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Winds Of The Spirit
$55.00Add to cartTheology, if it is to be a dynamic force in the world and not a lifeless relic, needs to be a continual process of reinterpretation, says Peter Hodgson. This sweeping reconstruction of theology in the postmodern period is a return to the process of continual theological revisioning through a systematic theology that has seemingly been abandoned by postmodern thinkers.
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Christian Theology : An Introduction To Its Traditions And Tasks (Revised)
$39.00Add to cartThis book is a collaboration of contributors who met in a Workgroup on Constructive Theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School to create a work that would (1) introduce the student of theology to the Christian tradition by setting forth in brief compass its primary shape and substance and (2) to pose the issues for systematic theology in the present day. It presents from a liberal perspective an introduction to Theology in the following areas: Method, Scripture and Tradition, God, Revelation, Creation and Providence, Human being, Sin and Evil, Christ and Salvation, The Church, The Sacraments, The Spirit and Christian Life, The Kingdom of God and Life Everlasting and The Religions.
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On Religion : Speeches To Its Cultured Despisers
$55.00Add to cartThis seminal work by the great Protestant theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher was first published in 1799 and quickly became a classic apologetic work. This reissue of the Oman translation presents the definitive third edition of the German original and makes this important text available again to students and scholars who wish to gain insight into the development of contemporary Protestant thought.
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Is Jesus The Only Savior
$16.99Add to cart1. Is Jesus the Only Savior?
2. The Early Stage of John Hick’s Pluralism
3. The Second Stage of Hick’s Pluralism
4. Reason, Truth, and Religious Pluralism
5. Pluralism and the Christian Understanding of Jesus Christ
6. Final Thoughts on Hick’s Pluralism
7. An Introduction to Inclusivism
8. Inclusivism and Theology
9. Inclusivism and the Bible
10. Some Remaining Questions
11. Why I Am Not an Inclusivist192 Pages
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1. Is Jesus the Only Savior?
2. The Early Stage of John Hick’s Pluralism
3. The Second Stage of Hick’s Pluralism
4. Reason, Truth, and Religious Pluralism
5. Pluralism and the Christian Understanding of Jesus Christ
6. Final Thoughts on Hick’s Pluralism
7. An Introduction to Inclusivism
8. Inclusivism and Theology
9. Inclusivism and the Bible
10. Some Remaining Questions
11. Why I Am Not an Inclusivist192 Pages
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Doing Theology In Todays World
$29.99Add to cartThis volume focuses on a central question: What does a person need to know for developing a theology? In other words, this book will not only answer objections lodged against the study of theology, but will explain to students, pastors, and laypersons alike what a theologian actually does. It will also present different approaches to the study of theology and review the present status of theological reflection in various Protestant, Orthodox, and Roman Catholic traditions. In the first section of the book evangelical Protestant scholars describe the contributions various disciplines make to the study of theology. In the next section, evangelical Protestant scholars explain the distinctives of their approaches to doing theology. In the third part, theologians who do not identify with evangelical Protestant convictions seek to explain the distinctives of their approaches to doing theology. In the final section, Dr. Kantzer provides a summary analysis of how he does theology and interacts critically with a number of essays in this volume.
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Islam : A Challenge For Christianity
$25.00Add to cartBosnia / Smail Balic? — Africa / Patrick D. Gaffney — Women in Islam and Christianity / Riffat Hassan — Indonesia / Judo Poerwowidagdo — Islam, the one and the many / John Renard — The threat of Islam / John L. Esposito – Is Islam threatened by Christianity? / Mohammed Arkoun — Tawhi?d / V.J. Cornell — The challenge of Islamic monotheism / A. Gonza?lez Montes — Human rights in Islam / Mahmud Gamal-ad-din — The 1981 ‘Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights’ / Heiner Bielefeldt — Is Islamic revelation an abrogation of Judaeo-Christian revelation? / Abdulaziz Sachedina — Christianity – challenged by Islam / Gerhard Bo?wering – The abrogation of Judaism and Christianity in Islam / Jane Dammen McAuliffe — World peace – world religions – world ethic / Hans Ku?ng.
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Covenant : Gods Purpose Gods Plan
$15.99Add to cartAs one of the most prominent themes in Scripture, the covenant is crucial to all Christian theological systems, from dispensationalism to covenant theology to theonomy to liberation theology. One would think that by now all controversies have been exhausted, but an issue of this magnitude can never finally be laid to rest. Because disagreements persist, there is room for yet another attempt to study the covenant and improve our understanding of it. This book proposes that the path toward an evangelical consensus is not to be found in building another modified systematic theology, but in a biblical theology approach. Grounded in this approach, John Walton’s perspective is that while the covenant is characteristically redemptive, formulated along the lines of ancient treaties, and ultimately soteric, it is essentially revelatory. This view in turn has implications regarding the continuity or discontinuity of the covenant phases, the conditionality of the covenant, and our understanding of the people of God. And this ultimately affects the way the Old Testament is preached and taught. Walton’s thesis is an important contribution to the discussion of the covenant and the attempts to find common ground among evangelicals of diverse theological traditions.
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Nonfoundationalism
$15.00Add to cartNot so much as a movement or school as an emerging consensus about philosophical criteria of truth and reality, nonfoundationalism is the critical impulse associated with the work of Richard Rorty, Richard Berstein, and others. Increasingly its critique of the search for sure and impregnable foundations shapes the fundamental commitments that gird contemporary theology. John Thiel here assays a careful exploration of its assumptions and convictions, as well as ways nonfoundationalism has influenced contemporary theology.
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Theological Hermeneutics : Development And Significance
$35.00Add to cartA comprehensive introduction to the history and significance of hermeneutical thinking in theology. Discusses text interpretation throughout history and the significance of text linguistics in a modern and postmodern context.
