Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P634
ISBN: 9780881468090
Price: $25.00
This first book-length study of Paul Tillich's ethics is drawn from research in the Harvard Archives of Tillich and fifty years of teaching Tillich's social-political thought. Ronald H. Stone's fourth work on Tillich's philosophy the ethic is examined from the early ontological to socialist ethics to his own final principled-situationalist ethic in late life. Unique to this study is the in-depth inquiry into Tillich's courageous social action correlated with his own philosophical-theological ethic.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P702
ISBN: 9780881469509
Price: $26.00
Nathaniel Hawthorne helped to establish and validate American literature by creating a mythology of America's origins that features prophetic themes and figures. Just as biblical prophets emerge at the dawn of ancient Israel, Hawthorne's prophets emerge in stories of the beginnings of America.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P716
ISBN: 9780881469653
Price: $29.00
Matthew Stallard returns to trace John Milton's Biblical echoes and appropriations in JOHN MILTON, PARADISE REGAINED: THE BIBLICALLY ANNOTATED EDITION. Milton's stunning second epic focuses upon Christ's triumph over Satan found in the New Testament synoptic gospel accounts of the temptation of Jesus in the Judean wilderness.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1033
ISBN: 9780881468830
Price: $60.00
A convert of the "Great Awakening," Issac Backus left the state-supported churches of New England and joined the Baptist movement. Tireless in his advocacy of Baptist issues, Backus opposed church-state establishments and recorded the history of Baptists, all while pastoring a Baptist church in Revolutionary America.
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Product Code: P731
ISBN: 9798897360017
Price: $25.00
IN THE MOTHER'S HOUSE explores the matriarchal wisdom and teachings of the Hebrew Bible. Seven feminine characters are discussed: Inanna, Eve, Ruth, the wife and daughters of Job, Woman Wisdom in the book of Proverbs, and in Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, and Esther.
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Publisher: Mercer Uniersity Press
Product Code: HH1041
ISBN: 9780881469165
Price: $60.00
Volume XI specifically illustrates the presence of Nova Scotia Baptists in the transatlantic community. In the historical introduction, Roger Prentice informatively demonstrates the theological and polity formation of a congregation made up of planters and the next generations. How the Baptist movement came to be in Canada is Wolfville's story: it is the oldest continuing Baptist congregation in Canada.
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