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Critical Literacy, Schooling, and Social Justice

The Selected Works of Allan Luke

By: Allan Luke

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Critical Literacy, Schooling, and Social Justice

The Selected Works of Allan Luke

By: Allan Luke

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/or practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands of their work and see their contribution to the development of a field, as well as the development of the field itself. Allan Luke’s work on critical literacy, schooling, and equity has influenced the fields of literacy education, teacher education, educational sociology, and policy for over three decades. This volume brings together Allan Luke’s key writings on literacy and schooling. Chapters cover a range of topics and theories, including the development and application of a social and cultural analysis of literacy education and schooling; a primer on literacy as a social construction; classroom-based case studies of literacy teaching and learning; major theoretical and philosophic essays; practical programmatic work on school reform and enabling curriculum policies; and classroom approaches to teaching critical literacy and multiliteracies.

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Routledge

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1351587641

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9781351587648

DO YOU TAKE THIS COWBOY?

By: Jeanne Allan

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DO YOU TAKE THIS COWBOY?

By: Jeanne Allan

SIMPLY THE BEST City miss meets headstrong cowboy… Jacqueline—J.J.—O'Brien was a hot city lawyer. Luke Remington was a rugged country rancher. When these two opposites met, sparks flew—so much so that their marriage seemed destined to be as brief as their whirlwind romance. After barely a week, J.J. wanted a divorce. But Luke would agree only on one condition: that she live with him for three weeks on his ranch. Three weeks of dressing down, mucking in and making out! Just what had she taken on? SIMPLY THE BEST. Authors you'll treasure, books you'll want to keep!

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Harlequin

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1459270142

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9781459270145

Partnership in the Gospel

Seven Exercises in Liberal Biblical Theology

By: Robert Allan Hill

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Partnership in the Gospel

Seven Exercises in Liberal Biblical Theology

By: Robert Allan Hill

Many of our current, lasting controversies in American Christianity are due, in part, to the willingness of liberals to champion reason and experience while leaving Scripture and tradition to conservatives, and vice versa. The liberal biblical theological voice, once quite strong, has fallen silent. Grounded in a solid knowledge of biblical study, Partnership in the Gospel presents a series of exercises, or angles of perspective, intended to support the rigorous consideration of biblical theological perspective that preachers, teachers, and lay leaders need. This work draws from a range of scholarly, theological, and everyday voices, and with kindred works of poetry, art, music, and literature, to explore the Bible’s unifying themes through “partnerships” of perspective. Each chapter offers an exercise that integrates Scripture, experience, tradition, and reason—the four sides of John Wesley’s “Quadrilateral”—as the means by which to engage with the gospel and appreciate a liberal biblical theology.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666782041

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9781666782042

Fortress Introduction to the Gospels, Second Edition

By: Mark Allan Powell

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Fortress Introduction to the Gospels, Second Edition

By: Mark Allan Powell

With clarity and verve, Mark Allen Powell introduces the beginning student to the contents and structure of the Gospels, their distinctive characteristics, and their major themes. An introductory chapter surveys the political, religious, and social world of the Gospels, methods of approaching early Christian texts, the genre of the Gospels, and the religious character of these writings. This second edition has been updated to take fuller account of different theories regarding the Gospels, with new chapters on the historical Jesus and on gospel literature not included in our New Testament, and with a pleasing new format. Special features include illustrations and more than two dozen special topics.

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Fortress Press

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150646050X

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What are They Saying about Acts?

By: Mark Allan Powell

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What are They Saying about Acts?

By: Mark Allan Powell

Provides an overview of current scholarship on Acts that will serve as a suitable introduction to that book of the Bible.

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164

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Paulist Press

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0809132796

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9780809132799

The Owl

A Novel of Extraordinary Fantasy

By: Allan Sussman

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The Owl

A Novel of Extraordinary Fantasy

By: Allan Sussman

A fantasy adventure/mystery thriller set in the shadows of sealed crypts and perilous catacombs where nightmares live; protected by a Wise, Wondrous Being guarding the most breathtaking secret on earth.

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Trafford Publishing

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1425148581

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A Prayer for the Devil

By: Dale Allan

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A Prayer for the Devil

By: Dale Allan

When his twin brother, who was working on a Presidential campaign, is murdered in the Middle East, Luke Miller, a priest, begins to question his faith as he becomes overwhelmed with the desire for revenge.

