Church's Guide for Reading Paul Joseph Thomas Janet Moore Lindman focuses on

Janet Moore Lindman focuses on the Friends of the mid-Atlantic and the Delaware Valley to explore how Friends' piety affected their actions-not only in the evolution of religious practice and belief but also in response to a changing social and political context

The volume challenges the reader to move beyond preconceived notions of religion in order to decipher the "religious imagination" at play in the scary stories we tell over and over again

combining startling statistics with well-informed insights

It is both a call to action and a practical playbook for creating a culture of care

An insightful exploration into the story of a movement

Church's Guide for Reading Paul Joseph Thomas Janet Moore Lindman focuses onBrevard Childs here turns his sharp scholarly eye to the works of the apostle Paul and makes an unusual argument: the New Testament was canonically shaped, its formation a hermeneutical exercise in which its anonymous apostles and postapostolic editors collected, preserved, and theologically shaped the material in order for the evangelical traditio