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HardbackThe Gospel of St. John
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. PiferPreaching's Survey of Bibles and Bible Reference award
InterVarsity Press is proud to present The Lightfoot Legacy, a three-volume set of previously unpublished material from J. B. Lightfoot, one of the great biblical scholars of the modern era.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 of pages of biblical commentary by Lightfoot in the Durham ...
PaperbackJesus and the Rise of Early Christianity
A History of New Testament Times
by Paul W. Barnett
The pathway to understanding the New Testament leads through the vibrant landscape of the first-century Greco-Roman world. The New Testament is rooted in the concrete historical events of that world.In Jesus the Rise of Early Christianity Paul Barnett not only places the New Testament within that world of caesars and Herods, proconsuls and Pharisees, Sadducees and revolutionaries, but argues ...
PaperbackPolycentric Missiology
21st-Century Mission from Everyone to Everywhere
by Allen Yeh
The Edinburgh 1910 World Missionary Conference was the most famous missions conference in modern church history. A century later, five conferences on five continents displayed the landscape of global mission at the dawn of the third millennium: Tokyo 2010, Edinburgh 2010, Cape Town 2010, 2010Boston, and CLADE V (San José, 2012). These five events provide a window into the state of world Christianity ...
PaperbackChanging Signs of Truth
A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication
by Crystal L. Downing
What signals are you sending when you share the gospel?The importance of signs for communicating truth has been recognized throughout the ages. Crystal L. Downing traces this awareness from biblical texts, through figures from church history likeJohn Wycliffe and William Tyndale, to more recent writers Samuel Taylor Coleridge and C. S. Lewis.In the nineteenth century, this legacy of interest in ...
HardbackLearning Humility
A Year of Searching for a Vanishing Virtue
by Richard J. Foster
Outreach Resource of the Year, Spiritual Growth
In a society where raging narcissism dominates the moral landscape, the virtue of humility is often dismissed as irrelevant. Not only is humility vanishing from contemporary culture, but we are also witnessing how destructive a lack of humility has become among our churches and ministry leaders. And yet, Richard ...
PaperbackCulture Making
Recovering Our Creative Calling
by Andy Crouch
Afterword by Tish Harrison WarrenChristianity Today Book Award winner
Publishers Weekly's best booksThe only way to change culture is to create culture.
Most of the time, we just consume or copy culture. But that is not enough. We must also do more than condemn or critique it. The only way to change it is to create it.
For too long, Christians have had ...
PaperbackThe Divine Christology of the Apostle Paul
Retrospect and Prospect
by Chris Bruno, John J R Lee, and Thomas R. Schreiner
The last fifty years of Pauline scholarship have provided numerous insights to both the academy and the church. Some of those most important discussions have related to the question of Paul's view of Christ with respect to his divinity. While the landscape is rich with scholarly findings, it can be overwhelming to navigate the complex lines of argumentation and the interactions ...
PaperbackThe Making of Stanley Hauerwas
Bridging Barth and Postliberalism
New Explorations in Theology
by David B Hunsicker
Foreword by Stanley HauerwasIn the past half-century, few theologians have shaped the landscape of American belief and practice as much as Stanley Hauerwas. His work in social ethics, political theology, and ecclesiology has had a tremendous influence on thechurch and society. But have we understood Hauerwas's theology, his influences, and his place among the theologians correctly?
Hauerwas is often ...
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 ...
PaperbackChristianity and Western Thought
From the Ancient World to the Age of Enlightenment
Christianity and Western Thought Series
by Colin Brown
From Socrates and the Sophists to Kant, from Augustine to Aquinas and the Reformers, Colin Brown traces the turbulent, often tension-filled, always fascinating story of the thinkers, ideas and movements that have shaped our intellectual landscape. Is philosophy the "handmaiden of faith" or "the doctrine of demons"? Does it clarify the faith or undermine the very heart of Christian belief?Brown writes, ...
