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Evil And The Cross
$17.99Add to cart1. The Solution By Universal Order
2. The Solution By Autonomous Freedom
3. The Solution By Dialectical Reasoning
4. Scripture On Evil, Principally Its Origin
5. Evil And The KingdomAdditional Info
A world renowned author and scholar grapples with the problem of evil in a world supposedly ruled by a God who is all-loving and all-powerful. -
Bonhoeffer And King
$32.00Add to cartA study of two of the most significant prophetic leaders in the twentieth century, J. Deotis Roberts’s “Bonhoeffer and King” is an instructive work in theological ethics. This book considers and compares the theological reflections that guided Bonhoeffer’s courageous stand against Nazism and King’s quest for civil rights in America.
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Why Left Behind Should Be Left Behind
$15.49Add to cartThe Left Behind books have swept across the Christian world. But is the message they contain about the end of the world true to the teaching of the Bible? Many Christians believe that it is not. Why Left Behind Should Be Left Behind puts Left Behind beliefs under the biblical microscope and discovers that they distort the true Christian message. It also presents an alternative theology of the End Times that is biblical and rational, in a simple but not simplistic style. It will help you understand this important subject. Comments about the earlier edition: “It is extremely readable and lucid, making sense of a very difficult subject” (Carolyn Owen, Editor). “There is no sensationalism here, just careful exegesis of relevant Bible passages” (New Life). “It is an excellent introduction to the whole subject of the end times” (Evangelical Action).
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Eternity : To Be Or Not To Be
$20.99Add to cartThis essay is addressed to both children and adults, for neither heaven nor hell discriminates against either. From childhood to old age, one is held accountable for one’s actions. The TEN COMMANDMENTS herein displayed were further amplified (adjutants featured) to score the extreme importance of GOD’S desire for US, HIS CHILDREN, to walk in HIS ways. A burden hereby rests on parents to align their children right while they are still malleable. Our imminent desire is to empty hell and delight to see heaven overflowing with GOD’S children. Only then shall we have the last laugh at our enemy, the devil.
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Discovering The New Testament
$49.99Add to cartDiscovering the New Testament combines all the elements you’re looking for in a survey of the New Testament – thorough, sound biblical scholarship, combined with an eye-catching format and a writing style that’s easy to understand.
IN DISCOVERING THE NEW TESTAMENT, YOU’LL FIND:
Objectives defined for each lesson
Personal questions to help you relate the Bible to your life
Sidebars to explain theological points
Keywords identified and defined on each page
Study questions for review of the material
Summary statements at the end of each chapter
Listing of resources for further study at the end of each chapter
An eye-catching format that’s attractive to the eye;
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God And Creation In Christian Theology
$29.00Add to cartHow are God and creatures related? How can one reconcile the sovereignty and power of God with creatures’ capacity to act freely?
Kathryn Tanner’s important and original work seeks an answer in the features and limits of traditional Christian discourse. Her search for a unique kernal or regulative dimension of the Christian doctrine of God-world relations leads her to identify in the tradition an operative “grammar&334; of meaningful theological discourse that not only informs the past but can guide the future.
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Blow The Trumpet In Zion
$26.00Add to cart1.The Continuing Legacy Of Samuel DeWitt Proctor
2.The Sheep And The Goats: Black And Christian In A Global Context
3.From Vision To Action: Principles Of Organizing A Theologically Grounded And Vision-driven Church To Effectively Implement Ministries At The Local, National, And Global Levels
4.Piety And Liberation: A Historical Exploration Of African American Religion And Social Justice
5.Loving God With Our Heart, Soul, And Mind
6.Liberating The Ancient Utterances Of African People
7.The Prophetic Imperative: Reclaiming The Gospel By Speaking Truth To Power
8.Freeing The Captives: The Imperative Of Womanist Theology
9.The Biblical Basis For A Political Theology Of Liberation
10.And The Bible Says: Methodological Tyranny Of Biblical Fundamentalism And Historical Criticism
11.The Priestly Faithful And Prophetically Courageous
12.Running The Race For Future Generations: Can You Handle The Faith Without The Fulfillment?
13.Keep The Pressure On: When You Are The Only One In The Watchtower
14.Communion: An Act Of Revolution And A Call To Solidarity
15.A Prophetic Witness In An Anti-prophetic Age
16.Born To Be A Witness
17.Just Load The Wagon
18.Black Church Leadership In The Age Of AIDS: What Must We Do To Be Saved?
