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  • Christmas: The Season of Life and Light, By Emily Hunter McGowin
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    Christmas

    The Season of Life and Light

    Fullness of Time

    by Emily Hunter McGowin
    Series edited by Esau McCaulley

    "O wondrous exchange!"

    Of all the seasons of the church calendar, the Christmas season is the one most recognized and celebrated by our society at large. That means it's the season we're most familiar with—but that can also make it harder to see past Christmas's many cultural trappings to its timeless beauty.

    At the first Christmas, God exchanged the glories of divinity ...

  • Effective Intercultural Evangelism: Good News in a Diverse World, By W. Jay Moon and W. Bud Simon
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    Effective Intercultural Evangelism

    Good News in a Diverse World

    by Jay Moon and Bud Simon

    We live in a multicultural society. But Christians often do not know how to engage those of other faiths. As a result, many Christians hesitate to talk about Christianity with others in any kind of evangelistic way.

    Jay Moonand Bud Simon unpack the intercultural dynamics that Christians need to understand when encountering people from different communities and cultural backgrounds. ...

  • Incarnation: The Person and Life of Christ, By Thomas F. Torrance
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    Incarnation

    The Person and Life of Christ

    by Thomas F. Torrance
    Edited by Robert T. Walker

    The late Thomas F. Torrance has been called "the greatest Reformed theologian since Karl Barth" and "the greatest British theologian of the twentieth century" by prominent voices in the academy. His work has profoundly shaped contemporary theologyin the English-speaking world.

    This first of two volumes comprises Thomas Torrance's lectures delivered to students in Christian Dogmatics on Christology ...

  • Christianity & Psychoanalysis: A New Conversation, Edited by Earl D. Bland and Brad D. Strawn
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    Christianity & Psychoanalysis

    A New Conversation

    Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books

    Edited by Earl D. Bland and Brad D. Strawn

    Unsurprisingly, given Sigmund Freud's understanding of religion, the conversation between Christianity and psychoanalysis has long been marked by mutual suspicion. Psychoanalysis originated within a naturalist, post-Enlightenment context and sought to understand human functioning and pathology--focusing on phenomena such as the unconscious and object representation--on a strictly empirical basis. ...

  • Modern Psychotherapies: A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal, By Stanton L. Jones and Richard E. Butman
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    Modern Psychotherapies

    A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal

    Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books

    by Stanton L. Jones and Richard E. Butman

    The wide variety of psychotherapies that psychologists and students of psychology face can make for a confusing picture. The level of complexity is multiplied for Christians since they must ask how a particular psychotherapy fits (or doesn?t fit)with a Christian understanding of persons and their suffering. In this expanded and thoroughly update edition, Stanton Jones and Richard Butman continue ...

  • Ancient Christian Devotional: Lectionary Cycle A, Edited by Cindy Crosby
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    Ancient Christian Devotional

    Lectionary Cycle A

    Ancient Christian Devotional Set

    Edited by Cindy Crosby
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    "To search the sacred Scripture is very good and most profitable for the soul. For, 'like a tree which is planted near the running waters,' so does the soul watered by sacred Scripture also grow hearty and bear fruit in due season," writes John ofDamascus in Orthodox Faith (4.17).

    By helping us to read holy writings with ancient eyes, the church fathers help us drink deeply from the ...

  • Old Testament Theology: Israel's Life, By John Goldingay
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    Old Testament Theology

    Israel's Life

    Old Testament Theology Series

    by John Goldingay

    In the final volume of his three-volume Old Testament theology, John Goldingay explores the Old Testament vision of Israel's life before God. The first volume focused on the story of God's dealings with Israel, or Israel's gospel. The second volume investigated the beliefs of Israel, or Israel's faith. Now the spotlight falls on the Old Testament's perspective on the life that Israel should live ...

  • 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 ...

  • The Person in Psychology and Christianity: A Faith-Based Critique of Five Theories of Social Development, By Marjorie Lindner Gunnoe
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    The Person in Psychology and Christianity

    A Faith-Based Critique of Five Theories of Social Development

    Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books

    by Marjorie Lindner Gunnoe

    Integral to a Christian worldview and to psychology are foundational questions about personhood: What characteristics are essential? What is our purpose? Do we naturally incline toward good or bad? Are we accountable for self and responsible for others?In The Person in Psychology and Christianity, developmental psychologist Marjorie Gunnoe demonstrates how the integration ...

  • True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World, By David Skeel
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    True Paradox

    How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World

    Veritas Books

    by David Skeel

    Foreword Review's Annual INDIEFAB Book of the Year Finalist

    How do we explain human consciousness? Where do we get our sense of beauty? Why do we recoil at suffering? Why do we have moral codes that none of us can meet? Why do we yearn for justice, yet seem incapable of establishing it?

    Any philosophy or worldview must make sense of the world as we actually ...