All Books
Recent books authored or edited by Andrews University Faculty
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Quantitative Research for Practical Theology
Petr Činčala, David Penno, Pavel Zubkov, and Safary Wa-Mbaleka
Following the Qualitative Research for Practical Theology, this volume discusses the advantages and limitations of using quantitative research methods in practical theology and provides guidance on how to integrate these methods with other approaches, such as qualitative research. The book emphasizes the importance of using rigorous research in order to produce valid and reliable results and also addresses ethical considerations in conducting research with human subjects. Written by a number of authors from different parts of the world, both practical theologians and social scientists, it presents a balanced approach to practical research from both scientific and theological perspective. The authors provide practical guidance on how to conduct quantitative research within the context of practical theology and missiology. A number of case studies and examples from real-life research projects illustrate the application of this method to practical questions and issues church ministry and mission faces.
Quantitative Research for Practical Theology is an invaluable resource for theologians, religious scholars, and practitioners seeking to gain a solid grounding in quantitative research methods. By providing clear explanations, illustrative examples, and practical advice, this book enables readers to apply social science research methods to their own theological inquiries, leading to a deeper understanding of religious phenomena and more effective missional practice. Graduate and doctoral students, as well as novice and experienced quantitative researchers in practical theology will find this book very useful, user-friendly, and practical. To make writing the dissertation project a successful enterprise, the book provides essential exemplars of various parts of the research paper. This book is filled with tables, figures, and illustrations helping to apply the text. -
Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation
Vanessa I. Corredera, L. Monique Pittman, and Geoffrey Way
Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation pushes back against two intertwined binaries: the idea that appropriation can only be either theft or gift, and the idea that cultural appropriation should be narrowly defined as an appropriative contest between a hegemonic and marginalized power. In doing so, the contributions to the collection provide tools for thinking about appropriation and cultural appropriation as spectrums constantly evolving and renegotiating between the poles of exploitation and appreciation.
This collection argues that the concept of cultural appropriation is one of the most undertheorized yet evocative frameworks for Shakespeare appropriation studies to address the relationships between power, users, and uses of Shakespeare. By robustly theorizing cultural appropriation, this collection offers a foundation for interrogating not just the line between exploitation and appreciation, but also how distinct values, biases, and inequities determine where that line lies. Ultimately, this collection broadly employs cultural appropriation to rethink how Shakespeare studies can redirect attention back to power structures, cultural ownership and identity, and Shakespeare’s imbrication within those networks of power and influence. Throughout the contributions in this collection, which explore twentieth and twenty-first century global appropriations of Shakespeare across modes and genres, the collectionuncovers how a deeper exploration of cultural appropriation can reorient the inquiries of Shakespeare adaptation and appropriation studies.
This collection will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies, Shakespeare studies, and adaption studies.
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Life 101: A Spiritual Guide to Help You in the Classroom of Life
Desiree Davis
Life 101 is a book that will motivate and empower the reader on the journey of life. The readers will be introduced to inspiring stories that may help them on their journey as they face challenges and be presented uplifting principles that may assist with daily living.
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Mathematical Modeling in Biology: A Research Methods Approach
Shandelle M. Henson and James L. Hayward
Mathematical Modeling in Biology: A Research Methods Approach is a textbook written primarily for advanced mathematics and science undergraduate students and graduate-level biology students. Although the applications center on ecology, the expertise of the authors, the methodology can be imported to any other science, including social science and economics. The aim of the book, beyond being a useful aid to teaching and learning the core modeling skills needed for mathematical biology, is to encourage students to think deeply and clearly about the meaning of mathematics in science and to learn significant research methods. Most importantly, it is hoped that students will experience some of the excitement of doing research.
Features
- Minimal pre-requisites beyond a solid background in calculus, such as a calculus I course.
- Suitable for upper division mathematics and sciences students and graduate-level biology students.
- Provides sample MATLAB codes and instruction in Appendices along with datasets available on https://bit.ly/3fcLF3D
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Seven Secrets of Joyful Life
Trevor O'Reggio
It is difficult to define what are the secrets of a joyful life, since everyone has different criteria for defining joy. But whichever way you define it, you will know when you are living it. In this small book I have described for you my own definition of a joyful life. My seven secrets are: Live Passionately, Laugh Often, Keep on Learning, Love Unconditionally, Give Generously, Serve Unselfishly, and Practice Moderation.
