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Church History, Volume Two: From Pre-Reformation to the Present Day
The Rise and Growth of the Church in Its Cultural, Intellectual, and Political Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Church history is the story of the greatest community the world has known and the greatest movement in world history. Yet, just as the biblical record of the people of God is the story of a mixed people with great acts of faith and great failures in sin and unfaithfulness, so is the history of the...
by Pelham Kenneth Mead III
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
On the fateful day on August 31, 1945, four sailors departed the U.S.S. Antietam CV-36 on a launch headed for the shores of Okinawa. The war was officially over, and all of them wanted to transfer back to the States. In the launch were Chief Petty Officer of Machinists, Ken Mead, Seaman First Class...
Living in Dry Places
Overcoming the Dry Seasons of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
God will so tailor the events of our lives so that all roads will lead to Him.What happens is we become so use to depending on our resources until we fail to rely on our source. So what he will do is allow our brooks to run dry in order to refocus our attention back toward Him. He did for Abraham...
A History of Christian Spirituality
An Analytical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
A concise introduction to the history of Christian spirituality from the Early Church up to the late twentieth-century.
Unchanging Witness
The Consistent Christian Teaching on Homosexuality in Scripture and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The church is going through a time of severe fracture over the issue of homosexuality. This book addresses the arguments from the gay Christian movement and revisionist theologians and exegetes on a single point: Can they withstand the evidence of the primary sources?
In Unchanging Witness,...
Straining at the Oars
Case Studies in Pastoral Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
A common complaint of recent seminary graduates is their lack of preparation in practical theology, especially in the tasks of leadership. New pastors encounter a host of challenges that can seem overwhelming.
Biblically oriented, wise, and reassuring, Dana Fearon presents twenty-one difficult...
by Tremper Longman III
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Most Bible commentaries take us on a one-way trip from the twentieth century to the first century. But they leave us there, assuming that we can somehow make the return journey on our own. In other words, they focus on the original meaning of the passage but don't discuss its contemporary application....
What Have They Done with Jesus?
Beyond Strange Theories and Bad History--Why We Can Trust the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Strange theories about Jesus seem to ooze from our culture with increasing regularity. Ben Witherington, one of the top Jesus scholars, will have none of it. There were no secret Gnostic teachings in the first century. With leading scholars and popular purveyors of bad history in his crosshairs, Witherington...
The Indelible Image: The Theological and Ethical Thought World of the New Testament
The Collective Witness
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
All too often, argues Ben Witherington, the theology of the New Testament has been divorced from its ethics, leaving as isolated abstractions what are fully integrated, dynamic elements within the New Testament itself. As Witherington stresses, "behavior affects and reinforces or undoes belief."...
The Indelible Image: The Theological and Ethical Thought World of the New Testament
The Individual Witnesses
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
All too often, argues Ben Witherington, the theology of the New Testament has been divorced from its ethics, leaving as isolated abstractions what are fully integrated, dynamic elements within the New Testament itself. As Witherington stresses, "behavior affects and reinforces or undoes belief."...
by Daryl Charles, Tom Thatcher, Tremper Longman III
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Continuing a Gold Medallion Award-winning legacy, this completely revised edition of The Expositor’s Bible Commentary series puts world-class biblical scholarship in your hands. Based on the original twelve-volume set that has become a staple in college and seminary libraries and pastors’ studies...
by Wendy L. Widder, Tremper Longman III, Scot McKnight
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A new commentary for today’s world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible’s grand story. The first commentary series to do so, SGBC offers a clear and compelling exposition of biblical texts, guiding everyday readers in how to...
New Testament History
A Narrative Account
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Essential to an understanding of the New Testament is a comprehension of the individuals, events, and social movements that shaped the setting from which Jesus and his followers emerged. Unfortunately, many accounts by historians can leave readers feeling overwhelmed and confused. New Testament History...
by Richard D. Patterson, Hermann J. Austel, Tremper Longman III
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Continuing a Gold Medallion Award-winning legacy, this completely revised edition of The Expositor’s Bible Commentary series puts world-class biblical scholarship in your hands. Based on the original twelve-volume set that has become a staple in college and seminary libraries and pastors’ studies...