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This 1896 volume by Reverend J. A. Zahm, a professor of physics at
the University of Notre Dame, considers the Catholic theological
tradition as it relates to evolution. The author discusses Darwin's
theory of evolution in detail, and traces the debate between
theologians and scientists back to the early days of evolutionary
theory. He compares late nineteenth-century evolutionary theory and
the beliefs of the Catholic church, carefully evaluating the
arguments and probing errors and misconceptions in theory and
terminology. He also attempts to shed light on the
little-understood relations between evolutionism and Christianity
as a whole, and discusses whether a person of any Christian
denomination can be an evolutionist. Zahm's thoughtful work is
considered to be one of the most important volumes on evolution
ever written by a Catholic.
What can we learn from the Saint of the Gutters? How might her
wisdom and intercession help us in our present needs? After all,
Mother Teresa was very small in stature, even frail in some
respects, and she was a woman-the supposed "weaker sex." However,
this petite woman's "yes" to God truly changed the world forever.
She opened the world's eyes to our duties to feed the hungry and
clothe the naked, and told us that a far worse hunger exists in our
Western world. She continues to encourage us to reach out in love
to those in need. Through this novena of prayer, our faith is
energized as we "sit at St. Teresa of Calcutta's feet" to learn
lessons of love, and invoke her intercession for our urgent, as
well as our lesser needs-big and small-she will help!
Often called Paul’s magnum opus, Romans has been pivotal to Christians’ understanding of salvation for generations. It had a profound influence on Augustine and Luther. Calvin saw it as the key to understanding all of Scripture.
In this volume, Dr. R.C. Sproul introduces us to Paul’s fullest, grandest, most comprehensive statement of the gospel and explains why it is just as vital for believers today as it has been for believers throughout history. Verse by verse, Dr. Sproul unfolds the vast truths that Paul has clearly and carefully woven throughout this book.
Dr. Sproul’s expositional commentaries help you understand key theological themes and apply them to all areas of your life. Drawn from decades of careful study and delivered from a pastor’s heart, these sermons are readable, practical, and thoroughly Bible-centered. Here is your opportunity to learn from a trusted teacher and theologian as he leads you through God’s Word and shares his perspective on living faithfully for God’s glory. This is a series to serve pastors, small groups, and growing Christians who want to know the Bible better.
Why does the earth exist? What is the purpose of human life? These
are two of life's most fundamental questions - and they are
addressed by the Bible's remarkably unified story, which centres on
a unique deity. Desmond Alexander explores this story by beginning
at the end, in the final chapters of the book of Revelation.
Anticipating the creation of a new earth and a new heaven, these
chapters bring to fulfilment a process that began with the creation
of the earth, as described in the opening chapters of Genesis.
These passages frame the entire biblical 'meta-story'. This
stimulating study outlines some of the central themes that run
through the Bible, with broad brush strokes designed to show the
general shape of the meta-story. Seeing the big picture enables us
to appreciate the details more clearly; and since the themes were
an integral part of the thought-world of the biblical authors, an
appreciation of them may alter significantly our reading of
individual books. Good theology always has pastoral implications,
and the study occasionally moves into areas of application - the
truths revealed are extremely important for shaping our life-style
choices.
In our fraught global environment, when political and ideological
lines are drawn ever sharper and old allegiances are increasingly
strained, love for neighbor as both individual and societal
obligation needs to be thematized and justified anew. At the same
time, the New Testament call to love one's enemies forms a sharp
point of contrast to the current non-culture of hatred for all
things different and foreign. Oda Wischmeyer's Love as Agape: The
Early Christian Concept and Modern Discourse, the ninth volume in
the Baylor-Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity series, aims
to bring the New Testament concept of love into conversation with
the current discussion about love. Wischmeyer investigates the
commandment tradition of love for God and for neighbor, the ways in
which the Septuagint and Plutarch speak of love, and the innovative
concepts of love developed by Paul and John. She also presents an
exegetically informed construction of the New Testament concept of
love that is sharpened through a penetrating comparison with
counter-, parallel, and alternative concepts from the ancient
world. The book brings this holistic biblical vision forward into
critical and constructive dialogue with key contemporary visions of
love, including those of Julia Kristeva, Martha Nussbaum, Pope
Benedict XVI, and Simon May. The tension that emerges stresses the
need for fresh conceptualizations of ancient Jewish-Christian
understandings, giving rise to the concluding question of the
profile, limits, and impulses of the agape concept for present
challenges. Through this academically rigorous and pastorally
sensitive exploration, Wischmeyer points to the great love story
between God and humanity, which realizes itself in the figure of
Jesus Christ. This divine romance places love as the most intense,
affirming, and life-creating relationship in God's own self, a
relationship into which human beings are drawn and by which they
obtain special dignity when God's love becomes their life.
