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Why We Live In Community
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In this time-honored manifesto, Arnold and Merton add their voices to the vital discussion of what real community is all about: love, joy, unity, and the great adventure of faith shared with others along the way. Neither writer describes (or prescribes) community here, but they do provide a vision to guide our search.”

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Signed Sealed Delivered
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An all-in-one volume sharing the history, practice, and viewpoints of Confirmation in
the Episcopal Church and the first book on the subject for at least 15 years

* Resolutions regarding Confirmation are coming to the 2015 General Convention

* Includes questions for reflection and study by individuals and groups

Many clergy and educators would say that the rite of Confirmation in the Episcopal
Church today is a sacrament in search of a meaning. Some believe Confirmation is an
essential rite of passage for adult leadership in the governance of the church. Some
believe it is a rite that no longer has a place in the life of the church, understanding the
importance that Baptism now holds in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer’s ecclesiology.
Following a history of how the rite of Confirmation came about and its implications for
youth and adults in the church today, voices in the Episcopal Church (bishops, liturgical
scholars, confirmation leaders, and youth themselves) offer fresh viewpoints here in a
conversational format to engage the reader.

AUDIENCE: For bishops, priests, deacons, seminarians, youth leaders, Christian
educators, parents.

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Divine Covenants And Moral Order
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This book addresses the old question of natural law in its interesting contemporary context. David VanDrunen draws on both his Reformed theological heritage and the broader Christian natural law tradition to develop a constructive theology of natural law through a thorough study of Scripture.The biblical covenants organize VanDrunen’s study. Part 1 addresses the covenant of creation and the covenant with Noah, exploring how these covenants provide a foundation for understanding God’s governance of the whole world under the natural law. Part 2 treats the redemptive covenants that God established with such people as Abraham and Moses and explores the obligations of God’s people to natural law within these covenant relationships.In the concluding chapter of Divine Covenants and Moral Order VanDrunen reflects on the need for a solid theology of natural law and the importance of natural law for the Christian’s life in the public square.

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Confusion Factor
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Pastor Paul stresses truths that are sadly much confused today: the promise of everlasting life (security), the simplicity of faith in Christ, and the differences between Position and Practice, salvation and discipleship.

Biblical answers are given to questions such as: What is Saving Faith? Is the Christian secure in his Salvation? Must a person be a disciple of Christ and make Him Lord to be saved? Who lives the Christian Life – the Christian or Christ? Included is an Appendix of Passages Subject to Confusion with Biblical explanations.

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Path To The Throne Of God
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This study of the sanctuary aims to give the reader an overall view of the entire sanctuary, including the earthly and the heavenly sanctuaries, and reaching its climax in the temple eternal, the earthly model as constructed by Moses, being a type or illustration of both the others. It also aims to make plain that the sanctuary symbolizes not only the redemptive work of Christ, but also the Christian experience of each of His followers, and of the church as a whole.

The book is divided into the following sections:

The Importance of the Sanctuary
Preparing to Build
In the Court
In The Holy Place
In The Most Holy Place
The Church In The Sanctuary
The Sanctuary After Redemption

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Christopraxis : A Practical Theology Of The Cross
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Contents:
Part 1
1. A Theobiographical Starting Point
2. Setting The Terrain
3. Concrete Lived Cases Of Ministerial Encounters With Divine Action
4. Dominant Models Of Practical Theology
Part 2
5. A Christopraxis Practical Theology Of The Cross
6. Practical Theology Into Nothingness
7. The Concurring Of The Divine With The Human
Part 3
8. Critical Realism And Practical Theology
9. Human Action And Interdisciplinarity In Light Of A Critical RealistChristopraxis Practical Theology

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Finding practical theology not always able to present frameworks for understanding concrete and lived experience with divine action, Andrew Root seeks to reset the edifice of practical theology on a new foundation. While not minimizing its commitment to the lived and concrete, Root argues that practical theology has neglected deeper theological underpinnings.

Christopraxis seeks to create a practical theology that is properly and fully theological, post-postmodern, post-Aristotelian, and that attends to doctrines such as divine action and justification.

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Practices Of Power
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Contents:
1. Introduction
Part 1: Hermeneutical Issues
2. Four Models For Interpreting The Powers
3. A Proposed Way Forward: Practices
Part 2: Practices For Engaging The Powers In The Pauline Communities
4. Baptism As Deliverance From The Powers: Romans
5. Cross-Centered Preaching And Church Discipline As Confrontation With The Powers: 1 & 2 Corinthians
6. Bondage Under The Elements: Galatians
7. Rescue From The Power Of Darkness: Colossians
8. Summary: What Are The Powers For Paul?
Part 3: A Cross-cultural Perspective
9. The Powers In Cross-Cultural Context: Africa
Reference Works
Bibliography

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The conception of “powers” and “principalities” in Paul’s thought has been amply explored-but how did the powers “work” in the Pauline community? Robert Ewusie Moses argues that Paul’s conception of the powers is best understood through examining the practices he advocates for the early believers. In this detailed study, Moses shows that Paul believed certain practices guarded believers from the dominion of the powers while others exposed humans to the work of powers of darkness. Moses traces the distinct function of “power-practices” in each of Paul’s letters and draws illuminating comparisons with traditional African religious practices.

