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* Comparable to Howard Zinn's, A People's History of the United States * Includes black and white illustrations

Shows a determined young girl who grew up in Alabama and worked her way through Antioch College only to discover that she was not allowed to teach in the white schools in Ohio. This biography, including a black and white photo gallery, tells the story of Coretta Scott King from her childhood to her death in February 2006.

Documents the full history of ordinary Christians' liturgical expression. This book, written by a distinguished liturgical historian and theologian, ventures behind the liturgical screen, behind the texts, and behind the rubrics to reconstruct the structures of everyday religious expression in Christian history.

Against the easy assurance of a too-enculturated religion, Walter Brueggemann refocuses the preaching task around the decentering, destabilizing, always risky Word that confronts us in Scripture if we have the courage to hear.

Creation and Fall originated in lectures given by Dietrich Bonhoeffer at the University of Berlin in the winter semester of 1932--33 during the demise of the Weimar Republic and the birth of the Third Reich. In the course of these events, Bonhoeffer called his students to focus on the word of God the word of truth in a time of turmoil.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer here gives one of his secrets behind the powerful witness of his own life. He had learned to pray the Psalms and from them drew on the power of God in his years of imprisonment. In this introduction, Bonhoeffer discusses the various types of Psalms and how they can be used to enrich our prayer life. In a brief biographical sketch, Eberhard Bethge, friend and biographer of the author, helps us understand the man who used the Psalms as his prayer book.

A creative and programmatic work, Ethics of Hope is a realistic assessment of the human prospect, as well as its imperatives, from one who stakes everything on Gods promise to rescue life from the jaws of death.

Mark Edwards's pioneering work on the Reformation as a"print event" traces how Martin Luther, the first Protestant, became the central figure in the West's first media campaign.He shows how Luther and his allies spread their messageusing a medium that was itself subversive: pamphlets writtenin the vernacular and directed to the broadest readingpublic. Closely examining Protestant and Catholic pamphletspublished in Strasbourg in the early years of theReformation, Edwards demonstrates Luther's dominance ofthe medium, the challenges posed by Catholic counterattacks, the remarkable success of Luther's New Testament, and theunforeseen effects of the new medium. This volume hasopened an exciting new vista on the European Reformation.

"In her brilliant, wide ranging, nuanced study of apocalypse, Keller has written a definitive cultural and theological essay. In this book she is doing the work of the true intellectual: providing learned, passionate guidance for living the good life, all of us together, here and now, on our planet." --Sallie McFague, Distinguished Theologian in Residence Vancouver School of Theology "A richly evocative exploration of apocalyptic's ambiguous possibilities.... Inspiring in the fullest personal, political, and religious senses of the term." --Kathryn Tanner University of Chicago Divinity School "Catherine Keller is a poet among theologians. Her writing attains imaginative heights and depths that expose the flatly prosaic character of most theological work. One finds oneself lingering over sentences, images and tropes, hearing them resonate with connections and insights." --Peter HodgsonJournal of the American Academy of Religion "Densely packed and brilliantly articulated, this book challenges the reader's critical engagement with the cultural habits of postmodernity. Apocalypse Now and Then demonstrates that scholarship can be simultaneously poetic and rigorous, firmly grounded in the concrete while exploring the rarefied air of the esoteric. In the face of apocalypse we need not succumb to despair but can let Keller guide us to an affirmation of hope." --Elizabeth A. Say, CrossCurrents "Filled with passion and tension and vividness.... Insightful and provocative, Keller's Apocalypse Now and Then is a most enjoyable reading experience.... A book not to be missed." --Ted Peters, Theology Today "In assessing our postmodern situation and in searching for sustainable environments and persistence in the struggle against human suffering, Keller offers us all a profoundly grounded, lifesustaining alternative to despair." --Rita Nakashima Brock, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley "This is a brilliant book: brilliant in its content, brilliant in its prose, brilliant in its style.... This book is valuable not simply for what Keller says, but for how she says it.... Part of the pleasure of this book is that even as Keller builds her argument from chapter to chapter, she weaves a story around the edges of her chapters. And this story is itself the counter-apocalypse she argues...." --Marjorie Suchocki, Claremont School of Theology

