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The Way of Philosophy
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Philosophy is the quest for a life that is fully alive. Drawing on the insights of philosophers through the ages, The Way of Philosophy clarifies what it means to live life intensely. It exposes the shallowness of conventional wisdom by asking such questions as - Can science know everything? - Should...
Living in the Language of God
Wise Speaking in the Book of the Twelve
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Twenty-first century Christians live in diaspora, merely one voice among many, without enjoying their once-privileged place in society. This is particularly the case for those who struggle to be a church that mirrors the capaciousness of God's grace. We are assaulted by the venting of pent-up furies,...
Table Talk
Rethinking Communion and Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
For nearly two thousand years followers of Jesus have gathered in churches to eat a meal called Communion in his memory. In Table Talk, Mike Graves claims if we could travel back to those earliest Christian gatherings, we would realize we are not just two thousand years removed; we are light-years...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Promise has a long pedigree in the history of Christian understandings of the gospel. This volume gathers together leading homileticians to consider the breadth of its understanding today in light of the struggle to reconcile God's grace with God's justice. Assuming that promise is a core sense of...
Preaching as the Word of God
Answering an Old Question with Speech-Act Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
According to the Reformers, preaching is the word of God. As the word of God, preaching is a foundation for the church. It is also vital for the personal growth of a Christian. But Christians are poorly equipped to understand how preaching is the word of God. Some Christians look for preaching that...
Groundless Gods
The Theological Prospects of Post-Metaphysical Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Groundless Gods: The Theological Prospects of Post-Metaphysical Thought deals with possible interpretations of an emerging interest in contemporary theology: postmetaphysical theology. This book attempts to openly come to grips, not only with what metaphysics and postmetaphysics imply, but also with...
Healing the Racial Divide
A Catholic Racial Justice Framework Inspired by Dr. Arthur Falls
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Healing the Racial Divide retrieves the insights of Dr. Arthur Falls (1901-2000) for composing a renewed theology of Catholic racial justice. Falls was a black Catholic medical doctor who dedicated his life to healing rifts created by white supremacy and racism. He integrated theology, the social...
The Jewish Centaur
Adventures in Pentecostal Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
In this spiritual memoir, Joshua Rice explores his Pentecostal history in search of a tangible theology to fall in love with. From the revivalist urges of the Deep South to mainline Protestant halls of learning, this quest for God leads to and through personal stories of encounter, of dissonance,...
Exploring Intertextuality
Diverse Strategies for New Testament Interpretation of Texts
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
This book aims to provide advanced students of biblical studies, seminarians, and academicians with a variety of intertextual strategies to New Testament interpretation. Each chapter is written by a New Testament scholar who provides an established or avant-garde strategy in which: 1) The authors...
by Peter S. Perry
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
English may be the biggest obstacle to learning Greek! Greek textbooks use jargon such as "noun," "verb," "morphology," and "syntax," which sometimes sounds foreign. Many of us may remember them from grade school, but the memories may now be foggy from time...
Programmed by God or Free to Choose?
Five-Point Calvinism Under the Searchlight
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Are we in fact more than just inert clay in the divine Potter's hands? This book seeks to prove conclusively from Scripture that mankind's freedom to seek God was not retracted at the fall, and that all humanity's sins were borne on the cross by the Lord Jesus Christ. The five points of Calvinism...
The Beloved Apostle?
The Transformation of the Apostle John into the Fourth Evangelist
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Second-century Christians had a significant role in shaping the import of the literary sources that they inherited from the first century through their editorial revisions and the church traditions that they appended to them. Michael J. Kok critically investigates the supposed clues that encouraged...
One Greater Than Satan
A Christ-Centered Bible Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
One Greater Than Satan, like God's Unfolding Story of Salvation, is a Bible study based on A Tale of Two Kingdoms. Its title emphasizes the truth that King Jesus reigns over all, including Satan. The Bible describes Satan's character and activity many times. However, it only records his conversation...
by Daniel Castelo
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The question of God's relationship to evil is a long-running one in the history of Christianity, and the term often deployed for this task has been theodicy. The way theodicy has historically been pursued, however, has been problematic on a number of counts. Most significantly, these efforts have...