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The stories of the women have often stayed in the shadows of Canadian Baptist history. The writers of this book have sought out neglected primary source materials to reveal the lives and work of an array of Baptist women in Canada''s history. Read here about the Acadian Mary Lore hungrily reading her French Bible and welcoming the message of Baptist missionaries in Lower Canada, Jane Gilmour leaving her home in Britain to minister with her husband in Montreal and the wilds of Upper Canada, a group of remarkable black Baptist women in southern Ontario in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Isabel Crawford from Niagara becoming an advocate for the Kiowa people of Oklahoma, Miriam Ross from Nova Scotia ministering in the Congo, Lois Tupper, pioneer female Baptist theological educator, and, more generally, the work of Baptist women in the Maritimes in the nineteenth century and western Canada in the first half of the twentieth century. Empowered by their Baptist faith, these Canadian women did remarkable things, and their stories deserve to be told and read.""This volume of inspiring and sometimes startling essays contributes to the ongoing task of expanding and deepening the historical portrait of the Canadian religious experience. Dr. Bowler and her authors trouble the waters of male-dominated institutions and narratives as they introduce us to robust and faithful women who crossed multiple boundaries to help shape the church and the many contexts in which they lived, thought, prayed, and worked."" --Sandra Beardsall, Professor of Church History and Ecumenics, St. Andrew''s College, Saskatoon ""This collection of stories of Canadian Baptist women inspires. The recapturing of women''s lives, previously lost to historical memory, brings depth and breadth to our understandings both of Baptist denominational history and of the broader history of the church in Canada. Readers will be captivated by these women who challenged gendered norms as they confronted institutional boundaries and crossed ethnic and geographic lines.""--Lucille Marr, Adjunct Professor, McGill University, School of Religious Studies; President, Canadian Society of Church History""The long-neglected contribution of women to Canada''s Baptist movement is addressed in this eclectic collection of essays. As editor Bowler explains, the volume is neither exhaustive nor encyclopedic, yet it contributes substantially to rectifying this glaring gap. As a seminary educator, I am thankful for the mass of useful information this volume provides as I rewrite some courses."" --C. Mark Steinacher, Assistant Professor of Christian History, Tyndale SeminarySharon M. Bowler (EdD, University of Toronto) is a Chaplain with the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches. Her research centers around the study of Section 2a Freedom of Conscience, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the Baptists who have contributed publicly in some way to its development and continuation. Sharon was a contributor to the first volume of the CBHS series, Baptists and Public Life.

Preaching has fallen on hard times with many questioning its relevance and even its validity as a New Testament practice. This symposium of specially commissioned essays draws together an international team of thirteen scholars and pastors to address the importance of textual preaching in the history and life of the early church, the historic church, and the contemporary church. Contributions include essays on Old Testament preaching, preaching in Hebrews, gender-sensitive preaching, preaching in the theology of Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and in Eastern Orthodoxy. It also includes essays on a range of homiletical challenges that textual preaching raises for the contemporary preacher, including genre, preaching without notes, inhabiting the text, and preaching without platitudes. A final reflection by Dave Hansen on the state of textual preaching rounds out the collection.The preaching of the gospel stands at the heart of Christian praxis. These essays make a vital contribution to the recovery of the importance of preaching, focused on the text of Scripture. Written with an eye to the pastor and practitioner as well as those in the pews and in the classroom, this is a book that should appeal to a wide range of readers.

This volume is a biblical theological critique of the Apostles' Creed and a development of the role of the Holy Spirit in the church, the world, and the personal experience of Christian faith. It addresses the creed as a historic document, an artifact of early Christian theological development, and a long-standing guide for the form and content of that faith tradition. This book is an appreciation of the Apostles' Creed in terms of its persistent pastoral effect in the church. It is also a criticism of aspects of the creed that are unbiblical and crafted for political or extraneous theological reasons by the bishops of the ancient ecumenical councils.

No one is so intimately acquainted with Schleiermacher's Christian Ethics material or with the 1821-1822 first edition of his companion volume, Christian Faith, than Hermann Peiter. The present volume is a collection of Peiter's nineteen essays and thirty reviews. Extensive English summaries are offered for all this material, and an English version for four of the essays. Professor Peiter's summary of this volume reads as follows:""This book treats of praxis in the Christian life and of Christian responsibility for the world we have in common. The following, however, forms a background for these considerations. Schleiermacher reminds his Christian brethren, who often deck themselves out with alien, borrowed plumes from morals and metaphysics, of their actual theme, that of religion, which he also designates as a kind or mode of faith. Like Luther, he also turns against both the practical misconception that considers faith itself to be a good work and the theoretical misconception that faith is a product of thinking, a theory. Whether a practitioner thinks to give thanks for one's own work or whether a theoretician hopes to find final fulfillment and justification in one's range of metaphysical ideas amounts to the same thing. Faith is the courage to be (Paul Tillich). For Schleiermacher, to want to have speculation (thus, metaphysics) and praxis without religion is the nonsalutary intention of Prometheus, who faintheartedly stole what he could have expected to possess in restful security. If taken seriously, the 'gods'-to use that pagan expression for once-are that nature to which a human being belongs. Each human being is their possession. When one steals what the gods have, one steals oneself, can thank oneself for a robbery. For a gift that is stolen, one cannot possibly be thankful. Only a pure gift awakens true joy. A human being has the chance to receive the gift that one is or is not (in case it is stolen) not from a thief but from religion. Thanks to one's birth, both physical and spiritual, one gains oneself and has oneself. To steal means to take away, to depreciate. In contrast, whoever has oneself from elsewhere is no longer extracted from oneself or from the one to whom one belongs.""

