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  • Enchantments of the Mississippi: A Contemplative Journey of Time and Place by Thomas Becknell

    Enchantments of the Mississippi: A Contemplative Journey of Time and Place

    Thomas Becknell

    2022

    In a time of desolation, Thomas Becknell is drawn to the Mississippi River, then caught by its powers of enchantment. He sets out to learn about the river's great allure, to be near it and to ponder what it might show him.

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  • Centered on Jesus: A Lenten Devotional from the Faculty of Bethel University by Christopher Gehrz, Esther Shull, Carl Albing, Rebekah Bain, Andy Bramsen, Susan Leigh Brooks, Jeannine K. Brown, Michael Crawford, Julie Anne De Haan, Joy Doan, Dale Durie, Julie Finnern, Barrett Fisher, Joel Frederickson, Laura Gilbertson, Rhonda Gilbraith, Ann Holland, Stephen Hunt, Rachel Jorgensen, Patricia Kelly, Denise Muir Kjesbo, Marion H. Larson, Erik Leafblad, Elisabeth E. Lefebvre, Jim Lewis, Joyce LeMay, Alison Lo, Gary A. Long, Christopher Moore, Katherine Nevins, Pauline E. Nichols, Meredith Nyberg, Chad Osgood, Jeanine Parolini, Richard Peterson, Dan Ritchie, Matt Runion, Robin Rylaarsdam, Kristin E. Sandau, Sara L. H. Shady, Angela Shannon, Marta Shaw, Paula A.G. Soneral, Peter T. Vogt, Laura Wennstrom, Gloria Wiese, Brandon Winters, Yu-li Chang Zacher, and Nick Zeimet

    Centered on Jesus: A Lenten Devotional from the Faculty of Bethel University

    Christopher Gehrz, Esther Shull, Carl Albing, Rebekah Bain, Andy Bramsen, Susan Leigh Brooks, Jeannine K. Brown, Michael Crawford, Julie Anne De Haan, Joy Doan, Dale Durie, Julie Finnern, Barrett Fisher, Joel Frederickson, Laura Gilbertson, Rhonda Gilbraith, Ann Holland, Stephen Hunt, Rachel Jorgensen, Patricia Kelly, Denise Muir Kjesbo, Marion H. Larson, Erik Leafblad, Elisabeth E. Lefebvre, Jim Lewis, Joyce LeMay, Alison Lo, Gary A. Long, Christopher Moore, Katherine Nevins, Pauline E. Nichols, Meredith Nyberg, Chad Osgood, Jeanine Parolini, Richard Peterson, Dan Ritchie, Matt Runion, Robin Rylaarsdam, Kristin E. Sandau, Sara L. H. Shady, Angela Shannon, Marta Shaw, Paula A.G. Soneral, Peter T. Vogt, Laura Wennstrom, Gloria Wiese, Brandon Winters, Yu-li Chang Zacher, and Nick Zeimet

    2022

    For the 2022 season of Lent, Bethel faculty and staff members collaborated to pen Centered on Jesus: A Lenten Devotional from the Faculty of Bethel University. The daily devotionals in Centered on Jesus are intended to ...

  • Postmortem Opportunity : A Biblical and Theological Assessment of Salvation after Death by James K. Beilby

    Postmortem Opportunity : A Biblical and Theological Assessment of Salvation after Death

    James K. Beilby

    2021

    Summary: What happens to those who did not hear the gospel before death, or who heard an incorrect version? What about those who were too young or who were otherwise unable to respond? Examining the biblical evidence and...

  • Scripture as Communication: Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics by Jeannine K. Brown

    Scripture as Communication: Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics

    Jeannine K. Brown

    2021

    Jeannine Brown, a seasoned teacher of biblical interpretation, believes that communication is at the heart of what happens when we open the Bible. We are actively engaging God in a conversation that can be life changing. In this guide to...

  • The Art of Contextual Theology : Doing Theology in the Era of World Christianity by Victor I. Ezigbo

    The Art of Contextual Theology : Doing Theology in the Era of World Christianity

    Victor I. Ezigbo

    2021

    Christianity has an inherent capability to assume, as its novel mode of expression, the local idioms, customs, and thought forms of a new cultural frontier that it encounters. As a result, Christianity has become multicultural and multil...

