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Building on the Foundations of Evangelical Theology

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<p>John Feinberg is one of the premier evangelical scholars of the last thirty years. His work has influenced countless pastors, scholars, ethicists, and theologians.</p> <p>Featuring essays by a host of colleagues and former students, such as Graham A. Cole, Bruce A. Ware, Walter C. Kaiser Jr., Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Robert L. Saucy, and John F. Kilner, this anthology stands as a testament to Feinberg’s enduring legacy and theological acumen. Three sections focusing on the architecture, foundation, and superstructure of evangelical theology offer a coherent, helpful framework for these important essays.</p>

What the Bible Says about Divorce and Remarriage

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New from Bestselling Author Wayne GrudemThe topic of divorce is a complicated one, even among Christians. The Bible provides some clear answers, but gray areas remain. In this short booklet, theologian Wayne Grudem offers a thought-provoking analysis of what the Bible says—and doesn’t say—about divorce and remarriage.

Spiritual Ecology

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Spiritual Ecology: 10 Practices to Reawaken the Sacred in Everyday Life offers inspiring and practical guidance for reconnecting to the sacred in every day life and transforming our relationship with the Earth. Describing the power of simple, daily practices such as Walking, Gardening, Cooking with Love, and Prayer, this small book supports profound changes in how we think about and respond to the ecological crisis of our times.Spiritual Ecology: 10 Practices to Reawaken the Sacred in Everyday Life follows our groundbreaking Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth, now in its second edition, which included spiritual perspectives on climate change, species loss, deforestation, and other aspects of our present environmental crises from renowned spiritual teachers, scientists, and indigenous leaders. That book drew an overwhelmingly positive reaction from readers, many of whom are asking: "What can I do?"Spiritual Ecology: 10 Practices to Reawaken the Sacred in Everyday Life answers that question with inspiring, personal anecdotes from the author – Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee – and simple practices we all can do. Rooted in the mystical foundation of the world's great spiritual traditions, with a particular connection to Sufism, these timeless practices remind readers of our deep connections to life, each other, and the Earth, and invite a return of meaning to our desecrated world.As Rumi says, "there are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground," and it is this sacred ground that is calling to us, that needs our living presence, our attentiveness. This small book offers simple ways to reconnect so that we can once again feel the music, the song of our living connection with the Earth.

The Lateral Truth

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Was Moses really such a great liberator? How did a thug as thick as Samson get to be a hero? Wasn't the miracle at Bethesda about as merciful as pulling wings off flies? The fifteen stories in "The Lateral Truth" follow selected biblical themes through to their illogical conclusions, building on questions the author was never brave enough to ask in Sunday school. "Rebecca Bradley is a fabulous writer, The Lateral Truth is a witty and clever skewering of Bible stories. Funny and fresh - a much-needed antidote to rampant fundamentalism. Enjoy!" - Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Rollback. "With skill, wit, and a keen nose for a good story, Rebecca Bradley reminds us that sacred cows must never be milked too seriously." - Ronald Wright, author of A Short History of Progress.

Signs of the Last Days

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What is the relationship between natural disasters, earthquakes, and wars, and their significance in Bible prophecy? In this series we will look at the prophecies given in Matthew 24 and other passages that speak of activities similar to what we see today. We cover topics like: What are the signs of the end times? Do recent earthquakes foreshadow the great earthquakes of Scripture? Are the numerous wars in the Middle East and around the world starting to align nations against Israel? And much more.

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places

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Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places reunites spirituality and theology in a cultural context where these two vital facets of Christian faith have been rent asunder. Lamenting the vacuous, often pagan nature of contemporary American spirituality, Eugene Peterson here firmly grounds spirituality once more in Trinitarian theology and offers a clear, practical statement of what it means to actually live out the Christian life.Writing in the conversational style that he is well known for, Peterson boldly sweeps out the misunderstandings that clutter conversations on spiritual theology and refurnishes the subject only with what is essential. As Peterson shows, spiritual theology, in order to be at once biblical and meaningful, must remain sensitive to ordinary life, present the Christian gospel, follow the narrative of Scripture, and be rooted in the "fear of the Lord" -- in short, spiritual theology must be about God and not about us.The foundational book in a five-volume series on spiritual theology emerging from Peterson's pen, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places provides the conceptual and directional help we all need to live the Christian gospel well and maturely in the conditions that prevail in the church and world today.

