Why do soldiers fight? What keeps them going? What compels them to face death when their long-time comrades have fallen around them? Strangers in Arms addresses these questions in a groundbreaking stu
In this special issue on “Sustainability in Combining Career and Care”, eight empirical studies followingfrom an integrative framework address normative beliefs about parenting, “choices”in combining
In Canadians Under Fire Robert Engen explores the dynamics of what combat looked like to Canada's infantrymen during the Second World War. Analyzing unexamined battle experience questionnaires from ov
Our sense of smell has been neglected as a research area. Engen maintains that this neglect belies the critical role that the sense plays in human adaptation to the environment through the monitoring
Missiology permeated with theological reflection. This volume is the culmination of Van Engen's teachings, but takes us to an even deeper level. Since mission is first and foremost God's mission, theo
Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetor
John Van Engen studies the Devotio Moderna, or Modern Devout, within their own time and space, the social and religious conditions that marked towns and parishes in northern Europe during the fifteent
Honor & Profit offers a welcome corrective to the outmoded Finleyite view of the ancient economy. This important volume collects and analyzes economic evidence including government decrees for all
Outlines the theoretical basis for microwave circuit theory with particular emphasis on its similarity to, and difference from, the low frequency counterpart. This leads to an identification of the pa
A world-claiming theology of the church draws on ancient and modern thoughts. The author focuses on how the church can grow to become in reality "God's missionary people."
David Czupryn is a master of the trompe-l'oeil effect, the centuries-old art of eye illusion that celebrates an unexpected comeback with him. With brush and paint he mimetically reproduces surfaces, t
Mission is constantly innovating.As contexts change, so too does the work of the church. Today, in the face of a rapidly changing world and a growing global church, the task of mission must continue t
Writing for general readers both within and outside the religions, North American historians and theologians explore Jewish and Christian beliefs and practices in Europe before 1600. The 16 essays are
Lande (biology, U. of California, San Diego) introduces biological concepts and mathematical methods that have proven useful in analyzing stochastic population dynamics, using field data from bird, ma
Transforming Relations is a collection of original essays on the history of Jews and Christians in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the modern era that honors the influential work of Michael A. Signer