19.At The Table: The Next Generation
20.The Black Church In The Age Of False ProphetsAdditional Info
This volume’s contributors – dynamic and progressive African American church leaders – advocate the prophetic powers of black theology, preaching, and evangelism in support of community and economic development, ministerial and lay leadership, and enhancement of church life.Among the writers are Charles G. Adams, Randall C. Bailey, James H. Cone, James A. Forbes, Jacquelyn Grant, Obery Hendricks, Asa G. Hilliard, Dwight N. Hopkins, Cecil Murray, and Gayraud Wilmore. All were presenters in 2004 at the first Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, established to reinvigorate the social justice agenda of America’s black churches.
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Gift Of Grace
$32.00Add to cartThis landmark volume assesses the prospects and promise of Lutheran theology at the opening of a new millennium. From four continents thirty noted and respected contributors not only gauge how such classic themes as grace, the cross, and justification wear today. They also look to key issues of ecumenism, social justice, global religious life, and the impact of contemporary science on Christian belief.
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God Power And Evil
$48.00Add to cartThe baffling age-old question, if there is a good God, why is there evil in the world? has troubled ordinary people and great thinkers for centuries. God, Power, and Evil illuminates the issues by providing both a critical historical survey of theodicy as presented in the works of major Western philosophers and theologians–Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, Spinoza, Luther, Calvin, Leibniz, Barth, John Hick, James Ross, Fackenheim, Brunner, Berkeley, Albert Knudson, E. S. Brighton, and others–and a brilliant constructive statement of an understanding of theodicy written from the perspective of the process philosophical and theological thought inspired primarily by Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne.
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Karl Barth : Theologian Of Christian Witness
$40.00Add to cartThe thought of Karl Barth has undergone a remarkable renewal of interest in recent decades. Joseph Mangina’s Karl Barth: Theologian of Christian Witness offers a concise, accessible guide to this important Christian thinker. Unique among introductions to Barth, it also highlights his significance for Christian ecumenism and brings his views into conversation with other contemporary theologians.
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Out Of Egypt
$39.99Add to cartThe importance of biblical theology to the process of biblical interpretation Biblical theology is crucial in order to grasp the meaning of the Bible_and to do so on its own terms. In this fifth volume of the Scripture and Hermeneutics series, the contributors (Craig Bartholomew, Mary Healy, Karl Moller, and Robin Parry) turn their attention to biblical theology and its importance for sound biblical interpretation. An important feature of this volume is its engagement with the current thinking on biblical theology in Catholic circles.
Topics addressed include: The current state of biblical theology Approaches to biblical theology Major themes of the Bible and biblical theology Parts of the Bible and biblical theology Biblical theology and theological interpretation Preaching and biblical theology -
Images Of The Church In The New Testament
$56.00Add to cartFirst published in 1960, Paul Minear’s classic work identifies and explicates ninety-six images for the church found in the New Testament. Comprehensive and accessibly written, it has been used in seminary classes for over thirty years. Its range of reach and incredibly rich discussions of the many images and metaphors make this book a splendid resource for students and pastors.
The New Testament Library offers authoritative commentary on every book and major aspect of the New Testament, as well as classic volumes of scholarship. The commentaries in this series provide fresh translations based on the best available ancient manuscripts, offer critical portrayals of the historical world in which the books were created, pay careful attention to their literary design, and present a theologically perceptive exposition of the text.
