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In Defense Of The Gospel (Expanded)
$18.99Add to cartThe Lordship Salvation controversy continues to provoke debate across a broad spectrum of evangelical Christianity. For much of the last decade advocates of Lordship Salvation have dominated the forum. Few resources have been available to those who are alarmed over the spread of the Lordship interpretation of the gospel. A defense of the gospel has been sorely needed. This book is that defense! Lou Martuneac has dealt extensively with this subject since 1988. In this volume he answers many questions that comprise the debate from a balanced biblical perspective. Key Bible passages and major doctrines such as faith, repentance, and belief are studied in depth. Related issues such as Calvinism, carnality, discipleship, and contending for the faith are given serious consideration. This book is well researched, well organized, well documented, and clearly presented. This volume will be a valuable study and reference tool for the pastor, layman, or college classroom.
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Text And Task
$34.99Add to cartPractical, scriptural and contemporary, Text and Task is a series of essays on Scripture and mission. It aims to show the significance of reading the biblical text appropriately and with faithful engagement for our theology and missiology.
A team of biblical scholars suggests ways forward in areas such as the implicit missional narrative of David and Goliath, the story of Solomon and his Temple-building, the genre of lament, the explicit gracious message of the prophet Isaiah, Paul’s understanding of divine call and gospel, and the place of mission as a hermeneutic for reading the Bible. Theological chapters engage the issues of the Trinity and the unevangelized, the missional dimensions of Barth’s view of election, the gospel’s loss of plausibility in the modern West, the place of reaching in mission, and the idea of belonging to a church community before one believes the gospel.
Drawing together scholars from the fields of biblical studies, theology, sociology and homiletics, Text and Task relates critically engaged textual reading to contemporary ongoing Christian life, thought and mission.
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Theology Of Work
$39.99Add to cartThrough dialogue with Moltmann, Pope John Paul II, and others, this book develops a genitive theology of work, presenting a theological definition of work and a model for a theological ethics of work that shows work nature, value and meaning now and eschatological. Work is shown to be a transformative activity consisting of three dynamically interrelated dimensions the instrumental, relational, and ontological.
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New Covenant New Community
$29.99Add to cartThe concept of “covenant” is a crucial component in understanding God and His actions throughout salvation history. New Covenant, New Community looks at covenant in the Old and New Testament and makes a substantial contribution to biblical and theological studies in this area. It is an introduction to the covenant theology of the Old Testament, Second Temple Judaism, the New Testament, and the early Fathers, exploring the implications
for contemporary theology.What are the elements of continuity and discontinuity in terms of the covenant concept between the Old and New Testaments? What are the implications of a biblical
understanding of covenant for the community of faith-then and now? These are just a few of the many questions Grabe addresses in this far-reaching, wellresearched, and highly accessible study. -
Strange Scriptures : That Perplex The Western Mind (Reprinted)
$17.99Add to cart10 Chapters In 118 Pages
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Because the Bible describes a culture very different from that of Western countries today, what it says is sometimes puzzling to modern readers. In many cases, however, the ways in which Near Eastern merchants and farmers carry on their daily work have hardly changed over the intervening centuries since the inspired authors wrote. The aim of this interesting volume is to clarify familiar scriptural phrases and texts by explaining some unusual Eastern customs, thereby shedding new light on the unchanging truth of God’s Word. -
Concise History Of Christian Doctrine
$31.99Add to cartJusto L. Gonzalez, one of today’s best interpreters of church belief and history, lays out the answers to questions crucial to understanding Christian belief. First, what are the core Christian doctrines, and what convictions from the heart of Christian identity? Second, what are the historical contexts in which these doctrines first rose to prominence, and how have they developed across the history of the church? Finally, what claims do these doctrines continue to place on Christian belief and practice in the 21st Century? This book will serve the needs of students in church history, historical theology, and systematic theology classes in college settings, as well as seminaries and theological schools.
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Christianity 101 : Tracing Basic Beliefs
$20.00Add to cartThis compact book for laity introduces the major concepts of the Christian faith in a quick, easy-to-read fashion. The author begins with a brief overview of Christian history from biblical times to the present, with references to key people and events that shaped the faith. He follows this with sections on God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. For each of these topics, he sketches the basic ideas of the Bible and then shows how Christians in different centuries and contexts have applied these ideas to their own lives and circumstances.
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Good News From The Barrio
$28.00Add to cartIn a world divided by race, ethnicity, gender, violence, and hate, Harold Recinos’s Good News from the Barrio explores the ways in which the good news of the gospel is at work in Latino barrios. He challenges Christians to listen to the gospel in these contexts and offer a prophetic witness to the nation and the church.
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Cost Of Certainty
$17.95Add to cartThe Cost of Certainty explores a fundamental ambiguity in mainstream Christian teaching: although the church claims that God’s love is unconditional, he only accepts those who believe in Jesus Christ and have repented of their sins. This gospel of conditional love breeds anxiety and polarization.
Young shows how this demeans the true message of the gospels. He argues for the recovery of a spirituality of uncertainty and unconditional love as a basis for a renewal of contemporary Christian faith and practice.
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Atonement And Intercession Of Jesus Christ
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This is a classic statement on two pivotal doctrines of the Christian faith. William Symington thoughtfully considers Christ’s atonement and intercession, and provides a clear analysis of both. When looking at the atonement, he begins by defining its substitutionary nature, then addresses objections to it, its necessity, and the ample scriptural evidence of its reality. He proceeds with a closer study of Christ’s sufferings and their value, extent, and outcome. Symington aptly closes by discussing Christ’s work of intercession as the continued efficacy of His atoning sacrifice.
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Joseph Wise And Otherwise
$39.99Add to cartThis book offers a careful literary reading of Genesis 37-50 that argues that the Joseph story contains both strong covenant themes and many wisdom-like elements. The author examines how these “wisdom-like elements” relate to the story as a whole. Chapter 37 establishes that God will cause Joseph to rise to prominence. The intriguing story of Tamar in chapter 38 is seen as a kind of microcosm of the entire Joseph story, with Tamar securing life, justice, and reconciliation through her wise initiatives, leading ultimately to the preservation of the line of promise. Joseph’s public use of wisdom is considered in chapters 39-41, where he uses power successfully and with discernment. Joseph’s private use of wisdom occupies chapters 42-45, as Joseph brings about change in his brothers and extends forgiveness to them. Chapters 46-50 complete the story by weaving the concerns of the previous chapters into the fabric of God’s purposes for his covenant people.
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Holy Spirit : Works And Gifts
$30.99Add to cartIn The Holy Spirit: Works & Gifts Donald Bloesch aptly brings together his grasp of historical and systematic theology as well as his deep concern for spirituality. The fruit of a lifetime of study and devotion, this book masterfully interweaves biblical study, historical overviews and reflection on contemporary developments and issues to shed light on faith in God, the Holy Spirit. On a topic that sadly threatens to divide the church, Bloesch strives to build bridges between the various traditions of Christian faith, especially between Reformed theology and the Pentecostal movement.
This wide-ranging and in-depth reflection on the presence, reality and ministry of the Holy Spirit serves as a landmark guide to those seeking a faithful theological understanding of the Holy Spirit as well as those searching for a renewing and empowering hope for the church of Jesus Christ.
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Partings Of The Ways
$60.99Add to cartThe Parting of the Ways is James Dunn’s classic exploration of the important questions that surround the emergence of Christian distinctiveness and the pulling apart of Christianity and Judaism in the first century of our era. The book begins by surveying the way in which questions have been approached since the time of F C Baur in the nineteenth century. The author then presents the four pillars of Judaism: monotheism, election and land, Torah and Temple. He then examines various issues which arose with the emergence of Jesus: Jesus and the temple; the Stephen affair; temple and cult in earliest Christianity; Jesus, Israel and the law; ‘the end of the law’; and Jesus’ teaching on God. The theme of ‘one God, one Lord’, and the controversy between Jews and Christians over the unity of God, lead to a concluding chapter on the parting of the ways. The issues are presented with clarity and the views and findings of others are drawn together and added to his own, to make up this comprehensive volume.
