Ivp imprint: 1197 books
A Little Book for New Philosophers
Why and How to Study Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
A Little Book for New Philosophers
The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas
Paul's Mars Hill Experience for Our Pluralistic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
Our world is multicultural, multireligious, multiphilosophical. It ranges from fundamental monotheism to do-it-yourself spirituality to strident atheism. How can Christians engage in communicating across worldviews in this pluralistic and often relativistic society? When Paul visited Athens, he found...
by Derek Kidner
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Proverbs--a book full of wisdom--and yet a book demanding all one's wisdom to understand. Derek Kidner not only has provided a running commentary on the whole of Proverbs but has also included two helpful study aids. The first is a set of subject guides that pull together teaching scattered throughout...
by Cyril of Alexandria
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Cyril of Alexandria (ca. 378-444), one of the most brilliant representatives of the Alexandrian theological tradition, is best known for championing the term Theotokos (mother of God) in opposition to Nestorius of Constantinople. Cyril's great Commentary on John, offered here in the Ancient Christian...
by Cyril of Alexandria
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
Theotokos**Commentary on John
Philosophy in Seven Sentences
A Small Introduction to a Vast Topic
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
Socrates—The unexamined life is not worth living.
Augustine—You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.
Descartes—I think, therefore I am.
Pascal—The heart has reasons, that reason knows nothing of.
The Chosen People
Election, Paul and Second Temple Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
One of the central touchstones of Second Temple Judaism is election. The Jews considered themselves a people set apart for Gods special purpose. So it is not surprising that this concept plays such an important role in Pauline theology. In this careful and provocative study, Chad Thornhill considers...
Disruptive Witness
Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
What should Christian witness look like in our contemporary society? In this timely book, Alan Noble looks at our cultural moment, characterized by technological distraction and the growth of secularism, laying out individual, ecclesial, and cultural practices that disrupt our society's deep-rooted assumptions and point beyond them to the transcendent grace and beauty of Jesus.
Hidden Worldviews
Eight Cultural Stories That Shape Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Why do we buy what we buy, vote the way we vote, eat what we eat and say what we say? Why do we have the friends we have, and work and play as we do? It's our choice? Yes, but there are forces, often unseen, that shape every decision we make and every action we take. These hidden, life-shaping values...
In Search of Moral Knowledge
Overcoming the Fact-Value Dichotomy
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
For most of the church's history, people have seen Christian ethics as normative and universally applicable. Recently, however, this view has been lost, thanks to naturalism and relativism. R. Scott Smith argues that Christians need to overcome Kant's fact-value dichotomy and recover the possibility of genuine moral and theological knowledge.
Knowing Jesus in the Old Testament?
A Fresh Look At Christophanies
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
The language of 'christophanies' is used technically by scholars to refer to appearances of the incarnate Son of God after his resurrection, as narrated in the New Testament Gospels and Acts. At a more popular level, though, the term is increasingly applied to alleged appearances of the pre-incarnate...
Ethics
Approaching Moral Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2009
Ethics
The Messiah Comes to Middle-Earth
Images of Christ's Threefold Office in The Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
How can we grasp the significance of what Jesus Christ did for us? Might literature help us as we seek to understand the Christian faith?
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has generated much discussion about the relationship between Christianity and literature. It is well known that Tolkien...
You Welcomed Me
Loving Refugees and Immigrants Because God First Loved Us
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
"Wait, Dad. Are we for them or against them?" Kent Annan was talking with his eight-year-old son about the immigrant and refugee crises around the world. His son's question, innocent enough in the moment, is writ large across our society today. How we answer it, Annan says, will reveal a...