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Os Guinness
Os Guinness (DPhil, Oxford) is the author or editor of more than thirty-five books, including The Dust of Death, The Call, Fool's Talk, Carpe Diem Redeemed, The Magna Carta of Humanity, Last Call for Liberty, Impossible People, Unspeakable, and Time for Truth. He is the founder of the Trinity Forum, a prominent social critic, and a frequent speaker who has addressed audiences worldwide. Guinness has a lifelong passion to make sense of our extraordinary modern world and stand between the worlds of scholarship and ordinary life, helping each to understand the other—particularly when advanced modern life touches on the profound issues of faith. A passionate advocate of freedom of religion and conscience for people of all faiths and none, he was the lead drafter for both the Williamsburg Charter and the Global Charter of Conscience. He lives with his wife, Jenny, in the Washington, DC, area.
PaperbackContextualization in the New Testament
Patterns for Theology and Mission
by Dean Flemming
Winner of a Christianity Today Book Award
Honored as one of the "Fifteen Outstanding Books for Mission Studies" by International Bulletin of Missionary Research
From Cairo to Calcutta, from Cochabamba to Columbus, Christians are engaged in a conversation about how to speak and live the gospel in today's traditional, modern and emergent ...
PaperbackRestoring Beauty
The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C.S. Lewis
by Louis Markos
More and more in our modern and postmodern culture the twin concepts of beauty and truth have been separated both from each other and from their individual connection to the divine source of Beauty and Truth. Even as our public schools move further and further away from their connection to the universal moral code, the world of art (both high and low) embraces an aesthetic that privileges ugliness ...
PaperbackWhy I Am Protestant
Ecumenical Dialogue Series
by Beth Felker Jones
Exploring the Strengths and Challenges of the Protestant Tradition
What does it mean to be Protestant? How can its strengths shape faith in the modern world, and how should its challenges be addressed? With clarity, warmth,and theological depth, Beth Felker Jones explores these questions in Why I Am Protestant. This book offers a positive, theologically grounded reflection ...
PaperbackTo Give or Not to Give
Rethinking Dependency, Restoring Generosity, and Redefining Sustainability
by John Rowell
Foreword by Peter KuzmicModern mission theory is guided largely by the three self paradigm that suggests indigenous churches can only be healthy if they are self-governing, self-propagating, and self-supporting. Consequently, Western missionaries, their churches, and their agencies have been increasingly indisposed to giving generously. We must rethink the interplay of dollars dependency and what it means to do the right ...
PaperbackExploring the Old Testament
A Guide to the Pentateuch
Exploring the Bible Series
by Gordon J. Wenham
Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Pentateuch offers a clear overview of the "five books of Moses," as well as an introduction to the historical and textual questions that modern scholarship has posed and the answers it has proposed.This critically informed, textually sensitive introduction to the Pentateuch introduces students to
- the basic features of the Pentateuch
- the ...
PaperbackThe Possibility of Prayer
Finding Stillness with God in a Restless World
by John Starke
The world clamors for efficiency and productivity.
But the life of prayer is neither efficient nor productive. Instead, as we learn in the psalms, prayer calls us to wait, to watch, to listen, to taste, and to see. These things are not productive by any modern measure—but they are transformative.
As a pastor in Manhattan, John Starke knows the bustle and busyness of ...
PaperbackPiercing Leviathan
God's Defeat of Evil in the Book of Job
New Studies in Biblical Theology
by Eric Ortlund
Series edited by D. A. CarsonBiblical Foundations Book Awards Finalist
One of the most challenging passages in the Old Testament book of Job comes in the Lord's second speech (40–41). The characters and the reader have waited a long time for the Lord to speak—only to read what is traditionally interpreted as a long description of a hippopotamus and crocodile (Behemoth and Leviathan). ...
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InterVarsity Press is pleased to announce the launch of a new series focusing on the intersection between faith and the humanities, Studies in Theology and the Arts (STA).
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Christian George
Christian George has traveled to more than twenty-four countries in North America, Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia, Russia and Asia for ministry and missionary work. He has participated in Baptist World Alliance conventions in South Korea, Sweden, Germany, Canada and England, and served at a Billy Graham crusade in Amsterdam, Holland. His experience includes being a preacher, youth counselor, jazz band musician and creative artist. He is currently an M.Div. student at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University.
