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by Denis Lamoureux
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Christians throughout history have believed that God reveals himself both through Scripture and nature. The metaphor of God’s Two Books is often used to represent these two divine revelations.
The Book of God’s Words is the Bible. Scripture reveals inerrant spiritual truths. These include,...
Science and Religion in Dialogue
Two Histories of Discarded Images
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book provides an overview of the history of interactions between science and religion, with an emphasis on Christianity. Raymond E. Grizzle examines his own history of self-reflection on science and religion, focusing on what we have learned about the structure, history, and functioning of creation....
Spirit Rising
Tapping into the Power of the Holy Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
For some of us being a Christian is harder than it should be. Discouraged, anxious, worn down, we wonder what happened to the power and the joy that Jesus promised. Jim Cymbala believes that many of us are missing something vital. Christianity, he says, for even the best-intentioned person or church,...
by Peter Seewald Pope Benedict XVI
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Foreword by George Weigel. Never has a Pope in a book-length interview dealt so directly with such wide-ranging and controversial issues as Pope Benedict XVI does in Light of the World. Taken from a recent week-long series of interviews with veteran journalist Peter Seewald this book tackles head-on...
Young, Restless, Reformed
A Journalist's Journey with the New Calvinists
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
From places like John Piper's den, Al Mohler's office, and Jonathan Edwards's college, Christianity Today journalist Collin Hansen investigates what makes today's young Calvinists tick.
Church-growth strategies and charismatic worship have fueled the bulk of evangelical growth in America for...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
The Oxford History of Christian Worship is a comprehensive and authoritative history of the origins and development of Christian worship to the present day. Backed by an international roster of experts as contributors, this new book will examine the liturgical traditions of Orthodox, Catholic, and...
Nelsons New Christian Dictionary
The Authoritative Resource on the Christian World
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2001
This dictionary provides definitions for over 7,000 terms and names in the history of Christianity. The topics range from the foundational theological developments of the early church to the divisions of the Protestant Reformation to the missionary enterprises of the last two centuries. Nelson's Dictionary...
Ten Myths About Calvinism
Recovering the Breadth of the Reformed Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Is the role reserved for John Calvin possibly exaggerated?
Are there improper, as well as proper uses of the doctrine of predestination?
To what extent is the popular acronym, T.U.L.I.P. a helpful device, and to what extent is it detrimental in encapsulating key doctrines?
Should the Calvinist position...
Why People Don't Believe
Confronting Six Challenges to Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Religion is increasingly seen as a dangerous source of violence in the world, breeding a fear of faith in a very vocal group of critics. Most Christians are blissfully unaware of the litany of allegations being brought against religion, including that it is the cause of intolerance, imperialism, irrationality,...
In Search of Paul
How Jesus' Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
John Dominic Crossan, the eminent historical Jesus scholar, and Jonathan L. Reed, an expert in biblical archaeology, reveal through archaeology and textual scholarship that Paul, like Jesus, focused on championing the Kingdom of God––a realm of justice and equality––against the dominant, worldly...
The Case for Faith
A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
In his #1 best-seller The Case for Christ, legally trained investigative reporter Lee Strobel examined the claims of Christ, reaching the hard-won verdict that Jesus is God's unique son. But despite the compelling historical evidence that Strobel presented, many people grapple with serious concerns...
Font of Life
Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
No two men were more influential in the early Church than Ambrose, the powerful Bishop of Milan, and Augustine, the philosopher from provincial Africa who would write The Confessions and The City of God. Different in background, they were also extraordinarily different in personality. In Font of Life,...
ReJesus
A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
ReJesus asks the following questions:
• What ongoing role does Jesus the Messiah play in shaping the ethos and self understanding of the movement that originated in him?
• How is the Christian religion informed and shaped by the Jesus that we meet in the Gospels?
• How do we assess the continuity...
Glory Road
The Journeys of 10 African-Americans into Reformed Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Ten African-American leaders in the church tell their stories of how they embraced Reformed theology and what effect it has had on their lives and ministries.
The ten men who have contributed to this book are often asked, "How did you come to embrace Reformed theology?" With the recent...