Creation and Pentecostals
Can Pentecostals reconcile their confession that God is the creator with science? This book explains how Pentecostals can read the Bible and science in a way that resonates God’s grace and glory, providing a biblical perspective on the origins of the universe and evolution.
Regulating Freedom of Religion
International human rights declarations empowered religious communities, making them powerful social and political actors. This book investigates the rulings that shaped these rights, exploring the paradox of religion’s power in a secular, globalizing world.
The digital age promised connection but delivered chaos, fake news, and manipulation. How must the Church respond? Drawing on timeless wisdom, these vital essays forge a path through the digital wilderness.
Controversies over Islamic Origins
How can we reconstruct the origins of Islam? This book addresses this question by exploring conflicting modern theories through case studies on the Qur’an, the Prophet, and conquest narratives, examining a spectrum of traditionalist and revisionist scholarship.
Christian Responses to Five Views of the Bhagavad Gita
This book examines five readings of the Bhagavad Gita, juxtaposing them with a Christian response to the text and its theology. Written for students and practitioners of interfaith dialogue, it is a resource to enable deeper conversations between Hindus and Christians.
The Priority of the Possible
This book shows the importance of the possibility approach for contemporary debates on metaphysics, God, evil, and transhumanism. It offers a new starting point for philosophical theology beyond the barren alternatives of metaphysics and anti-metaphysics.
The Islamic Interfaith Initiative
The rediscovery of the Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad launched an interfaith movement against extremism. This chronicle of the Covenants Initiative details its impact, from challenging ISIS to influencing the 2018 acquittal of Asia Bibi by Pakistan’s Supreme Court.
Pāli and Buddhism
Pāli preserves the earliest record of the Buddha’s teaching. This book argues the Buddha was multilingual, teaching not only in the common Indo-Aryan tongue but also in indigenous languages, revealing their profound impact on the structure and vocabulary of Pāli itself.
The Psalms are a key text of world literature, but archaic language can be an impediment for modern readers. This book provides a compact apparatus for exploring the text, including descriptions of places and events and a practical index to find psalms for real-world problems.
Who really wrote the Letters of Paul? Anonymous editors saved him from oblivion but distorted his message, adding anti-Jewish and misogynistic texts alongside the beautiful praise of love. This book reconstructs the first edition, removing 2000 years of changes.
Martin Buber and Eastern Wisdom Teachings
This book is a conversation between Martin Buber’s philosophy of Dialogue and wisdom from the East—particularly Zen Buddhism, Sufism, and Hinduism. It argues that God is the between of I and Thou, exploring the universal principle of relationship across spiritual traditions.
Mormon theologian B.H. Roberts sought to fuse faith with modern science. Church leaders rejected his work, yet a future prophet secretly co-opted it—adopting its racism while condemning its science and free thought.
This unique collection of essays reflects the authors’ lived experiences in interreligious dialogue. This timely book will appeal to anyone seeking to deepen one’s faith or wanting to learn how to live harmoniously with religious others.
As China’s rise reconfigures the global order, Beijing is reviving ancient religious traditions. This book examines how a rejuvenated Confucian-Daoist-Buddhist ethos may shape modern China and argues for these ideals to remedy the ills afflicting the nation today.
The Green Man in Medieval England
Long thought to be a mysterious pagan symbol, this book reveals the Green Man’s true Christian meaning in medieval England. Drawing on examples from churches and forgotten legends, it uncovers a significance well understood by medieval folk but lost to us today.
Can God’s existence be proven with logic? A thousand years ago, Anselm said yes, sparking a debate for the ages. This accessible book explores the arguments and their creators, inviting you to examine the evidence and render your own verdict.
This book applies new feminist and gender methodologies to biblical texts. It continues pioneering discussions while introducing new theories to challenge accepted interpretations and ideologies that reinforce patriarchal domination and injustice.
This book examines the key contributions of the Apostles John and Paul to the New Testament. In light of recent scholarship, it finds new perspectives on enduring questions about Jesus and the Church by re-considering the Gospel of John and the Letters and Theology of Paul.
This book builds on critiques of development theory by exploring the transformation of religious fundamentalism. Raising themes of development and intersectionality, it considers these processes in the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish-Zionist worlds and in China.
Intuitive Instructional Speech in Sufism
This book demystifies the Sufi practice of the sohbet—an ad hoc discourse. Approaching it like improvised music, it reveals how these talks provoke prolonged states of raised awareness in listeners and condition their sympathetic nervous system.