven to reflect upon the impact of this Council, not only in Europe but also beyond.
Zwei Dinge prägen die Forschung von Peter Opitz, der bis Mitte 2022 Professor am Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte (IRG) der Universität Zürich war: der schweizerische Kontext und die Annäherung an die Wurzeln der Schweizer Reformation von ihren Wirkungen, also von der Gegenwart her.
Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945.
One Hope: Re-Membering the Body of Christ is a rich ecumenical resource designed to help Catholic and Lutheran communities mark the approaching 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
Founded over a century ago, the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is regarded as one of the most important institutional carriers of Canadian and American Mennonite identity.
This book brings Quaker thought on theological ethics into constructive dialogue with Christian tradition while engaging with key contemporary ethical debates and with wider questions about the public role of church-communities in a post/secular context.
Drawing on the discipline of adult education and his own research into the way people learn, David Heywood explains how churches can become learning communities in which people grow as disciples and find their place in a collaborative pattern of ministry.