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  • - Faith Formation from the Seminary to the Church
    von Boyung Lee
    30,00 €

    In this helpful book, Boyung Lee offers an encouraging vision of the mainline church's future. Lee grapples with some of the greatest challenges facing the mainline church, offering compelling responses to recurring questions: What does faithfulness to the gospel look like in this changing world? What is our distinctive voice in the larger...

  • von Gregory S. Cootsona
    23,00 €

    C.S. Lewis has long been recognized as a beloved author of children's literature and an apologist for Christian belief to a skeptical modern world. In this new volume, Gregory S. Cootsona shows us how Lewis can also serve as a guide to the ups and downs of the Christian journey. Like many of us...

  • - Reflections on Urban Ministry
    von Roger J. Gench
    28,00 €

    While urban pastors devote time and energy to all the typical demands of ministry, they also grapple with challenges endemic to city life. Achieving a measure of balance amid these competing demands and responsibilities can be daunting. Using his experiences as a pastor in urban settings for nearly three decades, Roger J. Gench offers pastors a...

  • von Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty
    26,00 €

    If theology is about more than books and libraries, lecture halls and dusty debates; if theology is instead about lived experience, especially the experiences of those living at the margins of society's care and concern; if, in short, theology is about the real needs of real people, then Dorothy Day was one of the greatest theologians of the...

  • - A Commentary
    von Frank J. Matera
    63,00 €

    This commentary on II Corinthians in the New Testament Library continues the exemplary quality of the series. Frank Matera provides a commentary that is a close study of the backgrounds and language of the text while also providing important theological insights into the message of Paul for his time and for the contemporary church.

  • - A Commentary
    von John Barton
    47,00 €

    In Joel and Obadiah, John Barton furnishes a fresh translation of the ancient manuscripts and discusses questions of historical background and literary architecture before providing a theologically sensitive and critically informed interpretation of the text.

  • - The Planning and Purpose of Liturgy
    von John G. Stevens & Michael Waschevski
    21,00 €

    There are many books written for liturgical experts, but not many for laypeople. This book bridges that gap. In clear, everyday language, Waschevski and Stevens describe why Protestants worship and help to equip worship planners and leaders for excellence in their tasks. The authors explore the different elements of the worship service and how...

  • - A Theology of Creation
    von Ian A. McFarland
    44,00 €

    Too often the doctrine of creation has been made to serve limited or pointless ends, like the well-worn arguments between science and faith over the question of human and cosmic origins. Given this history, some might be tempted to ignore the theology of creation, thinking it has nothing new or...

  • - Belief
    von Daniel L. Migliore
    44,00 €

    In this latest volume in the Belief series, Daniel L. Migliore plumbs the depth of Paul's letters to the Philippians and to Philemon. With splendid theological reflection, Migliore explores central themes of these remarkable letters--themes that include the practice of prayer, righteousness from God, and the work of reconciliation and...

  • von Christine Helmer
    41,00 €

    This book is about the crisis brought about by doctrine's estrangement from reality--that is from actual lives, experiences, histories, and from God. By invoking "the end of doctrine," Christine Helmer opens a new discussion of doctrinal production that is engaged with the challenges and possibilities of modernity. The end of doctrine refers on...

  • von Donald K McKim
    51,00 €

    This second edition of the Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms provides a comprehensive guide to nearly 7,000 theological terms, 1,000 more terms than the first edition. McKim's succinct definitions cover a broad range of theological studies and related disciplines: contemporary theologies, biblical studies, church history, ethics...

  • - A Commentary
    von Charles B. Cousar
    46,00 €

    A commentary on the letters to the Philippians and Philemon.

  • von Donald K. Mckim
    21,00 €

    In this insightful book, Donald K. McKim explores the basic tenets of Presbyterian theology and doctrine, from their beginnings to their meaning for the church today. Throughout McKim emphasizes the how Presbyterian history can inform current and future challenges. Without prescribing solutions to contemporary challenges, McKim's six brief...

  • - Revised and Expanded
    von Donald K. Mckim
    45,00 €

    This second edition of the Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms provides a comprehensive guide to nearly 7,000 theological terms, 1,000 more terms than the first edition. McKim's succinct definitions cover a broad range of theological studies and related disciplines: contemporary theologies, biblical studies, church history, ethics...

  • - Preaching Resurrection
    von Brian K. Blount
    29,00 €

    Our world and our churches are neither sinful nor lost, they are dead. This dead world is the one that God engages and into which Jesus invaded with a radically different vision of life.In this groundbreaking work, based on his 211 Yale Beecher lectures, Brian K. Blount helps preachers effectively proclaim resurrection in a world consumed by...

