Theology (Exegetical Historical Practical etc.)

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  • Life Together : Readers Edition

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most influential Christian martyrs in history, bequeathed to humanity a legacy of theological creativity and spirituality that continues to intrigue people from a variety of backgrounds. Life Together gathers Bonhoeffer’s 1938 reflections on the character of Christian community, based on the common life that he and his seminarians experienced at the Finkenwalde Seminary and in the Brothers House there. The stimulus for the writing of Life Together was the closing of the preacher’s seminary at Finkenwalde by the Nazis.

    While Bonhoeffer wrote with his own seminary community in mind, he intended Life Together to have a more universal impact, and spoke of a mission and responsibility of the church as a whole.

    Using the acclaimed Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English translation and adapted to a more accessible format, this new edition features supplemental material from Victoria J. Barnett and an insightful introduction by Geffrey B. Kelly to clarify the theological meaning and social importance of Bonhoeffer’s work.

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  • Forgotten Fear : Where Have All The God Fearers Gone

    $7.50

    The fear of God is an important theme in the Bible, yet many Christians today overlook it or treat it carelessly. Fearing God is the soul of godliness, and those who claim to love God should desire to understand what it means to fear Him. The Forgotten Fear revisits this important topic. Author Al Martin first establishes the theme of the fear of God in both the Old and New Testaments, and then he defines what fearing God means. Finally, he addresses the practical implications of fearing God, showing its expression in the lives of Abraham and Joseph and providing instruction for believers today to maintain their fear of God and even increase it.
    Table of Contents:
    1. Predominance of the Fear of God in Biblical Thought
    2. Definition of the Fear of God
    3. Ingredients of the Fear of God
    4. Source of the Fear of God
    5. Relationship of the Fear of God to Our Conduct
    6. How to Maintain and Increase the Fear of God
    7. A Final Word to the Reader

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  • Identity And Idolatry

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    Series Preface
    Author’s Preface
    Abbreviations

    1. Living Inside The Text: Canon And Creation

    2. A Strange Bridge: Connecting The Image And The Idol
    Getting Started On The Wrong Foot: Creation And Image
    Human Identity And Human Nature

    3. The Liturgy Of Creation In The Cosmic Temple
    The First Stable As Prologue
    The Liturgy Of Creation
    The House That God Built

    4. The Image Of God On The Temple Walls
    Introduction
    Image And Original
    Signs Of Reflection
    A Reflected Relationship
    The First Table Background: Kings And Representatives
    After The First Table: Sonship And Sacredness
    Prelude To Idolatry

    5. Turning The Imago Dei Upside Down: Idolatry And The Prophetic Stance
    After Creation-whence Is The Image?
    Divine Fidelity And The Image
    The Decalogue And The Diatribe Against Idolatry
    The Golden Calf-the ‘great Sin’ Of Idolatry
    Covenantal Identity And Idolatry Across The Old Testament
    Idolatry And Adultery

    6. Inverting The Inversion: Idols And The Perfect Image
    Turning The Story Upside Down
    Setting The Context
    Idolatry And The Gentile Mission
    Theologies Of Idols: Romans 1 And 1 Corinthians 10
    Narratives Of Idolatry: Acts 7 And 17
    The Perfect Image
    Being In The Image Of The Image

    7. The Rise Of Suspicion: The Religious Criticism Of Religion
    Idolatry As Ideological Criticism: The Stage Is Set
    Idolatry As Psychological Projection
    Idolatry As Alienation And Oppression
    Idolatry And The Origin Of Religion
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

    8. Significance And Security In A New Key
    The Crisis Of Identity And The Idolatries Of Consumption
    Christian Identity And Plastic Narratives
    An Eternal Story Told Across Time

    Bibliography
    Index Of Authors
    Index Of Scripture References

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    So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27)

    Genesis 1:26-27 has served as the locus of most theological anthropologies in the central Christian tradition. However, Richard Lints observes that too rarely have these verses been understood as conceptually interwoven with the whole of the prologue materials of Genesis 1. The construction of the cosmic temple strongly hints that the image of God language serves liturgical functions.

    Lints argues that idol language in the Bible is a conceptual inversion of the image language of Genesis 1. These constructs illuminate each other, and clarify the canon’s central anthropological concerns. The question of human identity is distinct, though not separate, from the question of human nature; the latter has far too frequently been read into the biblical use of ‘image’.

    Lints shows how the narrative of human identity runs from creation (imago Dei) to fall (the golden calf/idol, Exodus 32) to redemption (Christ as perfect image, Colossians 1:15-20). The biblical-theological use of image/idol is a thread through the canon that highlights the movements of redemptive history.

    In the concluding chapters of this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Lints interprets the use of idolatry as it emerges in the secular prophets of the nineteenth century, and examines the recent renaissance of interest in idolatry with its conceptual power to explain the culture of desire.

    Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A. Carson, aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify, to interact with current scholarship and to point the way ahead.

     

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  • Redemption Accomplished And Applied

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    Originally published in 1955 and reprinted dozens of times over the years, John Murray’s Redemption Accomplished and Applied systematically explains the two sides of redemption – its accomplishment through Christ’s atonement and its application to the lives of believers.

    Murray explores the biblical passages dealing with the necessity, nature, perfection, and extent of the atonement in order to establish its relationship to our justification, sanctification, and glorification. He goes on to identify the distinct steps in the Bible’s presentation of how the redemption accomplished by Christ is applied progressively to the life of the redeemed, including the role of faith and repentance.

    Concise, precise, and accessible, Murray’s classic doctrinal study will now reach and benefit a new generation of readers.

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  • Evidence For The Rapture

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    The Left Behind series popularized the rapture as depicted in Scripture. Evidence for the Rapture takes a detailed look at key passages that depict the rapture as a future event. Combining scholars from major bible colleges and seminaries, Evidence for the Rapture is the definitive argument for the existence of a Pretribulational Rapture.

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  • Answers To Your Questions About Heaven

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    Is heaven a literal place?
    What does it look like?
    What will we do all day?
    Will there be angels there?

    We all have questions about what heaven will be like. Fortunately, Scripture is filled with helpful information about our future home-we just have to know where to look.

    Dr. David Jeremiah has spent a lifetime studying what the Bible has to say about heaven, and now in Answers to Your Questions about Heaven, he has done just that-provided answers to your most pressing questions about heaven, angels, and eternity in a straightforward, easy-to-understand, biblically based book. A perfect gift for friends and family and a handy resource to keep on your own shelf, this handsome little book will ignite your imagination and whet your appetite for all the amazing experiences that await!

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  • Naming The Elephant

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    What is a worldview? What lies behind your thoughts about almost everything? For more than thirty years, James W. Sire has grappled with this issue. In his widely used textbook The Universe Next Door, first published in 1976, Sire offered a succinct definition of a worldview and catalogued in summary fashion seven basic worldview alternatives. Students, critics, new literature and continued reflection have led him to reexamine and refine his definition of a worldview. This second edition companion volume to The Universe Next Door is the fruit of that effort, offering readers his most mature thought on the concept of a worldview, addressing such questions as

    What is the history of the concept itself?
    What is the first question you should ask in formulating a worldview?
    How are worldviews formed existentially as well as intellectually?
    Is a worldview primarily an intellectual system, a way of life or a story?
    What are the public and private dimensions of a worldview?
    What role can worldview thinking play in assessing your own worldview and those of others, especially in light of the pluralism in today’s world?

    Naming the Elephant is an excellent resource for exploring more deeply how and why worldview thinking can aid you in navigating your pluralistic universe.

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  • Covenant And Commandment

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    Series Preface
    Author’s Preface
    Abbreviations
    Introduction

    1. The New Testament And The Reality And Necessity Of Works,
    obedience And Faithfulness
    2. Obedience, Works And Faithfulness: Moving From Old
    Testament To New Testament
    3. Old Covenant, New Covenant And The History Of Redemption
    4. The Cross And The Reality Of Works, Obedience And Faithfulness
    5. Union With Christ And Its Relationship To Works, Obedience
    and Faithfulness
    6. Justification, Judgment And The Future
    7. The Reality And Necessity Of Works, Obedience And
    faithfulness

    Epilogue
    Bibliography
    Index Of Authors
    Index Of Scripture References

    Additional Info
    From a close study of key Old and New Testament texts and interaction with historical and contemporary theologians, Bradley Green shows how different aspects of the Christian life are each God-elicited, real and necessary. Reaffirming the best Reformed voices, this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume provides a biblical theology of the nature, role and place of works, obedience and faithfulness in the new covenant.

    Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A. Carson, aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify, to interact with current scholarship and to point the way ahead.

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  • God In The Dock

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    Lewis struck me as the most thoroughly converted man I ever met, observes Walter Hooper in the preface to this book. His whole vision of life was such that the natural and the supernatural seemed inseparably combined.God in the Dock collects forty-eight essays and twelve letters written by Lewis between 1940 and 1963. Ranging from popular newspaper pieces to learned defenses of the faith, these essays cover topics as varied as the logic of theism, good and evil, miracles, the role of women in the church, and ethics and politics. Many represent Lewis’s first ventures into themes he would later treat in fulllength books.Characterized throughout by Lewis’s honesty and realism, in-sight and conviction, and pervasive Christian faith, God in the Dock remains very much a book for our time.

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  • Gods Design For Man And Woman

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    A husband and wife team-both highly respected biblical scholars-lead us on a journey through God’s Word, outlining its teaching on gender from Genesis to Revelation. Packed with careful exegesis and astute historical analysis, this accessible volume offers clear-headed and compelling arguments in support of the idea that God created men and women different but equal. Ultimately, this book will help you understand not only what the Bible teaches about true manhood and womanhood, but why its teaching is best-for you, for your family, and for society as a whole.

