In this engaging biblical and theological study, the author offers an accessible examination of the key texts of scripture pertinent to understanding female roles. This book affirms full equality o…
The book is divided into two parts, the first offering a selective review of the main emphases in Christian thinking about homosexuality in the past twenty years, summarizing much of the literature…
This book is about listening to what writers were saying about sex in early Judaism and Christianity -- ancient words surprisingly relevant for today. It functions as both a summary and a conclusio…
Should Christian comfort the controversial issues of our society? And if so, how should we do it? In this book, the author faces today's stickly and difficult issues with courage and determination,…
"In the field of theology, as in political science, there is extraordinary confusion abouth both terms of our subject, religion and violence. Few words in our common vocabulary have been subject to…
UNtil recently the British labour movement seemed to have lost tpuch with its Christian roots. Many leading members of the labour party were confessedly secular. But the triumph of the new right an…
This book brings together ten essays on the various context for texts that social-scientific approaches invoke. These contexts are the cultureal values that inform the writers of texts, the relatio…
Perhaps more than anyone else, Hugo Assmann has stressed the importance of oppression or domination as the primary cause the third world poverty and also as the starting point for Latin American li…