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Though we are not of the world, the fact is, we are in the world. And now is the time for Christians to realize their responsibilities to influence the culture and to make a difference. Influence is not accidental. It is earned. In In, But Not Of,...

Third World theology has grown and developed in recent decades - largely due to the efforts and activities of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT). The present volume, arising from their Second General Assembly, is an ideal...

What if you wanted to treat all of life as good, in full view of its pains?It is not 'simply' that all of life is good, because its pains can clearly be overwhelming.But is it possible to find life good, including its hard and painful parts?How might one...

Karl Barth was the master theologian of our age. Whenever men in the past generation have reflected deeply on the ultimate problems of life and faith, they have done so in a way that bears the mark of the intellectual revolution let loose by this Swiss...

In 'Resurrection Psychology', Margaret Alter advances a system of psychology based upon biblical Christianity. Moving away from the notion that therapy must be completely value-neutral, the author suggests how the worlds of psychology and theology can...

To ask why Christians live together, writes Tom Breidenthal, is to ask what a Christian household is and what kind of householding Christian faith inspires. In the church today we find many different kinds of households: married couples with and without...

'Vital'...pertaining to life; essential; of critical importance.'Missions'...specific tasks to which a person or group is charged.'Issues'...a point or matter, the decision of which is of special or public importance.A dictionary can define the terms,...

A compelling exploration of one of the central issues - if not 'the' central issue - facing theology in our time: the relation between transcendent salvation and temporal liberation. What does the salvation that the church proclaims mean for the poor of...

Roman citizenship was important to St. Paul for it brought privileges and powers granted to no other men. Yet with this in mind, after his conversion, Paul tells the community of Philippi, As for us, our commonwealth is in heaven. Christians thus, he...

'Vital'...pertaining to life; essential; of critical importance.'Contemporary'...of the present time; belonging to the same time or period.'Issues'...a point or matter, the decision of which is of special or public importance.How does the Christian faith...

In a playful foreword that isn't, Juan Luis Segundo calls his present work posthumous - both because the sensitivity of the topic puts any future works in jeopardy, and because it provides the logical key to all his previous theological work. Thirty...

Albert H. Newman here provides a survey of the struggle against infant baptism in the old church and a history of the struggle in the Middle Ages carried on by the Petrobrusians, Arnoldists, Waldenses, Taborites, and Bohemian Brethren. He goes on to...

The Eucharist is at the heart of individual Christian devotion and at the center of every Christian community. Tissa Balasuriya challenges us to see the relation between the spiritual Bread of Life and the staff of life, food for the physically hungry,...

Available again for the first time in many years, Moses Stuart's Grammar of the New Testament Dialect was America's earliest complete Greek grammar. This second edition, published in 1841, represents a marked improvement over the first edition and stands...

Here is an attempt to define the reality of the church, to answer the question: Wherein does the church have its being? One of the central themes in this analysis is the relation of the church to Christ and the Holy Spirit. And this motif is set in the...

In the thirteenth century, public disputation was not only a sort of ecclesiastical tournament arranged for an exceptional and solemn occasion, but also an integral part of a philosophical and theological course of study. At the University of Paris, for...

From the Introduction by Merrill C. Tenney:This commentary is an attempt to make plain the meaning of Revelation. With commendable reserve, Dr. Smith has restricted himself largely to interpretation by other passages of Scripture which are related to...

Taken from a series of lectures given by Professor Gustaf Wingren in 1979, this volume addresses creation under natural law, gospel and the Church, and law and the gospel in an attempt to rediscover a positive meaning for creation without obscuring the...

'The Great Promise' gives a powerful exegesis of the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke which tells the story of the Advent - the birth of John the Baptist, preparing for the birth of Christ. It consists of four stenographically recorded biblical...

In this essay, Barth discusses the relationship between Christ and Adam as understood by Paul. Moving beyond traditional exegetical and theological scholarship done on Romans 5, Barth offers an entirely new interpretation of the conception of humanity...

In this classic text, William Henry Simcox describes the style and language of each of the writers of the New Testament. Two appendices complete the work: the first highlights similarities in vocabulary between different groups of writers, and the second...

In this work, Oesterley presents an outline of the antecedents of the Christian doctrine of last things. He also endeavors to distinguish the fundamental differences between the Gospel teaching and its precursors.

Focusing on the celebrated story of Josiah's Passover in 2 Kings, Shigeyuki Nakanose provides a dramatic demonstration of the contribution of sociological hermeneutics to contemporary Biblical exegesis. This method complements historical-critical...

The Parker Society was the London-based Anglican society that printed in fifty-four volumes the works of the leading English Reformers of the sixteenth century. It was formed in 1840 and disbanded in 1855 when its work was completed. Named after Matthew...

The word Trinity doesn't appear in the Bible - yet Christians for centuries have held that it is a biblical truth, foundational to orthodoxy. But very few understand how the doctrine came to be. Author E. Calvin Beisner traces the formulationof the...

We need to get organized around here!That is the common cry of youth workers who feel burdened by so much to do in so little time, so many responsibilities and so few results, so much criticism--it seems--so little support. Paul Borthwick agrees that...

This book is an invitation to pray without ceasing, morning, noon, and night. Share words of believers talking with their Creator as they eat, as they lie down to sleep, and as they meet together to celebrate joyous occasions. Grown-ups and children talk...

This volume of essays on Christian doctrine was the product of an attempt to provide scholarship representative of Cambridge theology in the early twentieth-century. Edited by the great H.B. Swete, the volume presents essays by such noted scholars as F.R...

Bertholet's 'A History of Hebrew Civilization ('Kulturgeschichte Israels') is what some scholars see as the culmination of nineteenth-century scholarship on Israelite religion. Working from general developmental theories of religion, Bertholet critically...

A preeminent American church historian offers ten biographical sketches of New England church leaders. This book grew out of a series of lectures given at Andover Theological Seminary in 1898 and 1899. In them Walker aimed to present varied and typical...

A smooth transition to excellence in management cannot be achieved by an abortive hodgepodge of borrowed programs and panaceas. First-rate company success must derive from a top executive who can think . . . who can provide the rest of his team with a...

The five brief pieces collected here represent the final words prepared by Karl Barth for publication, all of them originating during the period from his serious illness in August of 1968 to his death in December of that same year. The final selection is...