Czy Bóg jest potworem? Zrozumieć Boga Starego Testamentu

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Czy Bóg jest arogancki? Czy karze ludzi zbyt surowo? Czy odpowiada za czystki etniczne i ludobójstwo? Czy jest opresyjny wobec kobiet, znęca się nad dziećmi i promuje niewolnictwo? Czy nawołuje do przemocy? Słowem – czy Bóg wyłaniający się z kart Starego Testamentu jest potworem? Paul Copan, odpowiadając w swojej książce między innymi na zarzuty tzw. nowych ateistów, nie tylko dokonuje starannej egzegezy kontrowersyjnych fragmentów Pisma Świętego, ale również umieszcza je w odpowiednim kontekście historycznym i literackim.

God's Relational Presence

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Two leading biblical scholars and bestselling authors offer a fresh approach to the question of the unity of the whole Bible. This book shows that God's desire to be with his people is a thread running from Genesis through Revelation. Duvall and Hays make the case that God's relational presence is central to the Bible's grand narrative. It is the cohesive center that drives the whole biblical story and ties together other important biblical themes, such as covenant, kingdom, glory, and salvation history.

The Oxford Handbook of Secularism

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As recent headlines reveal, conflicts and debates around the world increasingly involve secularism. National borders and traditional religions cannot keep people in tidy boxes as political struggles, doctrinal divergences, and demographic trends are sweeping across regions and entire continents. And secularity is increasing in society, with a growing number of people in many regions having no religious affiliation or lacking interest in religion. Simultaneously, there is a resurgence of religious participation in the politics of many countries. How might these diverse phenomena be better understood? Long-reigning theories about the pace of secularization and ideal church-state relations are under invigorated scrutiny by scholars studying secularism with new questions, better data, and fresh perspectives. The Oxford Handbook of Secularism offers a wide-ranging and in-depth examination of this global conversation, bringing together the views of an international collection of prominent experts in their respective fields. This is the essential volume for comprehending the core issues and methodological approaches to the demographics and sociology of secularity; the history and variety of political secularisms; the comparison of constitutional secularisms across many countries from America to Asia; the key problems now convulsing church-state relations; the intersections of liberalism, multiculturalism, and religion; the latest psychological research into secular lives and lifestyles; and the naturalistic and humanistic worldviews available to nonreligious people.

The Christian World Liberation Front

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This book is a retrospective and model for the postmodern church for revival and reform containing actual primary source quotations from all those involved. It is a unique primary source history of Jesus Movement reflections and not just another secondary book. There is nothing like it available on this seminal, significant, and influential ministry.

The Way of Perfection (Translated by Rev. John Dalton)

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St. Teresa of Avila’s 16th century work “The Way of Perfection” is a classic of Christian literature which was written for the nuns of the order she founded. Encouraged by her religious counselors, she sought to give advice and guidance to other nuns in her ways of prayer and Christian meditation during the upheaval and change of the Reformation in Europe. In this influential work, St. Teresa of Avila gives practical advice for incorporating prayer in one’s everyday life and in using meditation and time spent in quiet repose to form a greater union with God and understanding of Christian mysticism. Through such meditation and deep contemplation, one could reach a state of rapture, or true communion with God. This guide directs its readers step by step to achieve a greater sense of spirituality and closeness with God by embracing fraternal love, rejecting material possessions, and practicing true humility. St. Teresa of Avila’s practical wisdom has been deeply influential and continues to inspire the faithful centuries later. This edition follows the translation of Rev. John Dalton.

