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PaperbackThe Magna Carta of Humanity
Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom
by Os Guinness
In these stormy times, voices from all fronts call for change. But what kind of revolution brings true freedom to both society and the human soul?
Cultural observer Os Guinness explores the nature of revolutionary faith, contrasting between secular revolutions such as the French Revolution and the faith-led revolution of ancient Israel. He argues that the story of ...
PaperbackGlobal Awakening
How 20th-Century Revivals Triggered a Christian Revolution
by Mark Shaw
The last century has seen the revolutionary remaking of Christianity into a truly world religion. How did it happen? What triggered the emergence of this new global faith no longer dominated by the West, full of new and vital forms of devotion?Mark Shaw's provocative thesis is that far-flung revivals are at the heart of the global resurgence of Christianity. These were not the quirky folk rituals ...
HardbackThe 1662 Book of Common Prayer
International Edition
Edited by Samuel L Bray and Drew Keane
A Prayerbook for All Christians and All Nations
The Book of Common Prayer (1662) is one of the most beloved liturgical texts in the Christian church, and remains a definitive expression of Anglican identitytoday. It is still widely used around the world, in public worship and private devotion, and is revered for both its linguistic and theological ...
PaperbackJesus Made in America
A Cultural History from the Puritans to "The Passion of the Christ"
by Stephen J. Nichols
Jesus is as American as baseball and apple pie. But how this came to be is a complex story--one that Stephen Nichols tells with care and ease. Beginning with the Puritans, he leads readers through the various cultural epochs of American history, showing at each stage how American notions of Jesus were shaped by the cultural sensibilities of the times, often with unfortunate results.Always fascinating ...
PaperbackLight Unapproachable
Divine Incomprehensibility and the Task of Theology
by Ronni Dean 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 ...
HardbackWhat Are Christians For?
Life Together at the End of the World
by Jake Meador
Foreword by Karen Swallow PriorWhat does a Christian political witness look like in our day?
Politics ought to be defined by fidelity to the common good of all the members of society. But our modern Western politics are defined by a determination to bendthe natural world and human life to its own political and economic ends. This wholesale rejection of the natural order is behind the dominant revolutions ...
PaperbackCalvinism for a Secular Age
A Twenty-First-Century Reading of Abraham Kuyper's Stone Lectures
Edited by Jessica Joustra and Robert J. Joustra
Abraham Kuyper, the Dutch Neo-Calvinist theologian, pastor, and politician, was well-known for having declared that there is "not a square inch" of human existence over which Jesus Christ is not its sovereign Lord.
This principle is perhaps best reflected in Kuyper's writings on Calvinism originally delivered as the Stone Lectures in 1898 at Princeton Theological Seminary. ...
PaperbackSubversive Mission
Serving as Outsiders in a World of Need
by Craig Warren Greenfield
For many, missions is the story of heroes, martyrs, and the advance of the gospel. For others, it's the story of colonialism and missionary disasters. So how do we respond to God's call to love our neighbors as a new era emerges?
Subversive mission is submission—to God and local leaders. Subversive mission offers a new way forward for outsiders called to crosscultural ministry ...
Hardback1 Corinthians
New Testament Volume 9A
Reformation Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Scott M. Manetsch
In his first letter to the church in Corinth, Paul writes, "I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures" (1 Cor 15:3-4 ESV). Reflecting on Paul's summary of the gospel, sixteenth-century biblical commentator, theologian, and ...
PaperbackHow to Use the Book of Common Prayer
A Guide to the Anglican Liturgy
by Samuel L Bray and Drew Keane
In recent years there has been a revival of interest in the Book of Common Prayer, especially the classic 1662 version. Beloved for its language and theology, the classic Prayer Book is the fountainhead for almost all later editions of the Book of Common Prayer and remains a widely recognized standard for worship in the Anglican tradition. More than simply a collection of prayers, ...