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Book Of Acts
$19.00Add to cartEditor’s Foreword
Acknowledgments
AbbreviationsPART I: HISTORY AND STYLE IN ACTS
1.Acts In The Setting Of The History Of Early Christian Literature
2.The First Christian Historian
3.The Book Of Acts As An Historical Source
4.Style Criticism Of The Book Of Acts
5.The Speeches In Acts And Ancient HistoriographyPART II: PAUL AND PETER IN THE BOOK OF ACTS
6.Paul In The Book Of Acts
7.Paul On The Areopagus
8.Paul In Athens
9.The Apostolic Council
10.The Conversion Of CorneliusPART III: THE TEXT OF ACTS
The Text Of Acts
Notes
Bibliography
Select Bibliography On The Book Of Acts
Index Of Authors
Index Of Ancient SourcesAdditional Info
This volume brings together some of Dibelius’s most important work. While he is especially renowned for his commentaries, Dibelius was on the forefront of literary analysis, the relationship of theology to literary artistry, and the importance of contemporary Greco-Roman history for the analysis of the book of Acts. As an aid to students, each essay has been supplemented with additional notes and bibliography to show where the discussion has continued since Dibelius. This will provide an excellent supplementary textbook for courses on the New Testament or the Bible. -
Dear Diotrephes : Whats Our Position
$21.99Add to cartThese letters were written to various friends, critics, and inquisitors who were trying to learn our position on the prevailing issues in the Church of Christ. Asking for help was enough to uncover other issues. Everyone felt compelled to “take a stand” on every issue. I was searching for help due to my failing eyesight and a concern for my wife and six children. When I asked whether James 5:14 had really “passed away,” as they said, where could I go for help? I learned that hardly any of them believed the Bible. They just said they did. I was told that there were 27 branches of us. The introduction of the healing question doubled the number, so we had 54. The Holy Spirit question caused further division, so we had 108 sects. Speaking in tongues, professional clergy, and fellowship issues made 216 socioreligious sects. Voila! How is that for growth?
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Israel And The Church
$32.99Add to cartModern Israel and its relations with its Arab neighbors has been conspicuously in the daily news ever since World War II. Until that time, the concept of Israel and a continuing Jewish people had been hovering in the distant background of Christian thought and doctrine since the post-apostolic era. In this important work, Dr. Diprose demonstrates the uniqueness of Israel and its special place in the divine plan.
By carefully reviewing relevant New Testament and post-apostolic writings, the author traces the origin and development of Replacement Theology-the concept that the Church has completely and permanently replaced ethnic Israel in the outworking of God’s plan throughout history-challenging its origin and role in the development of Christian thought on the future of ethnic Israel.
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Postcolonial Theologies
$32.99Add to cartA theology in tune with postcolonial theory has the potential to creatively inform and transform ecclesial practice. Focusing on the relation of theology to postcolonial theory, Postcolonial Theologies brings together a wide diversity of authors, many of them fresh and exciting theological voices, in essays that are stunningly creative and prophetically lucid. All essays are theologically constructive, not merely deconstructive or critical, in their visions for Christianity. Forming a sort of doctrinal landscape, they emerge under the themes of theological anthropology shaped by ethnicity, class, and privilege; a Christology that intersects the claims of Christ and empire; and a Cosmology that imagines a postcolonial world.
Essays and contributors include:
* Introduction: Alien/nation, Liberation, and the Postcolonial Underground
* Complacencies and Cul-de-sacs: Christian Theologies and Colonialism, R.S. Sugirtharajah
* Spirit and Liberation: Achieving Postcolonial Theology in the United States, Mark Lewis Taylor
* Who Is Americana/o? Theological Anthropology, Postcoloniality, and the Spanish-Speaking Americas, Michelle Gonzalez
* Monstrosities, Miracles, and Mission: Religion and the Politics of Disablement, Sharon Betcher
* Who/What Is Asian? A Postcolonial Theological Reading of Orientalism and Neo-orientalism, Nam-Soon Kang
* Homeland as Borderland: On the Territories of Christian Subjectivity, Michael Nausner
* Mark and Empire: Zealot and Postcolonial Readings, Stephen D. Moore
* The Transgressive Power of Jeong: A Postcolonial Hybridization of Christology, Wonhee Joh
* Divine Commerce: Christology for Times of Neo-colonial Empire, Marion Grau
* God at the Crossroads: A Postcolonial Reading of Sophia, Mayra Rivera
* Liberating God-Talk: Postcolonialism and the Challenge of the Margins, Joerg Rieger
* The Love of Postcolonialism: Theology in the Interstices of Empire, Catherine Keller——————————————————————————–
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Reclaiming The Center
$25.00Add to cartIn Reclaiming the Center Millard J. Erickson, Paul Kjoss Helseth, and Justin Taylor have assembled a team of theologians and philosophers to examine the theological, philosophical, and historiographic assumptions of postconservatism evangelicalism. They argue that postconservatism is an innovative project fueled by an accommodation to postmodernism, and that there is a more theologically sound, philosophically informed, and historically accurate way to proceed.
Reclaiming the Center is a valuable contribution to any pastor or student’s study of where contemporary evangelicalism stands today, but also a guide for how we can move forward with wisdom and discernment while not succumbing to the spirit of this age.