"Edwards has...illuminat[ed] the reformer's thought and personality in a way that could never be achieved by studying the man's words alone. Future historians will identify Edwards's book as one of several that marked a turning point in Luther research. No one interested in the Reformation can afford to ignore it." -- American Historical Review "Edwards turns his attention to...understanding Luther's often vitriolic campaigns against opposing princes, Jews, the papacy, and others.... This work is one of solid scholarship and long gestation that seeks to understand without condemning.... More important, Edwards has raised a number of questions about the relationship across time of Luther's deeds, his words, and his world. Such is the mark of good history and of those who write it." -- Journal of Religion "Edwards has a lucid style and makes his points clearly.... His assessment of Luther's later years...should prove an invaluable guide to further creative pre-occupation with Luther right down to his darkest moods and most scathing attacks." -- Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society "With this book Edwards moves into the front rank of American Luther scholars.... He wisely counsels moderns to understand the context of flailing words in the sixteenth century. Luther thought the world was ending. He came to see his movement in pessimistic terms. He struck out calculatingly and inexcusably, but sometimes understandably. This a cool, calm treatment of a frantic, hot subject." -- The Christian Century

Liturgy as the work of God's people gives the preacher a place to standan organic connection with an intentional sacramental community, says Rice. The place of preaching is the community, Christ's body, and the hermeneutic that governs homiletical exegesis, style, and presentation comes from the liturgical situation of the sermon.The Embodied Word puts preaching in its proper placein the presence of the baptistry and close to the table. As Rice explores the implications of that placement for the specific concerns of homiletics, the use of Scripture, and the appropriation of the arts, he concludes that the movement of the sermon is from text to table and that the action of the liturgy both depends upon and empowers the word.Charles L. Rice is Professor of Homiletics Emeritus at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, and an Episcopal priest. One of the most acclaimed pioneers of the "new homiletic," he is the author of Preaching the Story (1980) and Interpretation and Imagination: The Preacher and Contemporary Literature (1970), both from Fortress Press.

For centuries the apostle Paul has been invoked to justify oppression - whether on behalf of slavery, to enforce unquestioned obedience to the state, to silence women, or to legitimate anti-Semitism. To interpret Paul is thus to set foot on a terrible battleground between spiritual forces. But as Neil Elliott argues, the struggle to liberate human beings from the power of Death requires "Liberating Paul" from his enthrallment to that power. In this book, Elliott shows that what many people experience as the scandal of Paul is the unfortunate consequence of the way Paul has usually been read, or rather misread, in the churches.In the first half of the book, Elliott examines the many texts historically interpreted to support oppression or maintain the status quo. He shows how often Paul's authentic message has been interpreted in the light of later pseudo-Pauline writings.In Part Two, Elliott applies a "political key" to the interpretation of Paul. Though subsequent centuries have turned the cross into a symbol of Christian piety, Elliott forcefully reminds us that in Paul's time this was the Roman mode of executing rebellious slaves, a fact that has profound political implications.Under Elliott's examination, a startlingly new image of Paul begins to emerge, liberated from layers of false interpretation, and free to speak a liberating and challenging word to our world today.

This book attempts a solution to the problems of the structure, christology, and Kingdom-theology of the Gospel according to St. Matthew. The author contends that the broad structure of the Gospel consists of three main parts: the person of Jesus Messiah, the proclamation of Jesus Messiah, and the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Messiah.This understanding of the broad structure of Matthew's Gospel opens the way to a proper understanding of his christology. That is, for Matthew Jesus is first and foremost the Messiah, the Son of God. Kingbury's analysis of the texts in which "Son of God" appears, and of the numerous other christological terms Matthew employs, confirms this conclusion.Professor Kingbury demonstrates how Matthew develops both the structure and the primary theological concept of his Gospel, "The Kingdom of Heaven," around the christological category of "the Son of God." A rigorous conclusion reached is that the focus of the Gospel of Matthew is revealed more in his christology than in his ecclesiology.