We only have one life to live, make everyday count. Receive each sunrise as a gift from God, embrace its privileges, shoulder its responsibilities, and do not squander its opportunities. In the words of Denzel Washington
“At the end of the day, its not about what you have or about what you have accomplished… Its about who you have lifted up, and who you have made better, It’s all about what you have given back”
I hope that this book will inspire you to be your best self and motivate you to a more fulfilling and joyful life. -
Walter Utt: Adventist Historian
David Trim
This book shares the story of the Seventh-day Adventist historian Walter C. Utt (1921-1985), a long-standing professor at Pacific Union College in California. Walter Utt (Ph.D, University of California at Berkeley) had a keen mind and widespread interests, ranging from ancient Greek and Christian history, especially the history of Christianity in France, to the issues concerning modern global politics and Church and State relations. He also had a lively sense of humor, and was an avid collector of various cartoons addressing contemporary social issues.
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Vida y Enseñanzas de Jesús
Roberto Badenas and Davide Sciarabba
¿Qué decir de Jesús que no se haya dicho ya?
¿No resulta pretencioso escribir un libro más sobre Jesús?
Si Jesús nos volviese a preguntar hoy, como lo hizo en su tiempo: «¿Quién dicen los hombres que es el Hijo del hombre?» (Mateo 16: 13), ¿cuál sería nuestra respuesta?
La figura de Jesús de Nazaret sigue interesando, intrigando e interpelando al mundo, incluso en nuestra cultura poscristiana.
Pretender esbozar el retrato o la biografía de un personaje a partir de los breves textos de los Evangelios es tanto un arte como una ciencia y, sobre todo, una experiencia. Vida y enseñanzas de Jesús ha procurado combinar el rigor de los entendidos con el amor a Jesús desde la perspectiva ricamente variada de una docena de expertos hispanohablantes adventistas enamorados de Jesús. -
Reanimating Shakespeare’s Othello in Post-Racial America
Vanessa Corredera
Traces the history of Othello’s contemporary citations, adaptations, and appropriations across genres
- Creates an archive of twenty-first century appropriations of Othello, many primary works not yet addressed by scholarship or considered in regards to Othello, such as Get Out, Kill Shakespeare, Serial, and Othello: The Remix
- Considers appropriations across genres and media: podcasts, television, film, graphic novels, and performance
- Places in dialog premodern critical race studies, media studies, and critical race theory to analyze these appropriations
- Contextualizes these appropriations through media studies and popular culture contexts pressuring and pressured by Othello
- Demonstrates the wide-ranging applicability of Othello’s narrative through its breadth
- Provides a method for ethical engagement with and judicious consumption of popular culture
Othello famously supplicates, ‘Speak of me as I am’, pleading for the Venetians to ‘nothing extenuate’, leave out, or make thin (5.2.352). Othello’s anxiety about narrative accuracy exposes his fear over his story’s potential misrepresentation. As the first monograph to examine Othello’s history of contemporary reanimations, Reanimating Shakespeare’s Othello in Post-Racial America takes up this question of retelling Othello’s story, turning to the play as re-crafted in a time and place imagined as having overcome racial injustice: post-racial America (2008–2016). This book analyses representations of Othello across genres and media including podcasts, television, film, graphic novels and performance, and argues that these representational choices of Othellos perpetuate varying racial frameworks that advance antiblack or antiracist versions of the play. By elucidating the presence and function of these competing frameworks, it illuminates and explains how to wrestle with the intersections between Shakespeare, Othello and the American racial imaginary in appropriations, scholarship, the classroom and beyond.
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En estos últimos días: El mensaje de Hebreos
Felix Cortez
Libro Lección de Escuela Sabática para adultos 3 en uno. Incluye libro comentario de la lección.
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A Song for the Sanctuary: Experiencing God’s Presence in Shadow and Reality
Richard M. Davidson
This book is all about the sanctuary in the Bible. The reader is invited on a journey through sacred space into the very throne-room of the universe—the dwelling-place of the Almighty, the heavenly sanctuary—and into the earthly sanctuaries, built as copies of the heavenly original. In his quintessential “Song for the Sanctuary,” Psalm 27, David reveals how the sanctuary message is the encapsulation of what has been widely recognized as the “triple star of value” in human experience—beauty, truth, and goodness. Psalm 27 becomes the organizing guide for the journey of this book. This volume explores the “Bethel (House of God) of Beauty” in the typology of Leviticus and Hebrews; the “Palace of Praise” in the sanctuary worship of the Psalms; the “Temple of Truth” in the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation; the “Great House of Goodness” in the Christ-centered good news of salvation and judgment; and the “Cathedral of communion” as the ultimate meaning of the sanctuary. Experience God’s personal and perpetual presence in the sanctuary! Encounter God the Father and the Holy Spirit, and meet Jesus your Redeemer, Mediator, and King.
