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Richard Lints

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  • Uncommon Unity : Wisdom For The Church In An Age Of Division

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    Our world is facing increasing hostilities. Political and cultural differences rage, even among people who otherwise show goodwill. And the church is no stranger to extreme polarization, theological backbiting, and political squabbling. Jesus’s prayer in John 17–that the church be one as he and the Father are one–seems increasingly unattainable.

    But what if Scripture actually provides the key for thinking about unity in diversity?

    In Uncommon Unity: Wisdom for the Church in an Age of Division, Richard Lints explores the nature of diversity and how Christians can think more clearly about unity in an increasingly polarized age. Drawing on theological, historical, and sociological resources, Lints exposes problems with the inclusion narrative of democracy and shows a better way forward for fostering unity in the midst of extreme diversity. If we are to think rightly about diversity, wisdom is required for the church in our late modern world. Through wisdom, Christians can display real unity in diversity and bear witness of the God who made them for himself as diverse members of his one body.

    Readers of Uncommon Unity will be heartened that Scripture and Christian tradition provide an antidote to division.

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  • Identity And Idolatry

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    Series Preface
    Author’s Preface
    Abbreviations

    1. Living Inside The Text: Canon And Creation

    2. A Strange Bridge: Connecting The Image And The Idol
    Getting Started On The Wrong Foot: Creation And Image
    Human Identity And Human Nature

    3. The Liturgy Of Creation In The Cosmic Temple
    The First Stable As Prologue
    The Liturgy Of Creation
    The House That God Built

    4. The Image Of God On The Temple Walls
    Introduction
    Image And Original
    Signs Of Reflection
    A Reflected Relationship
    The First Table Background: Kings And Representatives
    After The First Table: Sonship And Sacredness
    Prelude To Idolatry

    5. Turning The Imago Dei Upside Down: Idolatry And The Prophetic Stance
    After Creation-whence Is The Image?
    Divine Fidelity And The Image
    The Decalogue And The Diatribe Against Idolatry
    The Golden Calf-the ‘great Sin’ Of Idolatry
    Covenantal Identity And Idolatry Across The Old Testament
    Idolatry And Adultery

    6. Inverting The Inversion: Idols And The Perfect Image
    Turning The Story Upside Down
    Setting The Context
    Idolatry And The Gentile Mission
    Theologies Of Idols: Romans 1 And 1 Corinthians 10
    Narratives Of Idolatry: Acts 7 And 17
    The Perfect Image
    Being In The Image Of The Image

    7. The Rise Of Suspicion: The Religious Criticism Of Religion
    Idolatry As Ideological Criticism: The Stage Is Set
    Idolatry As Psychological Projection
    Idolatry As Alienation And Oppression
    Idolatry And The Origin Of Religion
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

    8. Significance And Security In A New Key
    The Crisis Of Identity And The Idolatries Of Consumption
    Christian Identity And Plastic Narratives
    An Eternal Story Told Across Time

    Bibliography
    Index Of Authors
    Index Of Scripture References

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    “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27)

    Genesis 1:26-27 has served as the locus of most theological anthropologies in the central Christian tradition. However, Richard Lints observes that too rarely have these verses been understood as conceptually interwoven with the whole of the prologue materials of Genesis 1. The construction of the cosmic temple strongly hints that the “image of God” language serves liturgical functions.

    Lints argues that “idol” language in the Bible is a conceptual inversion of the “image” language of Genesis 1. These constructs illuminate each other, and clarify the canon’s central anthropological concerns. The question of human identity is distinct, though not separate, from the question of human nature; the latter has far too frequently been read into the biblical use of ‘image’.

    Lints shows how the “narrative” of human identity runs from creation (imago Dei) to fall (the golden calf/idol, Exodus 32) to redemption (Christ as perfect image, Colossians 1:15-20). The biblical-theological use of image/idol is a thread through the canon that highlights the movements of redemptive history.

    In the concluding chapters of this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Lints interprets the use of idolatry as it emerges in the secular prophets of the nineteenth century, and examines the recent renaissance of interest in idolatry with its conceptual power to explain the “culture of desire.”

    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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  • Personal Identity In Theological Perspective

    $21.50

    The turbulence and confusion of contemporary life should motivate us to ask the big questions of life anew and to reexamine the disastrous naturalism of the twentieth century. This volume gathers well-known thinkers from a breadth of confessional Christian traditions who share a passionate interest in better understanding the nature of persons.

    The contributors to Personal Identity in Theological Perspective aim to recover the ancient biblical account of human beings as made “in the image of God.” Their essays fall naturally into three divisions – retrieving historical discussions of human identity, presenting contemporary challenges to a distinctively Christian anthropology, and offering constructive proposals toward a richer understanding of persons. This volume will provoke discussion and debate on the fundamental question What does it mean to be human?

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  • 101 Key Terms In Philosophy And Their Importance For Theology

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    Written by two philosophers and a theologian, “101 Key Terms provides easy access to key terms in philosophy and how they are understood and used in theology. The focused entries discuss what the terms have meant in classical and contemporary philosophy and then shift to what these philosophical understandings have meant in the history of Christian theology to the present day. The result is a unique volume that clearly shows the interplay of these disciplines and how theology has been influenced by the language and vocabulary of philosophy.

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  • Fabric Of Theology A Print On Demand Title

    $38.99

    After 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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