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  • The Offensive Church: Breaking the Cycle of Ethnic Disunity, By Bryan C. Loritts
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    The Offensive Church

    Breaking the Cycle of Ethnic Disunity

    by Bryan C. Loritts

    Crises around race have put the church in a defensive posture, always reacting to racial conflicts in society. But Jesus wants more. He wants Christians to play offense by discipling people into a new humanity, where we push beyond mere diversity and into a biblical vision for ethnic unity.

    Bryan Loritts calls Christians to proactively and intentionally live out the embodied ...

  • Old Testament Essentials: Creation, Conquest, Exile and Return, By Tremper Longman III
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    Old Testament Essentials

    Creation, Conquest, Exile and Return

    The Essentials Set

    by Tremper Longman III

    Readers' Choice Award Winner

    "Christians love the Bible, but they often do not know what to do with the Old Testament," writes Westmont College professor Tremper Longman. Further, he points out that it includes many types of writing—history, prophecy, poetry, wisdom and apocalyptic. In this helpful volume he offers different strategies for understanding each of these important ...

    Number of Studies: 17

  • How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity, By Thomas C. Oden
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    How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind

    Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity

    Early African Christianity

    by Thomas C. Oden

    Africa has played a decisive role in the formation of Christian culture from its infancy. Some of the most decisive intellectual achievements of Christianity were explored and understood in Africa before they were in Europe. If this is so, why is Christianity so often perceived in Africa as a Western colonial import? How can Christians in Northern and sub-Saharan Africa, indeed how can Christians ...

  • Justification: God's Plan  Paul's Vision, By N. T. Wright
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    Justification

    God's Plan Paul's Vision

    by N. T. Wright

    Biblical Foundations Book Award

    Few issues are more central to the Christian faith than the nature, scope and means of salvation. Many have thought it to be largely a transaction that gets one to heaven. In this riveting book, N. T. Wright explains that God's salvation is radically more than this. At the heart of much vigorous debate on this topic is the term the apostle ...

  • Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament, By Christopher J. H. Wright
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    Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament

    Knowing God Through the Old Testament Set

    by Christopher J. H. Wright

    We cannot know Jesus without knowing his story. Today the debate over who Jesus is rages on. Has the Bible bound Christians to a narrow and mistaken notion of Jesus? Should we listen to other gospels, other sayings of Jesus, that enlarge and correct a mistaken story? Is the real Jesus entangled in a web of the church's Scripture, awaiting liberation from our childhood faith so he might speak to ...