The Soul's Conflict

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There be two sorts of people always in the visible church, one that Satan keeps under with false peace, whose life is nothing but a diversion to present contentments, and a running away from God and their own hearts, which they know can speak no good unto them; these speak peace to themselves, but God speaks none. Such have nothing to do with this Scripture, Ps. 42:11; the way for these men to enjoy comfort, is to be soundly troubled. True peace arises from knowing the worst first, and then our freedom from it. It is a miserable peace that riseth from ignorance of evil. The angel “troubled the waters,” John 5:4, and then it cured those that stepped in. It is Christ’s manner to trouble our souls first, and then to come with healing in his wings. (From the Preface) • To The Christian Reader • On The Work of My Learned Friend Doctor Sibbes • The Soul’s Conflict with Itself • General Observations upon the Text • Of Discouragements from without • Of Discouragements from within • Of casting down ourselves, and specially by sorrow — evils thereof • Remedies of casting down: to cite the soul, and press it to give an account • Other observations of the same nature • Difference between good men and others in conflicts with sin • Of unfitting dejection, and when it is excessive. And what is the right temper of the soul herein • Of the soul’s disquiets, God’s dealings, and power to contain ourselves in order • Means not to be overcharged with sorrow • Signs of victory over ourselves, and of a subdued spirit • Of original righteousness, natural corruption, Satan’s joining with it, and our duty thereupon • Of imagination, sin of it, and remedies for it • Of help by others. Of true comforters and their graces. Method. Ill success • Of flying to God in disquiets of souls; eight observations out of the text • Of trust in God; grounds of it; especially his providence • Of graces to be exercised in respect of Divine Providence • Other grounds of trusting in God, namely, the Promises, and twelve directions about the same • Faith to be prized, and other things undervalued, at least not to be trusted to as the chief • Of the method of trusting in God; and the trial of that trust • Of quieting the spirit in troubles for sin; and objections answered • Of sorrow for sin, and hatred for sin, when right and sufficient. Helps thereto • Other spiritual causes of the soul’s trouble discovered and removed; and objections answered • Of outward troubles disquieting the spirit, and comforts in them • Of the defects of gifts, disquieting the soul; as also the afflictions of the church • Of divine reasons in a believer. Of his minding to praise God, more than to be delivered • In our worst condition we have cause to praise God; still ample cause in these days • Divers qualities of the praise due to God, with helps therein; and notes of God’s hearing our prayers • Of God’s manifold salvation for his people, and why open, or expressed in the countenance • Of God, our God, and of particular application • Means of proving and evidencing to our souls that God is our God • Of improving our evidences for comfort in several passages of our lives • Of experience and faith, and how to wait on God comfortably. Helps thereto • Of confirming this trust in God: seek it of God himself. Sins hinder not: nor Satan. Conclusion and Soliloquy Richard Sibbes was an Anglican theologian. He is known as a Biblical exegete, and as a representative, with William Perkins and John Preston, of what has been called "main-line" Puritanism because he ever remained in the Church of England and worshiped according to the Book of Common Prayer.

Angels & Saints

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A gorgeously illustrated co-publication with Christine Burgin by “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times). With a guide to the illustrations by Mary Wellesley. Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times. But what do we really know about these celestial beings? Where do they come from, what are they made of, how do they communicate and perceive? The celebrated essayist Eliot Weinberger has mined and deconstructed, resurrected and distilled centuries of theology into an awe-inspiring exploration of the heavenly host. From a litany of angelic voices, Weinberger’s lyrical meditation then turns to the earthly counterparts, the saints, their lives retold in a series of vibrant and playful capsule biographies, followed by a glimpse of the afterlife. Threaded throughout Angels & Saints are the glorious illuminated grid poems by the eighteenth-century Benedictine monk Hrabanus Maurus. These astonishingly complex, proto-“concrete” poems are untangled in a lucid afterword by the medieval scholar and historian Mary Wellesley.

Dictionary of Christianity and Science

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The definitive reference work on science and Christian belief How does Christian theology relate to scientific inquiry? What are the competing philosophies of science, and do they "work" with a Christian faith based on the Bible? No reference work has covered this terrain sufficiently--until now.Featuring entries from over 140 international contributors, the Dictionary of Christianity and Science is a deeply-researched, peer-reviewed, fair-minded work that illuminates the intersection of science and Christian belief. In one volume, you get reliable summaries and critical analyses of over 450 relevant concepts, theories, terms, movements, individuals, and debates. You will find answers to your toughest questions about faith and science, from the existence of Adam and Eve to the age of the earth, evolution and string theory.FEATURES INCLUDE:Over 450 entries that will help you think through some of today's most challenging scientific topics, including climate change, evolution, bioethics, and much moreEssays from over 140 leading international scholars, including Francis Beckwith, Michael Behe, Darrell Bock, William Lane Craig, Hugh Ross, Craig Keener, Davis Young, John Walton, and many moreMultiple-view essays on controversial topics allow you to understand and compare differing Christian viewpointsLearn about flesh-and-blood figures who have shaped the interaction of science and religion: Augustine, Aquinas, Bacon, Darwin, and Stephen Hawking are just the beginningFully cross-referenced, entries include references and recommendations for further readingAdvance Praise:"Every Christian studying science will want a copy within arm’s reach." --Scot McKnight, Northern Seminary"This is an invaluable resource that belongs in every Christian's library. I will be keeping my copy close by when I’m writing." --Lee Strobel, Elizabeth and John Gibson chair of apologetics, Houston Baptist University"Sparkles with passion, controversy, and diverse perspectives."--Karl Giberson, professor of science and religion, Stonehill College"An impressive resource that presents a broad range of topics from a broad tent of evangelical scholars."--Michael R. Licona, Houston Baptist University"I am certain that this dictionary will serve the church for many years in leading many to demonstrate that modern science can glorify our Creator and honor his creation." --Denis O. Lamoureux, University of Alberta"'Dictionary' is too humble a label for what this is! I anticipate that this will offer valuable guidance for Christian faithfulness." --C. John Collins, Covenant Theological SeminaryGet answers to the difficult questions surround faith and science!Adam and Eve | the Age of the Earth | Climate Change | Evolution | Fossil Record | Genesis Flood | Miracles | Cosmology | Big Bang theory | Bioethics | Darwinism Death | Extraterrestrial Life | Multiverse | String theory | and much, much more

