Faith's Wisdom for Daily Living by Anderson and Miller-McLemore
It can be difficult for individuals and faith communities to see how faith's wisdom can be a resource for the complex moral and religious questions of our time. Faith's Wisdom for Daily Living takes up the challenge of moving between doctrine and everyday life. With thoughtfulness and clarity, Anderson and Miller-McLemore address two key questions: 1) How can traditional theological categories inform faithful living today? and 2) What questions from Christian practice might reshape theological understanding? By examining both questions through the lens of four challenging dimensions of the Christian life — ambiguity, frailty, sacrifice, and wonder — the authors offer profound insight into the common Christian struggle to live authentic lives of faith. Includes questions for discussion and additional resources.
(Lutheran Voices series, 978-0-8066-5366-2)
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Living Together as Lutherans: Unity within Diversity by Anderson, Chilstrom, and Hanson
In this landmark volume, the first three presiding bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America reflect on the first twenty years of the church. Includes an introduction by Susan W. McArver, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary. The contributions include: Our Basic Unity: Resources for Living Together as Lutherans in the ELCA, H. George Anderson, A Changeless Word for a Changing World: The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible, Herbert W. Chilstrom, and ELCA Identity, Unity, and Purpose, Mark S. Hanson.
(AF 978-0-8066-8034-7)
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I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Future of Multicultural America by James Echols (Editor)
Forty years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s epic speech, and nearly fifty years since the Montgomery Bus Boycott, seven leading religious and theological voices from the African American and multi-cultural community assess the past impact and present import of King's bold, yet in many respects unfulfilled, vision.
(ISBN 0-8006-3685-6) $12.00
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Moral Fragments and Moral Community: A Proposal for Church in Society by Larry Rasmussen
American society today exists on community and moral fragments only, and these are being quickly destroyed. Larry Rasmussen assesses the reasons for this and proposes the tasks that churches can undertake to heal civil society.
(ISBN 0-8006-2757-1) $17.00
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The Church and Morality: An Ecumenical and Catholic Approach by Charles E. Curran
Suggests that many American churches share a catholic approach to their moral role and function. Charles Curran proposes ways for such churches to learn, teach, and lead in the area of morality.
(ISBN 0-8006-2756-3) $14.00
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God and the Nations by Douglas John Hall and Rosemary Radford Ruether
In a time of rapid change and global confusion, how are Christians to perceive God at work in history? The theme of God's presence among the nations is addressed in this book from different perspectives by theswe two major theologians.
(ISBN 0-8006-2900-0) $13.00
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The Bible as the Word of God in a Post-Modern Age by Karlfried Froehlich and Terry Fretheim
In view of the relativism of our time, how can Scripture function as an authoritative guide in worship, belief, preaching, and moral decision making for the people of God? This volume includes treatment of traditional views of scriptural authority as well as discussion of texts that reflect problematic points of view.
(ISBN 0-8006-3094-7) $15.00
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The Church as a Community of God's Possibility by Philip Hefner
Hefner sets forth a concept of transformation as the central issue of God's work for individual Christians and the church in this 1996 Hein-Fry lecture. [To order a copy, see * below]

Class Matters: Mission Across Unseen Divides by Karen Bloomquist and Tex Sample
The 2000 Hein-Fry lecture. [To order a copy, see * below]

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