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  • A Prayer for Orion: A Son's Addiction and a Mother's Love, By Katherine James
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    A Prayer for Orion

    A Son's Addiction and a Mother's Love

    by Katherine James

    2020 ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    It's always somebody else's kid—until it's yours.

    When Katherine James and her husband found out their son was using heroin, their responses ran the gamut: disbelief, anger, helplessness, guilt. As they struggled to come to grips with their son's addiction and decide how best to help him, their home became ...

  • Room of Marvels: A Story About Heaven that Heals the Heart, By James Bryan Smith
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    Room of Marvels

    A Story About Heaven that Heals the Heart

    by James Bryan Smith
    Foreword by Dallas Willard

    Three deaths in three years. His mother. His best friend. And now, his two-year-old daughter. In this moving story a Christian author goes to a retreat center to grieve and face the hard questions about God that he is asking in the wake of these losses.

    If you have ever felt alone, betrayed, abandoned—if you have found yourself asking God why—this novel may be a source of ...

  • The Message of Daniel, By Dale Ralph Davis
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    The Message of Daniel

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by Dale Ralph Davis

    Many have heard the story of Daniel in the lion’s den, but there is much more to the book of Daniel than lions. Interspersed with memorable stories is a complex series of visions that touch on the whole scope of human history.

    In this Bible Speaks Today volume, former pastor and professor Dale Ralph Davis explains the background of Daniel, analyzes the stories and visions ...

  • Encountering Religious Pluralism: The Challenge to Christian Faith  Mission, By Harold Netland
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    Encountering Religious Pluralism

    The Challenge to Christian Faith Mission

    by Harold Netland

    Christianity Today Book of the Year

    The world is filled with religions.

    That is not a new observation. But the way we think about religious diversity, argues Harold Netland, is new.

    In this book Harold Netland traces the emergence of the pluralistic ethos that now challenges traditional Christian faith and mission. Identifying theologian ...

  • 20th-Century Theology: God and the World in a Transitional Age, By Stanley J. Grenz and Roger E. Olson
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    20th-Century Theology

    God and the World in a Transitional Age

    by Stanley J. Grenz and Roger E. Olson

    • Recipient of a Christianity Today 1993 Critics' Choice Award

    Now in paperback! Stanley Grenz and Roger Olson offer in this text a sympathetic introduction to twentieth-century theology and a critical survey of its significant thinkers and movements. Of particular interest is their attempt to show how twentieth-century theology has moved back and forth between two basic ...

  • Renewing Moral Theology: Christian Ethics as Action, Character and Grace, By Daniel A. Westberg
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    Renewing Moral Theology

    Christian Ethics as Action, Character and Grace

    by Daniel A. Westberg

    While ethical issues are being raised with new urgency, Christians are increasingly unfamiliar with the moral grammar of their faith. The need to reengage the deep-down things of the Christian moral tradition has seldom been more urgent. Moral theology has a long history in the Catholic and Anglican traditions. The tradition of theological ethics, influenced by Aristotle by way of Aquinas, offers ...

  • Basic Christianity, By John Stott
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    Basic Christianity

    The IVP Signature Collection

    by John Stott
    Foreword by Pastor Rick Warren and Christopher J. H. Wright

    • Named a "Book of the Century" by Christianity Today

    Who is Jesus Christ? While Jesus and his teaching continue to hold appeal, many people question the plausibility or relevance of the Christian faith. Is it reasonable to believe that Jesus was truly divine? If so, what does it mean for us?

    John Stott's accessible, classic book examines the historical ...

  • Kierkegaard and the Changelessness of God: A Modern Defense of Classical Immutability, By Craig A. Hefner
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    Kierkegaard and the Changelessness of God

    A Modern Defense of Classical Immutability

    New Explorations in Theology

    by Craig Alan Hefner
    Foreword by Daniel J. Treier

    Danish theologian and philosopher Søren Kierkegaard was not afraid to express his opinions. Living amid what he perceived to be a culturally lukewarm Christianity, he was often critical of his contemporary church.

    But that does not mean Kierkegaard rejected traditional Christian theology. Indeed, at a time when many of his contemporaries were questioning the classical doctrine ...

  • The Church in Exile: Living in Hope After Christendom, By Lee Beach
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    The Church in Exile

    Living in Hope After Christendom

    by Lee Beach

    The people of God throughout history have been a people of exile and diaspora. Whether under the Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks or Romans, the people chosen by God have had to learn how to be a holy people in alien lands and under foreign rule. For much of its history, however, the Christian church lived with the sense of being at home in the world, with considerable influence and power. That age ...

  • Doing Philosophy as a Christian, By Garrett J. DeWeese
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    Doing Philosophy as a Christian

    Christian Worldview Integration Series

    by Garrett J. DeWeese

    What does it mean to be called to the profession of philosophy? What does it mean for the Christian in particular? And how should those called to the profession engage their tasks?Noting that philosophy literally is "the love of wisdom," Garrett J. DeWeese begins with a discussion of wisdom from the Old and New Testaments before addressing the often misunderstood relation between ...