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Isaiahs Vision And The Family Of God
$45.00Add to cartThis timely series explores current trends within the discipline of biblical interpretation by dealing with the literary qualities of the Bible: the play of its language, the coherence of its final form, and the relationships between text and readers. Biblical interpreters are being challenged to take responsibility for the theological, social, and ethical implications of their readings. This series encourages original readings that breach the confines of traditional biblical criticism.
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In Her Words
$35.99Add to cartIn Her Words illustrates the contributions made to contemporary Christian theology by the increasing number of female theologians. Oden compiles selections from the writings of major female theologians from the early church through the present. The older selections have been translated into modern English. Each selection is accompanied by a brief introduction outlining its historical and theological context. Selections from the early church include Perpetua, The Martyrdom of Crispina, The Martyrdom of Agape, Irene, and Chione; from the monastic and middle period are Clare of Assisi, Hildegard of Bingen, Leoba, Julian of Norwich, and Catherine of Siena; and post-1500 C.E. include Teresa of Avila, Jane de Chantal, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Georgia Harkness.
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Theology And Evangelism In The Wesleyan Heritage
$24.99Add to cartThis is the first volume specifically focused on the theology of evangelism in the Wesleyan tradition to be published inmore than twenty years. It contains essays written by key Methodist leaders from Asia, America, Europe, and Africa, thus offering a wide range of views of the nature and purpose of evangelism in the Wesleyan heritage and providing focused and stimulating theological reflection on the important topic. The essays give attention both to the theology of John Wesley and the evangelistic practices of Wesley’s Methodism and to the theological and institutional development of Methodist evangelism in the two hundred years since Wesley.
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Union With Christ
$38.00Add to cartThe Columbia Series in Reformed Theology represents a joint commitment by Columbia Theological Seminary and Westminster John Knox Press to provide theological resources from the Reformed tradition for the church today. Volumes in this series are intended for scholars, theologians, pastors, and lay people who are committed to faith in search of understanding.
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Sin : Radical Evil In Soul And Society
$35.99Add to cartIn Sin: Radical Evil in Soul and Society, Ted Peters boldly revisits the dark side of human nature and the perennial categories of sin that have been glossed over by our pluralistic culture. Using numerous illustrations from everyday life as well as the social sciences, Peters examines the kinds of evil – both personal and societal mdash; that we all confront on a daily basis. Writing with the goal to both educate and inspire, Peters offers serious theological reflection on sin in a popular style, provides an up-to-date examination of Satanism, and introduces a provocative new theory about how sin works in daily life. An illuminating guide for the educated reader, regardless of field or walk of life, this compelling book forces everyone to ask the question “Am I a sinner?” while it simultaneously provides the gentle and much-needed reminder that God’s grace is available to all who answer in the affirmative.
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Suffering And Hope A Print On Demand Title
$18.99Add to cartThis compelling study by J. Christian Beker provides a moving, triumphant answer to one of life’s greatest mysteries – the presence of suffering in God’s world. Now an established classic in the discussion of the problem of evil, Suffering and Hope plumbs the Old Testament’s response to earthly pain as well as Paul’s own dealings with “redemptive suffering.” Beker seeks to understand how the Bible’s view of suffering relates to our present experience of suffering and to the Christian hope for the future of creation. His concern is with the quality and character of both suffering and hope in a world where the question of suffering is inescapable. This powerful new edition features a foreword by Ben C. Ollenburger that describes the story behind the book – the dehumanizing conditions Beker endured as a slave laborer during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands and the ways in which they helped shape the particular poignancy of his view of suffering. Readers will be moved both by Beker’s personal transparency and by his biblical vision of “hopeful suffering” – the apocalyptic trust in God’s eventual victory over the power of death that poisons his creation.
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Ending Auschwitz : The Future Of Jewish And Christian Life
$32.00Add to cartThis book begins with Marc Ellis’s own journey to Auschwitz in 1992 and reflects back on his past, which includes his childhood experience as a Jew and his university years studying under Holocaust theologian Richard Rubenstein. Marc Ellis has taught and traveled among third-world peoples and has been outspoken on Middle Eastern issues. Based on this experience, Ellis has come to see that both Judaism and Christianity are locked in a static position. He shows that there is a continuity between the era of Christendom, exemplified by 1492, and Auschwitz and provides evidence to show that they are intimately linked. He sees the possibility of Jews and third-world Christians joining in a solidarity characterized by suffering and hope. He advocates what he calls “the ultimate religious act of contemporary Judaism and Christianity” to end Auschwitz and 1492 and to begin anew to create a world where all people can claim their own freedom and history.
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Nature Reality And The Sacred
$34.00Add to cartScience devoid of faith and faith devoid of science both lead to exploitation of the natural world, argues Gilkey. Seeking to chart a course through artificially opposed reefs of scientism and creationism—and to reconcile both—he offers a theology of nature born of an open appropriation of scientific discovery and insight.
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Outline Of The Bible Book By Book
$14.00Add to cartAn Outline of the Bible: Book by Book is an aid to understanding the Bible for both students and general readers. It includes a summary of contents and information on authorship, historical background and literary style of each book of the King James Version. Maps and a glossary are also included.
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Resurrection And Moral Order (Revised)
$32.99Add to cartThis seminal work makes a cogent and compelling case for Christian ethics based on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Drawing on a profound knowledge both of the history of Christina thought and of contemporary ethical theology, O’Dovovan illumines such important concepts as freedom, authority, nature, history, and revelation. Also includes an extensive new prologue in which the author enters into critical dialogue with four key figures in Christian ethics: Finnis, Honecker,Hauerwas and Barth.
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Prophethood Of Black Believers
$33.00Add to cartThe author, one of the founding fathers of the black theology movement, provides this valuable survey of the black church. Using a cross cultural, interdiscplinary, ecumenical approach, he shows how knowledge gained through black theology can be applied to specific areas of ministry such as education, pastoral care, and political and economic issues. He challenges ministers and churches to nurture the “prophethood” of all believers in a holistic ministry in and to the black community, a ministry that has both personal and social dimensions and needs to involve the underclass as well as the middle class.