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Greenleaf Book Group

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1937110346

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9781937110345

Introducing the New Testament

A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey

By: Mark Allan Powell

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Introducing the New Testament

A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey

By: Mark Allan Powell

This lively, engaging introduction to the New Testament is critical yet faith-friendly, lavishly illustrated, and accompanied by a variety of pedagogical aids, including sidebars, maps, tables, charts, diagrams, and suggestions for further reading. The full-color interior features art from around the world that illustrates the New Testament's impact on history and culture. The first edition has been well received (over 60,000 copies sold). This new edition has been thoroughly revised in response to professor feedback and features an updated interior design. It offers expanded coverage of the New Testament world in a new chapter on Jewish backgrounds, features dozens of new works of fine art from around the world, and provides extensive new online material for students and professors available through Baker Academic's Textbook eSources.

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Baker Books

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1493413139

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9781493413133

Who Is Jesus?

The Puzzle and the Portraits of a Divine Savior

By: Allan R. Bevere

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Who Is Jesus?

The Puzzle and the Portraits of a Divine Savior

By: Allan R. Bevere

At Easter, major magazines and blogs will publish articles claiming to tell us who Jesus was. Every few weeks we see a new book making similar claims. Is it possible to know? In Who Is Jesus?, Allan Bevere addresses this question from the point of view of a person of faith who takes seriously the gospels and early Christian tradition as documentation of events and of serious theological reflection on those events. According to Bevere, Christian theology was neither an invention, nor a set of random speculations unrelated to reality. Rather, they were the response of early Christianity to the experience of Jesus and the historical pictures as presented in the canonical gospels. From a discussion of the Old Testament record piecing together the puzzle of biblical messianic prophecy through illumination of the christological controversies of the first five centuries of Christian history, and then back to the four portraits of Jesus given to us in the canonical gospels, this book provides a clear description of how orthodox Christian scholarship can bring together the varied evidence in order to present a coherent theological picture of the Jesus of history. As Bevere contends, history and theology are not easily separated, but are two threads that create an interwoven tapestry in which events have meaning. This book is good for individual reading, or could easily provide readings and an outline for a small group study.

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Energion Publications

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1631996983

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Foreign but Familiar Gods

Greco-Romans Read Religion in Acts

By: Lynn Allan Kauppi

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Foreign but Familiar Gods

Greco-Romans Read Religion in Acts

By: Lynn Allan Kauppi

Through a close and informative reading of seven key texts in Acts, Kauppi analyses the appearances of Graeco-Roman religion, offering evidence of practices including divination and oracles, ruler cult and civic foundation myth. Foreign But Familiar Gods then uses a combination of these scriptural texts and other contemporary evidence (including archaeological and literary material) to suggest that one of Luke's subsidiary themes is to contrast Graeco-Roman and Christian religious conceptualizations and practices.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567641414

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9780567641410

Dreamwalker

By: Allan Micheal Hardin

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Dreamwalker

By: Allan Micheal Hardin

Escaping from a prison work gang, a group of murderous convicts journey through the wilds of the Rocky Mountains during the 1860s gold rush in search of riches beyond their imaginations. The gang's ruthless leader, Clarence Whitney, forces one of them, Michael George, a young Mtis half-breed, to participate in their mayhem and wanton acts of murder or face death. When Whitney and the gang pillage a native village, taking a village elder hostage, Michael and the elder secretly work together to undermine Whitney and the others. Survivors from the village, including a powerful native shaman, work their ritual magic to exact their own brand of mystical revenge. As Michael, the elder, and the gang come closer to the gold and their uncertain fates, Michael discovers that destiny and supernatural justice have more in store for him than he expected. Energetically written and brilliantly told, Allan Michael Hardin's Dreamwalker is a thrill ride of a book, sometimes terrifying, sometimes inspiring, but always exhilarating. Told with a narrative voice that conveys action and historical authenticity, Dreamwalker both captivates and entertains without compromising one ounce of excitement.

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0595623123

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Better to Reign in Hell, Than Serve In Heaven

Satan's Metamorphosis From a Heavenly Council Member to the Ruler of Pandaemonium

By: Allan Wright

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Better to Reign in Hell, Than Serve In Heaven

Satan's Metamorphosis From a Heavenly Council Member to the Ruler of Pandaemonium

