A readable and absorbing volume of annotated essays illustrating the approach of Mieke Bal to sto...

At some point very early on in its development, Christianity split between two different pathways...

In Odyssey on the Sea of Faith, Nigel Leaves maps the ways in which the ideas of Don Cupitt have ...

Jesus saw the extraordinary in the ordinary. His extraordinary vision comes to us in bits and pie...

This introductory text takes a secular approach to New Testament study. The book begins with a di...

The Acts of the Apostles is not history. Acts was long thought to be a first-century document, an...

Described by the BBC as 'the last living heretic”, Lloyd Geering has spent much of his life wrest...

Controversial during his lifetime and ever since, the apostle Paul is not an easy historical figu...

Lloyd Geering has brought Ecclesiastes to life by ingeniously composing imaginative dialogues wit...

'Getting Oriented leads readers on an adventurous trek to discover and unlock the treasures of Hi...

A pioneering work that answers the question: What do we do when we tell a story? Using examples f...

Scientific assertions about our shared origins with other species and shared dependence on global...

Often referred to by the press and critics alike as a single voice, the Jesus Seminar is not, in ...

The Infancy Gospels of James and Thomas

In the Hellenistic world, writings were read aloud, heard and remembered. But modern exegesis ass...

What happens to faith when the creeds and confessions can no longer be squared with historical an...

Using insights from the brain science of emotions, Love Beyond Belief: Finding the Access Point t...

Who was the apostle Paul? That question has provided grist for the scholarly mill for millennia. ...

The question of the historical Jesus is not only a historical question but also a historic one. A...

Embracing the Human Jesus

Trouble with Resurrection

What prompted the anonymous author of Luke to edit his sources—Mark and Q—and retell the story of...

Ethics in the Last Days of Humanity is not about the science of global warming so much as the abs...

A concise and readable introduction to the parables for all readers, this first report of the Jes...

According to Lloyd Geering, the world we inhabit is largely a product of our own making. We suppl...

Hagenston exposes the roots of brutal justice underpinning traditional Christianity, but finds ho...

A slow rumbling, that has been building up among New Testament scholars for the past twenty years...

The Complete Gospels is the first publication ever to collect the canonical gospels and their ext...

Christianity s classic plan of salvation was a vast myth of cosmic Creation, Fall and Redemption....

In this book the author sets his interpretation of the key parables of Jesus in the context of ot...

The pioneering work of The Jesus Seminar has come in for high praise as well as searing denunciat...

Can we learn to take the Bible seriously without taking it literally, to be honest about its hist...

Lost for more than fifteen hundred years, the Gospel of Mary is the only existing early Christian...

When and where was the Acts of John composed, by whom, for whom, and why? Using his vibrant Schol...

A lively commentary, intended for a wide audience, raises as many questions about the text of Mat...

Can the authentic words and deed of Jesus identified by the Jesus Seminar furnish a sufficient ba...

What is the future of the Christian tradition as it confronts the challenges and opportunities of...

Paul's letters were written before any other Christian texts, even the gospels. And the earliest ...

The Complete Gospels is the first publication ever to collect the canonical gospels and their ext...

The Acts of Thomas is one of five surviving apocryphal acts that recount the adventures of the ap...

The idea of salvation by faith is a dangerous proposition directly traceable to St. Paul and the ...

Bal (theory of literature, U. of Amsterdam) addresses basic questions in semiotics, the theory of...

Questions concerning the historical John the Baptist and Jesus are answered in this provocative a...

Family values in the Roman empire centered on an all-powerful father-owner-master of each househo...

Finding a Sense of Place

Five major apocryphal Acts survive from the early period of the Christian church, the so-called A...

This first-ever gathering of the Pastoral Epistles and Polycarp to the Philippians under a single...

Using fresh translations and paraphrases to wrest some measure of relevance and contemporaneity f...