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  • New Explorations in the Lost World of Genesis: Advances in the Origins Debate, By John H. Walton
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    New Explorations in the Lost World of Genesis

    Advances in the Origins Debate

    The Lost World Series

    by John H. Walton
    Contributions by J. Harvey Walton

    Updating and expanding upon his previous work on origins, this riveting volume from John H. Walton marks the eighth entry in his bestselling Lost World Series, which has sold more than 125,000 copies.

    For over a decade, JohnWalton's books The Lost World of Genesis One and The Lost World of Adam and Eve have shaped readers' understanding of the ancient Near ...

  • Adopted into God's Family: Exploring a Pauline Metaphor, By Trevor J. Burke
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    Adopted into God's Family

    Exploring a Pauline Metaphor

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Trevor J. Burke
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    The relationship between God and his people is understood in various ways by the biblical writers, and it is arguably the apostle Paul who uses the richest vocabulary..

    Unique to Paul's writings is the term huiothesia, the process or act of being "adopted as son(s)." It occurs five times in three of his letters, where it functions as a key theological metaphor..

    In this New ...

  • Rediscovering Jesus: An Introduction to Biblical, Religious and Cultural Perspectives on Christ, By David B. Capes and Rodney Reeves and E. Randolph Richards
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    Rediscovering Jesus

    An Introduction to Biblical, Religious and Cultural Perspectives on Christ

    by David B. Capes, Rodney Reeves, and E. Randolph Richards

    Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention

    One of Nijay Gupta's Best Academic New Testament Books

    Who is your Jesus? Matthew's teacher? John's Word made flesh? Hebrews' great high priest? What if it turned out that your Jesus is a composite of your favorite selections from the New Testament buffet, garnished with some Hollywood and Americana?

    Rediscovering ...

  • Becoming God's Family: Why the Church Still Matters, By Carmen Joy Imes
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    Becoming God's Family

    Why the Church Still Matters

    Foreword by Esau McCaulley
    Read by Carmen Joy Imes

    Christianity Today Book Awards—Theology (Popular), Award of Merit

    Hope for When the Church Feels Broken

    Does the church still matter in our modern world?

    After waves of disillusionment, #churchtoo movements, and political divides, it’s ...

  • Flood and Fury: Old Testament Violence and the Shalom of God, By Matthew J. Lynch
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    Flood and Fury

    Old Testament Violence and the Shalom of God

    by Matthew J Lynch
    Foreword by Helen Paynter

    What do we do with a God who sanctions violence?

    Old Testament violence proves one of the most troubling topics in the Bible. Too often, the explanations for the brutality in Scripture fail to adequately illustrate why God would sanction such horrors on humanity. These unanswered questions leave readers frustrated and confused, leading some to even walk away from their faith.

    In ...

  • New Testament Theology: Many Witnesses, One Gospel, By I. Howard Marshall New Testament Theology: Many Witnesses, One Gospel, By I. Howard Marshall
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    New Testament Theology

    Many Witnesses, One Gospel

    by I. Howard Marshall

    An ECPA Gold Medallion winner

    "New Testament theology is essentially missionary theology," writes I. Howard Marshall. Founded on a sure-footed mastery of the data and constructed with clear thinking lucidly expressed, this long-anticipated New Testament theology offers the insights born of a distinguished career of study, reflection, teaching and writing on the New Testament.

    Marshall's ...

  • New Dictionary of Biblical Theology: Exploring the Unity  Diversity of Scripture
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    New Dictionary of Biblical Theology

    Exploring the Unity Diversity of Scripture

    Consulting Editor D. A. Carson and Graeme Goldsworthy
    General Editor T. Desmond Alexander and Brian Rosner

    The New Dictionary of Biblical Theology is an essential building block of every library of basic biblical reference books.

    Building on its companion volumes, the New Bible Dictionary and New Bible Commentary, this work takes readers to a higher vantage point where they can view the thematic terrain of the Bible in its canonical wholeness. In addition, ...

  • Joshua, Judges, Ruth, By N. Scott Amos
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    Joshua, Judges, Ruth

    Old Testament Volume 4

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    by N. Scott Amos

    "Where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God."

    Ruth's response to her mother-in-law Naomi demonstrated both Ruth's loyalty to her family and her trust in God. The Reformers of the sixteenth century found theological significance in such Old Testament narratives. For example, German Lutheran pastor and theologian ...

  • The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time, By Tom Sine
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    The New Conspirators

    Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time

    by Tom Sine
    Foreword by Shane Claiborne

    "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed," Jesus says in the Gospel ofMatthew, "nothing will be impossible for you."That sounds good, but does it work in a world where seeds are geneticallyaltered by an impatient few and hard to come by for countless others? In aworld where the gulf between the very rich and the profoundly poor isconstantly growing, can a mustard-seed faith make any difference? ...