Theology (Exegetical Historical Practical etc.)
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Responsible Grace : John Wesleys Practical Theology
$36.99Add to cartThe central purpose of this book is to provide a reflective overview of John Wesley’s characteristic theological activities and convictions. One special focus is highlighting the practical theological dynamics of Wesley’s work as theologian, and suggesting possible implications for contemporary attempts to recover theology as a practical discipline.
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Theology Of The Letters Of James Peter And Jude
$70.99Add to cartThe letters of James, 1 and 2 Peter, and Jude are among the most neglected parts of the New Testament, for they lack the immediacy and specificity of the Pauline letters. The authors of this study seek to remedy such neglect; they set the letters in context, examine their major themes, and argue that they are important both for the theology of the New Testament generally and for contemporary discussion about the nature and character of Christian faith today.
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Keeper Of The Word A Print On Demand Title
$38.99Add to cartThis “Stringfellow reader” collects the most significant of William Stringfellow’s works – currently all out of print – plus important material not previously published. Included are an introductory essay by the editor that comments on Stringfellow’s major works and the impact of his thought; an autobiography constructed from Stringfellow’s own writings; an anthology of Stringfellow’s writings, including excerpts from thirteen books and from magazine articles and speeches; portions of two books left incomplete at the time of Stringfellow’s death, and a thorough bibliography of Stringfellow’s writings.
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They Cried To The Lord
$39.00Add to cart”Exceptionally fine work for both the church and academy. There are innumerable quotations from the prayer texts themselves plus commentary; reflections on Christian faith, life, and thought; the refusal to evade difficult theological issues,”—Presbyterian Outlook.
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Jesus In Contemporary Scholarship
$40.95Add to cartProfessor Borg, a nationally known Jesus scholar, offers an accessible guide through the growing maze of literature and research on Jesus. A welcome resource for libraries and researchers, the book focuses on the renaissance in Jesus studies in the 1980s, examines issues in contemporary Jesus research, and reveals how current research may help rethink Jesus’ identity.
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Finneys Systematic Theology (Expanded)
$45.00Add to cartTrue to Scripture, true to reason, and true to life.
Discover why these writings have been the impetus for revivals around the world.
Students of revival agree that Charles Grandison Finney spearheaded one of America’s greatest revivals and influenced the course of history. Church rolls swelled in the wake of Finney’s revivals. He is often directly or indirectly credited with the conversions of around 500,000 people.
Finney’s theological convictions were born in the fires of revival and shaped by a keen lawyer’s mind committed to the full authority of the Bible. He gave his life to promote: “The return to and practice of Biblical Christianity in the power of the Holy Spirit for the sake of God’s kingdom and glory.” The distinctive truths that Finney preached brought such a deep conviction of sin that today’s church does well when it studies his position on the moral government of God, the nature of man, the atonement, sovereignty, attributes of love, unity of moral action and regeneration.
This expanded volume represents the complete 1878 edition, two lectures of truth from the earlier 1847 and 1851 editions, a comprehensive introduction from L.G. Parkhurst, Jr., plus appendixes, a glossary, and a scripture index.
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Narratives Of A Vulnerable God
$39.00Add to cartWilliam Placher confronts challenging questions: Does a theology with a male savior inevitably contribute to the oppression of women? Does a theology with a suffering saviour valorize suffering in a way that only makes it likely to continue? Is a theology that identifies one human figure as the self-revelation of God, the unique savior, somehow intrinsically unfair to and oppressive of adherents of other religious traditions? Placher also deals with the issue of how the Christian community should function in contemporary American society and the academic world.
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Winds Of The Spirit
$55.00Add to cartTheology, if it is to be a dynamic force in the world and not a lifeless relic, needs to be a continual process of reinterpretation, says Peter Hodgson. This sweeping reconstruction of theology in the postmodern period is a return to the process of continual theological revisioning through a systematic theology that has seemingly been abandoned by postmodern thinkers.
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Christian Theology : An Introduction To Its Traditions And Tasks (Revised)
$39.00Add to cartThis book is a collaboration of contributors who met in a Workgroup on Constructive Theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School to create a work that would (1) introduce the student of theology to the Christian tradition by setting forth in brief compass its primary shape and substance and (2) to pose the issues for systematic theology in the present day. It presents from a liberal perspective an introduction to Theology in the following areas: Method, Scripture and Tradition, God, Revelation, Creation and Providence, Human being, Sin and Evil, Christ and Salvation, The Church, The Sacraments, The Spirit and Christian Life, The Kingdom of God and Life Everlasting and The Religions.
