Drawing on her research, knowledge, and clinical experience, internationally respected neurologist--and mother of two boys--Frances E. Jensen, MD, offers a revolutionary look at the adolescent brain, providing remarkable insights that translate into practical advice both for parents and teenagers.Dr[...]
A leading theologian recounts her journey of faith, shaped as it has been by caring for a profoundly disabled son for forty-five years, while also being a writer, university teacher and Methodist minister.[...]
The Pastoral Letters have often been marginalised in modern New Testament studies. Regarded as not authentically Pauline, not very theological, and mostly evidence of the church settling down in the world, their patriarchal orientation has more recently futher alienated readers. Yet it was these lit[...]
Explores how teachings of the church fathers can be applied today, despite the differences in our intellectual and ecclesial environments.[...]
Explores how teachings of the church fathers can be applied today, despite the differences in our intellectual and ecclesial environments.[...]
This accessible and student-friendly book is the first to focus specifically on schemas for children under three.[...]
This accessible and student-friendly book is the first to focus specifically on schemas for children under three.[...]
Under de senaste årtiondena har vi genomlevt en digital revolution. Skärmen har tagit bokens plats som kulturens nav. Läsandet förändras. Text och hypertext finns ständigt tillgängligt genom internet, smarta telefoner och sociala medier. Vi lever i distraktionens tid. Vad betyder detta för [...]
In lucid and non-technical prose, Young demonstrates how and why the two most familiar Christian creeds - the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed - came into being. She describes how creeds originated in instruction before baptism and have their roots in the New Testament itself. She then shows how[...]
Mission is one of the key subjects for the church today. What does it mean to live the Christian faith in a world of many faiths and none? In this book, two leading scholars explore what mission and discipleship meant for some of the earliest Christian communities. Morna Hooker and Frances Young out[...]
This book challenges standard accounts of early Christian exegesis of the Bible. Professor Young sets the interpretation of the Bible in the context of the Graeco-Roman world - the dissemination of books and learning, the way texts were received and read, the function of literature in shaping not on[...]
The writings of the Church Fathers form a distinct body of literature that shaped the early church and built upon the doctrinal foundations of Christianity established within the New Testament. Christian literature in the period c. 100-c. 400 constitutes one of the most influential textual oeuvres o[...]
The long-anticipated first collection from Pope Hats. After insomniac law clerk Frances Scarland is recruited by her firm's most notorious senior partner, she seems poised for serious advancement-whether she wants it or not. But when her impulsive best friend Vickie decides to move to the opposite c[...]