930 pp.
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En Búsqueda de la Salvación: Vocación y misión de Elena G. de White
Abner F. Hernandez
En este libro se exploran las ideas de salvación presentes en los escritos de Elena G. de White, y que son el contenido principal de su mensaje profético. La tesis principal es que, para ella la savación en Cristo po sola fe es el mensaje del tercer ángel. El mensaje que puede transformar las relaciones con Dios y nuestros semejantes.
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El Don de Profecía y el Ministerio de Elena G. de White
Denis Kaiser, S. Yeury Ferreira, and Joel Iparraguirre
El don de profecía y el ministerio de Elena G. de White es el primero de dos volúmenes que han sido escritos por diversos especialistas alrededor del mundo y que tienen al menos dos objetivos clave: 1) animar a que se continúe leyendo y promoviendo los escritos de E. G. White, y 2) fortalecer, con temas novedosos, una de las creencias fundamentales de la Iglesia Adventista. (Amazon)
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Bewege Deine Gemeinde: Eine vom Geist geführte Bewegung werden
S. Joseph Kidder
Jeder Bereich der Gesellschaft sollte von christlichem Leben pulsieren – durchdrungen von Gruppen engagierter, entschiedener Christen, die gemeinsam lieben, dienen, beten, wachsen und sich um andere bemühen. Wenn die Gemeinde gut funktioniert, verkörpert sie die Hoffnung der Welt, bewegt von einem Geist der Liebe und Annahme.
Die Kapitel dieses Buches eignen sich für alle in deiner Gemeinde, für Pastoren, Leiter und Gemeindeglieder. Sie eignen sich für dich, weil Gott in seiner Gemeinde einen Platz für dich hat, eine Aufgabe, die du erfüllen kannst.
Dieses Buch wird dich durch aufmunternde Geschichten und praktische, bewährte, funktionierende Evangelisationsmethoden begeistern. Es wird dich herausfordern, eine Aufgabe zu übernehmen, damit in deiner Umgebung etwas bewirkt werden kann. Durch die Kraft des Heiligen Geistes können gewöhnliche Menschen wie du und ich außergewöhnliche Dinge für und mit Gott tun. -
Living with the Mind of Jesus: How Beliefs Shape Your Worldview
S. Joseph Kidder and Katelyn Campbell Weakley
In Living With the Mind of Jesus, the authors take us on a profoundly enriching journey that will help us understand the strength of the Christ-centered worldview and how worldview can change and shape the worldview of our children.
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Razões para Creer: 28 maneiras de expressar sua fé
Gerald A. Klingbeil
A Bíblia nos oferece uma experiência integral com Deus. Aquece o coração e ilumina a mente. Quem lê de forma atenta e permite que o Espírito Santo seja seu Instrutor entenderá os ensinos de Cristo e receberá poder para colocá-los em prática.
Razões Para Crer apresenta as doutrinas cristãs de uma perspectiva experimental. Nestas páginas você será exposto às crenças da Palavra de Deus pelas lentes de autores sensíveis e espirituais. Em cada capítulo você será desafiado e experimentar um reavivamento de sua fé.
Faça desta leitura uma jornada de descoberta e interação com Aquele que deixou Seu trono de glória para estar com Sua criação, entregando a vida para que pudéssemos desfrutar de uma eternidade de alegrias no futuro. -
Mission Vision in Action: Perspectives on Global Missiology: A Festschrift Honoring the Life, Work, and Global Ministry of Bruce L. Bauer
Wagner Kuhn and Boubakar Sanou
Festschrift is a German word for a celebratory publication recognizing the lifetime contributions of a professor. In it are essays from colleagues, former students, and friends relating to the honoree’s work or interests. This Festschrift highlights in many ways how Bruce has successfully stimulated the personal, spiritual, and professional growth of countless people around the globe.The papers in this Festschrift on global missiology are written by a wide range of colleagues, friends, and former students.
