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  • Wonders from Your Law: Nexus Passages and the Promise of an Exegetical Intertextual Old Testament Theology, By Kevin S. Chen
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    Wonders from Your Law

    Nexus Passages and the Promise of an Exegetical Intertextual Old Testament Theology

    by Kevin S. Chen
    Foreword by Stephen G. Dempster

    Southwestern Journal of Theology Book of the Year—Biblical Studies

    SOLA Network's Asian American Book Awards Honorable Mention

    Finding internal coherence within the Old Testament is a challenging task. Numerous scholars over the centuries have provided various, divergent frameworksto organize the content of the Hebrew Bible. ...

  • Creation and Doxology: The Beginning and End of God's Good World, Edited by Gerald L. Hiestand and Todd Wilson
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    Creation and Doxology

    The Beginning and End of God's Good World

    Center for Pastor Theologians Series

    Edited by Gerald L. Hiestand and Todd A Wilson

    The doctrine of creation is crucial to the Christian faith, but it has often been maligned, misinterpreted, or ignored.

    Some, such as pagan philosophers and Gnostics, have tended to denigrate the goodness of the material world. More recently, new questions have emerged regarding human origins in light of the Darwinian account of evolution. What does it mean today to both affirm ...

  • Making Peace with the Land: God's Call to Reconcile with Creation, By Fred Bahnson and Norman Wirzba
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    Making Peace with the Land

    God's Call to Reconcile with Creation

    Resources for Reconciliation

    by Fred Bahnson and Norman Wirzba
    Foreword by Bill McKibben

    God is reconciling all things in heaven and on earth.We are alienated not only from one another, but also from the land that sustains us. Our ecosystems are increasingly damaged, and human bodies are likewise degraded. Most of us have little understanding of how our energy is derived or our food is produced, and many of our current industrialized practices are both unhealthy for our bodies and unsustainable ...

  • Sacramental Life: Spiritual Formation Through the Book of Common Prayer, By David A. deSilva
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    Sacramental Life

    Spiritual Formation Through the Book of Common Prayer

    by David A. deSilva

    What happens when old meets new

    As David deSilva has experienced the ancient wisdom of the Book of Common Prayer, he's been formed spiritually in deep and lasting ways. In these pages, he offers you a brand new way to use the Book of Common Prayer, that you too might experience new growth, new intimacy with God and a new lens through which to view the world.

    Focusing ...

  • Righteous by Promise: A Biblical Theology of Circumcision, By Karl Deenick
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    Righteous by Promise

    A Biblical Theology of Circumcision

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Karl Deenick
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    Given the foundational importance of circumcision in the Old Testament and its prevalence in numerous debates in the New Testament, it is surprising that so little detailed work has been done on establishing a biblical theology of circumcision. This lack is even more surprising given that circumcision forms the background for some of the most hotly contested writings of the apostle Paul. The situation ...

  • The Message of the Song of Songs, By Tom Gledhill
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    The Message of the Song of Songs

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by Tom Gledhill

    At first reading, the Song of Songs appears to be an unabashed celebration of physical attraction, mutual love, and sexual consummation between a man and a woman. Tom Gledhill maintains that the Song of Songs is in fact just that—a literary, poetic exploration of human love that strongly affirms loyalty, beauty, and sexuality. Yet in God's story, these things are not ends in themselves. ...

  • Acts, By William J. Larkin Jr.
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    Acts

    A Commentary on the New Testament

    The IVP New Testament Commentary Series

    by William J. Larkin

    If ever there was a hostile environment for the gospel, it was the strife-torn, ethnically diverse backwater of the Roman Empire known as Palestine following the ascension of Jesus. But the gospel thrived--beginning from Jerusalem and spreading throughout Judea, Samaria and the rest of the known world.In Acts, the sequel to his Gospel, Luke tells how the Holy Spirit transformed a ragtag band of ...

  • Old Testament Ethics for the People of God, By Christopher J. H. Wright
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    Old Testament Ethics for the People of God

    by Christopher J. H. Wright

    Nothing confuses Christian ethics quite like the Old Testament. Some faithful readers struggle through its pages and conclude that they must obey its moral laws but may disregard its ceremonial and civil laws. Others abandon its teaching altogether in favor of a strictly New Testament ethic. Neither option, argues Chris Wright, gives the Old Testament its due.In this innovative approach to Old Testament ...