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Reformed Reader 2
$52.00Add to cartThis volume demonstrates a central conviction of the Reformed tradition–that theology must honor the historic witness of the church as catholic while being faithful to the new tasks of the present-day church. It offers selections from Reformed theology, creeds, confessions, and church documents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Resurrection Reconsidered : Thomas And John In Controversy
$23.00Add to cartClarifying the relationship between the Gospel of Thomas and the Synoptics, Riley sheds fresh light on the doctrinal differences found among first-century disciples. His findings challenge and refute the idea that early Christians believed that Christ physically rose from the dead, emphasizing instead a “spiritual” resurrection. Includes non-transliterated Greek and Hebrew footnotes, indices, and bibliography.
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1st Theologians A Print On Demand Title
$31.99Add to cartThe First Theologians represents an important contribution to the scholarly investigation of the nature and function of early Christian prophecy.
This topic, occasioned by Harnack’s publication of The Didache text in 1884, is one that continues to vex New Testament scholars, who have been unable to reach widespread assent on certain pressing questions: What were the function and location of the prophets in early Christianity? What were the nature and authority of their prophesying? What were the forms and content of their prophecy? Such questions point up the issues involved in the inquiry as it has developed, but the question of just what early Christian prophets were doing when they were prophesying remains open.
Thomas Gillespie refocuses the issue by looking at the apostle Paul’s own description of the prophetic phenomenon in 1 Corinthians. From a careful exegesis of Paul’s arguments in chapters 12 and 14 and 2:6-16, Gillespie puts forth the idea that Paul understood Christian prophecy “as Spirit-inspired interpretation of the theological and ethical implications of the apostolic kerygma.” Because prophecy represents primary reflection on the implications of the gospel, its yield may be termed theology. Therefore Gillespie is able to call the early Christian prophets the first true theologians of the church.
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Vanishing Boundaries : The Religion Of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers
$45.00Add to cartThis in-depth survey provides a vivid overview of the religious world of the Baby Boomers. The authors worked with a national sample of persons confirmed in the Presbyterian Church, examining the religious faith of the Baby Boomers and exploring the reasons they gave for leaving or staying in the church. The authors identify eight types of young adults-half of them churched and the other half unchurched. Their findings provide some unexpected results.
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Fabric Of Theology A Print On Demand Title
$38.99Add to cartAfter showing that today’s evangelicals have not fared well in the crucible of modern pluralism, Lints argues that in order to regain spiritual wholeness, evangelicals must relearn how to think and live theologically. This book highlights several cultural and theological impediments to doing theology from an evangelical perspective, interacts with postmodernism as a theological method, and provides a provocative new outline for the construction of a truly “transformative” evangelical theology in the modern age.
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Holy Spirit And The Christian Life
$25.00Add to cartThis rare volume provides a concise statement of the major ideas of one of the greatest Protestant thinkers of the twen tieth century, Karl Barth. Divided into three parts, it presents Barth’s lecture ” The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life”. Discussion begins with the unity of the persons of the Trinity and the implications this unity has for human conduct This volume emphasizes Barth’s focus on the trinitarian char acter of God’s self-revelation. Barth insists there is no way to get behind or beyond the fact that God is revealed to us in three distinct ways, yet with a unity that cannot be divided. He claims that we can finally look only to God’s self-disclosure as the reliable basis for Christian ethics.
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Rethinking The Unity Of Luke And Acts
$18.00Add to cartPreface
Errata
AbbreviationsIntroduction
The Generic Unity Of Luke And Acts
The Narrative Unity Of Luke And Acts
The Theological Unity Of Luke And Acts
ConclusionBibliography
Bibliography Addendum To The 2007 Publication
Index Of Ancient Sources
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What Is Social Scientific Criticism
$20.00Add to cartThe primary thrust of the book is to display the bearing that the social sciences have on our understanding of the texts and contexts of the New Testament, with due attention being given to theories and models. While the main interest of the volume is the social-scientific, there is also some comparison of this with social history. It has points of contact with other studies that deal with historical and rhetorical issues.
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Human Factor : Evolution Culture And Religion
$23.00Add to cartPhilip Hefner works in an interdisciplinary fashion, examining human beings both scientifically and theologically. He takes into account forces of biological and cultural evolution. Viewing human beings as essentially created co-creators, he offers a balanced view of humanity as both united with the nonhuman creation and unique within the creation.
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Facing The Abusing God
$55.00Add to cartIn this very powerful book, David Blumenthal maintains that having faith in a post-holocaust world means admitting that while God is often loving and kind, fair and merciful, God is also capable of acts so unjst they can only be described as abusive. Grounding his argument in the Scriptures and in the experiences of holocaust survivors and of survivors of child abuse, Blumenthal grapples with how to face a God who works “wondrously through us” and who has worked “aw(e)fully against us.”
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Guest In The House Of Israel
$55.00Add to cartIn this thought-provoking book, Clark M. WIlliamson challenges churches and theologians to become aware of the inherited ideology anti-Judaism that has distorted their teaching, even on such key matters as Jesus, the Scriptures, the church, and God. Williamson bases his study on a wide range of confessional literature from Roman Catholic to Protestant doctrines. He demonstrates that both the people of Israel and the church stand in relation to God only by the grace of God and suggests a radical, constructive alternative to the “teaching of contempt.”
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Prophetic Fragments A Print On Demand Title
$32.99Add to cartThe crisis of religion in America, says Cornel West, is profound and pervasive: profound in that it deepens as Americans turn more desperately toward religion; pervasive in that it affects every form of religion in America, from Christianity to Buddhism, from reform Judaism to Islam. The rise of the religious right, the decline of liberal Christianity, and the challenge of liberation theology are all symptoms of this crisis.
