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Malcolm Guite, poet, priest, and professor, has signed contracts with IVP Academic for the first three volumes in a new series tentatively titled Classic Poetry with Malcolm Guite. The first volume, tentatively titled How to Read Poetry, is projected to release in Fall 2028.
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paperbackThe Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era
Exploring the Background of Early Christianity
by James S. Jeffers
What was life like for first-century Christians?
Imagine a modest-sized Roman home of a well-to-do Christian household wedged into a thickly settled quarter of Corinth. In the lingering light of a summer evening, men, women and children, merchants, working poor and slaves, a mix of races and backgrounds have assembled in the dimly lit main room are are spilling into the central courtyard. ...
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paperbackOld Testament Essentials
Creation, Conquest, Exile and Return
The Essentials Set
by Tremper Longman III
Readers' Choice Award Winner
"Christians love the Bible, but they often do not know what to do with the Old Testament," writes Westmont College professor Tremper Longman. Further, he points out that it includes many types ofwriting—history, prophecy, poetry, wisdom and apocalyptic. In this helpful volume he offers different strategies for understanding each of these important ...
Number of Studies: 17
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paperbackChanged into His Likeness
A Biblical Theology of Personal Transformation
New Studies in Biblical Theology
by J Gary Millar
Series edited by D. A. CarsonThe Gospel Coalition Book Awards Honorable Mention
Biblical Foundations Book Awards Runner Up and Finalist
When it comes to the Christian life, what exactly can we expect with regard to personal transformation?
Gary Millar addresses this most basic question in this NSBT volume. After surveying some contemporary psychological approaches ...
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paperbackEvidence-Based Practices for Christian Counseling and Psychotherapy
Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books
Edited by Everett L. Worthington Jr., Eric L Johnson, Joshua N. Hook, and Jamie D. Aten
Are Christian treatments as effective as secular treatments? What is the evidence to support its success?Christians engaged in the fields of psychology, psychotherapy and counseling are living in a unique moment. Over the last couple decades, these fields have grown more and more open to religious belief and religion-accommodative therapies. At the same time, Christian counselors and psychotherapists ...
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paperbackThe Love of God
A Canonical Model
by John C. Peckham
Readers' Choice Award Winner
"For God so loved the world . . ."
We believe these words, but what do they really mean? Does God choose to love, or does God love necessarily? Is God's love emotional? Does the love of God include desire or enjoyment? Is God's love conditional? Can God receive love from human beings?
Attempts to answer these questions ...
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paperbackGod, Freedom and Human Dignity
Embracing a God-Centered Identity in a Me-Centered Culture
by Ron Highfield
Does God's all-encompassing will restrict our freedom? Does God's ownership and mastery over us diminish our dignity? The fear that God is a threat to our freedom and dignity goes far back in Western thought. Such suspicion remains with us todayin our so-called secular society. In such a context any talk of God tends to provoke responses that range from defiance to subservience to indifference. ...
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paperbackThe Making of the New Testament
Origin, Collection, Text & Canon
by Arthur G. Patzia
The story of the making of the New Testament is one in which scrolls bumped across cobbled Roman roads and pitched through rolling Mediterranean seas, finally finding their destinations in stuffy, dimly lit Christian house churches in Corinth or Colossae. There they were read aloud and reread, handled and copied, forwarded and collected, studied and treasured. And eventually they were brought together ...
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paperbackIncluding the Stranger
Foreigners in the Former Prophets
New Studies in Biblical Theology
by David G. Firth
Series edited by D. A. CarsonBiblical Foundations Award Finalist
The Old Testament, particularly the Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, 1-2 Samuel, and 1-2 Kings), has frequently been regarded as having a negative attitude towards foreigners. This has meant that these texts are often employed by those opposed to the Christian faith to attack the Bible—and such views can be echoed by Christians. While the ...
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paperbackThe Lost World of the Israelite Conquest
Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the Canaanites
The Lost World Series
by John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton
Biblical Foundations Award Winner
Holy warfare is the festering wound on the conscience of Bible-believing Christians. Of all the problems the Old Testament poses for our modern age, this is the one we want to avoid in mixedcompany.
But do the so-called holy war texts of the Old Testament portray a divinely inspired genocide? Did Israel slaughter Canaanites at God's ...