By: Allan Wright

In this monograph, the author argues that Satan was not perceived as a universal malevolent deity, the embodiment of evil, or the “ruler of Pandemonium” within first century Christian literature or even within second and third century Christian discourses as some scholars have insisted. Instead, for early “Christian” authors, Satan represented a pejorative term used to describe terrestrial, tangible, and concrete social realities, perceived of as adversaries. To reach this conclusion, I explore the narrative character of Satan selectively within the Hebrew Bible, intertestamental literature, Mark, Matthew, Luke, Q, the Book of Revelation, the Nag Hammadi texts, and the Ante-Nicene fathers. He argues that certain scholars’ such as Jeffrey Burton Russell, Miguel A. De La Torre, Albert Hernandez, Peter Stanford, Paul Carus, and Gerd Theissen, homogenized reconstructions of the “New Testament Satan” as the universalized incarnation of evil and that God’s absolute cosmic enemy is absent from early Christian orthodox literature, such as Mark, Matthew, Luke, Q, the Book of Revelation, and certain writings from the Ante-Nicene Fathers. Using Jonathan Z. Smith’s essay Here, There, and Anywhere, the author suggests that the cosmic dualist approach to Satan as God’s absolute cosmic enemy resulted from the changing social topography of the early fourth century where Christian “insider” and “outsider” adversaries were diminishing. With these threats fading, early Christians universalized a perceived chaotic cosmic enemy, namely Satan, being influenced by the Gnostic demiurge, who disrupts God’s terrestrial and cosmic order. Therefore, Satan transitioned from a “here,” “insider,” and “there,” “outsider,” threat to a universal “anywhere” threat. This study could be employed as a characterization study, New Testament theory and application for classroom references or research purposes.

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Vernon Press

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1622733568

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9781622733569

What is Narrative Criticism?

By: Mark Allan Powell

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What is Narrative Criticism?

By: Mark Allan Powell

The first nontechnical description of the principles and procedures of narrative criticism. Written for students' and pastors' use in their own exegesis.With great clarity Powell outlines the principles and procedures that narrative critics follow in exegesis of gospel texts and explains concepts such as "point of view," "narration," "irony," and "symbolism." Chapters are devoted to each of the three principal elements of narrative: events, characters, and settings; and case studies are provided to illustrate how the method is applied in each instance. The book concludes with an honest appraisal of the contribution that narrative criticism makes, a consideration of objections that have been raised against the use of this method, and a discussion of the hermeneutical implications this method raises for the church.

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144

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Fortress Press

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1451413726

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9781451413724

Jesus as a Figure in History

How Modern Historians View the Man from Galilee

By: Mark Allan Powell

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Jesus as a Figure in History

How Modern Historians View the Man from Galilee

By: Mark Allan Powell

Here is the first comprehensive, balanced account of historical Jesus studies. Beginning with brief discussions of the early days of historical research into the person of Jesus and the methods developed by researchers at the time, Mark Allen Powell offers insightful overviews of some of the most important participants in the contemporary Jesus quests.

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250

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Westminster John Knox Press

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1611642396

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9781611642391

Chasing the Eastern Star

Adventures in Biblical Reader-response Criticism

By: Mark Allan Powell

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Chasing the Eastern Star

Adventures in Biblical Reader-response Criticism

By: Mark Allan Powell

Argues for a method of biblical interpretation that allows for multiple legitimate meanings, providing examples from popular literature and movies while considering in length the story of the Magi and the impact of Scripture on human truth. Original.

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0664222781

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9780664222789

The Baptism of Jesus the Christ

By: Ralph Allan Smith

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The Baptism of Jesus the Christ

By: Ralph Allan Smith

The baptism of Jesus by John the Baptizer is one of the theologically richest narratives in the Gospels, touching the transition from the old to the new covenant, the doctrines of water and Holy Spirit baptism, and the doctrine of the Trinity, to name only the most significant of topics. In The Baptism of Jesus the Christ, Ralph Allan Smith addresses each of these areas, aiming in particular to respond to James D. G. Dunn's view that Jesus' baptism and the gift of the Spirit are fundamentally distinct events, to revive John Calvin's view of the baptism of Jesus as central to understanding Christian baptism, and to suggest directions for re-thinking the doctrine of God's attributes in the light of the fully personal interaction of Father, Son, and Spirit reflected in the baptismal narrative.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1608991989

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9781608991983

The Persistence of God's Endangered Promises

The Bible's Unified Story

By: Allan J. McNicol

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The Persistence of God's Endangered Promises

The Bible's Unified Story

By: Allan J. McNicol

Using a thorough, integrated biblical theology to make sense of the 'master story' of Scripture, Allan J. McNicol explores the nature and importance of the Bible's abiding narrative of the persistence of God's promises to his people, and their hope of final triumph. Special attention is given to the often contentious claim that these early followers of Jesus presumed that they stood in full continuity with Israel, the historic people of God, and were claiming that many of God's promises were coming to fulfilment among them. McNicol presents a closer analysis of the texts as he shows how the theme of the people of God fits into the wider literary productions of these major New Testament writers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567677613

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