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We are living through a period of cultural climate change. We have
outsourced morality to the markets on the one hand, and the state
on the other. The markets have brought wealth to many, and the
state has done much to contain the worst excesses of inequality,
but neither is capable of bearing the moral weight of showing us
how to live. This has had a profound impact on society and the way
in which we interact with each other. Traditional values no longer
hold, yet recent political swings show that modern ideals of
tolerance have left many feeling rudderless and adrift. In this
environment we see things fall apart in unexpected ways - toxic
public discourse makes true societal progress almost unattainable,
a more divisive society is fuelled by identity politics and
extremism, and the rise of a victimhood mentality calls for 'safe
spaces' but stifles debate. The influence of social media seems
all-pervading and the breakdown of the family is only one result of
the loss of social capital. Many fear what the future may hold.
Delivering a devastatingly insightful critique of our modern
condition, and assessing its roots and causes from the ancient
Greeks through the Reformation and Enlightenment to the present
day, Sacks argues that there is no liberty without morality, and no
freedom without responsibility. If we care about the future of
western civilisation, all of us must play our part in rebuilding
our common moral foundation. Then we will discover afresh the
life-transforming and counterintuitive truths that a nation is
strong when it cares for the weak, and rich when it cares for the
poor. Here is an inspiring vision of a world in which we can all
find our place, and face the future without fear.
An Award-Winning Challenge to Popular Ideas of the Kingdom
According to Scot McKnight, "kingdom" is the biblical term most
misused by Christians today. It has taken on meanings that are
completely at odds with what the Bible says and has become a
buzzword for both social justice and redemption. In Kingdom
Conspiracy, McKnight offers a sizzling biblical corrective and a
fiercely radical vision for the role of the local church in the
kingdom of God. Now in paper. Praise for Kingdom Conspiracy 2015
Outreach Resources of the Year Award Winner One of Leadership
Journal's Best Books for Church Leaders in 2014 "This is a
must-read for church leaders today."--Publishers Weekly "A timely
resource for the missional church to reexamine some basic
assumptions that impact church practice in the everyday."--Outreach
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Being Church
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Pablo R. Andinach
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The cross of Christ goes straight to the heart of the gospel, yet
Christians remain confused and divided over what it really means
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The Biblical Cosmos
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Robin A. Parry; Illustrated by Hannah Parry
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A Celtic Christology
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John F Gavin; Foreword by John Panteleimon Manoussakis
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What can we learn from Augustine about apologetics? This book shows
how Augustine defended the faith in late antiquity and how his
approach to engaging the culture has great significance for the
apologetic task today. Joshua Chatraw and Mark Allen, coauthors of
the award-winning Apologetics at the Cross (an Outreach magazine
and Gospel Coalition Resource of the Year), recover Augustine's
mature apologetic voice to address the challenges facing today's
church. The Augustine Way offers a compelling argument for
Christian witness that is rooted in tradition and engaged with
contemporary culture. It focuses on Augustine's best-known works,
Confessions and The City of God, to retrieve his scriptural and
ecclesial approach for a holistic apologetic witness. This book
will be useful for students as well as for pastors, church leaders,
and practitioners of Christian apologetics. It puts pastors and
churches back at the center of apologetics, transcending popular
contemporary methods with a view to a more effective witness in
post-Christendom.
New liturgical book for the United States that went into use on
November 29, 1998. We will offer the following New Editions -- all
utilizing the format that has made our liturgical books the most
pastoral ... practicable ... and functional possible.
Christianity Today Book Award of Merit-Popular Theology The Gospel
Coaltion Award of Distinction-Popular Theology Every generation
faces the temptation to wander from orthodoxy-to seek out the jolt
that comes with false teaching, and to drift with cultural
currents. And so every generation must be awakened again to the
thrill of orthodoxy, and experience the astonishment that comes
from stumbling afresh upon the electrifying paradoxes at the heart
of the Christian faith. In The Thrill of Orthodoxy, Trevin Wax
turns the tables on those who believe Christian teaching is narrow
and outdated. Returning to the church's creeds, he explains what
orthodoxy is and why we can have proper confidence in it, and lays
out common ways we can stray from it. By showing how heresies are
always actually narrower than orthodoxy-taking one aspect of the
truth and wielding it as a weapon against others-Wax beckons us
away from the broad road that ultimately proves bland and boring,
and toward the straight and narrow path, where true adventure can
be found.
This interdisciplinary volume presents international research and
theories focusing on the development of the individual across the
life span. Centering on "family" as the key context influencing,
and being influenced by the developing person, the contributors to
this volume discuss an array of theoretical models, methodological
strategies, and substantive foci linking the study of individual
development, the family system, and the broader context of human
development. The volume presents continuing empirical research and
theories in the realm of individual and family development and
features a developmental, contextual view from a process-oriented
vantage point.
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What Would Monica Do?
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Patti Maguire Armstrong; As told to Roxane Beauclair Salonen
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At the beginning of the thirteenth century the recovery by western
Christendom from the Arabs, Jews and Greeks of the metaphysical
treatises of Aristotle, and their translation into Latin, caused a
ferment in the intellectual world comparable to that produced by
Darwin in the nineteenth century. To vindicate traditional
methodoxy Albertus Magnus undertook to harmonize the doctrines of
the Church with the Peripatetic philosophy, and this work was
carried to its conclusion by his pupil, St Thomas Aquinas, with
such success that the latter has become the official philosopher of
Roman Catholicism. The system of Aquinas centres in his conception
of God, to the exposition and criticism of which this book is
devoted.
Target Audience: Christian adults, college students, and readers of Jerry Bridges. Also church leaders and discipleship pastors.
Now available in softcover with a new, contemporary watercolor design that blends with Jerry Bridge’s most popular books. This new edition now includes the study guide (formerly available separately), combining that resource into this book.
What Ever Happened to Sin? Jerry Bridges helps us confront the sins we tolerate.
The Christian journey is a life of practiced godliness, but too often we overlook or minimize sins that, while corrosive and destructive to ourselves and those around us, are overshadowed by more flashy, headline-grabbing sins. This classic book from Jerry Bridges helps readers understand and commit to a life of holiness by examining patterns of behavior we often accept as normal, rather than as violations of God’s law.
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