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paperbackBonhoeffer, Christ and Culture
Wheaton Theology Conference Series
Edited by Keith L. Johnson and Timothy Larsen
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was one of the most compelling theologians of the twentieth century. A complex mix of scholarship and passion, his life and writings continue to fascinate and challenge Christians worldwide. He was a pastor and profound teacher and writer on Christian theology and ethics, yet was also involved in the resistance against Hitler which plotted his assassination. Bonhoeffer ...
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paperbackIn Search of Moral Knowledge
Overcoming the Fact-Value Dichotomy
by R. Scott Smith
For most of the church's history, people have seen Christian ethics as normative and universally applicable. Recently, however, this view has been lost, thanks to naturalism and relativism. R. Scott Smith argues that Christians need to overcome Kant's fact-value dichotomy and recover the possibility of genuine moral and theological knowledge.
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pamphletBeing a Christian
IVP Booklets
by John Stott
Written by John R. W. Stott, a Christian leader known worldwide for addressing the hearts and minds of contemporary men and women, this updated booklet discusses the privileges of being a child of God and helps Christians grow to maturity in their responsibilities to God, the church and the world.
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ebookThe God of the Gospel
Robert Jenson's Trinitarian Theology
Strategic Initiatives in Evangelical Theology
by Scott R. Swain
Who is the God of the gospel? Robert W. Jenson's way of answering this question, according to Scott Swain, hinges on the nature of the relationship between God in himself and the redemptive events through which God becomes our God. Swain first locates Jenson's pursuit of a relentlessly "evangelical" understanding of God in the broader history of trinitarian theology after Karl Barth, ...
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ebookGlobal Evangelicalism
Theology, History and Culture in Regional Perspective
Edited by Donald M. Lewis and Richard V. Pierard
Evangelicalism is not merely a North American religiously charged ideology that dominates the popular mind. Over the last century, evangelicalism has taken on global proportions. It has spread from its northern heartlands and formed burgeoning new centers of vibrant life in the global South. Alongside Islam, it is now arguably the most important and dynamic religious movement in the world today. ...
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ebookThe Unkingdom of God
Embracing the Subversive Power of Repentance
by Mark Van Steenwyk
Foreword by David E. FitchChristianity is carrying a lot of baggage. Two thousand years of well-intended (and sometimes not so well-intended) attempts to carry forward the good news of God with us have resulted in some murky understandings of the teachings of Jesus and the culture of God?s kingdom. To embrace Christianity, sometimes we have to repent of what we?ve made of it. In The Unkingdom of God Mark Van Steenwyk ...
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product setHistory of Evangelicalism Series
People, Movements and Ideas in the English-Speaking World
General Editor David W. Bebbington and Mark A. Noll
This series seeks to integrate the social and intellectual history of a diverse yet cohesive Christian movement over the last three hundred years. The associations, books, practices, beliefs, networks of influence and prominent individuals which descended from the eighteenth-century British and North American revivals all come into view. Accessible to a wide range of readers, the volumes of the ...
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paperbackWhen Athens Met Jerusalem
An Introduction to Classical and Christian Thought
by John Mark Reynolds
Christian theology shaped and is shaping many places in the world, but it was the Greeks who originally gave a philosophic language to Christianity. John Mark Reynolds's book When Athens Met Jerusalem provides students a well-informed introduction to the intellectual underpinnings (Greek, Roman and Christian) of Western civilization and highlights how certain current intellectual trends ...
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paperbackThe New Christian Zionism
Fresh Perspectives on Israel and the Land
Edited by Gerald R. McDermott
Can a theological case be made from Scripture that Israel still has a claim to the Promised Land? Christian Zionism is often seen as the offspring of premillennial dispensationalism. But the historical roots of Christian Zionism came long before the rise of the Plymouth Brethren and John Nelson Darby. In fact, the authors of The New Christian Zionism contend that the biblical and theological ...
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paperbackThe Riches of Your Grace
Living in the Book of Common Prayer
by Julie Lane-Gay
An Invitation into God's Grace
As we race to work in the morning, have coffee with a friend, or fall into bed exhausted, we want to feel God's presence, to sink into his grace. Yet too often he feels aloof, absent. Our prayers feel trivial. But as Julie Lane-Gay discovered, the Book of Common Prayer is designed for just this purpose: to root Christians in the riches of God's ...
