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  • Recapturing the Wesleys' Vision: An Introduction to the Faith of John and Charles Wesley, By Paul Wesley Chilcote
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    Recapturing the Wesleys' Vision

    An Introduction to the Faith of John and Charles Wesley

    by Paul Wesley Chilcote

    Scholar and teacher Paul Wesley Chilcote provides a full and clear introduction to the dynamic faith of John and Charles Wesley. The vital theology of John is skillfully gleaned from his voluminous writings. The corresponding faith of Charles is culled from his enduring hymns. For students and general readers this book illuminates the vital balance the Wesleys found in Christian teaching that overcomes ...

  • Wesley and the Anglicans: Political Division in Early Evangelicalism, By Ryan Nicholas Danker
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    Wesley and the Anglicans

    Political Division in Early Evangelicalism

    by Ryan Nicholas Danker

    Why did the Wesleyan Methodists and the Anglican evangelicals divide during the middle of the eighteenth century? Many would argue that the division between them was based narrowly on theological matters, especially predestination and perfection.Ryan Danker suggests, however, that politics was a major factor throughout, driving the Wesleyan Methodists and Anglican evangelicals apart. Methodism was ...

  • Black Fire: One Hundred Years of African American Pentecostalism, By Estrelda Y. Alexander
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    Black Fire

    by Estrelda Y. Alexander

    Estrelda Alexander was raised in an urban, black, working-class, oneness Pentecostal congregation in the 1950s and 1960s, but she knew little of her heritage and thought that all Christians worshiped and believed as she did. Much later she discovered that many Christians not only knew little of her heritage but considered it strange. Even today, most North Americans remain ignorant of black Pentecostalism.Black ...

  • 20th-Century Theology: God and the World in a Transitional Age, By Stanley J. Grenz and Roger E. Olson
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    20th-Century Theology

    God and the World in a Transitional Age

    by Stanley J. Grenz and Roger E. Olson

    • Recipient of a Christianity Today 1993 Critics' Choice Award

    Now in paperback! Stanley Grenz and Roger Olson offer in this text a sympathetic introduction to twentieth-century theology and a critical survey of its significant thinkers and movements. Of particular interest is their attempt to show how twentieth-century theology has moved back and forth between two basic ...

  • Christianity and Western Thought: Faith and Reason in the 19th Century, By Steve Wilkens and Alan G. Padgett
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    Christianity and Western Thought

    Faith and Reason in the 19th Century

    Christianity and Western Thought Series

    by Steve Wilkens and Alan G Padgett

    Marx, Mill, Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Emerson, Darwin, Freud and Weber brought to the nineteenth century new realms of thought, which still continue to wield substantial influence today. As a result, the study of history, science, psychology,philosophy, sociology and religion have never been the same.These heirs to rationalism began to explore the full range of human experience--which became ...

  • Exploring Protestant Traditions: An Invitation to Theological Hospitality, By W. David Buschart
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    Exploring Protestant Traditions

    An Invitation to Theological Hospitality

    by W. David Buschart

    Protestant is shorthand for a spreading family tree of church and theological traditions. Each tradition embodies a historically shaped perspective on the beliefs, practices and priorities that make up a Christian community.Whether you are an insider to one tradition, a hybrid of two or three, or--as many Christians today--an outsider to all, Exploring Protestant Traditions is ...

  • The Healing Journey for Adult Children of Alcoholics, By Daryl E. Quick
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    The Healing Journey for Adult Children of Alcoholics

    by Daryl E. Quick

    I feel like people leave me abandoned all the time.Sometimes I'm so afraid for what seems like no reason.I just don't seem to have any energy.Why do the same thoughts keep racing through my mind?I usually don't feel happy or sad.If there isn't real excitement, I feel bored.I want to be close to people, but I just never make it.Do you see yourself in this list? Children of alcoholic parents have ...