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  • The Gay Debate, By Stanton L. Jones
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    The Gay Debate

    by Stanton L. Jones

    Stanton L. Jones presents an overview of the Christian understanding of sexuality in general and then skillfully tackles the revisionists of Scripture who are challenging the traditional Christian position of homosexuality. He then calls for Christians to act with compassion and yet continue to speak the truth without fear. This booklet will no doubt spark further inquiry into this timely topic ...

  • Commentaries on Romans and 1-2 Corinthians, By Ambrosiaster
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    Commentaries on Romans and 1-2 Corinthians

    Ancient Christian Texts

    by Ambrosiaster
    Edited and Translated by Gerald L. Bray

    Ambrosiaster ("Star of Ambrose") is the name given to the anonymous author of the earliest complete Latin commentary on the thirteen epistles of Paul. The commentaries were thought to have been written by Ambrose throughout the Middle Ages, but their authorship was challenged by Erasmus, whose arguments have proved decisive.

    Here for the first time Ambrosiaster's commentaries on Romans and ...

  • Resisting the Marriage Plot: Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Brontë, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft, By Dalene Joy Fisher
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    Resisting the Marriage Plot

    Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Brontë, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft

    Studies in Theology and the Arts Series

    by Dalene Joy Fisher

    "I cannot suppose any situation more distressing than for a woman of sensibility with an improving mind to be bound to such a man as I have described."

    Mary Wollstonecraft's response to one of her early critics points to the fact that fiction has long been employed by authors to cast a vision for social change. Less acknowledged, however, has been the role of the Christian ...

  • The Cross and Gendercide: A Theological Response to Global Violence Against Women and Girls, By Elizabeth Gerhardt
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    The Cross and Gendercide

    A Theological Response to Global Violence Against Women and Girls

    by Elizabeth Gerhardt

    Violence against women and girls is a human rights epidemic that affects millions of lives around the world. While many Christians are addressing this crisis through education, advocacy and philanthropic support, there has been a reluctance to name gendercide as a theological and confessional issue, a matter that strikes at the very essence of the Christian faith. In The Cross and Gendercide, ...

  • Leading the Way: Leadership Is Not Just for Super Christians, By Paul Borthwick
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    Leading the Way

    Leadership Is Not Just for Super Christians

    by Paul Borthwick

    As we enter a new millennium, there is a growing vacuum of leadership among the younger generation. The need is great for young men and women who will rise to the challenge—in the face of great opportunities and great obstacles—to be obedient to the call of leadership. This is the rallying call Paul Borthwick puts forth in Leading The Way. He asserts that leadership is not just reserved ...

  • The Pietist Option: Hope for the Renewal of Christianity, By Christopher Gehrz and Mark Pattie III
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    The Pietist Option

    Hope for the Renewal of Christianity

    by Christopher Gehrz and Mark Pattie III

    Historian Mark Noll has written that historic Pietism "breathed a badly needed vitality" into post-Reformation Europe. Now the time has come for Pietism to revitalize Christianity in post-Christendom America. In The Pietist Option, Christopher Gehrz, a historian of Pietism, and Mark Pattie, a pastor in the Pietist tradition, show how Pietism holds great promise for the church—and the world—today. ...

  • More Than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel, By Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice
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    More Than Equals

    Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel

    The IVP Signature Collection

    by Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice

    "The first step in the reconciliation process," Spencer Perkins writes, "is admitting that the race problem exists and that our inability to deal with race has weakened the credibility of our gospel."

    When longtime ministry partners and friends Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice began writing More Than Equals in the early 1990s, their goal was to offer an example of how ...

  • Living Wisely with the Church Fathers, By Christopher A. Hall
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    Living Wisely with the Church Fathers

    by Christopher A. Hall

    The first centuries of Christianity are like a far country. But despite their foreignness, they hold a treasury of wisdom for living. Early Christians struggled and flourished in a culture that was in love with empire and military power, infatuated with sex and entertainment, tolerant of all gods but hostile to the One. And from this crucible of discipleship they extracted lessons of virtue, faithfulness, ...