Despite contributions from current literary and social-scientific approaches to Mark's Gospel, much exciting work remains to be done from the perspectives of the history of religions and tradition-history. Collins' assessment of the major turning points in Mark's narrative sheds light on its...
Author(s): Kathryn Tanner
Delving into the complex aspects of Christian beliefs in their historical, theological, and social diversity, Tanner offers a rigorous and sustained analysis of the relations of belief to attitudes and action. In arguing that Christian beliefs about God and the world can be disengaged from...
What are the purposes and the priorities that really govern a theological school? What are realistic expectations of theological education? What would be the ideal theological school, and what is theological about it? Theologian David Kelsey addresses these questions and other concerns regarding...
Author(s): Nicholas Wolterstorff, with Alvin Plantinga
Author(s): Steven D. Fraade
This book examines Torah and its interpretation both as a recurring theme in the early rabbinic commentary and as the very practice of the commentary. It studies the phenomenon of ancient rabbinic scriptural commentary in relation to the perspectives of literary and historical criticisms and their...
Author(s): Harry S. Stout
Pulitzer Prize nominee, 1991; awarded Critic’s Award for History
Commonly acknowledged as Anglo-America’s most popular eighteenth-century preacher, George Whitefield commanded mass audiences across two continents through his personal charisma. Harry Stout draws on a number of sources,...
Since the rise of modern industrial society, work has come to pervade and rule the lives of men and women. Although there have been many popular books on the Christian understanding of work, this is the first scholarly effort to articulate a developed Protestant theology. Volf interprets work from...
Challenging the formidable tradition that places early New England Puritanism at the center of the American religious experience. Yale historian Jon Butler offers a new interpretation of three hundred years of religious and cultural development. Butler stresses the instability of religion in...
Author(s): Daniel G. Reid (Author), Robert D. Linder (Author), Bruce L. Shelley (Author), Harry S. Stout (Author)
Awarded "Book of the Year" award, Christianity Today, l990This single volume does what most libraries cannot--placing at your fingertips the whole spectrum of individuals, traditions, institututions, denominations, events, and ideas that have influenced North American religion and culture.
