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  • The Moral Quest: Foundations of Christian Ethics, By Stanley J. Grenz
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    The Moral Quest

    Foundations of Christian Ethics

    by Stanley J. Grenz

    Christianity Today Book of the Year

    What is ethics? Why should Christians care?

    Beginning with these basic questions, Stanley Grenz masterfully leads his readers into a theological engagement with moral inquiry. In The Moral Quest he sets forth the basics of ethics, considers the role and methods of Christian ethics in particular, and ...

  • Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew, By Hans Boersma
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    Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew

    by Hans Boersma
    Foreword by Scot McKnight

    The disciplines of theology and biblical studies should serve each other, and they should serve both the church and the academy together. But the relationship between them is often marked by misunderstandings, methodological differences, and cross-discipline tension.

    Theologian Hans Boersma here highlights five things he wishes biblical scholars knew about theology. In a companion ...

  • Sculptor Spirit: Models of Sanctification from Spirit Christology, By Leopoldo A. Sánchez M.
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    Sculptor Spirit

    Models of Sanctification from Spirit Christology

    by Leopoldo A. Sánchez M.
    Foreword by Oscar García-Johnson

    The Holy Spirit is sculpting you. Like the work of an artist who molds a lump of clay into its intended shape, the Spirit's sanctifying work lies in shaping people into the image of Christ. Avoiding either a "Spirit-only" or a "Spirit-void" theology, Leopoldo Sánchez carefully crafts a Spirit Christology, which considers the role of God's Spirit in the life and mission of Jesus. ...

  • Joyful Exiles: Life in Christ on the Dangerous Edge of Things, By James M. Houston
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    Joyful Exiles

    Life in Christ on the Dangerous Edge of Things

    by James M. Houston

    • Winner, 2007 World Guild Best Leadership/Theoretical Book
    Pastor and teacher Jim Houston reviews the insights he has gained over his years of teaching, counseling and mentoring Christians. He passes on what he has come to regard as pivotal concerns for leading a faithful Christian life in current society and culture. This is an advanced discipleship book for ...
  • Life's Big Questions: Six Major Themes Traced Through the Bible, By Vaughan Roberts
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    Life's Big Questions

    Six Major Themes Traced Through the Bible

    by Vaughan Roberts

    How can the sixty-six books of the Bible have a single message for us today? What unites the vastly different accounts of God's work in the world? How do the various genres of the Bible work together? Vaughan Roberts believes that the Bible tells a single story for all time. He draws out the Bible's message of Jesus Christ and God's redemption through him in six big questions:

  • Light Unapproachable: Divine Incomprehensibility and the Task of Theology, By Ronni Kurtz
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    Light Unapproachable

    Divine Incomprehensibility and the Task of Theology

    by Ronni Kurtz

    How can finite creatures know an infinite God? How does limited knowledge impact what we can say of God?

    Retrieving and constructing important insight from Scripture and key patristic, medieval, early modern, and modern theologians, Ronni Kurtz presents a rich analysis of the doctrine of divine incomprehensibility. Our theological language, says Kurtz, cannot capture the full ...

  • Mariner: A Theological Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, By Malcolm Guite
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    Mariner

    A Theological Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Studies in Theology and the Arts Series

    by Malcolm Guite

    Instead of the cross, the Albatross
    About my neck was hung.

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is often regarded as having heralded the beginning of the Romantic era in British literature. The poem narrates the story of a sailor who has returned home from a long voyage having suffered great loss, yet survived.

    In this ...