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Vision Of Catholic Social Thought
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Contents:
Introduction
1. Catholic Social Teaching On Human Rights And Solidarity
2. Anthropological Foundations For Human Rights And Solidarity
3. Integral Human Development, Practicality, And Social Analysis
4. The Social Virtue Of Solidarity And The Praxis Of Human Rights
5. Engaging The Future Of The Human Rights Project And Building Solidarity

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The Vision of Catholic Social Thought traces the emergence of solidarity and human rights as critical theological and philosophical pillars of the anthropology and ethics foundational to the development of Catholic social teaching. Meghan J. Clark argues that the integration of human rights and the virtue of solidarity at the root of the Catholic social tradition are the unique contributions Catholic thought makes to contemporary debates in ethics, political and philosophical theory.

Building upon the historical framework of the development of Catholic social thought, drawing deeply from the papal encyclical tradition and the theological and ethical developments of Vatican II, Clark forwards a constructive vision of virtue and social practice, applying this critical question of human rights on the international stage.

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Rupturing Eschatology : Divine Glory And The Silence Of The Cross
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Contents:
Introduction
1. Whither Glory? Luther’s Theologia Crucis
2. Hope And The Cross: Moltmann’s Modern Theology Of The Cross
3. Tremulous Abyss: The Mystical Lutheranism Of Boehme And Tillich
4. Encountering The Im-Possible: Caputo’s “Weak” God
5. The Rest Is Silence

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The modern and contemporary legacy of Luther’s theology is a vital topic of continuing investigation, assessment, and construction. Rupturing Eschatology is Eric Trozzo’s constructive retrieval of Luther’s theology of the cross for the purpose of establishing a contemporary Lutheran and “emerging” account of the cross, silence, and eschatology.

Seeking to overcome a tendency toward extrinsic notions of divine glory and transformation, the author explores Luther’s early construction of the theology of the cross and divine hiddenness in concert with the work of the Lutheran mystical tradition and modern Lutheran theology, such as Jurgen Moltmann, Paul Tillich, and John Caputo. Trozzo argues for an intra-historical and intra-worldly account of divine possibility oriented around a contemporary theology of the cross marked by reclamation of the biblical and mystical practice of silence as the space that creates hope.

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Seeing The Lords Glory
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Contents:
Introduction
Part 1
1. Kyriocentric Visions In The Context Of Crisis And Performative Prayer
2. Motifs Associated With Kyriocentric Visions In Apocalyptic And Early Rabbinic Literature
3. Kyriocentric Prayers And Devotions As The Context For Visions Among Early Disciples Of Jesus
4. Kyriocentric Visions As The Impetus For Early Deity Christology
Part 2
5. Traces Of Kyriocentric Visions In The New Testament
6. Kyriocentric Prayers And Devotions In The New Testament
Part 3
7. Modifications Of The Lord-Jesus Identification In The New Testament And The Early Church
8. Four Alternative Tradition Histories Or Textures In Early Christology
9. Three Movements That Marginalized Visions Of The Anthropic Form Of The Lord
Conclusion
Bibliography

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The “dilemma of early Christology,” Kaiser observes, is found in the early Christian claims to have “seen the Lord” and “beheld his glory”-expressions that in early Judaism would have pointed unequivocally to visions of Israel’s God. The shift of those claims onto the figure of Jesus is usually explained either as a result of the resurrection of Jesus, presumed as a historical event, or on the influence of pagan polytheism. Kaiser examines the phenomenon of “kyriocentric” visions in Second Temple Judaism, asking whether such traditions are sufficient to account for the shape of early claims regarding the divinity of Christ.

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Rumors Of Resistance
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Contents:
Preface
Introduction
1. Hidden Transcripts, Models Of Empire, And The Gospel Of Luke
2. The Context Of Luke And His Reading Communities
3. Mary, The Magnificat, And The Powers That Be
4. The Nazareth Proclamation: Nuancing Resistance
5. The Parable Of Lazarus And The Rich Man: Reversal Now Or Later
Conclusion
Bibliography

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James C. Scott’s discussion of “hidden transcripts” of defiance or resistance among subordinate groups has been taken up by scholars who claim to detect elements of defiant transcripts in biblical texts. In Rumors of Resistance, Amanda C. Miller uses Scott’s theory to explain tensions within the narrative of the Gospel of Luke, between more accommodationist narratives and poetic or parabolic passages that announce a dramatic eschatological reversal. Miller concludes that Luke’s audience would have been challenged to resist the dominant values of Roman imperial culture even as the narrative framework of Luke partially obscures that “transcript.”

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Christianity And Psychoanalysis
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1 A New Conversation Earl D. Bland And Brad D. Strawn
2 Tradition-Based Integration Ron Wright, Paul Jones And Brad D. Strawn
3 Contemporary Freudian Psychoanalysis Brad D. Strawn
4 Ecumenical Spirituality, Catholic Theology And Object Relations Theory: A Threefold Cord Holding Sacred Space Theresa Tisdale
5 Self Psychology And Christian Experience Earl D. Bland
6 Intersubjective Systems Theory Mitchell W. Hicks
7 Relational Psychoanalysis Lowell W. Hoffman
8 Attachment-Based Psychoanalytic Therapy And Christianity: Being-in-Relation Todd W. Hall And Lauren E. Maltby
9 Psychoanalytic Couples Therapy: An Introduction And Integration Earl D. Bland
10 Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy Michael W. Mangis
11 Christianity And Psychoanalysis: Final Thoughts Brad D. Strawn And Earl D. Bland References
Author Index
Subject Index

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The past 30 years has seen a theoretical and clinical renaissance in psychoanalysis, as well as a flourishing of Christian engagement in the fields of psychology and anthropology. This volume of essays stages a new conversation between Christianity and psychoanalysis that opens up new ways of thinking about the rich mosaic of human experience.

