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El reconocido expositor bíblico, John Stott, ha dejado un importante legado para la iglesia cristiana en América Latina a través del programa de capacitación
sobre predicación expositiva, la producción de excelentes libros bíblicos y la promoción de estudios avanzados que han fortalecido el desarrollo de las
iglesias. Estos ministerios continúan hoy bajo la consigna de la Fundación Langham entidad fundada, precisamente, por Stott.
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MLK and the Practice of Spirituality
The scholarship on Martin Luther King Jr. is seriously lacking in terms of richly nuanced and revelatory treatments of his spirituality and spiritual life. This book addresses this neglect by focusing on King's life as a paradigm of a deep, vital, engaging, balanced, and contagious spirituality. It shows that the essence of the person King was lies in the quality of his own spiritual journey and how that translated...
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Immigration is one of the most hotly debated topics today. But, the question involves more than politics and emotion; it includes such critical issues as law, justice, human rights, human dignity, and freedom. Strangers in This World is a collection that brings together an international consortium of scholars to reflect on the religious, political, anthropological, and social realities of immigration through the prism of the historical and theological...
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Before Theological Study will orient students to the aptitudes, knowledge, spirituality, imagination, and dispositions that are appropriate to thoughtful, engaged, and generous theological study. The book has the character of a modern theological enchiridion (handbook) for engagement with the disciplines that are a part of preparation for ministry. It is characterized by the vision of the Vancouver School of Theology to prepare students for thoughtful,...
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Karl Barth was one of the most important Christian theologians of the twentieth century, but his political views have often not been taken sufficiently into account. Beginning with a representative early essay by Karl Barth, this volume proceeds with essays by Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt, Helmut Gollwitzer, Hermann Diem, Dieter Schellong, Joseph Bettis, and George Hunsinger. These contributions engage both the relationship of Barth's theology to his...
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Since the 1960s, theologians have been involved in efforts to guide Christians to reflection and action in light of planetary peril. The contributors to this volume illustrate how Friedrich Schleiermacher's theological work could fulfill that need. Schleiermacher's theology, they contend, finds its culmination in Christian social action and is remarkably conducive to ecological thinking in...
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Covenant and Hope centers around two main themes in Jewish-Christian dialogue: "Covenant, Mission, and Relation to the Other" and "Hope and Responsibility for the Human Future." In the first section, scholars from both faiths analyze the idea of covenant, how it determines their religious commitments, behavior, and theology, and how their covenantal theology shapes their relations with people outside their religious communities. The second section...
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The idea that we can partner with God strikes some people as audacious. Others consider it pretentious. Some may think it's downright blasphemous!
Can creatures actually partner with God?
This book answers that question... in the affirmative. The responses vary and the proposals provoke new insights. Along the way, the ideas break new ground.
It turns out "partnering with God" has various meanings and dimensions. The seventy-seven contributors...
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The identity and nature of the Holy Spirit has long been a critical—and often divisive—topic among Christians. Yet it is one with which we must continue to grapple if we are to grow in our understanding of the personhood of God, the calling of the church and the life of the believer.
The seventh volume drawn from the annual conference of the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology, this collection of essays addresses questions of pneumatology...
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The Earth needs our attention-the best of our intellectual, ethical, and spiritual wisdom and action. In this collection, written in honor of Elizabeth A. Johnson, scholars from the United States and around the world contribute their insights on how theology today can and must turn to the world in new ways in light of contemporary science and our ecological crisis. The essays in this collection advance theological visions for the human task of healing...
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Second volume of an exciting new series exploring global theology. Though the global center of Christianity has been shifting south and east over the past few decades, very few theological resources have dealt with the seismic changes afoot. The Majority World Theology series seeks to remedy that lack by gathering well-regarded Christian thinkers from around the world to discuss the significance of Christian teaching in their respective contexts.
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This volume offers constructive and contextual theological discussions that uphold Christian teaching and beliefs to promote a life with dignity in the African continent, based on practical theological beliefs. The authors discuss different thematic topics among which issues of health and healing that are pertinent in Africa and have perpetuated misleading theologies. The book also addresses issues of wealth and poverty in the context of faith, which...
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En el contexto de la actualización del espíritu del concilio Vaticano II en este pontificado, nace la experiencia del primer Encuentro iberoamericano de Teología celebrado en Boston en 2017. De la mano de los teólogos Rafael Luciani, Carlos María Galli, Juan Carlos Scannone SJ y Félix Palazzi, más de cuarenta teólogos y pastoralistas han discernido sobre los ejes que caracterizan este momento trascendental: las relaciones de exclusión, la...
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Caring for their mothers at the end of their lives and grieving for them after their deaths brought them together. Seven women from diverse racial, cultural, and religious traditions with differing sexual orientations and life experiences became seven "sisters in mourning," meeting to share their grief and to remember together, not only their mothers, but themselves as daughters. This book is a rich compilation of narratives that emerged through vulnerable...
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Editors Mary Elizabeth Moore and Almeda M. Wright address the harsh, challenging, and delicate realities of children and youth-who live as spiritual beings within a beautiful yet destructive world. Providing a practical theological analysis of the spiritual yearnings, expressions, and challenges of children and youth in a world of rapid change, dislocation, violence, and competing loyalties, Children, Youth, and Spirituality in a Troubling World provides...
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The Abraham Kuyper Center for Public Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary was established in admiration of Kuyper, whose life as pastor, theologian, journalist, and politician remarkably exemplifies how confidence in the truth of a Christian worldview can be expressed in both theory and practice. The chapters in this book were originally presented at the annual Kuyper Conferences of 2009 and 2010 and are inspired by the themes of those conferences:...
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Women rabbis are changing the face of Judaism. Discover how their interpretations of the Torah can enrich your perspective. "Rich and engaging…makes available to a wide readership the collective wisdom of women who have changed the face of Judaism." -Judith Plaskow, author, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective; Professor of Religious Studies, Manhattan College Here, for the first time, women's unique experiences and perspectives...
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Jeder beginnt die Woche anders: Die einen springen montags putzmunter aus dem Bett. Die anderen drücken schlaftrunken die Schlummer-Taste am Wecker und sehnen sich nach dem nächsten Wochenende. Egal, welcher Typ Sie sind: Dieses Buch bietet kurze inspirierende Andachten für jeden Montag des Jahres. So können Sie die neue Woche mit ermutigenden Worten beginnen. Der tägliche Bibelvers hilft, die Gedanken auf Gott auszurichten und sich mit Freude...
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Is God the First Cause? The Unmoved Mover? Mr. Miyagi? In this latest installment of the Homebrewed Christianity series, edited by Tripp Fuller, Eric E. Hall approaches the question of God from various perspectives, including philosophy, personal revelation, Christian tradition, and other religions.
The classical conception of God is, like the famously stoic-yet-lethal character in the Karate Kid. Competing versions of God include Your Hippie Aunt,...
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Reconnect with the power and promise of engagement with Torah-from a modern men's perspective.
This major contribution to modern biblical commentary addresses the most important concerns of modern men-issues like relationships, sexuality, ambition, work and career, body image, aging, and life passages-by opening them up to the messages of the Torah. It includes commentaries by some of the most creative and influential rabbis, cantors, journalists,...
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