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Anne Higgins' poetry can best be described as naturalistic, consuming and ingenious. Each poem in her book, At The Year's Elbow, causes a rippling effect upon the reader's imagination. --Rebecca Broadway, POETICVOICES.com Anne Higgins has a passion for poetry. Her verse draws the reader into a world alive with feelings and provocative thought. These poems point to the deeper recesses of human experience and bring the listener into the presence of much joy and sorrow, much light and darkness. A realistic poet here. --Robert Morneau ....I never thought of September as the Year's Elbow. What an image--one I won't forget...Now Anne Higgins--she is like Jessica Powers. The same wonderful insight into nature. The same seeing in the ordinary the extraordinary. --Dana Greene ...such good and strong poems...seem to have such control and thoughtfulness. - Josephine Jacobsen

This notebook--a spiritual journal by noted evangelical theologian Donald Bloesch--covers a range of subjects, including sin and sainthood, heresy and orthodoxy, the church and the sacraments, marriage and celibacy, failure and success, despair and hope. Bloesch's lucid, concise writing style polishes and illuminates the gems of his thought. The result is a scintillating collection of precision and depth--a treasury of theological reflection.

The greater part of these notes appeared in 1881 as 'Pars Tertia' of the 'Otium Norvicense.' They are here reprinted, with additions which may be classified under two heads: first, notes which Dr Field at his death left in the final stages of their preparation for publication, and, secondly, supplementary illustrations from classical sources which he had jotted down in the margin of his own copy of the 'Otium.' --from the Preface

This volume includes Hort's lectures at Cambridge in 1886 (Romans) and 1891 (Ephesians). Covering a broad range of textual, interpretative, and history of interpretation issues, the author's work is a model of judicious exegesis.

The present account is an attempt to give an account of the nature and use of the tenses in Hebrew in a form suitable for those who have but recently begun the study of the language. . . . The difficulty in the use of the Hebrew verbs lies solely in the point of view, so absolutely different from our own, from which the Hebrews regarded an action; the time, which with us is the first consideration, as the very word 'tense' shows, being to them a matter of secondary importance. It is, therefore, essential that a student should clearly grasp, not so much the Latin or English forms which may be used in translating each of the Hebrew tenses, but rather the aspect of each action, as it presented itself to a Hebrew's mind. -from the Preface

After increasing theological and institutional tensions, a schism occurred in 1837 within the Presbyterian church between the Old and New schools, resulting in a thirty-year national division of the church. From the Introduction: In the following work, the Rev. Mr. Cheeseman has designed to give a brief account of those doctrinal differences which separate Presbyterians of the Old and New School. . . . I think Mr. Cheeseman has presented his subject in a manner which appeals to the pious feelings, to the Christian emotions of every renewed heart. . . . There is an application of the great principles of the gospel as he passes along, a flow of devotion, a kindling of the religious sensibilities, which must lead those who commence its perusal to the conclusion of the work. He makes the practical power of the doctrines of grace and redemption, so manifest, that the eyes of all unprejudiced persons can hardly fail to be opened, and if I mistake not, there will be left upon the mind of every reader, an impression of the importance of these great truths for which we stand in a day of darkness and rebuke.

This engaging book on Chinese religion and culture by Judith Berling has been welcomed by longtime scholars of the same as a vital and fresh perspective. 'A Pilgrim in Chinese Culture' is a story of faith meeting faith that will enrich wisdom-seekers as well as provide a tool to introduce students to cross-cultural and interfaith issues. Berling tells how she became immersed in the issues of religious diversity, of her experiences living with religious neighbors, and of discovering how different from her own Midwestern Protestant milieu is the world of Chinese religion and culture. In China, one can be Buddhist, Confucianist, Taoist, and animist at a single moment. Exploring how this inclusivity can be achieved infuses 'A Pilgrim in Chinese Culture'. The multiplicity of deities, the notion of Truth as having many embodiments, even patterns of hospitality - Berling examines how these key aspects of Chinese culture shape and inform religion in China. Through the tales it tells, 'A Pilgrim in Chinese Culture' offers readers insights that no textbook can match, bringing home what religious diversity means in surprising and illuminating ways.

The Parker Society was the London-based Anglican society that printed in fifty-four volumes the works of the leading English Reformers of the sixteenth century. It was formed in 1840 and disbanded in 1855 when its work was completed. Named after Matthew Parker -- the first Elizabethan Archbishop of Canterbury, who was known as a great collector of books -- the stimulus for the foundation of the society was provided by the Tractarian movement, led by John Henry Newman and Edward B. Pusey. Some members of this movement spoke disparagingly of the English Reformation, and so some members of the Church of England felt the need to make available in an attractive form the works of the leaders of that Reformation.

