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paperbackPhilosophers Who Believe
The Spiritual Journeys of 11 Leading Thinkers
Edited by Kelly James Clark
- Voted one of Christianity Today's 1995 Books of the Year
Time magazine reports on a remarkable renaissance of religious belief among philosophers: "In a quiet revolution in thought and arguments that hardly anyone could have foreseen only two decades ago, God is making a comeback. Most intriguingly, this is happening . . . in the crisp, intellectual ...
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paperbackHow the News Makes Us Dumb
The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society
by C. John Sommerville
We who live at the end of the twentieth century are better informed--and more quickly informed--than any people in history. So why do we also seem more confused, divided and foolish than ever before? Some pundits criticize the news media for political bias. Other analysts worry that up-to-the-minute news reports on radio and television oversimplify complex realities. Still more critics point out ...
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paperbackIn Defense of Miracles
A Comprehensive Case for God's Action in History
Edited by R. Douglas Geivett and Gary R. Habermas
Rumors of deception have surrounded claims of Jesus' resurrection ever since the soldiers appointed to guard his tomb made their report to the Jewish authorities. But no one has led the philosophic charge against miracles quite as influentially as David Hume with his 1748 essay "Of Miracles." Refined, revised, restated, his arguments still affect philosophic discussions of miracles today.
During ...
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hardcoverDictionary of New Testament Background
A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship
The IVP Bible Dictionary Series
Edited by Craig A. Evans and Stanley E. Porter Jr.
ECPA Gold Medallion (Reference Works)
The Dictionary of New Testament Background joins the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, the Dictionary of Paul and His Letters and the Dictionary of the Later New Testament and Its Developments as the fourth in a landmark series of reference works on the Bible. In a time when our knowledge of the ancient Mediterranean ...
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paperbackMoms at the Well
Meeting God Through the Mothers of Scripture—A 7-Week Bible Study
IVP Bible Study Experience
by Tara Edelschick and Kathy Tuan-MacLean
Motherhood is hard. Really hard.
Tara Edelschick and Kathy Tuan-MacLean know this personally. As moms who have spent decades working with and encouraging other moms, they know the struggles real moms face in our real world. Their survey of more than seven hundred moms revealed that moms experience worry, anger, comparison, escapism, a desire for control, ...
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paperbackThe Last Romantic
C. S. Lewis, English Literature, and Modern Theology
Hansen Lectureship Series
by Jeffrey W. Barbeau
Three Essays on C. S. Lewis and Romanticism
Many readers have heard C. S. Lewis's logical arguments for the Christian faith. Yet throughout his wide-ranging study and writing, Lewis often began with experience, intuition, and religious feeling rather than dogmatic assertions. The most profound questions of Lewis's own life, argues theologian and literary critic Jeffrey Barbeau, ...
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paperbackC. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea
In Defense of the Argument from Reason
by Victor Reppert
Who ought to hold claim to the more dangerous idea--Charles Darwin or C. S. Lewis? Daniel Dennett argued for Darwin in Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Touchstone Books, 1996). In this book Victor Reppert champions C. S. Lewis. Darwinists attempt to use science to show that our world and its inhabitants can be fully explained as the product of a mindless, purposeless system of physics and chemistry. ...
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hardcoverMinisters of a New Medium
Broadcasting Theology in the Radio Ministries of Fulton J. Sheen and Walter A. Maier
by Kirk D. Farney
Foreword by Mark A. NollNamed Best Major Publication by Concordia Historical Institute
During the anxiety-laden period from the Great Depression through World War II to the Cold War, Americans found a welcome escape in the new medium of radio. Throughout radio's "Golden Age," religious broadcasting in particular contributed significantly to American culture. Yet its historic role ...
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hardcoverThe Dominance of Evangelicalism
The Age of Spurgeon and Moody
History of Evangelicalism Series
by David W. Bebbington
Preaching magazine's Year's Best Book for Preachers
The word evangelical is widely used and widely misunderstood. Where did evangelicals come from? How did their influence become so widespread throughout the world?
This book continues a compelling series of books charting the course of English-speaking evangelicalism over the last three hundred years. ...
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InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA (IVCF) has announced that Jeff Crosby, the current associate publisher and director of sales and marketing for InterVarsity Press, will succeed Bob Fryling as publisher for IVP and vice president for IVCF starting July 1, 2016.
