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Letters and Papers from Prison: Includes Supplemental Material

By Victoria J. Barnett (contributor), Isabel Best (trans), Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lisa E. Dahill (trans) and John W. De Gruchy (introduced by)

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9781506402741 | Fortress Pr, November 1, 2015, cover price $16.99

Sawdust and Soul: A Conversation About Woodworking and Spirituality

Product Description: An American ethicist and a South African theologian reflect on their work with wood and how it has helped them find creativity and meaning in experiences of both loss and transformation. Through their friendship, correspondence, and work together they have developed a rich narrative about the way this craftwork has shaped their relationships with family, friends, and their natural environment...read more

By John W. De Gruchy

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9781625644633 | Wipf & Stock Pub, December 16, 2014, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: An American ethicist and a South African theologian reflect on their work with wood and how it has helped them find creativity and meaning in experiences of both loss and transformation.

Liberating Mission in Mozambique: Faith and Revolution in the Life of Eduardo Mondlane

Product Description: Few people have any extensive knowledge of the life and witness of the Protestant churches in the former Portuguese colonies of southern Africa. Yet these communities of faith played a significant role in the liberation struggles that led to the independence of both Mozambique and Angola and subsequently to the independence of Zimbabwe and the ending of apartheid in South Africa...read more

By John W. De Gruchy (foreword by)

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9781610972079 | Pickwick Pubns, August 26, 2014, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Few people have any extensive knowledge of the life and witness of the Protestant churches in the former Portuguese colonies of southern Africa.

John Calvin: Christian Humanist and Evangelical Reformer

Product Description: 2009 is the 500th anniversary of the birth of Calvin, the Reformed theologian whose legacy has played such an important role in the shaping of modern South Africa. The popular understanding of him as grim moralist, proponent of predestination and a tyrannical God is a caricature, but one that does spring from aspects of Calvin's legacy...read more

By John W. De Gruchy

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9781620327739, titled "John Calvin: Christian Humanist & Evangelical Reformer" | Wipf & Stock Pub, July 5, 2013, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: 2009 is the 500th anniversary of the birth of Calvin, the Reformed theologian whose legacy has played such an important role in the shaping of modern South Africa.

Led into Mystery: Faith seeking answers in life and death

By John W. De Gruchy

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9780334047360 | Scm Pr, May 31, 2013, cover price $40.00

Icons As a Means of Grace

Product Description: There is a revival of interest in icons throughout the Christian world and across denominational boundaries.Icons as a Means of Grace is a timely book that guides the reader through the history of Christian icons and explains their theological and spiritual significance...read more

By John W. De Gruchy

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9780796305787 | Nb Pub Ltd, March 15, 2011, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: There is a revival of interest in icons throughout the Christian world and across denominational boundaries.

The Gospel for Buddhists and the Dharma for Christians

By John W. De Gruchy (foreword by)

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9781606080405 | Wipf & Stock Pub, January 2, 2009, cover price $37.00

Christianity, Art and Transformation: Theological Aesthetics in the Struggle for Justice

Product Description: Christianity, Art and Transformation is a journey of exploration that is both historical and contemporary, theological and practical. The reader is invited to share in the journey beginning in the life of the early church, traveling through the history of European Christianity and art, and arriving in southern Africa...read more

By John W. De Gruchy

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9780521772051 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $99.99

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9780521089500 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 6, 2008), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Christianity, Art and Transformation is a journey of exploration that is both historical and contemporary, theological and practical.

Confessions of a Christian Humanist

By John W. De Gruchy

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9780800638245 | Fortress Pr, May 1, 2006, cover price $19.00

Daring, Trusting Spirit: Bonhoeffer's Friend Eberhard Bethge

Product Description: How did Bonhoeffer's fame and influence happen? Much of the credit goes to Bonhoeffer's close friendship with his student and colleague Eberhard Bethge, says theologian John de Gruchy. In this important and fascinating work, de Gruchy narrates the course of that friendship, building on interviews and newly available primary sources...read more

By John W. De Gruchy

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9780800637583 | Fortress Pr, September 30, 2005, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: How did Bonhoeffer's fame and influence happen?

Creation and Fall: A Theological Exposition of Genesis 1-3

By Douglas Stephen Bax (trans), Dietrich Bonhoeffer and John W. De Gruchy (editor)

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9780800683030 | Augsburg Fortress Pub, November 1, 1997, cover price $40.00

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9780800683238 | Fortress Pr, August 30, 2004, cover price $25.00

Reconciliation

Product Description: Reconciliation is a theme of major current interest, especially in a world engaged in a "war on terror" and torn apart by conflict in the Middle East. Of great interdisciplinary interest, de Gruchy's book should be read by those in theology, social and political science, social theory, jurisprudence and beyond...read more

By John W. De Gruchy

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9780334029038 | Scm Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $67.50 | About this edition: Reconciliation is a theme of major current interest, especially in a world engaged in a "war on terror" and torn apart by conflict in the Middle East.

