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Bates applies his method to both oft-referenced and underutilized passages in the writings of Paul and suggests a new model for Pauline hermeneutics that is centered on the apostolic proclamation of Christ.--Michael J. Gorman, Dean, Ecumenical Institute of Theology "St. Mary's Seminary & University"

With its origins in the author's experience of adjusting to the challenges of quadriplegia, "Crippled Grace" considers the diverse experiences of people with a disability as a lens through which to understand happiness and its attainment.

It is a road map to the emerging American political and cultural landscape.--Patrick J. Deneen, David A. Potenziani Memorial Associate Professor of Constitutional Studies, University of Notre Dame

Interreligious Relationships and Theological Questioning.

Traces the history of public school prayer in America and the legal debates since the 1962 Supreme Court ruling that outlawed the practice. The book makes available the historical and legal information from which readers can draw their own conclusions about this sensitive issue.

"Jacob Arminius' Declaration of Sentiments was delivered orally in Dutch before the States of Holland in October 1608"--Introduction.

One hundred and fifty years of archaeological investigation has yielded a more complete picture of the ancient Near East. This book combines the most significant of these archaeological findings with those of modern historical and literary analysis of the Bible to recount the history of ancient Israel and its neighbouring nations and empires.

"A century ago it was true that if you wanted to understand the ancient Israelites you had to read the Bible, the Old Testament. Today, if you want to understand the Old Testament, you need to study the history and archaeology of the ancient people of Israel"--Preface.

Offers the first book-length exploration of Kierkegaard's views on knowledge, an epistemology that M.G. Piety argues is both foundationalist and nonfoundationalist, substantive and procedural, and includes both internalist and externalist theories of belief justification.

Evans' analysis of Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments and Concluding Unscientific Postscript introduces even the nonspecialist to two of Kierkegaard's most challenging works without minimizing the complex nature of his philosophy.

In honour of Daniel Aleshire's decades of leadership over the Association of Theological Schools, the essays in this book propose methods for schools of various denominational backgrounds to restructure the form and content of their programs by resourcing their own distinctive Christian heritages.

By returning again and again to Christ's woundedness, we discover ways to live with our own.--Amy McLaughlin-Sheasby "Homiletic"

With prose as enjoyable as it is informative, he shows why the life--and death--of Nicholas of Myra so radically influenced the formation of Western history and Christian thought, and did so in ways many have never realized.--Paul A. Sanchez "Fides et Humilitas"

"Originally published in German as Das Lukasevangelium (Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008), with the ISBN 978-3161495250."

Takes you on an excursion through Western philosophy, religion, science, and art. Eloquently and engagingly, this title delves the canon of Western thought, drawing on figures from St Augustine and John Rawls to Leonardo da Vinci and David Hume to Kenneth Burke and Mary Shelley.

Jaffee (University of Washington), Alan Kirk (James Madison University), Terence Mournet (North American Baptist Seminary), and Christopher Tuckett (University of Oxford/Pembroke College).--John Walker "Freedom in Orthodoxy"

This is the conviction that drives Christian life from generation to generation: the ages have turned, God's victory is assured, even though there is still much work to be done.--Darian R. Lockett, Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University

With his latest book, The Holy Spirit before Christianity, John Levison again changes the face and foundation of Christian belief in the Holy Spirit. The categories Christians have used, the boundaries they have created, the proprietary claims they have made - all of these evaporate, now that Levison has looked afresh at Scripture.

"A comprehensive history of Rhode Island Baptists that contests the primacy of Southern preeminence for American Baptist developments"--

Asks two questions: Can the Catholic Epistles from James to Jude be fruitfully examined in relation to each other, without contrasting them with the Pauline Epistles? And, if so, will we learn something new about them and early Christianity? The essayists here answer "yes" and "yes".

N.T. Wright's Jesus and the Victory of God is widely heralded as one of the most significant and brilliantly argued works in the current "third quest" of the historical Jesus. In this second volume of his multivolume investigation, Wright uncovers a Jesus that most historians and believers have never met.

From the various biblical explanations of suffering, this volume chooses to focus on one: suffering sometimes possesses an educational value. It explores the differing versions of this view in Paul, James, 1 Peter, Hebrews, and Luke-Acts, and sets these perspectives against the backdrop of similar explanations in Jewish and Greco-Roman cultures.

In his now classic Hellenistic Mystery-Religions (first published in 1910), Richard Reitzenstein seeks to establish the direct dependence of early Christianity on Hellenistic, Mandaean, and Iranian mythology and ritual.

In the early '70s, James M. Robinson and Helmut Koester, both students of Bultmann, broke new ground in their Trajectories through Early Christianity. The eight essays that comprise this volume seek a wholesale redefinition of the task of New Testament studies, as well as illustrating this newly conceived task.

Oscar Cullmann's The Christology of the New Testament was the standard student textbook in New Testament courses and the measuring stick for scholarly inquiry into Christology for decades. An enduring classic, this book is based on a lifetime of study from one of the most creative and disciplined minds to tackle New Testament Christology.