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

  • The Lost World of the Flood: Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate, By John H. Walton and Tremper Longman III The Lost World of the Flood: Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate, By John H. Walton and Tremper Longman III
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    The Lost World of the Flood

    Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate

    The Lost World Series

    by John H. Walton and Tremper Longman III
    Contributions by Stephen O. Moshier

    "The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth . . . and the ark floated on the face of the waters" (Gen 6:17-18 NRSV).

    In modern times the Genesis flood account has been probed and analyzed for answers to scientific, apologetic, and historical questions. It is a text that has called forth "flood geology," fueled ...

  • Galatians: Paul's Charter of Christian Freedom, By Leon L. Morris
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    Galatians

    Paul's Charter of Christian Freedom

    by Leon L. Morris

    Among the letters of Paul, Galatians burns like a firestorm of apostolic rebuke, persuasion and passion for the truth of the gospel. Paul directs his anger against those who would preach "another gospel." And he urgently warns the Christians at Galatia of spiritual bewitchment and its dire consequences.To battle these seductive enemies of truth, Paul deploys a powerful arsenal--both biblical-theological ...

  • Why Church History Matters: An Invitation to Love and Learn from Our Past, By Robert F. Rea Why Church History Matters: An Invitation to Love and Learn from Our Past, By Robert F. Rea
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    Why Church History Matters

    An Invitation to Love and Learn from Our Past

    by Robert F. Rea

    Does it matter how Christians in other times and places thought?If the Bible alone is God?s revelation, why spend time studying church history?Aren?t history and tradition more of a problem than a solution?For many Christians whobelieve the Bible is the ultimate authority for faith and life, questions about the role and value of the church's traditions can be difficult to tackle. ...

  • The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education: Forming Whole and Holy Persons, Edited by Christopher Gehrz The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education: Forming Whole and Holy Persons, Edited by Christopher Gehrz
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    The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education

    Forming Whole and Holy Persons

    Edited by Christopher Gehrz

    Pietism has long been ignored in evangelical scholarship. This is especially the case in the field of Christian higher education, which is dominated by thinkers in the Reformed tradition and complicated by the association of Pietism with anti-intellectualism. The irony is that Pietism from the beginning "was intimately bound up with education," according to Diarmaid MacCulloch. But until now there ...

  • Theology as Retrieval: Receiving the Past, Renewing the Church, By W. David Buschart and Kent Eilers Theology as Retrieval: Receiving the Past, Renewing the Church, By W. David Buschart and Kent Eilers
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    Theology as Retrieval

    Receiving the Past, Renewing the Church

    by W. David Buschart and Kent Eilers

    "Tradition is the living faith of the dead." —Jaroslav Pelikan The movement to retrieve the Christian past is a mode of theological discernment, a cultivated habit of thought. It views the doctrines, practices and resonant realities of the Christian tradition as deep wells for a thirsty age. This movement across the church looks back in order to move forward.David Buschart and Kent Eilers survey ...