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For Christians, the issues raised by the different views on creation and evolution are challenging. Can a "young earth" be reconciled with a universe that appears to be billions of years old? Does scientific evidence point to a God who designed the universe and life in all its complexity? Three View...

This short, readable book discusses the importance of the doctrine of the Trinity for contemporary faith. In clear, understandable language, it explores the development of the doctrine of the Trinity in church history, discusses modern issues and developments, and speaks practically about the signif...

The past several decades have seen a renaissance in Christian philos-ophy, led by the work of Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, William Alston, Eleonore Stump, and others. In the spirit of Plantingas famous manifesto, Advice to Christian Philosophers, James K. A. Smith here offers not only adv...

How far away is God? How different is God from human beings? This is the theological question of transcendence, and theology has long struggled to find answers that affirm a human relationship with God. In this provocative new work, Mayra Rivera's answer is that God is not within human grasp but is ...

Anger is not the opposite of love, but an intrinsic element of loving well. This book explains anger as a complex reality with physical, intellectual, cultural, and spiritual components. Women are shown how to understand anger by naming it, choosing to feel it, then integrating it with love. Instead...

Christians have always believed in the triune God, but they haven't always understood or used the doctrine of the Trinity consistently.In order to form a coherent view of trinitarian theology, it's important for Christians to have a working knowledge of the two legitimate models for explaining this ...

How do we explain human consciousness? Where do we get our sense of beauty? Why do we recoil at suffering? Why do we have moral codes that none of us can meet? Why do we yearn for justice, yet seem incapable of establishing it?Any philosophy or worldview must make sense of the world as we actually e...

Understanding Theology and Popular Culture is one of the first books to give an overview of the key issues and methods in this field of study.- Provides a detailed introduction to key theories and debates in popular cultural studies- Presents a reasoned argument about the distinctive contribution th...

Sounds blare and pictures flash frantically across the screen. This may seem to be an accurate of every commercial aired on TV, but such commercials are actually symptomatic of a much more important cultural shift. Arthur Hunt argues that there is a conceptual transformation taking place today, as w...

All of us are natural theologians, willing and able to think through questions of belief and relate the insights of theologians to our public and personal lives. In this clear and engaging introduction, Thompsett gives us the tools to think theologically by grounding us in the history, theology, spi...

The Westminster Handbook to Evangelical Theology is a comprehensive critical survey of the main persons, events, controversies, concepts, and institutions of twentieth-century evangelical theology. It will introduce readers to and be a reference work for the study of evangelicalism's distinctive the...

This stirring work explores the nature of belief in God's being, specifically discusses Christian belief in God's love, and anticipates the shape of a future “phoenix" church to support and nourish that faith. In discussing a “believable" God today, Antony Campbell here addresses relevant, basic...

What do Christians believe?What would it be like to go to church?How can I make sense of the Bible?What is prayer really about?This book offers answers to these kinds of questions in a way that neither treats its readers as 'dummies' nor baffles them with technical terms. If you want to know more ab...

In this volume, renowned philosopher Merold Westphal introduces current philosophical thinking related to interpreting the Bible. Recognizing that no theology is completely free of philosophical "contamination," he engages and mines contemporary hermeneutical theory in service of the church. After p...

Helping readers grasp the overarching story line of the Bible, this concise resource explores 16 key verses that serve as "turning points" in the biblical narrative, highlighting God's sovereignty, glory, and grace throughout his Word.

What does it say about the place of women in the Christian faith that, at a time when they had little social status, they were the first witnesses of the resurrection and the first to be commissioned by Jesus to carry the good news? Women went on to exercise a significant ministry in the early Churc...

"We believe in one God, the Father." The opening clause of the Nicene Creed can be summed up in a single word-- monotheism. In the early centuries of the church, this striking doctrine stood starkly against a cultural background of multiple deities and spiritual powers. While it clearly builds on it...

'Women Healing/ Healing Women' begins with a search for women who were healers in the Graeco-Roman world of the late Hellenistic and early Roman period. Women healers were honoured in inscriptions and named by medical writers, and were familiar enough to be stereotyped in plays and other writings. W...

This book fills a real need for pastors and students. Though there is currently a large body of material on the theological interpretation of Scripture, most of it is highly specific and extremely technical. J. Todd Billings here provides a straightforward entryway for students and pastors to unders...

Addressing World Christianity in an introductory way, this title serves primarily as a guide to the history of Christianity in the century and as such examines theological issues that have often been at the heart of key historical events and developments. It is the companion reader to the "SCM Core Text: World Christianity in the 20th Century".

Christianity Today Book Award Winner Martin Institute and Dallas Willard Center Book Award You are what you love. But you might not love what you think. In this book, award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. And while we desire to shap...

Have you ever looked more closely at the Easter story and wondered how Jesus' death on the cross transforms every day of your life? In The Gift of the Cross , beloved and trusted pastor Dr. Charles F. Stanley walks us through the Lenten and Easter seasons with biblical teaching on Christ's journey t...

With warmth and depth, leading Pentecostal theologian Jonathan Black shows how Jesus' call to partake in the Lord's Supper is a call to partake in His promise of presence, healing, forgiveness, glory, victory, and intimacy. Christ's table is still a powerful, life-changing place of transformation and encounter with Him--one you can experience every day.9780800763213

When scientific ideas appear to contradict the Bible, how do we react - and how do we evaluate what is true? What do the Bible and modern genetics have to say about human origins? Can a scientific view of human origins ever be reconciled with the Biblical account of human nature? Which view of the n...