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Full Gospel Fractured Minds
$12.99Add to cartGlorify God with your mind as well as your heart and spirit. Do you sometimes feel you have to check your intellect at the church door, leaving reason behind to embrace the Christian faith? Do you hunger for a “full gospel” that includes the mind as well as heart and spirit? Full Gospel, Fractured Minds? challenges charismatic and Pentecostal believers to discover the power of a well maintained mind-a mind on fire-to match a heart on fire and to create a life that operates within the full counsel of God. Nañez shows how human reason helps us understand and interpret his Word as well as defend the gospel. He shows what the Bible teaches about the mind, and explores the backgrounds of nineteenth-century and modern culture, anti-intellectualism, Pentecostal history and beliefs, and popular misconceptions about human intellect in relation to the Christian faith. Full Gospel, Fractured Minds? helps men and women practice a Christian faith that reflects the whole person and the full gospel.
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Whats Theology Got To Do With It
$30.00Add to cartTheology can be a loaded word for mainline Protestant congregations. It often suggests the dogmatic or implies fault lines for conflict. But when unleashed from its narrow academic sense, “theology” offers a powerful way to get at many of the issues that impact the health and vitality of congregations.
Anthony Robinson carefully defines theology as the “core convictions” that help members of a congregation understand their common perspective and shared identity. Theology is the foundational Christian experience, the wisdom that both forms and transforms lives. Rather than avoiding theology, congregations should openly express their beliefs and values to clarify their purpose, argues Robinson. Instead of trying to define the boundaries of belief, a “center-set” congregation will zero in on a reasonably clear core faith.
He examines the problems that occur when congregations are reluctant to focus on theology and are unsure of their beliefs. They risk having a weak identity with nothing at stake. They risk being little more than an exclusive social club. Absent core convictions, structure replaces Spirit, indirection replaces healthy dialogue, and agendas replace leadership.
Central to the book is the notion that Christianity is a revealed religion apart from our own personal preferences. The Bible as Scripture offers a doorway to God and a critical unifying narrative. The Trinity, as a powerful metaphor, provides a balanced approach to fulfilling a congregation’s purpose. Core convictions about God as creator, the person and work of Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are crucial to a congregational vitality.
Too many mainline Protestant churches are theologically “underfunded.” Congregations are strengthened when what they believe backs what they do. Indeed, theology, it turns out, has everything to do with it.
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Ecstasy And Intimacy
$30.99Add to cartForeword by Eugene H. Peterson
Countering the generic “spirituality” so popular today, Edith Humphrey presents an authentic Christian spirituality that draws on Scripture and the profound riches of the Christian tradition – Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant. Humphrey shows how Christian spirituality is rooted in the Trinity, in the ecstasy (“going out” of oneself) and intimacy (profound closeness with another) marking the relations between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
The book embodies a banquet of excerpts from the greatest spiritual writers in history – such luminaries as St. Augustine, St. John Chrysostom, Julian of Norwich, St. Teresa of Avila, the Wesley brothers, Thomas Merton, and Alexander Schmemann. Humphrey’s elegant prose, laced with stories and images from her own life, beautifully uncovers the ways in which God’s trinitarian life informs all human communion. Each chapter ends with questions for further reflection and discussion.
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Loves Me Loves Me Not
$30.00Add to cartIt hurts when the one you love doesn’t love you back. It’s hard to be the object of someone’s desires when you just don’t feel the same way. How should Christians deal with these situations? There are hundreds of books describing how to build lasting relationships or how to lead a chaste life as a single person. There are very few books, however, describing how to deal with unrequited live. Smit fills this void with her book, tackling the universal human experience with intelligence, sympathy and wit. An accessible book, valuable as a tool for youth pastors, singles group leaders, college students, and students of human sexuality, marriage and family.
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Narrative Criticism Of The New Testament
$32.00Add to cartNarrative criticism is a relatively recent development that applies literary methods to the study of Scripture. James Resseguie suggests that this approach to reading the Bible treats the text as a self-contained unit and avoids complications raised by other critical methods of interpretation.
Resseguie begins with an introductory chapter that surveys the methods of narrative criticism and how they can be used to discover important nuances of meaning through what he describes as a “close reading” of the text. He then devotes chapters to the principal rhetorical devices: setting, point of view, character, rhetoric, plot, and reader. Readers will find here an accessible introduction to the subject of narrative criticism and a richly rewarding approach to reading the Bible. Paperback, 272 pages. -
Back To Jerusalem
$24.99Add to cartNapoleon once said “When China is moved it will change the face of the globe.” Today those words are becoming a reality through the powerful spiritual vision of the Chinese church to send 100,000 missionaries across China’s borders to complete the Great Commission, even in this generation.
Here Brother Yun, Peter Xu Yongze, and Enoch Wang, three Chinese house church leaders who between them have spent more than 40 years in prison for their faith, explain the history and present-day reality of the Back to Jerusalem movement. Christians everywhere who are called to fulfill the Great Commission will be thrilled by this testimony and inspired to live bolder lives as disciples of Jesus Christ.
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He Came Down From Heaven
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Drawing on expert scholarship Dougles McCready makes the important debate surrounding the Christian orthodox conviction of Christ’s preexistence accessible to students and other nonexperts who want to know the evidence and arguments for this central doctrine of Christian faith.
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Pocket History Of Theology
$18.99Add to cartHere is a concise and informative guide to the history of Christian theology. This condensation of the authors widely acclaimed book, The Story Of Christian Theology surveys the events, teachings, and challenges to the Christian faith down through the ages. In five acts we are ushered from the second to the 21st century, following all the twists and turns, wrinkles and rivalries that lay along that wonderful and humble way toward understanding, articulation and explanation of Christian faith.
Crafted for students, pastors and other busy people, this pocket history of theology provides a clear and informed guide to the central tenets of Christian faith.
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Theology In A Global Context
$52.99Add to cartIn an increasingly global world, context becomes more important than ever. As our national and international narratives intertwine, untangling them can become a difficult task, especially in the field of theology. In this book, Hans Schwarz leads us into the web of Christian theology’s recent past from Kant to Schleiermacher to Mbiti and Zizioulas, pointing out all the theologians of the last two hundred years who have had a major impact beyond their own context. With an eye to the blending of theology and biography, Schwarz skillfully draws the lines of connection between theologians, their history, and wider theological movements.
Schwarz’s initial focus on European and American Protestant theology broadens to include the rich worlds of Catholic and Orthodox theology, also looking into liberation, feminist, African, East Asian, and Indian theology. Extensive primary source quotations from such varied and eminent theological figures as John Henry Newman, Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Jacques Maritain, Gustavo Gutierrez, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Desmond Tutu, and more enrich the experience by allowing them to speak in their own voices. All who are interested in doing theology will find Schwarz’s Theology in a Global Context invaluable in charting their relation to the past, thus enabling them to set a course for the global theological future.
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Paedofaith
$16.95Add to cartAt what point is it reasonable to suggest that a covenant child has faith? When she can articulate the gospel? When he can explain the concept of justification? Only after they have gone through an extended period where their faith is tested and proven to be real faith? Or is the capacity for faith directly linked to a certain age or level of maturity?
The Scriptures indicate that we can be confident that our children have faith from the womb and that we can expect that faith to flower and bloom throughout their life by God’s grace.
What is the nature of such faith? From where does it come and what do the Scriptures have to say about it? How can anyone say that an infant has the capacity for faith?
In this book, Rich Lusk answers these questions and more, giving hope to Christian parents that their little ones do indeed belong to Christ and have the capacity to trust Him.
