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With the voices of Joni Eareckson Tada, the Navarros, Jamal Bandy,
J. P. Moreland, Josh McDowell, Alyssa Poblete, Trevor Wright, David
Chung, Alisa Childers, and Walt Heyer. Don't Follow Your Heart
offers a compelling vision for the kind of Christianity that is
truly countercultural, that rebels against the status quo, that
offers something genuinely revolutionary. We were never meant to
bear the impossible weight of creating and sustaining our
identities, but with the steady stream of propaganda telling us to
be true to ourselves and live our best lives, it's no wonder many
of us are. In Don't Follow Your Heart, Thaddeus Williams builds a
case that self-worship is not authentic, it's arrogant. It is not
satisfying, it robs us of awe. It is hardly new and edgy, but is
hopelessly traditionalist, rehashing what is literally humanity's
oldest lie. As he explores the Ten Commandments of Self-Worship,
Williams calls for a new generation of heretics, iconoclasts,
renegades, mavericks, and rebels who refuse to march like good
little cows, mooing in unison with the herd. He points us to a life
beyond the boring, conventional, and self-defeating dogmas of
self-worship and shows us how much more meaningful a life centered
on God can truly be. Don't Follow Your Heart features: A
fascinating blend of theology, philosophy, science, psychology, and
pop culture. Grim stories of many patron saints of self-worship
including Nero, Rousseau, de Sade, Nietzsche, Sartre, Foucault, and
Jim Morrison. Accounts of notable heretics who rebelled
against self-worship, including Frederick Douglass, William
Wilberforce, Sophie Scholl, and G.K. Chesterton.Â
Straightforward ways to rebel against the mainstream message of
self-worship.
Southwestern Journal of Theology 2021 Book of the Year Award
(Theological Studies) 2021 Book Award, The Gospel Coalition
(Honorable Mention, Academic Theology) Following his well-received
Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition, Craig Carter
presents the biblical and theological foundations of trinitarian
classical theism. Carter, a leading Christian theologian known for
his provocative defenses of classical approaches to doctrine,
critiques the recent trend toward modifying or rejecting classical
theism in favor of modern "relational" understandings of God. The
book includes a short history of trinitarian theology from its
patristic origins to the modern period, and a concluding appendix
provides a brief summary of classical trinitarian theology.
Foreword by Carl R. Trueman.
This classic defense of orthodox Christianity, written to counter
the liberalism that arose in the early 1900s, establishes the
importance of scriptural doctrine and contrasts the teachings of
liberalism and orthodoxy on God and man, the Bible, Christ,
salvation, and the church. J. Gresham Machen's Christianity and
Liberalism has remained relevant through the years ever since its
original publication in 1923. It was named one of the top 100 books
of the millennium by World magazine and one of the top 100 books of
the twentieth century by Christianity Today. / -An admirable book.
For its acumen, for its saliency, and for its wit, this cool and
stringent defense of orthodox Protestantism is, I think, the best
popular argument produced [in the controversy between Christianity
and liberalism].- / -- Walter Lippmann in A Preface to Morals / -It
is my conviction that Machen's book can still speak today. . . .
Even for those who do not agree with his central thesis,
Christianity and Liberalism can still be understood as representing
one of the literary artifacts of a generation that had come to see
liberalism as leading inexorably to a sentimentalized religion that
had nothing to do with the God of the Bible or, indeed, with real
life.- / -- Carl R. Trueman (from the foreword) / Westminster
Theological Seminary
Distinctive new collection of studies exploring a central biblical
doctrine
Traditionally Protestant theology, between Luther's early reforming
career and the dawn of the Enlightenment, has been seen in terms of
decline and fall into the wastelands of rationalism and scholastic
speculation. Editors Trueman and Clark challenge this perception in
this transatlantic collection of eighteen essays covering: Luther
and Calvin; Early Reformed Orthodoxy; the British Connection; From
High Orthodoxy to Enlightenment; and the Rise of Lutheran
Orthodoxy.
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