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paperbackThe Messiah Comes to Middle-Earth
Images of Christ's Threefold Office in The Lord of the Rings
Hansen Lectureship Series
by Philip Ryken
How can we grasp the significance of what Jesus Christ did for us? Might literature help us as we seek to understand the Christian faith?
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings has generated much discussion about the relationship between Christianity and literature. It is well known that Tolkien disliked allegory. Yet he acknowledged that his work is imbued with Christian ...
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paperbackC. S. Lewis in America
Readings and Reception, 1935–1947
Hansen Lectureship Series
by Mark A. Noll
Contributions by Karen J. Johnson, Kirk D. Farney, and Amy E. BlackPerhaps no other literary figure has transformed the American religious landscape in recent history as much as C. S. Lewis. Even before the international publication and incredible success of his fictional works such as The Chronicles of Narnia or apologetic works like Mere Christianity, Lewis was already being read "across the pond" in America. But who exactly ...
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paperbackChoosing Community
Action, Faith, and Joy in the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers
Hansen Lectureship Series
by Christine A. Colón
Few writers in the twentieth century were as creative and productive as Dorothy L. Sayers, the English playwright, novelist, and poet. Her justly renowned works include detective fiction featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, theological reflections, literary criticism, and her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.
Among the prominent themes of her work was the need for and ...
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Meic Pearse
Meic Pearse, originally from Britain, now lives in Croatia and the United States, where he is professor of history at Houghton College in Houghton, New York. He studied history and English at Swansea, University of Wales, and management studies at the Polytechnic of Wales. He took his M.Phil. and D.Phil. in ecclesiastical history at Oxford University. For more than a decade, he was involved as part of a team establishing a new church in Swansea. He has also made pipe valves in a German factory, served as a tax collector in local government, taught business studies at a Jewish school, taught history and economics in a Quaker institution, and lectured in church history in Britain and the Balkans. Books he has written include Between Known Men and Visible Saints, The Great Restoration, Who's Feeding Whom? and We Must Stop Meeting Like This. He has articles published in Church History, Anabaptism Today, Third Way and other periodicals.
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Timothy Keller
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Kim Gaines Eckert
Dr. Kim Gaines Eckert is a licensed psychologist in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she maintains a private counseling practice at the Relationship Therapy Center. Dr. Eckert came to Tennessee in 2002 to join the faculty of Lee University. She now teaches at Lee on an adjunct basis and is the clinical director of the Lee University Play Therapy Center. Dr. Eckert holds an undergraduate honors degree in English and anthropology from the University of Michigan, as well as a master's and doctorate from Wheaton College. In addition to her two books with InterVarsity Press, she has also published in Today?s Christian Woman, Psychology for Living and Youth Christian Education Leadership. Dr. Eckert is a national speaker and has been featured on programs such as Moody Radio's Prime Time America and Midday Connection.
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paperbackThe Lord's Supper
Five Views
Spectrum Multiview Book Series
Edited by Gordon T. Smith
Contributions by Jeffrey Gros, John R. Stephenson, Leanne Van Dyk, Roger E. Olson, and Veli-Matti KärkkäinenLord's Supper. Eucharist. Communion. Sacrament. Ordinance.
While it's the meal that should unite us as followers of Christ, it sometimes appears we can't even agree on what to call it, let alone how we might share a common theological view of its significance. Even if we cannot reach full agreement, how can we better understand one another and this central observance of the ...
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paperbackSupreme Conqueror
by Bill Donahue
Jesus' strategy for victory was countercultural. The Bible describes him as a conquering hero--but a hero who had to die first. In our world, conquering heroes achieve victory by force, not submission; with power, not weakness; with superior weapons and troops, not alone and empty-handed. Jesus conquered through weakness, submission and death. Jesus is the Supreme Conqueror, and in the pages of ...
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