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Welcoming Children : A Practical Theology Of Childhood
$34.99Add to cartWelcoming Children develops a theology of childhood both from a theological perspective and from practical experience in children and youth ministry. The author draws insights from classic and modern feminist theologians, pastoral theologians, and contemporary cultural criticism to offer strategies for educational and liturgical practices in congregations that welcome children and contribute to their flourishing. Mercer outlines a feminist practical theology of childhood exploring five basic theological claims: 1) children as gifts and parenting as a religious practice of stewardship; 2) welcoming those who care for children; 3) children as fully human; 4) children as part of God’s purposes; and 5) acknowledging and transforming the sufferings of children. Her compelling argument reframes ministries with children as processes through which the church can become the foundation for children forming identities that resist consumerist culture and instead walk in the ways of Jesus.
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7 Sayings Of The Saviour On The Cross (Reprinted)
$17.00Add to cartThe words Christ spoke from the cross can inform Christians of the purpose, the meaning, and the sufficiency of his death. After an introduction that discusses the nature of Christ’s death as natural, unnatural, preternatural, and supernatural, Dr. Arthur W. Pink clearly illustrates the lessons that can be drawn from Christ’s words-lessons on forgiveness, salvation, affection, anguish, suffering, victory, and contentment. This comprehensive and accessible volume is useful for both sermon preparation and personal study.
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Christian Beliefs
$17.99Add to cartA basic guide to twenty Christian beliefs that is solid, yet readable, and not intimidating for new believers and Christians in general. Includes chapter review questions.
About the Author
Elliot Grudem holds a degree from Reformed Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Kacey, live in New Orleans with their daughter. -
Problems With Atonement
$18.95Add to cartThe origins of atonement are found in Paul’s writings. Popular Christian theology has understood them to mean that God demanded a bloody victim to pay for human sin. In Problems with Atonement Stephen Finlan examines the Christian doctrine of atonement and current debates about it. He considers its biblical foundation in Pauline texts, the Old Testament background, and the theological questions under discussion about atonement. He provides ancient historical background and raises questions, such as whether the Incarnation must be understood through the lens of atonement.
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Wisdom From Above
$35.00Add to cartSergei Bulgakov, born in Russia in 1871, was one of the principal Eastern theologians of the twentieth century. At the age of thirty he was appointed professor of political economy at the University of Kiev. After a crisis of faith, Bulgakov declared himself an unbeliever in 1888, but in a slow process he moved from Marxism to Idealism, and then from Idealism to a rediscovered Orthodoxy. By the time of the two Revolutions of 1917, Bulgakov was one of the best known Orthodox theologians in Russia. In 1918 he was ordained priest, and fled Moscow in danger of imminent arrest. Arriving in Paris in 1925 he was to live and work there until his death in 1944, his life inextricably bound up with the Russian theological institute, Saint-Serge, of which he was a founder member and subsequent professor, rector and dean. In this timely work, Aidan Nichols introduces the life and work of Bulgakov and provides a systematic presentation of his dogmatic theology. ‘The present book has appeared at exactly the right moment. Alike in Russia and in the West, we are witnessing a veritable “Bulgakov renaissance” . . . this is the first comprehensive and systematic survey of his theology in English.’ Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia ‘As research on Bulgakov by Catholics and Protestants as well as Orthodox grows in volume, it is a great help to have this authoritative, comprehensive guide. I hope it will encourage further study and assimilation of one of the most searching and moving as well as one of the most complex of modern theological minds.’ Dr Rowan Williams, Archibshop of Canterbury Aidan Nichols, OP, is an English Dominican of Blackfriars, Cambridge. He has written thirty books, chiefly on aspects of Catholic theology and theological history, but also on Eastern Orthodoxy and Anglicanism.
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Wounding And Healing Of Desire
$35.00Add to cartWendy Farley (WJK author of ‘Tragic Vision and Divine Compassion: A Contemporary Theodicy’ 1990 has written a unique manuscript that considers human life from the perspectives of the wounding and healing of desire. “Desire” as that which longs for connection, home, beauty. We yearn for these things but in so doing attach ourselves to things unworthy of our longing. We are in “bondage” to those things that ultimately prevent humans from flourishing or fulfilling their desires. Contemplation, prayer, and love are ways one can be freed from bondage and find the fulfillment of our desires in God. We are then opened up to the world and drawn into struggles for justice and well being for all people. This is a passionate, moving account that draws strongly on Christian meditative and mystical spiritual traditions–sources that are not often tapped in traditional Christian theology.
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Divine Image : Envisioning The Invisible God
$29.00Add to cart1.The Image Of God As A Theological Problem
2.The Ambiguity Of Images
3.The Image Of God In Christ
4.The Image Of God In Human Beings: Developing Protocols Of Discernment
5.Discernment As Communal Discipline: The Protocols Of Service
6.Discernment As Personal Discipline: The Protocols Of Chastity
7.Discernment In Ecclesial Formation: The Sacraments As Protocols
8.Seeing The Divine ImageAdditional Info
Theologian Ian McFarland claims that Christians have mainly misappropriated the “image of God” language for 2000 years and thereby missed a rich resource for our knowledge of God.Rather than referring to some germinal divine element in humans, such as reason, McFarland claims that the image of God in us tells us something about God and how we know God. It tells us that God, though not identical with us, communicates Godself to us in creative love, in a way that offers precious clues about God’s transcendence, immanence, triune life, self-disclosure, incarnation, and intentions for human life. McFarland’s careful and exacting work builds from this kernel a powerful Christian vision of God’s life and our own destiny in Christ.
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Images Of Pastoral Care
$34.99Add to cart“Robert Dykstra’s reading of the pastoral theological tradition is masterful. This book is at once a history of the field, woven together around living illustrations of key moments and metaphors, and a fresh conceptualization. Its three-part grouping of classical, paradoxical, and contemporary/contextual ‘images of care,’ its well-chosen and carefully edited excerpts of each image, and its wisely crafted introductory remarks make this a real gold mine. Seldom does one find a book that is so useful both for ministers desiring a basic introduction to pastoral care and doctoral students seeking a sophisticated understanding of the field. We are indebted to Dykstra for this multifaceted contribution.”
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Wesley For Armchair Theologians
$24.00Add to cartCalled the most important Protestant since Luther, the founder of the Methodists preached Christ to hundreds of thousands of people, formed small groups to foster discipleship, and actively helped the poor and downtrodden. Abraham gives a remarkably evenhanded presentation of Wesley’s emphases, achievements, and legacy.
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Covenant Theology Of Caspar Olevianus
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“The purpose of this study,” writes the author, “is to take a new and hard look at Olevianus’s doctrine of covenant and to determine its place in the larger picture of sixteenth-century thought.” Bierma analyzes all of Olevianus’s work on covenant and challenges the notion that Olevianus was the first to use the covenant idea as the organizing principle of his theology. He maintains that Olevianus’s most significant contribution was in using the covenant to provide assurance of salvation. -
Introduction To The Heidelberg Catechism
$39.00Add to cartA full-scale investigation of this pivotal work in terms of authorship, historical background, socio-political origins, and theology. Includes for the first time translations of two important sources—Zacharias Ursinus’s Smaller and Larger Catechism—plus a bibliography of research since 1900. 240 pages, softcover. Baker.
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Theological Introduction To The Old Testament (Revised)
$51.99Add to cartHelps readers come to a critically informed understanding of the Old Testament as the church’s Scripture – a witness of ancient Israel and witness to the church and synagogue through the generations of those who have passed these texts on as Scripture.