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Presence And Work Of The Holy Spirit
$19.99Add to cartWithin these pages, you will discover the importance of the presence of the Holy Spirit in the believer’s life. R. A. Torrey also reveals the work of the Holy Spirit in helping to bring unbelievers into the kingdom of God. He also shows how to receive God’s favor and blessings, the way the Holy Spirit imparts life to the spiritually dead, and our need to follow the Holy Spirit’s guidance. These eternal issues–and many more–are covered in this in-depth examination of who the Holy Spirit is and His work in our lives. Followers of Christ, as well as those searching, will be permanently transformed as God’s divine power flows through their hearts.
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Honest To God
$35.99Add to cartThis is the edited collection of papers given at the recent symposium, Honest to God, Forty Years On. Following the 40th anniversary of the publication of Honest to God, by John Robinson, the symposium was held to discuss how far the issues raised in the book 40 years ago, have impacted on the Church and on current Christian thought, and to ask where we are in the debate about these issues today. This is a contemporary discussion with a forward-looking attitude. The book reflects the discussions and divides into four main areas covering; Culture and Context, how the original text Honest to God, tried to relate doctrine to contemporary thought, and the situation today ; God Language in Honest to God and God Language now, Behaviour and Belief, has religion been reduced to ethics?; The Christology of Honest to God and what Jesus means to us now. Featuring an introduction by the Dean of Southwark, Colin Slee, Honest to God, Forty Years On is an engaging text for any reader with an interest in comparative religious studies.
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Truth In All Its Glory
$29.99Add to cartThis guided tour of the Reformed faith highlights the glory of God’s truth and grace. William Edgar takes us first to the historical roots of the Reformed tradition and then leads us through its major doctrines, including God, the trinity, revelation, creation, the fall, redemption, and the church. He gives special attention to the doctrines of salvation and makes suggestions for further understanding and application of a Reformed worldview to our age. An introduction to Reformed theology, Truth in All Its Glory can be used formally, for example, in a study group or membership class, or less formally, by friends who hope to introduce friends to the Reformed faith.
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Memoirs Of God
$29.00Add to cartThis insightful work examines the variety of ways that collective memory, oral tradition, history, and history writing intersect. Integral to all this are the ways in which ancient Israel was shaped by the monarchy, the Babylonian exile, and the dispersions of Judeans and the ways in which Israel conceptualized and interacted with the divine–Yahweh as well as other deities.
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Christian Faith And The Problem Of Evil Print On Demand Title
$38.99Add to cartA Print on Demand Title
The problem of evil has challenged religious minds and hearts throughout the ages. Just how can the presence of suffering, tragedy, and wrongdoing be squared with the all-powerful, all-loving God of faith? This book gathers some of the best, most meaningful recent reflections on the problem of evil, with contributions by shrewd thinkers in the areas of philosophy, theology, literature, linguistics, and sociology.
In addition to bringing new insights to the old problem of evil, Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil is set apart from similar volumes by the often-novel approaches its authors take to the subject. Many of the essays pursue classic lines in speculative philosophy, but others address the problem of evil through biblical criticism, the thought of Simone Weil, and the faith of battered women and African American slaves. As a result, this book will interest a wide range of readers.
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Heaven
$27.99Add to cartWhat questions do you ponder about paradise? Are there really mansions? Will you see your loved ones again? What will happen on judgment day? Biblically based and thoroughly researched, Alcorn’s definitive look at the afterlife will encourage you to move beyond your preconceived notions of eternity and strive for heaven while you’re living on earth.
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Teaching As Believing
$34.99Add to cartThe public university classroom is a place where socialization still occurs: it’s where students learn to be citizens of the world. Having attended to political correctness and multi-culturalism, universities are now facing the issue of spirituality in their quest to educate the whole person. In this book, Chris Anderson takes up this task by carefully exploring how a professor of faith can help a public university accomplish its pluralistic mission. Anderson illustrates how the study of secular literature throws fresh light on the ways in which the Bible can be read. He also deftly shows how a sympathetic study of the Bible trains secular readers for understanding the abiding significance of the Western literary canon as a kind of scripture. Anderson thus gives readers a book that is as much about the experience of a faithful teacher and the proper ends of education as it is about discovering the right ways to read texts-be they sacred or secular.