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'How desperately we all need to know, deep within, that we are
loved by God ... It is a chaotic age and I find my soul longing
more and more for the shelter of God's love and the anchorage of
his word.' Pete Greig, 24-7 Prayer 'You are loved ... This is the
most important thing about you. It is the answer to the deepest
longing of your heart and has the potential to change your whole
life in every possible way.' You are loved. A deceptively simple
phrase. But what does it really mean to be loved ... loved by God?
And can we really know it, begin to comprehend it? And what
difference does it really make to our lives? With warmth, wit and a
great depth of wisdom, Jonny Gumbel explores the nature and meaning
of this divine love. Drawing on the Apostle Paul's epistle to the
Romans, this book is peppered with stories that are marked by the
author's self-deprecating humour, encompassing everything from
politics to family life and each illustration is packed with
insight. Coming at a time when many of us feel battered and bruised
by the uncertainties of life, this compelling book brims with
affirmation and hope as it invites us to delve into (or perhaps
rediscover) the greatest love story ever told ... 'What a wonderful
book! Glorious and timeless truths told in a fresh and engaging
way, brilliant insights ... that cause the magnificent reality of
God's love to come alive. This book will both renew your mind and
cause your heart to sing.' Mike Pilavachi, MBE, Soul Survivor
Watford
Do miracles still happen today? This book demonstrates that
miraculous works of God, which have been part of the experience of
the church around the world since Christianity began, continue into
the present. Leading New Testament scholar Craig Keener addresses
common questions about miracles and provides compelling reasons to
believe in them today, including many accounts that offer evidence
of verifiable miracles. This book gives an accessible and concise
overview of one of Keener's most significant research topics. His
earlier two-volume work on miracles stands as the definitive word
on the topic, but its size and scope are daunting to many readers.
This new book summarizes Keener's basic argument but contains
substantial new material, including new accounts of the miraculous.
It is suitable as a textbook but also accessible to church leaders
and laypeople.
Essays explore how interpretations affect casuistry, and cover
issues related to abortion, reproductive technologies, euthanasia,
sexuality, race, gender, social justice, the environment, civil
disobedience, capital punishment, and war.
While many scholars in Shakespeare and Religious Studies assume a
secularist viewpoint in their interpretation of Shakespeare's
works, there are others that allow for a theologically coherent
reading. Located within the turn to religion in Shakespeare
studies, this book goes beyond the claim that Shakespeare simply
made artistic use of religious material in his drama. It argues
that his plays inhabit a complex and rich theological atmosphere,
individually, by genre and as a body of work. The book begins by
acknowledging that a plot-controlling God figure, or even a
consistent theological dogma, is largely absent in the plays of
Shakespeare. However, it argues that this absence is not
necessarily a sign of secularization, but functions in a
theologically generative manner. It goes on to suggest that the
plays reveal a consistent, if variant, attention to the theological
possibility of a divine "presence" mediated through human wit, both
in gracious and malicious forms. Without any prejudice for divine
intervention, the plots actually gesture on many turns toward a
hidden supernatural "actor", or God. Making bold claims about the
artistic and theological of Shakespeare's work, this book will be
of interest to scholars of Theology and the Arts, Shakespeare and
Literature more generally.
Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality goes against the grain of
various postmodern approaches to morality in contemporary religious
ethics. In this book, Jung seeks to provide a new framework in
which the nature of common Christian moral beliefs and practices
can be given a new meaning. He suggests that, once major
philosophical assumptions behind postmodern theories of morality
are called into question, we may look at Christian morality in
quite a different light. On his account, Christian morality is a
historical morality insofar as it is rooted in the rich historical
traditions of the Christian church. Yet this kind of historical
dependence does not entail the evidential dependence of all moral
beliefs on historical traditions. It is possible to argue for the
epistemic autonomy of moral beliefs, according to which Christian
and other moral beliefs can be justified independently of their
historical sources. The particularity of Christian morality lies
not in its particular historical sources that also function as the
grounds of justification, but rather in its explanatory and
motivational capacity to further articulate the kind of moral
knowledge that is readily available to most human beings and to
enable people to act upon their moral knowledge.