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Religion Politics And The Christian Right
$17.00Add to cartIntroduction: Faith, American Empire, And Spirit
1.Evil In Public Life Today
2.The 9/11 Moment
3.The Specter Of American Romanticism
4.The Specter Of Contractual Liberalism
5.The Specter Of Prophetic Spirit
6.Revolutionary Belonging
7.Revolutionary ExpectationEpilogue: Christian Faith And Counter Imperial Practice
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Princeton theologian Mark Taylor analyzes right-wing Christian movements in the United States amid the powers of religion, politics, empire, and corporate classes in post-9/11 USA.The real gift of Taylor’s book is his argument that this militant Christian faith must be viewed against a backdrop of the American political romanticism and corporatist liberalism of U.S. past and present. Taylor uses the best of cultural and historical studies, while deftly drawing lessons for American readers from theologian Paul Tillich’s analysis of power and religion during the rise of fascism and nationalism in Germany of the 1930s.
The result is an innovative framework for interpreting how Christian nationalists, Pentagon war planners and corporate institutions today are forging alliances in the U.S. that have dramatic and destructive global impact. Moving beyond lament, Taylor also leaves readers with a new romance of revolutionary traditions and a new more radical liberalism, revitalizing American visions of spirit that are both prophetic and public for U.S. residents today.
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Theology Of The New Testament
$49.99Add to cart34 Chapters Divided Into Three Parts Plus A Conclusion
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Emphasizing the theological unity—and recognizing the cultural diversity—of the New Testament, Thielman provides an orientation to each individual book and an overview of the NT as a whole. Pastors, scholars, teachers, and laypeople will appreciate this review of historical, doctrinal, and cultural contexts and their relationship to contemporary scholarly debate. Complete and cohesive. -
Encounters With Biblical Theology
$23.00Add to cartThis important book for use in Old Testament courses is also a valuable resource for those exploring the role of the Bible in culture today. The articles include:
Theoretical Issues
“Is a Critical Biblical Theology Possible?”
“Biblical Theology and the History of Israelite Religion”
“The Politics of Biblical Interpretation”The Pentateuch
“Faith without Works: Biblical Ethics and the Sacrifice of Isaac”
“The Development of the Exodus Tradition”
“The Exodus and Biblical Theology”
“The Biblical Vision of the Common Good”Wisdom and Biblical Theology
“The Biblical Precedent for Natural Theology”
“Proverbial Wisdom and the Yahwist Vision”
“Natural Theology and Biblical Tradition: The Case of Hellenistic Judaism”Apocalyptic Literature
“Temporality and Politics in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature”
“The Book of Truth: Daniel as Reliable Witness to Past and Future in the United States of America”
“The Legacy of Apocalypticism: Christian Adaptations of Jewish Tradition”
“Jesus and the Messiahs of Israel”
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Proclamation And Theology
$14.99Add to cartThis first volume in the Abingdon Press series Horizons in Theology addresses the major concerns and questions for preaching as it intersects with theology. William H. Willimon, recognized as one of today’s master interpreters of the theology and practice of preaching, explains why, in the words of the Second Helvetic Confession, “The preaching of the word of God is the Word of God.” Drawing from classical theology and practical experience, he provides a cogent, powerful explanation of what it means to live the preaching life.
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2 Views On Women In Ministy (Revised)
$22.99Add to cartThis revised and strengthened edition presents two essays representing the egalitarian and the complementarian/hierarchical views of women and ministry.
From the Back Cover
What does the Bible say about the role of women in the church? With pros and cons on either side of a heated, ongoing debate, no definitive conclusions have emerged. The purpose of this book is to furnish concerned readers with a clear and thorough presentation of the two primary views on women in the ministry so they can better understand each one’s strengths, weaknesses, and complexities. This revised and strengthened edition presents two essays representing the “egalitarian” and the “complementarian/hierarchical” views of women in ministry. Each contributor offers thoroughly qualified insights based on careful biblical scholarship and personal experience. At the end of each of the four essays, a brief question-and-answer section provides further clarification. The general editor adds a commentary at the conclusion of both the hierarchical and egalitarian sections. Contributors Include: * Linda L. Belleville (Egalitarian View) * Craig L. Blomberg (Complementarian View) * Craig S. Keener (Egalitarian View) * Thomas R. Schreiner (Complementarian View) -
Paul And The Religious Experience Of Reconcilation
$40.00Add to cartIn the ancient world as in contemporary times, religion provides a vital context in which people become who they are and establish themselves with a unique identity. This process of constructing the self is not only a psychological process and a phenomenological reality; it can also be a deeply religious experience. Using the phenomenological tradition of Edmund Husserl and the understanding of religious experience as delineated by William James, Gilbert Bond reaches back to the New Testament to interpret the story of Paul’s conversion as a religious community experience of the self’s creation, mixed with a variety of unique people and thought. Just as Paul experienced Self and Other in the midst of a culture of diaspora and a religion that emphasized the reconciliation of people, today there can be communities of reconciliation that produce such fundamental changes in self-consciousness.
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Soul Of The Night
$15.95Add to cartProbing the depths of science and faith, scientist Chet Raymo investigates the mysteries of human spirituality and meaning contained in astronomy. Ranging through the stars and the myths humans have told about them for millennia, Raymo delves into “a pilgrimage in quest of the soul of the night.”
Chet Raymo’s elegant essays link the mysterious phenomena of the night sky with the human mind and spirit, as he ranges through the realms of mythology, literature, religion, history, and anthropology. Originally published two decades ago, The Soul of the Night is a classic work that is a must for those interested in the relationship between science and faith
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Comforting Whirlwind : God Job And The Scale Of Creation
$13.95Add to cartIn The Comforting Whirlwind, acclaimed environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben turns to the biblical book of Job and its awesome depiction of creation to demonstrate our need to embrace a bold new paradigm for living if we hope to reverse the current trend of ecological destruction.
With reference to the consequences of our poorly considered and self-centered environmental practices-global warming, ozone degradation, deforestation-McKibben combines modern science and timeless biblical wisdom to make the case that growth and economic progress are not only undesirable but deadly. If we continue to accelerate the pace of development, we will inevitably complete the “decreation” of our planet and everything on it, including ourselves.
In his signature lyrical prose, and using Stephen Mitchell’s powerful translation of Job, McKibben calls readers to truly appreciate both the majesty of creation and humanity’s rightful-and responsible-place in it.
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Discovering Girard
$16.95Add to cart“Really wonderful; an elegantly written initiation into the mimetic theory. I am lucky to have interpreters who understand what I want to say and who can write so well.”
-Rene GirardThe work of Rene Girard is hugely influential in literature and cultural studies. But it is in understanding the relationship between religion and violence that his theory has created its greatest impact. Girard’s understanding of mimetic rivalry and conflict and of scapegoating is seen by many to be the key to a completely new understanding of Christianity.
Girard’s name evokes curiosity and-often-strong feelings among devotees and skeptics. Discovering Girard is the first book to present Girard’s work to a wider audience. It explains and appraises Girard’s mimetic theory, shows its impact on theology and other disciplines, and manages to convey the excitement that a discovery of Girard’s ideas often generates in readers.
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Christian Ethics In Plain Language
$24.99Add to cartThis is Book #2 in the newly branded Nelson’s Plain Language series. This volume will offer a comprehensive introduction to Christian ethics, suitable for individual study or textbook use in a Bible college or seminary. The first four chapters will overview the field of Christian ethics before beginning to focus on specific issues. Eighteen chapters confront all of the issues faced by believers today, including a discussion of racial issues that goes beyond black and white, business ethics on this side of Enron, and war and international relations in light of today’s headlines.
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Saving Power : Theories Of Atonement And Forms Of The Church
$41.99Add to cartJesus’ death and resurrection are undeniably central to the Christian faith. But how, precisely, is their significance to be understood?
Concerned to reinvigorate the church’s teaching on the cross, the resurrection, and salvation – the atonement – Peter Schmiechen here invites readers to rediscover the wealth of the Christian tradition. In Saving Power he makes ample use of primary sources to unpack ten distinct theories of atonement, welcoming aspects of each rather than championing only one. Along the way, he demonstrates that while most Christians assume the basic theme of atonement to be sin and forgiveness, other powerful themes – liberation from oppressive powers, reconciliation in the face of division, and the hope of resurrection in the face of death, for instance – also deserve to be studied and preached.
