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PaperbackActs
A Commentary on the New Testament
The IVP New Testament Commentary Series
by William J. Larkin
If ever there was a hostile environment for the gospel, it was the strife-torn, ethnically diverse backwater of the Roman Empire known as Palestine following the ascension of Jesus. But the gospel thrived--beginning from Jerusalem and spreading throughout Judea, Samaria and the rest of the known world.In Acts, the sequel to his Gospel, Luke tells how the Holy Spirit transformed a ragtag band of ...
PaperbackScripture and Cosmology
Reading the Bible Between the Ancient World and Modern Science
by Kyle Greenwood
Christians often claim to hold a biblical worldview. But what about a biblical cosmos view? From the beginning of Genesis we encounter a vaulted dome above the earth, a "firmament," like the ceiling of a planetarium. Elsewhere we read of the earth sitting on pillars. What does the dome of heaven have to do with deep space? Even when the biblical language is clearly poetic, it seems to be funded ...
PaperbackBody & Soul
Human Nature the Crisis in Ethics
by J. P. Moreland and Scott B. Rae
While most people throughout history have believed that we are both physical and spiritual beings, the rise of science has called into question the existence of the soul. Many now argue that neurophysiology demonstrates the radical dependence, indeed, identity, between mind and brain. Advances in genetics and in mapping human DNA, some say, show there is no need for the hypothesis of body-soul dualism. ...
PaperbackImpossible People
Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization
by Os Guinness
- ECPA 2017 Christian Book Award Finalist
The church in the West is at a critical moment. While the gospel is exploding throughout the global south, Western civilization faces militant assaults from aggressive secularism and radical Islam. Will the church resist the seductive shaping power of advanced modernity?
More than ever, Christians must resist the negative cultural forces ...
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Andrew Byers
Andrew J. Byers is working on a Ph.D. in New Testament at Durham University while serving as college pastor at Mountain Brook Community Church and leading University Christian Fellowship in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Jay Y. Kim
Jay Y. Kim serves as lead pastor at WestGate, a multicongregational church in Silicon Valley. He is the host of IVP's Digital Examen podcast and the author of several books, including Analog Christian, Analog Church, andListen Listen Speak. Jay serves on the board of Practicing the Way and has spent two decades in local church ministry, all in the San Francisco Bay Area, serving as a teaching pastor and church planter over the years. Jay lives in Silicon Valley with his wife Jenny and their two children.
PaperbackThe Image of God in an Image Driven Age
Explorations in Theological Anthropology
Wheaton Theology Conference Series
Edited by Beth Felker Jones and Jeffrey W. Barbeau
Whether on the printed page, the television screen or the digital app, we live in a world saturated with images.Some images help shape our understanding of ourselves and the world around us in positive ways, while others lead us astray and distortour relationships. Christians confess that human beings have been created in the image of God, yet we chose to rebel against that God and so became unfaithful ...
PaperbackSeeing Is Believing
The Revelation of God Through Film
Studies in Theology and the Arts Series
by Richard Vance Goodwin
How might film reveal God?
In its most basic form, film is a series of images displayed over time. Of course, film has developed greatly since the Lumière brothers by adding components such as sound, special effects, digitalrecording, and more to create an increasingly complex artistic medium. Historically, film studies has often focused on the narrative aspect of film as ...
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InterVarsity Press (IVP) returns to the American Library Association (ALA) this year with giveaways of some of their bestselling authors’ new books.
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Larry L. Funck
Larry L. Funck (PhD, Lehigh University) is an emeritus professor at Wheaton College where he taught inorganic chemistry for over forty years. He continues to be engaged in Wheaton's chemistry department teaching the origin of life component in theTheories of Origins course. His reseach interests include transition metals, especially as they relate to bioinorganic model studies.Funck is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Scientific Affiliation and the Midwest Associationof Chemistry Teachers at Liberal Arts Colleges (MACTLAC). He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Lesotho and served as the chief reader for College Board's Advanced Placement chemistry program.
