pickwick publications sep 2011 (12 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Creating Women's Theology engages women's questions: Can women from different religious traditions engage one theological approach Can one philosophical approach support feminist religious thought What kind of belief follows women's criticism of traditional Christianity Creating Women's Theology offers a portrait of how some women have found room for faith and feminism. For the last twenty-five years, women religion scholars have synthesized process philosophy with their feminist sensibilities and faith commitments to highlight the value of experience, the importance of freedom, and the interdependence of humanity, God, and all creation. Cutting across cultural and religious traditions, process relational feminist thought represents a theology that women have created. This volume offers an introduction to process and feminist theologies before presenting selections from canonical works in the field with study questions. This volume includes voices from Christianity, Judaism, goddess religion, the Black church, and indigenous religions. Creating Women's Theology invites new generations of undergraduate, seminary, and university graduate students to the methods and insights of process relational feminist theology. 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Lamentations is a book that has never had a place of honor at the table of Christian spirituality. This is an unfortunate state of affairs because its challenging poetry has much to offer. This volume explores the how the biblical book of Lamentations may be engaged afresh so that it can function as Holy Scripture for the ekklesia.Four main chapters consider issues in hermeneutics, exegesis, the use of Lamentations in worship, and pastoral reflections. These chapters have been supplemented by seventeen reception history studies written by an international team of Jewish and Christian scholars. These studies introduce a wide range of interpretations and uses of the book of Lamentations from throughout the history of Judaism and Christianity. They include examinations of the use of Lamentations in Isaiah 40-55, the Targum, Rashi, and contemporary Jewish thought, the Patristic period, Calvin, Jewish and Christian worship, music, Rembrandt, and psychological and feminist interpretation. Appendices include new English translations of LXX Lamentations and Targum Lamentations. 310 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Learning to Speak a New Tongue attempts to respond to a timely question facing America today: What holds people together in a fragmented world The response comes from a religious community that has not been very visible: Asian Americans. The author employs the threefold epistemological scaffold familiar to Asian Americans: (1) translocal value orientation embedded in the experiences of racialization, (2) a heightened sensitivity to pathos arising out of our dissonance with the societal norms and values, and (3) amphibolous spirituality, that is, a co-existence of multiple religious traditions without any resolution of their differences. The angle of vision embedded in this epistemological framework of Asian Americans' lives may well provide a clue to an alternate architectural paradigm in building a new peoplehood and to redefine democratic freedom as the historical paradigm of American peoplehood. 156 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The development of modern medicine is on a very steep trajectory upward--a rise that began only about a hundred years ago. This rise is certainly quantitative, but it is accompanied by qualitative changes in the way we understand and deliver healthcare. This book begins with a look at three recognized periods of medical development--from 1900 until World War II, from the war until about 1980, and the period since 1980.While the common response is to celebrate these developments, this book suggests that perhaps we should also be wary, especially of the qualitative changes. Since World War II, these medical developments have entered more and more areas of our lives. It is precisely this process of medicalization that should be critically examined. Since 1980 we have medicalized life itself. Drawing from medical sociology, the book examines four characteristics of contemporary Western health care: health as a system, risk as a means of understanding health, health as a commodity, and individual responsibility for health. Critical examination of these four tendencies in contemporary health care forms the core of the argument of this important book about the essence of biohealth and medical practice. 192 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book aims to examine the importance of Christian philosophy in theological education through the prism of the life and teachings of Emile Cailliet. The book's primary focus is on his years of teaching at Princeton Theological Seminary, to which all the authors are connected. This work examines Cailliet as a believer, teacher, scholar, and philosopher. Although Cailliet wrote over twenty books, none of them articulated his formal position on the nature of theological education. However, it is clear from his teaching at seminary and his writings on philosophy, especially Pascal, that he saw philosophy as an integral part of seminary training. We want to preserve his work because he was a seminal but neglected thinker whose influence extends from science to literature and from philosophy to spirituality and theology. We believe that Emile Cailliet was one of the most influential Christians of the twentieth century. We invite the reader to stand in the long shadow of Cailliet and consider how his life and thought can help us tackle some of the knotty questions that face us today. 