Affirming orthodox teaching while offering a positive take on marginal views, Saving Power is a crucial resource for anyone who seeks a fuller understanding of Christ’s work.
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Truth Aflame : Theology For The Church In Renewal (Revised)
$32.99Add to cartMost systematic theologies are long, detailed works of over one thousand pages, or even multiple volumes. This book is a much briefer and more accessible systematic theology written from an evangelical Pentecostal/charismatic position. This book is ideal for college students and busy pastors who want to be aware of the Pentecostal charismatic positions on various doctrines, but who do not wish to wade through pages and pages of analyses and rebuttals. While author Larry Hart does not ignore other theological interpretations, he does not write detailed apologies against other points of view to defend his position. In a writing style that is easy to follow, with a practical pastoral flavor, Hart presents the structure of his systematic theology in a succinct, clear manner. This book includes both brief and detailed tables of contents.
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Contagious Holiness : Jesus’ Meals With Sinners
$28.99Add to cartSeries Preface
Author’s Preface
Abbreviations1. The Current Debate
2. Forming Friendships But Evading Enemies
3. Contagious Impurity
4. Jesus The Consummate Party Animal?
5. Pervasive Purity
6. The Potential Of Contemporary Christian MealsBibliography
Index Of Modern Authors
Index Of Scripture References
Index Of Ancient SourcesAdditional Info
Honored in 2006 as a “Year’s Best Book for Preachers” by Preaching magazine.One of humanity’s most basic and common practices-eating meals-was transformed by Jesus into an occasion of divine encounter. In sharing food and drink with his companions, he invited them to share in the grace of God. He revealed his redemptive mission while eating with sinners, repentant and unrepentant alike.
Jesus’ “table fellowship” with sinners in the Gospels has been widely agreed to be historically reliable. However, this consensus has recently been challenged, for example, by the claim that the meals in which Jesus participated took the form of Greco-Roman symposia-or that the “sinners” involved were the most flagrantly wicked within Israel’s society, not merely the ritually impure or those who did not satisfy strict Pharisaic standards of holiness.
In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Craig L. Blomberg engages with the debate and opens up the significance of the topic. He surveys meals in the Old Testament and the intertestamental period, examines all the Gospel texts relevant to Jesus’ eating with sinners, and concludes with contemporary applications.
Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A. Carson, aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify, to interact with current scholarship and to point the way ahead.
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Being Human : Race Culture And Religion
$29.00Add to cartIntroduction: Who Are We?
1.Contemporary Models Of Theological Anthropology
2.Culture: Labor, Aesthetic, And Spirit
3.Selves And The Self: I Am Because We Are
4.Race: Nature And Nurture
5.Conclusion As IntroductionAdditional Info
Dwight Hopkins, whose important work in Black Theology has mediated class theological concerns through the prism of African American culture, here offers a fresh take on theological anthropology. Rather than defined “the human” as one eternal or inviolable essence, however, Hopkins looks to the multiple and conflicting notions of the human in contemporary thought, and particularly three key variables: culture, self, and race. Hopkins’ critical reframing of these concepts firmly locates human endeavor, development, transcendence, and liberation in the particular messiness of struggle and strife. -
Holy Meal : The Lords Supper In The Life Of The Church
$20.00Add to cart“This is my body,” said Jesus at the Last Supper. What did he mean? Throughout church history, there have been various interpretations of his words. These differences have caused denominational ruptures that have yet to heal.
In A Holy Meal, Gordon T. Smith shows that we cannot appreciate the Lord’s Supper until we understand it. In light of the renewed attention given to the sacraments by all branches of the church, he examines the historic interpretations and seeks common ground among believers. In the process, he shows how the Lord’s Supper can infuse new meaning into the church as it confronts the forces of postmodernism and secularism.
A Holy Meal is essential reading for Christians who want to ponder the Lord’s Supper again–perhaps truly for the first time.
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Creation And Double Chaos
$22.00Add to cart1.The Science-theology Dialogue: How?
2.The Scientific Worldview
3.The Theological Worldview: Creation Stories
4.Creation Out Of Nothing: Origin And Problems
5.Contemporary Creation Theologies
6.Chaos Theology: An Alternative Creation Theology
7.Chaos Theory And Chaos Events
8.The Problem Of Evil
9.God’s Action In The World
10.The Cosmic Christ: Person And Work
11.Human Ambivalence: Genetic Modification
12.Disease: Punishment For Sin Or Chaos Event?
13.Are We Alone?: Theological Implications Of Possible Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life
14.Future And Destiny: Eschatology And Chaos TheologyAdditional Info
Scientist and theologian Sjoerd Bonting offers a new overarching framework for thinking about issues in religion and science. He looks at the creation controversy itself, including biblical perspectives, traditional doctrines, and the particular potential contribution of chaos theory. Finally, Bonting extends this perspective, a combination of chaos theory and chaos theology he calls “double-chaos,” into a framework that addresses traditional questions about evil, divine agency, soteriology, the understanding of disease, possible extraterrestrial life, and the future. -
Drama Of Doctrine
$60.00Add to cartObserving a strange disappearance of doctrine within the church, Kevin Vanhoozer argues that there is no more urgent task for Christians today than to engage in living truthfully with others before God. He details how doctrine serves the church–the theater of the gospel–by directing individuals and congregations to participate in the drama of what God is doing to renew all things in Jesus Christ. Taking his cue from George Lindbeck and others who locate the criteria of Christian identity in Spirit-led church practices, Vanhoozer relocates the norm for Christian doctrine in the canonical practices, which, he argues, both provoke and preserve the integrity of the church’s witness as prophetic and apostolic.
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Spirit Poured Out On All Flesh
$35.00Add to cartThe Pentecostal movement has had an incredible impact on the shape of worldwide Christianity in the past century. Estimates are that Pentecostals and charismatics make up approximately one-fourth of Christians worldwide, and the numbers are only expected to grow. With these developments comes the need for thoughtful Christians of all persuasions to better understand Pentecostal theology. In fact, Amos Yong believes that Pentecostal theology can be a great gift to the church at large.
Yong presents a thoroughly Pentecostal theology of salvation, the church, the nature of God, and creation. He also provides a fascinating survey of the state of worldwide Pentecostalism, examining how Pentecostal theology is influencing Christian churches in other countries.
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Fundamentals : The Famous Sourcebook Of Foundational Biblical Truths
$39.99Add to cart64 Chapters
714 PagesAdditional Info
The Fundamentals is one of the finest and most widely distributed statements of Christian doctrine ever produced. Written to combat the inroads of liberalism into the Christian church, The Fundamentals literally stirred the world in defense of the historic Christian faith. These articles blend a “common-sense” doctrinal approach with personal application built upon the foundation of the inspired and inerrant Scriptures.
The Fundamentals defends the deity of Christ, the inspiration of the Scriptures, the bodily resurrection of Christ, and many other foundational truths. These statements also apply biblical Christianity to the wider problems of life and culture by emphasizing the essentials and de-emphasizing the nonessentials. This balance in both doctrine and application has established The Fundamentals as a classic of Christian literature. -
Character Of Theology
$28.00Add to cartTheology done in today’s context is strikingly different from past evangelical approaches. In this new project John Franke, writing with our postmodern world in mind, reflects these directions. He offers an introduction to theology that covers the usual territory, but does so attuned to today’s ecclesial and cultural context.
