Theology (Exegetical Historical Practical etc.)
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Idea De Comunidad De Pablo – (Spanish)
$16.99Robert Bank’s widely read Paul’s Idea of Community: The Early House Churches in their Cultural Setting is once again available to laypeole, pastors and scholars alike. In this extensively revised edition Banks has rewritten chapters for clarity, taken into account recent scholarship on Paul’s writings, updated and expanded the bibliography, and added an index. This new edition retains, however, all the freshness and vitality of the original.
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Teachers Guide To Understanding The Trinity
$6.991. Envisioning The Trinity – The Shaping Of A Doctrine
2. Why We Need Doctrines
3. What The Doctrine Of The Trinity Is Not
4. What Is The Basis Of The Doctrine?
5. What Does The Doctrine Of The Trinity Say?
6. The Web Of DoctrinesAdditional Info
Why is the doctrine of the Trinity important? Is it just one more thing to memorize and forget about later? Or is it something much more?This concise, in-depth book explores this seemingly elusive doctrine, its history, and its meaning to the life of faith. With exceptional insight and scholarly precision, Samuel Powell brings this doctrine into sharp focus and demonstrates that more than an ancient relic of the church, the doctrine of the Trinity is woven into the fabric of almost everything Christians believe. At the very nexus of salvation, the Trinity is a stirring and poignant model for love and relationship within community.
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Holy Spirit In The World Today
$14.99In recent decades, churches across the world have been rediscovering the dynamic power and deep wisdom of the Holy Spirit. Alongside the experience of the Spirit, many theologians have begun to explore the theology of the Spirit, and in 2010, a major conference took place at Holy Trinity Brompton on this very topic. This book is a collection of twelve papers delivered there, and includes contributions from Jnrgen Moltmann, Miroslav Volf, David Ford, and Rowan Williams. About the Editor: Dr. Jane Williams is a tutor in Christian doctrine at St. Mellitus College and a visiting lecturer in theology at King”s College London, having previously taught at Trinity College Bristol. She is the wife of the former Archbishop of Canterbury.
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4 Views On Divine Providence
$24.98Questions about divine providence have preoccupied Christians for generations: Are people elected to salvation? For whom did Jesus die? This book introduces readers to four prevailing views on divine providence, with particular attention to the question of who Jesus died to save (the extent of the atonement) and if or how God determines who will be saved (predestination). But this book does not merely answer readers’ questions. Four Views on Divine Providence helps readers think theologically about all the issues involved in exploring this doctrine. The point-counterpoint format reveals the assumptions and considerations that drive equally learned and sincere theologians to sharp disagreement. It unearths the genuinely decisive issues beneath an often superficial debate. Volume contributors are Paul Helseth (God causes every creaturely event that occurs); William Lane Craig (through his ‘middle knowledge,’ God controls the course of worldly affairs without predetermining any creatures’ free decisions); Ron Highfield (God controls creatures by liberating their decision-making); and Gregory Boyd (human decisions can be free only if God neither determines nor knows what they will be). Introductory and closing essays by Dennis Jowers give relevant background and guide readers toward their own informed beliefs about divine providence.
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Hospitality Of God
$30.60What happens when two bishops known for their liturgical sensibilities travel to study alternative Christian communities on two continents? Bishops Mary Gray-Reeves and Michael Perham traveled throughout the U.S. and U.K. to study fresh expressions of church and identify the principles that link these new forms of worship and community. The Hospitality of God captures their practical and inspiring findings and builds a bridge between fresh new voices and the institutional church.
A detailed and systematic analysis that features case studies and examines such issues as history, method, setting, scripture, prayer, music and Eucharist. Also includes liturgical texts the authors encountered on the road or created in response to their journey into emergence.
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Resistencia Y Gracia Cara – (Spanish)
$14.99This book is about the life and thoughts of one of the most influential and historical people of the 20th century in regards to moral ethics. The author covers four chapters of the most important aspects of Dietrich Bonheoffer’s biography; his thoughts, his spirituality, his faith and the historical context of his life
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Gracious And Compassionate God
$25.99Series Preface
Author’s Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
What Is The Book Of Jonah?