Orienting Arthur Waley: Japonism, Orientalism, and the Creation of Japanese Literature in English

By John W. De Gruchy

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9780824825676 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $37.00

Reconciliation: Restoring Justice

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By John W. De Gruchy

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9780800636005 | Fortress Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $29.00

Theology in Dialogue: The Impact of the Arts, Humanities, and Science on Contemporary Religious Thought

Product Description: Theology in Dialogue: The Impact of the Arts, Humanities, and Science on Contemporary Religious Thought: Essays in Honor of John W. de Gruch

By John W. De Gruchy (editor), Lyn Holness (editor) and Ralf K. Wustenberg (editor)

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9780802839169 | Eerdmans Pub Co, October 1, 2002, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Theology in Dialogue: The Impact of the Arts, Humanities, and Science on Contemporary Religious Thought: Essays in Honor of John W.

The London Missionary Society in Southern Africa 1799-1999: Historical Essays in Celebration of the Bicentenary of the Lms in Southern Africa

Product Description: Compiled to mark the bicentenary of the London Missionary Society in Southern Africa, this volume provides an assessment of the work and legacy of the Society, which played a critical role in the politics and societies of the subcontinent and whose leading figure â like David Livingstone, Robert Moffat, and John Philip â were major historical actors in their day...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John W. De Gruchy (editor) and London Missionary Society (corporate author)

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9780821413494 | Ohio Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Compiled to mark the bicentenary of the London Missionary Society in Southern Africa, this volume provides an assessment of the work and legacy of the Society, which played a critical role in the politics and societies of the subcontinent and whose leading figure â like David Livingstone, Robert Moffat, and John Philip â were major historical actors in their day.

The Church Struggle in South Africa

Product Description: This widely acclaimed and influential volume by internationally noted theologian John de Gruchy is now available in a greatly revised and expanded 25th anniversary edition that places the monumental religious struggle against South African apartheid into a larger and instructive global setting...read more

By John W. De Gruchy

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9780800637552 | 25 anv edition (Fortress Pr, July 1, 2005), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: This widely acclaimed and influential volume by internationally noted theologian John de Gruchy is now available in a greatly revised and expanded 25th anniversary edition that places the monumental religious struggle against South African apartheid into a larger and instructive global setting.

9781579105136 | Wipf & Stock Pub, October 17, 2000, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: John W.

9780802802439 | 2 edition (Eerdmans Pub Co, November 1, 1986), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Details the role of the church in South Africa, voicing a concern over the divisiveness within an organization that should be dedicated to integrity, faithfulness, and hope

Facing the Truth: South African Faith Communities and the Truth & Reconciliation Commission

Product Description: The unique desire of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to turn its back on revenge and to create a space where deeper processes of âforgiveness, confession, repentance, reparation, and reconciliation can take placeâ reflects the spirit of some churches and faith communities in South Africa...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By James Cochrane (editor), John W. De Gruchy (editor), John De Gruchy (editor) and Stephen Martin (editor)

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9780821413074 | Ohio Univ Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The unique desire of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to turn its back on revenge and to create a space where deeper processes of âforgiveness, confession, repentance, reparation, and reconciliation can take placeâ reflects the spirit of some churches and faith communities in South Africa.

The Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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By John W. De Gruchy (editor)

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9780521582582 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $110.00

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9780521587815 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $39.99

Bonhoeffer for a New Day: Theology in a Time of Transition : Papers Presented at the Seventh International Bonhoeffer Congress, Cape Town, 1996

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By John W. De Gruchy (editor) and International Bonhoeffer Conference 1996 (other contributor)

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9780802842848 | Eerdmans Pub Co, June 1, 1997, cover price $30.00

Living Faiths in South Africa

Product Description: Written by scholars with a specialist knowledge of their fields, this volume explores the diversity of South Africa's faiths. It covers such subjects as African traditional religions, Christianity, Islam, the Jewish community and Hinduism, amongst others.

By John W. De Gruchy (editor) and Martin Prozesky (editor)

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9780312127763 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 1, 1995, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Written by scholars with a specialist knowledge of their fields, this volume explores the diversity of South Africa's faiths.

Christianity and Democracy: A Theology for a Just World Order