Unsurprisingly, given Sigmund Freud’s understanding of religion, the conversation between Christianity and psychoanalysis has long been marked by mutual suspicion. Psychoanalysis originated within a naturalist, post-Enlightenment context and sought to understand human functioning and pathology–focusing on phenomena such as the unconscious and object representation–on a strictly empirical basis. Given certain accounts of divine agency and human uniqueness, psychoanalytic work was often seen as competitive with a Christian understanding of the human person. The contributors to Christianity and Psychoanalysis seek to start a new conversation. Aided by the turn to relationality in theology, as well as by a noncompetitive conception of God’s transcendence and agency, this book presents a fresh integration of Christian thought and psychoanalytic theory. The immanent processes identified by psychoanalysis need not compete with Christian theology but can instead be the very means by which God is involved in human existence. The Christian study of psychoanalysis can thus serve the flourishing of God’s kingdom.

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Trinity And Revelation
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The second installment in a wide and deep constructive theology for our time

In this book Pentecostal theologian Veli-Matti Karkkainen develops a constructive theology of triune revelation and the triune God in dialogue with Christian tradition, with contemporary theology in its global and contextual diversity, and with other major living faiths.

Karkkainen’s Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World is a five-volume project that aims to develop a new approach to and method of doing Christian theology in a pluralistic world at the beginning of the third millennium. With the metaphor of hospitality serving as the framework for his discussion, Karkkainen engages Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism in sympathetic and critical mutual dialogue while remaining robustly Christian in his convictions. Never before has a fullscale doctrinal theology been attempted in such a wide and deep dialogical mode.

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Whos Afraid Of Relativism
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Following his successful Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? leading Christian philosopher James K. A. Smith introduces the philosophical sources behind postliberal theology. Offering a provocative analysis of relativism, Smith provides an introduction to the key voices of pragmatism: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Richard Rorty, and Robert Brandom.

Many Christians view relativism as the antithesis of absolute truth and take it to be the antithesis of the gospel. Smith argues that this reaction is a symptom of a deeper theological problem: an inability to honor the contingency and dependence of our creaturehood. Appreciating our created finitude as the condition under which we know (and were made to know) should compel us to appreciate the contingency of our knowledge without sliding into arbitrariness. Saying “It depends” is not the equivalent of saying “It’s not true” or “I don’t know.” It is simply to recognize the conditions of our knowledge as finite, created, social beings. Pragmatism, says Smith, helps us recover a fundamental Christian appreciation of the contingency of creaturehood.

This addition to an acclaimed series engages key thinkers in modern philosophy with a view to ministry and addresses the challenge of relativism in a creative, original way.

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100 Tough Questions About God And The Bible (Reprinted)
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Serious questions deserve thoughtful responses, especially when the typical answers are unconvincing or when opinions of Bible experts clash. 100 Tough Questions About God and the Bible offers a fast-paced review of how Bible scholars answer the tough questions–drawing from a wide range of evangelical thinkers. It does so with a touch of humor and reports the most popular viewpoints, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions.
Questions include
* Did Adam really live for 930 years?
* If God knows everything, why did he test Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son?
* How can there be just one God, yet Jesus and the Holy Spirit are God too?
* Why does the Bible enable slave owners?
* If God’s so wonderful, why does he let us suffer?
* and many more

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Westminster Dictionary Of Theological Terms (Expanded)
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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, feminist theology, global theologies, hermeneutics, liberation theology, liturgy, ministry, philosophy, philosophy of religion, postcolonial theology, social sciences, spiritually, worship, and Protestant, Reformed, and Roman Catholic theologies.

This new edition also includes cross-references that link readers to other related terms, commonly used scholarly abbreviations and abbreviations for canonical and deuterocanonical texts, an annotated bibliography, and a new introductory section that groups together terms and concepts, showing where they fit within particular theological categories. No other single volume provides the busy student, and the theologically experienced reader, with such easy access to so many theological definitions.

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New Calvinists Changing The Gospel
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Enmity between the church and the world dates from the Fall of man, so God says in Genesis 3.15. Satan’s major strategy is the overthrow of the church by the world, through infiltration and contamination. But seldom has this battle reached the proportions of this present hour, when worldliness threatens every believer and church. And so subtle is the enemy that fatal compromise now comes with an appearance of sound doctrine – in an apparent resurgence of the very best of Reformation and Puritan teaching. This book reveals the new ‘gospel’ of the so-called ‘new Calvinism’. It is a gospel that changes the terms of salvation, and that loves the world and embraces its culture.

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History Of Christian Thought In One Volume (Revised)
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In this revised and updated version of his popular history, Justo Gonzalez retains the essential elements of his earlier three volumes as he describes the central figures and debates leading to the Councils of Nicea and Chalcedon. Then he moves to Augustine and shows how Christianity evolved and was understood in the Latin West and Byzantine East during the Middle Ages. Finally, he introduces the towering theological leaders of the Reformation and continues to trace the development of Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Christianities through modernity in the twentieth century to postmodernity in the twenty-first.

