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Acts of Interpretation: Scripture, Theology, and Culture

Acts of Interpretation: Scripture, Theology, and Culture

by Jens Zimmermann and S A Cummins

This book features essays by biblical scholars and theologians offering broad reflections on key interpretive issues, rich readings of challenging biblical texts, and interaction with the Christian exegetical tradition from Melito of Sardis to Dietrich Bonhoeffer.The contributors to this volume are leading figures in the theological interpretation of Scriptu… Read more…

Sources of the Christian Self: A Cultural History of Christian Identity

Sources of the Christian Self: A Cultural History of Christian Identity

by Jens Zimmermann and James M. Houston

Using Charles Taylor’s magisterial Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity as a springboard, this interdisciplinary book explores lived Christian identity through the ages. Beginning with such Old Testament figures as Abraham, Moses, and David and moving through the New Testament, the early church, the Middl… Read more…

The Passionate Intellect: Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education

The Passionate Intellect: Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education

by Norman Klassen and Jens Zimmermann

Too often Christian college students feel they must either downplay their faith or stick to a small circle of like-minded friends and organizations. Somewhere along the way assumptions have taken root that intellectual university life and Christian faith cannot be synthesized.Klassen and Zimmermann assert that much is at stake for the young university studen… Read more…