{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"ItemList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Christian doctrine \/ Shirley C. Guthrie.","author":null,"isbn":"0664253687","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":": Westminster\/J. Knox Press"},"datePublished":"1994","inLanguage":"English","description":"Part 1. The Method and Task of Theology -- 1. Who is a Theologian? -- 2. Who Says So? The Problem of Authority -- Part 2. God and Human Beings -- 3. How can we find God? The Doctrine of General Revelation -- 4. How does God find us? The Doctrine of Special Revelation -- 5. Who is God? The Doctrine of the Trinity -- 6. What is God like? The Doctrine of the Attributes of God -- 7. What does God want with us? The Doctrine of Predestination -- Part 3. God the Creator and Creation -- 8. What are we doing here? The Doctrine of Creation -- 9. Why doesn{u2019}t God do something about it? The Doctrine of Providence and the Problem of Evil -- 10. Who are we? The Doctrine of Human Beings -- 11. Why don{u2019}t you just be yourself? The Doctrine of Sin -- Part 4. God in Christ and Reconciliation -- 12. Where is God? The Doctrine of the Incarnation -- 13. Is God against us? The Doctrine of the Atonement -- 14. Who{u2019}s in Charge Here? The Doctrine of the Resurrection -- Part 5. God the Holy Spirit and New Life -- 15. What{u2019}s new? The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit -- 16. Are you a Christian? The Doctrine of Justification -- 17. Are you a Christian? The Doctrine of Sanctification -- 18. Living or Dead? The Doctrine of the Church -- 19. What{u2019}s going to happen to us? The Doctrine of the Christian Hope for the Future. \r\n \tAbstract\tChristian Doctrine has introduced thousands of laity, students, and theologians to the tenets of the Christian faith. This edition reflects changes in the church and society since the publication of the first edition and takes into account new works in Reformed theology, gender references in the Bible, racism, pluralism, ecological developments, and liberation theologies.\n\nPublished in: louiseville\n\nPhysical description: xiv, 434 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Christian ethics : a historical introduction \/ J. Philip Wogaman.","author":"Wogaman, J. P.","isbn":null,"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Westminster\/John Knox Press"},"datePublished":"1993","inLanguage":"English","description":"The legacies of Christian ethics -- The biblical legacy of Christian ethics -- Philosophical legacies -- The ethics of early Christianity -- The formative years -- Seminal thinkers and transitions -- The moral vision of Saint Augustine -- Medieval Christianity -- Monastic and mystical contributions -- The confessional -- The Thomistic synthesis -- Late medieval forerunners -- The era of Reformation and Enlightenment -- The reformers : Luther and Calvin -- Catholic humanism and Counter-Reformation -- The radical Reformation -- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rationalism and evangelicalism -- Rationalism and revival in the eighteenth century -- Nineteenth-century philosophical and Christian ethics -- Nineteenth-century slavery and feminist controversies -- Christian ethics in the twentieth century -- The social gospel movement -- The social encyclicals -- Formative Christian moral thinkers -- The Vatican II watershed -- Liberation theology -- Ecumenical social ethics -- Christian ethics toward the third millennium -- Conflicting tendencies -- Can Christian ethics find a creative center? \r\n \tAbstract\tWogaman treats major thinkers, movements, and issues from the early church to the present.\n\nPublished in: Louisville, Ky.\n\nPhysical description: xi, 340 pages ; 23 cm","bookEdition":"1st ed.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Christian ethics : contemporary issues & options \/ Norman L. Geisler","author":"Geisler, Norman L.","isbn":"9780801038792","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Baker Academic"},"datePublished":"2010","inLanguage":"English","description":"Part 1. Ethical Options: All the options -- Antinomianism -- Situationism -- Generalism -- Unqualified absolutism -- Conflicting absolutism -- Graded absolutism -- The basis for ethical decisions -- Part 2. Ethical Issues: Abortion -- Infanticide and euthanasia -- Biomedical issues -- Capital punishment -- War -- Civil disobedience -- Sexual issues -- Homosexuality -- Marriage and divorce -- Ecology -- Animal rights. \r\n \tAbstract\t\"In this thorough update of a classic textbook, noted Christian thinker Norman Geisler evaluates contemporary ethical options (such as antinomianism, situation ethics, and legalism) and pressing issues of the day (such as euthanasia, homosexuality, and divorce) from a biblical perspective. The second edition is significantly expanded and updated, with new material and charts throughout the book. There are new chapters on animal rights, sexual ethics, and the biblical basis for ethical decisions, as well as four new appendixes addressing drugs, gambling, pornography, and birth control. The author has significantly updated his discussion of abortion, biomedical ethics, war, and ecology and has expanded the selected readings, bibliography, and glossary\"--Publisher description.\n\nPublished in: Grand Rapids, Mich.\n\nPhysical description: 442 pages ; 23 cm","bookEdition":"2ND ED.