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The 1993 event at Mt. Carmel shocked all of America and has since spawned a plethora of books regarding the "truth" about the Branch Davidians. Memories of the Branch Davidians is the story told from the inside.

In the end, DeConick shows that Thomas is best explained as arising from the fusion of Jewish Mysticism and Hermetic praxis and not as being shaped by gnostic traditions.--Marvin Meyer "Journal of Biblical Literature"

Introduces readers to a rich array of British Christian texts published between 1660 and 1750. The anthology documents the arc of Christian writings from the reestablishment of the Church of England to the rise of the Methodist movement in the middle of the eighteenth century.

Using methodology developed in semantics, semiotics, and literary theory, Carey Newman examines the origin and rhetoric of Paul's Glory-language. Newman concludes that nothing less than Paul's declaration of Jesus as God is expressed in his designation of Jesus as Glory.

The result is a close reading of the Bible that gives long-overdue attention to the fullness of human identity narrated in the Scriptures.--Kathryn Greene-McCreight, author of Darkness Is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness

Draws readers deep inside the New Testament by providing a basic orientation to its literary contours and its ways of talking about theological matters. Designed for students learning to navigate the Bible as Christian Scripture, the Companion serves as an accessible, reliable, and engaging guide to each New Testament book's contents.

America, Hussain concludes, would not exist as it does today without the essential contributions made by its Muslim citizens.--James L. Fredericks "Choice"

How Paul reread his Bible goes hand-in-glove with the differences that developed between Christianity and Judaism.--Larry Hurtado "Journal of Biblical Literature"

Provides a foundational analysis of the Hebrew text of Qoheleth. This is a convenient pedagogical and reference tool that explains the form and syntax of the biblical text, offers guidance for deciding between competing semantic analyses, and engages important text-critical debates.

In this first systematic attempt to substantiate social bias in higher education, George Yancey embarks on an analysis of the social biases and attitudes of faculties in American universities - surveying professors in disciplines from political science to experimental biology and then examining the blogs of 42 sociology professors.

The narrative of Civil Rights often begins with the prophetic figure of Martin Luther King Jr in the 1960s. In A Pursued Justice, Kenyatta Gilbert instead traces the roots of King's call for justice to African American prophetic preaching that arose in an earlier moment of American history.

With impressively clear prose and a superb command of history, Randall Balmer offers a spirited history of evangelical Christianity in the United States. Situating developments in evangelicalism in their wider historical context, he demonstrates the ways American social and cultural settings influenced the course of the evangelical tradition.

The sources in this unique anthology, accidentals modernized and accompanied by careful notes and detailed historical, literary, and theological introductions, immerse readers in this world and allow them to explore comprehensively--for the first time--what was lost, what was transformed, and what was preserved in the English Reformation.--Stefano Colavecchia "Sixteenth Century Journal"

The melding of indigenous Korean religions and Christianity led to a highly localized Korean Christianity that flourished in the early modern era. The Making of Korean Christianity sorts fact from myth in this exhaustive examination of the local and global forces that shaped Christianity on the Korean Peninsula.

Explores the ways in which Revelation, when read as the last book in the Christian Bible, is in actuality a crafted and contentious word. Contributors reveal the intricate intertextual interplay between this apocalyptically charged book, its resonances with the Old Testament, and its political implications.

A convenient pedagogical and reference tool that explains the form and syntax of the biblical text, offers guidance for deciding between competing semantic analyses, engages important text-critical questions, and addresses questions relating to the Greek text that are frequently overlooked or ignored by standard commentaries.

Witherington offers a comprehensive description of evangelical theology while concurrently providing an insistent corrective to its departures from both tradition and text.--Benjamin B. De Van "Wesley and Methodist Studies"

Dale Andrews and Robert Smith combine the voices of constructive theologians, practical theologians, and those ministering in black churches to craft a rich and expansive black practical theology. Black Practical Theology brings together the hermeneutical conversation between scholars working within the traditional disciplines of theological education (systematic theology, ethics, biblical studies, history) and those scholars working within practical theology (homiletics, pastoral care and counseling, Christian education, spirituality). To this ongoing conversation, Andrews and Smith add the voices of pastors of black congregations and para-church leaders who serve the communities of faith who daily confront the challenges this work addresses-youth and intergenerational divides, education and poverty, gender and sexuality, globalism, health care, and incarceration and the justice system. Black Practical Theology sets the standard for practical theology. Embodying its own methodological call-to begin with the issues of the black church, as well as its resources and practices-it does not rest content but returns immediately to the communities from which it emerged. Black Practical Theology is a gift to both teacher and student.

Serves as a basic introduction to the variety of ways contemporary historians have applied their Christian convictions to historical research and reconstruction. Christian teachers and students developing their own sense of the past will benefit from exploring the variety of Christian historiographical approaches described.

In God of the Living, noted biblical scholars Reinhard Feldmeier and Hermann Spieckermann provide a comprehensive theology of the God of the Christian Bible. A remarkable achievement, God of the Living joins together the very best of Old and New Testament scholarship to craft a comprehensive biblical theology. Feldmeier and Spieckermann wrestle with the whole of scripture to give a definitive and decisive voice to the church's central mission-bearing witness to the living God.Both historical and systematic, God of the Living explores God's multifaceted, complex, and sometimes contradictory character presented in the scriptures. Yet, whether in wrath or reconciliation, judgment or justification, suffering or salvation, God has given and shares divine life in the person of Jesus Christ. Thus, Feldmeier and Spieckermann uncover God's profound affirmation of human life, as the God of the living-the God of the Bible-finds fulfillment in relation to the living partners of his own creation.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a new-found love of spontaneity transformed Christian worship and revolutionised the Enlightenment's 'culture of sensibility'. This book tells the story of how and why spontaneity came to be so revered. It shows that the rise of spontaneity was intimately connected to the forces of commerce and science.

His theology is one for all people, offered through the lens of a particular people, not for individual possession but for redemption and transformation into something new.--Timothy Jones, Ph. D. student, Boston University School of Theology "Homiletic"

By recognizing the gifts of creation that have been scientifically uncovered, Origins presents a new way to understand this universe of grace and reason.--J. Daniel McDonald, Boyce College "Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies"

In a distinctly Chinese voice, Yang presents the legacy of Western missionaries in a new light, contributing greatly to now vigorous Sino-Christian theology.--Thomas Harvey "Scottish Journal of Theology"

Collects the work of renowned scholars on the importance and mission of Christian higher education. Placing Baylor University at the centre of these discussions, this compendium celebrates Judge Kenneth W. Starr's first year of presidency at Baylor University and underscores the necessity of Christian higher education in a global context.

The Old Testament is often maligned as an outmoded and even dangerous text. Iain Provan counters that such easy and popular readings misunderstand the Old Testament. He opposes modern misconceptions of the Old Testament by addressing ten fundamental questions that the biblical text should - and according to Provan does - answer.

The depth and breadth of Parson's chapters root Luke's narrative strategy, interpretive moves, and theological imagination in the pagan, Jewish, and Christian contexts of the period.--John A. Darr, Boston College "Catholic Biblical Quarterly "

Analyses the polysemy of recognition operative in the thought of two contemporary French thinkers, Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) and Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005). Michael Sohn shows that recognition appears prominently throughout the works of Levinas and Ricoeur, which exist at the intersection of phenomenology, ethics, politics, and religion.