  • Charles Lindbergh: A Religious Biography of America's Most Infamous Pilot by Christopher Gehrz

    Charles Lindbergh: A Religious Biography of America's Most Infamous Pilot

    Christopher Gehrz

    2021

    The narrative surrounding Charles Lindbergh’s life has been as varying and complex as the man himself. Once best known as an aviator—the first to complete a solo nonstop transatlantic flight—he has since become increasingly identified wi...

  • Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire by Charles Goldberg

    Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire

    Charles Goldberg

    2020

    This volume explores the role that republican political participation played in forging elite Roman masculinity. It situates familiarly "manly" traits like militarism, aggressive sexuality, and the pursuit of power within a political sys...

  • Middle Range Theories: Application to Nursing Research and Practice, 5th Edition by Sandra J. Peterson and Timothy S. Bredow

    Middle Range Theories: Application to Nursing Research and Practice, 5th Edition

    Sandra J. Peterson and Timothy S. Bredow

    2020

    Give students the knowledge and critical thinking capability to effectively select and apply theories. The premiere resource for nursing students completing major research or practice projects, Middle Range Theories: Application to Nursi...

  • Four Portraits, One Jesus. A Survey of Jesus and the Gospels. Second Edition. by Mark L. Strauss

    Four Portraits, One Jesus. A Survey of Jesus and the Gospels. Second Edition.

    Mark L. Strauss

    2020

    An engaging introduction to Jesus and the gospels, this second edition of Four Portraits, One Jesus has been updated to meet the needs of today's students. With clarity and insight, Mark Strauss guides readers to understand the four dist...

  • Concepts of Chemical Dependency, (10th ed.) by Harold E. Doweiko and Amelia L. Evans

    Concepts of Chemical Dependency, (10th ed.)

    Harold E. Doweiko and Amelia L. Evans

    2019

    CONCEPTS OF CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY, 10th Edition, provides comprehensive coverage and the latest information on a spectrum of substance use disorders and the compounds commonly misused. Author Harold Doweiko also covers topics not usually d...

  • Stay Curious : How Questions and Doubts Can Save Your Faith by Stephanie Williams O'Brien

    Stay Curious : How Questions and Doubts Can Save Your Faith

    Stephanie Williams O'Brien

    2019

    Most of us are going through the motions when it comes to faith, either believing we've found all the relevant answers to life's questions or believing none can be found. We shy away from our deepest questions about God because we fear t...

  • Matthew by Jeannine K. Brown and Kyle Roberts

    Matthew

    Jeannine K. Brown and Kyle Roberts

    2018

    Including an original translation of the text along with section-by-section commentary, this volume features chapters on “thinking theologically with Matthew” about such themes as kingdom, Christology, the Holy Spirit, and discipleship. ...

  • Relational Integration of Psychology and Christian Theology: Theory, Research, and Practice by Steven J. Sandage and Jeannine K. Brown

    Relational Integration of Psychology and Christian Theology: Theory, Research, and Practice

    Steven J. Sandage and Jeannine K. Brown

    2018

    Relational Integration of Psychology and Christian Theology offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary relational framework that integrates theology, psychology, and clinical and other applications. Building on existing models and debates abo...

  • Studies in the History of the Greek Text of the Apocalypse : The Ancient Stems by Josef Schmid, Juan Hernández Jr., Garrick V. Allen, and Darius Müller

    Studies in the History of the Greek Text of the Apocalypse : The Ancient Stems

    Josef Schmid, Juan Hernández Jr., Garrick V. Allen, and Darius Müller

    2018

    Josef Schmid’s landmark publication, Studien zur Geschichte des Griechischen Apokalypse-Textes, has been the standard work for understanding Revelation’s Greek manuscript tradition and textual history for more than sixty years. Despite t...

  • Creative Practices for Visual Artists: Time, Space, Process by Kenneth Steinbach

    Creative Practices for Visual Artists: Time, Space, Process

    Kenneth Steinbach

    2018

    Based on interviews with a culturally, geographically, and aesthetically diverse group of 75 mid-career artists, Creative Practices For Visual Artists is a reassessment of the methods and approaches used by highly successful art...

