• Global Christianity and Islam: Exploring History, Politics, and Beliefs, By Wafik W. Wahba
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    Global Christianity and Islam

    Exploring History, Politics, and Beliefs

    by Wafik W. Wahba

    A Comprehensive Overview of Christianity and Islam

    Together, the adherents of Christianity and Islam make up over half of the world's population, and their numbers are expected to keep growing. The influence of these two faiths—and their relations with each other—is seen in politics, economics, and social interactions. Religious identity and aspirations remain powerful and ...

  • Faithful Disobedience: Writings on Church and State from a Chinese House Church Movement, By Wang Yi
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    Faithful Disobedience

    Writings on Church and State from a Chinese House Church Movement

    by Wang Yi
    Edited by Hannah Nation and J. D. Tseng
    Foreword by Ian Johnson

    Reader's Choice Award Winner

    Throughout China's rapidly growing cities, a new wave of unregistered house churches is growing. They are developing rich theological perspectives that are both uniquely Chinese and rooted in the historical doctrines of the faith. To understand how they have endured despite government pressure and cultural marginalization, we must ...

  • How to Be a Patriotic Christian: Love of Country as Love of Neighbor, By Richard J. Mouw
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    How to Be a Patriotic Christian

    Love of Country as Love of Neighbor

    by Richard J. Mouw

    What does it mean to love our country?

    Some Christians see loyalty to America as central to our faith and identity. Other Christians are skeptical that our nation warrants such devotion or attachment. But Richard Mouw encourages Christians to have a healthy sense of national peoplehood that promotes civic kinship and responsible citizenship. He navigates between Christian ...

  • Beyond Racial Division: A Unifying Alternative to Colorblindness and Antiracism, By George A. Yancey
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    Beyond Racial Division

    A Unifying Alternative to Colorblindness and Antiracism

    by George A. Yancey

    Christianity Today Book Award—Politics and Pubilc Life

    Efforts at colorblindness and antiracism have not been very effective in addressing racial tensions in the United States. Colorblindness ignores the realities of race and the history of injustice. On the other hand, antiracism centers racial concerns and in so doing often alienates people who ...

  • War, Peace, and Violence: Four Christian Views, Edited by Paul Copan
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    War, Peace, and Violence: Four Christian Views

    Spectrum Multiview Book Series

    Edited by Paul Copan

    In a world of war, terrorism, and other geopolitical threats to global stability, how should committed Christians honor Jesus Christ and his Word? How should Christians think and act when it comes to church-state relations, the preservation of order, the practice of just peacemaking, and the use of coercive force?

    In this volume in IVP Academic's Spectrum series, four contributors—experts ...

  • The Gospel of Peace in a Violent World: Christian Nonviolence for Communal Flourishing, Edited by Shawn Graves and Marlena Graves
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    The Gospel of Peace in a Violent World

    Christian Nonviolence for Communal Flourishing

    Edited by Shawn Graves and Marlena Graves

    "Blessed are the peacemakers."

    The gospel of Jesus Christ is the good news of peace: peace between God and humanity, peace among humans. And yet it can be difficult to see that peace in our broken, violent world.

    In this volume, Shawn Graves and Marlena Graves have gathered contributions from theologians, pastors, and practitioners on the importance and implementation ...

  • The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism, By Paul D. Miller
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    The Religion of American Greatness

    What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism

    by Paul D. Miller
    Foreword by David French

    ECPA Top Shelf Award Winner

    Long before it featured dramatically in the 2016 presidential election, Christian nationalism had sunk deep roots in the United States. From America's beginning, Christians have often merged their religious faith with national identity. But what is Christian nationalism? How is it different from patriotism? Is it an honest quirk, ...

  • A Short History of Christian Zionism: From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century, By Donald M. Lewis
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    A Short History of Christian Zionism

    From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century

    by Donald M. Lewis

    Top World Guild Award Winner

    This book is about an idea—namely, that Scripture mandates a Jewish return to the historical region of Palestine—which in turn morphed into a political movement, rallied around a popular slogan ("A country without a nation for a nation without a country"), and eventually contributed to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. ...

  • Public Intellectuals and the Common Good: Christian Thinking for Human Flourishing, Edited by Todd C. Ream and Jerry A. Pattengale and Christopher J. Devers
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    Public Intellectuals and the Common Good

    Christian Thinking for Human Flourishing

    Edited by Todd C. Ream, Jerry A. Pattengale, and Christopher J. Devers
    Foreword by George M. Marsden

    Evangelical Christians are active across all spheres of intellectual and public life today. But a disconnect remains: the work they produce too often fails to inform their broader communities. In the midst of a divisive culture and a related crisis within evangelicalism, public intellectuals speaking from an evangelical perspective have a critical role to play—within the church ...

  • Ending Human Trafficking: A Handbook of Strategies for the Church Today, By Shayne Moore and Sandra Morgan and Kimberly McOwen Yim
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    Ending Human Trafficking

    A Handbook of Strategies for the Church Today

    by Shayne Moore, Sandra Morgan, and Kimberly McOwen Yim
    Foreword by Ambassador John Cotton Richmond

    Author Sandra Morgan awarded Wilberforce Award

    Human trafficking is one of the most pressing social justice issues of our time, and in recent years there has been renewed interest among Christians, as many have been stirred up to take their part in the ongoing battle. This is a wonderful thing—and yet misinformed and misguided efforts can do more harm than ...

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