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PaperbackLiturgical Mission
The Work of the People for the Life of the World
by Winfield Bevins
Foreword by Justo L. GonzálezModern missional movements have often viewed the historic Christian traditions with suspicion. The old traditions may be beautiful, the thinking goes, but they’re too insular, focused primarily on worship and on the interior lifeof the church, and not looking outward to evangelism and good works.
In Liturgical Mission, Winfield Bevins argues that the church's liturgy ...
HardbackThe Epistles of 2 Corinthians and 1 Peter
Newly Discovered Commentaries
The Lightfoot Legacy Set
by J. B. Lightfoot
Edited by Ben Witherington III and Todd D. Still
Assisted by Jeanette M. PiferInterVarsity Press is proud to present The Lightfoot Legacy, a three-volume set of previously unpublished material from J. B. Lightfoot, one of the great biblical scholars of the modern era. In the spring of 2013, Ben Witherington III discovered hundreds of pages of biblical commentary by Lightfoot in the Durham Cathedral Library. While incomplete, these commentaries represent a goldmine for historians ...
EbookModern Technology and the Human Future
A Christian Appraisal
by Craig M. Gay
Technology is not neutral.
From the plow to the printing press, technology has always shaped human life and informed our understanding of what it means to be human. And advances in modern technology, from computers to smartphones, have yielded tremendous benefits. But do these developments actually encourage human flourishing?
Craig Gay raises concerns about the theological ...
PaperbackMending the Divides
Creative Love in a Conflicted World
by Jon Huckins and Jer Swigart
Foreword by Lynne HybelsChristianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Mission/The Global Church
Conflict, hatred, and injustice seem to be the norm rather than the exception in our world, our nation, our communities, our homes. The fractures and fissures run so deep that we're paralyzed by our hopelessness, writing off peace as a far-fetched option for the afterlife. Even if ...
EbookGod in the Modern Wing
Viewing Art with Eyes of Faith
Studies in Theology and the Arts Series
Edited by Cameron J Anderson and G. Walter Hansen
Should Christians even bother with the modern wing at the art museum? After all, modern art and artists are often caricatured as rabidly opposed to God, the church—indeed, to faith of any kind. But is that all there is to the story?
In this Studies in Theology and the Arts volume, coeditors Cameron J. Anderson and G. Walter Hansen gather the reflections of artists, art historians, ...
EbookThe Journey of Modern Theology
From Reconstruction to Deconstruction
by Roger E. Olson
Modernity has been an age of revolutions—political, scientific, industrial and philosophical. Consequently, it has also been an age of revolutions in theology, as Christians attempt to make sense of their faith in light of the cultural upheavals around them, what Walter Lippman once called the "acids of modernity." Modern theology is the result of this struggle to think responsibly about God within ...
EbookModern Art and the Life of a Culture
The Religious Impulses of Modernism
Studies in Theology and the Arts Series
by Jonathan A. Anderson and William A. Dyrness
Christianity Today Book of the Year Award of Merit - Culture and the Arts
For many Christians, engaging with modern art raises several questions: Is the Christian faith at odds with modern art? Doesmodernism contain religious themes? What is the place of Christian artists in the landscape of modern art?
Nearly fifty years ago, Dutch art historian ...
PaperbackThe Journey
A Spiritual Roadmap for Modern Pilgrims
by Peter Kreeft
Open this book and begin an epic human journey--the journey toward truth.
Enjoy a delightful and imaginative allegory of timeless wisdom as you travel along the road of true knowledge. Socrates, the thoroughly reasonable and wise philosopherof Athens, will accompany you much of the way. With sharp questions and canny wit he will coach you past the winsome, the wily and the half-wise spin-doctors ...
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Can the ideas of Scripture and evolutionary science be mutually illuminating? In this interview, biblical scholar Dru Johnson calls us beyond creation-versus-evolution debates to explore the continuities and discontinuities between biblical themes and modern science.
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In this essay, Water from a Deep Well author Gerald Sittser offers insight drawn from 1 Corinthians into how modern Christians can learn from the Christian traditions and teachers of the past.