  • Entrepreneurship for Caribbean Students – Second Edition by Lystra Stephens-James, Mauvalyn M. Bowen, Cuthbert C. Joseph, Franklyn Gittens, Paul Pounder, K’adamawe K’nife, Denis Mitchell, and Keith McDonald

    Entrepreneurship for Caribbean Students – Second Edition

    Lystra Stephens-James, Mauvalyn M. Bowen, Cuthbert C. Joseph, Franklyn Gittens, Paul Pounder, K’adamawe K’nife, Denis Mitchell, and Keith McDonald

    2018

    Entrepreneurship for Caribbean Students – Second Edition enables students to master all subject areas in the latest syllabus, including growth of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship in the Caribbean, social entrepreneurship, e-commerce an...

  • The Pietist Option: Hope for the Renewal of Christianity by Christopher Gehrz and Mark Pattie III

    The Pietist Option: Hope for the Renewal of Christianity

    Christopher Gehrz and Mark Pattie III

    2017

    In The Pietist Option, Christopher Gehrz, a historian of Pietism, and Mark Pattie, a pastor in the Pietist tradition, show how Pietism holds great promise for the church—and the world—today. Modeled after Philipp Spener's 1675 classic, P...

  • From Bubble to Bridge: Educating Christians for a Multifaith World by Marion H. Larson and Sara L. H. Shady

    From Bubble to Bridge: Educating Christians for a Multifaith World

    Marion H. Larson and Sara L. H. Shady

    2016

    Summary: In a world of deep religious strife and increasing pluralism it can seem safer to remain inside the "bubble" of our faith community. Many Christians worry that engaging in interfaith dialogue will require wateri...

  • Matthew by Jeannine K. Brown

    Matthew

    Jeannine K. Brown

    2015

    With large sections devoted to extended teachings and memorable sayings of Jesus, Matthew's Gospel has been a favorite of Christians throughout the centuries. New Testament scholar Jeannine Brown helps readers understand this Gospel as t...

  • Introductory Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry 2nd Edition by Michael P. Garoutte and Ashley B. Mahoney

    Introductory Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry 2nd Edition

    Michael P. Garoutte and Ashley B. Mahoney

    2015

    The ChemActivities found in Introductory Chemistry:A Guided Inquiry use the classroom guided inquiry approach and provide an excellent accompaniment to any one semester Introductory text. Designed to support Process Oriented Guided Inqui...

  • Nebrasketball : Coach Tim Miles and a Big Ten Team on the Rise by Scott Winter

    Nebrasketball : Coach Tim Miles and a Big Ten Team on the Rise

    Scott Winter

    2015

    When fall rolls into winter, most sports fans in Nebraska long for spring football. But Coach Tim Miles has given hibernating fans a reason to cheer through winter for the first time in twenty years. Since taking over the men's basketbal...

  • Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Hebrew : Learning Biblical Hebrew Grammatical Concepts Through English Grammar by Gary A. Long

    Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Hebrew : Learning Biblical Hebrew Grammatical Concepts Through English Grammar

    Gary A. Long

    2013

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  • Social Psychology in Christian Perspective : Exploring the Human Condition by Angela M. Sabates

    Social Psychology in Christian Perspective : Exploring the Human Condition

    Angela M. Sabates

    2013

    Summary: "The field of psychology has greatly enriched our understanding of human interaction. Utilizing research that is well-grounded in the empirical and theoretical literature, Angela Sabates demonstrates how a disti...

  • Becoming Whole and Holy: An Integrative Conversation about Christian Formation by Jeannine K. Brown, Carla M. Dahl, and Wyndy Corbin Reuschling

    Becoming Whole and Holy: An Integrative Conversation about Christian Formation

    Jeannine K. Brown, Carla M. Dahl, and Wyndy Corbin Reuschling

    2011

    How does Christian formation happen and what are its moral implications? This text brings into conversation three disciplines that are crucial for Christian formation--social science, biblical studies/hermeneutics, and ethics--to present...

  • Re-imagining African Christologies: Conversing with the Interpretations and Appropriations of Jesus Christ in Contemporary African Christianity by Victor I. Ezigbo

    Re-imagining African Christologies: Conversing with the Interpretations and Appropriations of Jesus Christ in Contemporary African Christianity

    Victor I. Ezigbo

    2010

    "Who do you say that I am" (Mark 8:29) is the question of Christology. By asking this question, Jesus invites his followers to interpret him from within their own contexts-history, experience, and social location. Therefore, all response...

 
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