Author(s): Margaret Farley
Author(s): edited by Phyllis Granoff
Edited by Phyllis GranoffTranslatted pp. 140-146The stories in this collection span almost one thousand years of story-telling in India. Most originate in North India and all were written by Jain monks for the education and amusement of the faithful. Jain literature is both righ and varied. Stories...
Author(s): Harold Attridge, with Helmut Koester
The first major and comprehensive English- language commentary on Hebrews in over fifty years. Presents a balanced and richly documented interpretation.
Author(s): Nathan O. Hatch (Editor), Harry S. Stout (Editor)
Universally recognized as a seminal figure in American intellectual history, Jonathan Edwards has been the focus of considerable scholarly attention in a variety of academic disciplines, including religion, history, literature, and philosophy. Because these disciplines discuss him in relation to...
Author(s): Edited by Robert R. Wilson, Gene M. Tucker and David L. Petersen
Essays in honor of Brevard S. Childs
Author(s): Kathryn Tanner
Original Publication: Blackwell Pub, 1988Reprint: Fortress Press, 2005How can Christian theologians reconcile claims of God's sovereign power with the creatures' own capacities for free action? Recent speculation insists these two claims are incompatible. God's unconditioned omnipotence implies a...
Author(s): Phyllis Granoff (Author), Koichi Shinohara (Editor)
Gathers essays about the lives of Jain and Buddhist figures in India and Buddhist kings and monks in Tibet and China, and covers pilgrimage sites, funerary customs, and the spread of religious ideas.
Author(s): Harry S. Stout
Pulitzer Prize Nominee l986; Merle Curti Award Nominee, l986
The New England Soul is the first comprehensive analysis of preaching in New England from the founding of the Puritan colonies to the outbreak of the Revolution. Using a multi-disciplinary approach–including analysis of rhetorical...
Author(s): Deborah H. Deford (Author), Harry S. Stout (Illustrator)
Margaret must test her loyalty and courage when a wounded prisoner of war is brought into her Pennsylvania home in this novel of the Revolutionary era.
Author(s): Nicholas Wolterstorff
Taking vigorous issue with the pervasive Western notion that the arts exist essentially for the purpose of aesthetic contemplation, Nicholas Wolterstorff proposes instead what he sees as an authentically Christian perspective: that art has a legitimate, even necessary, place in everyday life. While...