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Is Our Gospel The Gospel
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Pastor-first, theologian-second Dr. Prince Parker is more plainspoken than any scholar has any right to be-what he writes, readers can actually comprehend! In Is OUR Gospel THE Gospel?, he follows the same teaching method he does with his students-easy-to-understand concepts followed by increasingly complex ideas that challenge and expand understanding-and the very same syntactical style he unashamedly proclaims in his Author’s Notes: In the same fashion, the vocabulary…swings between humorously colloquial Californian American English and polysyllabic academia.

In this extraordinarily comprehensive text, the author examines three fundamental questions every Christian must answer with utmost clarity and understanding:

The person of Christ-who is he?
The Word of God and the doctrine of salvation-exactly how can we be saved?
How should we present this incalculably valuable message to the world?

To find answers, Dr. Parker shares stimulating and thought-provoking insights into biblical stories-from all corners of the Word-in minute detail, all the while encouraging believers to pay attention in order to more fully understand what Scripture has to say.

As friendly and readable as his voice may be, Dr. Parker is unflinching in his presentation of Scriptural truth: I know there are some who profess to have an exact theology of evangelism but are doing very little to actually win sinners for Christ…The glories of the Savior are hidden even from His servants because those preaching have not given the deserved attention to the gospel they are announcing…The truth to impart life has been hidden behind the smokescreen of human inventions.

Is OUR Gospel THE Gospel? is an intelligent theological discourse equally suitable for personal edification or small or large group study-not only educational, but fun to read. How many scholarly texts can make such a claim?

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Gods Immutable Numbers
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To the only wise God our saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever , A-MEN

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Jesus Quest : The Danger From Within
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This work examines the historical and philosophical strengths and/or weaknesses of current evangelical approaches espousing some forms of post-modernistic historiography and its resultant search for the “historical Jesus.” It demonstrates the marked undermining impact these efforts have had on the biblical text, especially the Gospels, as well inerrancy issues. It compares the Jesus Seminar’s approach with current evangelical practices of searching in terms of their evidential apologetic impact on the trustworthiness of the Gospels. A number of well-known, contemporary evangelical scholars are involved in the so-called “Third Quest” for the historical Jesus. This book raises serious questions about such an endeavor.

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Abraham In The Works Of John Chrysostom
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Introduction
1. Literary, Rhetorical, And Exegetical Influences
2. Abraham’s Virtue
3. Abraham’s Pastoral Significance
4. Abraham’s Exegetical And Theological Significance
5. Abraham In Chrysostom’s View Of Jews And Judaism
6. De Beato Abraham: An Authentic Homily Of John Chrysostom
Conclusion
Appendix A. English Translation Of De Beato Abraham
Appendix B. Comparison Of De Beato Abraham To Chrysostomic Texts
Bibliography

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Demetrios Tonias’s Abraham in the Works of John Chrysostom is the first comprehensive examination of John Chrysostom’s view of the patriarch Abraham. By analyzing the full range of references to Abraham in Chrysostom’s work, Tonias reveals the ways in which Chrysostom used Abraham as a model of philosophical and Christian virtue, familial devotion, philanthropy, and obedient faith.

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Spirit Of God And The Christian Life
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I. Introduction: Redemption, Pneumatology, And The Christian Life In Karl Barth

II. Prayer, The Spirit, And Redemption: A Constructive Reading Of Barth’s Pneumatology

III. The Spirit And The Revelation Of The Word Of God

IV. The Spirit And The Beauty Of The Lord

V. The Spirit And The Drama Of Salvation In History

VI. Conclusion: A Prayerful Seeking For The Fulfillment Of God’s Promise

Bibliography

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Interpreters of Karl Barth’s theology have long noted a limited role for the Holy Spirit in his work. JinHyok Kim challenges this prevailing paradigm, reconstructing Barth’s pneumatology and proposing the possible contours it would have taken in the final volumes of Church Dogmatics left incomplete at Barth’s death.

Within this reconstruction, Kim explores the contexts of Barth’s work and demonstrates the connection of Barth’s doctrine of the Spirit with the realities and practices of the Christian life. Here a new standard for understanding Barth’s Trinitarian theology opens up and offers fresh reading of an important topic in modern theology.

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History Of Christian Thought (Revised)
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An introduction to Christian thought from the birth of Christ, to the Apostles, to the early church, to the flowering of Christianity across the world.This volume, condensed from Dr. Justo Gonzalez’s popular three-volume history, is revised and updated.

While retaining the essential elements of the earlier three volumes, this book describes the central figures and debates leading to the Councils of Nicea and Chalcedon. Then it moves to Augustine and shows how Christianity evolved and was understood in the Latin West and Byzantine East during the Middle Ages.

Finally, the book introduces the towering theological leaders of the Reformation and continues to trance the development of Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Christianities through modernity in the twentieth century to post-modernity in the twenty-first.

