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  • Business for the Common Good: A Christian Vision for the Marketplace, By Kenman L. Wong and Scott B. Rae
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    Business for the Common Good

    A Christian Vision for the Marketplace

    Christian Worldview Integration Series

    by Kenman L. Wong and Scott B. Rae

    Is business just a way to make money? Or can the marketplace a venue for service to others?

    Scott B. Rae and Kenman L. Wong seek to explore this and other critical business issues from a uniquely Christian perspective, offering up a vision for work and service that is theologically grounded and practically oriented. Among the specific questions they address along the way are these:

    • What ...
  • Created and Creating: A Biblical Theology of Culture, By William Edgar
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    Created and Creating

    A Biblical Theology of Culture

    by William Edgar

    The gospel of Jesus Christ is always situated within a particular cultural context. But how should Christians approach the complex relationship between our faith and our surrounding culture?Should we simply retreat from culture? Should we embraceour cultural practices and mindset? How important is it for us to be engaged in our culture? And how might we do that with discernment and faithfulness? ...

  • Enhancing Christian Life: How Extended Cognition Augments Religious Community, By Brad D. Strawn and Warren S. Brown
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    Enhancing Christian Life

    How Extended Cognition Augments Religious Community

    by Brad D. Strawn and Warren S. Brown

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist - Science and Technology

    No one is really Christian on their own. But often the religious life is seen as individual, private, and internal—resulting in a truncated, consumeristic faith. And what if that kind of individualistic Christianity is built on a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature?

    According ...

  • Light of the Word: How Knowing the History of the Bible Illuminates Our Faith, By Susan C. Lim
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    Light of the Word

    How Knowing the History of the Bible Illuminates Our Faith

    by Susan Chongmi Lim

    While Christians generally acknowledge that the Bible is God's Word, many of us lack robust confidence in the reality of its trustworthiness. We may not be sure if we really believe what we read. But the more we understand how Scripture came to be, the more we discover its power and truth.

    Historian Susan Lim unpacks how the history of the Bible bolsters our faith and anchors ...

  • Christianity and Literature: Philosophical Foundations and Critical Practice, By David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory Maillet
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    Christianity and Literature

    Philosophical Foundations and Critical Practice

    Christian Worldview Integration Series

    by David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory Maillet

    "What has Jesus Christ to do with English literature?" ask David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory Maillet in this insightful survey.

    First and foremost, they reply, many of the world's best authors of literature in English were formed--for better orworse--by the Christian tradition. Then too, many of the most recognized aesthetic literary forms derive from biblical exemplars. And finally, many great ...

  • Original Sin and the Fall: Five Views, Edited by J. B. Stump and Chad Meister
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    Original Sin and the Fall

    Five Views

    Spectrum Multiview Book Series

    Edited by J. B. Stump and Chad Meister

    "What is this that you have done?"

    Throughout the church's history, Christians have largely agreed that God's good creation of humanity was marred by humanity's sinful rebellion, resulting in our separation from God and requiring divine intervention in the saving work of Christ.

    But Christians have disagreed over many particular questions surrounding humanity's fall, ...

  • Mark, Edited by Christopher A. Hall and Thomas C. Oden
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    Mark

    Volume 2

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Christopher A. Hall
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    Christianity Today Book Award Winner

    The early church valued the Gospel of Mark for its preservation of the apostolic voice and gospel narrative of Peter. Yet the early church fathers very rarely produced sustainedcommentary on Mark. This brisk-paced and robust little Gospel, so much enjoyed by modern readers, was overshadowed in the minds of the fathers by the magisterial ...

  • Authentic Communication: Christian Speech Engaging Culture, By Tim Muehlhoff and Todd Lewis
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    Authentic Communication

    Christian Speech Engaging Culture

    Christian Worldview Integration Series

    by Tim Muehlhoff and Todd Lewis

    Part of the Christian Worldview Integration Series

    Whether setting about to love our neighbor, to settle a dispute, to share in the suffering of others or to speak up on behalf of the marginalized, we inevitably must engage in communication.And what could be more natural, more human, than communication?

    But we all learn quickly enough that good communication is not always natural. ...

  • Mark, Edited by Thomas C. Oden and Christopher A. Hall
    Paperback

    Mark

    Volume 2

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Thomas C. Oden and Christopher A. Hall

    Christianity Today Book Award Winner

    The early church valued the Gospel of Mark for its preservation of the apostolic voice and gospel narrative of Peter. Yet the early church fathers very rarely produced sustained commentary on Mark. This brisk-paced and robust little Gospel, so much enjoyed by modern readers, was overshadowed in the minds of the fathers by the magisterial ...