Product Description: Argues that the most superior form of moral judgment is one grounded in and lived in the presence of the mystery of the Triune God. The author propounds the view that the primary friendship a person should have is with God.

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Product Description: In 2001, Time magazine named him "America's best theologian." Now, Stanley Hauerwas is being honored once again--this time by his peers. This stirring new collection engages the key themes of Hauerwas's influential scholarly career...read more

Product Description: After each essay, discussion questions invite both conversation and further biblical and spiritual reflection, making the material useful for group study. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Brings together students of Scripture, the history of Christianity, and various contemporary theologies so that readers can consider and debate the ways diverse and often conflicting eschatological narratives, images and beliefs might bear on the new millennium.

Product Description: In The Scope of Our Art a diverse group of theological teachers explores the spiritual dimensions of their vocation as religious educators. Drawing on a rich array of resources, including Scripture, The Rule of St.Benedict, medieval women mystics, the Methodist theologian Georgia Harkness, and Simone Weil, as well as their own teaching experiences, the contributors discuss the vital relationships between academic and spiritual formation, religious commitments and teaching practices, and individual and institutional vocation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Providing an accessible and comprehensive treatment of grace, the essays in this volume honor Thomas A. Langford, Provost Emeritus of Duke University and retired William Kellon Quick Professor of Theology and Methodist Studies at Duke Divinity School...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Theology and Scriptural Imagination brings together biblical exegetes, historians of the interpretation of Scripture, as well as contemporary philosophers and theologians who practice the kind of theological reflection it will take to celebrate the Word in season and out in a world that challenges the Scriptural imagination...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

What is the relevance of the Bible to contemporary ethical issues? The authors contend that the main vocation of Christians is to embody the Scriptures in their lives. Therefore, we need to develop the moral and theological judgment that enables us to discern biblical stands on modern questions of ethics. To do so, the authors show how this must be done in the context of vital relationships - a sense of Christian community - that impact society.

Product Description: Narrative Theology is still with us, to the delight of some and to the chagrin of others. 'Why Narrative?" is in reprint because it represents what is still a very important question. This diverse collection of essays on narrative theology has proven very useful in university and seminary theology classes...read more

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Product Description: A topic unjustly neglected in contemporary theology, forgiveness is often taken to be either too easy or too difficult. On the one hand is the conception of forgiveness that views it mainly as a move made for the well-being of the forgiver...read more

Product Description: Out of the ashes of the post-modern critique of metaphysics comes a series of important essays which re-think the place of metaphysics in theological and philosophical inquiry. This book ranges across a variety of philosophical and theological traditions, charting new directions for theological reflection...read more

Product Description: Argues that the most superior form of moral judgment is one grounded in and lived in the presence of the mystery of the Triune God. The author propounds the view that the primary friendship a person should have is with God.