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Basil Of Caesarea
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Fourth-century church father Basil of Caesarea was an erudite Scripture commentator, an architect of Trinitarian theology, a founder of monasticism, and a metropolitan bishop. This introduction to Basil’s thought surveys his theological, spiritual, and monastic writings, showing the importance of his work for contemporary theology and spirituality. It brings together various aspects of Basil’s thought into a single whole and explores his uniqueness and creativity as a theologian. The volume engages specialized scholarship on Basil but makes his thought accessible to a wider audience. It is the third book in a series on the church fathers edited by Hans Boersma and Matthew Levering.

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Good Of Politics
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In this addition to the acclaimed Engaging Culture series, a highly respected author and Christian thinker offers a principled, biblical perspective on engaging political culture as part of one’s calling.

James Skillen believes that constructive Christian engagement depends on the belief that those made in the image of God are created not only for family life, agriculture, education, science, industry, and the arts but also for building political communities, justly ordered for the common good. He argues that God made us to be royal stewards of public governance from the outset and that the biblical story of God’s creation, judgment, and redemption of all things in Jesus Christ has everything to do with politics and government.

In this irenic, nonpartisan treatment of an oft-debated topic, Skillen critically assesses current political realities and helps readers view responsibility in the political arena as a crucial dimension of the Christian faith.

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Deuteronomy : A Theological Commentary On The Bible
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In this fresh commentary, Deanna A. Thompson makes this important Old Testament book come to life. Recounting God’s foundational relationship with Israel, Deuteronomy is set in the form of Moses’ speeches to Israel just before entry into the promised land. Its instructions in the form of God’s law provide the structure of the life that God wants for the people of Israel.

Although this key Old Testament book is occasionally overlooked by Christians, Deuteronomy serves as an essential passing down to the next generations the fundamentals of faith as well as the parameters of life lived in accord with God’s promises. Thompson provides theological perspectives on these vital themes and shows how they have lasting significance for Christians living in today’s world. Thompson’s sensitivity to the Jewish context and heritage and her insights into Deuteronomy’s importance for Christian communities make this commentary an especially valuable resource for today’s preacher and teacher.

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How God Became Jesus
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In his recent book How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher From Galilee historian Bart Ehrman explores a claim that resides at the heart of the Christian faith— that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. According to Ehrman, though, this is not what the earliest disciples believed, nor what Jesus claimed about himself.

The first response book to this latest challenge to Christianity from Ehrman, How God Became Jesus features the work of five internationally recognized biblical scholars. While subjecting his claims to critical scrutiny, they offer a better, historically informed account of why the Galilean preacher from Nazareth came to be hailed as ‘the Lord Jesus Christ.’ Namely, they contend, the exalted place of Jesus in belief and worship is clearly evident in the earliest Christian sources, shortly following his death, and was not simply the invention of the church centuries later.

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Extreme Makeover The Blood Covenant Edition Part 1
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“Blood Covenant” is a right of every believer. It should be a mandatory class taught to all who come to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of their lives. It is the foundation of God’s Word, the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. Blood Covenant exists and is practiced in some form, throughout all cultures. It should be the common bond for the Body of Christ. Yet, it isn’t.

Christians in different parts of the world are being persecuted and martyred for their stand on what they believe. While churches in America fall prey and victim to every wind of doctrine due to “lack of knowledge” of basic “Blood Covenant” rights, thereby looking no different from the world, scattered and divisive.

Although not widely taught in our churches today, it is with a basic knowledge and understanding of “Blood Covenant” that could have a profound effect on an individual’s life, the way it did mine. Unless we’re willing to allow old habits to die and put away those pagan gods of doctrine we have been holding on to since yester-year, you can’t experience an “Extreme Make-over: The Blood Covenant” edition.

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Heaven Opens : The Trinitarian Mysticism Of Adrienne Von Speyr
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Foreword
Chronology Of Adrienne Von Speyr
1. Encountering Adrienne Von Speyr
2. Trinitarian Mysticism As An Opening Of Heaven
3. Trinitarian Mysticism In The Drama Of Redemption
4. Original Image Of The Immanent Trinity
5. Love Theology Of The Immanent Trinity
6. Obedience And Mission
7. The Son’s Mission Of Obedience
8. The Holy Spirit’s Mission Of Obedience
9. The Trinitarian Origin Of The Sacraments
10. The Trinitarian Origin Of Prayer
11. “Lift High Your Heads, O Gates”
Bibliography

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Adrienne von Speyr was one of the most important mystical theologians of the last century. However, her work has been eclipsed in many ways by her personal connection to Hans Urs von Balthasar. Heaven Opens provides one of the first comprehensive accounts of von Speyr’s theology.

Matthew Lewis Sutton argues that the eternal, immanent relations of the Triune God ground the mystical theological vision of von Speyr. Here, von Speyr’s work is for the first time given an independent hearing, expositing its content, features, and connections, and assessing its contribution to contemporary Catholic theology.

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Holy Spirit And Ethics In Paul (Revised)
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Part 1. Religious-Ethical Empowerment Through Infusion-Transformation
Part 2. Religious-Ethical Empowerment By The Relational Work Of The Spirit
Part 3. Conclusions

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Among the different understandings of the Spirit in the New Testament, Paul’s Spirit language stands out for being at once dynamic and sometimes impersonal-inviting comparison with the Stoic notion of spirit (pneuma) as a substance. Volker Rabens reexamines Paul’s statements about the Spirit in the widest possible contexts and argues that the alleged parallels with Stoic conceptions are at best ambiguous. Paul understands the work of the Spirit relationally, Rabens argues, and it is through intimate relationships that the Spirit transforms and empowers people’s lives.

