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paperbackPocket Dictionary of North American Denominations
Over 100 Christian Groups Clearly Concisely Defined
The IVP Pocket Reference Series
Edited by Drew Blankman and Todd Augustine
Of the making of many denominations there is no end, or so it seems in North America.
Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians and Schwenkfelders--how do you keep track of them all? What are their differences? Are there similarities? Where do they each belong on the Christian family tree?
Editors Drew Blankman and Todd Augustine have designed the Pocket Dictionary ...
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paperbackGod in Himself
Scripture, Metaphysics, and the Task of Christian Theology
Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture
by Steven J. Duby
How do we know God? Can we know God as he is in himself?
These longstanding questions have been addressed by Christian theologians throughout the church's history. Some, such as Thomas Aquinas, have argued that we know God through both natural and supernatural revelation, while others, especially Karl Barth, have argued that we know God only on the basis of the incarnation. ...
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paperbackReclaiming the Old Testament for Christian Preaching
Edited by Grenville J. R. Kent, Paul J. Kissling, and Laurence A. Turner
- 2011 Preaching Today Magazine Book Award winner
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More than a decade after the release of the first edition of his seminal apologetics text, Douglas Groothuis discusses the book's legacy, the ways the field of apologetics has changed, and his content updates for the second edition of Christian Apologetics.
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hardcoverThe Thrill of Orthodoxy
Rediscovering the Adventure of Christian Faith
by Trevin Wax
Foreword by Kevin J. VanhoozerChristianity Today Book Award of Merit—Popular Theology
The Gospel Coaltion Award of Distinction—Popular Theology
Every generation faces the temptation to wander from orthodoxy—to seek out the jolt that comes with false teaching, and to drift with cultural currents. And so every generation must be awakened again to the thrill ...
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paperbackBasic Christian
The Inside Story of John Stott
by Roger Steer
Foreword by David Neff
Featuring John StottDid you know. . . . . . John Stott's father stood strongly against his desire to be ordained in the Church of England and his pacifist leanings during World War II? . . . John Stott once got lost following birds in the Amazon rainforest? . . . John Stott once dressed up as a street urchin, fashioned a "strong Cockney accent" and lived under a bridge near the Thames in London in order to see ...
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paperbackThe Urban Christian
by Raymond J. Bakke and Jim Hart
- An Eternity 1988 Book of the Year
There are millions of opportunities for the gospel. With half of the world's five billion people in cities, there is almost no end to the exciting challenges that await us. Ray Bakke has been there. For over twenty years he and his family have worked with and love the people of today's cities, bringing a message of ...
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paperbackPlacemaking and the Arts
Cultivating the Christian Life
Studies in Theology and the Arts Series
by Jennifer Allen Craft
We are, each one of us, situated in a particular place.
As embodied creatures, as members of local communities and churches, as people who live in a specific location in the world, we all experience the importance of place. But what role does place play in the Christian life and how might our theology of place be cultivated?
In this Studies in Theology and the Arts volume, ...
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paperbackHow 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 ...
