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  • The Divine Christology of the Apostle Paul: Retrospect and Prospect, By Christopher R. Bruno and John J. R. Lee and Thomas R. Schreiner
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    The Divine Christology of the Apostle Paul

    Retrospect and Prospect

    by Chris Bruno, John J R Lee, and Thomas R. Schreiner

    The last fifty years of Pauline scholarship have provided numerous insights to both the academy and the church. Some of those most important discussions have related to the question of Paul's view of Christ with respect to his divinity. While the landscape is rich with scholarly findings, it can be overwhelming to navigate the complex lines of argumentation and the interactions ...

  • Family Discipleship That Works: Guiding Your Child to Know, Love, and Act Like Jesus, By Brian Dembowczyk
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    Family Discipleship That Works

    Guiding Your Child to Know, Love, and Act Like Jesus

    by Brian Dembowczyk

    Christianity Today Book Awards Finalist—Marriage, Family, and Singleness

    Family discipleship is one of the most basic ways God has ordained to build his kingdom—and yet most parents struggle to do it consistently.

    Amid our busyness, the multitude of different approaches, and our own self-doubts, the deck seems stacked against us. But Brian Dembowczyk ...

  • Ecologies of Faith in a Digital Age: Spiritual Growth Through Online Education, By Stephen D. Lowe and Mary E. Lowe
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    Ecologies of Faith in a Digital Age

    Spiritual Growth Through Online Education

    by Stephen D. Lowe and Mary E. Lowe

    Technological innovation has changed nearly everything about human life, including how we teach and learn.

    Many Christian professors and institutions have embraced new technologies, especially online education. But as followers of Jesus Christ, we face the same call to grow in our faith. So how should we think about and approach Christian education in light of new technologies? ...

  • The Surface of Water: A Novel, By Cynthia Beach
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    The Surface of Water

    A Novel

    by Cynthia Beach

    The only person who can uncover his secret has arrived.

    Matthew Goodman is tired, and his one wish is for something he can't have. Instead he focuses on the demands of his work as pastor of Chicagoland's Calvary Community, including bringing a new administrative assistant onboard. New hire twenty-five-year-old Trish Card watches him with somber, lake-clear eyes. What he doesn't ...

  • Reading Scripture as the Church: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Hermeneutic of Discipleship, By Derek W. Taylor
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    Reading Scripture as the Church

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Hermeneutic of Discipleship

    New Explorations in Theology

    by Derek W. Taylor

    The Bible is meant to be read in the church, by the church, as the church.

    Although the practice of reading Scripture has often become separated from its ecclesial context, theologian Derek Taylor argues that it rightly belongs to the disciplines of the community of faith. He finds a leading example of this approach in the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who regarded the ...

  • T. F. Torrance as Missional Theologian: The Ascended Christ and the Ministry of the Church, By Joseph H. Sherrard
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    T. F. Torrance as Missional Theologian

    The Ascended Christ and the Ministry of the Church

    New Explorations in Theology

    by Joseph H. Sherrard
    Foreword by Alan Torrance

    Christ has ascended. Yet his work continues.

    Much has been made of a "missional" view of the church in recent theological literature, but largely overlooked in this discussion has been the contribution that T. F. Torrance, the late Church of Scotland minister and theologian, can make to this discussion. Addressing this lacuna, theologian and pastor Joseph Sherrard considers ...

  • The Uncontrolling Love of God: An Open and Relational Account of Providence, By Thomas Jay Oord
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    The Uncontrolling Love of God

    An Open and Relational Account of Providence

    by Thomas Jay Oord

    IVP Readers' Choice Award

    Rarely does a new theological position emerge to account well for life in the world, including not only goodness and beauty but also tragedy and randomness. Drawing from Scripture, science, philosophy and various theological traditions, Thomas Jay Oord offers a novel theology of providence—essential kenosis—that emphasizes God's inherently noncoercive ...

  • Justification: Five Views, Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul Rhodes Eddy
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    Justification

    Five Views

    Spectrum Multiview Book Series

    Contributions by Michael S. Horton, Michael Bird, James D. G. Dunn, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Gerald O'Collins, and Oliver Rafferty
    Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul R. Eddy
    Associate Editor Steven E. Enderlein

    "Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom 5:1). When Paul wrote these words he seemed confident he had made himself clear.

    But for centuries the Pauline doctrine of justification has been a classic point of interpretation and debate in Christian exegesis and theology. And while in recent decades there have ...

  • Positive Psychology in Christian Perspective: Foundations, Concepts, and Applications, By Charles Hackney
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    Positive Psychology in Christian Perspective

    Foundations, Concepts, and Applications

    Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books

    by Charles H. Hackney

    "Some theories of [psychology] are based largely on the behavior of sick and anxious people or upon the antics of captive and desperate rats. Fewer theories have been derived from the study of healthy human beings, those who strive not so much to preserve life as to make it worth living. Thus we find . . . many studies of criminals, few of law-abiders; many of fear, few of courage; ...