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  • von Stephen R. Haynes & Lori Brandt Hale
    27,00 €

    This latest volume in the ever-popular WJK Armchair series turns its sights on contemporary theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945). Born in Breslau, Germany, Bonhoeffer led quite an intriguing life. This book, with dozens of illustrations by artist Ron Hill, highlights Bonhoeffer's background and theological education; his time at Union...

  • - Issues, Methods, and Themes
    von James K. Mead
    52,00 €

    In this, the first overview of biblical theology in nearly thirty years, James K. Mead addresses the core issues of biblical theology essential to both Old Testament and New Testament study. Can we draw theological principles from Scripture? What methods will give useful results for theological exploration of biblical texts? Aptly synthesizing...

  • - Proclaiming the Power of God
    von Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm
    46,00 €

    In this engaging treatment of the Gospel of Mark, Dawn Ottoni Wilhelm combines biblical scholarship with a close reading of the Gospel text to meet the needs of preachers today. Swift and purposeful, the Gospel of Mark proclaims God's reign and urges the participation of all God's people in the witness of the good news that God has transformed...

  • - Succeeding in Business without Selling Your Soul
    von Clinton W. McLemore
    32,00 €

    Success, as it is currently defined, usually depends on winning--beating the competition--which often places incredible pressures on business professionals. With engaging writing and a lack of jargon, this book navigates executives, managers, and supervisors through the ethical decisions they must make every day. Street-Smart Ethics is divided...

  • von Walter Brueggemann, Brian K. Blount & William C. Placher
    21,00 €

    Challenging the traditional meaning of Scripture is not easy, even in the face of issues that call into question those traditional interpretations. In these reflections, Walter Brueggemann says that the Bible, as the live word of the living God, will not submit to the accounts we prefer to give it. The Bible's inherent, central evangelical...

  • von James Luther Mays
    42,00 €

    The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.

  • von John F. A. Sawyer
    47,00 €

    This dictionary not only identifies terms and biblical figures but also examines them from the perspective of "reception history"--the history of the Bible's effect on its readers. Biblical books, passages, and characters certainly played important roles in the history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, but they also influenced other...

  • - A Handbook for Students and Pastors
    von Gordon D. Fee
    34,00 €

    Building on the belief that the task of exegesis is to understand the divine-human intention locked within the biblical text, Gordon Fee provides a lucid step-by-step analysis of exegetical procedures that has made New Testament Exegesis a standard textbook for nearly two decades. Now more than ever, with an updated, newly integrated...

  • - Images of the Healer in Medical Ethics
    von William F. May
    46,00 €

    In this book, William May considers the images that shape the convictions and daily practice of the physician--images that can order experience and present the practitioner with imperatives by which to live. This updated edition will once again challenge physicians, students, and teachers of medical ethics to reach a deeper understanding of the...

  • - Daily Devotions
    von Donald K. Mckim
    21,00 €

    These eighty-four practical devotions offer an accessible look into the enduring theology of John Calvin.

  • - A Historical Approach to the Resurrection
    von Gerd Ludemann
    31,00 €

    Dissatisfied with what he regarded as evasive answers given by theologians and scholars about the nature of the resurrection of Jesus, Gerd Ludemann subjected the New Testament traditions to a thorough investigation. In particular, Ludemann was concerned with the story of the empty tomb and the subsequent appearance stories first related by...

  • - Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls
    von Klaus Berger
    29,00 €

    Klaus Berger offers a clearly written and highly understandable introcuction to the controversy surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls. He insightfully examines the relationship between the Judaism of the Qumran community and Christianity in its formative period. The picture that emerges proves to be interesting and provocative. An ideal starting...

  • - A Secular Faith
    von Wayne E. Oates
    27,00 €

    In this book, Wayne Oates defines luck as a secular faith, examining the ways in which the idea of our experiences being based on luck dominates much of our thinking about how and why our lives develop as they do. According to Oates, this secular "faith in luck" is unhealthy and should be countered with faith in...

  • - Reflections on the Lord's Prayer and the Sermon on Mount
    von Rudolf Schnackenburg
    27,00 €

    The Sermon on the Mount and the Lord's Prayer are at the heart of the New Testament and the key to the message and life of Jesus. In this book, Rudolf Schnackenburg provides a clearly written and easy-to-understand exegesis of the Sermon on the Mount in light of the Lord's Prayer. By doing so, he demonstrates that the strenuous requirements for...

  • - Presbyterians and American Denominationalism
     
    47,00 €

    This book addresses the organizational character of American religious history and points to a tentative but significant conclusion: The Presbyterian Church has been undergoing an organizational revolution, and the roots of this revolution seem to have preceded the dramatic membership decline that began in the mid-1960s.Through its examination...

  • - A Challenge to the Church
    von Johanna W. H. Van Wijk-Bos
    25,00 €

    This fresh, insightful book explores the nature and function of biblical authority for Christian feminism. Johanna van Wijk-Bos demonstrates, from a Reformed/Calvinist context, the importance of sola scriptura for feminist biblical studies. She illustrates the ways in which biblical authority undergirds and expands feminist perspectives. The...