Approaching The Book Of Jonah1. The Nations And Mission In Jonah
2. Conversion And Spirituality In Jonah And In Biblical Theology
3. Looking Into Jonah 1
4. Looking Into Jonah 2
5. Looking Into Jonah 3
6. Looking Into Jonah 4
7. ConclusionsBibliography
Index Of Modern Authors
Index Of Scripture References
Index Of Ancient SourcesAdditional Info
The book of Jonah is arguably just as jarring for us as it was for the ancients. Ninevah’s repentance, Jonah’s estrangement from God and the book’s bracing moral conclusion all pose unsettling questions for today’s readers. For biblical theologians, Jonah also raises tough questions regarding mission and religious conversion. Here, Daniel Timmer embarks on a new reading of Jonah in order to secure its ongoing relevance for biblical theology. After an examination of the book?s historical backgrounds (in both Israel and Assyria), Timmer discusses the biblical text in detail, paying special attention to redemptive history and its Christocentric orientation. Timmer then explores the relationship between Israel and the nations–including the question of mission–and the nature of religious conversion and spirituality in the Old Testament. The study concludes with an injuction for scholars and lay readers to approach Jonah as a book written to facilitate spiritual change in the reader.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Christianity
$59.91The Christian faith has the allegiance of one third of the human race. It has succeeded in influencing civilization to such a degree that we now take its existence almost for granted. Yet it might all have been so different. Christianity began with the words and deeds of an obscure village carpenter’s son who died a shameful criminal’s death at the hands of the Roman occupiers of his country: itself an insignificant outpost of the powerful ruling Empire. The feverish land of biblical Palestine, awash with apocalyptic expectations of deliverance from its foreign overlords, was hardly short of seers and prophets who claimed to be sent visions from God. Yet the followers of this man thought he was different: so different, in fact, that some years after his death and asserted resurrection they scandalously insisted not only that he was sent by God, but that he “”was”” God. How a provincial sect, with its seemingly outrageous ideas, became first the sanctioned religion of the Roman Empire and then, over the course of 2000 years, the creed of billions of people, is the improbable story that this book tells. It is a story of freethinkers, friars, fanatics, and firebrands; and of the lay people (not just the clerical or the powerful) who have made up the great mass of Christians over the centuries. Many introductions to Christianity are written by Christians, for Christians. This elegant textbook, by contrast, shows that the history of the religion, while often glorious, is not one of unimpeded progress, but something still more remarkable, flawed and human.
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Martin Luthers Theology
$65.00This definitive analysis of the theology of Martin Luther surveys its development during the crises of Luther’s life, then offers a systematic survey by topics. Containing a wealth of quotations from less-known writings by Luther and written in a way that will interest both scholar and novice, Lohse’s magisterial volume is the first to evaluate Luther’s theology in both ways. Lohse’s historical analysis takes up Luther’s early exegetical works and then his debates with traditions important to him in the context of the various controversies leading up to his dispute with the Antinomians. The systematic treatment shows how the meaning of ancient Christian doctrines took their place within the central teaching of justification by faith.
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Contours Of Old Testament Theology
$65.00In this masterwork, one of America’s leading biblical scholars takes a fresh look at the theology of the Old Testament. Anderson cuts his own path and provides us with creative new insights on all the major sections of the Old Testament. He illuminates the nuances of the various covenants and theological shifts in a highly readable style. His conversation partners include the formative contributors from both the Christian community (Eichrodt, von Rad, Childs) and the Jewish community (Heschel, Herberg, Levenson) while interacting with the most recent developments in the field, especially Walter Brueggemann’s Theology of the Old Testament.
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Book That Breathes New Life
$41.66The purpose of this collection of Brueggemann’s essays is to bring to the fore a much more extensive critical engagement on his part with the current discussion about the Old Testament, its character, its authority, its theology, and especially its God…. Readers of these essays who think they may have grasped what Brueggemann has to say about the theology of the Old Testament from reading his magnum opus will find that he is still thinking, still listening, and still helping us understand the scriptures of Israel and the church at an ever deeper level.
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Word That Redescribes The World
$56.66In the last several years, Walter Brueggemann’s writings have directly addressed the situation of Christian communities in today’s globalized context, with its consumerist lifestyles, vast inequalities, and near-imperial exercises of power. His insights, forged in rugged encounters with the texts of the Old Testament, are sharp, painful, and indispensable. In the people Israel Brueggemann finds a model of an alternative community – anchored in YHWH, ever exploring new possibilities, and prophetically bent against empire.
Part I: The Word Redescribing the World
Part II: The Word Redefining the Possible
Part III: The Word Shaping a Community of DiscipleshipAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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1-2 Peter And Jude
$55.29Theologian and church historian Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez studies three often overlooked books in the New Testament, 1 and 2 Peter and the Letter of Jude. These writings from the late first century or early second century helped guide the young church as it faced a variety of issues, both internal to the church’s life, and external in the social and political culture in which it was growing. The letters help us focus on the character of the church and the importance of congregations in the church’s ongoing life. They raise basic issues of authority, on how the church knows the directions to follow, how Christians should live, and how diverse views should be considered. Gonzalez uses a variety of resources to illuminate these letters. She very helpfully centers on their theological importance for contemporary churches and for Christian living.
