Denise Rector

Posts by Denise Rector

The Music of Creation with CD

Reveals how Christian understanding of creation can be brightly lit by contemporary scientific insights and approached analogously by examining musical creativity. Included are relevant selections on an accompanying CD. Composition, fugal arrangement, rhythm and tempo, jazz improvisation — they all shed light on Christian convictions about creation.

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What Christians Can Learn from Buddhism: Rethinking Salvation

It is true in the study of religion that to understand one’s own tradition truly one must inhabit another’s deeply. Kristin Johnston Largen in this exciting volume takes the reader on such a pilgrimage into Buddhism, to ultimately address what we as Christians might mean by salvation.

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Meeting God on the Cross: Christ, the Cross, and the Feminist Critique

This book aims to construct a feminist theology of the cross, giving hope to those who are searching for courage and strength, amidst suffering and pain. While the symbol of the cross cannot be recovered by women without a recognition of its abuse, I maintain that often the difference is not recognized between abuse of […]

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