  • - Encounters of Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Tradition
    von Carnegie Samuel Calian
    32,00 €

    In this book, Carnegie Samuel Calian, who was baptized in the Eastern tradition and raised a Protestant, promotes greater dialogue and exchange among Christians of the East and West. He seeks to make Christians aware of the diversity of faith and offers suggestions and insight to this...

  • - Support in Times of Critical Illness
    von Harry Alexander Cole
    27,00 €

    In this excellent book, Harry Cole interviews many people involved in caring for loved ones who are critically or terminally ill. He provides practical guidance and suggestions for others coping with similar problems and...

  • von Donald P. Smith
    30,00 €

    In this study of church growth and membership retention, Donald Smith argues that if a church is to survive, it must concentrate on keeping its present members as well as attracting new ones. He interviews people from six hundred churches of various sizes and reviews the causes of membership decline and retention in those churches. He provides...

  • - On Rendering to God and Caesar
    von Robert McAfee Brown
    27,00 €

    In Saying Yes and No: On Rendering God to Caesar, Robert McAfee Brown confronts the delimma that exists when offical government policies seem to clash with ideas about God's kingdom of peace and justice. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter invite readers to make their own responses to the book's central question--a conflict of...

  • von Joseph Blenkinsopp
    53,00 €

    This revised and enlarged edition of a classic in Old Testament scholarship reflects the most up-to-date research on the prophetic books and offers substantially expanded discussions of important new insight on Isaiah and the other...

  • - A Historical Introduction
     
    53,00 €

    This one-volume history of Christian ethics is the only comprehensive resource currently available to survey major thinkers, movements, and issues from the early church to the present. Topics discussed are: the legacies of Christian ethics, the ethics of early Christianity, the Reformation and Enlightenment, eighteenth and nineteenth-century...

  • - Rethinking Everything You've Been Taught about God's Wrath and Judgment
    von Sharon L. Baker
    26,00 €

    The idea of hell can haunt dreams and disturb sleep. Many wonder at the justice (or injustice) of it all, feeling confounded by a God who deems it necessary to send the majority of humanity to burn there forever. Seventy percent of Americans believe in hell, as do ninety-two percent of those who attend church every week. Clearly, it's a hot...

  • - A Christian Journey through Miscarriage
    von Elise Erikson Barrett
    25,00 €

    United Methodist pastor Elise Erikson Barrett draws on her own painful experiences, as well as on interviews with others who have gone through the devastation of miscarriage, in an effort to help women grieve and, in time, to think theologically about pregnancy loss. Barrett also offers some much-needed practical advice about breaking the news...

  • - Interpretation
    von Douglas R. A. Hare
    48,00 €

    This commentary proceeds unit by unit (not verse by verse) to emphasize what each passage of Matthew means to the author of the Gospel and to the modern church. Douglas Hare shows that the purpose of Matthew's writing is to convince Christians that a genuine faith in Christ must be demonstrated in daily obedience and that faith and ethics are...

  • - The Selection and Rejection of Early Religious Writings
    von Lee Martin Mcdonald
    47,00 €

    We know that the early Christian church had a variety of scriptures and other source material that informed their faith and shaped their thinking. We also know that after a few centuries the church decided to keep the twenty-seven books of our present New Testament and to treat them as canonical in faith and practice. But the other books did...

  • - An Inductive Approach to Paul
    von Michael R. Cosby
    55,00 €

    Author and teacher Michael R. Cosby provides a wonderful guide to Paul's letters, helping students relate them to their own cultural setting and figure out for themselves what they mean. Irreverent, entertaining, engaging, and fun, yet grounded in sound theology, Cosby's textbook, full of pictures, questions, and insights, is certain to be a...

  • - Playing Video Games with God
    von Craig Detweiler
    45,00 €

    Craig Detweiler's collection of up-to-the-minute essays on video games' theological themes (and yes, they do exist!) is an engaging and provocative book for gamers, parents, pastors, media scholars, and theologians--virtually anyone who has dared to consider the ramifications of modern society's obsession with video games and online media...

  • - An Introduction to the Original Stories and Sayings of Jesus
    von John S. Kloppenborg
    33,00 €

    Estimated to date back to the very early Jesus movement, the lost Gospel known as Q offers a distinct and remarkable picture of Jesus and his significance--and one that differs markedly from that offered by its contemporary, the apostle Paul.Q presents Jesus as a prophetic critic of unbelief and a sage with the wisdom that can transform. In Q...

  • von Justo L. Gonzalez & Catherine Gunsalus González
    27,00 €

    In this unique Armchair volume, noted church historians Justo and Catherine Gonzalez introduce readers to important early church figures whose teachings were denounced by the church as heresies. Instructional for what they taught and for revealing what the church wished to safeguard and uphold, these "heretics," including Marcion, Arius...

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