Books from Brazos Press
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On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
By Karen Swallow PriorThis story-saturated engagement with the virtues is pragmatic enough to touch the nitty-gritty of our lives and imaginative enough to inspire.
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Exodus (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible)
By Thomas Joseph OP WhiteThe heights of the mountain are a place that is distant from ordinary life, where one is alone with God in solitude. The mountain creates a natural cloister or spiritual space and denotes a term of pilgrimage. Moses ascends the mountain ...
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Wendell Berry and the Cultivation of Life: A Reader's Guide
By J. Matthew Bonzo, Michael R. StevensIn William Cavanaugh's Torture and Eucharist we see an extreme example of what can happen when secular and sacred concerns are bifurcated. Cavanaugh's extended argument shows that the torture and murder characteristic of Pinochet's ...
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Tortured Wonders: Christian Spirituality for People, Not Angels
By Rodney ClappI am not obsessed with death, but occasionally the stark chill of its inevitability will linger and haunt. That was true when, one summer vacation, Ilay contentedly reading on a porch lounge and came across the statement that sometimes, ...
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Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture
By William D. RomanowskiWilliam H. Willimon, “Recreational Sex,” Christian Century, April 19, 2005, 20. 33. Kimberly Peirce (director of Boys Don't Cry) quoted in Glenn Kenny, “Breaking the Sex Barrier,” Premiere, March 2000, 63. Notes 34.
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Future of Christian Learning, The: An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue
By Mark A. Noll, James Turner, Thomas Albert Howardand James Axtell, “God Boxes and Tribal Faiths,” in his The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), 329–44. 35. Philip Gleason, Contending with Modernity: ...
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Judges & Ruth (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible)
By Laura A. Smit, Stephen E. FowlGeorge Foot Moore, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Judges, International Critical Commentary (Edinburgh: T&T Clark; New York: Scribner's, 1895), 174. 11. Moore, Judges, 176. 12. Brevard S. Childs, Biblical Theology of Old and ...
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The End of the Christian Life: How Embracing Our Mortality Frees Us to Truly Live
By J. Todd Billingsimitate his discipline and athleticism, they wanted to reflect the winning flare of his slam dunks by wearing red, black, and white Air Jordan high-tops. I, on the other hand, had joined the high school debate squad.
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Living Worship: A Multimedia Resource for Students and Leaders
By James F. Caccamo, Todd E. Johnson, Lester RuthContents Living Worship in Theory and Practice: 21.5 hours of video covering church services, planning meetings, interviews, and expert commentary; more than 450 pages worth of text; over 400 images documenting the history of the church; a ...
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Rejoicing in Lament: Wrestling with Incurable Cancer and Life in Christ
By J. Todd BillingsThis is a book not just for reading but for meditation and prayer.
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Public Faith in Action: How to Engage with Commitment, Conviction, and Courage
By Miroslav Volf, Ryan McAnnally-LinzJohnson, James Turner. “Just War, as It Was and Is.” First Things, January 2005. http://www.firstthings.com/article/2005/01/just-waras-itwas-and-is. Johnson provides an insightful exploration of changes in the just-war tradition in ...
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Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies
By Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoungJustine Timberlake, “Mirrors,” 20/20 Experience (Sony, 2013). 26. Plato, Symposium 192d. 27. Fight the New Drug, September 1, 2018, https://fightthenewdrug.org/overview/. 28. XXXchurch.com, February–March 2008, ...
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On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
By Karen Swallow PriorThis story-saturated engagement with the virtues is pragmatic enough to touch the nitty-gritty of our lives and imaginative enough to inspire.
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1 & 2 Kings
By Peter J. LeithartIn her delectable first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson's narrator Ruth observes that absence is an intense form of presence. As long as friends and family are physically empirically here, they are localized and circumscribed.
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The Future of Our Faith: An Intergenerational Conversation on Critical Issues Facing the Church
By Ben Lowe, Ronald J. SiderThere is not a word in the story about forgiveness of sins, although Jesus undoubtedly forgave the rascal. What the story emphasizes is the transformed economic relationships that happened after Zacchaeus met Jesus. The story ends with ...
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The War of the Lamb: The Ethics of Nonviolence and Peacemaking
By John Howard YoderThe book is divided into three sections: pacifism, just war theory, and just peacemaking theory. The volume crystallizes Yoder's argument that his proposed ethics is not sectarian and a matter of withdrawal.
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Can We Still Believe in God?: Answering Ten Contemporary Challenges to Christianity
By Craig L. BlombergAs in the title of Webb's book, Slaves, Women and Homosexuals. 46. It is often alleged as well that the ancients knew nothing of sexual orientation, but this is simply not true. See esp. Branson Parler, “Worlds Apart:James Brownson and ...
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The Forgotten Ways Handbook: A Practical Guide for Developing Missional Churches
By Alan Hirsch, Darryn AltclassLiminality and Communitas To come to grips with the dynamics of movements that change the world, we have found Victor Turner's ideas of liminality and communitas particularly useful.1 Turner was an anthropologist who studied various ...
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The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating Apostolic Movements
By Alan HirschPeabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2003. Galli, Mark. “Do I Have a Witness? Why Jesus Didn't Say, 'You Shall Be My Marketers to the Ends of the Earth.'” Christianity Today, October 4, 2007. http://bit.ly/1Ly0KFQ. Garrison, David.
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Christian Attitudes to War, Peace, and Revolution
By John Howard Yoder, Theodore J. Koontz, Andy Alexis-Baker... 188 Müntzer, Thomas, 169–174, 184, 186, 188, 227 mysticism, 184, 188, 192, 228n7, 231 nationalism Cambellite, ... See also nuclear pacifism Oldham, Joseph H., 335 Origen, 49, 50 pacifism (selected topics) agreements with ...