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Academic Catalog 2019-2020 Fall 2020 Supplement COMING IN FALL 2020 WORSHIP Liturgies From Below Praying with People at the End of the World Claudio Carvalhaes This book offers a wealth of resources from forgotten places to help us create a new vocabulary for worship and prayer. It is a collection of prayers, songs, rituals, rites of healing, Eucharistic and baptismal prayers, meditations, and art from four continents: Asia-Pacific Islands, Africa, Americas, and Europe. 9781791007355 | $29.99 | August, 2020 The Purpose, Pattern, And Character Of Worship L. Edward Phillips Within the broad range of Christianity we find diverse understandings of what makes for “good worship.” This book develops a typology of Christian worship to provide a method of assessing the decisions of congregations and leaders in forming and changing the orders of their worship. 9781791004682 | $39.99 | October, 2020 A Worship Workbook A Practical Guide for Extraordinary Liturgy Gerald C. Liu & Khalia J. Williams Extraordinary Christian worship is honest and versatile in its expressions of diverse liturgy. This workbook will inspire church leaders and seminarians to commit to gathering people of diversity as an expression of faithfulness in God. 9781501896569 | $26.99 | October, 2020 I | AbingdonPress.com | 800.251.3320 COMING IN FALL 2020 PREACHING George Buttrick’s Guide to Preaching The Gospel Edited by Charles N. Davidson In George Buttrick’s Guide to Preaching the Gospel, we learn why the world needs competent preachers, what the preacher must preach about, and how the preacher goes about creating the sermon with daily discipline and several practiced skills, including research, charting, outlining, writing, and performance. These writings have never been published before and were found by his grandchildren after his death. 9781791001742 | $24.99 | August, 2020 Preachers Dare Speaking for God Will Willimon Preachers Dare is adapted from Will Willimon’s Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching at Yale. 9781791008055 | $19.99 | October, 2020 Getting To God Preaching Good News in a Troubled World Joni Sancken, Luke A. Powery & John Rottman This book operates on several levels, showing preachers how to contextualize a theologically rich approach to preaching, expanding the horizon of ministry for pastors who might not have experience in the contexts discussed in the book, and it equips pastors with the vital practice of learning to look for and name God’s active presence in our world. 9781791004668 | $22.99 | November, 2020 800.251.3320 | AbingdonPress.com | II COMING IN FALL 2020 BIBLICAL STUDIES The General Epistles Hebrews; James; 1, 2 Peter; Jude Margaret Aymer Learn to interpret the General Epistles to unlock the meaning of their highly contextual content. This book introduces and helps readers understand the life and times of a variegated and theologically diverse early Church. 9781426767524 | $29.99 | November, 2020 CHURCH & CULTURE Christianity’s Surprise A Sure and Certain Hope C. Kavin Rowe Rediscovering the early church’s surprise of Christianity will help modern Christians chart a course for their witness today. 9781791008208 | $19.99 | September, 2020 BIBLES Large Print CEB This new thinline, large-print edition of the Common English Bible translation is packaged in a classic black bonded-leather cover, with the words Holy Bible stamped in silver, making it a timeless Bible for personal reading or to give as a gift. 9781791008147 | $34.99 | September, 2020 III | AbingdonPress.com | 800.251.3320 Request an Exam Copy To request an examination or desk copy for your classroom, go to the book’s page on AbingdonPress.com and select the “Request an Exam Copy” link. This will allow you the option to request a complimentary eBook edition or a printed copy. Fill out the information required on the form, and we will send your copy to you. At 60 days, we will send you an e-mail reminder with a brief questionnaire about the book. At 90 days, we will request proof of adoption, or you can pay for the book then at a 50% discount. Exam copies are only available for books to be used in a higher-ed classroom, and the request must be made by a teacher or professor. Please send any questions to [email protected]. 