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Man has a problem and God has an answer in Christ. How the do we respond? Dr. Graham gives the answer in simple, direct, and dynamic language. But he does not stop with the moment of the new birth, for newborns have a lot of growing to do. Here also is essential guidance to take them further, for they can scarcely realize so soon the potential of the new power God can release from deep within them. How to Be Born Again is at once universal and personal,...
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Offers a profound vision of the Christian epic as the site of the modern apocalyptic reenactment of the original apocalypse.
In this series of essays, Thomas J. J. Altizer explores the Christian epic as the site of modern revolutionary apocalyptic reenactments and renewals of the original apocalypse enacted by Jesus Christ and primitive Christianity. Beginning with the pivotal seventeenth-century figures Milton and Spinoza, Altizer analyzes the...
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Theology—the attempt to come to a deeper, more faithful understanding of one's encounter with God—is something to which all Christians are called. In Learning Theology, Amos Yong invites the reader to lay claim to that calling and to see it as yet another opportunity to love God.
Written for those taking their first course in the subject, this book introduces the foundational sources and tasks of theology. It asks what difference theology...
4) The Trinity
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Appropriately the premier volume in the Guides to Theology series, The Trinity provides readers with a basic knowledge of the central and most distinctive doctrine of the Christian faith -- the triune nature of God.
Concise, nontechnical, and up-to-date, the book offers a detailed historical and theological description of the doctrine of the Trinity, tracing its development from the first days of Christianity through the medieval and Reformation...
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A superb, standard Christian theology text for nearly a quarter century, Daniel Migliore's Faith Seeking Understanding explores all of the major Christian doctrines in freshly contemporary ways. This third edition offers new FOR FURTHER READING suggestions at the end of each chapter, a substantial expansion of the glossary, and new material incorporated throughout, including a section on Christians and Muslims.
Further, the three imaginary theological...
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The leading MacDonald scholar settles the longstanding debate about the author's views on hell with an in-depth analysis of his thought on the afterlife.
Throughout his extensive and influential writings on Christian theology, George MacDonald only hints at his perspectives on hell, atonement, and everlasting punishment. Nowhere does he clearly state a doctrinal position on the subject. As a result, a controversy has raged for more than a century...
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Since the 1960s, theologians have been involved in efforts to guide Christians to reflection and action in light of planetary peril. The contributors to this volume illustrate how Friedrich Schleiermacher's theological work could fulfill that need. Schleiermacher's theology, they contend, finds its culmination in Christian social action and is remarkably conducive to ecological thinking in...
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We need Christians trained in apologetics now more than ever.
In a chaotic world where many people claim to have their own truth, Christians have been given the unshakable truth that comes from God alone. But simply knowing it isn't enough. The task of apologetics belongs to all believers, to "make a defense to anyone who asks" (1 Peter 3:14). Although the call is clear, it can be difficult to know where to start.
This comprehensive survey...
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Most theologies suck.
They're too technical or they describe a God nobody understands. Sometimes the God portrayed sounds like a controlling boyfriend or absentee parent. Rather than woo or persuade, most theology books clobber readers into submission.
This book is different.
Thomas Jay Oord presents a theology that makes sense. It fits the way we live our lives and matches our deepest intuitions. To the surprise of some, it harmonizes with sacred...
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Since it first appeared in English translation in 1962, A Little Exercise for Young Theologians has achieved classic status. In thirteen concise reflections Helmut Thielicke offers wise counsel on the difficulties-and vital importance-of maintaining one's spiritual health in the course of academic theological study.
Thousands of beginning theological students over the years have had the opportunity to eavesdrop, as it were, on a practical theology...
11) Nuclear Faith
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Ever wondered why we believe what believe? Ever wondered why churches believe what they believe? This book will take the reader on a journey to understand where Christian doctrine comes from and why it is of the utmost importance to have a solid Biblical foundation to back up our faith.Discover what doctrine is, where the Bible originates from, what the Trinity is, who God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is, what sin is, the ordinances of the Church,...
12) The God Game
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What is the "answer to everything"? Pythagoras provided a glimpse of the answer 2,500 years ago when he declared, "All things are numbers". Mathematics is literally everything. Unlike science, mathematics offers certainty and absolute knowledge. Mathematics unifies science, religion and metaphysics and is the true Grand Unified Theory of Everything. No experiment can ever contradict a mathematical truth. Mathematics is the ONLY answer to everything....
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¿Es la Biblia un libro de mitos, o es una revelación divinamente inspirada por Dios? ¿Podemos confiar en la Biblia, o es simplemente un antiguo libro de cuentos de hadas? Estas son preguntas que deben responderse ya que cada doctrina del judaísmo y el cristianismo finalmente encuentra su fuente en la Biblia. LAS PALABRAS DEL DIOS VIVIENTE por el pastor Miguel D. McCubbins, Th.D., un erudito bíblico de renombre internacional, responde estas preguntas...
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When Scottish lay theologian Thomas Erskine's book The Unconditional Freeness of the Gospel was published in 1828, it provoked a storm of controversy throughout his Calvinist homeland. The ideas expressed in the book were violently attacked as being radical, unwarranted, and heretical, and yet, by the turn of the twentieth century, those same ideas that had been so heatedly condemned when first presented had become common stock in the Christian world-ideas...
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En esta Segunda Parte de sus escritos sobre el apóstol san Pablo, el autor aborda la posición de Pablo sobre la enfermedad de la carne y de nuestro cuerpo celeste, en la que el apóstol ahonda en los desafíos que para nuestra vida constituye la carne y las distorsiones de nuestros cinco sentidos en un mundo caído y contaminado por las mentiras e ilusiones de SatanásPablo sabía esto y escribió extensamente sobre las limitaciones de nuestra carne...
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Der Islam durchlebt zurzeit intensive Konflikte mit sich selbst und mit Menschen anderer Religionen. Patrick Nachtigall präsentiert die Grundlagen des islamischen Glaubens und erklärt die Gründe für die derzeitige Instabilität des Islam. Politische Spannungen und die terroristische Bedrohung werden ebenso thematisiert wie die Bekehrungen unter Muslimen. Und er wagt einen Ausblick darauf, wie sich der Islam in den verschiedenen Teilen der Welt...
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"Winner of the 2010 Award for Excellence in Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies, American Academy of Religion" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010" Mark Johnston is the Walter Cerf Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and the author of Surviving Death (Princeton).
A bold and persuasive case for abandoning old religions and still believing in God
In this book, Mark Johnston argues that God needs to be saved not...
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Shows that pragmatic historicism is a significant intellectual tradition in the history of American religious and philosophical thought.
Among the greatest challenges facing religious thinkers today is that created by historicism, the notion that human beings and their myriad understandings of reality are utterly historical, conditioned by contingent circumstances and tied to particular contexts. In this book, Demian Wheeler confronts the historicist...
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Covenant and Hope centers around two main themes in Jewish-Christian dialogue: "Covenant, Mission, and Relation to the Other" and "Hope and Responsibility for the Human Future." In the first section, scholars from both faiths analyze the idea of covenant, how it determines their religious commitments, behavior, and theology, and how their covenantal theology shapes their relations with people outside their religious communities. The second section...
20) Surviving Death
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"Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers" Mark Johnston is the Walter Cerf Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and the author of Saving God: Religion after Idolatry (Princeton).
Why supernatural beliefs are at odds with a true understanding of the afterlife
In this extraordinary book, Mark Johnston sets out a new understanding of personal identity and the self, thereby...
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