In contradistinction to more traditional works, Franke:
– critiques traditional evangelical theological conceptions
– emphasizes the “local” nature of theology
– engages the postmodern context
– contrasts conservative and postconservative approaches
– interacts with the broader faith communitySure to provoke intense discussion, The Character of Theology will help Christians to be faithful in a world in which the spiritual and intellectual
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Jesus Is Coming
$20.99Add to cart22 Chapters
254 PagesAdditional Info
A practical sourcebook of Scripture and comments on the subject of the second coming of Christ. Explains such topics as “Christ’s three appearings,” “The Millennium,” “The Rapture,” “The Restoration Of Israel,” and others, from a premillennial perspective. Relates Bible verses are printed at the bottom of each page for easy referance. A must book for all who want to discover God’s great prophetic promises and plans for the future. -
After The Spirit
$33.99Add to cart“To think about the Spirit it will not do to think ‘spiritually’: to think about the Spirit you have to think materially,” claims Eugene F. Rogers. The Holy Spirit, who in classical Christian discourse “pours out on all flesh,” has tended in modern theology and worship to float free of bodies. The result of such disembodiment, contends Rogers, is that our talk about the Spirit has become flat and uninspiring. In After the Spirit Rogers diagnoses a related gap in the revival of trinitarian theology, a mentality that “there’s nothing the Spirit can do that the Son can’t do better.”
The Eastern Christian tradition, by contrast, has usually linked the Holy Spirit with holy places, holy people, and holy things. Weaving together a rich tapestry of sources from this tradition, Rogers locates the Spirit in the Gospel stories of the annunciation, Jesus’ baptism, the transfiguration, and the resurrection. These stories offer illuminating glimpses into both the Spirit’s connection with the tangible world and the Spirit’s distinctive place in relation to the other persons of the Trinity.
Eight gorgeous color plates complement Rogers’s witty and passionate prose.
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Grace Faith Free Will
$19.99Add to cart“Grace, Faith, Free Will” addresses issues that have divided Calvinists and Arminians since the Reformation. Using historical, systematic, and Biblical theology, Picirilli contrasts both views of salvation. His “Reformation Arminianism” reclaims the original beliefs of Arminius and his defenders.
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New Testament Theology
$26.00Add to cartEsler’s innovative proposal features a cutting-edge combination of theology, exegesis, and social analysis. He argues for new thinking about New Testament theology in light of the early social history of Christian communities. His detailed analysis of Paul’s letters to the Romans and 1 Corinthians validates his thesis and clarifies its significance for scholarship.
Using both the tradition of “the communion of the saints” and social-scientific methods, Esler brings the discipline of New Testament theology back to its theological core. He argues that interpreters also need to take into account both the history of interpretation and the multitude of voices within the contemporary church.
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Reconstructing Old Testament Theology
$39.00Add to cartEditor’s Foreword
Abbreviations
Preface
1.The Present Status Of Old Testament Theology
Introduction
Reasons For The Collapse Of History
After The Collapse Of History
New Approaches: The Fundamental Assumptions
Description Of The Present Task
2.From History As Event To The History Of Religion: Religionsgeschichte And Biblical Theology
Introduction
The History Of Religion And/or Biblical Theology?
The Theology Of Jeremiah And The History Of Religion
Evaluation
3.From Eurocentric History To Voices From The Margins: Liberation Theology And Ethnic Biblical Interpretation
Introduction
Liberation Theology In Latin America
Segovia’s Theology Of The Diaspora
African American Theology And Biblical Interpretation
Jeremiah And A Theology Of The Diaspora
Jeremiah And African American Biblical Theology
Evaluation
4.From Exclusion To Inclusion: Feminist Interpretations Of History
Introduction
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Discovering Eve: Carol Meyer’s Feminist Social History Of Ancient Israel
A Critical Feminist Liberationist Interpretation Of The Book Of Jeremiah
Evaluation
5.From History To Rhetoric: Feminist, Mujerista, And Womanist Theologies
Introduction
Feminist Literary Critics And Biblical Interpretation
Feminist Metaphorical Theology: Sallie McFague
Recapturing The Language Of Zion: Rhetorical Criticism And Feminist Hermeneutics
Womanist Biblical Interpretation
Mujerista Biblical Interpretation
Evaluation
6.From Jewish Tradition To Biblical Theology: The Tanakh As A Source For Jewish Theology And Practice
Introduction
Jews Who Do Biblical Theology
From Traditum To Traditio: Michael Fishbane
Exegetical Imagination: Midrashic And Mythopoeic Images
The Myth Of The Return To Chaos In Jeremiah
Conclusion
7.From History To Cultural Context: Postmodernism
Postmodernism: Tenets And Theorists
Postmodernism And Biblical Interpretation
Postmodernism, Biblical Theology, And Jeremiash: Walter Brueggemann
The Value And Limits Of Postmodernism
8.From The Colonial Bible To The Postcolonial Text: Biblical Theology As Contextual
Postcolonialism
The Stages Of Postcolonialism And Its Impact On Subaltern Religion
Characteristics Of Subaltern Writings And Readings In Religion And Theology
Voices From The Third World: Male And Female
Postcolonial Biblical Theology In Geographical Settings: The Case Of Senegal
A Second Example Of Postcolonial Biblical Theology: India And Dalit Theology
A Postcolonial Interperation Of The TAdditional Info
In this informative and keen look at contemporary trends in Old Testament theology, Perdue builds on his earlier volume The Collapse of History (1994). He investigates how a variety of perspectives and methodologies have impacted how the Old Testament is read in the twenty-first century including: literary criticism; rhetorical criticism, feminist, womanist, and mujerista theologies, liberation theology; Jewish theology; postmodernism; and postcolonialism.Perdue provides a sensitive reading of the aims of these approaches as well as providing critique and setting them in their various cultural contexts. In his conclusion, the author provides a look at the future and how these various voices and approaches will continue to impact how we carry out Old Testament theology.
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Holiness In The Gospels
$19.99Add to cartIs there a future for the doctrine of Christian Holiness in the churches of the 21st century or will it become a dated concept that is associated only with the generations of the past?
For many, the notion of holiness has been described as rigid and legalistic, leading to a routine and joyless life, centered on churches that offer casual and impoverished worship.Holiness in the Gospels offers Christians a new vision of holiness that is biblically responsible, centered in worship, and theologically coherent. It translates into a genuine message of good news and communicates a passion and understanding for how to live a holy life today-in the 21st century.
Holiness in the Gospels examines:
The quest for holiness in the second temple period and establishes the backdrop with which to read the gospels
The humanity and the Spirit of Christ found in the Gospel of Luke
The divinity of Jesus found in the Gospel of John
The journey of Jesus and the understanding of Him as Messiah, Son of God, in the Gospel of Mark
The perfection of Christ and our call to perfection in the Gospel of Matthew, and much more!160 pages.
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Economy Of Grace
$22.00Add to cartPreface
Acknowledgments1.An Economy Of Grace?
What Has Christianity To Do With Economics
Money Means Grace And Grace Means Money
The Dangers Of Semantic Analysis
The Pros And Cons Of A Formal Analysis
The Potential For Noncompetitiveness
An Economically Irrelevant Pipe Dream?2.Imagining Alternatives To The Present Economic System
Theological Economy’s Response To Capitalism
Capitalist Exchange And Exclusive Property
Locke, Inalienable Property, And Loan
Grace, Gift Exchange, And The Freely Given Gift
An Economy Of Grace3.Putting A Theological Economy To Work
The Challenge Of A Theological Economy
The Significance Of Economic InterdependenceAdditional Info
Are there any fair and viable alternatives to global capitalism? University of Chicago theologian Kathryn Tanner offers here a serious and creative proposal for evaluating economic theory and behavior through a theological lens. -
Essential Theological Terms
$35.00Add to cartIn Essential Theological Terms, renowned church historian Justo Gonzalez provides students with accessible discussions of over three hundred theological terms. Each entry in this two-column work gives more detail than those typical of a dictionary, introducing the meaning of the term, its importance, and ways it has been understood in both historical and contemporary theology. These reliable discussions of the most common ideas and concepts encountered in theological studies will make this book indispensable for students in all stages of their education.
