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By William Law
This devotional classic, written by William Law, an eloquent religious teacher of the eighteenth century, was designed to prod indifferent Christians into making an honest effort to live up to what they professed to believe. It has been appreciated i...
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A Violent Evangelism 
The Political and Religious Conquest of the Americas
By Luis N. Rivera
In this thought-provoking book, Luis Rivera argues that evangelical reasoning and symbolism were appropriated to justify the armed seizure of people and land in the New World and to validate the conversion, peaceful or forced, of the natives. He reca...
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By Ernst Troeltsch
In this seminal work, pioneering theologian Ernst Troeltsch raises the question, how can we pass beyond the diversity with which history presents us to norms for our faith and for our judgments about life? He trenchantly probes the issue of how one r...
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All Things New 
Reform of Church and Socety in Schleiermacher's Christian Ethics
By James M. Brandt
All Things New presents a study of Schleiermacher's important but sometimes misunderstood Christian Ethics. Brandt places Schleiermacher's ethics in the context of his life, illuminates its main themes, and corrects some common misperceptions about S...
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By JOHN R. FRANKE
This volume introduces readers to the life and thought of Karl Barth (1886-1968), one of the most important theologians since the Reformation era. Featuring the Armchair series' characteristic whimsical illustrations, Barth for Armchair Theologians s...
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Blessed One 
Protestant Perspectives on Mary
By Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Cynthia L. Rigby
Despite her prominence in the Christian narrative, Mary has largely been neglected within the Protestant church. Recent interest in such issues as feminism, spirituality, parenting, and ecumenism, however, force a serious reexamination of Mary's plac...
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Christian Faith in Dark Times 
Theological Conflicts in the Shadow of Hitler
By Jack Forstman
This notable study of Christian faith and how it functions in "dark times" reveals the thoughts and actions of six leading theologians of the Weimar Republic/Third Reich period--Karl Barth, Rudolf Bultmann, Paul Tillich, Paul Althaus, Emanuel Hirsch,...
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Creeds of the Churches, Third Edition 
A Reader in Christian Doctrine from the Bible to the Present
By John H. Leith
Creeds of the Churches offers, in one comprehensive volume, the major Christian statements of faith from biblical times to the present. The third edition has been updated to include the Athanasian Creed, the London Confession, the Frankfurt Declarati...
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From Preachers to Suffragists 
Woman's Rights and Religious Conviction in the Lives of Three Nineteenth-Century
By Beverly Zink-Sawyer
The women's rights movement in nineteenth-century America has primarily been interpreted as a secular movement. However, in From Preachers to Suffragists, Beverly Zink-Sawyer examines the lives of three nineteenth-century clergywomen--Antoinette Brow...
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By Dawn DeVries
While the effects of historical criticism on theology in the modern period have been well documented, their implications for modern preaching have been largely ignored. Dawn DeVries examines the content of and reasoning behind the preaching on the Sy...
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By James P. Byrd
This witty and illuminating volume introduces the life and writings of the great American theologian and preacher Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758). The most widely studied figure in American religious history and an iconic figure of the American colonial...
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The Making of American Liberal Theology 
Imagining Progressive Religion, 1805-1900
By Gary Dorrien
In this first of a three-volume, comprehensive series, Gary Dorrien mixes theological analysis with historical and biographical detail to present the first comprehensive interpretation of American theological liberalism. Arguing that the indigenous r...
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The Making of American Liberal Theology 
Idealism, Realism, and Modernity, 1900-1950
By Gary Dorrien
In this book, the second of his three-volume history, Gary Dorrien explores American theological liberalism in its heyday--at the advent of the research university and the institutionally identified school. He argues that in its prime theological lib...
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The Making of American Liberal Theology 
Crisis, Irony, and Postmodernity, 1950-2005
By Gary Dorrien
In this concluding volume of his magisterial trilogy, Gary Dorrien sustains his previous definition of liberal theology and his mixture of theological, philosophical, and historical analysis, while emphasizing the unprecedented diversity of liberal t...
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By Rufus Burrow Jr.
In this interesting and important introduction to the life and thought of Martin Luther King Jr., theologian Rufus Burrow explores King's life as well as his thinking and activism. Burrow addresses those who see King as only a social activist by show...
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