Baker Academic imprint: 719 books
by D. A. Carson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Highly respected New Testament scholar D. A. Carson provides students and pastors with expert guidance on choosing a commentary for any book of the New Testament. The seventh edition has been updated to assess the most recently published commentaries. Carson examines sets, one-volume commentaries,...
Reel Spirituality (Engaging Culture)
Theology and Film in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Increasingly, thinking Christians are examining the influential role that movies play in our cultural dialogue. Reel Spirituality successfully heightens readers' sensitivity to the theological truths and statements about the human condition expressed through modern cinema. This second edition cites...
Visual Faith (Engaging Culture)
Art, Theology, and Worship in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
How can art enhance and enrich the Christian faith? What is the basis for a relationship between the church and visual imagery? Can the art world and the Protestant church be reconciled? Is art idolatry and vanity, or can it be used to strengthen the church? Grounded in historical and biblical research,...
by Bruce M. Metzger
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Bruce Manning Metzger's memoirs trace his life from his childhood in the Pennsylvania Dutch country and his student years at Princeton through his distinguished career of teaching, writing, lecturing, and editing. Professor Metzger's work has won him the gratitude of both biblical scholars and the...
The Early Church on Killing
A Comprehensive Sourcebook on War, Abortion, and Capital Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
What did the early church believe about killing? What was its view on abortion? How did it approach capital punishment and war? Noted theologian and bestselling author Ron Sider lets the testimony of the early church speak in the first of a three-volume series on biblical peacemaking.
This...
Christianity Encountering World Religions (Encountering Mission)
The Practice of Mission in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
The current religious climate poses unique challenges to those engaged in mission. Thus the authors of this book propose a new, yet very biblical, model for interacting with people of other faiths. They term this model giftive mission, as it is based on the metaphor of free gift. We bear the greatest...
Transforming Culture
A Challenge for Christian Mission
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Revised edition gives readable case studies, more material on conflict resolution and specific applications on how to transform culture from the mission field.
Called and Empowered
Global Mission in Pentecostal Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1991
"An unprecedented mix of pentecostal theology and mission practice, virtually a manifesto for pentecostal missions. . . . The fullest and finest missiological treatise originating within classical Pentecostalism available."--Russell P. Spittler
The American Evangelical Story
A History of the Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
The American Evangelical Story surveys the role American evangelicalism has had in the shaping of global evangelical history.
Author Douglas Sweeney begins with a brief outline of the key features that define evangelicals and then explores the roots of the movement in English Pietism and the...
The Surprising Work of God
Harold John Ockenga, Billy Graham, and the Rebirth of Evangelicalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
There is growing interest in the story of mid-twentieth-century evangelicalism. One of the central leaders of that era was Harold John Ockenga. He was pastor of the historic Park Street Congregational Church in Boston and cofounder of Fuller Theological Seminary, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary,...
When God Shows Up ()
A History of Protestant Youth Ministry in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
For more than two centuries, youth ministries have either strengthened teenagers after a special encounter with God or tried to retain them until such a moment when God shows up. Here veteran youth ministry expert Mark Senter provides the first substantial history of the phenomenon of American Protestant...
The Lost Letters of Pergamum
A Story from the New Testament World
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A Fascinating Glimpse into the World of the New Testament
Transported two thousand years into the past, readers are introduced to Antipas, a Roman civic leader who has encountered the writings of the biblical author Luke. Luke's history sparks Antipas's interest, and they begin corresponding....
A Handbook of Contemporary Theology
Tracing Trends and Discerning Directions in Today's Theological Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
This introduction to contemporary theology looks at the origin and history of each movement, their major figures, and doctrinal emphases. The author evaluates the teachings and practices of each system in light of biblical Christianity.
by Robert H. Gundry
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Delve Deeper into God's Word
In this verse-by-verse commentary, Robert Gundry offers a fresh, literal translation and a reliable exposition of Scripture for today's readers.
This letter contains a meditation on the high privileges of Christian believers, plus instruction on how they...