What you see of God is only part of the story.
From the time Blake Healy was a small child, he has seen angels, demons, and other
spiritual things. He sees them with his naked eyes, as vividly and clearly as anything
else. Everyplace he goes, every person he meets, every day that goes by, he sees in
the spirit.
After thirty years of seeing in the spirit, one thing has consistently been the most
painful for him to see. It is not when he sees someone trapped in demonic
oppression. It is not when he sees the gaping wounds of emotional trauma. It is when
he sees the goodness of God go unclaimed by His people.
In this book Healy takes readers on a journey of rediscovering the goodness of God.
It fills the churches we visit every week. It moves across the sea from nation to
nation. All we have to do is learn how to see it and receive it, and then we will watch
every corner of the world be completely transformed by the power of His profound
good.
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Justification, Volume 2
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The second of a two-volume project delving into the doctrine of
justification. Michael Horton seeks not simply to recover a clear
message of its role in modern Reformed theology, but also to bring
a fresh discovery of the gospel in a time when contemporary debates
around justification have reignited. The doctrine of justification
stands at the center of our systematic reflection on the meaning of
salvation and grace as well as our piety, mission, and life
together. And yet, within mainline Protestant and evangelical
theology, it's often taken for granted or left to gather dust in
favor of modern concerns and self-renewal. Volume 2 embarks on the
theologically constructive task of investigating the biblical
doctrine of justification in light of contemporary exegesis. Taking
up the topic from a variety of theological vantage points, Horton
engages with contemporary debates in biblical, especially Pauline,
scholarship. Part 1 draws out The Horizon of Justification from the
Old Testament narratives of Adam and Israel. Part 2 defines The
Achievement of Justification in the blood of Christ and seeks to
lay the groundwork for understanding its extent. Part 3 focuses on
The Gift of Righteousness, delving into a clear articulation of
what justification means, its mechanism, and the role of works on
the day of judgement. Part 4 proposes a way forward for Receiving
Justification and understanding faith and justification within the
broader framework of union with Christ. Engaging and thorough,
Justification shows that the doctrine of justification finds its
most ecumenically significant starting point and proper habitat in
unity with Christ, where the greatest consensus, past and present,
is to be found among Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant
theologies.
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The first of a two-volume project delving into the doctrine of
justification. Michael Horton seeks not simply to recover a clear
message of its role in modern Reformed theology, but also to bring
a fresh discovery of the gospel in a time when contemporary debates
around justification have reignited. The doctrine of justification
stands at the center of our systematic reflection on the meaning of
salvation and grace as well as our piety, mission, and life
together. And yet, within mainline Protestant and evangelical
theology, it's often taken for granted or left to gather dust in
favor of modern concerns and self-renewal. Volume 1 is an exercise
in historical theology, exploring the doctrine of justification
from the patristic era to the Reformation. This book: Provides a
map for contemporary discussions of justification, identifying and
engaging principal sources: Origen, Chrysostom, Augustine, Thomas
Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Gabriel Biel, and the
magisterial reformers. Studies the transformations of the doctrine
through Aquinas, Scotus and the nominalists leading up to the era
of the Reformation and the Council of Trent. Concludes by examining
the hermeneutical and theological significance of the Reformers'
understanding of the law and the gospel and the resultant
covenantal scheme that became formative in Reformed theology.
Engaging and thorough, Justification will not only reenergize the
reader-whether Protestant or Catholic-with a passion for
understanding this essential and long-running doctrinal
conversation, but also challenge anyone to engage critically with
the history of the Church and the heart of the gospel.
Do Evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics share a common
orthodoxy, as promoted by initiatives such as Evangelicals and
Catholics Together? Or do the profound differences between
Evangelical and Catholic theology and how they view the doctrines
of Christ, the Church and salvation mean they actually hold to very
different gospels? Same Words, Different Worlds explores whether
Evangelicals and Catholics have the same gospel if they have core
commitments that contradict. It lays out how the words used to
understand the gospel are the same but differ drastically in their
underlying theology. With keen insight, Leonardo de Chirico looks
at various aspects of Roman Catholic theology - including Mary, the
intercession of the saints, purgatory and papal infallibility -
from an Evangelical perspective to argue that theological framework
of Roman Catholicism is not faithful to the biblical gospel. Only
by understanding the real differences can genuine dialogue
flourish. Same Words, Different Worlds will deepen your
understanding of the differences between Evangelical and Catholic
theology, and how the Reformation is not over in the church today.
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