Collects evidence from ancient sources and provides enough detail that readers can imagine what a presentation of the Gospel of Mark would be like,and shows clearly how such a performance of the Gospe
Draws on sources in evolutionary biology, process theology, and a range of world religions to propose that evolution can provide a key to religious faith, addressing such topics as the role of the Sac
This book argues that Matthew's gospel protests the imperial ideology of theology of Roman imperialism by asserting that God's purposes are performed not by the empire but by Jesus and his community o
A provocative analysis of interrelated issues running through Paul's letters including Paul's views on the Roman Empire, on the politics of Israel, and politics and the church.
The first comprehensive analysis of Barbara Jordan's written speeches. The speeches offer important insights into Jordan's moral theories and her model of a flourishing multi-ethnic society.
This book brings together the best and most popular papers and lectures of one of the most stimulating voices in contemporary theological conversation. In striking prose, Johann Baptist Metz, a founde
While many books on religious pluralism focus on the plurality of religious presences in North America, this volume employs the term to include the plurality of perspectives present within religious
What must a new convert know or believe? How do they know? How can Christian teaching be translated and communicated interculturally without distorting the message? How should mission be done in an an
What historical realities lie behind the birth of Jesus and the description of the Holy Family by the evangelists? In this book, controversial New Testament scholar Gerd Ludemann investigates all of t
This book is the result of the author's involvement with the Jesus Seminar. The premise is that the quest for the historical Jesus has always been closely related to the Christian search for God, and
In June 1996, to celebrate Moltmann's seventieth birthday, a remarkable group of theologians, both Catholic and Protestant, gathered in Tubingen, Germany. They spent the day discussing, before a large
This book clarifies differences between the intellectual positions of the so-called two-party system of liberals and conservatives in American Protestant Christianity. Nancey Murphy advances the thes
Pagels argues against reading Paul either as hyper-Gnostic or hyper-orthodox, or blaming Paul for second century Gnostic efforts to read him out of context for their own support.
