This book stems from a concern to assist pastoral counsellors in developing a therapeutic alliance with African-American women. It focuses on the social construct of the African-American matriarch, which can easily misinform the counsellor and cause emotional jeopardy for African-American women who attempt to live up to its expectations.

Writing across theological disciplines, nine African American women scholars reflect on what it means to live as responsible doers of justice. With some classic essays and some contributions published here for the first time, each chapter in this new volume in the Library of Theological Ethics series presents analytical strategies for...

This book sheds new light on the women in the Fourth Gospel, seeing their primary purpose as supporting the portrayal of Jesus as the Messianic Bridegroom and furthering the plot of Jesus' giving people the power to become children of god.

For every day from Shrove Tuesday to Easter Day, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive reflections on it. A scholar of poetry and a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Lent.

* The first significant work from a major contemporary theologian since Theology and Social Theory (1990). * Covers a broad range of contemporary debates in theology, philosophy, social theory and cultural studies. .

Worship for Everyone provides all age worship resources for churches, pastors, and children's workers to make all age worship an exciting and thriving experience for the whole Church.

The Wound of Knowledge is a penetrating psychological and intellectual analysis of Christian spirituality from one of the finest theological minds of our day.

In this hope-filled and profoundly simple book, Henri Nouwen offers a radically fresh interpretation of modern ministry. Here he inspires devoted men and women who want to be of service in their church or community, but have found the traditional ways of ministry alienating and ineffective.

A collection of writings by Rowan Williams spanning 1980-2000 and focusing on his insightful engagement with a wide range of modern theologians and philosophers. This book is for anyone interested in Rowan William's theology, be they a member of the Anglican clergy or a student of modern theology.

Slavoj Zizek has been called an "academic rock star." Zizek's work includes extended treatments of key Christian thinkers from Paul and Pascal to Kierkegaard. This book helps students in understanding Zizek's works with an eye toward what brings him to an explicit engagement with Christianity.

This book critically examines Bonhoeffer's social theology in Sanctorum Communio from the perspective of Zizek's theological materialism.