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On Religion : Speeches To Its Cultured Despisers
$55.00Add to cartThis seminal work by the great Protestant theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher was first published in 1799 and quickly became a classic apologetic work. This reissue of the Oman translation presents the definitive third edition of the German original and makes this important text available again to students and scholars who wish to gain insight into the development of contemporary Protestant thought.
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Is Jesus The Only Savior
$16.99Add to cart1. Is Jesus the Only Savior?
2. The Early Stage of John Hick’s Pluralism
3. The Second Stage of Hick’s Pluralism
4. Reason, Truth, and Religious Pluralism
5. Pluralism and the Christian Understanding of Jesus Christ
6. Final Thoughts on Hick’s Pluralism
7. An Introduction to Inclusivism
8. Inclusivism and Theology
9. Inclusivism and the Bible
10. Some Remaining Questions
11. Why I Am Not an Inclusivist192 Pages
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1. Is Jesus the Only Savior?
2. The Early Stage of John Hick’s Pluralism
3. The Second Stage of Hick’s Pluralism
4. Reason, Truth, and Religious Pluralism
5. Pluralism and the Christian Understanding of Jesus Christ
6. Final Thoughts on Hick’s Pluralism
7. An Introduction to Inclusivism
8. Inclusivism and Theology
9. Inclusivism and the Bible
10. Some Remaining Questions
11. Why I Am Not an Inclusivist192 Pages
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Doing Theology In Todays World
$29.99Add to cartThis volume focuses on a central question: What does a person need to know for developing a theology? In other words, this book will not only answer objections lodged against the study of theology, but will explain to students, pastors, and laypersons alike what a theologian actually does. It will also present different approaches to the study of theology and review the present status of theological reflection in various Protestant, Orthodox, and Roman Catholic traditions. In the first section of the book evangelical Protestant scholars describe the contributions various disciplines make to the study of theology. In the next section, evangelical Protestant scholars explain the distinctives of their approaches to doing theology. In the third part, theologians who do not identify with evangelical Protestant convictions seek to explain the distinctives of their approaches to doing theology. In the final section, Dr. Kantzer provides a summary analysis of how he does theology and interacts critically with a number of essays in this volume.
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Islam : A Challenge For Christianity
$25.00Add to cartBosnia / Smail Balic? — Africa / Patrick D. Gaffney — Women in Islam and Christianity / Riffat Hassan — Indonesia / Judo Poerwowidagdo — Islam, the one and the many / John Renard — The threat of Islam / John L. Esposito – Is Islam threatened by Christianity? / Mohammed Arkoun — Tawhi?d / V.J. Cornell — The challenge of Islamic monotheism / A. Gonza?lez Montes — Human rights in Islam / Mahmud Gamal-ad-din — The 1981 ‘Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights’ / Heiner Bielefeldt — Is Islamic revelation an abrogation of Judaeo-Christian revelation? / Abdulaziz Sachedina — Christianity – challenged by Islam / Gerhard Bo?wering – The abrogation of Judaism and Christianity in Islam / Jane Dammen McAuliffe — World peace – world religions – world ethic / Hans Ku?ng.
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Covenant : Gods Purpose Gods Plan
$15.99Add to cartAs one of the most prominent themes in Scripture, the covenant is crucial to all Christian theological systems, from dispensationalism to covenant theology to theonomy to liberation theology. One would think that by now all controversies have been exhausted, but an issue of this magnitude can never finally be laid to rest. Because disagreements persist, there is room for yet another attempt to study the covenant and improve our understanding of it. This book proposes that the path toward an evangelical consensus is not to be found in building another modified systematic theology, but in a biblical theology approach. Grounded in this approach, John Walton’s perspective is that while the covenant is characteristically redemptive, formulated along the lines of ancient treaties, and ultimately soteric, it is essentially revelatory. This view in turn has implications regarding the continuity or discontinuity of the covenant phases, the conditionality of the covenant, and our understanding of the people of God. And this ultimately affects the way the Old Testament is preached and taught. Walton’s thesis is an important contribution to the discussion of the covenant and the attempts to find common ground among evangelicals of diverse theological traditions.
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Nonfoundationalism
$15.00Add to cartNot so much as a movement or school as an emerging consensus about philosophical criteria of truth and reality, nonfoundationalism is the critical impulse associated with the work of Richard Rorty, Richard Berstein, and others. Increasingly its critique of the search for sure and impregnable foundations shapes the fundamental commitments that gird contemporary theology. John Thiel here assays a careful exploration of its assumptions and convictions, as well as ways nonfoundationalism has influenced contemporary theology.
