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  • Contextualization in the New Testament: Patterns for Theology and Mission, By Dean Flemming
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    Contextualization in the New Testament

    Patterns for Theology and Mission

    by Dean Flemming

    Winner of a Christianity Today Book Award

    Honored as one of the "Fifteen Outstanding Books for Mission Studies" by International Bulletin of Missionary Research

    From Cairo to Calcutta, from Cochabamba to Columbus, Christians are engaged in a conversation about how to speak and live the gospel in today's traditional, modern and emergent ...

  • Restoring Beauty: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C.S. Lewis, By Louis Markos
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    Restoring Beauty

    The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C.S. Lewis

    by Louis Markos

    More and more in our modern and postmodern culture the twin concepts of beauty and truth have been separated both from each other and from their individual connection to the divine source of Beauty and Truth. Even as our public schools move further and further away from their connection to the universal moral code, the world of art (both high and low) embraces an aesthetic that privileges ugliness ...

  • Why I Am Protestant, By Beth Felker Jones
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    Why I Am Protestant

    Ecumenical Dialogue Series

    by Beth Felker Jones

    Exploring the Strengths and Challenges of the Protestant Tradition

    What does it mean to be Protestant? How can its strengths shape faith in the modern world, and how should its challenges be addressed? With clarity, warmth,and theological depth, Beth Felker Jones explores these questions in Why I Am Protestant. This book offers a positive, theologically grounded reflection ...

  • To Give or Not to Give: Rethinking Dependency, Restoring Generosity, and Redefining Sustainability, By John Rowell
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    To Give or Not to Give

    Rethinking Dependency, Restoring Generosity, and Redefining Sustainability

    by John Rowell
    Foreword by Peter Kuzmic

    Modern mission theory is guided largely by the three self paradigm that suggests indigenous churches can only be healthy if they are self-governing, self-propagating, and self-supporting. Consequently, Western missionaries, their churches, and their agencies have been increasingly indisposed to giving generously. We must rethink the interplay of dollars dependency and what it means to do the right ...

  • Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Pentateuch, By Gordon J. Wenham
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    Exploring the Old Testament

    A Guide to the Pentateuch

    Exploring the Bible Series

    by Gordon J. Wenham

    Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Pentateuch offers a clear overview of the "five books of Moses," as well as an introduction to the historical and textual questions that modern scholarship has posed and the answers it has proposed.This critically informed, textually sensitive introduction to the Pentateuch introduces students to

    • the basic features of the Pentateuch
    • the ...