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  • Longing for Joy
: An Invitation into the Goodness and Beauty of Life, By Alastair Sterne
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    Longing for Joy

    An Invitation into the Goodness and Beauty of Life

    by Alastair Sterne

    Can we still have joy in a world of pain and anxiety?

    The troubles around us and in our lives lead many of us into a joyless experience where despair and hopelessness are the norm. Yet something within us still longs for a joy that transcends our challenges and gives us meaning and satisfaction.

    Alastair Sterne says that our inner longings for joy actually point us ...

  • 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 ...

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    To Gaze upon God

    The Beatific Vision in Doctrine, Tradition, and Practice

    by Samuel Parkison

    Today, the doctrine of the beatific vision has been woefully forgotten within the church and its theology.

    Yet, throughout history Christians have always held that the blessed hope of heaven lies in seeing and being in the presence of God, of beholding the beatific vision. With lucidity and breadth, Parkison reintroduces the beatific vision and affirms its centrality for the ...

  • The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior, By Steven Garber
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    The Fabric of Faithfulness

    Weaving Together Belief and Behavior

    by Steven Garber

    Voted one of Christianity Today's Books of the Year

    All kinds of important choices are made during the college years. Young men and women explore what they really believe about the nature of the world and the purpose of life. They choose their work. They build friendships or even choose to marry. They develop goals and adopt habits that may very well last a lifetime.

    Yet ...

  • The Deeper Journey: The Spirituality of Discovering Your True Self, By M. Robert Mulholland Jr.
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    The Deeper Journey

    The Spirituality of Discovering Your True Self

    Transforming Resources

    by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.
    Foreword by Ruth Haley Barton

    As you journey deeper in the Christian pilgrimage, you come to realize that the Christian life is more than merely replicating particular spiritual disciplines or practices. You begin to understand that at the core of Christian faith is the transformation of your very identity. M. Robert Mulholland Jr. exposes the false selves that you may be tempted to hide behind and helps you to instead discover ...

  • Intercultural Theology, Volume One: Intercultural Hermeneutics, By Henning Wrogemann
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    Intercultural Theology, Volume One

    Intercultural Hermeneutics

    Missiological Engagements

    by Henning Wrogemann
    Translated by Karl E. Böhmer

    Christianity is not only a global but also an intercultural phenomenon. The diversity of world Christianity is evident not merely outside our borders but even within our own neighborhoods.

    Over the past half century theologians and missiologists have addressed this reality by developing local and contextual theologies and by exploring issues like contextualization, inculturation, ...

  • The Acts of the Apostles: A Newly Discovered Commentary, By J. B. Lightfoot
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    The Acts of the Apostles

    A Newly Discovered Commentary

    The Lightfoot Legacy Set

    by J. B. Lightfoot
    Edited by Ben Witherington III and Todd D. Still
    Assisted by Jeanette M. Hagen

    Preaching's Survey of Bibles and Bible Reference

    Biblical Foundations Award Winner

    InterVarsity 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 ...

  • Joshua, Judges, Ruth, By N. Scott Amos
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    Joshua, Judges, Ruth

    Old Testament Volume 4

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    by N. Scott Amos

    "Where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God."

    Ruth's response to her mother-in-law Naomi demonstrated both Ruth's loyalty to her family and her trust in God. The Reformers of the sixteenth century found theological significance in such Old Testament narratives. For example, German Lutheran pastor and theologian ...

  • Matthew, Edited by Jason K. Lee and William M. Marsh
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    Matthew

    New Testament Volume 1

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Jason K. Lee and William M. Marsh

    "As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, 'Take, eat; this is my body.'"

    How should one interpret these words of Jesus?

    The sixteenth-century Reformers turned to Scripture to find the truth of God's Word, but that doesn't mean they always agreed on how to interpret it. For example, when approaching ...

  • Christian Apologetics in the Postmodern World, Edited by Timothy R. Phillips and Dennis L. Okholm
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    Christian Apologetics in the Postmodern World

    Wheaton Theology Conference Series

    Edited by Timothy R. Phillips and Dennis L. Okholm

    Evangelicals are beginning to provide analyses of our postmodern society, but little has been done to suggest an effective apologetic strategy for reaching a culture that is pluralistic, consumer-oriented, and infatuated with managerial and therapeutic approaches to life. This, then, is the first book to address that vital task. In these pages some of evangelicalism's most stimulating thinkers ...