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Theological Hermeneutics : Development And Significance
$35.00Add to cartA comprehensive introduction to the history and significance of hermeneutical thinking in theology. Discusses text interpretation throughout history and the significance of text linguistics in a modern and postmodern context.
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Isaiahs Vision And The Family Of God
$45.00Add to cartThis timely series explores current trends within the discipline of biblical interpretation by dealing with the literary qualities of the Bible: the play of its language, the coherence of its final form, and the relationships between text and readers. Biblical interpreters are being challenged to take responsibility for the theological, social, and ethical implications of their readings. This series encourages original readings that breach the confines of traditional biblical criticism.
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In Her Words
$35.99Add to cartIn Her Words illustrates the contributions made to contemporary Christian theology by the increasing number of female theologians. Oden compiles selections from the writings of major female theologians from the early church through the present. The older selections have been translated into modern English. Each selection is accompanied by a brief introduction outlining its historical and theological context. Selections from the early church include Perpetua, The Martyrdom of Crispina, The Martyrdom of Agape, Irene, and Chione; from the monastic and middle period are Clare of Assisi, Hildegard of Bingen, Leoba, Julian of Norwich, and Catherine of Siena; and post-1500 C.E. include Teresa of Avila, Jane de Chantal, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Georgia Harkness.
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Theology And Evangelism In The Wesleyan Heritage
$24.99Add to cartThis is the first volume specifically focused on the theology of evangelism in the Wesleyan tradition to be published inmore than twenty years. It contains essays written by key Methodist leaders from Asia, America, Europe, and Africa, thus offering a wide range of views of the nature and purpose of evangelism in the Wesleyan heritage and providing focused and stimulating theological reflection on the important topic. The essays give attention both to the theology of John Wesley and the evangelistic practices of Wesley’s Methodism and to the theological and institutional development of Methodist evangelism in the two hundred years since Wesley.
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Union With Christ
$38.00Add to cartThe Columbia Series in Reformed Theology represents a joint commitment by Columbia Theological Seminary and Westminster John Knox Press to provide theological resources from the Reformed tradition for the church today. Volumes in this series are intended for scholars, theologians, pastors, and lay people who are committed to faith in search of understanding.
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Sin : Radical Evil In Soul And Society
$35.99Add to cartIn Sin: Radical Evil in Soul and Society, Ted Peters boldly revisits the dark side of human nature and the perennial categories of sin that have been glossed over by our pluralistic culture. Using numerous illustrations from everyday life as well as the social sciences, Peters examines the kinds of evil – both personal and societal mdash; that we all confront on a daily basis. Writing with the goal to both educate and inspire, Peters offers serious theological reflection on sin in a popular style, provides an up-to-date examination of Satanism, and introduces a provocative new theory about how sin works in daily life. An illuminating guide for the educated reader, regardless of field or walk of life, this compelling book forces everyone to ask the question “Am I a sinner?” while it simultaneously provides the gentle and much-needed reminder that God’s grace is available to all who answer in the affirmative.
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Suffering And Hope A Print On Demand Title
$18.99Add to cartThis compelling study by J. Christian Beker provides a moving, triumphant answer to one of life’s greatest mysteries – the presence of suffering in God’s world. Now an established classic in the discussion of the problem of evil, Suffering and Hope plumbs the Old Testament’s response to earthly pain as well as Paul’s own dealings with “redemptive suffering.” Beker seeks to understand how the Bible’s view of suffering relates to our present experience of suffering and to the Christian hope for the future of creation. His concern is with the quality and character of both suffering and hope in a world where the question of suffering is inescapable. This powerful new edition features a foreword by Ben C. Ollenburger that describes the story behind the book – the dehumanizing conditions Beker endured as a slave laborer during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands and the ways in which they helped shape the particular poignancy of his view of suffering. Readers will be moved both by Beker’s personal transparency and by his biblical vision of “hopeful suffering” – the apocalyptic trust in God’s eventual victory over the power of death that poisons his creation.
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Ending Auschwitz : The Future Of Jewish And Christian Life
$32.00Add to cartThis book begins with Marc Ellis’s own journey to Auschwitz in 1992 and reflects back on his past, which includes his childhood experience as a Jew and his university years studying under Holocaust theologian Richard Rubenstein. Marc Ellis has taught and traveled among third-world peoples and has been outspoken on Middle Eastern issues. Based on this experience, Ellis has come to see that both Judaism and Christianity are locked in a static position. He shows that there is a continuity between the era of Christendom, exemplified by 1492, and Auschwitz and provides evidence to show that they are intimately linked. He sees the possibility of Jews and third-world Christians joining in a solidarity characterized by suffering and hope. He advocates what he calls “the ultimate religious act of contemporary Judaism and Christianity” to end Auschwitz and 1492 and to begin anew to create a world where all people can claim their own freedom and history.