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  • Not A Chance (Revised)

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    Despite claiming unbelief in God or any higher power that may have designed or created the world and all that is in it, modern scientists often write and speak of chance as some kind of being or force that can actually cause things to happen. In one breath they push the evolution agenda and in the next they say that creatures were designed with specific traits. In this classic book, R. C. Sproul and Keith Mathison call the scientific world to employ logic and clarity in their discourse, to leave the word chance as an abstract concept to describe mathematical possibilities rather than an ontological being that can actually cause change. This expanded edition includes a new chapter dealing with the most recent attempts to defend irrational scientific statements. Two new appendices answer critics and review other literature on scientific discoveries that support belief in a Creator God.

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  • Encountering The Book Of Romans 2nd Edition (Reprinted)

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    In this updated edition of his successful textbook, a leading evangelical New Testament scholar offers a guide to the book of Romans that is informed by current scholarship and written at an accessible level. The new edition has been updated throughout and features a new design. After addressing introductory matters and laying the groundwork for reading Romans, Douglas Moo leads readers through the weighty argument of this significant book, highlighting key themes, clarifying difficult passages, and exploring the continuing relevance of Romans. As with other volumes in the well-received Encountering Biblical Studies series, this book is designed for the undergraduate classroom and includes pedagogical aids such as photos and sidebars.

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  • Truth Matters : Confident Faith In A Confusing World

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    In an interview with Christianity Today in 2012, Ed Stetzer shared that according to LifeWay research among young adults who had attended church regularly for at least a year in high school, 70% stop attending regularly for at least a year between ages 18-22. However, 35% of these had returned to attending twice a month or more by the time they were surveyed for the study. This means that about 4 out of 10 kids leave the church and NEVER RETURN.

    Here is how leading experts describe our church kids today: They are unarmed and incapable of defending their faith. They possess a faith that cannot withstand the scrutiny of trials or intellectual questions. They have a shallow belief system. They lack a robust faith. They haven’t learned how to think. They are embarrassingly ignorant of our faith.

    Truth in a Culture of Doubt is written directly to this audience, arming them with well-reasoned responses to the accusations that are most likely to appear in their lives, either as upcoming lecture notes and test questions or as inner qualms and questions. Things like: What gives the Bible any authority or credibility? Where is God in a world full of suffering? Why should Christianity be any more believable than any other religious system? And many, many more.

    Easy to read yet loaded with meat and substance, this book is a level-headed reaction to those who equate Christian faith with blind faith, even those whose subtle or stated goal is to separate students from their religious traditions. Readers will discover the kind of historical information and thinking skills that build a sturdy backbone of confidence in high schoolers and young adults, making them able to defend by reasoned faith what the Bible claims as truth.

    Loosely organized around the theological skepticism of New York Times bestselling author (and southern college educator) Bart Ehrman, this jam-packed counterclaim is a book that parents will want to buy for their kids, a book that youth and student leaders will want to work through one-on-one and in discipleship groups-a book that could prove a lifesaver for young minds and hearts everywhere.

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  • Moody Handbook Of Theology

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    The Moody Handbook of Theology leads the beginner into the appreciation and understanding of this essential field of study. It introduces the reader to the five dimensions that provide a comprehensive view of theology: biblical, systematic, historical, dogmatic and contemporary. The apostle Paul wrote that all Scripture is ‘profitable for teaching’ (2 Tim. 3:16), that Timothy should ‘pay close attention to…your teaching’ (1 Tim. 4:16), and that leaders should ‘be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict’ (Titus 1:9). When he wrote these statements, Paul was referring to theology.

    Beyond giving basic definitions and general descriptions, author Paul Enns summarized the substantial features of theology. In this way, he provides a concise doctrinal reference tool for the newcomer as well as the seasoned scholar seeking a refresher. There are fifty-five informative charts located at strategic points throughout the book.

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  • Everyones A Theologian

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    Many people react negatively to the word theology, believing that it involves dry, fruitless arguments about minute points of doctrine. Yet as Dr. R.C. Sproul argues, everyone is a theologian. Any time we think about a teaching of the Bible and strive to understand it, we are engaging in theology. Therefore, it is important that we put the Bible’s varied teachings together in a systematic fashion, using proper, time-tested methods of interpretation so as to arrive at a theology that is founded on truth.

    That is precisely what Dr. Sproul does in Everyone’s a Theologian: An Introduction to Systematic Theology. This book is anything but a dry discussion of minute points of doctrine. Dr. Sproul, demonstrating his trademark ability to make complex subjects easy to understand, surveys the basic truths of the Christian faith, reminding us once more of what God is like and of what He has done for His people in this world and the next.

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