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  • The Crucifixion of the Warrior God: The Cross of Christ and the Revelation of God

    The Crucifixion of the Warrior God: The Cross of Christ and the Revelation of God

    In an epic constructive investigation, The Crucifixion of the Warrior God addresses the tension between Scripture's violent depictions of God and the non-violent, self-sacrificial God that was supremely revealed on the cross.

    9781506420752

    $59.00

  • Fierce: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation

    Fierce: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation

    Women in the Bible aren't shy or retiring; they're fierce and funny and demanding and relevant to 21st-century people. Women in the Bible—some of their...

    9781506410708

    $18.99

  • Original Blessing: Putting Sin in Its Rightful Place

    Original Blessing: Putting Sin in Its Rightful Place

    Belief in the doctrine of Original Sin is firmly held by many Christians, but it turns out that it's not necessarily biblical. Further, argues Danielle Shroyer, it's bad for people and bad for the church. In Original Blessing, Shroyer shows not only how we got it wrong, but how we can put sin back in its rightful place: in a broader context of redemption and the blessing of humanity's creation in the image of God.

    9781451496765

    $18.99

  • Body: A Biblical Spirituality for the Whole Person

    Body: A Biblical Spirituality for the Whole Person

    There is a lurking Neo-Platonism in Christian thinking today. It assumes that there is a gaping hole between our inner and our outer selves and that the soul is to be seen as "good" while the body is "bad."  Gooder here explores six key concepts, especially from the writings of Paul, before exploring their implications for how we think and speak about our spirituality today.

    9781506418896

    $24.00

  • Journey to the Manger: Exploring the Birth of Jesus

    Journey to the Manger: Exploring the Birth of Jesus

    Journey to the Manger explores the New Testament's various accounts of the birth of Jesus and their implications for the powerful and the poor alike. Engaging seriously with biblical scholarship, she uncovers key similarities in the Gospel accounts and focuses on their shared understanding of these significant events.

    9781506418872

    $19.00

  • The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to God: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know about the Almighty

    The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to God: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know about the Almighty

    In this latest installment of the Homebrewed Christianity series, Eric E. Hall approaches the question of God from various perspectives. The classical conception of God is like the famously stoic-yet-lethal Mr. Miyagi in the Karate Kid. Competing versions of God include Your Hippie Aunt, St. Joan of Arc, and even the muscle-headed goons from Jersey Shore. At the end of this romp through history and pop culture, Hall argues that the God you need may be the very God you rejected years ago.

    9781506405728

    $14.99

  • Luther the Reformer: The Story of the Man and His Career, Second Edition

    Luther the Reformer: The Story of the Man and His Career, Second Edition

    For nearly thirty years, Luther the Reformer has been the standard Luther biography. Fair, insightful, and detailed without being overwhelming, Kittelson was able to negotiate a “middle way” that presented a more complete chronological picture of Luther than many had yet portrayed. For this revised edition, Hans H. Wiersma has made an outstanding text even better. The research is updated, and the text is revised throughout, with images, bibliographies, and timelines to enhance the experience. It’s a great volume, greatly improved.

    9781451488883

    $29.00

  • Theologian of Resistance: The Life and Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    Theologian of Resistance: The Life and Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    Since Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s death in 1945, he has continued to fascinate and compel readers as a theologian, witness, and martyr. In this new biography, Christiane Tietz masterfully portrays the interconnectedness of Bonhoeffer’s life and thought, theology and politics, discipleship, witness, and resistance, tracing the path from his childhood to his imprisonment and execution. Brief, lucid, and accessible, Tietz’s new account brings Bonhoeffer’s story and work to life in a vivid retelling, unfolding his important and widely read texts in the process. The volume also includes previously unseen pictures.

    9781506408446

    $32.99

  • Reviving Old Scratch: Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted

    Reviving Old Scratch: Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted

    The devil has fallen on hard times. Surveys say that even the majority of Christians doubt his existence. And burdened by doubts skeptical believers find themselves divorced from Jesus’ dramatic confrontation with Satan in the Gospels and the struggle that galvanized the witness of the early church. Reviving Old Scratch reintroduces the devil to the modern church with a biblical, bold and urgent vision of spiritual warfare where we resist the devil by joining the Kingdom of God’s subversive campaign to interrupt the world with love. 