Samuel

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Jean Grosjean (1912-2006), ordonné prêtre en 1939, renonce à son sacerdoce après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Commentateur et traducteur de la Bible, du Coran et des tragédiens grecs, il publie aussi récits et poèmes (Terre du temps, Fils de l'homme, La Gloire). Il devient à partir de 1967 membre du comité de rédaction de La NRF, dont il est l'un des contributeurs réguliers à partir de 1955.

18 Words

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If the modern world can be characterised by one thing it is probably the enormous increase in the number of words around - but that increase has also been accompanied by a seemingly corresponding decrease in understanding. It is the irony of the information age that instead of bringing clarity it has raised uninformed opinion to the same level as truth. The church has also not been faultless. Rather than discuss ideas in order to come to some settled agreement, the church has been characterised as trying to make words mean different things in order to accommodate differences. But the church should be a beacon of light to the world. The church has the words of eternal life. J. I. Packer is a master wordsmith. He is also gifted with the ability of showing where truth lies in complicated reasoning. These skills combine to make Words from God a fascinating read - and a life-changing one. The 18 words are Death, Devil, Election, Faith, Fellowship, Grace, Holiness, Justification, Lord, Mediator, Mortification, Reconciliation, Regeneration, Revelation, Sanctification, Scripture, Sin & World.

The Bible Cause

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Endorsed in its time by Francis Scott Key, John Jay, and Theodore Roosevelt, the American Bible Society (ABS) is a seminal institution for American Protestants. The group was founded in 1816 with the goal of distributing free copies of the Bible in local languages throughout the world. Today, the ABS is a Christian ministry based in Philadelphia with a $300 million endowment and a mission to engage 100 million Americans with the Bible by 2025. In The Bible Cause, noted historian of American religion John Fea demonstrates how the ABS's primary mission - to place the Bible in the hands of as many people as possible - has caused the history of the organization to intersect at nearly every point with the history of the United States. For the last two hundred years, the ABS has steadily increased its influence both at home and abroad, working with all Christian denominations in the US and internationally, aligning itself whenever possible with the gatekeepers of American religious culture. Over the years ABS Bibles could be found in hotel rooms, bookstores, and airports; on steam boats, college and university campuses; the Internet; and even behind the Iron Curtain. Its agents, Bibles in hand, could be found on the front lines of every American military conflict from the Mexican-American War to the Iraq War. However and wherever the United States developed, the ABS was there. Throughout the last two centuries ABS has never wavered in its mission, and its commitment to be the guardian of a Christian civilization has been proven many times over.

Setting God Free: Moving Beyond the Caricature We've Created in Our Own Image

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How are we supposed to worship a deity who wantonly slaughters innocents to assuage His own bloodthirsty rage? Thank the loving God revealed in the pages of "Setting God Free" that Seán ÓLaoire has finally unpacked the horror show known as “the difficult passages” of the Bible, giving readers access to a cosmology built not on canonical scripture alone, but also on science, spirituality, and personal experience. And as for the God we humans have created in our own image? His day in court has finally come.

One Kingdom Under God

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Thomas Halliday was a powerful Scottish preacher during the 18th century who died at an early age. In spite of his short ministry, he preached and taught on a variety of subjects (which Puritan Publications has published). In this work Halliday focuses on the office of the civil magistrate and government, and how the office of the magistrate sits under the Kingdom of God. This is a refreshing treatise preached over two-hundred years ago especially in light of the current “two-kingdom” theories being repropagated today. Halliday, with precision and conviction sets the biblical record straight and explains what the Bible and Reformed Church has taught for centuries - one kingdom under God.

Reclaiming the Religion of Jesus In a Modern Age

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Jesus came to preach the good news of freedom and direct connection with God. He did not dwell on "the sinful nature of man," he concentrated on the beauty at the core of every person, and how we could awaken that beauty by brushing away all of the falsity and deception. His message was very much like many of the great teachers in the world, except it had a strong focus on being and doing love. In Reclaiming the Relgion of Jesus in a Modern Age we work to reclaim these original teachings.

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