Reversals, Resistance, and the Ongoing Complexity of Hope
Bringing us the untold--often hidden--story of Advent, Kelley Nikondeha takes us back to the original landscapes. Then, as now, Palestine was the geographic, socioeconomic, and political backdrop of the Gospel narratives that wrestle with dark themes of violence, exploitive economics, and abuse to arrive at the hard-won hope of Jesus's birth.
A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert
Winner of the 2016 Religious Communication Association Book of the Year Award In God Mocks, Terry Lindvall ventures into the muddy and dangerous realm of religious satire, chronicling its evolution from the biblical wit and humor of the Hebrew prophets through the Roman Era and the Middle Ages all the way up to the present. He takes the reader ......
This book redefines "New Testament Christology" as content and as the discipline explaining that content. Behind this dual redefinition stands one conviction: instead of perpetuating the view of Christology as a theologically informed history of early ideas about Christ.
Recognizing that the battle over Jesus is no longer a public debate between the skeptic and believer but an internal struggle in the heart of many disciples, Tripp Fuller argues that we continue to make Christological claims about more than an "event" or simply the "Jesus of history."
The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God
Relying on the methods of the history of religions school and ranging judiciously across Hellenistic literature, M. David Litwa shows that at each stage in their depiction of Jesus' life and ministry, early Christian writings relied on categories drawn not from Judaism alone, but on a wide, pan-Mediterranean understanding of deity
The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians
An Unlikely Union tells the dramatic story of how two of America's largest ethnic groups learned to love and laugh with each other after decades of animosity. They came from the poorest parts of Ireland and Italy and met as rivals on the sidewalks of New York. Beginning in the nineteenth century, the Irish and Italians clashed in the Catholic ......
The Theology of Light and Illumination in Thomas Aquinas
Light is one of the most ancient and significant metaphors adopted by Christianity by which to understand the significance of Jesus Christ. This book establishes the theological network formed by the motif of light/illumination in Aquinas, from how theology operates to the systematic, sacramental, and moral coordinates in Aquinas' theology.
Explores the Christian symbol of the cross. This work considers the following questions: do traditional understandings of the cross assign a value to suffering or violence? Are traditional models of redemption as a ransom or debt payment fitting for the world?
How did Jesus, a much-lovedand highly respected Jewishteacher, get sentenced to deathas a criminal? The questions ofstudents and scholars about theactual circumstances, legal situation,and subsequent development of thePassion Narratives are here answeredin Sloyan's second edition of thisreliable resource, first published byFortress Press in 1973. ......