In this book Cornel West explores the landscape of this crisis in essays, articles, reviews, and even fiction. The selections outline the contours of a “principled prophetism” – a prophetic religion that incorporates the best of modernity and secularity (tolerance, fallibilism, criticism), yet brings prophetic critique to bear upon the idols of modernity and secularity (science, technology, and wealth).
Touching on various aspects of Christian thought and action in our post-modern times, the essays in this book are informed by a revolutionary Christian vision that is so often absent from American religious life. They display the intellectual rigor that has made Cornel West a highly respected author and thinker – one who is not only a perceptive surveyor of contemporary Christian thought, but also a gifted shaper of that thought.
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Unleashing The Scripture
$23.99Add to cartThis provocative critique of the uses and abuses of Scripture in the American church shows how liberal (historical-critical) and fundamentalist (literal) approaches to biblical scholarship have corrupted our use of the Bible. Hauerwas argues that the Bible can only be understood in the midst of a disciplined community of people, where the story is actually lived out by dedicated practitioners.
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Climax Of The Covenant
$34.00Add to cartWith an eye to recent proposals on Paul’s view of the law and of his relation to the first century context of his theological thinking, N.T. Wright looks in detail at passages that are central to the current debate. Among these Pauline texts are some of the most controversial sections of Paul, which have often been treated only superficially in studies of Paul’s theology. He argues that Paul saw the death and resurrection of Jesus as the climatic moment in the covenant history of Israel and from this perspective came to a different understanding of the function of the Jewish Law. Dr. Wright succeeds to a remarkable degree in drawing together the themes of Christ and the Law in a new synthesis and in shedding light on many important aspects of Paul’s thought.
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Mystery Of Christ And Why We Dont Get It
$23.99Add to cartWidely recognized as a creative, insightful writer, Robert Farrar Capon offers still more of his uniquely provocative fare in The Mystery of Christ . . . and Why We Don’t Get It. This engaging book probes the meaning of salvation – peace, forgiveness, grace, reconciliation – spoken of in the New Testament as a “mystery.”
Reminding his readers, sometimes in startling ways, that salvation is a gift rather than a transaction, Capon uses a variety of dialogues to drive home the truth that “there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Along the way he explores guilt, forgiveness, love, anger, romance, grief, spiritual contentment, the Incarnation, reincarnation, resurrection, and more – and manages to make salvation something fresh and new in the process.
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Introduction To New Testament Textual Criticism (Revised)
$24.00Add to cartSince its original publication 30 years ago, Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism has known no equal. In it, Greenlee covers the sources and transmission of the N.T. text, the establishment and theory of the critical text, Palaeology, praxis, and the collation and classification of manuscripts. This revised edition features an expanded and reordered presentation of the principles of textual criticism, and variants are based on the text of UBS4.
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Calvins Old Testament Commentaries
$40.00Add to cartCalvin had always been regarded as one of the greatest biblical commentators in the history of the church. Now again available is this complete study of his Old Testament expositions–both written commentaries and lectures transcribed verbatim. The book begins by describing the composition and delivery of the expositions, as well as Calvin’s preaching on the Old Testament. An explanation and discussion of Calvin’s view on the relationship between the two testaments and on the presence of Christ in the Old Testament follows. The volume concludes by showing how Calvin expounded the Old Testament: its history and narrative, the Law of moral imperative and ceremonial, and the Prophets in regard to both proclamation and apocalyptic.
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Calvins New Testament Commentaries (Revised)
$40.00Add to cartThis enlarged and revised edition of a much-acclaimed, full-length study (1971) of Calvin’s New Testament commentaries expounds upon Calvin’s principles of interpretation. It considers early sixteenth-century hermeneutics and gives special emphasis to the reformers Melanchthon, Bucer, and Bullinger and to “rhetorical” interpretation. Included is a chapter on Calvin’s view of the New Testament canon that leads to an extensive section on the Greek and Latin texts of the New Testament.
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What Christians Believe
$27.99Add to cartWhat Christians Believe offers a general theology that will serve every group of evangelical Christians. This theology affirms the unity of the various confessions as well as the validity of diversity in matters of secondary importance. The traditional way of doing theology among evangelicals has been to set forth a rigid theological system and vigorously defend that system as the revealed truth. That appoach tends to emphasize the points of disagreement among Christians instead of the beliefs held in common. What Christians Believe takes the approach of contextualized theology — that is, with the recognition that all systems of theological thought reflect the particular cultural grid in which they were originally written. Thus theology is a discipline that reflects on the truth. And therefore this book offers dual perspectives on each theological concept, with Alan F. Johnson unfolding its biblical foundation and Robert E. Webber tracing its historical development in the church.
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Peculiar Treasures
$14.99Add to cartPeculiar Treasures is the second book of Frederick Buechner’s lexical trilogy. He profiles more than 125 of the Bible’s most holy and profane people-and one whale. In his lively and witty prose, Buechner brings to life such moments from scripture as: Adam’s pangs of regret for a remembered Eden, Delilah’s last glimpse of Samson as they dragged him away, and Lazarus’s first impressions upon rising from the dead. To read Peculiar Treasures is to realize that many of these legendary figures are not who we thought they were. But they are-in their human dreams, ambitions, and imperfections-very much like us.
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Church In The Power Of The Spirit
$29.00Add to cartThis book can be recommended on the basis that it cont ains challenging and creative insights that can be used by the discriminating reader in the service of church renewal. Moltmann represents the theology of liberation at its best, and those who wish to know more about this theology would do well to study this creative and searching theologian.
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Theology Of Hope
$29.00Add to cart”A ‘must’ for every theological student who wishes to become acquainted with the most significant movement in contemporary continental theology,”—Christian Century. ”Hope is the other side of faith, as Moltmann shows, the unique characteristic of Christianity,”—Christianity Today.
