Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going
In The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going, Second Edition, Ryan P. Burge gives readers a nuanced, accurate, and meaningful look at the growing number of Americans who say they have no religious affiliation. This second edition includes substantial updates.
In a time of declining mainline Protestant church attendance, Bouman reminds us that the Holy Spirit is still very much at work in our communities and in the world. God continues to make all things new, and calls us to join this mission of reconciliation, restoration, and renewal. Each chapter of this book contains Bible references and questions ......
Dr. Gerhard Forde (1927-2005) has exercised a significant influence on the life of the Lutheran church in America and beyond over the past several decades. During a teaching career of thirty-four years, twenty-nine of them at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, it is estimated that he taught theology to over three thousand pastors. But Forde s ......
This book explores the theology of the missio Dei by understanding mission as a revelatory concept of person. Mission as a concept of person recovers the original meaning of mission, which is a description of the trinitarian movement of God.
Special pricing available - see below In a series of engaging essays and responses, the bookexplores how evangelism has functioned withinLutheranism historically and articulates a Lutherantheological perspective on evangelism within the broaderdevelopments in mission theology over the past severaldecades. It further helps to show how evangelism ......
The End of Theology generates a discussion of the nature of theology. The volume highlights perspectives of contextual and systematic theology, missiology, world Christianity and history, biblical studies and hermeneutics, ethnography, pastoral practice, social justice, and evangelical identity.
A Historical Study of the Evangelical-Coptic Encounter and Conversion in
The Emergence of the Evangelical Egyptians traces the complex cultural encounter between American Presbyterian missionaries and the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox leaders over indigenous Protestant conversion in late Ottoman Egypt, 1854-1878. This examination uses various Arabic, English, and French sources to uncover the complexities behind the ......
The Dialectics of Mission: Between Vanhoozer and Karkkainen explores the structural elements of theology in order to uncover the missional dimension of doctrine and its generative power in doctrinal formation and development.
Biblical Provocations on Race, Religion, Climate, and the Economy
Tenacious Solidarity features essays and new writings from 2014 to 2018. As all of Walter Brueggemann's writing is, the chapters are deeply biblical while also concerned with the identities, practices, and obligations of religious communities in contemporary contexts within the United States. Brueggemann consistently attempts to weave the biblical ......
