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  • Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism, By Jonathan A. Anderson and William A. Dyrness
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    Modern 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? Does modernism contain religious themes? What is the place of Christian artists in the landscape of modern art?

    Nearly fifty years ago, Dutch art historian ...

  • Relational Spirituality: A Psychological-Theological Paradigm for Transformation, By Todd W. Hall
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    Relational Spirituality

    A Psychological-Theological Paradigm for Transformation

    Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books

    by Todd W. Hall
    With M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall

    MIDWC Book Award

    As our society becomes more socially fragmented, many Christians feel disconnected and struggle to grow spiritually. Common models of spiritual transformation are proving inadequate to address "the sanctification gap." In recent decades, however, a new paradigm of human and spiritual development has been emerging from multiple fields. It's ...

  • Becoming a Pastor Theologian: New Possibilities for Church Leadership, Edited by Todd Wilson and Gerald L. Hiestand
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    Becoming a Pastor Theologian

    New Possibilities for Church Leadership

    Center for Pastor Theologians Series

    Edited by Todd Wilson and Gerald L. Hiestand

    The roles of pastor and theologian have gone their separate ways. Throughout much of the church's history, these two roles have been deeply intertwined, but in our contemporary setting, a troubling bifurcation between them has developed. The result has been a theologically weakened church and an ecclesially weakened theology. The Center for Pastor Theologians (CPT) seeks to overcome ...

  • Job: An Introduction and Commentary, By Francis I. Andersen
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    Job

    An Introduction and Commentary

    Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries

    by Francis I. Andersen

    For Francis Andersen, the Old Testament book about Job is one of the supreme offerings of the human mind to the living God, and one of the best gifts of God to humanity. "The task of understanding it is as rewarding as it is strenuous. . . . One is constantly amazed at its audacious theology and at the magnitude of its intellectual achievement. Job is a prodigious book in the vast range of its ideas, ...

  • Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition: A Systematic Introduction, By Craig G. Bartholomew
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    Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition

    A Systematic Introduction

    by Craig G. Bartholomew

    Abraham Kuyper was, by any standard, one of the most extraordinary figures in modern Christian history. He was a Dutch Reformed minister, a gifted theologian, a prolific journalist, the leader of a political party, the cofounder of the Free University of Amsterdam (where he was professor of theology), a member of the Dutch Parliament, and eventually prime minister of the Netherlands.

    Kuyper's ...

  • The Face of Forgiveness: A Pastoral Theology of Shame and Redemption, By Philip D. Jamieson
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    The Face of Forgiveness

    A Pastoral Theology of Shame and Redemption

    by Philip D. Jamieson

    Jesus tells Peter to forgive "not seven times, but seventy-seven times" (Matt 18:22), and the atoning work of Christ is at the center of Christian thought. Yet many followers of Christ often struggle with offering or receiving forgiveness. The Face of Forgiveness seeks to address this dilemma and present a way forward. Utilizing contemporary distinctions between shame and guilt, Philip ...