Roger E Olson: 15 books
Counterfeit Christianity
The Persistence of Errors in the Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Historic heresies didn’t die or fade away. Each generation boasts its own. Even while these counterfeit teachings remain outside the accepted bounds of Christianity, modern-day versions plague churches.So how does a church leader or pastor understand and deal with these age-old controversies when...
The Journey of Modern Theology
From Reconstruction to Deconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Modernity has been an age of revolutions—political, scientific, industrial and philosophical. Consequently, it has also been an age of revolutions in theology, as Christians attempt to make sense of their faith in light of the cultural upheavals around them, what Walter Lippman once called the "acids...
Against Calvinism
Rescuing God's Reputation from Radical Reformed Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Calvinist theology has been debated and promoted for centuries. But is it a theology that should last? Roger Olson suggests that Calvinism, also commonly known as Reformed theology, holds an unwarranted place in our list of accepted theologies. In Against Calvinism, readers will find scholarly arguments...
by Roger E. Olson, Michael Horton
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Two-book compilation containing award-winning author Michael Horton’s For Calvinism and Roger Olson’s Against Calvinism. For Calvinism Taking us beyond the caricatures, Michael Horton invites us to explore the teachings of Calvinism, also commonly known as Reformed theology, by showing us how...
by Kevin Bauder, R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism compares and contrasts four distinct positions on the current fundamentalist-evangelical spectrum in light of the history of American fundamentalism and evangelicalism. The contributors each state their case for one of four views on the spectrum of evangelicalism:...
Reclaiming Pietism
Retrieving an Evangelical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
The historical movement known as Pietism emphasized the response of faith and inward transformation as crucial aspects of conversion to Christ. Unfortunately, Pietism today is often equated with a “holier-than-thou” spiritual attitude, religious legalism, or withdrawal from involvement in society.
In...
Reformed and Always Reforming (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology)
The Postconservative Approach to Evangelical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
The community of evangelicals sometimes seems so broad as to defy definition, but theological conservatism has been one consistent marker. Now, says theologian Roger Olson, postconservatism is moving beyond conventional battles against liberalism and heresy to posit a dynamic and realistic approach....
The Essentials of Christian Thought
Seeing Reality through the Biblical Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Christians disagree on doctrine, politics, church government, certain moral questions—just about everything under the sun, it can seem. Yet a unity remains, centered around a core outlook on God and the world that is common to all believers.
Or at least, such an outlook should unite Christians...
The Mosaic of Christian Belief
Twenty Centuries of Unity & Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2009
The Story of Christian Theology
The Story of Christian Theology
Twenty Centuries of Tradition & Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2009
Christianity Today**The Story of Christian Theology
20th-Century Theology
God & the World in a Transitional Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Christianity Today
God in Dispute
"Conversations" among Great Christian Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
This volume creatively explores the history of Christian thought by imagining a series of twenty-nine dialogues and debates among key figures throughout church history. It traces the history of theology via such conversation partners as Augustine and Pelagius, Calvin and Arminius, Barth and Brunner,...
Questions to All Your Answers
The Journey from Folk Religion to Examined Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Many Christians’ faith exists as a loose collection of unexamined clichés and slogans borrowed from songs, devotional books, sermon illustrations, and even the internet. Too often this belief system (if it can be called a “system”) lacks coherence and intelligibility; it can hardly be expressed,...
by Roger E. Olson, Frank S. Mead, Samuel S. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The Handbook of Denominations in the United States has long been the gold standard for reference works about religious bodies in America. The purpose of this Handbook is to provide accurate and objective information about the most significant Christian traditions and denominations in the United States...
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