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2000 Years of Amazing Grace
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Details: 471 pages, hardcover, c. 2007, $24.95
Description: 2000 Years of Amazing Grace is an accessible and easy-reading history of Christianity that focuses on the essentials of the Christian message, centrally, salvation by grace. It presents a luminous and enthusiastic digest of vital Christian beliefs and an account of how Christianity evolved from Jesus to the present. It also features biographical sketches of key figures, extensive citation from founding documents, and a discussion of Christianity's relationship to other world religions today.
"A MUST for anyone aspiring to an overview of Christian history and thought." --Lord Carey, 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury
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Grace in Practice: A Theology of Everyday Life
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Details: 267 pages, paperback, c. 2007, $18
Description: Grace in Practice is a challenging call to live life under grace — a concept most Christians secretly have trouble with. Paul Zahl pulls no punches, contending that no matter how often we talk about salvation by grace, in our “can-do” society we often cling instead to a righteousness of works. Asserting throughout that grace always trumps both law and church, Zahl illuminates an expansive view of grace in everything, extending the good news of grace to all creation. Conversationally written and filled with fascinating insights, Grace in Practice will reward any Christian who seeks to understand the full measure of God’s grace and the total freedom it offers.
"Paul Zahl is at it again--and, as usual, for the good of us all. He has been "long on grace and short on law" for all of his ministry, and who in these difficult tines could want more law and less grace? This is a book for everyday believers--an act of grace." --Peter Gomes, Harvard University
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Understanding the Windsor Report: Two Leaders in the American Church Speak Across the Divide
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Details: 184 pages, paperback, c. 2005, $35
Description: 2003 was a tempestuous year in the Anglican Communion. The Episcopal Church gave its canonical consent to the election of an openly gay priest, the Rev. V. Gene Robinson. In the Anglican Church of Canada, a Diocese authorized a liturgical rite for the blessing of same-sex unions. Responding to the outcry from many parts of the Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Canterbury appointed a special commission to analyze the events and make recommendations for preserving unity amid disagreement. The commission's findings, published as The Windsor Report in October 2004 have generated as much controversy as the events that prompted them. But what does the report actually mean to the Episcopal Church?
A comprehensive summary by Jan Nunley of the report and its aftermath puts those questions into context, while a conversational commentary—organized around important themes—by Douglas and Zahl, two very different voices, reflects on its recommendations and implications for the future of the church.
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Sage Sisters: Essential Lessons for African American Women in Ministry
Publisher: The Pilgrim Press
Details: 149 pages, paperback, c. 2007, $17
Description: According to Hollies, what a woman learns in seminary does not adequately prepare her for a life of ministry. The tools are in the form of a collection of essays by safe female pastors, professors, heads of religious organizations, and other leaders who have been trailblazers in this male-dominated profession.
The lessons, advice, and options offered will assist women in seminary and those who are new to ministry. They will learn from those sage sisters who have endured many challenges and trials and have forged the way for future generations of female clergy.
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The Myth of the Shiksa and Other Essays
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Details: 211 pages, paperback, c. 2008, $28
Description: "Why did I give advice to Eve instead of going directly to Adam? I knew I would never be able to stop the Creator's overall plan, but I thought I might really be able to frustrate it if I could screw up some relationships." So speaks Satan as The First Family Counselor in this new collection of Edwin Friedman's most popular essays, edited by his daughter, Shira Friedman Bogart.
Friedman's signature wit and playfulness goes straight to the heart of human relationships from one generation to another. Throughout his life, Friedman eloquently applied the insights of family therapy to churches and synagogues, rectors and rabbis, politicians and teachers, and his humor, sense of paradox, and unique style of storytelling were trademarks of his teaching style. Edwin H. Friedman was an ordained rabbi and practicing family therapist. His ground-breaking volume, Generation to Generation, which exposed the connections between emotional processes at home and at work in religious, educational, therapeutic, and business systems, has become a modern classic.
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