800.251.3320 | AbingdonPress.com | IV FOR MORE THAN 200 YEARS, Abingdon Press has provided resources that challenge scholars, students, pastors, church leaders, and general readers to faithful scholarship, transformative practices, and social responsibility. Abingdon Academic publications offer a disciplined and balanced approach for a broad ecumenical audience. With a historic commitment to publishing theologically diverse resources, Abingdon has a strategic investment in providing critical and insightful books from a variety of viewpoints. When leading the way with digital texts, Abingdon Academic books are clearly and accessibly written with an emphasis on praxis. Thank you for trusting Abingdon Academic with your classroom needs. BIBLICAL STUDIES 1 WESLEY/METHODIDST STUDIES 11 THEOLOGY 16 CHURCH HISTORY 22 CARE & COUNSELING 23 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION 25 MINISTRY LEADERSHIP 26 FAITH & CULTURE 29 PREACHING 32 WORSHIP 37 BIBLES 39 BIBLICAL STUDIES New! The Bible and Moral Injury Reading Scripture Alongside War’s Unseen Wounds Brad E. Kelle The Bible and Moral Injury offers an exploration (with case studies) of the interpretation of biblical texts, especially war-related narratives and ritual descriptions from the Old Testament, in conversation with research on the emerging notion of moral injury within psychology, military studies, philosophy, and ethics. Brad E. Kelle is Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew, School of Theology and Christian Ministry, Point Loma Nazarene University. 9781501876288 | $34.99 | February, 2020 New! The Beginning of Difference Discovering Identity in God’s Diverse World Theodore Hiebert How we engage difference matters. Theodore Hiebert re-examines the Bible’s stories explaining dierence, exposing the inclination to interpret these stories as a negative view of difference. Instead, these stories recognize difference as God’s intention for the world. Theodore Hiebert is Francis A. McGaw Professor of Old Testament, McCormick Theological Seminary. 9781501871023 | $17.99 | November, 2019 New! Revelation as Civil Disobedience Witnesses Not Warriors in John’s Apocalypse Thomas B. Slater The book of Revelation is a form of civil disobedience that focuses upon sustaining a faithful witness in spite of the consequences. Revelation never tells Christians to arm themselves. Rather, Christians defeat evil by witnessing faithfully. Readers are challenged to rethink and reassess their respective positions given the stress on faithful witness in the book. Thomas B. Slater is Professor of New Testament Language & Literature at McAfee School of Theology. 9781501841743 | $29.99 | November, 2019 800.251.3320 | AbingdonPress.com | 1 BIBLICAL STUDIES New! Holy Imagination A Literary and Theological Introduction to the Whole Bible Judy Fentress-Williams Most literary works have one primary voice, a discourse that expresses an author’s dominant culture and ideology. The whole Bible, however, should be read by allowing numerous voices or discourses during a thousand years of literary imagination to emerge and interact. This dialogic reading process introduces theological insights that are larger than the individual parts of the Bible. Judy Fentress-Williams is Professor of Old Testament at Virginia Theological Seminary. 9781426775314 | $29.99 | April 2020 New! New Testament Conversations A Literary, Historical, and Pluralistic Introduction Suzanne Watts Henderson Students today bring to the study of the New Testament an increasing sense that its message is one voice among many religious and philosophical options. In this book, students encounter the New Testament in relation to the wider landscape of sacred traditions. The New Testament emerges as a lively conversation partner in the human quest for meaning and purpose. Suzanne Watts Henderson is Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Dean of the Belk Chapel at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina. 9781501854927 | $49.99 | August, 2019 New! The Old Testament Canon, History, and Literature Richard D. Nelson Engaging and accessible to students from all backgrounds, this book is a comprehensive introduction to the Old Testament. It is designed to equip readers with the knowledge and skills needed to read, interpret, and benefit from the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible in their own context. Using scholarly consensus and current research with numerous examples, this book helps prepare students for further advanced courses related to exegesis, individual books, and special topics. Richard D. Nelson is professor emeritus of Biblical Hebrew and Old Testament Interpretation at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. 9781426759239 | $42.99 | February, 2019 2 | AbingdonPress.com | 800.251.3320 BIBLICAL STUDIES 70 Hebrew Words Every Christian Should Know Matthew Richard Schlimm The basic message of the Bible can be understood in any language. At the same time, many biblical texts are hard to understand because they don’t quite make sense when translated into English. Something is missing. Quite frequently, what readers miss has been lost in translation. Matthew Richard Schlimm is Professor of Old Testament at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary in Iowa. 9781426799969 | $19.99 Jesus Darkly Remembering Jesus with the New Testament Rafael Rodriguez New Testament students