David W Jones: 26 books
by Andreas J. Kostenberger,David W. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
This updated edition of Köstenberger and Jones's acclaimed work tackles the latest challenges to God's plan for the home and urges a return to a biblical foundation. The release of the landmark first edition of God, Marriage, and Family provided an integrated, biblical treatment of God's purposes...
Myths, Madness and the Family
The Impact of Mental Illness on Families
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2001
"David Jones has written a compelling book about the complex issues entailed in being family members of sufferers from mental illness. The book provides us with a critical appraisal of the sociological and psychological conceptual layers and the policy context necessary for understanding these...
Marriage and the Family: Biblical Essentials
Biblical Essentials
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
The recent rulings on gay marriage and debates on family-related issues have placed marriage and family at the forefront of the public eye. More so than at any point in history, we are now confronted with the need to carefully define the meaning of marriage and family.
Professor Andreas Köstenberger...
by David W. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This book serves as an introduction to the field of biblical ethics, a subcategory of the discipline of moral theology. It differs from moral philosophy in that biblical ethics is distinctively Christian, and it is more specific than Christian ethics proper because it specifically focuses upon the...
Every Good Thing
An Introduction to the Material World and the Common Good for Christians
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
The physical world around us should have just as much bearing on how Christians act and think as the life to come. But Christians often don't understand how the Bible speaks directly to this important aspect of everyday life.
In Every Good Thing, David W. Jones illustrates the wide variety...
Disordered Personalities and Crime
An analysis of the history of moral insanity
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Disordered Personalities and Crime seeks to better understand how we respond to those individuals who have been labelled at various points in time as ‘morally insane’, ‘psychopathic’ or ‘personality disordered’. Individuals whose behaviour is consistent with these diagnoses present challenges...
Understanding Criminal Behaviour
Psychosocial Approaches to Criminality
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Our understanding of criminal behaviour and its causes has been too long damaged by the failure to integrate fully the emotional, psychological, social and cultural influences on the way people behave.
This book aims to integrate psychological and criminological perspectives in order to better...
by David W. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The Moment: seventy-five practices and praxises for individuals and communities living every moment as The Moment taking church out of the past and into the present out of sanctuaries and into homes, bars, and lives for worship anywhere, anytime, and with anyone everytime, everywhere, and with everyone encountering God at any moment.
Violent States and Creative States (2 Volume Set)
From the Global to the Individual
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This is a provocative collection exploring the different types of violence and how they relate to one another, examined through the integration of several disciplines, including forensic psychotherapy, psychiatry, sociology, psychosocial studies and political science. By examining the 'violent states'...
Health, Wealth, and Happiness
How the Prosperity Gospel Overshadows the Gospel of Christ
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Be faithful in your giving and God will reward you financially. It's not always stated that blatantly but the promises of the Prosperity Gospel--or the name-it-and-claim-it gospel, the health-and-wealth gospel, the word of faith movement, or positive confession theology--are false. Yet its message permeates...
Ethics of Spying
A Reader for the Intelligence Professional
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005
Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...
A World Engraved
Archaeology of the Swift Creek Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This major summary of the current state of archaeological research on the Swift Creek culture is the first comprehensive collection ever published concerning the Swift Creek people.
The Swift Creek people, centered in Georgia and surrounding states from A.D. 100 to 700, are best known from...
The United Nations and Education
Multilateralism, Development and Globalisation
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
The UN is often questioned about its ongoing relevance and overall effectiveness in the 21st century, particularly in its involvement with educational policy and co-operation around the globe. This ground-breaking book examines the four key agencies within the UN system that share the vital role of...
Working with Dynamic Crop Models
Methods, Tools and Examples for Agriculture and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
This second edition of Working with Dynamic Crop Models is meant for self-learning by researchers or for use in graduate level courses devoted to methods for working with dynamic models in crop, agricultural, and related sciences.
Each chapter focuses on a particular topic and includes an introduction,...
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