222 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Description:This book, a revision of the author's dissertation, describes the grounds on which knowledge about God is possible according to the Gospel of John. In response to modern questions and doubts about the possibility of religious knowledge, John's answers are identified and illuminated using standard historical method. A major part of this investigation is spent showing that, for readers of all persuasions, it is clear that certain parts of John's Gospel were never intended as either fiction or metaphor. From these parts, the basis on which John thinks that people can have religious knowledge is inferred and described.Endorsements:''Dave Redelings presents a convincing case that the words and miracles (signs) of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel do not function for the author in a merely symbolic or metaphorical sense, but rather represent reliable historical grounds for Christian belief. This volume is not only an important contribution to Johannine theology, but also delves deeply into the epistemological foundations of the Christian faith.''Mark L. StraussProfessor of New TestamentBethel Seminary, San DiegoAbout the Contributor(s):David Redelings has been an adjunct lecturer in New Testament at Bethel University since 2003. He received his PhD from the University of St. Andrews and is the author of several articles for the forthcoming (2011-12) Baker Bible Dictionary. 240 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Learning in a Musical Key examines the multidimensional problem of the relationship between music and theological education. Lisa Hess argues that, in a delightful and baffling way, musical learning has the potential to significantly alter and inform our conception of the nature and process of theological learning. In exploring this exciting intersection of musical learning and theological training, Hess asks two probing questions. First, What does learning from music in a performative mode require Classical modes of theological education often founder on a dichotomy between theologically musical and educational discourses. It is extremely difficult for many to see how the perceivedly nonmusical learn from music. Is musicality a universally human potential In exploring this question Hess turns to the music-learning theory of Edwin Gordon, which explores music's unique mode of teaching/learning, its primarily aural-oral mode.This challenge leads to the study's second question: How does a theologian, in the disciplinary sense, integrate a performative mode into critical discourse Tracking the critical movements of this problem, Hess provides an inherited, transformational logic as a feasible path for integrating a performative mode into multidimensional learning. This approach emerges as a distinctly relational, embodied, multidimensional, and non-correlational performative-mode theology that breaks new ground in the contemporary theological landscape. As an implicitly trinitarian method, rooted in the relationality of God, this non-correlational method offers a practical theological contribution to the discipline of Christian spirituality, newly claimed here as a discipline of transformative teaching/learning through the highly contextualized and self-implicated scholar into relationally formed communities, and ultimately into the world. 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -'Description: Conservative Protestant views of Scripture have not moved much beyond the fundamentalist-modernist controversies of the early twentieth century. Today, discussions must evolve and become transparently conversant with recent scholarly developments. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Authority of Scripture provides contemporary reflections on the most pressing challenges facing inerrancy today. Whatever your current position, this volume will deepen your understanding of the authority of Scripture.TABLE OF CONTENTS and CONTRIBUTORS:Foreword by William Abraham / ixEditor's Preface by Carlos R. Bovell / xviiHistorical Perspectives1 No Creed but the Bible, No Authority Without the Church:American Evangelicals and the Errors of InerrancyD. G. Hart / 32 The Subordination of Scripture to Human Reason at OldPrinceton-Paul Seely / 283 The Modernist-Fundamentalist Controversy, the Inerrancy ofScripture, and the Development of American DispensationalismTodd Mangum / 464 The Cost of Prestige: E. J. Carnell's Quest for IntellectualOrthodoxy-Seth Dowland / 715 'Inerrancy, a Paradigm in Crisis'-Carlos R. Bovell / 91Biblical Perspectives6 Inerrancy and Evangelical Old Testament Scholarship: Challengesand the Way Forward-J. Daniel Hays / 1097 Theological Diversity in the Old Testament as Burden or DivineGift Problems and Perspectives in the Current Debate-RichardSchultz / 1338 'But Jesus Believed That David Wrote the Psalms . . .'Stephen Dawes / 1649 Some Thoughts on Theological Exegesis of the OldTestament: Toward a Viable Model of Biblical Coherence andRelevance-Peter Enns / 18310 Inerrantist Scholarship on Daniel: A Valid Historical Enterprise Stephen Young / 20411 The Implications of New Testament Pseudonymy for a Doctrine ofScripture-Stanley E. Porter / 236Theoretical Perspectives12 Issues in Forming a Doctrine of Inspiration-Craig Allert / 25913 How Evangelicals Became Overcommitted to the Bible and WhaCan Be Done about It-J. P. Moreland / 28914 Biblical Authority: A Social Scientist's PerspectiveBrian Malley / 30315 Authority Redux: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, andTheology-Christian Early / 32316 Scripture and Prayer: Participating in GodHarriet A. Harris / 34417 'A Certain Similarity to the Devil': Historical Criticism andChristian Faith-Gregory Dawes / 35418 Critical Dislocation and Missional Relocation: Scripture'sEvangelical Homecoming-Telford Work / 371List of Contributors / 397Endorsements:''This collection of essays is a bold and high-quality reflection on how to hold to a 'high view' of Scripture once the notion of 'infallibility' is perforce given up. Since my entire life has been outside the orbit of the question of infallibility, much of this is new to me. I have learned a great deal from the judicious, disciplined, honest way in which Scripture is approached here. The wise foreword by William Abraham that functions as an overture is itself of enormous value and prepares the way for the thoughtful, critical, well-informed analyses that are to follow.''Walter BrueggemannColumbia Theological Seminary''In recent years major questions about the nature of Scripture have been raised, questions which have given rise to academic and