Este libro escrito por el Dr. Adewuya trata sobre los capitulos 6 al 8 de la Epistola a los Romanos, una seccion clave en la que se explica que la vida de un cristiano es transformada por la Gracia de Dios. El autor argumenta que una apropiada comprension de Ro. 7 demanda que este capitulo, se situe firmemente en el contexto de la vida de libertad del pecado que se expone ampliamente en Ro. 6, asi como de la libertad del Espiritu que se expone claramente en Ro. 8. En terminos de su relevancia contemporanea, la perspectiva Paulina sobre Ro. 6-8 esta fundamentada en la relacion con Dios, la separacion del pecado, el compromiso con el evangelio y la pureza etica. Es un llamado a los creyentes de la ciudad de Roma y. consecuentemente a los creyentes de este tiempo, para que vivan un estilo de vida alternativo, distinto al estilo de vida predominante en el mundo, con el proposito de dar testimonio de la Gracia de Dios a toda la sociedad circundante. Las conclusiones de este estudio descansan en un examen de todo el Corpus Paulino examinando textos biblicos clave relacionados con el tema de la santidad y el tema de la santificacion. Un panorama de la perspectiva Paulina de la santidad, basado en un examen riguroso de Ro. 6-8, emerge de este valioso estudio, Para san Pablo, la santidad no tiene que ser reducida a presuposiciones teologicas, sino que tiene que ser comprendida como una cualidad que tiene que ser demostrada en la vida cotidiana por todos aquellos que han sido llamados por nuestro Senor, para que sean sus discipulos.

In these lectures [the Schweich Lectures of 1916] an attempt has been made, not so much to restate familiar facts, as to accommodate them to new and supplementary evidence which has been published in America since the outbreak of the war. . . . Hebrew achievements in the sphere of religion and ethics are only thrown into stronger relief when studied against their contemporary background. The bulk of our new material is furnished by some early texts, written towards the close of the third millennium B.C. They incorporate traditions which extend in unbroken outline from their own period into the remote ages of the past, and claim to trace the history of man back to his creation. They represent the early national traditions of the Sumerian people, who preceded the Semites as the ruling race in Babylonia; and incidentally they necessitate a revision of current views with regard to the cradle of Babylonian civilization. -from the Preface

From the Preface: These lectures are easily understood and do not require a knowledge of the Hebrew language. Originally they were not intended for publication, but merely to be delivered to about seventy teachers, successful as religious instructors in elementary schools ... Whilst delivering them, at the local University College, towards the close of September 1909, my audience expressed a wish - which was repeated at the end of the course - to have the lectures published, and thus enable them to study them further, and at the same time give an opportunity to those teachers who were either unable to be present or had not been summoned, who nevertheless had evinced a keen interest in them, to read the lectures.... May these lectures be found a useful contribution to the solution of the great and important problems which confront our state schools - and with them the German and Christian schools generally.

From the author's Introduction: [I]t must gladden the hearts of all true students to see that some little interest is at last being taken by European writers in the beautiful philosophy of Nature preached by the founder of Taoism; the study of which, I make bold to add, cannot fail to yield rich stores of pleasure to everyone who takes it up, be he scholar, dilettante, or divine.

'In the beginning God created The Country Church' has been written during the busy days of active growth of The Country Church in Marion, Texas. Several well known leaders in church growth requested that the history and events of The Country Church be recorded. Pastor Butch Ikels has attempted to carry this out with a three fold purpose. First and foremost, to exalt The Lovely Lord Jesus who made it all possible. Second, to inspire church planters in rural areas to trust the Lord and dare to minister outside the box. Thirdly, to encourage and edify those who serve in remote or ill-defined areas. Prayerfully, that through the pages of this book, they might see the miracle of I Corinthians 1:18-31 lived out in a congregation.

'Building Arguments' offers a fresh new approach to informal logic - successfully combining an accessible style with a rigorous, systematic treatment of argument: -It integrates reasoning and writing, teaching readers to argue effectively and communicate ideas in persuasive prose. -It combines fundamental topics of critical thinking into broader discussions of reasoning. So where other books may treat fallacy identification and avoidance, induction and deduction, and validity and soundness as ends in themselves, 'Building Arguments' presents these topics in a practical yet philosophically sound context. -It includes entertaining and relevant examples and exercises drawn from sports, popular advertising, current events, and many academic areas. -'Building Arguments' is unique in its emphasis on helping readers to develop their own persuasive arguments as well as to evaluate arguments from other sources. Using a writing level and organization guided by the principles of reading development, the author introduces material gradually - moving from a very accessible level to a more rigorous one. The result? A book unique in its ability to foster philosophically-based argument analysis while promoting reasoning and writing skills across the curriculum.

