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  • The Person of Christ, By Donald Macleod
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    The Person of Christ

    Contours of Christian Theology

    by Donald Macleod

    Throughout the history of the church the doctrine of the person of Christ has been a centerpiece of theological reflection. In The Person of Christ Donald Macleod rearticulates this multifaceted doctrine. He begins with the New Testament and recent attempts to understand its Christology. Macleod then turns his attention to Christ in the history of Christian theology, examining the principal ...

  • Retrieving Augustine's Doctrine of Creation: Ancient Wisdom for Current Controversy, By Gavin Ortlund
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    Retrieving Augustine's Doctrine of Creation

    Ancient Wisdom for Current Controversy

    by Gavin Ortlund

    How might premodern exegesis of Genesis inform Christian debates about creation today?

    Imagine a table with three people in dialogue: a young-earth creationist, an old-earth creationist, and an evolutionary creationist. Into the room walks Augustine of Hippo, one of the most significant theologians in the history of the church. In what ways will his reading of Scripture and ...

  • Theologies of the American Revivalists: From Whitefield to Finney, By Robert W. Caldwell III
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    Theologies of the American Revivalists

    From Whitefield to Finney

    by Robert W. Caldwell III

    For centuries, revivals—and the conversions they inspire—have played a significant role in American evangelicalism. Often unnoticed or unconsidered, however, are the particular theologies underlying these revivals and conversions to faith. With that in mind, church historian Robert Caldwell traces the fascinating story of American revival theologies from the First Great Awakening through the ...

  • Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship, Edited by Ralph P. Martin and Peter H. Davids
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    Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments

    A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship

    The IVP Bible Dictionary Series

    Edited by Ralph P. Martin and Peter H. Davids

    Academy of Parish Clergy Top Ten Books of the Year
    Christianity Today's Books of the Year
    ECPA Gold Medallion

    The third of IVP's critically acclaimed series of dictionaries of the New Testament provides focused study on the often-neglected portions of the New Testament: Acts, Hebrews, the General Epistles, and Revelation. Furthermore, its scope goes beyond ...

  • Images of Christians: 8 Studies for Individuals or Groups, By Bill Weimer
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    Images of Christians

    8 Studies for Individuals or Groups

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Bill Weimer

    Scripture offers various metaphors and motifs for God's people: sheep, salt and light, branches, clay jars, friends, disciples, and more. This eight-session LifeGuide® Bible Study explores some of the images that can form and shape our life with God.

    For over three decades LifeGuide Bible Studies have provided solid biblical content and raised thought-provoking ...

    Number of Studies: 8

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    "He Descended to the Dead"

    An Evangelical Theology of Holy Saturday

    by Matthew Y. Emerson

    Christianity Today Book Award
    The Gospel Coalition Book Award

    "I believe he descended to the dead."

    The descent of Jesus Christ to the dead has been a fundamental tenet of the Christian faith, as indicated by its inclusion in both the Apostles' and Athanasian Creeds. Falling between remembrance of Christ's death on Good Friday and of ...

  • Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics, By Mark R. Glanville and Luke Glanville
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    Refuge Reimagined

    Biblical Kinship in Global Politics

    by Mark R. Glanville and Luke Glanville
    Foreword by Matthew Soerens

    The global crisis of forced displacement is growing every year. At the same time, Western Christians' sympathy toward refugees is increasingly overshadowed by concerns about personal and national security, economics, and culture. We urgently need a perspective that understands both Scripture and current political realities and that can be applied at the levels of the church, the ...

  • 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 Prophets and the Apostolic Witness: Reading Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel as Christian Scripture, Edited by Andrew T. Abernethy and William R. Osborne and Paul D. Wegner
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    The Prophets and the Apostolic Witness

    Reading Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel as Christian Scripture

    Edited by Andrew T. Abernethy, William R. Osborne, and Paul D. Wegner
    Contributions by Nicholas G. Piotrowski, Mark S. Gignilliat, John N. Oswalt, Dana M. Harris, Gary E. Yates, Lissa M. Wray Beal, Andrew G. Shead, Philip Graham Ryken, Alicia R. Jackson, John W. Hilber, Iain M. Duguid, and Daniel I. Block

    How should Christians read prophetic literature? Questions abound both in the academy and the church as to how to engage the prophets, particularly in light of the New Testament. The Gospel writers and the church fathers all read and appealed to the Old Testament, but are we as modern-day readers supposed to take the same approach? The Prophets and the Apostolic Witness ...