Christian Churches, denominations, groups

Tribe explores the issues of reciprocity in cross-race and cross-class relationships using stories, narrative, and sociological insights and perspectives derived from urban fieldwork and the author's own life.

Few scholars have so shaped the contemporary debate on the relation of early Christianity to early Judaism as E.

This book reconsiders the question of Martin Luther's relationship with Rome in all its sixteenth-century manifestations: the early-modern city he visited as a young man, the ancient republic and empire whose language and literature he loved, the Holy Roman Empire of which he was a subject, and the sacred seat of the papacy.

Author Dana Horrell has called on his years of experience in community action to create this practical guide to help congregations reach out to their local communities.

Steve Thomason's plan was that after graduating from college, God would allow him to become a Disney animator so that one day he could open his own animation studio.

Pastors are often ill-equipped in preparing churches to be sacred advocates and activists in the communities most affected by social injustice and neglect.

The Holy One in Our Midst: An Essay on the Flesh of Christ aims to defend the doctrine of the extra Calvinisticumthe doctrine that maintains the Son of God was not restricted to the flesh of Christ during the incarnationby arguing that it is logically coherent, biblically warranted, catholically orthodox, and theologically useful.

North America has rarely produced a theologian as creative and productive as Robert W.

How should the church relate to the public sphere?

Katherine Sonderegger follows her monumental volume on the doctrine of God with this second entry of her Systematic Theology, which explores the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

Care companions in congregations support others at multiple levels.

In 2020s Foresight, authors Tom Sine and Dwight Friesen seek to "e;wake up"e; Christian leaders and those whom they serve to the realities that leaders in other fields must deal with all the time.

This book introduces the life and thought of two British contemporaries who were decisive in shaping the modern ecumenical movement: the Scottish layman J.

With great clarity and insight, James M.

When Christians are kicked out of their conservative churches or leave because they no longer feel at home, they embark on a journey of freedom and fear, love and loneliness, empowerment and pain.

A tightly written, dispassionate and unsentimental account of American Catholic political history, one backed by substantial research.

You want to make the world better.

Throughout its history, America has been confronted with two alternative views of its identity.

You are already enough, and you are not too much.

This volume looks at how mid-seventeenth-century debates on the government and order of the Church related to the political crisis of the time.

Just Traveling celebrates overcoming distance and seeking difference as defining human traits.

Resurrecting Church interweaves three strands.

Neighbor Love through Fearful Days is a reflection on pandemics--the Covid-19 pandemic, the accompanying economic collapse, a summer of climate chaos, and the pandemic of white supremacy--as well as on the calling to "e;serve thy neighbor"e; and work toward the common good, even and especially in times of crisis.

What relevance has comedy for the global crises of late-modernity and the theological critique thereof?

This book about Luther's theology is written out of a twofold conviction: first, that many of our problems have arisen because we have not really understood our own traditions, especially in the case of Luther; and second, that there is still a lot of help for us in someone like Luther if we take the trouble to probe beneath the surface.

In conversations about the Reformation, the name Martin Luther towers above all others.

Rural contexts are often over-looked, treated as "e;flyover land.

The dramatic unfolding of events after Martin Luther’s revolutionary act led to the ultimate, and seemingly irreparable, fissure with Roman Catholicism: excommunication and schism.

Andrew Hayes takes the measure of Marcion’s impact on second-century Christianity through a close examination of the topics and structure of Justin Martyr’s writings, especially the Dialogue with Trypho, demonstrating that Justin repeatedly described Christianity in a contra-Marcionite fashion.

Turning Ourselves Inside Out emerges from the Thriving Christian Communities Project started by the authors in 2015, as well as from a Facebook conversation where someone asked, "e;We always hear about the problems in our churches.

How does Martin Luther King, Jr.

Shining like the Sun offers seven mindful practices--attentiveness, ordinariness, simplicity, rhythms, conversation, delight, and restoration--that guide readers to wake up to God as a living reality and to come alive in their bodies, minds, hearts, and deep in their souls.

Aging and Loving: Christian Faith and Sexuality in Later Life aims to address the social, ethical, physical, and spiritual issues related to sexuality and aging.

A translation of Luther's explanations along with other catechetical study helps, such as prayers, worship rites, and Luther's introduction.

Incline Your Ear: Cultivating Spiritual Awakening in Congregations introduces faith communities and individuals to the centuries-old principles and practices of spiritual direction.

In an engaging and accessible style, Martin J.

For nearly thirty years, James M.

Companionship for the lifelong journey of recoveryIn Addiction and Recovery: A Spiritual Pilgrimage, Martha Postlethwaite--pastor and a person in recovery--reflects on her pilgrimage of healing through valleys of despair and vistas of resurrection.

Through the debates about the inclusion of LGBTQ people in the life of the church, one overlooked community is LGBTQ youth.

This Festschrift for historian Gerald L.

Imagination is one of the great gifts bestowed on us by our Creator, observe authors Gary and Kim Shockley, and it can be the spark that ignites a fire of change in our lives.

In this first volume to the New Church's Teaching Series James Griffiss provides an introduction to the Anglican tradition.

Comprised of the wisdom of over fifty scholars, preachers, poets, and artists, this anthology is born of the conviction that open-hearted engagement across our differences is a prerequisite for healthy civic life today.

The Rhetoric of the Pulpit treats the sermon as the single most important factor in evangelism for a parish, and also the most important factor in the spiritual growth of both the congregation and the pastor.

The ultimate goal for the Christian life is heaven, but what path should a couple take to get there?

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

Dementia steals memories--creative stitchery crafts can hold memories.

Kevin Keating examines the major writings of the Roman Pontiffs from Pius IX in the last half of the nineteenth century to the most recent writings of Francis.

Bible Study Evangelista Sonja Corbitt, author of Unleashed and Fearless, struggled to understand Marian devotion as a new Catholic.

Alleluia to Amen is an indispensable resource for parish leaders and volunteers looking for prayers to offer at gatherings outside of Mass.