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Surprise Of The Sacred
$16.99Add to cartAuthor and former warden of Iona Abbey, Peter Millar reflects on where the sacred may be found in the modern world. This book shows how to recognise and celebrate the authentic presence and work of the Holy Spirit. The Iona connection gives it wide appeal throughout the Christian market. Peter Millar is a Church of Scotland minister and was formerly Warden of Iona Abbey. He is the author of a number of popular titles. He lives in Perthshire but spends much time in Australia working with the Iona community there.
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Kingdom Of Christ
$25.00Add to cartNever before has there been a thorough examination of the new “Kingdom” consensus among evangelicals on many former theological points of contention and its effects. In The Kingdom of Christ: The New Evangelical Perspective, Russell D. Moore relates the history leading up to this consensus from the time theologian Carl F. H. Henry called for it fifty years ago. He then examines how this consensus offers a renewed theological foundation for evangelical engagement in the social and political realms.
While evangelical scholars and pastors will be interested in this sharp, insightful book, evangelicals involved in public policy will also find it useful in discovering how this new evangelical Kingdom perspective will play out in the public square.
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Heaven On Earth
$29.99Add to cartThe temple stood at the very heart of Israelite religion and casts its shadow across Christian faith and spirituality. The temple is the biblical symbol par excellence of the glory of God’s presence with his people. Any Christian theology that attempts to grapple with God’s indwelling of creation, with heaven on earth, must get to grips with the meaning of the temple and its fulfillment in Christ and his body, the church. In this book evangelical scholars examine the temple in all the key Old and New Testament documents, from Genesis to Revelation and then consider its contemporary significance. This book not only makes an important contribution to the study of the temple in various biblical texts but also to the project of a unified Biblical Theology and its implications for Systematic Theology.
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Exploring And Proclaiming The Apostles Creed
$31.99Add to cartForeword by Geoffrey Wainwright
Doctrinal preaching has fallen on hard times in recent years. Exploring and Proclaiming the Apostles’ Creed seeks to stimulate renewed interest in – and provide useful models of – Christian proclamation that is truly rooted in the central tenets of the faith. Using the Apostles’ Creed as a template for doctrinal, confessional preaching, this book draws together an ecumenical cast of respected biblical scholars and preachers who explain the creed and demonstrate its preaching possibilities. Each of the book’s fifteen chapters consists of an essay that explores and illuminates one of the creed’s articles of faith, followed by a scintillating sermon that models how that article can be preached as good news today.
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Abrahams Promise : Judaism And Jewish Christian Relations
$33.99Add to cartAbraham’s Promise presents a selection of important writings by noted Jewish philosopher-theologian Michael Wyschogrod, who is widely admired for his singular contributions to Jewish-Christian relations. Including several pieces never published before, this reader aptly captures the broad scope of Wyschogrod’s work on Judaism and the Jewish-Christian encounter, collecting seminal essays, articles, and reviews that address such topics as the God of Abraham and the God of philosophy, sin and atonement, Judaism and the land, the Six Day War, Paul on Jews and Gentiles, and the theology of Karl Barth. An introductory essay by editor R. Kendall Soulen sets Wyschogrod’s career and writings in context.
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Discerning The Divine
$45.00Add to cartAn ideal introduction to Christian theology, Discerning the Divine presents the doctrine of God as the most important subject in Christian believing and living. Chapters discuss the complex God question and the task of Christian theology. Includes a glossary of terms.
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Reconstructing Pastoral Theology
$42.00Add to cartIn Pastoral Care in the Classical Tradition, Andrew Purves argued that pastoral care and theology has long ignored Scripture and Christian doctrine, and pastoral practice has become secularized in both method and goal, the fiefdom of psychology and the social sciences. He builds further on this idea here, presenting a christological basis for ministry and pastoral theology.
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Spirit And Resistance
$22.00Add to cartWriting from a Native American perspective, theologian George Tinker probes American Indian culture, its vast religious and cultural legacy, and its ambiguous relationship to the tradition–historic Christianity–that colonized and converted it. After five hundred years of conquest and social destruction, he says, any useful reflection must come to terms with the political state of Indian affairs and the political hopes and visions for recovering the health and well-being of Indian communities. Does Christian theology have a positive role to play? Tinker’s work offers an overview of contemporary native American culture and its perilous state. Critical of recent liberal and New Age co-opting of Native spiritual practices, Tinker also offers a critical corrective to liberation theology. He shows how Native insights into the Sacred Other and sacred space helpfully reconfigure traditional ideas of God, Jesus’ notion of the reign of God, and our relation to the earth. From this basis he offers novel proposals about cultural survival and identity, sustainability, and the endangered health of Native Americans.
