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  • The Promise of Not-Knowing

    A New New Testament Reading

    David E. Fredrickson asks a key question for interpreters of the New Testament in the twenty-first century: Do established ways of reading the New Testament need to be challenged and new ones explored? His answer is "yes," but he takes care not to dismiss readers' experiences in the previous two millennia. He values the readings of the past even as he contests the insights of scholars, preachers, ... Read more

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  • Eros and the Christ

    Longing and Envy in Paul's Christology

    Series series Paul in Critical Contexts
    The self-emptying of Christ (kenosis) in Philippians 2 has long been the focus of attention by Christian theologians and interpreters of Paul's Christology. David E. Fredrickson sheds dramatic new light on familiar texts by discussing the centuries-old language of love and longing in Greek and Roman epistolary literature, showing that a "physics" of desire was related to notions of power and ... Read more

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  • 1 and 2 Corinthians

    Fortress Commentary on the Bible

    Series series Fortress Commentary on the Bible
    This commentary on 1 and 2 Corinthians, excerpted from Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The New Testament, engages readers in the work of biblical interpretation. Laura Nasrallah and David Fredrickson connect historical-critical analysis with sensitivity to current theological, cultural, and interpretive issues.The book is an introduction and commentary using three lenses: ancient context, the ... Read more

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  • Theology and Ethics for the Public Church

    Mission in the 21st Century World

    How might the Christian church effectively engage today's politically charged, profit-motivated world while remaining faithful to its biblical and theological roots? The contributors in this book argue that public theology provides a promising pathway forward. The public theology emerging from these pages has been influenced by the theological interests and commitments of Gary M. Simpson, Lutheran ... Read more

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  • Being Church in a Liminal Time

    Remembering, Letting Go, Resurrecting

    Congregations today exist in an in-between, or liminal, time. The customary answers about what it means to be and do church and strategies for renewal based on those answers no longer work. But there is no certainty about the new answers. It is a time of searching—of letting go of the old and experimenting with the new. This means facing the reality of death, which may come as institutions die or ... Read more

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  • Life on All Fours

    Beau has never met anyone he doesn’t want to lick. Ben is wary of love. Beau finds opportunity around every corner. Ben hides in the shadows of shame.Life on All Fours is a love story framed by loss and narrated by one whose four paws are firmly on the ground. Ben Walker lives in San Francisco. It’s 1997, and after nearly two decades of AIDS devastation, finally, there may be reasons to hope. Ben, ... Read more

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    For years, predators like snow leopards and white-tipped sharks have been disappearing from the top of the food chain, largely as a result of human action. Science journalist Will Stolzenburg reveals why and how their absence upsets the delicate balance of the world's environment. ... Read more

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    Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World

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