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Nature Reality And The Sacred
$34.00Add to cartScience devoid of faith and faith devoid of science both lead to exploitation of the natural world, argues Gilkey. Seeking to chart a course through artificially opposed reefs of scientism and creationism—and to reconcile both—he offers a theology of nature born of an open appropriation of scientific discovery and insight.
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Outline Of The Bible Book By Book
$14.00Add to cartAn Outline of the Bible: Book by Book is an aid to understanding the Bible for both students and general readers. It includes a summary of contents and information on authorship, historical background and literary style of each book of the King James Version. Maps and a glossary are also included.
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Resurrection And Moral Order (Revised)
$32.99Add to cartThis seminal work makes a cogent and compelling case for Christian ethics based on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Drawing on a profound knowledge both of the history of Christina thought and of contemporary ethical theology, O’Dovovan illumines such important concepts as freedom, authority, nature, history, and revelation. Also includes an extensive new prologue in which the author enters into critical dialogue with four key figures in Christian ethics: Finnis, Honecker,Hauerwas and Barth.
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Prophethood Of Black Believers
$33.00Add to cartThe author, one of the founding fathers of the black theology movement, provides this valuable survey of the black church. Using a cross cultural, interdiscplinary, ecumenical approach, he shows how knowledge gained through black theology can be applied to specific areas of ministry such as education, pastoral care, and political and economic issues. He challenges ministers and churches to nurture the “prophethood” of all believers in a holistic ministry in and to the black community, a ministry that has both personal and social dimensions and needs to involve the underclass as well as the middle class.
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Reformed Reader 2
$52.00Add to cartThis volume demonstrates a central conviction of the Reformed tradition–that theology must honor the historic witness of the church as catholic while being faithful to the new tasks of the present-day church. It offers selections from Reformed theology, creeds, confessions, and church documents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Resurrection Reconsidered : Thomas And John In Controversy
$23.00Add to cartClarifying the relationship between the Gospel of Thomas and the Synoptics, Riley sheds fresh light on the doctrinal differences found among first-century disciples. His findings challenge and refute the idea that early Christians believed that Christ physically rose from the dead, emphasizing instead a “spiritual” resurrection. Includes non-transliterated Greek and Hebrew footnotes, indices, and bibliography.
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Vanishing Boundaries : The Religion Of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers
$45.00Add to cartThis in-depth survey provides a vivid overview of the religious world of the Baby Boomers. The authors worked with a national sample of persons confirmed in the Presbyterian Church, examining the religious faith of the Baby Boomers and exploring the reasons they gave for leaving or staying in the church. The authors identify eight types of young adults-half of them churched and the other half unchurched. Their findings provide some unexpected results.
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1st Theologians A Print On Demand Title
$31.99Add to cartThe First Theologians represents an important contribution to the scholarly investigation of the nature and function of early Christian prophecy.
This topic, occasioned by Harnack’s publication of The Didache text in 1884, is one that continues to vex New Testament scholars, who have been unable to reach widespread assent on certain pressing questions: What were the function and location of the prophets in early Christianity? What were the nature and authority of their prophesying? What were the forms and content of their prophecy? Such questions point up the issues involved in the inquiry as it has developed, but the question of just what early Christian prophets were doing when they were prophesying remains open.
Thomas Gillespie refocuses the issue by looking at the apostle Paul’s own description of the prophetic phenomenon in 1 Corinthians. From a careful exegesis of Paul’s arguments in chapters 12 and 14 and 2:6-16, Gillespie puts forth the idea that Paul understood Christian prophecy “as Spirit-inspired interpretation of the theological and ethical implications of the apostolic kerygma.” Because prophecy represents primary reflection on the implications of the gospel, its yield may be termed theology. Therefore Gillespie is able to call the early Christian prophets the first true theologians of the church.
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Fabric Of Theology A Print On Demand Title
$38.99Add to cartAfter showing that today’s evangelicals have not fared well in the crucible of modern pluralism, Lints argues that in order to regain spiritual wholeness, evangelicals must relearn how to think and live theologically. This book highlights several cultural and theological impediments to doing theology from an evangelical perspective, interacts with postmodernism as a theological method, and provides a provocative new outline for the construction of a truly “transformative” evangelical theology in the modern age.