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Jesus Paul And The People Of God
$35.99At the 2010 Wheaton Theology Conference, leading New Testament scholar N. T. Wright and nine other prominent biblical scholars and theologians gathered to consider Wright’s prolific body of work. Compiled from their presentations, this volume includes Tom Wright’s two main addresses, one on the state of scholarship regarding Jesus and the other on the state of scholarship regarding the apostle Paul. The other nine essays critically interact with these two major themes of Wright’s works.
Much appreciation is shown, overviews are given, perspective is provided and some pointed questions are also raised. Together these essays represent the best of critical yet charitable dialogue among serious and rigorous scholars on theological themes vital to Christian faith that will propel New Testament scholarship for the next decade to come.
With essays by Jeremy Begbie, Marcus Bockmuehl, Richard B. Hays, Edith M. Humphreys, Sylvia Keesmat and Brian Walsh, Nicholas Perrin, Marianne Meye Thompson, Kevin J. Vanhoozer
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Christianity And Literature
$29.99What has Jesus Christ to do with English literature? ask David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory Maillet in this insightful survey. First and foremost, they reply, many of the world’s best authors of literature in English were formed–for better or worse–by the Christian tradition. Then too, many of the most recognized aesthetic literary forms derive from biblical exemplars. And finally, many great works of literature demand of readers evaluative judgments of the good, the true and the beautiful that can only rightly be understood within a Christian worldview.
In this book Jeffrey and Maillet offer a feast of theoretical and practical discernment. After an examination of literature and truth, theological aesthetics, and the literary character of the Bible, they turn to a brief survey of literature from medieval times to the present, highlighting distinctively Christian themes and judgments. In a concluding chapter they suggest a path for budding literary critics through the current state of literary studies.
Here is a must-read for all who are interested in a Christian perspective on literary studies.
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Christ Jesus And The Jewish People Today
$39.99SKU (ISBN): 9780802866240ISBN10: 0802866247Editor: Philip Cunningham | Editor: Joseph Sievers | Editor: Mary BoysBinding: Trade PaperPublished: March 2011Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Print On Demand Product
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Feminist And Womanist Essays In Reformed Dogmatics
$44.00This book is a collection of essays by thirteen feminist and womanist authors who locate themselves within the Reformed tradition. Topics explored include: the Trinity, creation, election, atonement, the church, fear, resistance, and vocation. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students interested in feminist theology.
The 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. This series examines theological and ethical issues that confront church and society in our own particular time and place.
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Catechism In Conversation 2nd Ed.
$15.64What is the primary purpose of man? What does the Bible basically teach? What is God? What is man? What is sin? What does every sin deserve? What is justification? What does God require of man? What is faith in Jesus Christ? What is prayer? The Westminster Shorter Catechism provides very succinct and yet solid answers to these and many more questions. In Catechism in Conversation, Linus provides a lively introduction to this catechism through a series of conversations, which incorporates all its 107 questions and answers.
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Trapped By The Pre-Trib Rapture
$21.23If you are a Christian believer and you have exclusive faith in the pre-Tribulation Rapture, this book is for you. You need to consider its 7 Rapture timing secrets. This book presents, in simple balanced logical steps, the major Biblical inferences for the pre-Trib and the post-Trib Rapture theories. The author does not dogmatically preach only one of the theories; rather he proposes that believers should balance their Rapture faith based on the various strengths of the evidence for each theory. The book gives a fair presentation of the two major theories, and then asks the reader to make an informed evaluation and only then apportion Rapture faith. It is the author’s opinion that a dogmatic 100% faith in any one of the Rapture theories is not justified and could in the future be dangerous to spiritual stability. In the Sections explaining the post-Tribulation Rapture inferences, Dr. True presents evidence that the “7-year” portion of the “Future” section of the book of Revelation (6:1-20:6) describes 7 self-contained concurrent narratives, each ending with YHWH’s wrath and the 24-hour Day of the Lord. He also presents a theory about the “mystery” in chapter 10. Dr. True has retired from his formal career as a licensed physician and a board certified psychiatrist. He likes to say he is a sinner in recovery, not unlike alcoholics who know they must continue practicing recovery. He became a believer at age 12, the oldest of 7 siblings in a blended family. Secular education in the absence of enlightened teachers led to a period of agnosticism and unenlightened selfishness. A serious re-evaluation in mid-life led back to the solid rock of a historical risen Savior/Creator. Ever the oldest brother therapist, his concern is that fellow believers not stumble on paths strewn with unnecessary dogmatism.
