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PaperbackRewriting Your Broken Story
The Power of an Eternal Perspective
by Kenneth Boa
How do you fix a broken story?
In this fallen world, life is often not how we thought it would be. Jobs vanish, relationships crumble, health fails. How do we find the hope to persevere?
We can make sense of our broken stories by seeing them in thecontext of a larger and greater story. Kenneth Boa shows how God can transform our lives with an eternal perspective, ...
PaperbackPeril in Paradise
Theology, Science, and the Age of the Earth
by Mark S. Whorton
Young Earth vs.Old Earth. The debate has gone on for centuries, with most modern Christians disputing the scientific claim of an ancient earth. But is an old earth truly inconsistent with Scripture?Dr. Mark Whorton seeks to give biblically based answers and challenge the modern thinking that to be an evangelical Christian is to believe in a young earth. Using evidence as diverse as the bombardier ...
PaperbackWorship and the World to Come
Exploring Christian Hope in Contemporary Worship
Dynamics of Christian Worship
by Glenn Packiam
Christians sing because we are people of hope.
Yet our hope is unlike other kinds of hope. We are not optimists; nor are we escapists. Christian hope is uniquely shaped by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead andby the promise of our own future resurrection.
How is that hope both expressed and experienced in contemporary worship? In this volume in the Dynamics ...
PaperbackSeeing Is Believing
The Revelation of God Through Film
Studies in Theology and the Arts Series
by Richard Vance Goodwin
How might film reveal God?
In its most basic form, film is a series of images displayed over time. Of course, film has developed greatly since the Lumière brothers by adding components such as sound, special effects, digitalrecording, and more to create an increasingly complex artistic medium. Historically, film studies has often focused on the narrative aspect of film as ...
PaperbackVoices and Views on Paul
Exploring Scholarly Trends
by Ben Witherington III and Jason A. Myers
ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
In the field of Pauline studies, much has changed over the last twenty years. Since Ben Witherington III first published his influential book The Paul Quest, monumental works have appeared from scholars such as James D. G. Dunn, N. T. Wright, E. P. Sanders, and John Barclay. The New Perspective is no longer new, and ...
PaperbackDisability and the Church
A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion
by Lamar Hardwick
Foreword by Bill GaventaIVP Readers' Choice Award
Lamar Hardwick was thirty-six years old when he found out he was on the autism spectrum. While this revelation helped him understand and process his own experience, it also prompteda difficult re-evaluation of who he was as a person. And as a pastor, it started him on a new path of considering the way disabled people are treated in ...
PaperbackReading Scripture as the Church
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Hermeneutic of Discipleship
New Explorations in Theology
by Derek W. Taylor
The Bible is meant to be read in the church, by the church, as the church.
Although the practice of reading Scripture has often become separated from its ecclesial context, theologian Derek Taylor argues that it rightly belongs to the disciplines of the community of faith. He finds a leading example of this approach in the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who regarded the ...
PaperbackMore Than Equals
Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel
The IVP Signature Collection
by Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice
"The first step in the reconciliation process," Spencer Perkins writes, "is admitting that the race problem exists and that our inability to deal with race has weakened the credibility of our gospel."
When longtime ministry partners and friends Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice began writing More Than Equals in the early 1990s, their goal was to offer an example of how ...
PaperbackDiscerning Ethics
Diverse Christian Responses to Divisive Moral Issues
Foreword by Mark Labberton
Edited by Hak Joon Lee and Tim DearbornRacism. Immigration. Gun violence. Sexuality. Health care.
The number of ethical issues that demand a response from Christians today is almost dizzying. How can Christians navigate such matters? What are faithful responses to these questions?
Edited by two theologians with pastoral experience, this volume invites engagement with these issues and more by drawing on real-life ...
PaperbackBalm in Gilead
A Theological Dialogue with Marilynne Robinson
Wheaton Theology Conference Series
Contributions by Timothy George, Han-luen Kantzer Komline, Lauren F. Winner, Patricia Andujo, Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Marilynne Robinson, and Rowan Williams
Edited by Timothy Larsen and Keith L. JohnsonPulitzer Prize–winning novelist Marilynne Robinson is one of the most eminent public intellectuals in America today. In addition to literary elegance, her trilogy of novels (Gilead, Home, and Lila) and her collections of essays offer probing meditations on the Christian faith. Many of these reflections are grounded in her belief that the sixteenth-century ...
