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In contrast to "the City," that is, the world (including the hedonism and narcissism of popular culture) that virtually all human beings now inhabit, the author calls upon the church to remember that it is "Another City" that does not compromise itself by giving allegiance to any political entity that belongs to this world.

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This guide to African American and Afrocentric biblical scholarship also offers a systematic critique of Afrocentric biblical interpretation as a practice within the larger discipline of biblical interpretation.

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This volume gathers together studies on various "engagements" between Judaism and Christianity. The author examines such topics as the nature of Judaism, canon and Christology, Torah and dogma, law in Christianity, and the "promised land" in Jewish and Christian tradition.

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The rise of Christianity during the first four centuries in the common era was the pivotal development in Western history and profoundly influenced the later direction of all world history. In "Christianity and the Roman Empire", Novak interweaves primary historical sources with a narrative text and constructs a single continuous account of these centuries in the common era.

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This text selects certain spiritual practices, and uses them as a lens through which to examine and compare Christianity and Judaism.

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This text challenges recent research into Jesus and early Christianity by using both archaeology and anthropology to situate Jesus clearly in his Galilean cultural context. It contests recent portraits of Jesus as Mediterranean peasant or Cynic sage.

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Riggins R. Earl examines the theological and ethical significance of the salutations, or "signifings," of black Americans.

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Here is an absorbing and exceptionally perspective account of how deep symbols or words of power have undergone diminishment in contemporary post-modern society. Edward Farley explains that such diminishment does not necessarily imply their demise, since traces of these symbols remain and invite their rethinking.

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This text examines the promise of globalization: a common culture, a common currency and a new political model fostering unity and community, and the threat of globalization: destruction of the values, norms and ideals of particular cultures.

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This work explores the mystery of how and why Jesus disappeared from Christianity, the troubling religious and historical consequences traceable to his disappearance, and alternative approaches which place Jesus of Nazareth and our experience at the centre of Christian faith.

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Studies the evidence for the argument that Luke composed a carefully crafted two-part narrative that claimed Jesus of Nazareth as Israel's true heritage.

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A full and contextual understanding of Jesus as the meek king of Matthew's Gospel. An epilogue charts the history of "meek" in Bible translations from Tyndale to the present.

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Offers a well-nuanced and well-grounded constructive theology of Trinitarian atonement.

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Describes several aspects of contemporary culture that create both opportunities and threats to Christian mission. Offers understandings and practices that the church today must embrace in order to live faithfully and witness effectively.

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Are men more or less religious than women, and in what way In "Men and their Religion", Donald Capps brings insight into men's engagement with religion and provides insights into the rapid rise of men's religious organisations such as Promise Keepers.

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In the past, Old Testament scholars have characterised Hebrew religious practices of the postexilic period as a time of priestly legalism. These essays show that the postexilic period was actually an age of robust religious vitality.

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This collection of articles offers cutting edge scholarship on Paul's mission and letters in his political cultural context.

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This text argues that Paul's rhetorical strategies in Acts and his letters display intentional ambiguity, cunning and deception, and make him vulnerable to the charge that he perpetrates sophistries.

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This is the second volume in a comprehensive three-volume set of commentaries on all of the lectionary texts for Sunday reading (including the Psalms) and for special days in all communions, treating the readings for each year in a single volume.

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This is the third and final volume in the comprehensive three-volume set of commentaries on all of the lectionary texts for Sunday reading (including the Psalms) and for special days in all communions, treating the readings for each year in a single volume.

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Moves through five hundred years of history and concludes with the question of whether today's church is a liberating church or a church in decay.

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This text looks at the place where nature and religion come together, and explores how this operates in contemporary life and thinking.