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The Music Architect
Blueprints for Engaging Worshipers in Song
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Guidance for Leaders Seeking a Richer Way to Employ Worship Music
Worship expert Constance Cherry offers comprehensive guidance to Christian leaders seeking a deeper, richer way to employ worship music in engaging ways for twenty-first-century worshipers. Following Cherry's successful book...
by Clayton N. Jefford
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
The apostolic fathers were authors of nonbiblical church writings of the first and early second centuries. These works are important because their authors, Clement I, Hermas, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, and the author of the Epistle of Barnabas, were contemporaries of the biblical writers. Expressing...
The Devil's Redemption : 2 volumes
A New History and Interpretation of Christian Universalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Will all evil finally turn to good, or does some evil remain stubbornly opposed to God and God's goodness? Will even the devil be redeemed? Addressing a theological issue of perennial interest, this comprehensive book (in two volumes) surveys the history of Christian universalism from the second to...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Though the church universal is an ancient institution, the contemporary ministry landscape is always changing. That's why a new resource with useful information about Christian organizations is needed.
The Essential Handbook of Denominations and Ministries is an easy-to-use guide to more than...
Creating Life in the Lab
How New Discoveries in Synthetic Biology Make a Case for the Creator
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Each year brings to light new scientific discoveries that have the power to either test our faith or strengthen it--most recently the news that scientists have created artificial life forms in the laboratory. If humans can create life, what does that mean for the creation story found in Scripture?
Biochemist...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
A Science and Religion Primer is a unique resource: an encyclopedia, an annotated bibliography, and a survey of the relationship between two equally complex fields. Editors Heidi Campbell and Heather Looy begin their work with four chapters from expert contributors: history of the science and religion...
Reformed Dogmatics
Abridged in One Volume
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Herman Bavinck's four-volume Reformed Dogmatics is one of the most important theological works of the twentieth century. The recently completed English translation has received wide acclaim. Now John Bolt, one of the world's leading experts on Bavinck and editor of Bavinck's four-volume set, has abridged...
Scripture as Real Presence
Sacramental Exegesis in the Early Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This work argues that the heart of patristic exegesis is the attempt to find the sacramental reality (real presence) of Christ in the Old Testament Scriptures. Leading theologian Hans Boersma discusses numerous sermons and commentaries of the church fathers to show how they regarded Christ as the...
Martin Luther's Theology of Beauty
A Reappraisal
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Many contemporary theologians seek to retrieve the concept of beauty as a way for people to encounter God. This groundbreaking book argues that while Martin Luther's view of beauty has often been ignored or underappreciated, it has much to contribute to that quest. Mark Mattes, one of today's leading...
Engaging the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
Love and Gift in the Trinity and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
A Distinguished Theologian on the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
Distinguished theologian Matthew Levering offers a historical examination of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, defending an Augustinian model against various contemporary theological views. A companion piece to Levering's Engaging...
Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition
Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The rise of modernity, especially the European Enlightenment and its aftermath, has negatively impacted the way we understand the nature and interpretation of Christian Scripture. In this introduction to biblical interpretation, Craig Carter evaluates the problems of post-Enlightenment hermeneutics...
Reformed Ethics : Volume 1
Created, Fallen, and Converted Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Herman Bavinck's four-volume Reformed Dogmatics is one of the most important theological works of the twentieth century. Leading Bavinck expert John Bolt edited that work, which has received wide acclaim. Now Bolt brings forth a recently discovered manuscript from Bavinck, in print for the first time,...
Another Reformation
Postliberal Christianity and the Jews
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
How does Christianity relate to contemporary Judaism? In this book a respected Jewish theologian learns a lesson from recent Christian theology: God's love of Christ and the church does not replace his love of Israel and the Jews. Ochs engages leading postliberal Christian thinkers George Lindbeck,...
by Brian Matz, Hans Boersma, Matthew Levering
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
An Accessible Introduction to Gregory of Nazianzus
Brian Matz, a respected scholar of the history of Christianity, provides an accessible and erudite introduction to the thought of fourth-century church father Gregory of Nazianzus. Matz explores Gregory's homilies, especially those that reveal...