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Heaven
An Inkling of What’s To Come
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
What if heaven is more real, physical, exciting, and compelling than anything we have ever heard? And what difference would it make? Myk Habets takes readers on a journey of discovery into what God has in store for those who love him. Forget playing harps on fluffy clouds. The reality of what God...
Heaven and Hell
Visions of the Afterlife in the Western Poetic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
For thousands of years, philosophers, theologians, and poets have tried to pierce through the veil of death to gaze with wonder, fear, and awe on the final and eternal state of the soul. Indeed, the four great epic poets of the Western tradition (Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton) structured their...
Reading Like a Serpent
What the Scarlet A Is About
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Many remember The Scarlet Letter as required reading for reluctant sixteen year olds. The unnamed, elusive narrator of Hawthorne's tale of human frailty and sorrow is--some readers might say maddeningly--indirect, ambiguous, and inconsistent. Readers who hope to arrive at satisfying judgments about...
by Aída Besançon Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
A thorough and insightful commentary on Paul's letter to his coworker Timothy, which the Apostle wrote before and during Nero's persecution. Spencer carefully examines each part of the letter and relates it to the overall flow of the argument and in light of the larger biblical, historical, social,...
Genesis as Torah
Reading Narrative as Legal Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Should Genesis rightly be identified as law--that is, as torah or legal instruction for Israel? Peterson argues in the affirmative, concluding that Genesis serves a greater function than merely offering a prehistory or backstory for the people of Israel. As the introductory book to the Torah, Genesis...
The Disciple
On Becoming Truly Human
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In The Disciple, Lucy Peppiatt addresses the question of what it means to become like Jesus in the context of our everyday lives. Through the gifts of the Word and the Spirit, our communities, and our circumstances in life, God forms us into the likeness of his Son and leads us into a life of freedom,...
Unveiling Paul’s Women
Making Sense of 1 Corinthians 11:2–16
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Whether people realize it or not, the ideas in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 have had a huge impact on the role of Christian women in the church through the centuries. These fifteen verses have shaped worship practices, church structures, church leadership, marriages, and even relationships between men and...
Women and Worship at Corinth
Paul’s Rhetorical Arguments in 1 Corinthians
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Making sense of Paul's arguments in 1 Corinthians 11-14 regarding both the role of women in public worship and the value of tongues and prophecy for the unbeliever has long posed challenges for any lay reader or scholar. Despite numerous explanations offered over the years, these passages remain marked...
God is Green
An Eco-Spirituality of Incarnate Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
At this time of climate crisis, here is a practical Christian ecospirituality. It emerges from the pastoral and theological experience of Reverend Robert Shore-Goss, who worked with his congregation by making the earth a member of the church, by greening worship, and by helping the church building...
Abraham Joshua Heschel--Philosopher of Wonder
Our Thirty-Year Friendship and Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Most studies of Abraham Joshua Heschel approach him as a theologian, whereas this book peers behind the theologian and honors Heschel as the original philosopher that he was. So it unearths Heschel's epistemology, his aesthetic, and his social philosophy, all reinforced by the thirty years of friendship...
Scripture’s Knowing
A Companion to Biblical Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Scripture's Knowing is a guide to the emerging field of philosophical study of Scripture, specifically about knowing. Assuming that the Scriptures speak verbosely and persistently about knowing, what do the biblical authors have to say? How do they conceptualize ideas like truth and knowledge? Most...
Biblical Knowing
A Scriptural Epistemology of Error
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
With major themes like the knowledge of good and evil, knowing that YHWH is your God, knowing that Jesus is the Christ, and the goal of developing Israel into a wise and discerning people, Scripture clearly stresses human knowledge and the consequences of error. We too long for confidence in our understanding,...
Evangelicals and the Early Church
Recovery, Reform, Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
In this volume noted Evangelical historians and theologians examine the charge of the supposed ahistorical nature of Evangelicalism and provide a critical, historical examination of the relationship between the Protestant evangelical heritage and the early church. In doing so, the contributors show...
Caesar and the Lamb
Early Christian Attitudes on War and Military Service
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Through the available patristic writings Caesar and the Lamb focuses on the attitudes of the earliest Christians on war and military service. Kalantzis not only provides the reader with many new translations of pre-Constantinian texts, he also tells the story of the struggle of the earliest Church,...