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English translations of Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, Arabic, Coptic, and Ethiopic Christian texts from late antiquity to the early modern period
In order to make the writings of Eastern Christianity more widely accessible this volume offers a collection of significant texts from various Eastern Christian traditions, many of which are appearing in English for the first time. The internationally renowned scholars behind these translations begin each...
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Why should anyone believe in God in a world with so much pain?
How can I be part of the church when it's so full of hypocrisy?
Isn't "spiritual but not religious" enough?
What makes Jesus more important than Muhammad, Buddha, or other religious leaders?
Why should I trust Christianity when it's hurt so many people? What if it hurt me?
Most Christians have found themselves in conversations with nonbelieving friends and family where these kinds of questions...
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A definitive history of evangelical Presbyterianism in America
Reformed and Evangelical across Four Centuries tells the story of the Presbyterian church in the United States, beginning with its British foundations and extending to its present-day expression in multiple American Presbyterian denominations. This account emphasizes the role of the evangelical movement in shaping various Presbyterian bodies in America, especially in the twentieth century...
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Religious belief is often perceived as being in conflict with science-but does it have to be?
Not usually, says Joseph Vukov. In this short, accessible guide, Vukov advances three models for Christians to utilize when navigating the relationship between science and faith: conflict, independence, and dialogue. He argues that dialogue is the ideal model to follow most of the time-but not necessarily all the time. Through a philosophical approach grounded...
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The Academy of Parish Clergy's 2018 Top Five Reference Books for Parish Ministry
Beauty and holiness are both highly significant subjects in the Bible. In this comprehensive study of Christian fine art David Lyle Jeffrey explores the relationship between beauty and holiness as he integrates aesthetic perspectives from the ancient Hebrew Scriptures through Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant down to contemporary philosophers of art.
From the walls...
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"Said plainly, churches are in trouble. All churches are, but certainly Churches of Christ. Whether or not they recognize the threats they are facing is a different matter. The future is fraught with dangers. Many won't make it."
On New Year's weekend, 1831—32, two churches came together in Lexington, Kentucky, in what is often known today as the Restoration Movement. Among the churches that emerged from this movement were Churches of Christ, which...
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The story of five best-selling novels beloved by evangelicals, the book industry they built, and the collective imagination they shaped
Who are evangelicals? And what is evangelicalism? Those attempting to answer these questions usually speak in terms of political and theological stances. But those stances emerge from an evangelical world with its own institutions-institutions that shape imagination as much as they shape ideology.
In this unique exploration...
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Jesus came to bring joy to the world. What happened?
In a world full of suffering, the declaration that God wants us to be joyful can sound tone-deaf at best or hypocritical at worst. In An Invitation to Joy, Daniel J. Denk invites readers to cast off hopelessness and rediscover joy. Yet, as Denk reminds us, "we don't find joy by pursuing joy; we find it by pursuing something else," namely, the kingdom of God. This joy is not naive optimism but a...
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A gospel of hope, inclusion, and defiance
If God gets everything God wants, and if what God wants is you, can anything stand in God's way?
Too many Christians have been taught that core aspects of who they are-their gender, their sexual orientation, their politics, their skepticism-prevent God from loving them fully. For these individuals, church has been a painful experience of exclusion, despite the reality that Jesus was the embodiment of God's...
10) God Is
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God is Mother. God is Midwife. God is Hostess. God is Mystery. God is Home.
Traditional language for God has been dominated by a single image-Father-and masculine norms. For some, this language is meaningful. For others, it is deeply problematic. In both cases, it's limited.
One thing is certain: God is More.
Mallory Wyckoff believes it's past time to expand the ways we think about God. Through personal story, theology, spirituality, and social justice...
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"The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." So begins this award-winning intellectual history and critique of the evangelical movement by one of evangelicalism's most respected historians.
Unsparing in his indictment, Mark Noll asks why the largest single group of religious Americans-who enjoy increasing wealth, status, and political influence-have contributed so little to rigorous intellectual scholarship....
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It's time to give pastors permission to read books besides the Bible.
Six months into his first senior pastorate, Austin Carty sat in his office reading-not the Bible, not a commentary, not a theological tract, but a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. As the minutes turned to hours, while he sat engrossed in this book, he noticed something: he began feeling uneasy. And then anxious. And then guilty. What would someone think if they opened the door and caught...
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What can the past teach us about what it means to be a "good" Christian parent today?
Today's parenting guidance can sometimes feel timeless and inviolable-especially when it comes to the spiritual formation of children in Christian households. But even in the recent past, parenting philosophies have differed widely among Christians in ways that reflect the contexts from which they emerged.
In this illuminating historical study, David Setran catalogs...
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"What is prayer? It's not a passport to heaven. If anything, it's a way of seeing here, a way of being here."
In Being Here, acclaimed poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama offers a thoughtful collection of prayers and essays to focus attention in a world full of distractions. Featuring 31 collects-an ancient five-fold form of prayer-this unconventional devotional invites readers into a daily rhythm of connection and creativity.
"The...
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Contextualizing the gospels in ancient Greco-Roman media practices
New Testament scholars have often relied on outdated assumptions for understanding the composition and spread of the gospels. Yet this scholarship has spread myths or misconceptions about how the ancients read, wrote, and published texts.
Nicholas Elder updates our knowledge of the gospels' media contexts in this myth-busting academic study. Carefully combing...
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