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  • Theology's Epistemological Dilemma: How Karl Barth and Alvin Plantinga Provide a Unified Response, By Kevin Diller
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    Theology's Epistemological Dilemma

    How Karl Barth and Alvin Plantinga Provide a Unified Response

    Strategic Initiatives in Evangelical Theology

    by Kevin Diller

    The problem of faith and reason is as old as Christianity itself. Today's philosophical, scientific and historical challenges make the epistemic problem inescapable for believers.

    Can faith justify its claims? Does faith give us confidence in the truth? Is believing with certainty a virtue or a vice?

    In Theology's Epistemological Dilemma, Kevin Diller ...

  • The Divine Authenticity of Scripture: Retrieving an Evangelical Heritage, By A. T. B. McGowan
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    The Divine Authenticity of Scripture

    Retrieving an Evangelical Heritage

    by A. T. B. McGowan

    Evangelicals have taken extraordinary care in formulating and articulating a high view of Scripture. And yet the doctrine is not without its inadequacies and its internal critics--both past and present.Reviewing the evangelical discussion and formulations over the past century and more, particularly in the Reformed tradition in North America, Andrew McGowan is not content with the present state ...

  • C. S. Lewis  Francis Schaeffer: Lessons for a New Century from the Most Influential Apologists of Our Time, By Scott R. Burson and Jerry L. Walls
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    C. S. Lewis Francis Schaeffer

    Lessons for a New Century from the Most Influential Apologists of Our Time

    by Scott R. Burson and Jerry L. Walls

    In some ways, they could not be more different: the pipe-smoking, Anglican Oxford don and the blue-collar scion of conservative Presbyterianism. But C. S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer, each in his unique way, fashioned Christian apologetics that influenced millions in their lifetimes. And the work of each continues to be read and studied today.In this book Scott Burson and Jerry Walls compare and ...

  • For Christ and the University: The Story of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of the USA - 1940-1990, By Keith Hunt and Gladys Hunt
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    For Christ and the University

    The Story of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of the USA - 1940-1990

    by Keith Hunt and Gladys Hunt

    Christianity Today 1993 Critics Choice Award

    Over the last fifty years God has used InterVarsity Christian Fellowship to shape the lives of thousands of students. This fascinating chronicle begins with the early influences that shaped university witness since its founding. Eventually these influences coalesced to form InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United ...

  • Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers, By Christopher A. Hall
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    Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers

    by Christopher A. Hall

    Many Christians today long to become reacquainted with their ancient ancestors in the faith. They see a deeper worship and devotion in the prayers and hymns of the early church. And they believe that the writings of the early church can shed new light on their understanding of Scripture.

    But where and how do we begin? Our first encounter with the writings of the church fathers may seem like ...

  • Walking the Labyrinth: A Place to Pray and Seek God, By Travis Scholl
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    Walking the Labyrinth

    A Place to Pray and Seek God

    by Travis Scholl
    Foreword by Walter Wangerin, Jr.

    One day Travis Scholl discovered a labyrinth in his neighborhood. As he began to walk it, he found this ancient practice offered a much-needed path away from life's demands, allowing him to encounter God in quiet solitude.

    In this meditative guide, Travis Scholl takes readers on a journey:

    "The path is always new, because, as a spiritual discipline, the labyrinth is a tool for contemplation, ...

  • Joshua, Judges, Ruth, By N. Scott Amos
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    Joshua, Judges, Ruth

    Old Testament Volume 4

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    by N. Scott Amos

    "Where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God."

    Ruth's response to her mother-in-law Naomi demonstrated both Ruth's loyalty to her family and her trust in God. The Reformers of the sixteenth century found theological significance in such Old Testament narratives. For example, German Lutheran pastor and theologian ...

  • Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Edited by David Fink
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    Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by David C. Fink

    "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

    a time to be born, and a time to die..."

    When the reformers of the sixteenth century turned to this well-known text from the Book of Ecclesiastes, they did not find a reason to despair, but rather confirmation of their hope and faith in God. For example, Martin Luther pointed ...

  • Matthew, Edited by Jason K. Lee and William M. Marsh
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    Matthew

    New Testament Volume 1

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Jason K. Lee and William M. Marsh

    "As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, 'Take, eat; this is my body.'"

    How should one interpret these words of Jesus?

    The sixteenth-century Reformers turned to Scripture to find the truth of God's Word, but that doesn't mean they always agreed on how to interpret it. For example, when approaching ...

  • 2 Corinthians, Edited by Scott M. Manetsch
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    2 Corinthians

    New Testament Volume 9B

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Scott M. Manetsch

    "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come."

    When the Reformers of the sixteenth century turned to this biblical text, originally written by Paul to the first-century church in Corinth, they found truths that apply to Christians regardless of their historical context. For example, Reformed theologian Wolfgang ...