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Radical Monotheism And Western Culture
$29.00Add to cartThis classic work of H. RICHARD NIEBUHR, one of the most influential theological ethicists of the 20th century, anticipates the substance of his mature thinking. NIEBUHR provides a thorough analysis of faith as confidence and loyalty and the forms as henotheism, polytheism, and radical monotheism. He answers directly the question “How is faith in God possible?”
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Theological Introduction To The Book Of Psalms
$28.99Add to cartMcCann’s A Theological Introduction to the Psalms represents a fresh approach to the book of Psalms. Taking his point of departure from the newest frontier of research, McCann reads the Psalms in the context of their final shape and canonical form. He interprets the psalms in their identity as scripture as well as in their character as songs, prayers, and poetry from Israel’s history. McCann’s intent is to contribute to the church’s recovery of the Psalms as Torah-Instruction (not as law), as a guide to prayer, praise of God, and pious living. The explicit connections which McCann draws from the psalms to the New Testament, and to Christian faith and life, are extensive, making his work suitable for serious study of the psalms both in academic and church settings. An appendix examines the tradition of singing the psalms and offers suggestions and resources for the use of the psalms in worship.
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Case For Progressive Dispensationalism
$24.99Add to cartDebate abounds on the future of Israel and Israel’s relation to the church, not only between dispensationalists and non-dispensationalists, but among dispensationalists themselves. In the past that debate has sometimes been acrimonious, and proponents of the differing viewpoints have found little common ground. In recent years, however, views have been modified and developed so that the dialogue is increasingly by cooperation and a mutual exploration of diverse ideas. The Case for Progressive Dispensationalism is intended to enlighten the debate in that same irenic spirit. The book is solidly dispensational in perspective in affirming that the Old Testament prophecies are completely fulfilled in the future, that the nation of Israel has a prophetic future, and that Israel is not the church. Dr. Saucy departs from classic dispensationalism, however, in showing that (1) the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy begins in the present church age, and (2) the church is not a parenthesis in God’s program but represents a continuity with the Old Testament messianic program. This modified dispensationalism seeks to satisfy many of the objections of non-dispensational approaches to eschatology while retaining the crucial elements of biblical interpretation that characterize dispensational thought.
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Jesus And The Reign Of God
$26.00Add to cartDrawing from a vast storehouse of timeless Asian wisdom, Song presents a powerful and compelling vision of God’s reign and its possibilities for the “transfiguration of life” in faith. Through densely packed stories of strangers, sages, and outcasts, he shows how the reign of God in Jesus “becomes manifest through the movements of people.”
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Prayer In The Hebrew Bible
$34.00Add to cartEditor’s Foreword
Preface
Abbreviations1. The Subject And The Interpreter
2. The Method
3. In The Beginning God
4. Prayer And The Depiction Of Character
5. Prayer And The Characterization Of God
6. Prayers For Divine Justice
7. The Lament Tradition: Holding To God Against God
8. Praise That Makes Sense
9. Prayer In The Theology Of The Hebrew Bible
10. The Theology In Hebraic Prayer
11. House Of Prayer Or Den Of Robbers?Index Of Modern Authors
Index Of Scripture ReferencesAdditional Info
Balentine has forged new categories of analysis beyond our old critical pigeonholes. In the end, he has shown that prayer is neither a marginal activity undertaken after intellectual analysis nor an act of piety to fend off critical study . . . These prayer texts have required and permitted much hard, disciplined work in the long traditioning process. Now they offer to us an act of communication and a special world that refuses the voicelessness of technical society. In this world of Israel’s faithful prayer and prayerful faith, the heavens are not empty, and the earth need not be mute. -
New Genesis : Theology And The Genetic Revolution
$30.00Add to cartHow should living things and our own human nature be changed in the hands of those who can alter them genetically? How do we set limits, and what goals are legitimate pursuits? Neither the science of genetics nor the theory of evolution can answer these questions alone. This book’s contribution to a theological understanding of science and technology helps in showing how Christian theology can provide a solid frameword for considering these issues.
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Eucharist : Christs Feast With The Church
$27.99Add to cart”Stookey’s intention is twofold: to help Protestants appreciate the fullness of eucharistic doctrine and to suggest ways the eucharist may be better celebrated in the church. Full of pastoral wisdom,”—Commonweal. A highly regarded overview of the history, theology, and practice in Protestantism.
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Culture Of Interpretation A Print On Demand Title
$31.99Add to cartThis is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. A bold, ambitious undertaking, this book offers a broad-ranging account of contemporary American culture, the complex network of symbols, practices, and beliefs at the heart of our society. Writing from a well-considered Christian perspective, Roger Lundin explores the historical background of some of our “postmodern” culture’s central beliefs and examines the crucial ethical and theological implications of those beliefs.The goal of Lundin’s sweeping cultural analysis is to initiate a meaningful dialogue – within the Christian church about the relationship of Christ to contemporary culture, and outside the church about the nature of the self and of truth. The Culture of Interpretation will be of interest to educated general readers, to scholars in various disciplines (philosophy, history, sociology, English, etc.), and to Christian graduate students in theology and the humanities.
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Transforming Power Of Grace
$27.99Add to cartHow does an infinite God relate to finite human beings? How does the death of Jesus Christ bring about human salvation? How are Christians able to actively address the world’s ills while maintaining their citizenship in the kingdom of God?
These are questions the church grapples with today, as it always has. Yet, according to Thomas C. Oden, contemporary theology has neglected the church’s traditional answer to these questions: the doctrine of grace. All too often modern theologians either ignore the doctrine of grace or relate it to the achievement of a particular political agenda. Oden asserts that only by reclaiming the centrality of grace–defined as God’s self-giving through Jesus Christ in personal encounter with the individual human will–can Christian theology be true to the gospel.