"The great virtue of Koch's work is his attempt to describe the world-view presupposed by the prophets as they evaluated their societies and formulated their messages. In this respect his treatment is a valuable contribution to our understanding." --Thomas W. Overholt Catholic Biblical Quarterly

"An excellent introduction to the prophets and the prophetic literature . . . The goal of the book is to understand the thought of the prophets in their historical contexts, and to communicate that understanding for our time. Its approach, while innovative, builds upon he best of contemporary analysis of the prophetic literature."Gene M. Tucker Candler School of Theology Emory University"Koch's first volume on the prophets of ancient Israel displays his sound and creative scholarship and will fill a bibliographical gap. He displays the individuality of each prophet with perceptive insight, but he also compares and interrelates them in his various summaries. Furthermore, Koch relates his study of individual prophets to theological currents that have been flowing through the scholarly world in recent decades."Bernhard W. Anderson Princeton Theological Seminary

Enduring meditations on hope, anxiety, and mystical experience, together with the author's personal confession of faith.

* Global in perspective, Lutheran in focus * Accessible to a broad audience

Introducción Origen e infancia de Jesús (1.1-2.23) Comienzo del ministerio de Jesús (3.1-4.25) El Sermón del Monte (5.1-7.29) Prodigios de Jesús (8.1-9.38) Discurso de minión (10.1-42) Conflictos, oposición y comunidad (11.1-12.50) Discurso de parábolas (13.1-52) Conflicto y confesión (13.53-17.23) Discurso sobre la vida en comunidad (18.1-35) De Galilea a Judea (19.1-20.34) Primeros días en Jerusalén (21.1-22.46) Denuncia de los escribas y fariseos (23.1-36) Discurso escatológico (24.1-25.46) Pasión de Jesús (26.1-17.31) Crucifixión y muerte de Jesús (27.32-66) Resurrectión de Jesús y comisión de los discípulos (28.1-20) Bibliografía selecta

Dedicatoria Introducción Hebreos: Una introducción a la epistola Prólogo: La intervención de Dios en la historia (1.1-4) Primera sección: La superioridad del Hijo (1.5-2.18) El Hijo es coronado rey (1.5-14) Exhortación a reconocer la autoridad del Hijo (2.1-4) La solidaridad del Hijo con la humanidad (2.5-18) Segunda sección: Cristo es nuestro Sumo Sacerdote (3.1-5.10) Jesús, el Sumo Sacerdote fiel (3.1-6) Advertencia contra la incredulidad (3.7-4.13) Jesús, el Sumo Sacerdote compasivo (4.14-5.10) Tercera sección: El sumo sacerdocio de Jesucristo (5.11-10.39) Advertencia contra la pereza (5.11-6:20) Jesús, Sumo Sacerdote seqún el orden de Melquisedec (7.1-28) Jesús, el Sumo Sacerdote perfecto (8.1-9.22) La eficacia del sacerdocio de Cristo (9.23-10.18) Exhortación a acercarse a Dios (10.19-39) Cuata sección: La perseverancia (11.1-12.13) La fe (11.1-40) Puestos los ojos en Jesús (12.1-13) Quinta sección: Orientación para la vida cristiana (12.14-13.19) Exhortación a la santidad (12.14-29) Exhortación a la solidaridad (13.1-19) Conclusión: Bendición y despedida (13.20-25) Bibliografía comentada

Conozca su Biblia, developed in partnership with the Asocación para la Educación Teológica Hispana and the Division for Congregational Ministries of the ELCA, is a unique new Bible series written in Spanish by leading Hispanic theologians and Bible educators. The series includes general volumes about the Bible, as well as volumes about specific books or groups of related books. Written by knowledgeable scholars who avoid using unnecessary technical terms or an abundance of footnotes. The books are written at a high school reading level and address lay adults and beginning students. Scripture texts are from the two most commonly used Bibles in the Spanish-speaking world: the Reina-Valera Revisada and the Version Popular (Good News).

* Written for preachers, teachers, and lay persons * Avoids unnecessary technical terms * Uses Scripture from the Reina-Valera revisada (NRSV) and the Version Popular (Good News)