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PaperbackSpiritual Practices of Jesus
Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke's Earliest Readers
by Catherine J. Wright
Luke's Gospel was written to transform. In its original context, readers would have seen a portrait of Jesus as an ideal teacher and king, able to shape his people through exemplary leadership. They would have come to the Gospel expecting to be changed for God's purposes through the imitation of Jesus' lifestyle and adoption of his teaching. When today's readers approach the text ...
HardbackThe Way Up Is Down
Becoming Yourself by Forgetting Yourself
by Marlena Graves
Christianity Today Award of Merit in Spiritual Formation
"Now, with God's help, I shall become myself."
These words from Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard resonate deeply with Marlena Graves, a Puerto Rican writer, professor, and activist. In these pages she describes the process of emptying herself that allows her to move upward toward God ...
PaperbackA Clear and Present Word
The Clarity of Scripture
New Studies in Biblical Theology
by Mark D. Thompson
Series edited by D. A. CarsonBy almost any measure, a bold and confident use of the Bible is a hallmark of Christianity. Underlying such use are a number of assumptions about the origin, nature and form of the biblical literature, concerning its authority, diversity and message.
However, a lack of confidence in the clarity or perspicuity of Scripture is apparent in Western Christianity. Despite recent, sophisticated analyses, ...
PaperbackSpirit Outside the Gate
Decolonial Pneumatologies of the American Global South
Missiological Engagements
by Oscar García-Johnson
Throughout the history of the Christian church, two narratives have constantly clashed: the imperial logic of Babel that builds towers and borders to seize control, versus the logic of Pentecost that empowers "glocal" missionaries of the kingdom life. To what extent are Westernized Christians today ready for the church of the Pentecost narrative? Are they equipped to do ministry ...
PaperbackDefending Constantine
The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom
by Peter J. Leithart
We know that Constantine
- issued the Edict of Milan in 313
- outlawed paganism and made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire
- manipulated the Council of Nicea in 325
- exercised absolute authority over the church, co-opting it for the aims of empire
And if Constantine the emperor were not problem enough, we all know that Constantinianism ...
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UndefinedAncient Christian Commentary on Scripture
Edited by Thomas C. Oden
Volumes in the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) offer you the opportunity to study for yourself key writings of the early church fathers. Arranged canonically and employing the RSV, each volume allows the living voices of the church in its formative centuries to speak as they engage the sacred page of Scripture. This thirty-volume series—now in paperback for the first time—includes ...
PaperbackWe Become What We Worship
A Biblical Theology of Idolatry
by G. K. Beale
The heart of the biblical understanding of idolatry, argues Gregory Beale, is that we take on the characteristics of what we worship.Employing Isaiah 6 as his interpretive lens, Beale demonstrates that this understanding of idolatry permeates the whole canon, from Genesis to Revelation. Beale concludes with an application of the biblical notion of idolatry to the challenges of contemporary ...
PaperbackTruth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be
Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age
by J. Richard Middleton and Brian J. Walsh
- Voted one of Christianity Today's 1996 Books of the Year
The carnivalesque, pluralistic culture in which we live can be seen as a consequence of the breakdown of modernity (which touted itself as the greatest show on earth"), combined with a recognition of the socially constructed character of reality.
Since the old construction has been discredited and ...
PaperbackCalled to Be Saints
An Invitation to Christian Maturity
by Gordon T. Smith
Christianity Today Award of Merit
Best Book of Spirituality—Academic, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore
Evangelicals are known for their emphasis on conversion. But what about lifeafter conversion and beyond justification?
Desperately needed is a comprehensive theology of the Christian life from beginning ...
PaperbackPocket Dictionary of Ethics
Over 300 Terms Ideas Clearly Concisely Defined
The IVP Pocket Reference Series
by Stanley J. Grenz and Jay T. Smith
Ethics is as old as the city-state and as new as cyberspace. Guided by the wagon tracks of moral tradition, it nevertheless rides the cutting edge of science and technology. Increasingly it is moving into the corner offices of law, business, medicine, science and technology.
But few of us arrive in our first ethics class--or take our seat on an ethics committee--with a grip on the range of ...