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Reconstructing Theology : The Contribution Of Francis Schussler Fiorenza
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Part 1. A Theological Vision
Part 2. Applying A Reconstructive Hermeneutics To Contemporary Discourses

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Francis Schussler Fiorenza is one of the pivotal contemporary Roman Catholics working in systematic theology. Terence Bateman provides an overview of Fiorenza’s theological biography and explicates the major contours of Fiorenza’s vital contributions to theological method, foundational, systematic and constructive theology, and the practical function of religion in society and politics. As Bateman argues, Fiorenza’s vision is one of unrivaled clarity and coherence; even more, it follows a path of the shifting patterns in theology over the past half century, thus shedding light upon the internal constitution of recent Catholic and Protestant theology.

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Vine And The Son Of Man
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1. Introduction
2. Psalm 80 In Its Historical Context
3. Psalm 80 And The Edited Psalter
4. Psalm 80 And The Son Of Man In Daniel 7
5. Psalm 80 In Second Temple And Rabbinic Judaism
6. Psalm 80 And The Son Of Man In Mark
7. Psalm 80 In The Parable Of The Wicked Tenants
8. Psalm 80 And The True Vine In John 15:1-8
9. Conclusion
Bibliography

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Since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, scholars have traced out the rich and complex traditions of biblical interpretation in Second Temple Judaism. Little attention has been given to Psalm 80, however. Andrew Streett demonstrates that this psalm, which combines the story of Israel as a vine ravaged by others with hope for a “son” of God who will restore the people’s fortunes, became a rich trove for eschatological hope.
This study traces interpretations of Psalm 80 through many texts and argues that the psalm was an important biblical text through which early Christians understood the Christ event.

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Reading Richard Dawkins
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Introduction

1. A Distinct Methodological Framework

2. Encountering Evolution: The Dawkins Perspective

3. Beyond Biology: An Evolutionary Weltanschauung

4. Religion: An Evolutionary View

5. Evil, Evolution, And God: Dawkins And Theology In Dialogue

Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliography

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Theological reactions to the rise of the new atheist movement have largely been critically hostile or defensively deployed apologetics to shore up the faith against attack. Gary Keogh contends that focusing on scholarly material that is inherently agreeable to theology will not suffice in the context of modern academia. Theology, he says, needs to test its boundaries.

Reading Richard Dawkins illustrates how dialogue with antithetical viewpoints offers new perspectives on classical theological problems. Keogh demonstrates how a dialogical paradigm may take shape-one which is up to the task of facing its critics in the context of modern academia.

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Saving Karl Barth
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Contents:
Introduction
1. Saving Karl Barth: Hans Urs Von Balthasar’s Preoccupation
2. Presenting And Interpreting Karl Barth
3. Collapse Of Balthasar’s Interpretation
4. The Realm Of God
5. The Realm Of Ethics
6. The Realm Of The Church: Renewal And Unity

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Challenging recent rejections of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s groundbreaking study of Karl Barth’s theology, Stephen Long argues that these interpreters are impatient with the nuances of Balthasar’s reading and fail to appreciate the longstanding theological friendship between the two. Long offers a substantial defense of Balthasar’s theological preoccupation with Barth’s thought and explores the friendship that developed between Balthasar and Barth.

Re-evaluating Balthasar’s theological work on Barth, Saving Karl Barth provides a critical new reading of Balthasar’s original volume and a wider account of the systematic engagement Balthasar carried on throughout his career.

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Figure Of Adam In Romans 5 And 1 Corinthians 15
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Introduction

1. Status Questionis On The Adam Typology In Paul

2. The Figure Of Adam In Ancient Jewish Sources

3. The Figure Of Adam In 1 Corinthians 15:21-22; 45-29, And Romans 5:12-21

Conclusion

Bibliography

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It is widely recognized that in some of his letters, Paul develops a Christology based on a comparison between Adam and Christ, and that this Christology has antecedents in Jewish interpretation of Genesis 1-4. But Paul was not concerned simply to develop themes found in scripture.

Felipe Legarreta gives careful attention to patterns of exegesis in Second-Temple Judaism and identifies, for the first time, a number of motifs by which Jews drew ethical implications from the story of Adam and his expulsion from Eden. He then demonstrates that throughout the “Christological” passages in Romans and 1 Corinthians, Paul is taking part in a wider Jewish exegetical and ethical discussion regarding life in the new creation.

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Mystery And Agency Of God
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Preface

Introduction

1. Otherness And Oneness: Rival Conceptions Of God

2. Establishing The Primordiality Of The Agent, Act, And Agency

3. Edward Pols And The Metaphysics Of Agency

4. The Metaphysical Conditions For God As Agent

5. How Can God Act In The World?

6. Theology And The Discernment Of Divine Acts In History

7. Coda On The Mystery Of God As Agent

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There are two philosophical commitments requisite to Christian belief: that God is the ultimate mystery and that God is present and active in the world. Attempting to avoid the trappings of a radical distantiation and the immanent collapse of God and world, Frank Kirkpatrick argues for a theory of agency and action that preserves the mystery of God while providing a philosophically robust account of divine action in created time and space. Kirkpatrick proposes a way around the stalemates that have stymied thought on divine agency and enters into conversation with significant figures in systematic theology.

