Author: Claire H. Badaracco
Publisher: Baylor University Pre
Keywords: religion, culture, ideas, shape, god, media, quoting
Number of Pages: 317
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1932792066
ISBN-13: 9781932792065

Quoting God charts the many ways in which media report religion news, how media use the quoted word to describe lived faith, and how media themselves influence--and are influenced by--religion in the public square. The volume intentionally brings together the work of academics, who study religion as a crucial factor in the construction of identity, and the work of professional journalists, who regularly report on religion in an age of instant and competitive news. This book clearly demonstrates that the relationship between media culture and spiritual culture is foundational and multi-directio

Authors:Trevor Hart, Ivan Khovac,
Publisher: Baylor University Pre
Keywords: theology, literature, tolkien, tales, tree
Number of Pages: 146
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1932792643
ISBN-13: 9781932792645

This work examines the theological relationship between creation and creativity in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. It does so by bringing together a synthesis of various disciplines and perspectives to the creativity of J.R.R. Tolkien. Hart and Khovacs provide a fresh reading of these important themes in Tolkien, and the result captures the multi-faceted nature of Tolkien’s own vivid theology and literary imagination.

Author: Harry Lee Poe Harry Lee Poe; J. Stanley Matt
Publisher: Baylor University Pre
Keywords: knows, god
Number of Pages: 205
Published: 2006-01-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1932792120
ISBN-13: 9781932792126

When Einstein destroyed the old view of the universe, he destroyed the old notion of time with it. His new theory explained that time is a dimension of the physical cosmos like space, and like space it is relative. This collection of essays by theologians, physicists, and philosophers explores the theoretical aspects of the problem of time and its implications for faith and the understanding of God.

Author: Dwight N. Hopki
Publisher: Baylor University Pre
Keywords: black, cone, theology, power, james, essays, faith, public, critical
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1602580138
ISBN-13: 9781602580138

When Cone wrote Black Theology and Black Power, he signaled to the world that the American black faith tradition would no longer recognize the confines of the church walls as the extent of its purview in society. Cone liberated the Gospel of Christ from its institutionalized forms, unhinging it from oppressive and racist power structures in American society and releasing it to do its work in the public sphere. Black Faith and Public Talk continues Cone’s theme of power in the public realm and examines the economic, political, cultural, gender, and theological implications of black faith

Author: Beatrice Batso
Publisher: Baylor University Pre
Keywords: caesar, macbeth, hamlet, julius, poetics, christianity, protestant, catholic, shakespeare
Number of Pages: 178
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1932792368
ISBN-13: 9781932792362

This volume explores the influences of Catholicism and Protestantism in a trio of Shakespeare’s tragedies: Julius Caesar, Macbeth and Hamlet. Bypassing the discussion of Shakespeare’s personal religious beliefs, Batson instead focuses on distinct footprints left by Catholic and Protestant traditions that underlie and inform Shakespeare’s artistic genius.

Author: Mike Alsford
Publisher: Baylor University Pre
Keywords: villains, heroes
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2007-01-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1932792929
ISBN-13: 9781932792928

Hercules, Jesus, James Bond, Luke Skywalker, Gandalf, Frodo, Harry Potter, Buffy Summers, Spiderman, Batman, Captain Kirk, Dr. Who, Darth Vader, Sauron, Voldemort, Lex Luthor, Dr. Doom, the Daleks, the Borg. Almost anybody living in the developed West would be able to group these individuals into two camps: the heroes and the villains. However, what criteria they may use to do this is less clear. Mike Alsford introduces us to a range of heroic and villainous archetypes on a journey through film, television, comic books, and literature. On the way, he addresses questions such as: What is a true

Author: Ben Witherington III
Publisher: Baylor University Pre
Keywords: lord, supper, theology, rethinking, meal, making
Number of Pages: 135
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1602580154
ISBN-13: 9781602580152

Making a Meal of It explores the background and implication of the Lord’s Supper. Delving into its historical and Scriptural origins, Witherington argues that the Lord’s Supper is a sacramental celebration of the community of God, designed to incorporate people of varying backgrounds. Excavating the diverse ways in which Scripture and early Christian tradition speak about the Lord’s Supper, Witherington advocates that the meal is primarily about who the people of God are and how they should thus live together.