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Enlarge My Coast tells of Pastor Blackstone's return to India to see the completion of a project inspired during his first trip to the subcontinent of Asia in 2006.

The sacred Scriptures, stylized in poetryAfter thorough readings through the Bible and study of biblical languages, The Haiku Bible started as an effort to make better sense of the complex and nuanced anthology.

In concluding the series of lectures given while he made his first and only visit to the U.

This compendium of primary resources reflects the important but often overshadowed contribution of African American believers to the dynamic growth of the modern Pentecostal movement--the fastest-growing segment of global Christianity.

No Strings Attached is the story of a Mennonite congregation in Indiana that existed for eighty-six years.

Karen Favreau is a Generation X seeker who has run the spiritual gamut.

Various thinkers have attempted to explain the Earth-altering (even ecocidal) features in modern life.

In this thoroughly revised edition of a classic in spirituality, Walter Brueggemann guides the reader into a thoughtful and moving encounter with the Psalms.

If theology at its best is knowing God and all things in the light of his reality, what is the nature of that knowledge?

Concerned that American Catholic theology has struggled to find its own voice for much of its history, William Portier has spent virtually his entire scholarly career recovering a usable past for Catholics on the U.

Current research shows what many in the Christian community already know: young people are leaving the church.

A Journey In Imagination offers the hope of an alternative to a world convulsed by hostility and violence.

This is a book about faith and moral issues facing American troops and veterans.

This unique reflection was prompted by an invitation Matthew Fox received to speak on the centennial of Thomas Merton's birth.

Folk is an analog foundation in a digital world.

As the first Bengalee Archbishop of South Asia, Theotonius Amal Ganguly, CSC, made a remarkable contribution in the expansion of Christian missionary activity in Bengal through all the three political regimes that Bangladesh went through.

The Sacred Art of Marriage explores married life as an art studio with fifty-two tools to creatively craft your spiritual life together.

The development of modern medicine is on a very steep trajectory upward--a rise that began only about a hundred years ago.

The theme of Islam and Judeo-Christianity is the relationship between these three faiths under three headings that are often promoted as a basis for commonality between them (sons of Abraham, monotheism, and religions of the book).

Norma Jean Duncan found God following a personal revelation of his love.

Most academic and therapeutic programs do not include spirituality and God as essential components of health and treatment.

In 1500 Christians knew that God gave them the church to shepherd believers toward salvation and that it was centered at Rome and ruled by a pope.

In the fields of pastoral care and pastoral theology, there are times when a book signals a paradigm shift.

In the face of apparently rampant individualism, there has been a steady call for a return to community and tradition, particularly in religious communities and in recent Christian theology and ethics.

This book presents nine biblical themes in essays authored by veteran educators who surprise and affirm readers with personal accounts of how these themes shaped their practice in education.

Waiting on the Spirit of Promise is a study of the life and ministry of Abraham Cheare (1626-1668), containing selections from Cheare's works, and rescuing an important seventeenth-century Baptist from obscurity.

This book introduces Christian readers of the Bible to the otherworldly way in which the rabbis of ancient times interpreted sacred texts.

This ethnographic study focuses on the religious imagery and practices of a sample of Buddhist temples and Muslim mosques in the greater Los Angeles area.

Most students of history assume that the age of the warlord popes ended with the Renaissance, but, long after the victory of Catholic powers at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, the Papacy continued to entangle itself in martial affairs.

A major aspect of the history of Christian missions is the way groups who have jumped the ecclesiastical ship have renewed and recalled their parent bodies back to biblical roots and a biblical vision.

This book is a historical-theological study of the Reformed doctrine of Justification.

Was Jonathan Edwards always--or ever--the stalwart and unquestioning Reformed theologian that he is often portrayed as being?

The major cultural changes in Western societies since the Reformation have created a serious challenge for the church.

Since the sixteenth century, the Protestant tradition has been divided.

It is never surprising that even after years of sitting in the pews of America's churches basic understanding of who Jesus is and how he expects us to live day to day escape laymen and leaders alike.

This book examines the primary biblical themes in the lyrical theology of Charles Wesley, the master hymn writer and cofounder of the Methodist movement.

Liturgical texts, repeated week after week by hundreds of thousands of people, are an ideal starting-point for exploring deep matters of faith.

This book explores the unprecedented challenge of involuntary singleness for women, and the implications of disregarding this challenge for the Christian (and particularly, baptistic) communities of faith.

Are apostles amongst us today?

Have the Mormons ever left you unsure of what to say?

Following the death of her best friend since high school, a religion professor re-examines her own personal beliefs about god.

John William Fletcher (1729-1785) was a seminal theologian during the early methodist movement and the Church of England in the eighteenth century.

In the present volume James Robinson completes his trilogy, which deals with the history of divine healing in the period 1906-1930.

This study of John Calvin's ecclesiology argues that Calvin's idea of the twofold identity of the Church--its spiritual identity as the body of Christ and its functional identity as the mother of all believers--is closely related to his understanding of Christian identity and life, which are initiated and maintained by the grace of the triune God.

Is "e;political reconciliation"e; a new tool for peace-building and justice--in peace processes and other complex social reconstruction efforts-after dictatorship or civil wars?

Who would have imagined that the hippies, those long-haired, psychedelia-influenced youth of the 1960s, would have initiated a spiritual revolution that has transformed American Christianity?

--Has modern science made philosophy obsolete?

When asked about his work for social change, one Presbyterian elder and activist sighed, "e;You always have the feeling that you're attacking an iceberg with an ice pick.

This book offers a comprehensive reflection on what it means that Christians claim that "e;Jesus is Lord"e; by engaging in a defense of Christian apocalyptic as the criterion for evaluating the "e;truth"e; of history and of history's relation to the transcendent political reality that theology calls "e;the Kingdom of God.

Your Neighbor's Hymnal provides a winsome and thoughtful exploration of popular music, from rock to hip-hop to metal to soul, as a vital source contemporary culture continues to go to learn about faith, hope, and love.