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Before Abraham Was
The Unity of Genesis 1–11
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Rebelling against a century of Old Testament scholarship, Isaac M. Kikawada and Arthur Quinn persuasively argue that the first eleven chapters of Genesis are not a literary patchwork by different editors as widely supposed, but are the work of one author of extraordinary subtlety and skill. Comparing...
Answers to Real Problems: Harry Emerson Fosdick Speaks to Our Time
Selected Sermons of Harry Emerson Fosdick
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) was one of the most influential preachers in the twentieth century. He believed every sermon ought ask and answer some question that genuinely troubles individuals or the societies of which they are a part. Answers to Real Problems gathers several significant sermons...
Methods of Ethical Analysis
Between Theology, History, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The book is about showing different ways of doing ethics, highlighting a kind of methodological pluralism. This book attempts to relate the difference in methodology and perspective to difference in identity, focal point of analysis, or projects of persuasion. Difference matters ultimately because...
Accounting and Money for Ministerial Leadership
Key Practical and Theological Insights
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
This book will help seminary students and ministers with no training in accounting to expand their core management competency and church leadership skills to include basic issues of finance and accounting. It will also provide pastors/ministers with financial management orientation to become better...
The Revenge of Conscience
Politics and the Fall of Man
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Describing the political effects of Original Sin, Professor Budziszewski shows how man's suppression of his knowledge of right and wrong corrupts his conscience and accelerates social collapse. The depraved conscience grasps at the illusion of "moral neutrality," the absurd notion that men...
Come, Holy Spirit
Sermons
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
These sermons were prepared from 1920 to 1924. Professor Barth preached some of them while he was minister of the Reformed congregation in Safenwil, Canton Aargau, Switzerland; others in the Reformed Church in Goettingen while he was professor of theology in the University. Pastor Thurneysen at that...
The Knowledge of God and the Service of God According to the Teaching of the Reformation
Recalling the Scottish Confession of 1560 (Gifford Lectures 1937 & 1938)
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
These lectures on that teaching [of the Reformed church on natural theology] will not take the form of an independent outline, but will be connected with a 'document' of the Reformation. Further, taking into account the specifically Scottish character of the Gifford foundation, this document will...
Christ and Adam
Man and Humanity in Romans 5
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2004
In this essay, Barth discusses the relationship between Christ and Adam as understood by Paul. Moving beyond traditional exegetical and theological scholarship done on Romans 5, Barth offers an entirely new interpretation of the conception of humanity presented in Paul's view of the Christ-Adam relationship....
The Faith of the Church
A Commentary on the Apostles' Creed According to Calvin's Catechism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
The Apostles' Creed is the foundation of Christian faith. The interpretive version of the Apostles' Creed formulated by the Swiss reformer John Calvin in his Catechism has been the basis of Protestant theological education for centuries. In The Faith of the Church, Karl Barth, one of the powerful...
by Karl Barth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Originally published in German in an edition edited by Dietrich Braun, Karl Barth's Ethics is at last available in English. This volume, containing lectures given as courses at the University at Munster in 1928 and 1929, represents Barth's first systematic attempt at a theological account of Christian...
Witness to the Word
A Commentary on John 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2003
Karl Barth's lectures on the first chapter of the Gospel of John, delivered at Muenster in 1925-26 and at Bonn in 1933, came at an important time in his life, when he was turning his attention more fully to dogmatics. Theological interpretation was thus his primary concern, especially the relation...
Is There an Author in This Text?
Discovering the Otherness of the Text
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
The interpretation of any written discourse is problematic, which is the concern of this book. The relevant hermeneutical questions are: Do authors communicate their intention so that understanding of their intent is possible? Can a person other than an author speak through an author's text? Can individual...
Anyone Can Be Saved
A Defense of “Traditional” Southern Baptist Soteriology
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Anyone Can Be Saved articulates a biblical-theological explanation of the doctrine of salvation in light of the rise of Calvinistic theology among Southern Baptist churches in the United States. Ten scholars, pastors, and leaders advocate for the ten articles of the Traditional Statement by appealing...
How We Got Our Bible
Files from an Alttestamentler's Hard Drive
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
The Hebrew scriptures, called Tanakh or simply Bible by Jews and the Old Testament by Christians, contain the original sources of western religious traditions. This book describes their growth beginning with the traditions that grew up among Israelite tribes in Canaan and the Israelite and Judean...