Baker Publishing Group: 4943 books
Mark
Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
The earliest and briefest of the four Gospels has traditionally been ascribed to a disciple named Mark In some ages it been overshadowed by its lengthier neighbors in the New Testament, but its pages hold rich rewards for those who ask the right questions. Who was "Mark," and what were his...
Paul and Scripture
Studying the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
There are over one hundred explicit quotations of Scripture in Paul's letters and at least two hundred allusions. The coming of Jesus and the birth of the church caused Paul to look at the Scriptures with new eyes, sometimes clarifying what was written and sometimes reinterpreting it. This volume...
Joyful Witness in the Muslim World (Mission in Global Community)
Sharing the Gospel in Everyday Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
This up-to-date textbook features global perspectives on current Christian engagement with Islam, equipping readers for mission among Muslims. Evelyne Reisacher, who has worked extensively with Muslims in Europe, helps readers move from fear to joy as they share the gospel with Muslims. Reisacher...
Cultural Insights for Christian Leaders (Mission in Global Community)
New Directions for Organizations Serving God's Mission
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
This volume helps leaders and leaders-in-training become students of culture who can then contextualize what they learn for their own organizational settings. Douglas McConnell, a respected leader in the worlds of missiology and higher education, enables readers to understand intercultural dynamics...
Global Arts and Christian Witness (Mission in Global Community)
Exegeting Culture, Translating the Message, and Communicating Christ
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Veteran missionary-scholar Roberta King draws on a lifetime of study and firsthand mission experience to show how witness through contextualized global arts can dynamically reveal Christ to all peoples. King offers the global church biblical foundations, historical pathways, theoretical frameworks,...
Mission after Pentecost (Mission in Global Community)
The Witness of the Spirit from Genesis to Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Bringing Pentecostal theology into the Bible and mission conversation, Amos Yong identifies the role of the divine spirit in God's mission to redeem the world. As he works through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, Yong emphasizes the global missiological imperative: "People of all nations...
How to Read Theology
Engaging Doctrine Critically and Charitably
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
This handy, accessible introduction to reading theology helps readers engage doctrine critically and charitably. It serves as a primer to theological texts, offering practical guidelines for assessing theology and equipping the next generation of pastors and theologians to read theological literature...
Body, Soul, and Human Life (Studies in Theological Interpretation)
The Nature of Humanity in the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Are humans composed of a material body and an immaterial soul? This view is commonly held by Christians, yet it has been undermined by recent developments in neuroscience. Exploring what Scripture and theology teach about issues such as being in the divine image, the importance of community, sin,...
Good Arguments
Making Your Case in Writing and Public Speaking
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This brief introduction to making effective arguments helps readers to understand the basics of sound reasoning and to learn how to use it to persuade others. Practical, inexpensive, and easy-to-read, the book enables students in a wide variety of courses to improve the clarity of their writing and...
Linguistic Analysis of the Greek New Testament
Studies in Tools, Methods, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In this volume, a leading expert brings readers up to date on the latest advances in New Testament Greek linguistics. Stanley Porter brings together a number of different studies of the Greek of the New Testament under three headings: texts and tools for analysis, approaching analysis, and doing analysis....
The Church according to Paul
Rediscovering the Community Conformed to Christ
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Amid conflicting ideas about what the church should be and do in a post-Christian climate, the missing voice is that of Paul. The New Testament's most prolific church planter, Paul faced diverse challenges as he worked to form congregations. Leading biblical scholar James Thompson examines Paul's...
The Last Adam
A Theology of the Obedient Life of Jesus in the Gospels
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
There is much discussion today about how we are to understand the life of Jesus in the Gospels. What was Jesus doing between his birth and death and how does this relate to salvation? This book corrects the Christian tendency to minimize the life of Jesus, explaining why the Gospels include much more...
by Arthur W. Pink
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
The words Christ spoke from the cross can inform Christians of the purpose, the meaning, the sufferings, and the sufficiency of his death. After an introduction that discusses the nature of Christ's death as natural, unnatural, preternatural, and supernatural, Dr. Arthur W. Pink clearly illustrates...
Crucified and Resurrected
Restructuring the Grammar of Christology
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
This major work, now available in English, is considered by many to be one of the finest and most significant contributions to modern Christology. Preeminent scholar and theologian Ingolf Dalferth argues for a radical reorientation of Christology for historical, hermeneutical, and theological reasons....