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Christian mission in the modern world \/ John R.W. Stott.","author":"Stott, John R. W.","isbn":"0877844852","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"InterVarsity Press"},"datePublished":"1975","inLanguage":"English","description":"John Stott's aim is to examine the biblical meaning of some of the great key words which are at the centre of the contemporary debate about Christian mission. In that debate, the interpretation of mission which is popular in some circles within the ecumenical movement differs acutely from that which has been held traditionally by many evangelicals. The way forward is for the two sides to meet together in a joint study of the Scripture, and to correct and enrich their own and others' understanding of mission by a deeper understanding of the biblical missionary theme and a fuller submission to it. Four adjectives describe this book: biblical, clear, fair, constructive. - Foreword.\n\nPublished in: Downers Grove, Ill.\n\nPhysical description: 128 pages ; 22 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Christian mission in the modern world \/ John R.W. Stott.","author":"Stott, John R. W.","isbn":null,"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"InterVarsity Press"},"datePublished":"1975","inLanguage":"English","description":"Introduction: words and their meanings -- Mission -- Evangelism -- Dialogue -- Salvation -- Conversion. \r\n \tAbstract\tJohn Stott's aim is to examine the biblical meaning of some of the great key words which are at the centre of the contemporary debate about Christian mission. In that debate, the interpretation of mission which is popular in some circles within the ecumenical movement differs acutely from that which has been held traditionally by many evangelicals. The way forward is for the two sides to meet together in a joint study of the Scripture, and to correct and enrich their own and others' understanding of mission by a deeper understanding of the biblical missionary theme and a fuller submission to it. Four adjectives describe this book: biblical, clear, fair, constructive. - Foreword.\n\nPublished in: Downers Grove, Ill.\n\nPhysical description: 128 pages ; 22 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":6,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Christianity encountering world religions : the practice of mission in the twenty-first century \/ Terry Muck, Frances Adeney.","author":"Muck, Terry C.; Adeney, Frances S.","isbn":"9780801026607","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Baker Academic"},"datePublished":"2009","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: \t\r\npt. 1. Context, text and pre-texts -- Context: the world of religion today -- Text: what the Bible says -- Pre-texts: theology and personality -- pt. 2. Practices: Beyond competition and cooperation -- Universality: reaching out to all, including Christians -- Fellowship: Belonging precedes believing -- Localization: focusing on questions and concerns of the local community -- Commitment: holding ideas with conviction; acting decisively on those ideas; not letting those ideas be divisive -- Freedom: honoring the principle of religious choice -- Effectiveness: allowing the context to determine the form of witness -- Consistency: striving for consistency between methods and goals -- Variety: communicating the Gospel in many forms -- Respect: not disparaging others in order to champion your own; not disparaging your own in order to respect others -- Charity: loving those to whom we witness -- Missional ecumenicity: practicing mission as the joint project of the church -- Jesus, mission innovator: Jesus's model of giftive mission -- pt. 3. Method: how do we do it -- The spiral of knowledge acquisition: learning about new cultures and new religions -- Experiencing: the influence of our personal histories -- Bracketing: putting convictions on hold -- Encountering: learning from a new culture and religion -- Evaluating: appraising the new culture and religion from a Christian viewpoint -- Integrating : reshaping our own views and mission practices -- pt. 4. Giftive Mission -- Metaphors for mission -- The four gifts -- Giftive misssion -- Appendix. Biblical interreligious encounters.\r\n\r\nAbstract: \t\r\nGiven the unique religious climate of the twenty-first century and the challenges to Christian missions it poses, Christianity Encountering World Religions proposes a new model for interacting with people of other faiths. The authors term this model \"giftive mission,\" since it is based on the metaphor of a free gift. They suggest that seeing mission activity as giving the greatest gift possible-- the gospel message-- not only has the potential for greater missionary success but also enables us to imitate more closely God's gracious activity in the world - from back of the book.\n\nPublished in: Grand Rapids, Mich.\n\nPhysical description: 407 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":7,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Church administration: creating efficiency for effective ministry \/ by Robert H. Welch.","author":"Welch, Robert H.","isbn":null,"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"B&H Publishing Group"},"datePublished":"2011","inLanguage":"English","description":"For churches and religious nonprofit companies, the business of business is not business - it is ministry. Still, these institutions have to make practical plans to facilitate their higher calling. Because skilled organization is needed to accomplish specific tasks, a leader must train and motivate workers in progress and effectiveness\n\nPublished in: Nashville, Tenn.