The Year's Work in Medievalism: 2003 is based upon but not restricted to the 2003 proceedings of the annual International Conference on Medievalism, organized by the Director of Conferences for Studies in Medievalism, Gwendolyn Morgan, and, for 2003, Tom Shippey of St. Louis University. The essays of the current volume center on the question of creating identity, at the person, political and national levels, through the use of medievalism. Gwendolyn A. Morgan, Medievalism and the Creation of Identity Anne Thornton, Romancing a Romantic: The Lais of Marie de France and Certain Keatsian Odes Edward L. Risden, Tolkien, Riceour, and Eliot: The World of the Text and the 20th-Century Wasteland Grace Chiu Chan, The Medievalism of Kantorowicz: Bildung, Jewish Identity, and National Socialism James R. Keller, The Power of His Horror: Abjection and Macbeth Marjon Ames, Reigning Arthur In: Mythological Appropriation and the English Monarchy Peter G. Christensen, Searching for God and Arthur: Jim Hunter's Percival and the Presence of God Robert Sirabian, Anglo-Saxonism and Charles Kingsley's Hereward the Wake: Last of the English

Focusing on the celebrated story of Josiah's Passover in 2 Kings, Shigeyuki Nakanose provides a dramatic demonstration of the contribution of sociological hermeneutics to contemporary Biblical exegesis. This method complements historical-critical exegesis by reconstructing the social systems of Biblical communities in their religious as well as their economic and political orders. After introducing the sociological method and a brief consideration of historical and literary-critical readings of Josiah's Passover, Nakanose explicates the method of sociological analysis and its facets - economic, social, political, and ideological. Turning to the text itself, he shows clearly how the process of liturgical purification it describes is intimately tied to the centralization of political and commercial interests in ancient Israel. He then goes on to demonstrate, using the experience of Brazilian base communities, what happens when this critical reading is joined with critical reflection on the reader's own social location.

William Sanday launched his academic career with this book at the age of twenty-eight. In it he insists that the question of authorship of the Fourth Gospel must be determined inductively. Sanday lays out a case for Johannine authorship, assuming that John has the Synoptics available to him, and that the author has an accurate knowledge of Jewish customs and the topography of Jerusalem.

This volume of essays on Christian doctrine was the product of an attempt to provide scholarship representative of Cambridge theology in the early twentieth-century. Edited by the great H.B. Swete, the volume presents essays by such noted scholars as F.R. Tennant, William Cunningham, William Barnes, F.J. Foakes-Jackson, and J.F. Bethune-Baker.

Bertholet's 'A History of Hebrew Civilization ('Kulturgeschichte Israels') is what some scholars see as the culmination of nineteenth-century scholarship on Israelite religion. Working from general developmental theories of religion, Bertholet critically sketches Israel's development from nomadic life to their syncretism with existing Palestinian civilization.

This volume is the result of the famous Oxford seminar on the relationship among the Synoptic Gospels. The seminar was chaired by William Sanday and its permanent members included J.C. Hawkins, W.C. Allen, and B.H. Streeter. Essays include, among others: Three Limitations to St. Luke's Use of St. Mark's Gospel by John C. Hawkins On the Original Order of Q by B.H. Streeter The Book of Sayings Used by the Editor of the First Gospel by W.C. Allen Sources of St. Luke's Gospel by J. Vernon Bartlet Criticism of the Hexateuch Compared with that of the Synoptic Gospels by W.E. Addis A Recent Theory of the Origin of St. Mark's Gospel by N.P. Williams

Karl Barth saw Chapter 15 as the center of 1st Corinthians, arguing that a misunderstanding of the resurrection underlies all the problems in Corinth. In this volume, he develops his view of biblical eschatology, asserting that Chapter 15 is key to understanding the testimony of the New Testament. Barth understood the last things not as an end to history but as an end-history with which any period is faced. He only speaks of last things who would speak of the end of all things, of their end understood plainly and fundamentally, of a reality so radically superior to all things that the existence of all things would be utterly and entirely based upon it alone, and thus, in speaking of their end, he would in truth be speaking of nothing else than their beginning. Page 104

This thorough commentary on a key New Testament book has been called by Cyril J. Barber (in 'The Minister's Library') a brilliantly perceptive study of the text; by Wilbur M. Smith (in 'Profitable Bible Study') the greatest of all commentaries on Acts; and by S. Lewis Johnson (in 'Bibliography for New Testament Exegesis and Exposition') a classic. This primarily expository commentary, though first published in 1901, remains highly useful and understandable. Preachers of the Bible and students of theology will welcome the appearance of this volume in a paperback binding.