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101 Amazing Things About Heaven
$10.99Add to cartC.S. Lewis once said history shows that the Christians who had the most influence on their world were the Christians who thought most of the next world. This book directs readers’ minds to their future home in glory by offering familiar, surprising, humbling, inspiring, and amazing truths about Heaven, accompanied by an encouraging Scripture and an insightful explanation. This book will remind readers of their wonderful future with God, and help from move out with renewed faith to influence the world in which they live.
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Temple And The Churchs Mission
$35.99Add to cartSeries Preface
Author’s Preface
Preface By Mary Dorinda Beale
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1. Introduction
2. Cosmic Symbolism Of Temples In The Old Testament
3. The Expanding Purpose Of Temples In The Old Testament
4. The Expanding End-Time Purpose Of Temples In The Old Testament
5. The “Already And Not Yet” Fulfillment Of The End-Time Temple In Christ And His People: The Gospels
6. The Inauguration Of A New Temple In The Book Of Acts
7. The Inauguration Of A New Temple In The Epistles Of Paul
8. The Temple In 2 Thessalonians 2
9. The Inauguration Of A New Temple In Hebrews
10. The World-Encompassing Temple In Revelation
11. The Temple In Ezekiel 40–48 And Its Relationship To The New Testament
12. Theological Conclusions: The Physical Temple As A Foreshadowing Of God’s And Christ’s Presence As The True Temple
13. Practical Reflections On Eden And The Temple For The Church In The Twenty-first Century
Bibliography
Index Of Modern Authors
Index Of Biblical References
Index Of Ancient SourcesAdditional Info
In this comprehensive study, G.K. Beale argues that the Old Testament tabernacle and temples were symbolically designed to point to the end-time reality that God’s presence, formerly limited to the Holy of Holies, would be extended throughout the cosmos. Hence, John’s vision in Revelation 21 is best understood as picturing the new heavens and earth as the eschatological temple. Beal’s stimulating exposition traces the theme of the tabernacle and temple across the Bible’s story line, illuminating many texts and closely related themes along the way. He shows how the significance and symbolism of the temple can be better understood in the context of ancient Near Eastern assumptions, and offers new insights into the meaning of the temple in both Old and New Testaments. -
For All The Saints
$15.95Add to cart“We have been drifting into a muddle and a mess, putting together bits and pieces of traditions, ideas and practices in the hope that they will make sense. They don’t. There may be times when a typical Anglican fudge is a pleasant, chewy sort of thing, but this isn’t one of them. It’s time to think and speak clearly and act decisively.”
With these robust words Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham, throws down a challenge to current liturgy and practice surrounding All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days, and sets out to clarify our thinking about what happens to people after they die. Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, what it means to pray for the dead, what (and who) are the saints, are all addressed in this invigorating and rigorously argued book. -
Paul In Roman Custody
$57.99Add to cartIn this book, Rapske uses ancient literary sources and archaeological evidence to uncover important background on the custodial system of the Graeco-Roman world in order to better view Paul’s persona and Christian mission. This study shows Luke to be keenly aware of the practical and theological threat that imprisonment posed for Paul and argues that this understanding motivated one of Luke’s primary objectives in his writing of Luke-Acts to defend or justify the prisoner missionary Paul to the reader.
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There Shall Be No More Among You
$28.99Add to cartThere Shall Be No Poor Among You is a careful and comprehensive but not overly technical study of the biblical portrait of the poor and poverty. Hoppe introduces the study with the socioeconomic structures of ancient Israel and Roman Palestine, then proceeds systematically to examine the biblical evidence, including that of the Old Testament, New Testament, Apocrypha, and rabbinic literature.
The Bible describes the poor and poverty in a variety of ways. Sometimes poverty is a curse; other times it is a blessing. Sometimes the text is concerned about material poverty exclusively; other times poverty becomes a metaphor for another reality. Hoppe describes the various ways the Bible deals with the poor, but his fundamental conclusion is that the Bible never idealizes the reality of material poverty and the oppression of the poor by the rich. Even when the Bible speaks of “poverty of the spirit” as a positive religious metaphor, God requires humans to seek social justice.