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Cinema Divinite : Religion Theology And The Bible In Film
$44.99Add to cartCinema Divinite sets out various critical approaches to the study of film, religion and theology. It provides introduction to major concepts in film studies such as cinema spectatorship, the nature and application of film theory and includes discussion of the extensive literature which has been published recently on film and religion. Here readers will also find in-depth case studies of specific films, filmmakers and genres – from Clint Eastwood to Luis Bruel, from animation to film noir. The final part looks specifically at the significance of religion within film, with a concluding discussion of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.
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God And Power
$29.00Add to cartPreface: Theopoetic Justice
PART ONE: The United States Of Apocalypse: Mapping Our Situation
1.The Armageddon Of 9/11: Lament For The New Millennium
2.Preemption And Omnipotence: A Niebuhrian ProphecyPART TWO: Of Beasts And Whores: Examining Our Political Unconscious
3.Territory, Terror, And Torture: Dreamreading The Apocalypse
4.Ms. Calculating The Endtimes: Gender Styles Of Apocalypse
5.Eyes All Over: Liberation And DeconstructionPART THREE: From End To Beginning: Constructing A Political Theology Of Love
6.Everywhere And Nowhere: Postcolonial Positions
7.The Love Supplement: Christianity And Empire
8.The Democracy Of Creation: Chaosmos And Counter-ApocalypseAcknowledgments
Notes
IndexAdditional Info
The questions raised by use of American power and the advent of an “American empire,” Keller argues, reveal a deeply troubled political unconscious that is wrestling with basic religious issues of power, terror, territory, and love.Keller traces our response to the current national, international, and religious situation to the deeply fraught legacy of Christian apocalypticism. Religious and political factions both left and right, she argues, read our situation in apocalyptic terms without truly understanding that complex legacy.
After diving deeply into the multiple and conflicting political and religious meanings of the Book of Revelation, she proposes a counter-apocalypse, an anti-imperial political theology of love.
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Century Of Holiness Theology
$29.99Add to cartAfter a century of study and debate, the doctrine of sanctification, formulated by John Wesley in the 18th century, has resulted in two contemporaneous and competing definitions of entire sanctification in the Nazarene denomination. Mark Quanstom examines the gradual change in understanding this doctrine by focusing on its history and development in a balanced and well-researched perspective.
“Quanstrom effectively follows the various understandings of holiness that have shaped and been shaped by the Church of the Nazarene. His engaging style and clear writing makes this work valuable to laymen, ministers, students, and scholars.”
-Dr. John C. Bowling
President, Olivet Nazarene University“This work is a welcome contribution to the contemporary conversation about Holiness theology. Quanstrom’s thoughtful and careful scholarship produces a balanced study of the historical development of the understanding of holiness. . . It calls us to an awareness of the dynamic character of this tradition and to an active engagement with the doctrine of Christian perfection that remains at the heart of who we are.”
-Dr. Carl M. Leth
Chairman Division of Religion and Philosophy, Olivet Nazarene University232 pages
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Liberation And Reconciliation (Expanded)
$28.00Add to cartAn expansion of the 1971 classic text, this second edition of Liberation and Reconciliation argues for a balance between the quest for liberation and the need for reconciliation in black-white relations. Written by one of the pioneers of Black Theology, it examines biblical and theological themes from the perspective of Black experience and concludes that nonviolent reconciliation is the best response to racial oppression.
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Calvin And Classical Philosophy
$32.00Add to cartThis is a thorough study of Calvin’s conception of Christian philosophy, his exposition of insights of classical philosophy, and his evaluations of classical philosophers. Special attention is given to the doctrines of providence and predestination.
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Feminist Introduction To Paul
$21.99Add to cartSandra Hack Polaski introduces readers to the letters and world of Paul, encouraging a critical appreciation of Paul and his writings that does not require a choice between commitment to the scriptures and integrity as a modern feminist. In conversation with the leading interpreters of Paul and considering possible responses to Paul-conformist, resistant, rejectionist, and transformational-Polaski forges her own theory of how to interpret Paul. She reads, emphasizes, and reinterprets overlooked, neglected, misintegrated, or differently interpreted Pauline texts, making visible the invisible and challenging the accepted readings. Polaski uncovers both the ideologies behind the text and the ideologies the text seeks to suppress. She traces the trajectories toward which the texts point even if Paul did not fully follow the trajectories to their logical end. Such a program leads Polaski to find God’s New Creation as the operative center of Pauline thought.
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Faith Of The Christian Church
$38.99Add to cartTyron Inbody has taught the basics of Christian theology for more than twenty-five years. Having seen over the years what issues and questions his students bring to class, he now offers this engaging, accessible introduction to all the major beliefs of the Christian faith.
Meant especially but not exclusively for readers new to theology, Inbody’s Faith of the Christian Church covers twelve traditional areas of Christian teaching: theology, revelation, faith, God, creation, suffering and evil, humankind, Jesus Christ, salvation, church, sacraments, and the end times. Inbody also dives into provocative topics not usually treated in introductory texts – creationism, the devil, miracles, the virgin birth, and more.
The book’s broad-ranging perspective, which intentionally defies labels, commends it to individuals and small groups from many church traditions. Quote boxes and illustrations drawn from popular culture make the text visually interesting and enjoyable to read.
Inbody does not hide his own stance on issues but presents a full range of interpretations and openly points readers to other possibilities they can pursue. The Faith of the Christian Church offers just enough questions to provoke reflection and just enough answers to encourage readers to form their own grasp on the Christian faith.
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Singing The Lords Song In A New Land
$28.00Add to cartSinging the Lord’s Song in a New Land is one of the first books to address ministry in Korean American contexts and the first from the highly regarded Valparaiso Project to explore how faith practices work differently in a racial ethnic community. The groundbreaking work identifies eight key practices of the Korean American culture: keeping the Sabbath, singing, fervent prayer, resourcing the life cycle, bearing wisdom, living as an oppressed minority, fasting, and nurturing.
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Community Of The Word
$35.99Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
Do North American evangelicals have a clear and strong doctrine of the church? Can we generate one?
In this volume, editors Mark Husbands and Daniel J. Treier bring together thirteen scholars and teachers to explore the history of evangelical ecclesiology and the continuing discussion regarding the nature of the church, the question of sacraments, the relation of church to society, and the church’s moral character and missional witness.
Contributors include William J. Abraham, Gary D. Badcock, Craig A. Carter, Ellen T. Charry, William A. Dyrness, Darrell L. Guder, D. G. Hart, Willie James Jennings, Dennis L. Okholm, James K. A. Smith, Allen Verhey, John Webster and Jonathan R. Wilson.
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Black Political Theology
$45.00Add to cartHow do black political needs and goals relate to black religious experience? What is the meaning of religion–and of Christ–in a racist society? In this classic early articulation of black theology, first published in 1974, J. Deotis Roberts argues that reconciliation is the essence of the good news, but it must be in conjunction with liberation. Ethnicity and theology, he contends, must meet in the specific black religious experience by recognizing the liberal, activist, and even revolutionary role of Christ in the cause of freedom. Discussing human nature and destiny in the black perspective, the nature of the gospel, and the black experience of community, Roberts presents the place of the black church as the main institution poised to implement the liberation of whole persons and a whole people.
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Assurance Of Faith
$45.00Add to cartCommon wisdom concerning Luther and Calvin suggests that these two theologians do not relate the testimony of Christ to the conscience in the same way. Randall Zachman undertakes the long-overdue comparison of their theologies, especially the ways in which Luther and Calvin define and describe the conscience and relate this to the testimonies of the Word and the Spirit. While remaining critical of the distinction that both Luther and Calvin sought to maintain between the foundation of assurance and its confirmation in faith and election, Zachman concludes that although Luther and Calvin have different emphases in their theological treatment of the conscience, they fundamentally agree: the foundation of the peace, assurance, and certainty of conscience lies in the grace of God for us, as revealed to the conscience both by the external witness of the word of God and the internal witness of the Holy Spirit.