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Teachers Guide To Understanding The End Times (Teacher’s Guide)
$6.99The Rapture, the Antichrist, Armageddon, and the Day of Judgment
End-times images are everywhere from books, movies, to video games. Curiosity about the last days is rampant, and people are asking all kinds of questions: “Who is the Antichrist?” “Will Jesus really rapture his church?” “What is the role, if any, of the nation of Israel?” And most importantly, “Are we living in the end times?”
In this insightful book, Samuel Powell explores all these questions and more. He traces end-times beliefs from the days of the Old Testament to today and explains the origins of the most popular ideas. Drawing on his theological expertise, Dr. Powell then offers and alternative approach to interpreting biblical prophecies that takes into account the Bible’s purpose. He explains that the deeper meaning of prophetic scriptures is often overlooked in favor of more popular and provocative interpretations.
An excellent resource for pastors, teachers, and small-group leaders, this concise book dispels much of the confusion surrounding end-times thinking. As an added bonus, the book includes a chapter listing the top mistakes made about the end times, along with a helpful glossary.
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Releasing Gods Government In The Earth
$19.98“Every church leader needs to read this book. I praise God for my brother Duane-a “miner” who searches for God’s jewels of wisdom. I honor Duane as one of God’s living giants.” Eugene Harder B. Th. Retired pastor “A valuable book for elders and pastors to read and study. It will help get us back to basics.” Cliff Stalwick, Founder of Living Faith Bible College, Caroline, AB “Duane is a gifted teacher who presents an insightful analysis of government and those who carry it. The principles taught provide a secure foundation as well as a set of boundary markers. His book is a treasure of insights.” Dr. Michael L. Hastings, Professor, Lethbridge College, Pastoral Team Leader, Northside Christian Fellowship, Lethbridge, AB “For over twenty-five years, my wife and I have walked in relationship with Duane. His understanding of Kingdom government has been influential in my life; shaping my thinking and my behavior. These truths have helped shape teaching and counseling materials I have developed and taught in numerous countries. May the truths of this book touch the whole of your life.” Graham Bretherick, Registered Psychologist, Author “Healing Life’s Hurts”, Lethbridge, AB “Duane’s love for the truth of God’s Word and his godly character has greatly impacted my life for over twenty years. It is an honour to call him my friend and a father in the faith.” Steve Fleming, Pastor, Koinonia Christian Fellowship, Waterloo, ON “Duane Harder’s book addresses how the church is to reign in the earth. With wisdom and grace he leads you through God’s view of government as it relates to the interconnectedness of: self, family, business, and civil government, with a special emphasis upon church government. Every Christian would profit from this book.” Erik Vander Ahe – Technology Executive SVP Products and Services, Waterloo, ON
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Making Sense Of The Church
$14.99With clear writing and a contemporary approach, emphasizing how each doctrine should be understood and applied by present-day Christians, Making Sense of the Church explores the community of all true believers for all time—the church.
Topics include but are not limited to the invisible church—the church as God sees it; the visible church—the church as Christians on earth see it; the purity of church—the degree of freedom from wrong doctrine and conduct; the primary purpose of the church—ministry to God, believers, and the world; the power of the church—its God-given authority to carry on spiritual warfare, proclaim the gospel, and exercise church discipline; and spiritual gifts—abilities empowered by the Holy Spirit and used in any ministry of the church.
Written in a friendly tone, appealing to the emotions and the spirit as well as the intellect, Making Sense of the Church helps readers overcome wrong ideas, make better decisions on new questions, and grow as Christians.
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Making Sense Of Salvation
$18.73With clear writing—technical terms kept to a minimum—and a contemporary approach, emphasizing how each doctrine should be understood and applied by present-day Christians, Making Sense of Salvation explores God’s common grace to redeem those who will be saved, and to demonstrate his goodness, mercy, justice, and glory.
Topics include but are not limited to the order of salvation—from God’s choice of people to be saved to the chosen people receiving a resurrection body; effective calling—the act of God the father speaking through the human proclamation of the gospel to summons people to himself in saving faith; regeneration—a secret act of God in which he imparts new spiritual life to us; and glorification—when Christ returns and raises from the dead the bodies of all believers for all time who have died.
Written in a friendly tone, appealing to the emotions and the spirit as well as the intellect, Making Sense of Salvation helps readers overcome wrong ideas, make better decisions on new questions, and grow as Christians.
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Making Sense Of Man And Sin
$12.99With clear writing—technical terms kept to a minimum—and a contemporary approach, emphasizing how each doctrine should be understood and applied by present-day Christians, Making Sense of Man and Sin explores how mankind is distorted, but not lost, through sin and is renewed through redemption in Christ.
Topics include but are not limited to the creation of male and female, including harmonious personal relationships, equality in personhood and importance, and difference in role and authority; equality and differences in the Trinity; the essential nature of man; and our inherited guilt and corruption because of Adam’s sin.