ecclesiastical warfare, with some urging continued defense of inerrancy and others advocating its complete abandonment. The time is ripe for the appearance of studies that explore this troubled landscape in new ways and try to explain how it all has come about. Carlos Bovell has assembled an impressive collection of essays that do just that. Major theological seminaries and major figures are treated in these interesting and thought-provoking essays. Anyone interested in the doctrine of Scripture and how it is debated today must consult Bovell's book.''Craig A. EvansAcadia Divinity College, Nova Scotia 424 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The preaching ministries of John Wesley and George Whitefield propelled them to the forefront of the eighteenth-century evangelical revival. Both self-professed 'men of one book,' one of the most visible ways in which they expressed their high regard for Scripture was through their desire to be 'preachers of one book.' This book seeks to compare various aspects of the full-orbed 'preach and print' ministries conducted by Wesley and Whitefield. Committed to the principle that the 'whole world was their parish,' Wesley and Whitefield manifested their singular desire to be men of one book through preaching ministries that were by no means identical, yet equally committed to the spread of the gospel throughout the transatlantic world. 272 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Late twentieth-century Jesus novels carve out a completely new picture of Jesus. Those written by Norman Mailer, Jose Saramago, Michele Roberts, Marianne Fredriksson, and Ki Longfellow, among others, provide inversive revisions of the canonical Gospels. Their adaptations often turn into a critique of the whole of Christian history.The contrast novels investigated in this study end up with appropriations that are based on prototypical rewriting. They aim at the rehabilitation of Judas, and some of them make Mary Magdalene the key figure of Christianity. Saramago describes God as a bloodthirsty tyrant, and Mailer makes God battle the devil in a ''Manichaen'' sense as with an equal.The main result of this intertextual analysis is that these authors have adopted Nietzschean ideas in their writing. An attack on the so-called biblical slave morality and violent concept of God deprives Jesus of his Jewish messianic identity, makes Old Testament law a contradiction of life, calls sacrificial soteriology a violent paradigm supporting oppression, and presents God as a cruel monster.As a result, Jewish faith appears in a negative light. Apparently, Western culture still harbours anti-Judaic attitudes, albeit hidden beneath sentiments of equality and tolerance. Timo Eskola skillfully shows that despite the evident post-Holocaust consciousness present in the novels, they actually adopt an arrogant and ironic refutation of Jewish beliefs and Old Testament faith. 348 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Over the past several decades, Reformed theologian and biblical scholar James B. Jordan has produced a unique body of work. His electrifying commentaries and essays on Scripture, along with his penetrating writings on Trinitarian theology, liturgics, music, and culture have inspired a growing number of pastors and theologians. In this Festschrift, Jordan's friends and associates celebrate his contributions by applying his methods and insights to a range of biblical, theological, liturgical, and cultural questions. The Glory of Kings aims to bring Jordan's work to the attention of a wider audience and to introduce the work of a scholar that R. R. Reno has called 'one of the most important Christian intellectuals of our day.' 368 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Conservative Protestant views of Scripture have not moved much beyond the fundamentalist-modernist controversies of the early twentieth century. Today, discussions must evolve and become transparently conversant with recent scholarly developments. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Authority of Scripture provides contemporary reflections on the most pressing challenges facing inerrancy today. Whatever your current position, this volume will deepen your understanding of the authority of Scripture.TABLE OF CONTENTS and CONTRIBUTORS:Foreword by William Abraham / ixEditor's Preface by Carlos R. Bovell / xviiHistorical Perspectives1 No Creed but the Bible, No Authority Without the Church:American Evangelicals and the Errors of InerrancyD. G. Hart / 32 The Subordination of Scripture to Human Reason at OldPrinceton--Paul Seely / 283 The Modernist-Fundamentalist Controversy, the Inerrancy ofScripture, and the Development of American DispensationalismTodd Mangum / 464 The Cost of Prestige: E. J. Carnell's Quest for IntellectualOrthodoxy--Seth Dowland / 715 ''Inerrancy, a Paradigm in Crisis''--Carlos R. Bovell / 91Biblical Perspectives6 Inerrancy and Evangelical Old Testament Scholarship: Challengesand the Way Forward--J. Daniel Hays / 1097 Theological Diversity in the Old Testament as Burden or DivineGift Problems and Perspectives in the Current Debate--RichardSchultz / 1338 ''But Jesus Believed That David Wrote the Psalms . . .''Stephen Dawes / 1649 Some Thoughts on Theological Exegesis of the OldTestament: Toward a Viable Model of Biblical Coherence andRelevance--Peter Enns / 18310 Inerrantist Scholarship on Daniel: A Valid Historical Enterprise Stephen Young / 20411 The Implications of New Testament Pseudonymy for a Doctrine ofScripture--Stanley E. Porter / 236Theoretical Perspectives12 Issues in Forming a Doctrine of Inspiration--Craig Allert / 25913 How Evangelicals Became Overcommitted to the Bible and WhaCan Be Done about It--J. P. Moreland / 28914 Biblical Authority: A Social Scientist's PerspectiveBrian Malley / 30315 Authority Redux: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, andTheology--Christian Early / 32316 Scripture and Prayer: Participating in GodHarriet A. Harris / 34417 ''A Certain Similarity to the Devil'': Historical Criticism andChristian Faith--Gregory Dawes / 35418 Critical Dislocation and Missional Relocation: Scripture'sEvangelical Homecoming--Telford Work / 371List of Contributors / 397 424 pp. Englisch.