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Faith Worth Believing
$14.95Add to cartHow can we have an authentic faith when we no longer have well-defined, codified beliefs? Where do we turn to better understand our relationship with God when the messages of the Church seem simplistic? This book is for all those who are asking the tough questions and are not satisfied with the answers they are receiving.
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Finding God In The Singing River
$29.00Add to cartIllustrations
Preface
Introduction
1.God Is Green
The Earth Crisis Is A Spiritual Crisis / Ecocidal Addiction
The Historic Agon Of Spirit And Flesh
Earth, Air, Water, Fire
2.The Mother Bird God
God On The Wing / The Trinity And Paganism / Is God Female?
Biblical Imagery Of The Earthen Mother Spirit
3.Green Spirituality, Brownfields, And Wilderness Recovery
The Current Environmental Debate
Toxic Sacrifice Zones And The Quest For Justice
Deep Ecology And Wilderness Activism
Mediating The Debate, Green Spirituality, And Market Values
4.Green Spirituality And The Problem Of Humanism
Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax / The Priority Of Human Being
The Problem Of Universal Reason In Humanist Thought
The Problem Of Species Chauvinism In Humanist Thought
Extending The Horizon Of Morality To Include All Life-forms
5.Green Spirituality And The Invitation Of Postmodernism
The Challenge Of Deconstructionism
Is Nature Real? / Riding The Cusp
Green Theology In A Postmodern, Constructionist Context
Kenneth Gergen’s Social Constructionism
6.Earth God As The Wounded Spirit
In The Vatican Museums / The Cruciform Spirit
Spirit And Earth, Union Of Heart / The Wounded God
Eating The Body And Drinking The Blood Of God
7.The World Is Alive With Spirit
A Council Of All Beings Ritual
Sojourning In The Crum Woods
The Crum Woods Under Siege
The Crum Woods As The Wounded Sacred
Is The Crum Woods An Idol? / My Return To The River
Notes
IndexAdditional Info
We live in an age of vast and rapid destruction of habitats and species. Yet Christianity holds great potential for healing this situation. Indeed, the Bible and Christian tradition are a treasure trove of rich images and stories about God as an “earthen” being who sustains the natural world with compassion and thereby models for humankind environmentally healthy ways of being.Mark Wallace’s stimulating book retrieves a central but often neglected biblical theme – the idea of God as carnal Spirit who indwells all things – as the basis for constructing a “green spirituality” responsive to the environmental needs of our time.
In the biblical tradition, he writes, God as Spirit is an ecological presence that shows itself to us daily by living in and through the earth. One message of Christianity, therefore, is celebration of the bodily, material world – ancient redwoods, vernal springs, broad-winged hawks, everyday pigweed – as the place that God indwells and cares for in order to maintain the well-being of our common planetary home.
Alongside his green reading of the Bible and tradition, Wallace employs the resources of deep ecology, Neopagan spirituality, and the environmental justice movement to rethink Christianity as an earth-based, body-loving religion. He also analyzes color images reproduced in the book. Wallace’s bold yet careful work reawakens our sense of the sacrality of the earth and the life that the trinitarian God creates there. It also grounds the impulses of New Age spirituality in a profoundly biblical notion of God’s being and activity.
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Brief Guide To Philo
$34.00Add to cartThis is a compact introduction to the work of Philo (c. 20 BCE-50 CE), the important Jewish thinker and scriptural interpreter. Kenneth Schenck provides a guide for understanding Philo’s complex works, a roadmap for topics and contents of Philo’s writings, and a description of contemporary research so students can easily find their ways into Philo study.
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Postcolonial Imagination And Feminist Theology
$38.00Add to cartPart One: Postcolonial Imagination And Feminist Interpretation
Part Two: Postcolonial Feminist Theological VisionAdditional Info
The burgeoning field of postcolonial studies argues that most theology has been formed in dominant cultures, laden intrinsically with imperializing structures. An essential task facing theology is thus to “decolonize” the mind and free Christianity from colonizing bias and structures. Here, in this truly groundbreaking study, highly respected feminist theologian Kwok Pui-lan offers the first full-length theological treatment of what it means to do postcolonial feminist theology. She explains her methodological basis and explores several specific topics, including Christology, pluralism, and creation. -
From Genesis To Chronicles
$21.00Add to cartAcknowledgments
Abbreviations
Editor’s Foreword
Preface
Translator’s PrefacePART 1: FROM GENESIS TO JOSHUA
1.The Form-Critical Problem Of The Hexateuch
2.The Promised Land And Yahweh’s Land In The Hexateuch
3.Faith Reckoned As Righteousness
4.The Joseph Narrative And Ancient Wisdom
5.There Remains Still A Rest For The People Of God
6.Ancient Word And Living Word – Deuteronomy
7.The Tent And The Ark
8.The City On The HillPART II: FROM SAMUEL TO KINGS
9.The Beginnings Of Historical Writings In Ancient Israel
10.The Deuteronimic Theology Of History In 1 And 2 Kings
11.The Royal Ritual In JudahPART III: FROM PSALMS TO CHRONICLES
12.The Theological Problem Of The Old Testament Doctrine Of Creation
13.”Righteousness” And “Life” In The Cultic Language Of The Psalms
14.Some Aspects Of The Old Testament Worldview
15.Job 38 And Ancient Egyptian Wisdom
16.The Levitical Sermon In 1 And 2 ChroniclesNotes
Bibliography
Select Bibliography On Old Testament Theology And The History Of Israelite Religion
Index Of Authors
Index Of Ancient SourcesAdditional Info
This volume contains some of the most important and enduring work of Gerhard von Rad, the most influential Old Testament theologian of the twentieth century. The chapters cover a broad range of topics, including the doctrine of creation, memory and tradition in Deuteronomy, historical writing in ancient Israel, cultic language in the Psalms, and the Old Testament worldview. -
Beliefs : Mennonite Faith And Practice
$18.99Add to cartAsk any person randomly on the sidewalk what they know about the Mennonites and chances are their answer will include Mormons, black clothes and buggies, or general confusion. This short, engaging book gives a brief account of what Mennonites believe. From the beginnings of the Anabaptist (or Mennonite) movement in the 16th-century, to biblical interpretation, baptism, understandings of the church, ethics, and the complex question of denominationalism, John D. Roth provides a solid framework for on-going conversations about faithful discipleship in the Mennonite church today.
John Roth has written a wonderful introduction to Mennonite life and theology. With admirable candor he exposes the controverted and undecided aspects of Mennonite ecclesial practices and theology. This book will serve not only to introduce Mennonite life to Mennonites but to anyone wanting to know what makes Mennonites Mennonites.
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Divine Redemption And The Refuge Of Faith
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Time-honored Reformation theology is being discounted today as new perspectives challenge old verities. The need to return to biblical foundations is urgent. In Divine Redemption and the Refuge of Faith, Douglas Vickers addresses the pressing questions: Who is Jesus Christ? What is the human condition? And in what respect is that human condition addressed by the presence of Jesus Christ in the world? In lucid and arresting terms, answers are developed from the basic theses that structured Reformation thought:- the claim of Athanasius that it was the self-existing Second person of the Godhead who came as Jesus Christ;- the claim of Augustine that the human will was bound in sin as a result of Adam’s fall; and- the claim of Anselm that Christ’s atonement provided a necessary and complete satisfaction for sin.Divine Redemption and the Refuge of Faith provides a biblical-theological corrective to contemporary doctrinal deviations. If you are looking for a clear-headed, sure-footed, and warm-hearted guide on the most basic, cardinal issues of Christianity in every age, read this book repeatedly. It will enable you to think through a host of doctrines, issues, and positions in a world that is groping in the dark for truth.
