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paperbackReading Mark's Christology Under Caesar
Jesus the Messiah and Roman Imperial Ideology
by Adam Winn
The Gospel of Mark has been studied from multiple angles using many methods. But often there remains a sense that something is wanting, that the full picture of Mark's Gospel lacks some background circuitry that would light up the whole. Adam Winnfinds a clue in the cataclysmic destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in AD 70. For Jews and Christians it was an apocalyptic moment. The gods of Rome ...
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Richard B. Steele
Richard B. Steele is Professor of Moral and Historical Theology and Associate Dean of the School of Theology at Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA where he currently resides. He is the author of "Gracious Affection" and "True Virtue" According to Jonathan Edwards and John Wesley and the editor of "Heart Religion" in the Methodist Tradition and Related Movements. His articles have appeared in numerous theological magazines and reviews.
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paperbackThe Creation Hypothesis
Scientific Evidence for an Intelligent Designer
Edited by J. P. Moreland
Is there evidence from natural science for an intelligent creator of the universe?For a century the reigning scientific view has been that God is not necessary to account for the existence of the world and of life. Evolutionary theory is said to be all that is needed to explain how we got here. In addition, many theistic evolutionists contend that God likely used many of the mechanisms of evolution ...
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paperbackThe Nature of the Atonement
Four Views
Spectrum Multiview Book Series
Contributions by Gregory A. Boyd, Joel B. Green, Bruce Reichenbach, and Thomas R. Schreiner
Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul R. EddyA long history of biblical exegesis and theological reflection has shaped our understanding of the atonement today. The more prominent highlights of this history have acquired familiar names for the household of faith: Christus Victor, penal substitutionary, subjective, and governmental.
Recently the penal substitutionary view, and particularly its misappropriations, ...
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paperback10 Great Ideas from Church History
A Decision-Maker's Guide to Shaping Your Church
by Mark Shaw
Tired of following the latest church-growth fad? In many churches, building vision means embracing the ideas of the latest guru and jumping from one program to another. Ministry decisions are made according to the crisis of the moment or the pressures of the bottom line. Long-term planning can seem like an impossible dream.This book offers something different. Here are ideas that have stood the ...
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paperbackPain and Paradox in 2 Corinthians
The Transformative Function of Strength in Weakness
by Benjamin Grant White
Afterword by Amy Peeler
Foreword by Lisa M. BowensPaul's Theology of How Christ Transforms Weakness Into Resurrection Power
What is God doing in our weaknesses? The world may say "nothing," but the apostle Paul says "everything."
The theological wellspring in 2 Corinthians is often overlooked, yet this letter may be one of the apostle's richest and most pastorally attuned writings. At the heart of 2 Corinthians lies ...
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InterVarsity Press was honored with three 2015 Book of the Year awards by the Association of Logos Bookstores during its annual convention in June for Teach Us to Want, Renaissance, and The Good Shepherd.
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InterVarsity Press is pleased to announce the recipients of top awards from both the Logos Association and Foreword Reviews.
The Logos Association Bookstore Award for the Best Christian Living Book for 2016 went to The Listening Life: Embracing Attentiveness in a World of Distraction by Adam McHugh.
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Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power by Andy Crouch received the honorable mention award in the non-fiction religion category for Foreword Reviews' 2013 IndieFab Book of the Year Awards. Out of hundreds of titles submitted for the category, fourteen were named finalists, and Playing God was one of the four top winners.
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InterVarsity Press is pleased to announce that The Gift of Hard Things by Mark Yaconelli was selected as the 2016 Silver Winner in the Self-Help category of the nineteenth annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.
