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paperbackCreation and Doxology
The Beginning and End of God's Good World
Center for Pastor Theologians Series
Edited by Gerald L. Hiestand and Todd Wilson
The doctrine of creation is crucial to the Christian faith, but it has often been maligned, misinterpreted, or ignored.
Some, such as pagan philosophers and Gnostics, have tended to denigrate the goodness of the material world. More recently, new questions have emerged regarding human origins in light of the Darwinian account of evolution. What does it mean today to both affirm ...
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paperbackOur Good Crisis
Overcoming Moral Chaos with the Beatitudes
by Jonathan K. Dodson
We live in an age of crisis. Financial crisis, political crisis, environmental crisis—the list goes on. We're confronted with calamity every time we read the headlines. But behind each of these lurks another kind of crisis, one we find harder to define: a moral crisis—a crisis of goodness. Behind financial crisis is unrestrained greed; behind political crisis is the lust for power. ...
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Nancy Beach
Nancy Beach serves as a leadership coach with the Slingshot Group and on the teaching team at Soul City Church in downtown Chicago. Previously, Nancy served as the programming director at Willow Creek Community Church in suburban Chicago. She is also the author of An Hour on Sunday and Gifted to Lead. Nancy and her husband Warren have two adult daughters, Samantha and Johanna.
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hardcoverThe Twelve Prophets
Volume 14
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Alberto Ferreiro
General Editor Thomas C. Oden"And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, [the risen Jesus] interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself" (Lk 24:27).
The church fathers mined the Old Testament throughout for prophetic utterances regarding the Messiah, but few books yielded as much messianic ore as the Twelve Prophets, sometimes known as the Minor Prophets because of the relative ...
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paperbackThe Twelve Prophets
Volume 14
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Alberto Ferreiro
General Editor Thomas C. Oden"And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, [the risen Jesus] interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself" (Lk 24:27). The church fathers mined the Old Testament throughout for prophetic utterances regarding the Messiah, but few books yielded as much messianic ore as the Twelve Prophets, sometimes known as the Minor Prophets because of the relative ...
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John Anthony McGuckin
John Anthony McGuckin held the Nielsen Chair in Late Antique Christian History at Union Theological Seminary and was professor of Byzantine Christian Studies at Columbia University in New York City. He is an archpriest of the Romanian Orthodox Church, and rector of the Orthodox Church in Lytham St. Annes, England. He serves on the faculty of church history at Oxford University, and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society of the United Kingdom. McGuckin has been awarded several honorary doctorates, and has written twenty-five works of historical theology, including St. Cyril of Alexandria: The Christological Controversy, St. Gregory of Nazianzus: An Intellectual Biography, The Westminster Handbook to Patristic Theology, and The Ascent of Law.
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Insoo Kim
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hardcoverThe Myth of the American Dream
Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety, and Power
by D. L. Mayfield
>2020 ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
Publishers Weekly starred review.
Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power. These are the central values of the American dream. But are they compatible with Jesus' command to love our neighbor as ourselves?
In essays grouped around these four values, D. L. Mayfield asks us to pay attention to the ...
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paperbackThe Dust of Death
The Sixties Counterculture and How It Changed America Forever
The IVP Signature Collection
by Os Guinness
In 1968, at the climax of the sixties, Os Guinness visited the United States for the first time. There he was struck by an impression he'd already felt in England and elsewhere: beneath all the idealism and struggle for freedom was a growing disillusionment and loss of meaning. "Underneath the efforts of a generation," he wrote, "lay dust." Even more troubling, Christians seemed ...
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paperbackThe Making of the New Spirituality
The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition
by James A. Herrick
- A 2004 ECPA Gold Medallion Finalist
- One of Preaching magazine's 2004 "Top Ten Books Every Preacher Should Read"
Neo-paganism.
The paranormal.
Astrology.
Nature religion.
Holistic thinking.
Healing.
New Age.
New spirituality.A massive shift in Western religious attitudes has taken place almost ...