    9781506401355

    $18.99

  • Martin Luther and the Called Life

    Martin Luther and the Called Life

    In this refreshing book, Mark D. Tranvik turns attention to the importance of vocation in Luther’s life and in doing so discovers renewed insights into this important doctrine. Drawing from the rich experience of twenty years of teaching undergraduates, Tranvik balances the historical roots of Luther’s thought and contemporary relevance with skill and vigor.

    9781451490114

    $24.00

  • Stars Beneath Us: Finding God in the Evolving Cosmos

    Stars Beneath Us: Finding God in the Evolving Cosmos

    Relying on his upbringing as a Baptist, his doctoral work in experimental nuclear physics and gamma-ray astronomy, and his ordination to the gospel ministry, Paul Wallace weaves a book unlike any other in faith-and-science literature. 

    9781506401416

    $18.00

  • Jesus’ Abba: The God Who Has Not Failed

    Jesus’ Abba: The God Who Has Not Failed

    In Jesus' Abba, one of the greatest theologians of this generation boldly argues for a new view of God, through the eyes of Jesus. John B. Cobb Jr. interprets the whole of Jesus' life and ministry, death and resurrection, in light of Jesus' understanding of God. Ultimately, Cobb argues that Jesus' view of God fits our actual experience today. With this book, John B. Cobb Jr. makes his ultimate and most impassioned plea for use to rediscover God, through Jesus.

    9781506405704

    $22.99

  • Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses: With Introduction, Commentary, and Study Guide

    Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses: With Introduction, Commentary, and Study Guide

    By almost any reckoning, the Ninety-Five Theses ranks as the most important text of the Reformation, if not in substance at least in impact. 

    9781451482799

    $15.00

  • Thinking About Death and Immortality

    Thinking About Death and Immortality

    Many think that belief in life after death flies in the face of what science has discovered. Paul Badham explores the grounds on which the hope of immortality, central for Christian doctrine, can be revitalized today. 

    9781506400662

    $14.00

  • Thinking About God's Love: Atonement and Redemption

    Thinking About God's Love: Atonement and Redemption

    There are many people who are put off by the doctrines of atonement and redemption. People find it hard to believe in a loving God who appears at the same time to be so angry and vindictive.  

    9781506400686

    $14.00

  • Thinking About Religious Pluralism: Shaping Theology of Religions for Our Times

    Thinking About Religious Pluralism: Shaping Theology of Religions for Our Times

    This book is about how to interpret the many religions, concentrating on what we call the “world religions,” for this has been the focus of most of the theological debate over the past fifty years. 

    9781506400693

    $14.00

  • Thinking About Sex

    Thinking About Sex

    "Very many people, including not a few Christians, do not find the Christian tradition very helpful for making sense of sex. It is not that people willfully forsake a demanding sexual ethic for a more easygoing worldly one. It is that they often cannot see the point of its 'demandingness.'" Thus begins author Adrian Thatcher's ...

    9781506400709

    $14.00

  • Thinking About the Bible

    Thinking About the Bible

    With humor and examples drawn from art and life, Helen-Ann Hartley argues that to appreciate fully the Bible's richness and diversity, we have to wrestle critically and creatively with themes that attract us and repel us.   

    9781506400716

    $14.00

  • Making Love with Scripture: Why the Bible Doesn’t Mean How You Think It Means

    Making Love with Scripture: Why the Bible Doesn’t Mean How You Think It Means

    Arguments over Scripture have divided denominations, churches, and families, and these squabbles have led many to abandon the faith altogether. Jacob D. Myers, a rising scholar, has a solution to our problem with Scripture.

    9781451499551

    $16.99

  • The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

    The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?

    Recognizing that the battle over Jesus is no longer a public debate between the skeptic and believer but an internal struggle in the heart of many disciples, Tripp Fuller argues that we continue to make christological claims about more than an ?event? or simply the ?Jesus of history.? 

    9781451499575

    $14.99

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