Paternoster imprint: 94 books
The Goldsworthy Trilogy
Gospel & Kingdom, Wisdom & Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
This book represents excellent value, combining three Goldsworthy classics (all now Out-of-Print separately) in one volume: Gospel and Kingdom (ISBN 085 364 6082), Gospel and Wisdom (ISBN 085 364 6511), and The Gospel in Revelation (ISBN 085 364 6309). Combined, these books provide an excellent model...
Spirituality in Adversity
English Non-Conformity in a Period of Repression, 1660-1689
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The unique feature of this scholarly and very readable work is that it examines the way those persecuted responded to hardship: their faith, their worship, their perseverance. With marvellous warmth Raymond Brown shows us the spirituality of these men and women- spirituality centred on Jesus Christ...
The Holy Trinity Revisited
Essays in Response to Stephen Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
A critical engagement with Stephen Holmes's recent, highly acclaimed work on the Trinity.
The Trinitarian resurgence has been celebrated by the majority of recent theologians and has impacted nearly every area of modern theology. A careful rendering of the tradition reaches a high point in...
Through My Enemy's Eyes
Envisioning Reconciliation in Israel-Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This book addresses the universal theological dimension of reconciliation in the context of the Israeli Messianic Jewish and Palestinian Christian divide. Palestinian Christians and Israeli Messianic Jews share a belief in Jesus as the son of God and Messiah. Often, though, that is all they have in...
The Future of Biblical Interpretation
Responsible Plurality in Biblical Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
How should we expect multiple interpretations of the Bible to be kept in check? Each of the contributors, experts in the field, considers one parameter of responsibility, which may act as a constraint on the validity of competing biblical interpretations. Stanley E. Porter considers theological resposibility;...
Trinity and Humanity
An Introduction to the Theology of Colin Gunton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This remarkable and intriguing work is the only single author and introductory
treatment of Colin Gunton's significant theology currently available, tracing
the key theological themes, major contributions and continuing criticisms
of his work. The book highlights throughout the Trinity and the concept...
The Tortoise Usually Wins
Biblical Reflections on Quiet Leadership for Reluctant Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
The Tortoise Usually Wins is a delightful exploration of the theory of quiet leadership. Written for reluctant leaders, it interacts with three key biblical images of leadership - the leader as servant, shepherd and steward - and links them with some of the key virtues of quiet leadership - modesty,...
Bethlehem to Patmos: The New Testament Story (Revised 2013)
The New Testament Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
The historian, Paul Barnett, examines the New Testament story and beyond in this revision of his bestselling work, Bethlehem to Patmos.
Through this fascinating journey he shows that the New Testament is historically reliable on the life of Jesus and the early experiences of the nascent first-century...
by Paul Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This fascinating new book by Paul Barnett, an expert in the New Testament, traces Peter's life chronologically from his beginnings in Bethsaida to his martyrdom in Rome c. 64. It demonstrates the importance of the apostle Peter to earliest Christianity and to our own day through the biblical narratives...
by Peter S Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The book will counter the 'new atheist' movement using the arguments of C.S. Lewis, thereby appealing to readers interested in both loci and showing that there is nothing especially 'new' about the new atheism.
How might C.S. Lewis, the greatest Christian apologist of the twentieth century,...
by Peter S Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This is an accessible response to the contemporary anti-God arguments of the 'new atheists' (Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, Hitchens, Grayling, etc). Atheism has become militant in the past few years, with its own popular mass media evangelists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett.
In this...
by Andrew Francis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This book aims to show how nurturing hospitality in the "discipleship community" leads to growth. It seeks to re-examine the challenge, biblically and in radical Christian movements, presented by the pre-Christendom church in its patterns of hospitality and community to so 're-work' these to be more...
Faith and Politics After Christendom
The Church as a Movement for Anarchy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This groundbreaking book examines the anarchic aspects of Jesus' message, and suggests that the demise of the church as pillar of social order gives it a fresh opportunity to exercise its prophetic role - challenging injustice, shaking institutions and undermining some of the central values and norms on which post-Christian society is built.
by Paul Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In this study of Luke's Gospel, chapters 9 to 19, Australian Bible scholar Paul Barnett traces the journey of Jesus to Jerusalem in the last stage of his earthly ministry, and challenges readers to live in the light of Jesus' self-sacrificial humility. This is a stirring call to authentic Christian discipleship.