In order to reclaim the doctrine of grace, the author reaches back, beyond the fragmentation of theology that took place during and after the Enlightenment. He draws upon the ecumenical consensus held by early Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant theologians, councils, and creeds regarding this cardinal Christian doctrine. By adducing this ancient unity, Oden challenges modern assumptions concerning the sources and methods of the theological enterprise and calls contemporary Christians to discern what their forebears in the faith knew to be essential to the gospel: that to be a Christian is to be formed, nurtured, and upheld solely by divine grace.
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Unmasking The Powers
$32.00Add to cart“UNMASKING THE POWERS is one of the most powerful and incisive treatments of the evils which afflict our society and our church that I have ever read. With wisdom, scholar- ship, and evangelical zeal, Walter Wink deals with the many ways that the powers of evil infiltrate our lives. This book is a must for anyone who would understand the seductive and destructive aspects of evil which are so much a part of human life. It provides not only methods by which the influence of evil can be unmasked, but also hints of how that influence can be counteracted.” – Morton Kelsey Professor Emeritus University of Notre Dame
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Theology Of The Book Of Revelation
$34.99Add to cartLecturers can request examination copies for course consideration.
Richard Bauckham expounds the theology of the Book of Revelation: its understanding of God, Christ and the Spirit, the role of the Church in the world, and the hope of the coming of God’s universal kingdom. Close attention is paid both to the literary form in which the theology is expressed and to the original context to which the book was addressed. Contrary to many misunderstandings of Revelation, it is shown to be one of the masterpieces of early Christian literature, with much to say to the Church today. This study offers a unique account of the theology and message of Revelation. -
Dwelling Place For Wisdom
$35.00Add to cartWorld-renowned philosopher of religion Raimon Panikkar sees wisdom as the art and knowledge of life and a source of happiness and joy–a dwelling place where people are blessed. In this book he discusses four major issues: an existential feminist approach to life and knowldge, a catholic and less fragmented anthropology, a recovery of the most ancient meaning of philosophy, and how to preserve one’s own identity without being shallow, indifferent, or exclusive. He provides a distinctive practical resource for individuals wanting to experience wisdom.
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Toward A Theology Of Nature
$33.00Add to cartMany scholars of religion sit timidly waiting to hear what physicists and biologists say about the world of nature. Then, they adjust their religious vision accordingly. But not systematic theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg. Based on the dialogue between theologians and scientists from more then three decades, Pannenberg poses theological questions to natural scientists that illuminate his personal position on issues dealing with theology and the natural sciences, especially physics. He says the scientific view of nature is incomplete and challenges scientists to incorporate the idea of God into their picture of nature.
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Basic Christian Ethics
$55.00Add to cartThis series focuses on what it means to think theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important, otherwise unavailable texts – English – language texts and translations that have fallen out of print, new translations, and collections of significant statements about problems and themes of special importance – in an easily accessible form. With these volumes scholars and teachers will be able to use classic texts more extensively as they train new generations of theolgians, ethicists, and ministers.
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Religious Liberty : Catholic Struggles With Pluralism
$45.00Add to cartIncludes Murray’s most important statements on religious freedom and two essays. One on religious freedom, originally suppressed by the Vatican and published here for the first time. The second is a discussion on human dignity – how it is defined and how it functions as the phiolsophical foundation of religious freedom, newly translated into English. This fascinating collection will help readers look back at past struggles over religious liberty and forward to dilemnas presently facing the church
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Liberation Theology : An Introductory Guide
$30.00Add to cartIn a manner that is vivid and lively, Robert McAfee Brown explains and illuminates liberation theology for North American readers who may have no previous knowledge of this dynamic Christian movement. Growing out of the experience of oppressed people in Latin America, liberation theology lends a transforming power to both the study of the Bible and the Christian duty to work for justice for all God’s people. With heartwarming, terrifying, and humorous stories, Brown shows the strength and significance of one of the outstanding developments in religious faith today and for the future.
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Faith And Order
$40.99Add to cartThis book argues that despite the tensions existing in all societies between religious faith and legal order, they inevitably interact. In the course of his discussion Berman traces the history of Western law, exposes the fallacies of law theories that fail to take religion into account, examines key theological, prophetic, and educational themes, and looks at the role of religion in the Soviet and post-Soviet state.
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Church In The Round
$47.00Add to cartIdeas of the Christian church are changing, and Letty Russell envisions its future as partnership and sharing for all memebers around a common table of hospitality. Dr. Russell draws on her interracial urban pastorate, her classes in theology, and many ecumencial conversations to help the newly emerging church face the challenges of liberation for all people.
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Calvin Treasury : With A New Study Guide
$37.00Add to cartThis book is a handy tool for pastors, theological students, and laity seeking a better understanding of the teaching of John Calvin. It is a comprehensive, easy-to-read introduction to the most influential book of the Protestant Reformation: Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion.
The brief quotations from the Institutes, alphabetized by subject, will be useful to ministers preparing sermons or studying privately, to teachers and students as an introductory guide and reference handbook, and to general readers wishing to probe more deeply into Calvin’s life, thought, and work. The included study guide will be of particular help to adult church school classes and other study groups, helping students to readily find quotations relating to specific doctrines.
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War In The 20th Century
$57.00Add to cartThis timely anthology of important statements by Christian ethicists and ecclesial groups who draw upon the just-war tradition reviews the rationale for war in the twentieth century. Included are writings from Niebuhrs, the Calhoun Commission, John Ford, Elizabeth Anscombe, Paul Ramsey, Ralph Potter, the U.S. Catholic Bishops, and the U.S. Methodist Bishops. These authors, whose ideas reflect diverse trends in Roman Catholic and Protestant ethics spanning the period from the Manchurian crisis in the early 1930s to the Persian Gulf War in 1991, have sought to sharpen our moral literacy about the ethics of war. They address issues relevanct to modern warfare – obliteration bombing, selective conscientious objection, and nuclear deterrence.
