Publications

1988
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...
1988
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.
1988
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...
1987
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.
1987
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...
1986
Author(s): Wayne Meeks

This volume in the Library of Early Christianity examines the ethics and morality of the earliest Christians. The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the New Testament developed.
1986
Author(s): Carlos M. N. Eire

In the second decade of the sixteenth century medieval piety suddenly began to be attacked in some places as "idolatry," or false religion. This study calls attention to the importance of the idolatry issue during the Reformation.
1985
Author(s): Adela Collins

1985
Author(s): Thomas Ogletree

The essays contained in this book offer exploratory studies towards a constructive account of "fundamental ethics," that is, a basic description of the constitutive components of the moral life. Thomas Ogletree sketches out the systematic components of Christian ethics, relating them to symbolic...