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Introduccion A La Teologia Mes – (Spanish)
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Aparte de los autores del Nuevo Testamento, ningun escritor ni pensador cristiano ha dejado en la vida y pensamiento de la iglesia a traves de los siglos una hella que pueda compararse a la de San Agustin- fue a traves de los ojos de Agustin que la cristiandad medieval de habla latina leyo las Escrituras y compriendio la fe. Cuando, mil anos mas tarde, aquella cristiandad occidental se dividio como resultado de la Reforma protestante, ambos bandos del gran debate reclamaban la autoridad de Agustin, cada cual en apoyo de sus posturas. Hasta el dia de hoy, la inmensa mayoria de los cristianos, al ver por ejemplo las epistolas de Pablo, lo hace – sin siquiera saberlo – a traves de los ojos de Agustin.

The subject of “mestizaje”-the in-between-ness of living between two cultures, and belonging at once to both and to neither of the two-is a crucial theme in U.S. Hispanic reflection today, theological as well as not. This book is, as its title says, a basic introduction to the thought of Saint Augustine. But it takes into account the dual roots of Augustine himself, his African mother on the one hand, and his Roman father and Greco-Roman education on the other. These two were at tension throughout his life and help us understand much of the drama leading to his conversion as well as his theology.

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Inspiration And Interpretation Of Scripture
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All Christians in the early church believed in the divine inspiration of Scripture, yet they had a surprising diversity of viewpoints. In this book Michael Graves describes the nature of early Christian beliefs regarding divine inspiration and explores differences between ancient and modern assumptions on the topic.Graves examines the beliefs of early Christians about Scripture through both theoretical statements and concrete examples of early Christians’ discussions of specific biblical texts. What emerges is a rich network of theological ideas about the Bible together with critical engagement with the biblical text. Graves shows how many of those early-church ideas can be essential guideposts for helping Christians today to read Scripture theologically and hear God’s voice in Scripture.

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Watchers In Jewish And Christian Traditions
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Part 1. Origins And Biblical Discussions Of The Fallen Angels
Part 2. Second Temple Developments
Part 3. Reception In Early Christianity And Early Judaism

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At the origin of the Watchers tradition is the single enigmatic reference in Genesis 6 to the “sons of God” who had intercourse with human women, producing a race of giants upon the earth. That verse sparked a wealth of cosmological and theological speculation in early Judaism. Here leading scholars explore the contours of the Watchers traditions through history, tracing their development through the Enoch literature, Jubilees, and other early Jewish and Christian writings. This volume provides a lucid survey of current knowledge and interpretation of one of the most intriguing theological motifs of the Second Temple period.

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Entangled Trinity : Quantum Physics And Theology
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Part 1. Foundational Concepts
Part 2. Trinitarian Development
Part 3. Science And The Trinity

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The Doctrine of the Trinity is an exercise in wonder. It is drawn from the wonder of our own existence and the diverse experiences of the divine encountered by the early Christian community. From the earliest days of Christianity, theologians of the church have drawn upon the most sophisticated language and understandings of their time in an attempt to clarify and express that faith.

But how should we attempt to articulate that faith today? In this volume, Ernest Simmons engages precisely that question by asking what the current scientific understanding of the natural world might contribute to our reflection upon the relationship of God and the world in a Triune fashion.

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Excellent Established Eternal
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Few Christians realize the significance of Covenant. It is the foundation, the authority and the basis of what God has done, is doing today, and will do in the future. The redemptive work of Jesus, God’s plan for humanity, and the fulfillment of all His promises are based on His Covenant. What God has done and His plan for us can never be fully understood without understanding Covenant.

Excellent, Established, Eternal is the antithesis of nearly 40 years of extensive study, research and prayer. Within these pages, the reader will gain a thorough understanding of what Covenant is and how it relates to the believer. This is a timely subject for today’s believer who is faced with a continuous barrage of assaults against the reliability of scripture.

Connie Fauth does not write as a theologian, rather as one who has seen the goodness of the Lord shown forth in His Everlasting Covenant

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Most Encouraging Book On Hell Ever
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It’s become a modern question because of the traditional doctrine: How can God be both loving and wrathful?

In The Most Encouraging Book on Hell Ever, Thor Ramsey (an author, pastor, and comedian…but don’t let that fool you) tackles this question by probing deeper. Avoiding the caricatures of God as either a Frankenstein out to crush you or a Santa Claus ready to grant your every wish (as long as you’ve been really, really good), he asks, “What changes about God if this traditional understanding of the doctrine of hell changes?” As it turns out, everything changes.

If you think a God without hell is more loving, this book will surprise you. While many believe that by eliminating hell they’re getting a new and improved God, this new thinking is more troubling than the old doctrine itself. The new doctrine of hell being sold today is only good news at the most superficial level, leaving us with a wrath-less God who tolerates evils that make even the average atheist cringe.

What if hell itself is good news about God? What if hell highlights everything we find glorious about God? What if the loss of hell leaves the world with a smaller God? Discover why the church needs a new and different breed of hellfire-and-brimstone preacher in the pulpit today. If you can’t imagine how the doctrine of hell could ever make you say, “Praise God,” this book (often funny, but deadly serious) lays out the biblical vision.