Written in a friendly tone, appealing to the emotions and the spirit as well as the intellect, Making Sense of Man and Sin helps readers overcome wrong ideas, make better decisions on new questions, and grow as Christians.
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Respecting Life : Theology And Bioethics
$52.99Bioethical issues are rarely out of view in Western societies. New developments in areas such as human embryology continually raise new ethical questions, while more familiar issues frequently reappear in public debate. These are issues of central concern for Christians and for a wider public, because they raise questions about the value of life, the meaning of suffering and death and humanitys place in the natural world.
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Brief Outline Of Theology As A Field Of Study (Revised)
$40.00Terrence Tice has revised his earlier translation of this epoch-making work by the nineteenth-century theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834). In this volume, Schleiermacher lays out what Christian theology is and how the work of theology can be seen as a whole. This new edition features extensive critical notes by the translator, based on his lifetime of study, and an editor’s postscript that provides an overview and interpretation of the main sections of the work.
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Politics Of Liberation
$128.00Enrique Dussel is one of the worlds foremost Marxist philosophers whose work continues to have a profound impact on liberation theology. Here, the author presents an alternative reading of the history of the political world and the ideas that have inspired their political philosophy. He argues that our current view of the world needs to break free from being too focused on the thought world of Ancient Greece and on Europe. In this work he offers a reading of the political history of the world as an against-story, a story of an anti-traditional tradition.
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Making Sense Of The Future
$12.99With clear writing and a contemporary approach, emphasizing how each doctrine should be understood and applied by present-day Christians, Making Sense of the Future explores the fulfillment of Scripture—the bodily return of Christ. Topics include but are not limited to the primary views of the Millennium (thousand years): Amillennialism—the reign of Christ is now being fulfilled; Postamillennialism—Christ will return after the millennium; Premillennialism—Christ will come back after the millennium. Whichever view the reader subscribes to, the end result is clear: there will be a sudden, personal, visible, bodily return of Christ. Written in a friendly tone, appealing to the emotions and the spirit as well as the intellect, Making Sense of the Church helps readers overcome wrong ideas, make better decisions on new questions, and grow as Christians.
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Making Sense Of Who God Is
$16.99With clear writing—technical terms kept to a minimum—and a contemporary approach, emphasizing how each doctrine should be understood and applied by present-day Christians, Making Sense of Who God is explores the existence of God through inner knowledge and evidence found in Scripture and in nature.
Topics include but are not limited to Traditional ‘Proofs’ for God’s Existence: covering cosmological, teleological, ontological, and moral evidence of the Creator; The Trinity: the three distinct persons each equal to the whole being of God; Creation: including the assertion that, when all the facts are understood, there will be ‘no final conflicts’ between Scripture and natural science; and God’s Providence: the Creator’s continued involvement with all created things and human actions that make a difference within God’s providence.
Written in a friendly tone, appealing to the emotions and the spirit as well as the intellect, Making Sense of Who God is helps readers overcome wrong ideas, make better decisions on new questions, and grow as Christians.
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Migrations Of The Holy
$25.99Whether one thinks that “religion” continues to fade or has made a comeback in the contemporary world, there is a common notion that “religion” went away somewhere, at least in the West. But William Cavanaugh argues that religious fervor never left – it has only migrated toward a new object of worship. In Migrations of the Holy he examines the disconcerting modern transfer of sacred devotion from the church to the nation-state. In these chapters Cavanaugh cautions readers to be wary of a rigid separation of religion and politics that boxes in the church and sends citizens instead to the state for hope, comfort, and salvation as they navigate the risks and pains of mortal life. When nationality becomes the primary source of identity and belonging, he warns, the state becomes the god and idol of its own religion, the language of nationalism becomes a liturgy, and devotees willingly sacrifice their lives to serve and defend their country. Cavanaugh urges Christians to resist this form of idolatry, to unthink the inevitability of the nation-state and its dreary party politics, to embrace radical forms of political pluralism that privilege local communities – and to cling to an incarnational theology that weaves itself seamlessly and tangibly into all aspects of daily life and culture.
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Questioning Assumptions : Rethinking The Philosophy Of Religion
$43.33Tom Christenson turns philosophy inside out in this remarkable new book. Starting with the ongoing public debate over God’s existence, he approaches traditional arguments in philosophy of religion and peels back their veneers to uncover the questionable assumptions underlying each. This brief, valuable book drives the reader to reconsider how to think about the most fundamental questions that surround matters of faith and religious belief.
