The essays collected in this volume provide a resource for thinking theologically about the practice of Christian prayer. In the first of four parts, the volume begins by reaching back to the biblical foundations of prayer. Then, each of the chapters in the second part investigates a classical Christian doctrine – including God, creation, Christology, pneumatology, providence and eschatology – from the perspective of prayer. The chapters in the third part explore the writings of some of the great theorizers of prayer in the history of the Christian tradition. The final part gathers a set of creative and critical conversations on prayer responding to a variety of contemporary issues. Overall, the T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Prayer articulates a theologically expansive account of prayer – one that is deeply biblical, energetically doctrinal, historically rooted, and relevant to a whole host of critical questions and concerns facing the world today.

Resistance against unjust (wicked) cultures and imperial powers is at the heart of scripture. In many cases, the resistance is waged against external systems or the misappropriation of scriptural texts and traditions. In some cases, however, scripture resists oppressive cultures and powers that it also requires, certifies and protects. At other times, and in different settings, the minders of scripture speak against the abusive cultures and power systems that they inherited and whose benefits they milk. Scripture and Resistance contains reflections by authors from East, West, South, and North — on resistance and the Christian scriptures regarding a rainbow of concerns: the colonial legacies of the Bible; the people (especially native and indigenous people) who were subjugated and minoritized for the sake of the Bible; the courage for resistance among ordinary and normal people, and the opportunities that arise from their realities and struggles; the imperializing tendencies that lurk behind so-called traditional biblical scholarship; the strategies of and energies in post- and de-colonial criticisms; the Bible as a profitable product, and a site of struggle; and the multiple views or perspectives in the Bible about empire and resistance. In other words, the contributors, as a collective, affirm that the Bible contains (pun intended) resistance.

If you've ever driven down the entire length of Aurora Blvd in Cubao (or any regular in-city route, for that matter), you would know how Jeepneys bring a whole new meaning to the word "disruptive." They snake through traffic at full throttle and screech to a full stop all while incessantly honking, cutting corners, and negotiating with passengers to scoot over and make room, so more passengers can board. Most private car owners (me included) will find jeepneys annoyingly frustrating. I am a church-worker, see, and I try to keep my cussing at a level minimum, but when I am sharing the road with jeepney drivers, all bets are off. I scream, and all hell breaks loose from my mouth. The object of irritation would be the Jeepney and its driver. The apparent lack of consideration for law-abiding motorists like me; the blatant disregard for traffic rules; and the thorough abandonment of all good manners and right conduct on the road. So it seems. You see, jeepneys ferry tired day-laborers, students, public school teachers, taho vendors, rank-and-file employees, fast food servers, strangers, and friends back to their homes after a very long day. The Jeepney (and its counterpart, the tricycle) is the only reliable means of transport in almost all major thoroughfares in the metro. Jeepney drivers are your salvation when it's monsoon season when you need to get from one end of the street to the other for just 8 Pesos. When you experience the jeepney by virtue of your road encounter from your airconditioned car with cherry bubble gum freshener and Bruno Mars on spotify, you will most likely hate jeepneys for everything that they are--annoying, frustrating, disrupting. But if you experience the jeepney as your everyday mode of transport, the rest of the bourgeois world is just one huge shitpile of things and people that make your life more difficult than it already is. Revelation Velunta's Jeepney Hermeneutics brings to the fore this contrast of locations. It surfaces a reading that, when done from inside a jeepney, could breathe a whole new truth into the text--any text--but more profoundly the Parables attributed to Jesus of Nazareth. In the era of allegory and standard interpretations and proper driving conduct and road manners, Velunta's Jeepney Hermeneutics is a necessary disruption to the ways in which we, as "faithful" Bible readers and "law-abiding" motorists capable of doing no wrong, conduct and view ourselves. Reading the Parables of Jesus inside a Jeepney is good news for everyone in the jeepney which is roughly 70% of the general population in the Philippines. It is bad news for those in the remaining 25% and an absolute horror story for those in the uppermost 5%. And if truth is a matter of statistics, the truth that is preached by Velunta, is indeed truest. Those who would feel insulted by these truths will realize, by the end of this book, that they are exactly that which is wrong in this world and they should--quite honestly--repent before a Jeepney runs them over.

This collection of essays explores the impact of Jesus within and beyond Christianity, including his many afterlives in literature and the arts, social just and world religions during the past two thousand years and especially in the present global context. This third volume focuses on the diverse afterlives of Jesus within contemporary culture and the arts. Moving beyond the explicitly religious afterlives traced in the first two volumes, this set of essay traces selected afterlives of Jesus within Indigenous cultures around the Pacific, as well as in the arts and in the contested fields of gender and sexuality. The contributors include religion scholars from diverse cultural contexts, as well as faith practitioners reflecting on Jesus within their own particular context. While the essays are all grounded in critical scholarship, reflective practice, or both, they are expressed in nontechnical language that is accessible to interested nonspecialists.

Resistance against unjust (wicked) cultures and imperial powers is at the heart of scripture. In many cases, the resistance is waged against external systems or the misappropriation of scriptural texts and traditions. In some cases, however, scripture resists oppressive cultures and powers that it also requires, certifies and protects. At other times, and in different settings, the minders of scripture speak against the abusive cultures and power systems that they inherited and whose benefits they milk. Scripture and Resistance contains reflections by authors from East, West, South, and North -- on resistance and the Christian scriptures regarding a rainbow of concerns: the colonial legacies of the Bible; the people (especially native and indigenous people) who were subjugated and minoritized for the sake of the Bible; the courage for resistance among ordinary and normal people, and the opportunities that arise from their realities and struggles; the imperializing tendencies that lurk behind so-called traditional biblical scholarship; the strategies of and energies in post- and de-colonial criticisms; the Bible as a profitable product, and a site of struggle; and the multiple views or perspectives in the Bible about empire and resistance. In other words, the contributors, as a collective, affirm that the Bible contains (pun intended) resistance.

The truth behind the biblical stories of the Old Testament.