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Rachel Wheeler offers compelling testimony for the value--and the life-giving power--of "rewilding." Drawing on the Bible, Christian spirituality, and environmental disciplines, Radical Kinship provides theoretical foundations and practical strategies for restoring the life-generating and life-sustaining norms in which we were created to dwell.

Bonhoeffer for the Church offers an accessible but comprehensive introduction to Bonhoeffer's life and thought for those in ministry or interested in understanding their life in community better. In making Bonhoeffer accessible for the church, Kirkpatrick also reveals Bonhoeffer's astonishing message to the church.

In The Empathic God, Frank Woggon constructs a clinical theology of "at-onement." Woggon calls for a caring participation in God's ongoing work of salvation through a praxis of spiritual care. The book will help practitioners and students of spiritual care as well as clergy to critically reflect on where spiritual care practice and theology meet"--

The book explores the concept of "physician of souls, " emphasizing the interconnection of body-mind-soul-culture and the importance of community in the healing process. Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner advocates for a more prominent role for religious professionals in healthcare and aims to bridge the gap between medical and religious professions"--

The call to holistic preaching has many dimensions. Are we called to preach the Good News of God's grace? Advocate for justice? Is preaching worship? A prophetic act? "Yes, " Ackerman answers--to all of the above. Through personal stories, biblical examples, and concrete advice, readers will learn how to join gospel and justice in community"--

Alon Goshen-Gottstein offers a spiritual framework for understanding Judaism from its beginnings until today. Incorporating biblical, rabbinic, mystical, and philosophical sources, Goshen-Gottstein argues that Judaism is a religious tradition characterized by the effort to live within God's presence.

Digital Homiletics demystifies the art of online preaching and helps readers understand both the why and the how of engaging listeners in digital formats. After laying a concise and accessible theological foundation, Yang shares ten methods for effective digital preaching. Readers will find concrete tips and advice for sharing God's word online.

Kolb explores Luther's use of the Latin preposition "coram" - "face-to-face" - to demonstrate the foundational role of relationships in Luther's thought. For Luther, believers, fundamentally rooted in their relationship with the Creator of every person and thing, experience all of life's realities in relationship: with God, self, and others"--

Ruptured Bodies is a systematic theological account of the divided church. It argues that no adequate ecclesiology can ignore division, because it will not describe the church that actually is. Such an understanding must integrate the reality of division, while also refusing to blunt its sharp edge, neither dismissing, excusing, or minimizing it. What must the church, be given the fact of its division? Schlesinger presents a systematic ecclesi...

We tend to remember hymns one at a time. We forget that the reason we can do so is because they have been made available throughout the centuries in hymnals. This edited collection explores the 500-year tradition of Lutheran hymnal production, illustrating how these books have influenced Lutheran faith and worship practice over time.

The third volume in the series Modern Chinese Theologies expands the scope of "China" and Chinese theology. It addresses two distinct groups: scholarship by mainland Chinese academics, and the writings of Chinese-speaking theologians beyond China, including the diasporic Sinophone worlds of East and Southeast Asia.

Is there really a monolithic "Black church"? Distilling the arguments of Anthony Pinn's important and provocative work in Terror and Triumph, this brief volume asks the central question: What really is African American religion? In this expanded edition, Pinn offers new reflections on the state of the Black church.

Faithful Teaching is the twelfth dialogue of the U.S. Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue. It seeks greater mutual understanding of the two communions' respective processes of faithful teaching. In challenging times, the call to continue to preach and teach the gospel together resounds with new urgency"--

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A Missional Leadership History explores the origins of Wycliffe Bible Translators from the passion and vision of a few to a worldwide movement for Bible translation in God's mission.

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This book examines the notion of "sin" in the Kongo culture through the lens of the Old Testament understanding of sin. It argues that the rich Old Testament imagery for sin is not captured by the Kongo word disumu, a wider vocabulary must be developed.

The book offers lessons for microfinance practitioners from poor people in Zimbabwe and Zambia. It suggests that the church may provide a credible community leader for dialogue regarding poverty causes and solutions.

This book presents important pedagogical approaches that the church usually does not take into account and that will help us collaborate with the Holy Spirit in a believer's process of transformation.

This book examines how mission leadership is changing in the face of contemporary challenges. It reviews the idea of polycentrism through mission history, mission and church organizations, movement theory, and governance, identifying themes for polycentric mission leadership.