For Christenson, three key assumptions need unpacking: that believing is the focal act of faith; that the basic religious question is about the existence of God; and that religious language actually refers to some thing, namely God. He interrogates each for its adequacy and implications for larger questions of faith and reason. By making these assumptions explicit, Christenson explores intriguing new ways of looking at the rationality of faith.
Augmenting his analysis and critique, Christenson concludes each chapter with important questions for reflection. These questions carry through the critical stance that he asks of himself and his readers, challenging all to rethink and re-imagine whether religious faith is rational.
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Ethics Of Evangelism
$29.99This is a brief and accessible examination of the ethics of evangelism in a post-Christian culture. Thiessen discusses the immoral practices and attitudes that are sometimes associated with evangelism and then turns his insightful attention to a better way of approaching the subject. Should we try to bring people to Christ or not? In a multi-cultural world evangelism is often under attack, with those seeking to evangelise sometimes being branded arrogant, ignorant, hypocritical and meddlesome. Against such a backdrop this unique book asks what sort of evangelism is ethical in a liberal, post-Christian society.
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Making Sense Of The Bible
$12.99With a strong emphasis on the scriptural basis for each doctrine—what the whole Bible teaches us today about a particular topic; clear writing, with technical terms kept to a minimum; and a contemporary approach, emphasizing how each doctrine should be understood and applied by present-day Christians, Making Sense of the Bible is required reading for understanding the relevant passages of Scripture.
Topics include Canon of Scripture: the list of all books that belong in the Bible; Authority of Scripture: all words in Scripture are God’s words because that is what the Bible claims for itself; Clarity of Scripture: the Bible is written so that its teachings are able to be understood by all who read it; Necessity of Scripture: the Bible is necessary for knowledge of the gospel; and Sufficiency of Scripture: Scripture contains all the words of God he intended his people to have.
Written in a friendly tone, appealing to the emotions and the spirit as well as the intellect, Making Sense of the Bible helps readers overcome wrong ideas, make better decisions on new questions, and grow as Christians.
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New Heaven And The New Earth
$13.73This book Is a prophecy of things to come. The intention is to show you what direction God is going. And to have you ask yourself are you following God? Are you on the right path to salvation? This is an informational breakdown of what is happening in the world today, and what will happen in the years to come. Backed up by facts and figures to show you there is a plan, bigger than us, and we need to prepare ourselves by accepting Jesus Christ into our hearts so we will move on with God for all eternity. Please do yourself a favor and read this book. Drink in the knowledge of what the Lord has planned. And pass it on to those you hold dear.
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Power Of I Will
$12.95There once was a time in the history of mankind when knowledge was passed on by pictures or by oral tradition. There have been periods when the common man was kept away from truth and enlightenment by cultural elite, ruthless dictators, elevated clergy and even mystics. People of the past were often kept in ignorance or were assumed to not be able to understand the very things that might set them free. We now live in an age where people have almost instant access to virtual libraries and treasuries of the accumulated wisdom and history of man. Often times in their maddening rush to learn, uncover or sort through the avalanche of information, they demand the “condensed” version. This is not a good time in history to be an encyclopedia salesman. Our parents never dreamed of a day when handwritten letters would give way to emails, which are already being replaced by text messages, tweets and twitters! With this in mind the author has created a “less is more” masterpiece. Today’s seeker is not an idiot. If she or he finds a topic of intrigue or connection, they will use whatever means at hand to search it out and build upon it. However, there is one facet in life everyone must and will face. It will change your life!
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Study Guide To Calvins Institutes
$40.00Introduction
Initial Remarks
Prefatory Address To King Francis I Of France
Book One — The Knowledge Of God The Creator
Book Two — The Knowledge Of God The Redeemer In Christ, First Disclosed To The Fathers Under The Law, And Then To Us In The Gospel
Book Three — The Way In Which We Receive The Grace Of Christ; What Benefits Come To Us From It, And What Effects Follow
Book Four — The External Means Or Aids By Which God Invites Us Into The Society Of Christ And Holds Us ThereinAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Trinitarian Letters : Your Adoption And Inclusion In The Life Of God
$26.60Trinitarian Letters describes How YOU have been Chosen by God and Adopted by God and Included in the Life of God since before Creation. All made possible by Jesus Christ.
” Pastor Paul Kurts illustrates through this important work , a Universal Theology of Love that Jesus would be immensely pleased with today. Paul demonstrates how all humanity are recipients of life and immortality through Jesus. These Christian messages inspire great hope for all showing the reader the vast difference between true Christian teachings of unconditional love and that of “Religious dogma and bondage. Truely freeing! “
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Nonviolent Atonement Second Edition (Revised)
$33.99Offers a nonviolent paradigm for understanding salvation
A provocative study that cuts to the very heart of Christian thought, The Nonviolent Atonement explores the nature and history – and the inherent shortcomings – of the classic Christian understanding of the doctrine of atonement.
