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  • Transforming Fire

    Imagining Christian Teaching

    by Mark D. Jordan ...
    Series series Theological Education between the Times (TEBT)
    "We don't need books about teaching so much as books that teach ."Considering Jesus himself taught in a variety of ways—parable, discussion, miracle performance, ritual observance—it seems that there can be no single, definitive, Christian method of teaching. How then should Christian teaching happen, especially in this time of significant change to theological education as an institution?Mark ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching Bodies

    Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas

    by Mark D. Jordan ...
    In Teaching Bodies, leading scholar of Christian thought Mark D. Jordan offers an original reading of the Summa of Theology of Thomas Aquinas. Reading backward, Jordan interprets the main parts of the Summa, starting from the conclusion, to reveal how Thomas teaches morals by directing attention to the way God teaches morals, namely through embodied scenes: the incarnation, the gospels, and the ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Telling Truths in Church

    Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech

    by Mark D. Jordan ...
    Is the reform we have seen in the wake of the pedophilia scandals in the Catholic Church meaningful? Have our conversations about the causes of these scandals delved as deeply as they need to? For those questioning the relations between hierarchical power, secrecy, and sexuality in institutional religion, Mark D. Jordan's eloquent meditations on what truths about sexuality need to be told in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Queer Callings

    Untimely Notes on Names and Desires

    by Mark D. Jordan ...
    CHOICE: OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEFINALIST, THE RANDY SHILTS AWARD FOR GAY NONFICTION, THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARDSA passionate exhortation to expand the ways we talk about human sex, sexuality, and gender.Twenty-five years ago, Mark D. Jordan published his landmark book on the invention and early history of the category “sodomy,” one that helped to decriminalize certain sexual acts in the ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Convulsing Bodies

    Religion and Resistance in Foucault

    by Mark D. Jordan ...
    By using religion to get at the core concepts of Michel Foucault's thinking, this book offers a strong alternative to the way that the philosopher's work is read across the humanities. Foucault was famously interested in Christianity as both the rival to ancient ethics and the parent of modern discipline and was always alert to the hypocrisy and the violence in churches. Yet many readers have ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Blessing Same-Sex Unions

    The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage

    by Mark D. Jordan ...
    At most church weddings, the person presiding over the ritual is not a priest or a pastor, but the wedding planner, followed by the photographer, the florist, and the caterer. And in this day and age, more wedding theology is supplied by Modern Bride magazine or reality television than by any of the Christian treatises on holy matrimony. Indeed, church weddings have strayed long and far from ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Love and Christian Ethics

    Tradition, Theory, and Society

    by Frederick V. Simmons, Thomas W. Ogletree, Terence Irwin, Oliver O'Donovan, Jean Porter, John Hare, Michael J. Ferreira, Edward Collins Vacek, John P. Reeder Jr.0, Margaret A. Farley1, Edmund N. Santurri2, Stephen J. Pope3, Timothy P. Jackson4, Lisa Sowle Cahill5, Cathleen Kaveny6, Mark D. Jordan7, Emilie M. Townes8, Holmes Rolston III9, Eric Gregory0, Ronald M. Green1, John Kelsay2, William Werpehowski3 ...
    Series series Moral Traditions series
    At the heart of Christian ethics is the biblical commandment to love God and to love one's neighbor as oneself. But what is the meaning of love? Scholars have wrestled with this question since the recording of the Christian gospels, and in recent decades teachers and students of Christian ethics have engaged in vigorous debates about appropriate interpretations and implications of this critical ... Read more

    $38.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sexual Disorientations

    Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies

    by Kent L. Brintnall, Joseph A. Marchal, Elizabeth Freeman, James Hoke, Eric Thomas, Jacqueline Hidalgo, Brock Perry, Brandy Daniels0, Karen Bray1, Ann Pellegrini2, Laurel Schneider3, Karmen MacKendrick4, Mary-Jane Rubenstein5, Mark D. Jordan6, Catherine Keller7, Linn Marie Tonstad8 ...
    Series series Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
    Sexual Disorientations brings some of the most recent and significant works of queer theory into conversation with the overlapping fields of biblical, theological and religious studies to explore the deep theological resonances of questions about the social and cultural construction of time, memory, and futurity. Apocalyptic, eschatological and apophatic languages, frameworks, and orientations ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Frontal Lobes

    by Mark D'Esposito, Jordan H. Grafman ...
    Series Book 163 - Handbook of Clinical Neurology
    The Frontal Lobes, Volume 163, updates readers on the latest thinking on the structure and function of the human frontal lobe. Sections address methodology, anatomy, physiology and pharmacology, function, development, aging and disorders, and rehabilitation. Patients with focal lesions in the frontal lobes have long been studied to reveal the organization and function of the frontal lobes. Over ... Read more

    $247.49 USD

  • Rudolph's Pediatrics, 24th Edition

    by Mark W. Kline, Jordan S. Orange, Angelo P. Giardino, Mahesh M. Rathore, Z Leah Harris, Antonio Cabrera ...
    The landmark pediatrics reference—updated with timely new content and more clinically relevant than everRudolph's Pediatrics has virtually defined the pediatric field for over a century, becoming one of the most important and well-respected pediatrics texts ever published. Renowned for its balance of clinical features and treatment of disease with underlying biological principles, this classic ... Read more

    $206.09 USD

  • Social Work and Social Policy under Austerity

    by Bill Jordan, Mark Drakeford ...
    Series series Reshaping Social Work
    What has the contemporary financial context meant for social policy, social work and the relationship between them? Examining the role of political, economic and societal forces, this lively book uses a full range of supportive features to encourage reflection on the impact of austerity on different social groups, social work and social care. ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The Ceely Rose Murders at Malabar Farm

    by Mark Sebastian Jordan ...
    This chilling true crime history reveals the story of a young woman in nineteenth century rural Ohio who poisoned her family for love.It was a cold and rainy day in Ohio's Pleasant Valley in the spring of 1896, one that began like any other for the Rose family. What they didn't know was that young Ceely Rose was brooding. She'd been told to forget her obsession with handsome Guy Berry. She'd been ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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