Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: H999
ISBN: 9780881467680
Price: $35.00
We live in a secular age, where the world and its ways seem to indicate the absence of God. The testimony of ancient and latter-day prophets requires more faith (or credulity) than most of us can manage. Can we still find spiritual truths that will restore a sense of a higher meaning to our lives? For millennia, people have looked to literature, to scriptures, epics, poems, plays, novels, and films for insights into the human condition. In our increasingly rationalized world, some of these contemporary storytellers--like a Bernard Malamud, Flannery O’Connor, John Updike, or Toni Morrison--stretch their art to find new words for the sacred. Brown invites us to reread them to listen for this elusive transcendence, a sacred mystery that rebukes both the atheist's weak humanism and the believer's naïve supernaturalism.
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Product Code: P011
ISBN: 9780865540637
Product Format: Paperback
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This is the first translation into English of Johannes Schneider’s lecture to the Congress of Free Church Students where he addressed the church-world relationship and focuses on the tension between the two.
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Product Code: H930
ISBN: 9780881466072
Price: $29.00
Jesse Bushyhead was a detachment leader during the forced Indian removal on what has become known as the Trail of Tears. In this capacity, he was responsible for the safe conduct of more than 900 emigrants from Tennessee to Indian Territory in eastern Oklahoma. After the journey, Bushyhead was a principal participant in the formation of the new Cherokee government, providing stability in the turbulent and often internecine struggle between factions. And although without legal training, he served the new government as a chief justice of the Cherokee Supreme Court. Yet during these challenges, Bushyhead, also a Baptist minister, assisted missionary Evan Jones in establishing a vibrant Baptist presence among Cherokees.
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Product Code: P022
ISBN: 9780865542037
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Glenn F. Chesnut writes about how Eusebius and his successors rejected the notion of Fate, Fortune, and a semi-divine emperor in favor of human will and a Christian monarchy. In doing so, they changed the way history would be written for the next thousand years.
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Product Code: P348
ISBN: 9780865544581
Product Format: Paperback
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Walter H. Conser rediscovers the conflict in the closing decades of the twentieth century between conservative and liberals in the opening decades of the nineteenth in the form of neo-Lutheran Germans, Oxford Tractarian English, and American church leaders.
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Product Code: P036
ISBN: 9780865542815
Product Format: Paperback
Price: $35.00
A Reader’s Response to Chapters in a Life of Paul:
“In the history of New Testament study there have been several truly seminal books which only gradually found ‘ears that hear,’ but which, upon finding those ears, proceed to affect significantly the course of interpretation. John Knox’s Chapters in a Life of Paul is one of these. If, to some extent, New Testament interpreters were hard of hearing when it first appeared, that is scarcely true today. For example, several recent and justly influential studies of Pauline chronology have been built squarely on the foundation laid by Know. It is, therefore, a happy development that we again have easy access to this seminal work, and that in the revision made with the able assistance of Douglas Hare we have Knox’s mature assessment of the pertinent labors published by others since the original edition.”
--J. Louis Martyn, Edward Robinson Professor of Biblical Theology, Union Theological Seminary
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: H922
ISBN: 9780881465884
Price: $60.00
Baptists in Early North America—Newport, Rhode Island, Seventh Day Baptists , Volume III covers the period 1664 to 1808, from the date some members of Newport’s first Baptist church began meeting for worship on the seventh-day Sabbath (Saturday) through the first 137 years of their life as the Newport Seventh Day Baptist Church.
Transcriptions of the church’s first three record books (1692–1808) are preceded by extensive excerpts from the manuscripts and letters of Samuel Hubbard, one of the founding members; these document the origins in John Clarke’s Newport Baptist church and the influences from Sabbathkeeping Baptists in mid-seventeenth century England.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: H946
ISBN: 9780881466362
Price: $60.00
For the first time in more than three and a half centuries, the carefully preserved records of the First Baptist Church of Boston, Massachusetts, have been transcribed and are now published. They reveal the extraordinary faith of the original founders, the suffering they endured, and the commitment of the nine original members and their successors to persevere through the storm and finally to be recognized as one of the leading churches in Boston and ultimately the nation.
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Product Code: H720
ISBN: 9780881460261
Product Format: Hardback
Price: $49.95
This overview traces the musical practices of several American Christian groups from their arrival in America to the present, and the way in which those practices and traditions influenced each other, leading to the diverse and multi-hued pattern that is American church music at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: H862
ISBN: 9780881464160
Product Format: Hardback
Price: $60.00
Volume 6 covers the last twenty months of Emily Chubbuck Judson’s life. She is increasingly impaired by the illness that was to claim her life on June 2, 1854. Most of the letters in this volume are from the Judson children—Abby Ann, Adoniram “Addy,” Elnathan “Elly,” Henry, and Edward, as well as George Dana Boardman, the son of George and Sarah Boardman (who became the second “Mrs. Judson”). They all addressed Emily as “Mamma.” An appendix on the Judson children encompasses the time after Emily’s death through 1914.
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Product Code: P378
ISBN: 9780881461169
Product Format: Paperback
Price: $35.00
This volume brings together, for the first time, a broad range of scholars from Mormon and other Christian traditions. Replacing polemics and apologetics with dialogue, these exchanges show how the full spectrum of contemporary theologies can be informed by uniquely Mormon ideas, and correlatively, how Mormon thought can be illuminated through the study of key ideas of the foremost theologians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P434
ISBN: 9780881462609
Product Format: Paperback
Price: $40.00
The new edition of Scandalous Providence: The Jesus Story of the Compassion of God constructs a postmodern interpretation of the providence of God through a narrative rendering of providence on the basis of the epochal moments in the story of Jesus, a distinctive modern reconstruction of the theology of providence through a critical, non-reductionist interpretation of the Gospel traditions on the one side, and contemporary narratives of lived experience within the scientific understanding of the world on the other. Significant theological problems have rendered the reformulation of the doctrine of providence elusive and unachievable for more than half a century.
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