Hoppe suggests that just as poverty is not idealized in the Bible, so the poor should be a priority of every community of faith. Ancient Israel, early Judaism, Jesus, and the first Christians did not forget the poor, and if believers today wish to be faithful to their biblical heritage, neither can they.
This book provides a practical background for scholars and is a primer for a significant theological motif. It will be useful in the classroom (in college and seminary courses in biblical ethics and social justice), as well as in serious Bible study. Study questions will help readers and students further probe history, theology, and application.
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Beyond The Passion
$24.00Add to cartFor most Christian believers, what is truly remarkable and important about Jesus is not his life, but his resurrection from the dead. They may believe that Jesus’ death is significant not as the end of Jesus’ life, but as the first half of the saving event that comprises the Christian gospel: the death and resurrection of Jesus. For Christians, this great divine cosmic event, around which all of human history pivots, is what saves us from our sins. Apart from this, the death of Jesus would simply be the meaningless end to an interesting but insignificant life. In this lively and provocative work, Patterson reconstructs early Christian assessments of Jesus’ significance and also questions basic assumptions about modern interpretations of Jesus’ death. He emphasizes the importance of Jesus’ life in relation to his death and resurrection. And he challenges individualistic notions of how Jesus’ death relates to Christian ethics.
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Creation And Fall
$29.00Add to cartVolume 3 in a sixteen volume series offering a fresh, critical translation of Bonhoeffer’s writings, with introductions, annotations, and interpretation. Creation and Fall originated in Bonhoeffer’s lectures at University of Berlin in 1932-33 in which he called his students to focus their attention on the word of God as the word of truth in a time of turmoil.
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Repentance 1 : The Doctrine Of God And The Knowledge Of Salvation
$27.99Add to cartThis work is written with a law enforcement officer’s investigative mindset and from the perspective of a prisoner. I discovered through a survey of Christian bookstores that no books were exclusively on or about repentance, but most only touched on the topic. The only author who had anything to say about repentance beyond a mere mention was Charles G. Finney in Finney’s Systematic Theology. This 600-page work transformed my thinking and influenced my investigation. This book discusses spiritual leadership without bashing any spiritual leader. It points out carnality without castigating any particular ministry or denomination. Hundreds of illustrations will familiarize the reader with revelations about repentance and carnality. These illustrations, like parables, contain revolutionary truths that are true to Scripture, reason, and life, so that Repentance: The Doctrine of God may become one harmonious revelation! Warning: As you read this book, you will encounter deep-seated carnality residing within the blackened depths of your soul, and it will not want to be exposed! But take heart-Almighty God will accompany you on this journey for the complete regeneration of your soul.
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God Entranced Vision Of All Things
$25.00Add to cartCommemorating the 300th birthday of Jonathan Edwards, this volume celebrates the philosopher-theologian’s life and legacy. General editors John Piper and Justin Taylor chose ten essays that enlighten different aspects of Edwards. Opening with biographical and historical background, contributors then examine lessons from Edwards still useful today, concluding with an analysis of three of his most influential and demanding works.
Contributors Stephen Nichols, J. I. Packer, Donald Whitney, Mark Dever, Sam Storms, and Mark Talbot – among others – are helpful in guiding today’s readers to understand the man who strived to glorify God in his personal life and public ministry.
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Spirit In The Cities
$18.00Add to cartIn recent decades economic dislocation, immigration, new architecture, and other forces have transformed the physical, social, and even religious landscape of large cities. There gleaming skyscrapers tower over struggling ghettos, abandoned businesses mar upscale shopping areas, and tall-steeple churches sometimes languish where storefront mosques thrive. Exploring the religious significance of this new urban landscape, the Workgroup on Constructive Theology traveled to select cities and found an exciting and vibrant and multivoiced new religious spirit at work there. In these chapters, leading American theologians delve deeply into the contemporary spiritual geographies of five cities, capturing, through a mix of personal narrative, historical narrative, political analysis, and theological rumination, some sense of this new sacred space and the spirit aborning there.
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Postmodern Life Cycle
$24.99Add to cart“Friedrich Schweitzer is knowledgeable of both European and American cultural shifts into postmodernity. This well-written account of the impacts of media saturation, the relativization of religious authority, and the rapid global emergence of varieties of spiritual orientations and practices, is the first of its kind. Schweitzer’s knowledge of practices of faith and his mastery of the available research literature on posmodern conditions make this work indispensable for religious leaders, students of postmodernity, and a broad reading public. A great achievement!”
