Every year in October the community at Canadian Mennonite Bible College adjusts its normal routine for two days to hear a prominent scholar on a topic pertinent to the college's program of studies. This event brings together not only the students of the college but also church leaders and scholars from the local community. These are important days.
The lectures are named in honour of a Canadian Mennonite churchman-Rev. J.J. Thiessen-who believed in the importance of the kind of Christian education that inspired people to faithful Christian living. His life expressed the conviction that the truth of theology could not be spoken once for always, but that the time and place of its living required fresh embrace and renewed ownership. Hence his love for Christian education. And for him this love was intimately connected with a cultivated memory, not only of the story of faith but of the names of the people who comprise the community of faith.
In these lectures, C. Arnold Snyder offers an important historical study on the subject of religious toleration in the period of the Reformation, breaking new ground based on his own careful reading...
In these lectures, as in his writings, Hays' passion for getting the story right and his conviction that Christians today are part of that story, become apparent. Our "getting it right" has to do not...
A Primer to Reading the Psalms in an Age of Pluralism
by William P. Brown
$13.00
£12.00
AU$21.00
ISBN: 9781532657610
Pub Date: July 2018
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
In the 2000 Lectures the Professor of Old Testament at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, develops the use of metaphorical imagination in the interpretation of the Psalms.
"This booklet expands upon Regehr's lectures in which he argues that demographic and political shifts in how Mennonites engage the Canadian federalist democracy leave today's Mennonites with an uncertain...
"The wholeness of the life we seek is one that we are seldom able to envision in advance. It takes a shape that only the desert knows." Desert Spirituality and Cultural Resistance: From Ancient Monks...
"In these lectures, Griffiths seeks to develop a theology of intellectual appetite. He helps us see that our desire for knowledge is all too often informed by a distorted will that seeks to be in position...
The 2013 J.J. Thiessen lectures, delivered by Professor P. Travis Kroeker (McMaster University), undertake a theological exploration of the crucial interconnections between desire and economics in our...
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