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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $7.50
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Manufacturer: Westminster John Knox Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Frances Taylor Gench
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 226.06
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Publication Date: 2004-07
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Exploring six Gospel texts in which women encounter Jesus, Frances Taylor Gench encourages us to view these stories anew through the eyes of contemporary biblical scholarship. Summarizing and making accessible the work of a diversity of feminist scholars while also engaging many of the more traditional voices of the past, she examines each story's language, structure, and literary and socio-cultural context, and recounts many traditional and contemporary interpretations. In the process, she opens up new possibilities for reading these texts. Includes helpful questions for discussion. Stories discussed: the Canaanite woman of Matthew 15:21-29; a hemorrhaging woman and Jairus's daughter of Mark 5:21-43; Martha and Mary in Luke 10:38-42; a woman bent over and a daughter of Abraham in Luke 13:10-17; the Samaritan woman of John 4; and a woman accused of adultery in John 7:53ff.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $7.99
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Manufacturer: Orbis Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Naim Stifan Ateek
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Publisher: Orbis Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.095694
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Publication Date: 1989-07-01
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Reading Level: 229
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Price: $13.00
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Sale: $3.95
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Manufacturer: Orbis Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Marie Dennis::Renny Golden::Scott Wright
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Publisher: Orbis Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 282.092
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Publication Date: 2000-01
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Reading Level: 127
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Price: $29.99
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Sale: $24.90
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Manufacturer: SCM Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Marcella Althaus-Reid::Ivan Petrella::Luis Carlos Susin
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Publisher: SCM Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230
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Publication Date: 2007-10-30
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Reading Level: 200
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Description: Not since the Theology in the Americas conferences and the heyday of EATWOT (Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologies) in the late 70 s, have the most important theologians the world over met to discuss the future of theology and our globe. The World Forum on Theology and Liberation took place in Brazil in 2005 and was the meeting of the world s foremost thinkers and theologians concerned with contextual or liberation theologies. This book offers the reader a selection of the contributions to the first World Forum on Theology and Liberation, and as such offers readers a unique opportunity to read in English for the first time, many of the discussions, beliefs and aspirations. Contributors believe that another world is in fact possible one where justice will reign. This book provides the basis of their agendas and vision for the future. Without another understanding of God, without different religious practices and different theologies, another possible world cannot be built. The World Forum on Theology and Liberation is a product of the urgency tied to the hopes of the millions who participate in building a better future across the globe. The themes covered here include challenges and opportunities for religion in the 21st C, power, poverty and slavery, finding a middle ground between Fundamentalism and modernity, differences in social contexts, languages and images of God, ethnic- cultural traditions and globalisation. Different chapters include European, African, Indian and American perspectives.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $7.95
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Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Sara Miles
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 277.3083092
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Publication Date: 2007-02-20
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: “Mine is a personal story of an unexpected and terribly inconvenient Christian conversion, told by a very unlikely convert.”
–Sara Miles
Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived an enthusiastically secular life as a restaurant cook and a writer. Then early one winter morning, for no earthly reason, she wandered into a church. “I was certainly not interested in becoming a Christian,” she writes, “or, as I thought of it rather less politely, a religious nut.” But she ate a piece of bread, took a sip of wine, and found herself radically transformed.
The mysterious sacrament of communion has sustained Miles ever since, in a faith she’d scorned, in work she’d never imagined. In this astonishing story, she tells how the seeds of her conversion were sown, and what her life has been like since she took that bread.
A lesbian left-wing journalist who covered revolutions around the world, Miles was not the woman her friends expected to see suddenly praising Jesus. She was certainly not the kind of person the government had in mind to run a “faith-based charity.” Religion for her was not about angels or good behavior or piety; it was about real hunger, real food, and real bodies. Before long, she turned the bread she ate at communion into tons of groceries, piled on the church’s altar to be given away. The first food pantry she established provided hundreds of poor, elderly, sick, deranged, and marginalized people with lifesaving food and a sense of belonging. Within a few years, the loaves had multiplied, and she and the people she served had started nearly a dozen more pantries.
Take This Bread is rich with real-life Dickensian characters–church ladies, child abusers, millionaires, schizophrenics, bishops, and thieves–all blown into Miles’s life by the relentless force of her newfound calling. She recounts stories about trudging through the rain in housing projects, wiping the runny nose of a psychotic man, storing a battered woman’s .375 Magnum in a cookie tin. She writes about the economy of hunger and the ugly politics of food; the meaning of prayer and the physicality of faith. Here, in this achingly beautiful, passionate book, is the living communion of Christ.
“The most amazing book.” – Anne Lamott
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $8.13
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Manufacturer: Paulist Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Norman P. Tanner
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Publisher: Paulist Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 261
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Publication Date: 2005-11
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: Gaudium et Spes was one of the key documents to come out of Vatican II. It created a new chapter in conciliar history because for the first time a general council sought to tackle a wide range of problems that affected the life of Catholics: human rights, society, marriage and the family, culture, politics, economics, international relations, and war and peace. This decree corresponded more closely than any other to Pope John XXIII's desire that Vatican II's approach be pastoral, and because of that it may be considered the "crown jewel" of the council. In this book Norman Tanner, the foremost authority on the decree, traces its evolution from its beginnings to its eventual promulgation at the end of the council in December 1965. He reviews its reception by the Catholic Church and other Christian churches, and its possible future influence. --Gives everyday Catholics a look at the inner workings of the council --those who have heard about Vatican II, but never really known what its significance for them and their Church is will read this book with interest. --for the first time tells the story of this decree both at the council and subsequently --a useful teaching tool in colleges, seminaries, church circles, and for individuals
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $15.20
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Manufacturer: Orbis Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Anthony R. Ceresko
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Publisher: Orbis Books
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Edition: Rev Exp Su
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Dewey Decimal Number: 221.61
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Publication Date: 2001-03
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Reading Level: 384
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $3.79
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Manufacturer: Crossroad General Interest
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Elsa Tamez
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Publisher: Crossroad General Interest
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 227.9106
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Publication Date: 2002-04-25
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: With integrity of word and deed, Christians are to work for justice, confront scandalous acts of oppression, care for the needy and to be honest in prayer before God and with people.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $5.99
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Manufacturer: Skinner House Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Rasor
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Publisher: Skinner House Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.046
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Publication Date: 2005-06-15
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Reading Level: 231
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Description: This innovative critical analysis of religious liberalism probes the dynamic tensions of a theology that is committed to individual freedom and autonomy on the one hand and a greater sense of community on the other. Much more than a primer, Faith Without Certainty lays out the basic characteristics of liberal theology, delving into historical and philosophical sources as well as social and intellectual roots. Clear-eyed but ultimately hopeful, Rasor explores the ambiguous and creative nature of liberal theology today. Ideal for readers who want a better understanding of liberal theology, a religious tradition that is rooted not in authority but in one's own experience and conscience.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $15.25
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Manufacturer: Westminster John Knox Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert McAfee Brown
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
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Edition: 1st ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.046
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Publication Date: 1993-03
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Brown explains and illuminates liberation theology for North American readers who may have no previous knowledge of this recent dynamic Christian movement. Growing out of the experience of oppressed people in Latin America, liberation theology lends a transforming power to both the study of the Bible and the Christian duty to work for justice for all God's people.
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