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Everyone has gifts and talents, but do you know what
gift is the foundation of your God-given purpose
in life?
In Know Your Ministry: Spiritual Gifts for Every
Believer, renowned Bible teacher Marilyn Hickey presents
an enlightening overview of the seven foundational gifts
of the Holy Spirit from Romans 12 and shows you how to
discover your specific foundational gift.
Through Marilyn's personal and ministry examples,
biblical illustrations, and practical application, you will
discover the one gift that you identify with most closely
and through which you will obtain the most success.
That gift whether it is prophecy, serving, teaching,
exhortation, giving, organization, or mercy is your
foundational gift.
Once you have identified your core gift, you will see how
it relates to your other abilities and how it flows
throughout
all your spiritual activity in the body of Christ.
There are numerous books that offer an historical account of
Anglican theology or that detail the lives and work of particular
Anglican theologians. Books that focus on the nature and character
of Anglican theology itself, however, are hard to find. This volume
fills that gap. In The Shape of Anglican Theology, Scott MacDougall
examines what it is that makes Anglican theology Anglican.
Beginning with a treatment of the ways in which Anglican theology
is and is not distinct from other types of Christian theology, he
describes the theological features that mark the general boundaries
of Anglican theologizing before turning to consider a set of eight
interconnected characteristics that provide Anglican theology with
its distinctive profile. MacDougall argues that, by setting its
boundaries as widely as possible and requiring subscription to
specific theological propositions as little as possible, Anglican
theology is in essence a wisdom theology that seeks to build the
capacity for faithful Christian discernment in belief and practice.
With clear writing---technical terms kept to a minimum---and a
contemporary approach, emphasizing how each doctrine should be
understood and applied by present-day Christians, Making Sense of
Christ and the Spirit explores Jesus Christ as fully God and fully
man in one person. Topics include The Person of Christ: including
the virgin birth---uniting full deity and humanity in one person
while enabling Christ s humanity to be without inherited sin---and
the incarnation---the act of God the Son whereby he took himself a
human nature; The Doctrine of the Atonement: the work Christ did in
his life and death to earn our salvation; and Jesus Resurrection
and Ascension: affirming the goodness of God s original creation of
man as a creature with a physical body that was very good, and his
rightful place in glory and honor that had not been his before as
the God-man. Written in a friendly tone, appealing to the emotions
and the spirit as well as the intellect, Making Sense of Christ and
the Spirit helps readers overcome wrong ideas, make better
decisions on new questions, and grow as Christians."
The theological movement known as open theism is shaking the church
today, challenging the doctrines of God's sovereignty,
foreknowledge, and providence. This timely work clearly describes
open theism and evaluates it biblically. Frame addresses questions
such as How do open theists read the Bible? Is love God's most
important attribute? Is God's will the ultimate explanation of
everything? Do we have genuine freedom? Is God ever weak or
changeable? Does God know everything in advance? Frame not only
answers the objections of open theists but sharpens our
understanding of the relationship between God's eternal plan and
the decisions or events of our lives.
The Danish theologian-philosopher K. E. Logstrup is second in
reputation in his homeland only to Soren Kierkegaard. He is best
known outside Europe for his The Ethical Demand, first published in
Danish in 1956 and published in an expanded English translation in
1997. Beyond the Ethical Demand contains excerpts, translated into
English for the first time, from the numerous books and essays
Logstrup continued to write throughout his life. In the first
essay, he engages the critical response to The Ethical Demand,
clarifying, elaborating, or defending his original positions. In
the next three essays, he extends his contention that human ethics
"demands" that we are concerned for the other by introducing the
crucial concept of "sovereign expressions of life." Like Levinas,
Logstrup saw in the phenomenon of "the other" the ground for his
ethics. In his later works he developed this concept of "the
sovereign expressions of life," spontaneous phenomena such as
trust, mercy, and sincerity that are inherently other-regarding.
The last two essays connect his ethics with political life.
Interest in Logstrup in the English-speaking academic community
continues to grow, and these important original sources will be
essential tools for scholars exploring the further implications of
his ethics and phenomenology.
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