From differing perspectives, each chapter recounts an aspect of Bruce Bauer’s story as a dedicated and selfless mentor, educator, and missionary. Also, much can be learned from each author’s tribute expressing either their meaningful interaction with Bruce or life-changing encounters with him. As a whole, the volume acknowledges and pays tribute to his inspiration, hard work, great intellectual contribution, and foresight in global mission thinking and strategy. -
Biblical Anthropology: Foundations and Teaching Models
Hebert Davi Liessi and Lucicleide Maria da Silva Liessi
Human beings have searched for meaning in different ways over the millennia. This book presents how God sees the human being from a biblical-grammatical perspective through the book of Exodus. The sense of existence has new sources, with God and his purpose for each individual and humanity being the main ones. In addition, this book analyses and offers possibilities and models for teaching biblical anthropology to university students.
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Spirituality and Prayer: Biblical Foundations and Models for Current Dilemmas
Hebert Davi Liessi and Lucicleide Maria da Silva Liessi
Every human being seeks to be happy. However, it faces several challenges in this process. These challenges are considered as deserts that each person goes through on the journey of life. Spirituality and prayer are practices that go together and are used by many religions to help human beings live with more satisfaction and find themselves and God. This book brings biblical reflections to deepen the journey of intimacy with God. In addition, it seeks to systematize the pillars of prayer from the perspective of biblical spirituality and apply them to improving personal and spiritual life.
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El Fin Está Cerca: Una Mirada a las Profecías Bíblicas
Jiří Moskala, S. Yeury Ferreira, and Joel Iparraguirre
Los eventos finales de la historia de este mundo estan captando la atención de millones de seres humanos. Sin embargo, son muchas las interpretaciones sensacionalistas existentes. Este libro presenta una exposición biblica-teologica de los eventos que ocurrían antes del segundo advenimiento de Cristo en gloria y majestad.
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Essays on American Religious History
Trevor O'Reggio
I have brought together six published and unpublished articles that covers a variety of issues relative to American religious history. These essays are my personal reflections on theological and historical issues over the last few years of my teaching on the course: History of Religion in America at the SDA Seminary of Andrews University.
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Shakespeare’s Contested Nations Race, Gender, and Multicultural Britain in Performances of the History Plays
L Monique Pittman
Shakespeare’s Contested Nations argues that performances of Shakespearean history at British institutional venues between 2000 and 2016 manifest a post-imperial nostalgia that fails to tell the nation’s story in ways that account for the agential impact of women and people of color, thus foreclosing promising opportunities to re-examine the nation’s multicultural past, present, and future in more intentional, self-critical, and truly progressive ways.
A cluster of interconnected stage and televisual performances and adaptations of the history play canon illustrate the function that Shakespeare’s narratives of incipient "British" identities fulfill for the postcolonial United Kingdom. The book analyzes treatments of the plays in a range of styles—staged performances directed by Michael Boyd with the Royal Shakespeare Company (2000–2001) and Nicholas Hytner at the National Theatre (2003, 2005), the BBC’s Hollow Crown series (2012, 2016), the RSC and BBC adaptations of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies (2013, 2015), and a contemporary reinterpretation of the canon, Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III (2014, 2017).
This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Shakespeare, theatre, and politics. (From Publisher website)
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Andrews Bible Commentary: New Testament
Ángel Manuel Rodríguez, Daniel Kwame Bediako, Carl P. Cosaert, and Gerald A. Klingbeil
The Andrews Bible Commentary is written by 60 leading biblical scholars from around the world. It is designed for new believers, experienced Bible students, pastors, and teachers. Its purpose is to trace the blessed hope (Titus 2:13) in the pages of Scripture and to read all of the Bible in the light of that hope. What does the Bible say to believers who, with both longing and joy, anticipate the return of Jesus? Answering that question is at the heart of the Andrews Bible Commentary, which seeks to instruct and inspire all into a stronger personal relationship with God that focuses our worship on Jesus as Savior and Lord.
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The Genesis Creation Account and Its Reverberations in the New Testament
Thomas R. Shepherd
When the first two chapters of Genesis say that God created our world and the human race in a particular way, did the Bible really mean that? If not, can it really mean what it says about everything else, particularly the grand themes of redemption and eschatology? In this companion volume to one published about creation in the Old Testament, fifteen scholars carry the question into the New Testament. This work provides a detailed cultural, historical, and theological background to the topic and section-by-section exegetical studies of how the creation theme is illuminated by the various New Testament writers. So is creation and the creation account of Genesis 1 and 2 a major theme in the New Testament? This volume answers that question with a resounding “yes.”