Religion: Sin / salvation Books

""Bryan Spinks's book is an outstanding new manual on the historical development of the Eucharist. It is excellent not only because it connects liturgical texts and rituals with Eucharistic theologies, but also because of its wide range, varying from the...

Holiness is the attribute most emphatically ascribed to God in Scripture, but there has been little attention devoted to characterizing and considering the entailments of divine holiness. In Divine Holiness and Divine Action, Mark C. Murphy defends an...

Determined to Believe? is written for those who are interested in or even troubled by questions about God's sovereignty and human freedom and responsibility. John Lennox writes in the spirit of helping people to come to grips with the biblical treatment...

In The Day the Revolution Began Tom Wright invites you to consider the full meaning of the event at the heart of the Christian faith - Jesus' crucifixion.As he did in his acclaimed Surprised by Hope, Wright once again challenges commonly held beliefs,...

This book guides students, pastors, and lay learners to consider and evaluate various ways of understanding God's involvement in the world, especially in relation to views on predestination and the extent of the atonement. Four different scholars present...

Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism compares and contrasts four distinct positions on the current fundamentalist-evangelical spectrum in light of the history of American fundamentalism and evangelicalism: Fundamentalism,...

Representatives of five major Protestant perspectives join in this book to present their views on sanctification.

Originally published in 1950 as the first title in the series Studies in Biblical Theology, Baptism in the New Testament was welcomed as, and has continued ever since to be an invaluable contribution to the debate set afoot by Barth in his booklet, The...

In his new book, Professor den Heyer explores the tremendous gulf between the historical Jesus and the manifold responsesto him in the New Testament, and the classical Christian doctrines of the atonement. How is it that someone who died on the cross as...

Western man has lost, it is argued, his sense of religious dread, of awe at the numinous, and with it a whole dimension of human experience. He is no longer aware of the holy. But is this claim entirely true ? Is holiness a matter of the numinous, of awe...

Stanley Hauerwas, was declared by Time Magazine in 2001 to be 'America's best theologian'. This book explores his work on the Church as a community living holiness. John B. Thomson offers an accessible introduction to Hauerwas's understanding of the...

With contributions from leading theologians and philosophers, Being Saved: Explorations in Human Salvation brings together a series of essays on the major topics relating to the doctrine of salvation. The book provides readers with a critical...

New in Zondervan's popular CounterPoints series, Four Views on the Role of Works at Final Judgment takes up the age-old question: What must I do to be saved? Four leading scholars interact with the degree to which one's works are considered at the final...

The Mosaic of Atonement offers a fresh and integrated approach to historic models of atonement.

""A Synopsis Of The Doctrine Of Baptism, Regeneration, Conversion, Etc."" is a religious book written by James Anthony Wickham and published in 1850. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the Christian doctrines of baptism, regeneration, and...

""The Doctrine of Justification by Faith through the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ"" is a theological treatise written by John Owen. The book explores the concept of justification, which is the process by which a person is made righteous in...

""Substitution: A Treatise On The Atonement"" is a religious book written by Marshall Randles and first published in 1877. The book delves into the concept of substitutionary atonement, a central belief in Christianity which states that Jesus Christ died...

The Eucharist is the central act of Christian worship. In this book Martin Stringer brings together some of the scholarship associated with the sociological analysis of biblical texts into conversation with liturgists and historians of the first century...

The popular question has spawned the need for a discussion of religious pluralism, presented here in an accesible fashion for the educated lay reader by a leading evangelical theologian-philosopher.

Grace Alone---Salvation as a Gift of God is part of the Five Solas Series, offering readers a look back to the five rallying cries of the Reformation---the five solas---while seeking to apply them in a fresh way to the contemporary church.