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  • Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Edited by J. Robert Wright
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    Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon

    Volume 9

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by J. Robert Wright
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    Among the Wisdom literature of the Old Testament, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon were all thought by the early church fathers to have derived from the hand of Solomon. To their minds the finest wisdom about the deeper issues of life prior to the time of God's taking human form in Jesus Christ was to be found in these books. As in all the Old Testament, they were ...

  • Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Edited by J. Robert Wright
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    Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon

    Volume 9

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by J. Robert Wright
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    Among the Wisdom literature of the Old Testament, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon were all thought by the early church fathers to have derived from the hand of Solomon. To their minds the finest wisdom about the deeper issues of life prior to the time of God's taking human form in Jesus Christ was to be found in these books. As in all the Old Testament, they were ...

  • Kingdom Without Borders: The Untold Story of Global Christianity, By Miriam Adeney
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    Kingdom Without Borders

    The Untold Story of Global Christianity

    by Miriam Adeney

    The twenty-first century opened with a rapidly changing map of Christianity. While its influence is waning in some of its traditional Western strongholds, it is growing at a phenomenal pace in the global South. And yet this story has largely eluded the corporate news brokers of the West. Layered as it is with countless personal and corporate stories of remarkable faith and witness, it nevertheless ...

  • Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery, By Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah
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    Unsettling Truths

    The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery

    by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
    American Society of Missiology Book Award
    Publishers Weekly starred review

    You cannot discover lands already inhabited.

    Injustice has plagued American societyfor centuries. And we cannot move toward being a more just nation without understanding the root causes that have shaped our culture and institutions. In ...

  • The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition  Reform, By Roger E. Olson
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    The Story of Christian Theology

    Twenty Centuries of Tradition and Reform

    by Roger E. Olson

    Christianity Today Book of the Year Award
    ECPA Gold Medallion Award

    History is made up of stories--narratives that recount the events, movements, ideas and lives that have shaped religions and nations. Theologian Roger Olson believes that the history of Christian theology should be told as such a story, one replete with thick plots, exciting twists, interesting ...

  • Commentaries on the Twelve Prophets: Volume 1, By Jerome
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    Commentaries on the Twelve Prophets

    Volume 1

    Ancient Christian Texts

    by Jerome
    Edited by Thomas P. Scheck

    Jerome (c. 347-419/20), one of the West's four doctors of the church, was recognized early on as one of the church's foremost translators, commentators and advocates of Christian asceticism. Skilled in Hebrew and Greek in addition to his native Latin, he was thoroughly familiar with Jewish traditions and brought them to bear on his understanding of the Old Testament. Beginning in 379, Jerome used ...

  • 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 ...

  • To Gaze upon God: The Beatific Vision in Doctrine, Tradition, and Practice, By Samuel Parkison
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    To Gaze upon God

    The Beatific Vision in Doctrine, Tradition, and Practice

    by Samuel Parkison

    Today, the doctrine of the beatific vision has been woefully forgotten within the church and its theology.

    Yet, throughout history Christians have always held that the blessed hope of heaven lies in seeing and being in the presence of God, of beholding the beatific vision. With lucidity and breadth, Parkison reintroduces the beatific vision and affirms its centrality for the ...

  • An Introduction to the Theology of Religions: Biblical, Historical & Contemporary Perspectives, By Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
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    An Introduction to the Theology of Religions

    Biblical, Historical & Contemporary Perspectives

    by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen

    Early in the nineteenth century Ernst Troeltsch, the great German liberal thinker, published the influential essay "The Place of Christianity Among the World Religions." The question of the relation of Christianity to other religions is every bit as relevant as and perhaps even more urgent today than it was then. Beginning with a consideration of the biblical perspective, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen surveys ...

  • John 1-10, Edited by Joel C. Elowsky
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    John 1-10

    Volume 4A

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Joel C. Elowsky
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    The Gospel of John was beloved by the early church, much as it is today, for its spiritual insight and clear declaration of Jesus' divinity. Clement of Alexandria indeed declared it the "spiritual Gospel." Early disputers with heretics such as Cerinthus and the Ebionites drew upon the Gospel of John to refute their heretical notions and uphold the full deity of Christ, and this Gospel more than ...