Outline : Barry G. Webb explores the book of Job as a reflection on the paradox of righteous suffering. Job confronts the troubling issues that life throws at us as we try to live in trusting obedience to God. Wisdom shows us how to live in relation to God when we don't have answers for all of life's problems. With detailed exegesis and biblical-theological synthesis, Webb explores Job's unique…
Outline : Joshua is not merely a story of conquest. It's a treasure trove of theology. David G. Firth interprets the book of Joshua with a sensitivity to its role as Christian Scripture. Joshua is marginalized in many churches, often because its message is misunderstood. Firth reveals that, rather than simply being a story of conquest, Joshua is concerned with matters of identity and faithfulne…
Outline : In a world defined by division, what would it mean to see people the way Jesus sees them? As a pastor, Terry Christ is committed to building deep relationships with people whose experiences are different from his own - people whom much of society rejects. Why? Because those relationships are where we see Jesus at work. Drawing fresh insights from the story of Jesus and the Samaritan w…
In this completely revised and expanded edition of the Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism, Randall Balmer gives readers the most comprehensive resource about evangelicalism available anywhere. With more than three thousand separate entries, the Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism covers historical and contemporary theologians, preachers, laity, cultural figures, musicians, televangelists, movements, org…
This book aspires to answer a relatively simple question: How did we get from John F. Kennedy’s eloquent speech at the Rice Hotel in Houston on September 12, 1960, in which he urged voters effectively to bracket a candidate’s faith out of their considerations when they entered the voting booth, to George W. Bush’s declaration on the eve of the 2000 Iowa precinct caucuses that Jesus was hi…
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism—that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on—he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own thought these assum…
Outline: This one volume presents a comprehensive overview of Christian education in today's churches and provides a step-by-step plan for establishing and maintaining an effective teaching ministry:
- Build from a powerful foundation - Presenting God as the ultimate teacher of all mankind and Jesus as the master teacher, The Teaching Ministry of the Church explores the roles of the Holy Spiri…
Outline: Thoroughly updated and revised - with half of the chapters new to the second edition - Missiology equips the reader with a vast resource on contemporary missions. This graduate-level introduction is divided into five sections (Introduction to the Study of Missions, Biblical Basic of Missions, Theology of Missions, History of Missions, and Applied Missiology) and offers essays on modern…
Outline: A thorough guide to recent scholarship on the Pastoral Epistles. After a lengthy period when little attention was paid to the Pastoral Epistles, an outpouring of studies on the subject has suddenly appeared in print. However, critical scholars have largely neglected evangelical scholarship on these letters. To fill this gap, Entrusted with the Gospel offers a deep collection of importa…
Outline: Randall C. Zachman places Calvin in conversation with theologians such as Pascal, KIerkegaard, Ezra the Scribe, Julian of Norwich, and Karl Barth, and attends to themes in Calvin's theology which are often overlooked. Zachman draws out Calvin's use of astronomy and his great concern to see ourselves in comparison to the immensity of the universe, acknowledging in wonder and awe our not…
Outline: Given the unique religious climate of the twenty-first century and the challenges to Christian mission it poses, Christianity Encountering World Religions proposes a new model for interacting with people of other faiths. The authors term this model "giftive mission," since it is based on the metaphor of free gift. They suggest that seeing mission activity as giving the greatest gift po…
Outline: This comprehensive handbook answers questions Christians might raise about religions not their own by presenting a Christian perspective on religion and its many manifestations around the world. Written by top religion scholars from a broad spectrum of Christianity, the handbook introduces world religions, indigenous religion traditions, and new religious movements, providing a concis…
In "The Voice of Our Congregation," Terry York and David Bolin challenge you to discover and claim the voice that is authentic to your congregation through Bible study, stories from a variety of congregations, and through probing questions. Perfect for individual and group study.