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Power For: Feminism and Christ's Self Giving
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 26.95Feminist theologians have established that the self-giving doctrines can disempower women and other oppressed persons, teaching passivity and evasion of one s own self-development. Christ s kenosis, or self-emptying on the cross offers a central example of sacrifice for others to the detriment of one s own self-care. And yet, in contrast to previous... more...
A Letter from Christ
University Press of America 2012; US$ 26.99The purpose of this book is to propose a redefinition of the Christian controlling narrative. Such a revised narrative will allow us to return from spiritual and socio-political exile and rejoice in the sovereign reign of God in Christ. more...
Tentmaking Pastor, The
Baker Publishing Group 2000; US$ 13.99Real-world guide to the challenges, rewards, and advantages of bivocational ministry. Excellent for individuals and churches exploring pastoring options. more...
The Hidden History of Women's Ordination
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 18.99The Roman Catholic leadership still refuses to ordain women officially or even to recognize that women are capable of ordination. But is the widely held assumption that women have always been excluded from such roles historically accurate? In the early centuries of Christianity, ordination was the process and the ceremony by which one moved to any... more...
Dynamics of Church Leadership, The (Ministry Dynamics for a New Century)
Baker Publishing Group 1999; US$ 16.00A survey of the essential elements for exercising pastoral leadership in an era of change. more...
Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 196.00The election of a new bishop was a defining moment for local Christian communities in Late Antiquity. This volume contributes to a reassessment of the phenomenon of episcopal elections from the broadest possible perspective, examining the varied combination of factors, personalities, rules and habits that played a role in the process. Building on the... more...
Patterns of Episcopal Power / Strukturen bischöflicher Herrschaftsgewalt im westlichen Europa des 10. und 11. Jahrhunderts
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 133.00In medieval Europe, the death of a king could not only cause a dispute about the succession, but also a severe crisis. In times of a vacant throne particular responsibility fell to the bishops - whose general importance for the time around the first milennium has been revealed by recent scholarship - as royal counsellors and policy makers. This volume... more...
Canon Law, Careers and Conquest
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 32.00Study of the politics of episcopal elections in twelfth and thirteenth-century Normandy and Greater Anjou. more...
Episcopal Elections 250-600
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 94.99A refutation of the conventional view that after the adoption of Christianity by the Roman empire the local community lost its voice in the appointment of bishops. Peter Norton argues that this right remained for longer than is normally assumed, with important consequences for our understanding of the administration of the later empire. - ;Peter Norton... more...
Clerical Celibacy in the West c.1100-1700
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 124.95The issue of clerical celibacy has played a long and profound role in the history of the Christian church. From the first Christian centuries to the present day, the question of whether clergy should be allowed to marry has attracted a vast amount of theological attention and debate. Yet despite the acknowledged importance of this issue, there have... more...









