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Alex Froom (STH 2012, SSW 2012)
Alex Froom (STH 2012, SSW 2012) is a recent alum of STH. Leaving Boston, Alex followed his passion to the southwest where he is now the Executive Director of Rez Refuge Ministries. This non-profit is devoted to building relationships and leaders in Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation, Arizona by running a community center, providing youth development […]
Robert Allan Hill, Village Green
The three cycles of sermons included here provide a spiritual geography, an announcement of the gospel set in New York State. The sermons were given life in the vibrant life of Asbury First United Methodist Church, Rochester, New York, over several years beginning in 2000. The collection is meant to exemplify a thematic form of […]
Walter Fluker, The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman: Volume 2
The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman is a four-volume, chronologically arranged documen¬tary edition spanning the long and productive career of the Reverend Howard Thurman, one of the most significant leaders in the history of intellectual and religious life in the mid-twentieth-century United States. As the first to lead a delegation of African Americans to meet […]
Robert Allan Hill, In the Depths of the Depression
More than two hundred years ago, John Wesley declared: “There is no holiness save social holiness!” He meant thereby to reject an exclusively individualistic version of Christianity, and to affirm his intention to “spread scriptural holiness across the land, and reform the nation.” In Wesley’s view, the spheres of influence denoted in the biblical terms […]
Wesley Wildman, Science and the World's Religions
In Science and the World’s Religions, experts with scientific and religious backgrounds explore vital existential or practical issues, drawing on whatever sciences are relevant and engaging at least two religious traditions. The multidisciplinary essays exhibit rigorous intellectual, scholarly thinking but are written to clearly communicate to educated adult lay readers. The first volume addresses questions about […]
Richard A. Hughes (STH 66)
This is a major work in the area of water studies, and it was stimulated by Richard’s reading John Hart’s Sacramental Commons.
Christopher Brown, Luther's Works, Prefaces II
This volume contains Luther’s prefaces to the works of others from 1532 to 1545. Amid the outpouring of print in the wake of the Reformation, Luther–especially in the prefaces to his own works–sometimes expressed the wish that his own books might disappear and give place to the Bible alone. In his prefaces to the works […]
Christopher Brown, Luther's Works, Prefaces I
Never before in English, this volume presents Luther’s prefaces from 1520-32 for the writings of both colleagues and opponents. In Luther’s day, the preface was sometimes the most important part of the book. The preface used the most beautiful of language to praise the author, his work, and his arguments–and to decry his opponents. […]
Jennifer Wright Knust
Examining the diverse religious texts and practices of the late Hellenistic and Roman periods, this collection of essays investigates the many meanings and functions of ritual sacrifice in the ancient world. The essays survey sacrificial acts, ancient theories, and literary as well as artistic depictions of sacrifice, showing that any attempt to identify a single […]
Rady Roldan-Figueroa, Exploring Christian Heritage
Exploring Christian Heritage provides students and teachers with a rich and substantial introduction to the texts that have shaped the Christian faith. Including significant works penned by Augustine, Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Wesley, John Calvin, and Karl Barth, among others, this collection also highlights essential movements–from the second to the twentieth centuries–often glossed over in […]