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Holy Spirit And The Christian Life
$25.00Add to cartThis rare volume provides a concise statement of the major ideas of one of the greatest Protestant thinkers of the twen tieth century, Karl Barth. Divided into three parts, it presents Barth’s lecture ” The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life”. Discussion begins with the unity of the persons of the Trinity and the implications this unity has for human conduct This volume emphasizes Barth’s focus on the trinitarian char acter of God’s self-revelation. Barth insists there is no way to get behind or beyond the fact that God is revealed to us in three distinct ways, yet with a unity that cannot be divided. He claims that we can finally look only to God’s self-disclosure as the reliable basis for Christian ethics.
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Rethinking The Unity Of Luke And Acts
$18.00Add to cartPreface
Errata
AbbreviationsIntroduction
The Generic Unity Of Luke And Acts
The Narrative Unity Of Luke And Acts
The Theological Unity Of Luke And Acts
ConclusionBibliography
Bibliography Addendum To The 2007 Publication
Index Of Ancient Sources
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What Is Social Scientific Criticism
$20.00Add to cartThe primary thrust of the book is to display the bearing that the social sciences have on our understanding of the texts and contexts of the New Testament, with due attention being given to theories and models. While the main interest of the volume is the social-scientific, there is also some comparison of this with social history. It has points of contact with other studies that deal with historical and rhetorical issues.
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Human Factor : Evolution Culture And Religion
$23.00Add to cartPhilip Hefner works in an interdisciplinary fashion, examining human beings both scientifically and theologically. He takes into account forces of biological and cultural evolution. Viewing human beings as essentially created co-creators, he offers a balanced view of humanity as both united with the nonhuman creation and unique within the creation.
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Facing The Abusing God
$55.00Add to cartIn this very powerful book, David Blumenthal maintains that having faith in a post-holocaust world means admitting that while God is often loving and kind, fair and merciful, God is also capable of acts so unjst they can only be described as abusive. Grounding his argument in the Scriptures and in the experiences of holocaust survivors and of survivors of child abuse, Blumenthal grapples with how to face a God who works “wondrously through us” and who has worked “aw(e)fully against us.”
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Guest In The House Of Israel
$55.00Add to cartIn this thought-provoking book, Clark M. WIlliamson challenges churches and theologians to become aware of the inherited ideology anti-Judaism that has distorted their teaching, even on such key matters as Jesus, the Scriptures, the church, and God. Williamson bases his study on a wide range of confessional literature from Roman Catholic to Protestant doctrines. He demonstrates that both the people of Israel and the church stand in relation to God only by the grace of God and suggests a radical, constructive alternative to the “teaching of contempt.”
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Prophetic Fragments A Print On Demand Title
$32.99Add to cartThe crisis of religion in America, says Cornel West, is profound and pervasive: profound in that it deepens as Americans turn more desperately toward religion; pervasive in that it affects every form of religion in America, from Christianity to Buddhism, from reform Judaism to Islam. The rise of the religious right, the decline of liberal Christianity, and the challenge of liberation theology are all symptoms of this crisis.
In this book Cornel West explores the landscape of this crisis in essays, articles, reviews, and even fiction. The selections outline the contours of a “principled prophetism” – a prophetic religion that incorporates the best of modernity and secularity (tolerance, fallibilism, criticism), yet brings prophetic critique to bear upon the idols of modernity and secularity (science, technology, and wealth).
Touching on various aspects of Christian thought and action in our post-modern times, the essays in this book are informed by a revolutionary Christian vision that is so often absent from American religious life. They display the intellectual rigor that has made Cornel West a highly respected author and thinker – one who is not only a perceptive surveyor of contemporary Christian thought, but also a gifted shaper of that thought.
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Unleashing The Scripture
$23.99Add to cartThis provocative critique of the uses and abuses of Scripture in the American church shows how liberal (historical-critical) and fundamentalist (literal) approaches to biblical scholarship have corrupted our use of the Bible. Hauerwas argues that the Bible can only be understood in the midst of a disciplined community of people, where the story is actually lived out by dedicated practitioners.
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Climax Of The Covenant
$34.00Add to cartWith an eye to recent proposals on Paul’s view of the law and of his relation to the first century context of his theological thinking, N.T. Wright looks in detail at passages that are central to the current debate. Among these Pauline texts are some of the most controversial sections of Paul, which have often been treated only superficially in studies of Paul’s theology. He argues that Paul saw the death and resurrection of Jesus as the climatic moment in the covenant history of Israel and from this perspective came to a different understanding of the function of the Jewish Law. Dr. Wright succeeds to a remarkable degree in drawing together the themes of Christ and the Law in a new synthesis and in shedding light on many important aspects of Paul’s thought.
