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Church History
An Introduction to Research Methods and Resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
In their acclaimed, much-used Church History, James Bradley and Richard Muller lay out guidelines, methods, and basic reference tools for research and writing in the fields of church history and historical theology. Over the years, this book has helped countless students define their topics, locate...
The Crown and the Fire
Meditations on the Cross and the Life of the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
This popular book by N. T. Wright offers thirteen powerful meditations and sermons that challenge readers to assess anew the meaning of Jesus' death and resurrection and the life of the Spirit in Jesus' followers today.
In Part One, "The Crown of Thorns," Wright considers not the...
The Way of the Lord
Christian Pilgrimage Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Vividly evoking the sights, sounds, and smells of the Holy Land, this book by N. T. Wright is ideal for both individual and group study by any readers who have embarked on the spiritual journey of the Christian life.
Wright explores all the sites that travelers usually visit on a tour of the...
Self, World, and Time
Volume 1: Ethics as Theology: An Induction
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Self, World, and Time takes up the question of the form and matter of Christian ethics as an intellectual discipline. What is it about? How does Christian ethics relate to the humanities, especially philosophy, theology, and behavioral studies? How does its shape correspond to the shape of practical...
Finding and Seeking
Ethics as Theology, vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
This is the second of three volumes in Oliver O’Donovan’s masterful “Ethics as Theology” project. In his first volume -- Self, World, and Time -- O’Donovan discusses Christian ethics as an intellectual discipline in relation to the humanities, especially philosophy, theology, and behavioral...
Loving Later Life
An Ethics of Aging
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Is loving later life possible? In our youth-obsessed culture, nobody enjoys growing old. We normally fear our own aging and generally do not love old people -- they remind us that death is inescapable, the body frail, and social status transitory. In Loving Later Life Frits de Lange shows how an ethics...
Kingdom Ethics
Following Jesus in Contemporary Context
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Comprehensive update of the leading Christian ethics textbook of the 21st century
Ever since its original publication in 2003, Glen Stassen and David Gushee's Kingdom Ethics has offered students, pastors, and other readers an outstanding framework for Christian ethical thought, one that is...
by D.A. Carson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Called to live in the world, but not to be *of *it, Christians must maintain a balancing act that becomes more precarious the further our culture departs from its Judeo-Christian roots. How should members of the church interact with such a culture, especially as deeply enmeshed as most of us have...
Always with Us?
What Jesus Really Said about the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
A strong theological call for ending the abomination of systemic poverty
Jesus's words "the poor you will always have with you" (Matthew 26:11) are regularly used to suggest that ending poverty is impossible, that poverty is a result of moral failures, and that the poor themselves...
by J. Denny Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This bold new statement on the nonviolence of God challenges long-standing assumptions of divine violence in theology, the violent God pictured in the Old Testament, and the supposed violence of God in Revelation. In The Nonviolent God J. Denny Weaver argues that since God is revealed in Jesus, the...
Neither Jew nor Greek
A Contested Identity (Christianity in the Making, Volume 3)
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The third and final installment of James Dunn's magisterial history of Christian origins through 190 C.E., Neither Jew nor Greek: A Contested Identity covers the period after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. through the second century, when the still-new Jesus movement firmed up its distinctive...
A Time to Embrace
Same-Sex Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics, 2nd edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
In A Time to Embrace William Stacy Johnson brilliantly analyzes the religious, legal, and political debates about gay marriage, civil unions, and committed gay couples. This new edition includes updates that reflect the many changes in laws pertaining to civil unions / same-sex marriage since 2006.
by Lucas c. Ernest
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
In this erudite yet accessible commentary Ernest Lucas elucidates the book of Proverbs both exegetically and thematically. Explicating the text in light of its ancient Near Eastern context, Lucas also shows the relevance of Proverbs for the twenty-first century, speaking as it does to such issues...
Revelation
A Shorter Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
G. K. Beale’s monumental New International Greek Testament Commentary volume on Revelation has been highly praised since its publication in 1999. This shorter commentary distills the superb grammatical analysis and exegesis from that tome (over 1,300 pages) into a book more accessible and pertinent...