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PaperbackPolitical Church
The Local Assembly as Embassy of Christ's Rule
Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture
by Jonathan Leeman
Series edited by Kevin J. Vanhoozer and Daniel J. TreierThe church is political.
Theologians have been debating this claim for years. Liberationists, Anabaptists, Augustinians, neo-Calvinists, Radical Orthodox, and others continue to discuss the matter. What do we mean by politics and the political? What are the limits of the church's political reach? What is the nature of the church as an institution? How do we establish these ...
PaperbackRecapturing the Wonder
Transcendent Faith in a Disenchanted World
by Mike Cosper
15th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year—Inspirational
Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Top Shelf Book Cover Award 2017
When we're young, it's easy to believe in the supernatural, the mysterious, the enchanted. But as we grow older, we learn to be more "rational" and more confident that reality is merely what ...
PaperbackImagine
A Vision for Christians in the Arts
by Steve Turner
Imagine art that is risky, complex and subtle!Imagine music, movies, books and paintings of the highest quality!Imagine art that permeates society, challenging conventional thinking and standard morals to their core!Imagine that it is all createdby Christians!This is the bold vision of Steve Turner, someone who has worked among artists--many Christian and many not--for three decades. He believes ...
PaperbackThe Integration of Psychology and Christianity
A Domain-Based Approach
Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books
by William L. Hathaway and Mark A. Yarhouse
Foreword by Stephen E ParkerOver the course of recent decades, scholars and practitioners have been working to integrate contemporary psychology-related fields and Christianity. This project continues to move forward, evidenced in associations, publications,degree programs, and conferences around the world. While much progress has been made, there are still foundational issues to be worked out and aspects ...
PaperbackSex and the City of God
A Memoir of Love and Longing
by Carolyn Weber
When Carolyn Weber moved to Oxford University to study, she didn't expect to find God there. But she did. As she grappled with her newest and most important relationship, she also found that there was another invitation: to thinkbigger about love.
In these pages we follow the journey Weber began in her first memoir, Surprised by Oxford, from her relationship with ...
PaperbackSpirituality Old & New
Recovering Authentic Spiritual Life
by Donald G. Bloesch
Donald Bloesch surveys this history of Christian thinking on the nature of the spiritual life. In his own charitable, ecumenical yet evangelical way he provides incisive guidance toward a genuine Christian spirituality that is firmly rooted in biblical faith and fully aware of the positive contributions of various streams of Christian tradition, while critically engaging the current plethora of ...
PaperbackTelling God's Story
Narrative Preaching for Christian Formation
by John W. Wright
Here is Biblical narrative preaching that transforms.John W. Wright presents a new model of preaching that aims to connect the biblical text with a congregation so that they are formed into a true Christian community. Such formation calls for interpretative engagement with both the biblical narrative and the cultural narrative that shapes our society. Wright critically surveys current theories of ...
PaperbackForetaste of the Future
Reading Revelation in Light of God's Mission
by Dean Flemming
For many Christians, the book of Revelation inspires confusion and fear. It's seen as a coded screenplay for the end times, or it's just too strange to understand. The problem, Dean Flemming contends, is that when we read Revelation as focused on the future, we miss what it says about what God is doing in the world now.
Revelation is one of the richest texts in Scripture ...
PaperbackThe People's Book
The Reformation and the Bible
Wheaton Theology Conference Series
Edited by Jennifer Powell McNutt and David Lauber
Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses caught Europe by storm and initiated the Reformation, which fundamentally transformed both the church and society. Yet by Luther's own estimation, his translation of the Bible into German was his crowning achievement. The Bible played an absolutely vital role in the lives, theology, and practice of the Protestant Reformers. In addition, ...
PaperbackMixed Blessing
Embracing the Fullness of Your Multiethnic Identity
by Chandra Crane
Foreword by Jemar TisbyECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
"So what are you?"
Chandra Crane knows what it's like to get that question. She has a Thai birth father, a European American mother, and an African American father who adopted her when she was five. With this mixed multiethnic and multicultural background, she has keenly felt the otherness of never quite fitting in. Where ...
