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Every Voice Now is an IVP initiative that seeks to address the racial and ethnic imbalances in the publishing industry and the church’s public witness. The initiative is jointly supported by InterVarsity Press and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and includes opportunities for additional funding to support and amplify voices of color, expand our reach with diverse audiences, increase IVP’s internal cultural competency, and create an organization that more fully reflects God’s diverse kingdom.
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paperbackThe Myth of Certainty
The Reflective Christian the Risk of Commitment
by Daniel Taylor
Do you feel equally uncomfortable with closed-minded skepticism and closed-minded Christianity? If so, then The Myth of Certainty is the book for you. Daniel Taylor suggests a path to committed faith that is both consistent with the tradition of Christian orthodoxy and sensitive to the pluralism, relativism and complexity of our time. Taylor makes the case for the reflective, questioning ...
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paperbackWater from a Deep Well
Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries
by Gerald L. Sittser
Foreword by Eugene H. PetersonIn Rome in A.D. 165, two men named Carpus and Papylus stood before the proconsul of Pergamum, charged with the crime of being Christians. Not even torture could make them deny Christ, so they were burned alive. Is my faithfulness as strong? In the fifth century, Melania the Younger and her husband, Pinian, distributed their enormous wealth to the poor and intentionally practiced the discipline ...
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paperbackEvangelical, Sacramental, and Pentecostal
Why the Church Should Be All Three
by Gordon T. Smith
Evangelical. Sacramental. Pentecostal. Christian communities tend to identify with one of these labels over the other two. Evangelical churches emphasize the importance of Scripture and preaching. Sacramental churches emphasize the importance of the eucharistic table. And pentecostal churches emphasize the immediate presence and power of the Holy Spirit. But must we choose between them? Could the ...
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paperbackMapping Postmodernism
A Survey of Christian Options
by Robert C. Greer
By now we've all heard the word postmodernism.
- But what is it?
- Can it be defined?
- Does it really represent a monumental shift away from how we use to think about right and wrong, truth, the world, and even the whole cosmos?
- Most important, how should Christians respond?
Robert C. Greer helps us grasp the nature of the shifts in thinking and ...
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paperbackThe Quest for the Trinity
The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History and Modernity
by Stephen R. Holmes
The doctrine of the Trinity was settled in the fourth century, and maintained, with only very minor disagreement or development, by all strands of the church—Western and Eastern, Protestant and Catholic—until the modern period. In the twentieth century, there arose a sense that the doctrine had been neglected and stood in need of recovery. In The Quest for the Trinity, Holmes takes us ...
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paperbackThe Church in Exile
Living in Hope After Christendom
by Lee Beach
Foreword by Walter BrueggemannThe people of God throughout history have been a people of exile and diaspora. Whether under the Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks or Romans, the people chosen by God have had to learn how to be a holy people in alien lands and under foreign rule. For much of its history, however, the Christian church lived with the sense of being at home in the world, with considerable influence and power. That ...
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paperbackBeyond the Wager
The Christian Brilliance of Blaise Pascal
by Douglas Groothuis
Blaise Pascal, the seventeenth-century French philosopher and scientist, is perhaps best known for his "wager," an argument about the existence of God. But there was much more to Pascal and his brilliance.
In this accessible and well-documented study, philosopher Douglas Groothuis introduces readers to Pascal's life as well as the breadth of his intellectual pursuits, including ...
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paperbackMere Theology
A Guide to the Thought of C. S. Lewis
by Will Vaus
Foreword by Douglas GreshamWhat did C. S. Lewis believe about God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, heaven, hell, creation, the Fall, the forgiveness of sins, marriage and divorce, war and peace, the church and sacraments, masculinity and femininity? Lewis was not a professional theologian, but anyone who has read his writings--whether fiction or nonfiction, essays or correspondence--knows that profoundly Christian convictions ...
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You may remember your college years as the best times of your life. But now that you have college-bound kids, you might be feeling anxious as you send your student off to campus. Here's a list of the best Christian books to help your student (and you) navigate the challenges and growth of the college years.
