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PaperbackPaul's "Works of the Law" in the Perspective of Second-Century Reception
by Matthew J Thomas
Foreword by Alister McGrathJesus Creed Book of the Year 2018
Biblical Foundations Book Awards Finalist
What did Paul mean by "works of the law"?
Paul writes that we are justified by faith apart from "works of the law," a disputed term that represents a fault line between "old" and "new" perspectives on Paul. Was the apostle reacting against the ...
PaperbackA Week in the Fall of Jerusalem
A Week in the Life Series
by Ben Witherington III
It's AD 70. And amidst smoke, clamor, and terror, Jerusalem is falling to the Romans, its temple being destroyed. As Jews and Christians try to escape the city, we travel with some of them through an imagined week of flight and faith. A scribe makes his way into Galilee in search of records of Jesus' life and teachings. A company of women, responding to a prophecy, travels the route to a new life ...
PaperbackTo Give or Not to Give
Rethinking Dependency, Restoring Generosity, and Redefining Sustainability
by John Rowell
Foreword by Peter KuzmicModern mission theory is guided largely by the three self paradigm that suggests indigenous churches can only be healthy if they are self-governing, self-propagating, and self-supporting. Consequently, Western missionaries, their churches, and their agencies have been increasingly indisposed to giving generously. We must rethink the interplay of dollars dependency and what it means to do the right ...
PaperbackHow Neighborhoods Make Us Sick
Restoring Health and Wellness to Our Communities
by Veronica Squires and Breanna Lathrop
Our neighborhoods are literally making us sick.
Buildings with mold trigger asthma and other respiratory conditions. Geographic lack of access to food and health care increases childhood mortality. Community violence traumatizes residents. Poverty, unemployment, inadequate housing, food insecurity, racial injustice, and oppression cause physical changes in the body, resulting ...
PaperbackWindow on the World
An Operation World Prayer Resource
Operation World Resources
Edited by Molly Wall and Jason Mandryk
Teach Kids to Pray for the World with Window on the World
Window on the World is your ticket to travel the globe! If you've appreciated Operation World as an adult, the kids in your life will lovethis invaluable and age-appropriate prayer resource that develops cultural, political, and geographical awareness through a Christian lens. Find out how ...
PaperbackContours of the Kuyperian Tradition
A Systematic Introduction
by Craig G. Bartholomew
Abraham Kuyper was, by any standard, one of the most extraordinary figures in modern Christian history. He was a Dutch Reformed minister, a gifted theologian, a prolific journalist, the leader of a political party, the cofounder of the Free University of Amsterdam (where he was professor of theology), a member of the Dutch Parliament, and eventually prime minister of the Netherlands.
Kuyper's ...
PaperbackThe Making of the New Testament
Origin, Collection, Text & Canon
by Arthur G. Patzia
The story of the making of the New Testament is one in which scrolls bumped across cobbled Roman roads and pitched through rolling Mediterranean seas, finally finding their destinations in stuffy, dimly lit Christian house churches in Corinth or Colossae. There they were read aloud and reread, handled and copied, forwarded and collected, studied and treasured. And eventually they were brought together ...
PaperbackReading Mark's Christology Under Caesar
Jesus the Messiah and Roman Imperial Ideology
by Adam Winn
The Gospel of Mark has been studied from multiple angles using many methods. But often there remains a sense that something is wanting, that the full picture of Mark's Gospel lacks some background circuitry that would light up the whole. Adam Winnfinds a clue in the cataclysmic destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in AD 70. For Jews and Christians it was an apocalyptic moment. The gods of Rome ...
PaperbackA Week in the Life of a Roman Centurion
A Week in the Life Series
by Gary M. Burge
Enter a world of warfare and treachery, of duty and honor, of love and loyalty, interwoven with the inner workings of a Roman centurion's household. And then trace it as the road curves toward little Capernaum.
Follow the story of Appius, aproud centurion, and Tullus, his scribe and slave. From a battle with the Parthians, through a tragic personal crisis, to the gladiator arena at Caesarea ...
PaperbackA Week in the Life of Corinth
A Week in the Life Series
by Ben Witherington III
Ben Witherington III attempts to reenchant our reading of Paul in this creative reconstruction of ancient Corinth. Following a fictitious Corinthian man named Nicanor through an eventful week of business dealings and conflict, you will encounter life at various levels of Roman society--eventually meeting Paul himself and gaining entrance into the Christian community there. The result is an unforgettable ...
