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Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker
A Theological Vision for Discipleship and Life Together
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The youth ministry focus of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life is often forgotten or overlooked, even though he did much work with young people and wrote a number of papers, sermons, and addresses about or for the youth of the church. However, youth ministry expert Andrew Root explains that this focus is...
What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
This provocative addition to The Church and Postmodern Culture series offers a lively rereading of Charles Sheldon's In His Steps as a constructive way forward. John D. Caputo introduces the notion of why the church needs deconstruction, positively defines deconstruction's role in renewal, deconstructs...
From Nature to Creation (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
A Christian Vision for Understanding and Loving Our World
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
How does Christianity change the way we view the natural world? In this addition to a critically acclaimed series, renowned theologian Norman Wirzba engages philosophers, environmentalists, and cultural critics to show how the modern concept of nature has been deeply problematic. He explains that...
Entertainment Theology (Cultural Exegesis)
New-Edge Spirituality in a Digital Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
It's the end of the church as we know it. In a digitally connected world, people are seeking spiritual answers through pop culture. Instead of retreating, Christians must "rethink the sacred" and enter global conversations about God--in film, literature, TV, and music--or face extinction,...
Why Study Religion?
Understanding Humanity's Pursuit of the Divine
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Why Studying Religion Matters in a Pluralistic Context
This brief primer explains why Christian students should study religion, how they should go about it, and why it is important in our contemporary, pluralistic context. Senior religion scholar Terry Muck introduces the discipline and explains...
The Special Service Worship Architect
Blueprints for Weddings, Funerals, Baptisms, Holy Communion, and Other Occasions
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
This book takes the principles found in Constance Cherry's successful The Worship Architect--in which she provided dynamic blueprints for designing worship services--and applies them to special services in the life of the church. Cherry, a worship professor and practitioner, offers theological reflection,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Highlighting the place of Stoic teaching in early Christian thought, an international roster of scholars challenges the prevailing view that Platonism was the most important philosophical influence on early Christianity. They suggest that early Christians were more often influenced by Stoicism than...
Retrieving Nicaea
The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Khaled Anatolios, a noted expert on the development of Nicene theology, offers a historically informed theological study of the development of the doctrine of the Trinity, showing its relevance to Christian life and thought today. According to Anatolios, the development of trinitarian doctrine involved...
by Herman Bavinck
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Herman Bavinck, the premier theologian of the Kuyper-inspired, neo-Calvinistic revival in the late-nineteenth-century Netherlands, is an important voice in the development of Protestant theology. Essays on Religion, Science, and Society is the capstone of his distinguished career. These seminal essays...
Christ and the Decree
Christology and Predestination in Reformed Theology from Calvin to Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
In Christ and the Decree, one of the foremost scholars of Calvinism today expounds the doctrines of Christ and predestination as they were developed by Calvin, Bullinger, Musculus, Vermigli, Beza, Ursinus, Zanchi, Polanus, and Perkins. Muller analyzes the relationship of these two doctrines to each...
Introducing Medieval Biblical Interpretation
The Senses of Scripture in Premodern Exegesis
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
This introductory guide, written by a leading expert in medieval theology
and church history, offers a thorough overview of medieval biblical interpretation. After an opening chapter sketching the necessary background in patristic exegesis (especially the hermeneutical teaching of Augustine), the...
Calvin and the Reformed Tradition
On the Work of Christ and the Order of Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Richard Muller, a world-class scholar of the Reformation era, examines the relationship of Calvin's theology to the Reformed tradition, indicating Calvin's place in the tradition as one of several significant second-generation formulators. Muller argues that the Reformed tradition is a diverse and...
Christian Women in the Patristic World
Their Influence, Authority, and Legacy in the Second through Fifth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
From facing wild beasts in the arena to governing the Roman Empire, Christian women--as preachers and philosophers, martyrs and empresses, virgins and mothers--influenced the shape of the church in its formative centuries. This book provides in a single volume a nearly complete compendium of extant...
Proofs of God
Classical Arguments from Tertullian to Barth
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Leading theologian Matthew Levering presents a thoroughgoing critical survey of the proofs of God's existence for readers interested in traditional Christian responses to the problem of atheism. Beginning with Tertullian and ending with Karl Barth, Levering covers twenty-one theologians and philosophers...