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Reformation Faith
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Experts in Reformation studies identify and elucidate areas of sixteenth century reforming activity in Martin Luther, John Calvin and other leading reformers to demonstrate the thoroughgoing nature of the Reformation agenda: doctrinal – Zwingli on the providence of God; radical grace in Martin Luther’s doctrine of the Fall; Calvin’s theology of the human body; Calvin and the patristic doctrine of deification; John Jewel’s biblical doctrine of the royal supremacy; exegetical – interpretations of the Psalms quoted in Hebrews 1-2; Luther and Calvin’s understanding of Isaiah 53; social/pastoral – Luther and Calvin on marriage; Calvin’s circle of friends; Calvin’s letters to contemporary martyrs; Calvin’s preaching; historical – contributions of the Brethren of the Open Life to the Reformation; rethinking Marburg; and later studies – the gospel in early Reformed orthodoxy; Eucharistic debates in seventeenth century France. The book furthers our understanding of this turbulent, seminal period of history.

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Analogous Uses Of Language Eucharistic Identity And The Baptist Vision
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The author argues that Baptist theologian James William McClendon Jr’s articulation of the ‘baptist’ vision entails an account of the real presence of Christ’s body and blood that is internally faithful to that vision. Furthermore, such an account of real presence suggests that the ‘baptist’ vision is itself a contribution of Baptists to ecumenical Christianity. The argument is set in the context of some contemporary Baptist engagement with ecumenical Christianity, particularly historic Catholic Christianity.

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Church Doctrinal And Teaching Guide
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Over decades, I have found the American Church has lost touch with what God expects of His Elect. Unfortunately, according to the Bible, for the most part, saints have been misguided. This compilation can guide Christians on the right path to enjoy the peace that passes’ all understanding, God’s benefits, and most of all, eternal life. If you are groping in darkness and perhaps wondering why God seems so far away, you will find the answer inside these covers. My purpose as an apostle is to help restore the American church before destruction cometh on a nation, who, without question, has forgotten God.

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Sovereign Choice : How The Cross Restored Mans Free Will
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For centuries Calvinism has divided the Christian community. Sovereign Choice seriously challenges the tenets of Calvinism and presents a whole new approach to viewing God, this fallen world and how we ourselves choose our eternal destiny. Calvinism defines sovereignty as God being in complete and absolute control of all things making true free will impossible. Sovereign Choice sees sovereignty as God being the supreme power who chooses to grant free will to whomever He desires. Free will is a gift from God motivated by His love. The Bible clearly states that “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) Sovereign Choice encourages all Christians to end this senseless debate over a flawed philosophy and return to the simplicity of the Gospel message. Let us stop debating and start proclaiming “that whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved!”

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Unfolding Of Thy Love
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How can a finite human being understand God who is infinite in every way beyond this universe? We can only know God and His great love by His own Revelation, or unfolding, of Himself. God the constant GREAT I AM is beyond our ever changing perception of reality. The continuous unfolding of the Divine Revelation of His love is the journey of our hearts that requires the illuminating power of the Holy Spirit – who searches all things and even the heart of God – who will lead us to that eternal converging point of all of our desires and destinies in all history: Jesus Christ, our One True King and the High Priest of the Universe.

This book is a spiritual weapon of the unchanging, eternal Word of God that systematically destroys all fear, doubt, hatred and evil in our hearts in order for us to take the first revolutionary step in taking hold of all surpassing and conquering love of Christ for which He has taken hold of all of His people for all eternity…

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Mapping Exile And Return
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Contents:
Introduction
1. “Homecoming Is Out Of The Question”: Palestinian Refugee Cartography And Edward Said’s View From Exile
2 Reclaiming The Place Of Exile For Political Theology
3. Kafr Bir’im, Elias Chacour, And The Arboreal Imagination
4 Return Visits To ‘Imwas And The Liturgical Subversion Of Ethnocratic Topology
Mapping The Future: The Promise Of Palimpsests

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One of the most persistent, if vexing, issues is the state of affairs in the ancient land of Palestine. Palestinian Christians bear the enormous brunt of suffering and dispossession in the current situation, and are burdened even more by Christian political appropriation of Zionism.
Through an analysis of Palestinian refugee mapping practices for returning to their homeland, Alain Epp Weaver argues against the political theology embedded in Zionist cartographic practices that refuse and eliminate all evidence of co-existence, and offers a political theology of redrawing the territory compatible with a bi-national vision for a shared Palestinian-Israeli future.

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Fullness Received And Returned
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Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Communication Of Being Ad Intra
2. Communication Of Being Ad Extra
3. Trinitarian Action And Communication In Redemption And The Incarnation
4. Hypostatic Union
5. Communication Of Properties Works And Grace
6. Unio Cum Christo
7. Self Communication Of The Holy Spirit
8. Conclusion Of Salvation

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Seng-Kong Tan argues that human participation in the divine-a classical theological axiom most notably associated with the Eastern Orthodox tradition-is a central theme in the theology of Jonathan Edwards. This notion, Tan contends, is a defining motif for the entire systematic sweep of Edwards’s theology, and it serves to focus and determine the contours of Edwards’s thought. Fullness Received and Returned situates Edwards’s theology within the folds of the classical theological tradition, while arguing that Edwards’s is a unique and creative form of Reformed theology.

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