\n\nPhysical description: xii, 399 pp; 23 cm;.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":8,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Church history in plain language \/ Bruce L. Shelley ; [foreword by Scott A. Wenig].","author":"Shelley, Bruce L.","isbn":"9781418530051","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Thomas Nelson"},"datePublished":"2008","inLanguage":"English","description":"The age of Jesus and the apostles, 6 BC -- AD 70 -- 1. Away with the King : the Jesus movement -- 2. Wineskins : old and new : the gospel to the Gentiles -- The age of catholic Christianity, 70 -- 312 -- 3. Only worthless people : Catholic Christianity -- 4. If the Tiber floods : the persecution of Christians -- 5. Arguing about the event : the rise of orthodoxy -- 6. The rule of books : the formation of the Bible -- 7. The school for sinners : the power of bishops -- 8. Apostles to intellectuals : the Alexandrians -- The age of the Christian Roman empire, 312 -- 590 -- 9. Laying her sceptre down : the conversion of the empire -- 10. Splitting important hairs : the doctrine of the Trinity -- 11. Emmanuel! : Christ in the creeds -- 12. Exiles from life : the beginnings of monasticism -- 13. The sage of the ages : Augustine -- 14. Peter as 'pontifex maximus' : the beginnings of the papacy -- 15. Somewhere between heaven and earth : Eastern Orthodoxy -- 16. Bending the necks of victors : mission to the barbarians -- The Christian Middle Ages, 590 -- 1517 -- 17. God's consul : Gregory the Great -- 18. The search for unity : Charlemagne and Christendom -- 19. Lifted in a mystic manner : the papacy and the crusader -- 20. The nectar of learning : scholasticism -- 21. A song to Lady Poverty : the apostolic life-style -- 22. Sleeping men and the law of necessity : the decline of the papacy -- 23. Judgment in the process of time : Wyclif and Hus -- The age of Reformation, 1517 -- 1648 -- 24. A wild boar in the vineyard : Martin Luther and Protestantism -- 25. Radical discipleship : The Anabaptists -- 26. Thrust into the game : John Calvin -- 27. The curse upon the crown : the Church of England -- 28. 'Another man' at Manresa : the Catholic Reformation -- 29. Opening the rock : America and Asia -- 30. The rule of the saints : Puritanism -- 31. Unwilling to die for an old idea : denominations -- The age of reason and revival, 1648 -- 1789 -- 32. Aiming at the foundations : the cult of reason -- 33. The heart and its reasons : Pascal and the Pietists -- 34. A brand from the burning : Wesley and Methodism -- 35. A new order of the ages : the Great Awakening -- The age of progress, 1789 -- 1914 -- 36. The restoration of fortresses : Catholicism in the age of progress -- 37. A new social frontier : nineteenth-century England -- 38. To earth's remotest people : Protestant missions -- 39. The destiny of a nation : a Christian America -- 40. A bridge for intelligent moderns : Protestant liberalism -- 41. Nothing to lose but chains : the social crisis -- The age of ideologies, 1914- -- 42. Graffiti on a wall of shame : twentieth-century ideologies -- 43. Rootless immigrants in a sick society : American Evangelicals -- 44. New creeds for breakfast : the ecumenical movement -- 45. The medicine of mercy : Roman Catholicism : Vatican II -- 46. Time for a reverse flow : Christianity in the Third World -- 47. Politics is a noble calling : Christianity in America's me generation -- 48. The global village : Christianity on the world scene -- 49. Winds from afar : Christianity at the birth of the third millenn\n\nPublished in: Nashville, Tenn.\n\nPhysical description: 532P","bookEdition":"3RD EDITN","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":9,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Circles of dignity : community wisdom and theological reflection \/ James R. Cochrane.","author":"Cochrane, J. R.","isbn":"080063182X","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Fortress Press,"},"datePublished":null,"inLanguage":"English","description":"Deeply challenging to the religious and social status quo, this work searches for a new understanding of religion's role in our time of massive social, economic and geopolitical change. Guide by his remarkable experience with South African indigenous groups and popular religion, the author shows how marginalized people read the Bible and how their \"local wisdom\", or \"incipient theologies\", offers new perspectives on power, tradition and God, as well as new notions of ministry, Church and religion's role in the public sphere. Leveraging the insights at the margin to displace the centre, this work is a blueprint for a socially transformative theology.\n\nPublished in: Minneapolis, MN\n\nPhysical description: xxvi, 214 pages ; 23 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":10,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Colossians & Philemon \/ Robert W. Wall.","author":"Wall, Robert W.","isbn":"083081812X","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"InterVarsity Press"},"datePublished":"1993","inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: Downers Grove, Ill.\n\nPhysical description: 225 pages ; 23 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}}]}