J. Denny Weaver exposes the intrinsically violent dimensions of the traditional, Anselmian satisfaction atonement view and offers instead a thoroughly nonviolent paradigm for understanding atonement based on the concept of “narrative Christus Victor.” He challenges essentially violent assumptions that justice depends on retribution and that passive, innocent submission to violence is essential for atonement.
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Making Sense Of Christ And The Spirit
$12.99With clear writing—technical terms kept to a minimum—and a contemporary approach, emphasizing how each doctrine should be understood and applied by present-day Christians, Making Sense of Christ and the Spirit explores Jesus Christ as fully God and fully man in one person. Topics include The Person of Christ: including the virgin birth—uniting full deity and humanity in one person while enabling Christ’s humanity to be without inherited sin—and the incarnation—the act of God the Son whereby he took himself a human nature; The Doctrine of the Atonement: the work Christ did in his life and death to earn our salvation; and Jesus’ Resurrection and Ascension: affirming the goodness of God’s original creation of man as a creature with a physical body that was ‘very good’, and his rightful place in glory and honor that had not been his before as the God-man.
Written in a friendly tone, appealing to the emotions and the spirit as well as the intellect, Making Sense of Christ and the Spirit helps readers overcome wrong ideas, make better decisions on new questions, and grow as Christians.
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Theological And The Political
$58.33Preface
Introduction: The Theological In A Post-Theological World1. Thinking The Theological: A Haunting
2. The Agonistic Political
3. Transimmanence
4. The Weight Of Transimmanence
5. Transimmanence And Radical PracticesEpilogue: The Theological And The Political
Acknowledgments
IndexAdditional Info
Princeton’s Mark Lewis Taylor has always worked at the intersection of the political and theological. Now, in this intense and exciting work, he explores in a systematic way how those two dimensions of human reality can be conceived anew and together.Taylor argues that the decline of political discourse, the justification of torture and preemptive war, mass incarceration, the misuse of religion to justify atrocity, and most especially the sheer weight of suffering in the world-all these developments urge us to reconceive theology itself.
In conjunction with the latest insights of political theory, decolonial thought, and spectral theories in contemporary philosophy, Taylor suggests that the political is the context of the theological and a realm in which we can discern, beyond simple categories of transcendence and immanence, a transimmanence that is theologically illuminative and politically liberating.
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Giver Of Life
$18.99Presents the Orthodox perspective on who the Holy Spirit is, where the mystery of God comes alive.
Delving deep and subtly into Orthodox tradition and theology, Giver of Life articulates the identity of the Holy Spirit as the third Person of the Trinity as well as the role of the Holy Spirit in the salvation of the world. Written with a poetic sensibility, Fr. Oliver begins with Pentecost, an event uniquely celebrated in Orthodoxy as a time when greenery of all kinds is brought into churches. “The splash of green foliage calls to mind not just life, but a special kind of life. It is the life that transcends biological existence and flows from the very Godhead Itself; it is life that’s a state of being-immortal, everlasting, changeless. Ferns and flowers fade and die, but souls filled with this ‘life from above’ flourish forever.” Reflecting on the relationship of the Holy Spirit to the Church, to the world, and to the human person, Giver of Life looks to the impressive biblical and liturgical tradition of Orthodox Christianity. This is a book weighty in content but accessible in tone, not an academic study of the mind, but a lived experience of the heart.
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Is God A Moral Monster (Reprinted)
$19.99A recent string of popular-level books written by the New Atheists have leveled the accusation that the God of the Old Testament is nothing but a bully, a murderer, and a cosmic child abuser. This viewpoint is even making inroads into the church. How are Christians to respond to such accusations? And how are we to reconcile the seemingly disconnected natures of God portrayed in the two testaments?
In this timely and readable book, apologist Paul Copan takes on some of the most vexing accusations of our time, including:
God is arrogant and jealous
God punishes people too harshly
God is guilty of ethnic cleansing
God oppresses women
God endorses slavery
Christianity causes violence
and moreCopan not only answers God’s critics, he also shows how to read both the Old and New Testaments faithfully, seeing an unchanging, righteous, and loving God in both.
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Great Is The Mystery Of Faith
$19.99Liturgical texts, repeated week after week by hundreds of thousands of people, are an ideal starting-point for exploring deep matters of faith. Their rich theological content, their themes and their familiarity, can help us develop a more mature, informed faith and spirituality. Assuming no specialist knowledge but convinced that a good theological understanding is within everyone’s grasp, Paul Ferguson takes often repeated words from the Eucharist, morning and evening prayer, and the baptism, marriage and funeral rites to explore core Christian belief. Ideal for confirmation courses, study groups and individual reading, this will take readers to new places of understanding via familiar, loved texts.
