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Mon Europe, je t'aime moi non plus
1989-2019
Language: French
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Il y a trente ans, je n’avais pas trente ans, le mur de Berlin tombait et on croyait à la fin de l’histoire. La démocratie allait enfin gagner l’Europe entière. Internet arrivait, le monde s’offrait en accès libre, c’était excitant, c’était beau.
Trente ans plus tard, l’Europe...
Anyone Can Be Saved
A Defense of “Traditional” Southern Baptist Soteriology
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Anyone Can Be Saved articulates a biblical-theological explanation of the doctrine of salvation in light of the rise of Calvinistic theology among Southern Baptist churches in the United States. Ten scholars, pastors, and leaders advocate for the ten articles of the Traditional Statement by appealing...
How We Got Our Bible
Files from an Alttestamentler's Hard Drive
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
The Hebrew scriptures, called Tanakh or simply Bible by Jews and the Old Testament by Christians, contain the original sources of western religious traditions. This book describes their growth beginning with the traditions that grew up among Israelite tribes in Canaan and the Israelite and Judean...
The Pith of the Apocalypse
Essential Message and Principles for Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
To serve God and Christ faithfully in the midst of a pagan society that exalts power, wealth, and pleasure is the tenor of the prophetic summons to the church in the book of Revelation. Unfortunately, this simple message, as potent today as it was at the end of the first century, is often obscured...
Then God Said
Contemplating the First Revelation in Creation
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Then God Said teaches us to open our eyes and behold the gifts of creation that unfold before us in all their splendor. We abide in awe before the generative forces of the universe. We delight in the splendor of created things and thank God for this outpouring of gifts from the beginning of time....
Understanding Our Story
The Life’s Work and Legacy of Adrian van Kaam in the Field of Formative Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Understanding Our Story presents a concise introduction to the original, transformative thinking of Adrian van Kaam, CSSp, PhD (1920-2007). While many books are available on "spiritual formation" and "Christian disciplines," no other author of our time has offered such a holistic...
The Beauty of the Faith
Using Aesthetics for Christian Apologetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Nearly everyone finds beauty compelling, so Christian apologists should devise ways to present an aesthetic Christian apologetic. Nearly all apologists admit that the beauty of a life well lived and the beauty of the Christian community (along with the use of media and the arts) are not only helpful...
Surviving Toxic Leaders
How to Work for Flawed People in Churches, Schools, and Christian Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Since Jean Lipman-Blumen's The Allure of Toxic Leaders shook the corporate world in 2005, countless articles, books, and Internet blogs have appeared on the topic. Despite such interest and response, no study of toxic leadership had appeared from a Christian point of view until this volume, Kenn Gangel's...
Responding to Abuse in Christian Homes
A Challenge to Churches and their Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Domestic abuse is a horror. It lurks beneath the surface of our collective existence, sometimes raising its ugly head where least expected-in the church or within families of faith. Are we-individually or collectively-ready to respond? What can, or should, congregations and their pastoral leaders...
Beyond Abuse in the Christian Home
Raising Voices for Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
In January 2004 a newly founded evangelical organization called PASCH was formed. The word denotes the Passover or time of new beginnings--when God kept people safe in their own homes before leading them into freedom from abuse and oppression. Yet the word PASCH also stands for Peace and Safety in...
Stewards of Grace
A Reflective, Mission Biography of Eugene and Phyllis Grams in South Africa, 1951–1962
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Stewards of Grace tells several stories in one. It is a story of two faithful stewards of God's grace called to serve the poor, despised, and marginalized in apartheid South Africa. It is a story that captures how cross-cultural missions from the west at the end of the colonial era led to a thriving...
The Sacramental Church
The Story of Anglo-Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
What is Anglo-Catholicism? What are its origins? Are Anglo-Catholics real Anglicans/Episcopalians? What is their relationship with Roman Catholics? Has Anglo-Catholicism betrayed Anglicanism's Protestant roots? The Sacramental Church answers these and many other questions. Addressed to the general...
by Kristen Welch, Abraham Ruelas
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
In the United States, female seminaries and their antecedents, the female academies, were crucial first institutions that played a vital role in liberating women from the "home sphere," a locus that was the primary domain of Euro-American women. The female seminaries founded by Native Americans...
To Bless Our Callings
Prayers, Poems, and Hymns to Celebrate Vocation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
To Bless Our Callings: Prayers, Poems, and Hymns to Celebrate Vocation is an ecumenical collection that supports the callings of everyone within the Christian community. This valuable resource of over two hundred prayers, blessings, poems, and sacred songs from diverse Christian traditions speaks...