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  • Karl Barth's Infralapsarian Theology: Origins and Development, 1920-1953, By Shao Kai Tseng
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    Karl Barth's Infralapsarian Theology

    Origins and Development, 1920-1953

    New Explorations in Theology

    by Shao Kai Tseng
    Foreword by George Hunsinger

    Theologians have long assumed that Karl Barth's doctrine of election is supralapsarian.

    Challenging decades of scholarship, Shao Kai Tseng argues that despite Barth's stated favor of supralapsarianism, his mature lapsarian theology is complex and dialectical, critically reappropriating both supra- and infralapsarian patterns of thinking. Barth can be described as basically ...

  • Drama Team Handbook, By Alison Siewert and others
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    Drama Team Handbook

    by Alison Siewert

    Drama has power.It can awaken us. Make us curious. Reveal our inner desires and passions. Remind us of our foolishness. Drama has power in worship. It can snap us out of our Sunday morning (or Saturday night) trance. It can draw us into the storyof Scripture. It can help us see our sin. It can motivate us to change. But drama can also be dull, predictable, guilt-inducing and just plain cheesy. How ...

  • The Making of Stanley Hauerwas: Bridging Barth and Postliberalism, By David B. Hunsicker
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    The Making of Stanley Hauerwas

    Bridging Barth and Postliberalism

    New Explorations in Theology

    by David B Hunsicker
    Foreword by Stanley Hauerwas

    In the past half-century, few theologians have shaped the landscape of American belief and practice as much as Stanley Hauerwas. His work in social ethics, political theology, and ecclesiology has had a tremendous influence on thechurch and society. But have we understood Hauerwas's theology, his influences, and his place among the theologians correctly?

    Hauerwas is often ...

  • The Reality of God and Historical Method: Apocalyptic Theology in Conversation with N. T. Wright, By Samuel V. Adams
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    The Reality of God and Historical Method

    Apocalyptic Theology in Conversation with N. T. Wright

    New Explorations in Theology

    by Samuel V. Adams

    After a flurry of heated debates in the mid-twentieth century over the relationship between faith and history, the dust seems to have settled. The parties have long since dispersed into their separate camps. The positions are entrenched and loyalties are staked out.

    This New Explorations in Theology volume is a deliberate attempt to kick up the dust again, but this time as ...

  • Jonathan Edwards and Deification: Reconciling Theosis and the Reformed Tradition, By James R. Salladin
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    Jonathan Edwards and Deification

    Reconciling Theosis and the Reformed Tradition

    New Explorations in Theology

    by James Salladin

    The doctrine of deification or theosis is typically associated with the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Indeed, the language of participation in the divine nature as a way to understand salvation often sounds like strange music in the ears of Western Christians despite passages like 2 Peter 1:4 where it appears. However, recent scholarship has argued that the theologies of ...

  • Chrysostom's Devil: Demons, the Will, and Virtue in Patristic Soteriology, By Samantha L. Miller
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    Chrysostom's Devil

    Demons, the Will, and Virtue in Patristic Soteriology

    New Explorations in Theology

    by Samantha L Miller

    For many Christians today, the notion that demons should play a role in our faith—or that they even exist—may seem dubious. But that was certainly not the case for John Chrysostom, the "golden-tongued" early church preacher and theologian who became the bishop of Constantinople near the end of the fourth century. Indeed, references to demons and the devil permeate his rhetoric. ...

  • A Shared Mercy: Karl Barth on Forgiveness and the Church, By Jon Coutts
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    A Shared Mercy

    Karl Barth on Forgiveness and the Church

    New Explorations in Theology

    by Jon Coutts
    Foreword by John Webster

    Christians regularly ask God to "forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors," but tend to focus on the first half and ignore the second.

    Something is missing if Christians think of mission only in terms of proclamation or social justice and discipleship only in terms of personal growth and renewal—leaving the relational implications of the gospel almost to chance. It ...

  • Pocket Dictionary of Ethics: Over 300 Terms  Ideas Clearly  Concisely Defined, By Stanley J. Grenz and Jay T. Smith
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    Pocket Dictionary of Ethics

    Over 300 Terms Ideas Clearly Concisely Defined

    The IVP Pocket Reference Series

    by Stanley J. Grenz and Jay T. Smith

    Ethics is as old as the city-state and as new as cyberspace. Guided by the wagon tracks of moral tradition, it nevertheless rides the cutting edge of science and technology. Increasingly it is moving into the corner offices of law, business, medicine, science and technology.

    But few of us arrive in our first ethics class--or take our seat on an ethics committee--with a grip on the range of ...

  • Triune Relationality: A Trinitarian Response to Islamic Monotheism, By Sherene Nicholas Khouri
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    Triune Relationality

    A Trinitarian Response to Islamic Monotheism

    New Explorations in Theology

    by Sherene Nicholas Khouri
    Foreword by Gary R. Habermas

    For centuries, Christians and Muslims have engaged each other in debate and critique. A key area of disagreement is the nature of God: Is God a Trinity or absolutely one? To promote interfaith dialogue, Christians must understandthe history of the conversation and also articulate the doctrine of the Trinity in reasonable, compelling ways.

    In this New Explorations in Theology ...

  • God and Molecules: Chemical Evolution and Divine Providence, By Ross Hastings
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    God and Molecules

    Chemical Evolution and Divine Providence

    by Ross Hastings

    God's Providential Work in Creation Before Life Began

    God has been present and active in creation from the moment he created it ex nihilo. Few Christians would question this claim, but its implications for ongoing theologyand science dialogues have not been fully explored.

    In this pathbreaking and field-advancing work, Ross Hastings brings his expertise in ...