  • - A New Model for Sunday School
    von Melissa Armstrong-Hansche & Neil Macqueen
    24,00 €

    The Workshop Rotation Model of church school has breathed new life into Sunday school programs wherever it has been tried. This book is a basic manual for this creative new approach, written by the educators who invented it, providing a step-by-step guide through the process of setting up and conducting the model in any church...

  • - Helping Your Church Rethink Its Mission and Practice
    von Joan S. Gray
    23,00 €

    Is your church a rowboat church or a sailboat church? Rowboat churches depend largely on human effort. When church budgets shrink and membership declines, rowboat churches frantically row harder against a current, often frustrated and disappointed at their efforts. Sailboat churches, on the other hand, take up the oars, hoist sails, and rely on...

  • von J. Philip Wogaman
    22,00 €

    Examining other religions provides Christians the opportunity to more deeply understand their own beliefs. Learning about other religions is not the same as learning from other religions, which can have great value to Christians who wish to strengthen their faith. In this book's ten easy-to-read chapters, Wogaman shows readers what Christians...

  • von Patrick D. Miller
    27,00 €

    In seven readable chapters, renowned scholar Patrick D. Miller delves into the biblical book of Psalms. Miller explores what the psalms can teach us about God, our relationship to God, and what God wants for us. He tackles over a dozen of the most beloved psalms that explore themes of God's...

  • - A Lenten Study
    von Marjorie J. Thompson
    19,00 €

    Forgiving others and humbly asking for forgiveness are central disciplines for all Christian believers. Lent, a time to reflect on our Christian journey, is an appropriate time to deepen our understanding and practice of forgiveness. Marjorie J. Thompson, author of the best-selling book Soul Feast, takes a close look at our understanding of...

  • - Answers to Your Questions about the Historical Jesus
    von John Dominic Crossan & Richard G. Watts
    31,00 €

    This fascinating book makes the results of a lifetime of scholarship readily available to nonspecialists who want to meet the historical Jesus. Eminent biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan collaborates with pastor Richard G. Watts to rediscover the life, the work, and the message of the Man from...

  • - Responsible Decision Making for Young Singles
    von Michael F. Duffy
    25,00 €

    Having sex can be a loving and delightful experience, but it can also be emotionally, physically, and spiritually devastating. Many singles struggle to sort out how to make their own sexual experiences physically and emotionally healthy ones. This book can help. Duffy offers a thoughtful guide to sexual decision making for single...

  • von Friedrich Schleiermacher
    41,00 €

    Brandt presents important selections from German theologian Schleiermacher's Christian Ethics, a work that moves beyond formal matters to offer a comprehensive analysis of ethical issues, including what constitutes moral action for individuals in relation to the family, the state, the school, the church, and society. This edition also includes...

  • von Jerry L Sumney
    58,00 €

    Understanding this letter to be one of Paul's prison epistles but aware of the differences between this and his other writings, Jerry Sumney shows how the church struggled with expressing its new faith in the diverse settings of the Greco-Roman world.

  • von Scott R. Paeth
    26,00 €

    This volume offers a compelling introduction to the life, times, and theological thought of H. Richard and Reinhold Niebuhr--the two most important American theologians of the twentieth century. Although the Niebuhr brothers shared the same heritage and experienced many of the same formative moments, their thought diverged at key points as...

  • - Contemporary Challenges and Future Directions
     
    33,00 €

    In this collection, six leading theologians on political theology explore the contemporary states and potential future of the discipline. Offering a highly nuanced and complex picture of "older" and "newer" Political Theology, these scholars examine the multifaceted interconnections and tensions between political theologies, liberation...

  • - How Protestant Churches Can Reform Themselves Again
    von John P. Burgess
    32,00 €

    When author and theologian John P. Burgess first travelled to Russia, he was hoping to expand his theological horizons and explore the rebirth of the Orthodox Church since the fall of Communism. But what he found changed some fundamental assumptions about his own tradition of North American Protestantism. In this book, Burgess asks how an...

  • - A Guide to Baptism for Presbyterians
    von James Davison
    10,00 €

    Easy to use and understand, Living Water presents the sacramental aspects of baptism, the symbolic meaning of water, baptism in the name of God, the baptismal (or Apostles') Creed, and how baptism leads to service.

  • - The Art of African American Preaching
    von Cleophus J. LaRue
    30,00 €

    Cleo LaRue is one of the best-loved preachers and writers about preaching. In past volumes, he has brought together great collections of African American preaching to showcase the best preaching from across the country. Here he offers his own insights into what makes for great preaching. Filled with telling anecdotes, LaRue's book recognizes...

  • von Thomas W. Walker
    20,00 €

    While others might tell stories claiming the world is without promise, Luke presents the narrative of Jesus Christ as good news, challenge, and hope. For Luke, this is the only story that makes sense of the past, offers guidance for the present, and secures hope for the future.Interpretation Bible Studies (IBS) offers solid biblical content in...

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