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Examines the theological relationship between creation and creativity in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Hart and Khovacs provide a fresh reading of these important themes in Tolkien, and the result captures the multi-faceted nature of Tolkien's own vivid theology and literary imagination.

Offers teachers and students a comprehensive guide to the grammar and vocabulary of Revelation. A perfect supplement to any commentary, this volume's lexical, analytical, and syntactical analysis is a helpful tool in navigating New Testament literature.

Helps readers, expert and layperson alike, understand the importance this find might have for the quest for the historical Jesus and any historical reconstruction of early Christianity. Craig Evans provides an overview of the most important archaeological discoveries before examining nine other inscriptions that pertain to the historical Jesus.

As a part of Christian theology, liberation theology has been most frequently associated with the Catholic Church in Latin America. This groundbreaking work seeks to identify how the theological concepts of liberation theology might be manifested within other world faith traditions.

Historical analysis reveals that the countercultural movements and evangelicalism share a common heritage. Shires warns that political operatives in both parties need to heed this fact if they hope to, in the case of the Republican Party, retain their evangelical constituency, or, in the case of the Democratic Party, recruit new evangelical voters.

Instead of pitting a people of faith against a secular humanist elite, this book helps Americans understand the religious differences that divide, appreciate the public agreements that allow us to live with religious differences, evaluate how existing democratic processes alleviate divisions, and identify ways Americans can agree to disagree.

When Cone wrote Black Theology and Black Power, he signalled to the world that the American black faith tradition would no longer recognize the confines of the church walls as the extent of its purview in society. Black Faith and Public Talk continues Cone's theme of power in the public realm.

Crafts both a theology of disability and a theology informed by disability. The result is a Christian theology that not only connects with our present social, medical, and scientific understanding of disability but also one that empowers a set of best practices appropriate to our late modern context.

Featuring essays by prominent social scientists, this is the first book-length, systematic examination of the relationship between religion and social capital and what effects religious social capital has on democratic life in the United States.

Provides a critical assessment of the scholarship on "Luke-Acts". This study divides thematically, with individual chapters covering the subjects of history and eschatology, the role of the Old Testament, Christology, the Holy Spirit, conversion, and the church. Each chapter considers the theological problems unique to each theme in "Luke-Acts".

Carefully explores how a professor of faith can help a public university accomplish its pluralistic mission. Chris Anderson gives readers a book that is as much about the experience of a faithful teacher and the proper ends of education as it is about discovering the right ways to read texts - be they sacred or secular.