In this compelling collection of essays, conservative and liberal scholars engage each other in a dialogue about the place of faith, the nature of history, the character of literary texts, and the pur
Robert Fowler's groundbreaking method—reader-response criticism—as a strategy for reading the Gospel of Mark invites contemporary readers to participating in making the meaning of the Gospel. Now avai
This Guide for the Perplexed will demonstrate how modern biblical scholars have expressed dissatisfaction with a one-sided historical-critical approach to biblical texts and have argued that developme
Language educators and linguists from Britain, the US, and New Zealand explore issues of theory and practice regarding the study of language from the perspective of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu'
The Democratic Socialism party of East Germany, Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus , was widely thought to have no future in a reunified Germany, says Hough (German studies, U. of Birmingham). He
Dalin (school improvement, IMTEC, Oslo, Norway) synthesizes the latest knowledge in the field of school improvement. He begins with a historical review of reform in Europe and North America, describin
This book explores the fascinating world of the record business, its technology, the music and the musicians from Edison's phonograph to the compact disc. The great artists - Caruso, Toscanini, Louis
Offering a variety of perspectives on women consumers, this anthology hones in on popular media's focus on women, issues and themes associated with product purchase, product placement and promotion, a
This is a lively and well-written textbook, which will prove a valuable addition to the IR textbook series - mainly because the ideas it covers have changed so fundamentally in the last ten years. Nat
This book marks the first detailed engagement with the work of Stanley Hauerwas in a British context.An important group of theologians including Colin Gunton, Duncan Forrester, Gerard Loughlin, Ann Lo
Hofmann (1810-1877) was one of the most significant theologians of the 19th century and perhaps the century's most influential Lutheran theologian. Matthew L. Becker introduces us to Hofmann's trinita
Edward Adams challenges the strong consensus in New Testament and Early Christian studies: that the early Christians met ‘almost exclusively' in houses an assumption which undergirds much work in the
This reader brings together the writings of Wallace Warfield (1938-2010), the internationally acclaimed and influential authority on conflict resolution. The selected essays highlight the importance o
This volume is a contribution to the search for America's soul, with special emphasis on the black church tradition. Six outstanding black scholars, women and men, build on the hypothesis that because
In Christianity and the Roman Empire Ralph Novak interweaves primary sources from the first four centuries of the common era with a narrative text that constructs a single continous accounts of these
Lesley Jeffries introduces a phenomenon which has not been given the attention it deserves - the contextual construction of oppositional meaning. These are opposites not recognisable as such out of c