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Christ Alive And At Large
$31.99The renowned Anglican biblical scholar Charlie Moule, as he was popularly known, came from an eminent church and missionary family. He obtained a first at Cambridge and trained for ordination at Ridley Hall where his grandfather was once Principal and where he himself became Vice-Principal at the age of 28. His Cambridge career culminated in his appointment as Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, a post he held for 25 years, where he influenced a generation of Anglican leaders including Rowan Williams (at whose wedding he officiated), John Sentamu and the late Graham Stanton, his successor as Lady Margaret Professor. Charlie Moule died in 2007. He wrote a number of definitive texts in New Testament studies, but here is not the scholarly professor, but the humble and prayerful man (nicknamed ‘Holy Mouley’) reflecting widely on Christian practice and belief, biblical questions and contemporary challenges. The text of Rowan Williams’ memorial service address is included and his nephew Patrick Moule, provides a preface.
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Beyond Forgiveness : Reflections On Atonement
$19.95As indispensable as forgiveness has been to the healing process throughout history, there is another equally profound action that is needed for ultimate reconciliation, which Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas Gandhi, calls “the other side of the coin.” Turning over the coin of forgiveness, we discover “atonement,” the half-hidden, much-overlooked other half of the reconciliation process.
“Beyond Forgiveness” shows how acts of atonement–making amends, providing restitution, restoring balance–can relieve us of the pain of the past and give us a hopeful future. This rich and powerful book includes 15 thoughtful contributions by high-profile thinkers and activists including Huston Smith, Michael Bernard Beckwith, Azim Khamisa, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Jacob Needleman, Michael Nagler, Diane Hennacy Powell, James O’Dea, Arun Gandhi, Kate Dahlstedt, Ed Tick, Richard J. Meyer, Rev. Heng Sure, Douglas George-Kanentiio and Katharine Dever. Atonement is put forward as a process that we must all learn to practice–from individuals to nations–if we are to heal our wounds and move forward.
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Divine Transcendence And The Culture Of Change
$38.99In this book David H. Hopper explores why the doctrine of transcendence of God has been lost to contemporary theology, in conversation with H. Richard Niebuhr, Martin Luther, Martin Bucer, John Calvin, and Francis Bacon.
Hopper argues that the problem is, in a word, tolerance. He acknowledges the pragmatic worth of tolerance for getting on with necessary tasks, but expresses reservations about the sufficient, sustaining nature of tolerance for the faith community in an altered, global world. Divine Transcendence and the Culture of Change seeks to reclaim necessary dimensions of faith that have collapsed into the cultural vacuum created by thoughtless tolerance, and to restore God’s transcendence to the center of all biblical religion.
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Poetic Theology : God And The Poetics Of Everyday Life
$32.99Reveals the presence of God in the creative works of human life and culture
William Dyrness argues that the creative impulses of contemporary people to make something lovely of their lives and communities can best be understood as God’s presence and calling in and through the good creation. Creative projects of all sorts, he says, reveal a longing for joy and delight and a deep desire for connection with others, the created order, and, especially, the Creator.
With extensive reflection on aesthetics in spirituality, worship, and community development, this book will be eminently useful for all those seeking to open new avenues for communicating the gospel in contemporary society.
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Fountain : A Secular Theology
$25.99During the past 30 years, what we used to call ‘the passing show of existence’ has turned into a global torrent of electronic communication and cultural change. Everywhere, Tradition is collapsing. Local fundamentalist reactions hailed by some as evidence that God is back cannot hope to stem the flood. They are merely symptoms of faith’s increasing desperation. In our time, Don Cupitt says, religion is no longer about gaining immortality, or the forgiveness of our sins: it is about becoming reconciled to our life’s transience, to time and death. This ultra-clear and secular ‘theology’ therefore centres around the image of ‘The Fountain’, which close-up, is all noisy, rushing transience, but when we step back becomes a healing, unifying symbol of life’s perpetual self-renewal. This is religious thought with no supernatural world, and with none of the local divine names. But it works.
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Selections From Friedrich Schleiermachers Christian Ethics
$40.00Brandt presents important selections from German theologian Schleiermacher’s Christian Ethics, a work that moves beyond formal matters to offer a comprehensive analysis of ethical issues, including what constitutes moral action for individuals in relation to the family, the state, the school, the church, and society. This edition also includes James Brandt’s in-depth introductory essay, describing the role of Christian Ethics in Schleiermacher’s overall corpus, its place in the history of Christian ethical reflection, and its structure and character.
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