Johannine Literature offers some of the most beautiful, majestic, and profound theology contained within the entire biblical text. Within its works can be found the highest Christology, the capstone of eschatology, and the heartbreaking struggles of a community committed to Christ. However, it does not always get the attention it deserves in New Testament studies. This book seeks to remedy that by drawing together some of the most respected biblical scholars to bring their expertise to bear on various aspects of Johannine studies that are contained within the Gospel, Epistles, and the Apocalypse. These contributions have been collected as a Festschrift in honor and celebration of the career of Benny C. Aker, a preeminent scholar, teacher, and mentor.

Invariably, people who read Scripture are forced to answer the question, ""What is the 'literal sense'?"" This question is not new. In the seventeenth century, John Lightfoot--signer of the Westminster Confession of Faith and a master of Hebrew and of rabbinic writings--wrestled with the same question, and his conclusions had a profound impact in the world of hermeneutics. In an age of much animosity towards the Jews, Lightfoot embraced the insights found in the Jewish writings while staying grounded in his reformational dogmatic theology. In so doing, his exegesis could properly be considered a via media between Reformed Scholasticism and Judaism. Lightfoot's hermeneutical principles and presuppositions outlined in this book not only provide valuable insight into his thinking but also reject the previously normative notion that Reformed Scholasticism has little to offer dogmatically or exegetically. The current tensions between systematic and biblical theology, the rise of interest in Second Temple and medieval Judaica, and the never-ending question of biblical authority make What Is the Literal Sense? an important read.

The inevitability of death in our broken world means that grief and mourning are a normal part of the human experience. Too often, though, this normal journey of grief is cut short by a culture intent on pretending bad things don''t really happen. In A Road Too Short for the Long Journey, readers are invited to consider how we might travel this road of mourning with those who grieve and how we might join them as partners in a reorientation of the world experienced through loss.""A Road Too Short for the Long Journey is a poignantly engaging work. It is an important contribution that aids in the understanding of one of life''s most momentous tasks: navigating significant loss. Openly vulnerable and unmistakably authentic, the personal encounters with grief disclosed by the book''s contributors allow its readers profound touchpoints with their own life-loss experiences. The knowledge provided alongside this personal narrative creates a powerful potential for transformative healing space.""--Cynthia McGrady, Clinical Psychologist, Associate Professor, and Director of Marriage & Family Therapy at Fresno Pacific University Biblical Seminary""This book is a gift. I value its practical wisdom and scholarly insight. Even more, I''m moved by the deep honesty and sensitivity with which it explores grief as a dimension of human experience. Reading the real-life stories it contains is a holy exercise, a rare invitation to listen to the voices of those whose lives have been touched indelibly by loss. This volume has enhanced my ministry and enriched my humanity.""--Cory Seibel, Pastor of Lifelong Faith Formation, Central Baptist Church, Edmonton; Affiliate Professor, Taylor SeminaryQuentin P. Kinnison, is Associate Professor of Christian Ministry & Leadership and the division chair of the Biblical & Religious Studies division at Fresno Pacific University in Fresno, California. He is author of Transforming Pastoral Leadership (2016) and coauthor with Julie M. Lane of Welcoming Children with Special Needs: Empowering Christian Special Education through Purpose, Policies, and Procedures (2014).

Dr. Norman L. Geisler has been called the ""father of evangelical Christian philosophy."" He has written more than one hundred books and taught at universities and top seminaries for some fifty-six years. He was the first president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society and the founder and first president of the International Society of Christian Apologetics. He has spoken or debated in more than two dozen countries and held pastoral/pulpit ministries in four states. Many view him as a cross between Thomas Aquinas and Billy Graham. No one has done more to communicate the modern challenges of the Faith to the ""average"" Christian, to the church, and to the academy. This volume offers creative and constructive essays from twenty-three contributors, all notable in their own right, who preserve and propagate Dr. Geisler''s ideas and express appreciation for his influence. Those who know him best say he is ""true, faithful, and blessed by God!""""What a privilege to endorse this book I Am Put Here for the Defense of the Gospel. This Festschrift in honor of Dr. Norman Geisler honors a man I have edited, studied, and interviewed. We have debated together and even written a book together. As you read through this book you will learn about apologetics, philosophy, theology, worldview, ethics, and religion. Learn from the men and women who were able to learn about these subjects from the master apologist.""--Kerby Anderson, President, Probe Ministries; Host, Point of View radio talk showEdited by Terry L. Miethe (PhD, PhD, DPhil Oxon Cand.), Professor at Tennessee State University.

This long-standing series provides the guild of religion scholars a venue for publishing aimed primarily at colleagues. It includes scholarly monographs, revised dissertations, Festschriften, conference papers, and translations of ancient and medieval documents. Works cover the sub-disciplines of biblical studies, history of Christianity, history of religion, theology, and ethics. Festschriften for Karl Barth, Donald W. Dayton, James Luther Mays, Margaret R. Miles, and Walter Wink are among the seventy-five volumes that have been published. Contributors include: C. K. Barrett, Francois Bovon, Paul S. Chung, Marie-Helene Davies, Frederick Herzog, Ben F. Meyer, Pamela Ann Moeller, Rudolf Pesch, D. Z. Phillips, Rudolf Schnackenburgm Eduard Schweizer, John Vissers

Pittsburgh Theological Monograph - New Series General Editor - Dikran Y. Hadidian