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Nature God And Pulpit A Print On Demand Title
$25.99Add to cartA book whose time has come, Nature, God, and Pulpit draws together and interprets, for the church and especially for preachers, the biblical materials on the relationship between God and his creation. The book is particularly timely because, as Elizabeth Achtemeier points out, few subjects have been more neglected and less explicated by this country’s pulpits than the relation between nature and God.
Clearly articulating what the Bible says about the material world and God’s relation to it, this book is all of the following:
*A thoughtful biblical response to recent discussions of ecology
*A discerning corrective to many current theologies and ideologies
*An appreciative summary of the findings and notions of modern science
*A mother lode of materials and sample sermons on the relation of God to his creation
*A passionate call for preachers to more thoroughly examine and articulate scriptural content
*An eloquent and inspiring celebration of God in relation to his worldWhile written primarily for preachers, Nature, God, and Pulpit will provide provocative reading for many others as well – seminarians, homiletics students, teachers, and anybody who wishes to better understand the Christian view of the bond between Creator and creation.
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To Understand God Truly
$49.00Add to cartWhat are the purposes and the priorities that really govern a theological school? What are realistic expectations of theological education? What would be the ideal theological school, and what is theological about it? Theologian David Kelsey addresses these questions and other concerns regarding theological schooling, and offers suggestions on how to analyze and reconceive “theological schooling” in productive ways.
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Speaking Of A Personal God
$44.99Add to cartThis short work shows how systematic theology is itself a philosophical enterprise. After analyzing the nature of philosophical enquiry and its relation to systematic theology, and after explaining how theology requires that we talk about God, Vincent BrUmmer illustrates how philosophical analysis can help in dealing with various conceptual problems involved in the fundamental Christian claim that God is a personal being with whom we may live in a personal relationship.
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Slaying The Dragon
$48.00Add to cartIn Slaying the Dragon: Mythmaking in the Biblical Tradition, Bernard Batto argues that biblical authors, like other ancient Near East authors, used mythic traditions in composing their works. Batto joins massive evidence with masterful argument to show that myth actually lies at the heart of the theological enterprise of the biblical authors. Slaying the Dragon is sure to provoke dicussion on the theological relevance of myth in the biblical tradition.
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Dispensationalism Israel And The Church
$27.99Add to cartThe relationship between Israel and the church is a crucial reference point in theology, especially in distinguishing between dispensational and nondispensational ways of thinking. The thesis of this book is that Israel and the church are distinct theological institutions that have arisen in the historical progress of divine revelation. But they are also related as successive phases of a redemptive program that is historically progressive and eschatologically converging. The approach to these issues here is neither polemical nor apologetic; rather, it anticipates a convergence among evangelical scholars in the recognition of both continuity and discontinuity in the Israel-church relationship. This book has three purposes: – To offer a contemporary dispensational treatment of that relationship through an exegetical examination of key texts with a focus on theological concerns – To foster genuine dialogue with nondispensational thinkers regarding major biblical themes tied to the plan of God – To identify the changes in dispensational thought that have developed since the publication of Charles Ryrie’s book Dispensationalism Today in 1965.
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Making Sense Of It All
$26.99Add to cartNo matter how old you are, the big questions keep coming up—questions about life, death, God, religion, the nature of faith, the formation of an adequate worldview, and the meaning of it all. Morris takes a new look at those old issues in this entertaining and instructive book. Relating numerous personal anecdotes, incorporating intriguing material from the films of Woody Allen and the journals of Leo Tolstoy, and using the writings of the 17th-century genius Blaise Pascal as a central guide, he’ll help you philosophize about your life, enjoy the process, and perhaps even make sense of it all.
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Karl Rahner : Theologian Of The Graced Search For Meaning
$29.00Add to cartThe select bibliography neatly organizes the vast work by and on Rhner and the selected texts are creatively chosen, strategically beginning not with Rahner’s philosphical anthropology but with the spiritual life. Together they comprise something of a mini summa of Rahner’s contributions to the chief areas of theology.
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Love And Justice
$57.00Add to cartThe relationship between Christian love and justice was, for Reinhold Niebuhr, the most important issue in the modern world. In this book, there are 64 essays written by Niebuhr on a variety of social issues: democracy, race relations, socialized medicine, international relations, the atomic bomb, pacifism, and many others. Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was the best-known spokesman for American Neoorthodoxy. Niebuhr served as a pastor in Detroit before becoming Professor of Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Niebuhr’s theological work is characterized by a deep concern for the impact of the Christ- ian message upon society and politics. Niebuhr called his view Christian Realism.
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Charts Of Christian Theology And Doctrines
$19.99Add to cartCharts of Christian Theology and Doctrine provides students of theology with precise and condensed summaries of the concepts and arguments from the fields of theology and doctrine. It does this by introducing readers to important terms and positions and their meanings. The value of this book lies mainly in its use as a handy reference that allows readers to organize and integrate the material learned from other textbooks and in the classroom.
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Eternal Word And Changing Worlds
$19.99Add to cart372 Pages
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In this book, addressed to the “Western, white evangelical community,” Professor Conn drives home the need for a radical reevaluation of our Western models for theology and missions. The rise of non-Western and nonwhite theologies and the changes in our understanding of language, culture, and religions force upon us the realization of the inadequacy of our ethnocentric, abstracting approach to theology and missions -
Invitation To Cross Cultural Theology
$24.99Add to cartInvitation to Cross-Cultural Theology seeks to extend the study of theology to the way in which lay communities of Christians endeavor to shape their world by their faith. Using narratives of experiences with God as source material, Dyrness sets out to discover the framework, both explicit as well as implicit, that guides their lives as Christians. Testimonies are heard from five very different communities around the world. In the final chapter, the author discusses the various ways in which Christ and salvation are being addressed in these communities today.
