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caseboundMajority World Theology
Christian Doctrine in Global Context
Edited by Gene L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue, and K. K. Yeo
More Christians now live in the Majority World than in Europe and North America. Yet most theological literature does not reflect the rising tide of Christian reflection coming from these regions. If we take seriously the Spirit's movement around the world, we must consider how the rich textures of Christianity in the Majority World can enliven, inform, and challenge all who are ...
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paperbackDisability and the Way of Jesus
Holistic Healing in the Gospels and the Church
by Bethany McKinney Fox
Foreword by John Swinton- 2019 IVP Readers' Choice Award
What does healing mean for people with disabilities? The Gospels are filled with accounts of Jesus offering physical healing. But even as churches today seek to follow the way of Jesus, people with disabilities all too often experience the very opposite of healing and life-giving community: exclusion, judgment, barriers. ...
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paperbackCradling Abundance
One African Christian's Story of Empowering Women and Fighting Systemic Poverty
by Monique Misenga Ngoie Mukuna
With Elsie Tshimunyi McKeeGrowing up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Monique Misenga Ngoie Mukuna persevered through many challenges: political turmoil and violence, misogyny and patriarchy, lack of community resources and personal loss. As she carved out a life for herself, her family, and her community, she kept seeing the same story played out for women vulnerable and trapped in poverty. Every system ...
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paperbackPlaying God
Redeeming the Gift of Power
by Andy Crouch
Midwest Publishing Association Award of Excellence
Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year
ForeWord Book of the Year Award Honorable Mention
Power corrupts—as we've seen time and time again. People too often abuse their power and play god in the lives of others. Shady politicians, corrupt executives and ego-filled ...
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paperbackQuestioning Your Doubts
A Harvard PhD Explores Challenges to Faith
by Christina M. H. Powell
How can we know if God is real? Does God truly care about us? Why does God create people he knows will reject him? Why did God allow my friend to become a rape victim? Should I switch jobs? Is this person the one I should marry? If you have pondered these doubts, you are not alone. Sometimes we have intellectual questions about the plausibility of God. Other times we go through ...
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paperbackDisunity in Christ
Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart
by Christena Cleveland
Leadership Journal Book Award
Readers' Choice Awards Honorable MentionDespite Jesus' prayer that all Christians "be one," divisions have been epidemic in the body of Christ from the beginning to the present. We cluster in theological groups, gender groups, age groups, ethnic groups, educational and economic groups. We criticize freely those who disagree with ...
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paperback2 Peter and Jude
The IVP New Testament Commentary Series
by Robert Harvey and Philip H. Towner
The miracle of being forgiven is perhaps equaled only by the wonder of also being trusted again. That wondrous experience in the life of Simon Peter ultimately produced remarkable letters, full of warning and hope, solemn instruction and glorious promise. Because of that grace in Peter's past, his words in the book of 2 Peter are able to strengthen we who are his brothers and sisters in faith. ...
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hardcoverCommentary on the Gospel of John
Ancient Christian Texts
by Theodore of Mopsuestia
Translated by Marco Conti
Edited by Joel C. Elowsky
Series edited by Thomas C. Oden and Gerald L. BrayTheodore of Mopsuestia, born in Antioch (c. 350) and a disciple of Diodore of Tarsus, serves as one of the most important exemplars of Antiochene exegesis of his generation. Committed to literal, linguistic, grammatical and historical interpretation, he eschewed allegorical explanations that could not be supported from the text, though he was not averse to typological interpretations of Old Testament ...
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paperbackThe Adoptee's Journey
From Loss and Trauma to Healing and Empowerment
by Cameron Lee Small
Every adoption is rooted in loss.
Adoption is often framed by happy narratives, but the reality is that many adoptees struggle with unaddressed trauma and issues of identity and belonging. Adoptees often spend the majority of their youth without the language to explore the grief related to adoption or the permission to legitimize their conflicting emotions.
Adoptee and ...
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paperbackEvangelical Theological Method
Five Views
Spectrum Multiview Book Series
Edited by Stanley E. Porter and Steven M. Studebaker
How should one approach the task of theology? The question of methodology is increasingly one of interest among theologians, who recognize that the very manner in which we approach theology informs both the questions we ask and the conclusions we reach.
This volume in IVP's Spectrum Multiview series brings together five evangelical theologians with distinctly different approaches ...
