History of religion

In ascending to heaven, Jesus Christ gave the church the Great Commission to expand the gospel to all nations.

The Bible can and should be an environment in which we live and move and have our being, an environment in which we are shaped by God in different and interrelated ways.

His birthday was once celebrated as a national holiday and his portrait once adorned the walls of almost every classroom in the United States.

During a forty-year period ending in 2002, leaders of major American churches tried to unite their members, ministries, and public service in a new church they named A Church of Christ Uniting.

Common wisdom holds that Latin America is a uniformly Roman Catholic continent and Protestant churches only entered as a result of British or U.

Why is theology often divorced from ministry?

Christian Spirituality and Ethical Life offers a helpful study of the place of the Spirit in John Calvin's theology.

In light of the contemporary struggle between science and faith, Kathleen Mulhern's timely exploration of late nineteenth-century neo-Pascalian thought both recovers a lost perspective on the "e;war between science and religion"e; and offers a fruitful angle of study for twenty-first-century reflection.

Historians have traditionally interpreted the American land-grant higher-education movement as the result of political and economic forces.

Liturgical Elements for Reformed Worship is a series of four liturgical resources: three consisting of liturgical elements for Years A, B, and C, and a fourth, the first such resource to support the implementation of Year D: A Quadrennial Supplement to the Revised Common Lectionary (Cascade, 2012).

The Hermeneutics of Tradition presents the latest scholarship on tradition as a concept and reality in the development of Christian cultures.

Drinking from the Same Well is designed for those who seek a praxis-oriented theological grounding in the exploration of cross-cultural perspectives in the field of pastoral care and counseling.

Spectacles designed to capture our attention surround us.

Jesus' best-known mandate--after perhaps the mandate to love God and neighbor--was given at the Last Supper just before his death: "e;Do this in memory of me.

Many in Victorian England harbored deep suspicion of convent life.

Novatian of Rome and the Culmination of Pre-Nicene Orthodoxy is an overview of the development of Christology and Trinitarian doctrine, which reached a plateau with Novatian, the third-century priest of Rome.

Crossing Boundaries in the Americas, Vietnam, and the Middle East is the personal, yet profoundly political first-person account of one man's unique interracial and interfaith leadership roles over five decades in movements for civil rights, against the Vietnam War, and for Arab-Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Author John Raub's twenty-eight years as a monk changed him, sharpening his eye to see more deeply into situations with a perspective that welcomes debate, for controversy invites thought.

The church in the West has subsisted for five hundred years in a state of ever-increasing multiple identities, many of which claim to be the best representation of the church established by Christ.

This is a guide for spiritual mountain climbers.

What happens when a church chooses to subdivide instead of getting bigger?

Meet Me at the Palaver makes the case for a particular approach to pastoral counseling as a response to the destructive impact of colonial Christianity on indigenous African communities.

Each generation asks in its own way, "e;What does it mean to be human?

Bring the otherworldly mystery of spiritual reality down to earth.

Collective religious enthusiasm was a surprisingly many-sided, influential and widespread phenomenon in medieval Europe.

Is church discipline really necessary?

Believing that study and application of Scripture in the context of Christian community can greatly enhance the transformative power of the preached message, in Bringing Home the Message Robert Perkins aims to help pastors integrate small group ministry with their preaching.

With the subject of the atonement of Christ attracting such a lot of polemical work at this time, it is easy to conclude that the current debate is generating more heat than light.

In honor of what would have been Clarence Jordan's one hundredth birthday and the seventieth anniversary of Koinonia Farm, the first Clarence Jordan Symposium convened in historic Sumter County, Georgia, in 2012, gathering theologians, historians, actors, and activists in civil rights, housing, agriculture, and fair-trade businesses to celebrate a remarkable individual and his continuing influence.

"e;I remember more hymns than I do sermons.

This is a detailed examination of the theological innovations of Kevin Vanhoozer and John Franke.

American Catholic universities and colleges are wrestling today with how to develop in ways that faithfully serve their mission in Catholic higher education without either secularizing or becoming sectarian.

What happens to the church when the emperor becomes a Christian?

How you eat affects the planet--and everyone else on it.

Does the discipline of history need a reformation?

Farley's Transcendence and Fulfillment captures one's immediate attention, especially with his designation of Paul's "e;Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

In Resurrection Realism, Patrick Fletcher examines the key role played by Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI (2005-2013), in the lively twentieth-century debates over the resurrection.

This book is a collection of seven Good Friday homilies by the late Rev.

Robert Rollock is best remembered today for the role he played in the development of Reformed covenant theology, a role defined especially by the uniquely mature treatment of a pre-fall covenant of works discovered in his thought.

Psychosis has taken over.

World War I has been recorded from many points of view: correspondent, poet, politician, and soldier.

Seeking in Solitude examines select forms of contemporary Roman Catholic eremitic life and practice in the United States.

Take a journey together with others from your local church--a road trip that will help you rediscover your true mission.

All Christian colleges and universities hail the integration of faith and learning as a premier mission objective.

Marriage is the most demanding and potentially rewarding relationship for many adults.

"e;Only men matter, that is why the Bible only talks about men.

Historians have painted a picture of nineteenth-century Baptists huddled in clapboard meetinghouses preaching sermons and singing hymns, seemingly unaware of the wider world.

The Pentecostal movement emerged at the turn of the twentieth century emphasizing the need for Christians to have a powerful experience of the Holy Spirit.

For centuries, Christian theology has understood the Eucharist in terms of metaphysics or in protest against it.

There are many books on Christian education, but few consider pedagogy with a biblical focus on formation, and a grounding in varied related disciplines.