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Interpreting Hebrew Poetry
$19.00Add to cartEditor’s Foreword
Abbreviations
1. Understanding Hebrew Poetry
Definition
Problems
Theories Of Poetry
Poetry-Prose Continuum
Three Approaches
Relationship Of Methods2. Parallelism
Robert Lowth
Basic Nomenclature
Synonymous, Antithetic, Synthetic Parallelism
New Understandings
Grammatic, Morphologic, Semantic Parallelism
Summary3. Meter And Rhythm
Definitions
Meter
Rhythm4. Poetic Style
Simile
Stanza And Strophe5. Poetic Analysis
Deuteronomy
Isaiah 5:1-17
Psalm 1
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Author Index
Scripture IndexAdditional Info
Here is a convenient introduction to the unique aspects of interpreting the one-third of the Hebrew Bible that is in poetic form. Numerous are the occasions when a failure to distinguish poetry from prose in the Old Testament has resulted in flawed interpretation. Robert Lowth’s Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews (1753, 1787), marked a turning point of major proportions by focusing on the importance of parallelism of lines. But new studies of the past decade now require significant adjustments to Lowth’s analyses. Interpreting Hebrew Poetry offers an authoritative introduction to this discussion of parallelism, meter and rhythm, and poetic style. It also provides by way of example a poetic analysis of Deuteronomy 32, Isaiah 5:1-7, and Psalm 1. -
Understanding Doctrine : Its Relevance And Purpose For Today
$12.99Add to cartIn this highly readable and much-needed book, Alister McGrath explains what doctrine is, why it is important, and what its limitations are. He then briefly examines three key doctrines to illustrate his points; the Incarnation, the Atonement, and the Trinity.
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Rediscovering The Sacred A Print On Demand Title
$23.99Add to cartClaiming that modern interest in the sacred remains constant over time but that the sacred continually manifests itself in changing forms, Wuthnow examines the main theoretical approaches toward religion that have emerged of late in the social sciences, and he shows how these approaches have moved away from the idea of linear secularization and can help explain the changing character and shifting location of the sacred in modern society.
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Theology Without Boundaries
$30.00Add to cartIn this book, Carnegie Samuel Calian, who was baptized in the Eastern tradition and raised a Protestant, promotes greater dialogue and exchange among Christians of the East and West. He seeks to make Christians aware of the diversity of faith and offers suggestions and insight to this end.
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No Other Name A Print On Demand Title
$35.99Add to cartAn exceptional, comprehensive work on the long- standing and much-debated question regarding the ultimate destiny of those who die without hearing the gospel. Sanders thoroughly examines the major positions that Christians throughout history have formulated, the spectrum ranging from restrictivism to universalism and including several in- between (“wider hope”) views. The discussion of each major view includes key biblical texts, theological considerations, leading defenders, an evaluation, and a historical bibliography. Foreword by Clark H. Pinnock.
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Basic Christian Doctrine
$55.00Add to cartDrawing on years of experience as a pastor and seminary professor, John Leith provides a brief but comprehensive statment of Christian faith for contemporary Christians. He considers the theologians of the ancient church and affirms the faith of the ancient creeds: the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Chalcedonian Definition, and the Athanasian Creed. He asserts that we now live in a period of religious revival in which Christian faith is persuasive – it is a gospel that heals the bruised consciences and wounded spirits of human beings.
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Christianity And The Social Crisis
$55.00Add to cartWalter Rauschenbusch was the primary architect of the Social Gospel, a movement that responded to the changing social and industrial conditions in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He presents, in this book, his path-breaking and prophetic interpretation of Jesus and the kingdom, and his understanding of troubling conditions that call the church to faithful witness and work toward meaningful political and economic reforms.
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Messianic Exegesis : Christological Interpretation Of The Old Testament In
$22.00Add to cartThe thesis of this book can be summarized as follows: “The beginnings of Christian reflection can be traced to interpretations of Israel’s Scriptures, and the major focus of that scriptural interpretation was Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah.” Juel argues that the earliest use of the Old Testament Scripture was not to argue in behalf of the Gospel, but rather to understand the gospel, and to clarify the implications of faith in Christ for relating to Israel’s God and the world. Furthermore, he feels that the concept of Jesus as Messiah is the central guiding factor in scriptural exegesis.
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Old Testament Theology
$26.00Add to cartIn OLD TESTAMENT THEOLOGY, WALTER BRUEGGEMANN addresses the necessity for thinking about the shape and structure of Old Testament theology–and the impact such thinking can have on the large issues of contemporary life. He draws on the work of persons from all academic and intellectual disciplines and incorporates them in a seminal way in his theology. Writers in the areas of theology, psychology, the social sciences, and politics are examined as providing possible basic models for talking about the Old Testament. The Old Testament is seen to be something that has intelligible and significant connections to many facets of modern life. This is a selection of Brueggemann’s essays previously published in various journals and books. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: WALTER BRUEGGEMANN is Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, Atlanta, and past President of the Society of Biblical Literature.
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Social Teaching Of The Christian Churches 2
$60.00Add to cartMore than a history of Christian ethics, this history of the Christian era relates ideas such as the changing structures of church and society, showing the mutual influences between ideas, social forces, and institutions.
The Library of Theological Ethics series focuses on what it means to think theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important and otherwise unavailable texts in easily accessible form. Volumes in this series will enable sustained dialogue with predecessors though reflection on classic works in the field.
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Paul Tillich : Theologian Of The Boundaries
$34.00Add to cartPaul Tillich, forced into exile by the Nazis in 1933, settled in the United States. His many theological works and especially his three volume Systematic Theology have had a profound influence upon contemporary religious thought. This volume concentrates on the key texts and ideas in Tillich’s thought. It presents the essential Paul Tillich for students and the general reader.
