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A Place for Truth
Leading Thinkers Explore Life's Hardest Questions
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Many today pursue knowledge and even wisdom. But what about truth? In an age that disputes whether truth can be universalized beyond one's own personal experience, it seems quaint to speak of finding truth. But whether in the ivory towers of the academy or in the midst of our everyday lives, we continue...
Saving the Bible from Ourselves
Learning to Read and Live the Bible Well
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
ECPA 2017 Christian Book Award Finalist Does the Bible need to be saved? Over the course of the centuries, Bible scholars and publishers have increasingly added "helps"—chapter divisions, verses, subheads, notes—to the Bible in an effort to make it easier to study and understand. In...
by Alex McLellan
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
Puzzled about life? Sometimes the world doesn't make sense. Things seem random and disconnected, and we wonder if there's any purpose to it all, any meaning to our lives. But what if everything could make sense? What if the pieces actually do fit together? Alex McLellan says that figuring out life...
Yearning for More
What Our Longings Tell Us About God and Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
In this mannered tour through literature, sports, film and daily life, Barry Morrow leads us to contemplate the nature and purpose of human longing. Using Ecclesiastes as a map for the journey, Morrow gives us a vision of our disenchantment "under the sun" and suggests that human culture—our work, art and play—gives evidence of another reality for which God created us.
Hollywood Worldviews
Watching Films with Wisdom & Discernment
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Hollywood Worldviews
The Attentive Life
Discerning God's Presence in All Things
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Your attention, please. That's what God wants, Leighton Ford discovered. It's the path to becoming like Christ. Distractions, fear and busyness were keeping Ford from seeing God's work in and around him. He was missing God. So he began a journey of longing and looking for God. And it started with...
Modern Orthodox Thinkers
From the Philokalia to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2015
Andrew Louth, one of the most respected authorities on Orthodoxy, introduces us to twenty key thinkers from the last two centuries. He begins with the Philokalia, the influential Orthodox collection published in 1782 which marked so many subsequent writers. The colorful characters, poets and thinkers...
The Journey of Modern Theology
From Reconstruction to Deconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Modernity has been an age of revolutions—political, scientific, industrial and philosophical. Consequently, it has also been an age of revolutions in theology, as Christians attempt to make sense of their faith in light of the cultural upheavals around them, what Walter Lippman once called the "acids...
20th-Century Theology
God & the World in a Transitional Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Christianity Today
Naming the Elephant
Worldview as a Concept
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
*The Universe Next Door,*The Universe Next Door
What is the history of the concept itself?
What is the first question you should ask in formulating a worldview?
How are worldviews formed existentially as well as intellectually?
Is a worldview primarily an intellectual system, a way of life or...
Faith Has Its Reasons
Integrative Approaches to Defending the Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
Faith Has Its Reasons**Faith Has Its Reasons
Why is belief in God rational despite the prevalence of evil in the world?
What facts support the church's testimony that Jesus rose from the dead?
Can we be certain Christianity is true?
How can our faith in Christ be based on something more secure than our own understanding without descending into an irrational emotionalism?
Mapping Apologetics
Comparing Contemporary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Everyone believes something. But how and why do people believe? What counts as evidence? How much can be assumed or believed by faith alone? When it comes to religious faith, the questions become at once more difficult and more important. Over the centuries, Christians have offered different approaches...
The First Thanksgiving
What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning from History
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
The First Thanksgiving
Epistemology
Becoming Intellectually Virtuous
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2009
How do we know what we know? What have wisdom, prudence and studiousness to do with justifying our beliefs? Jay Wood begins this introduction to epistemology by taking an extended look at the idea of knowing within the context of the intellectual virtues. He then surveys current views of foundationalism,...