The Mysterious Presence


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Investigating a secret room in their new building, the Superkids begin to disappear one by one.







Philosophica et Poetica


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A significant postmodern statement This volume, written by Davis over a 20-year period (1975-1995), is divided into two parts. Part One, "Philosophica," contains four of his essays that address contemporary philosophical problems. Included are, "Humanistic Salvation," "Toward Human Perfection," "The Purpose Paradox Unraveled and "On the Possibility of Revelation." Part Two, "Poetica," includes the postmodern epic, "Egress," the complete collection of "The Fugues," the prologues to the five acts of "Prometheus" (the second of his four plays for dancers), as well as a representative selection of his poetic works written during the same period as the essays.




The Prayer of Silence


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Fairacres Publications 172 The cultivation of an inner life of prayer has always formed an essential part of the Christian way. Many long for silence and stillness, yet the words ‘contemplative prayer’ can seem to denote some specialist method of prayer. Sandy Ryrie, using the more accessible phrase ‘prayer of silence’, draws on Church tradition and on his own experience to describe this wordless way of praying.




Rites and Ritual


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Hidden But Now Revealed


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Exploring the biblical conception of mystery as an initial, partially hidden revelation that is subsequently more fully revealed, this book sheds light not only on the richness of the concept itself, but also on the broader relationship between the Old and New Testaments. As such, it is a model for attentive and faithful biblical theology.




Enflamed by the Sacramental Word


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Christian proclamation, says Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is the living Christ walking among the people. Preachers know that Jesus is the living Word, and that the Spirit of Jesus animates the preaching event. Preaching is an epiclesis, an invocation of the Holy Spirit over God's holy people. As such, it must touch their imagination. Pastro proposes that preaching is the living ecclesial presence of Jesus Christ, Sacramental Word of the God of the poor. The Word speaks from the imagination of the poor - theeconomic poor, but also the new poor of the twenty-first century: entire indigenous cultures, women, those marginalized because of their sexuality, undocumented immigrants in dominant cultures, and many others. All Christian preachers in every context are called to solidarity with the poor. - Publisher info.




The Bible And Contemporary Culture


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* An accessible introduction to the value of the Bible for a general education, by a noted scholar




The Path


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New Wine Tastings


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This collection of essays provides samplings of a theological engagement of culture that Paul Louis Metzger has been developing over the years in his work as founder and director of The Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins at Multnomah Biblical Seminary of Multnomah University. Metzger espouses an incarnational over against a predominantly worldview-oriented or market-driven theological approach to engaging culture, and situates his work in Trinitarian communal and co-missional thought forms. This volume of biblically and theologically framed and compassion-driven essays addresses such themes as postmodernity, structural evil, cultural genocide, sexuality, HIV/AIDS, the prison system, the global slave trade, and the arts. It will be welcomed by those analyzing and developing theological-cultural paradigms and engaging key issues in the contemporary setting.