{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"ItemList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Interpreting John Calvin \/ Ford Lewis Battles ; edited by Robert Benedetto ; with introductory essays by I. John Hesselink and Donald K. McKim.","author":"Battles, Ford L.","isbn":"0801020972","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Baker Books"},"datePublished":"1996","inLanguage":"English","description":"Foreword \/ Richard C. Gamble -- Introductory Essays \/ I. John Hesselink and Donald K. McKim -- pt. 1. Origin and Structure of Calvin's Theology -- 1. Calvin's Humanistic Education -- 2. Sources of Calvin's Seneca Commentary -- 3. First Edition of the Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536) -- 4. God Was Accommodating Himself to Human Capacity -- 5. Calculus Fidei: Some Ruminations on the Structure of the Theology of John Calvin -- pt. 2. Calvin's Poetry, Piety, and Morality -- 6. Theologian as Poet: Some Remarks about the \"Found\" Poetry of John Calvin -- 7. True Piety According to Calvin -- 8. Notes on John Calvin, Justitia, and the Old Testament Law -- 9. Against Luxury and License in Geneva: A Forgotten Fragment of Calvin [1546-47]. App. 1. Chief Lineaments of Calvin's Religious Experience -- App. 2. Antithetical Structure of Calvin's Institutes -- App. 3. Chief Motifs in Calvin's Institutes -- App. 4. Tabulation of Biblical Citations in the Institutes -- Ford Lewis Battles Bibliography.\n\nPublished in: Grandrapids Mich.\n\nPhysical description: 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Kingdom of God in America.","author":"Niebuhr, H. R.; Honig, R. M.","isbn":":","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Church World Service"},"datePublished":null,"inLanguage":"English","description":"On spine: Das Gottesreich in Amerika.\r\nBibliographical references in \"Anmerkungen\" (p. 145-153).\n\nPublished in: New York\n\nPhysical description: ix, 154 pages ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The contemplative pastor : returning to the art of spiritual direction \/ Eugene H. Peterson.","author":"Peterson, Eugene H.","isbn":"0802801145","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"W.B. Eerdmans"},"datePublished":"1993","inLanguage":"English","description":"Redefinitions -- I. The Naked Noun -- II. The Unbusy Pastor -- III. The Subversive Pastor -- IV. The Apocalyptic Pastor -- Between Sundays -- V. Ministry amid the Traffic -- VI. Curing Souls: The Forgotten Art -- VII. Praying with Eyes Open -- VIII. First Language -- IX. Is Growth a Decision? -- X. The Ministry of Small Talk -- XI. Unwell in a New Way -- XII. Lashed to the Mast -- XIII. Desert and Harvest: A Sabbatical Story -- The Word Made Fresh -- XIV. Poets and Pastors -- XV. Poems.\n\nPublished in: Grand Rapids, Mich.\n\nPhysical description: viii, 171 pages ; 23 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The Israel of God in prophecy : principles of prophetic interpretation \/ by Hans K. LaRondelle.","author":"LaRondelle, H. K.","isbn":"0943872146","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Andrews University Press"},"datePublished":"1983","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: \t1. The Christocentric focus of all Holy Scripture -- The need for the Christocentric focus in prophetic interpretations -- 2. The key to the Old Testament: Literalism or the New Testament? -- The key to the Old Testament: the New Testament -- Literalism in late Judaism -- The key to the Old Testament: Christ in the New Testament -- 3. The literal and allegorical interpretations -- The literal interpretation -- The allegorical interpretation -- 4. The typological interpretation -- Limitations of types -- Dispensationalism and typology -- Typology in prophetic eschatology. \r\n5. The Christological interpretation -- Messianic prophecies -- Resurrection of Christ \"on the third day\" in the Old Testament -- Jesus' messianic applications of Israel's cultic songs -- Christological interpretation of historical descriptions in the prophetic books -- 6. The theological significance and mission of Israel's remnant -- Israel in the Old Testament -- The universal purpose of Israel's election. \r\n7. The ecclesiological interpretation of Israel's remnant -- Christ's gathering of Israel's remnant: The beginning of the church -- The church as the remnant of Israel's prophecies -- \"The Israel of God: in the context of Galatians -- Gentile Christians are fellow citizens in Israel -- The ecclesiological application of Israel's covenant -- 8. The church and Israel in Romans 9-11 -- The role of the context in biblical distinctions -- \"Israel\" in the context of Romans -- Paul's application of Israel's remnant theology -- Does Paul look for Israel's restored theocracy in Palestine? \r\n9. Israel's territorial promise in New Testament perspective -- The land promised to the Israel of God only -- The unity of biblical eschatology -- The inadequacy of the hermeneutic of literalism -- One hope for Abraham, Israel, and the church -- 10. Problematic texts -- Amos 9:11-12 as applied in Acts 15:16-18 -- Isaiah 11:10-12: What is the fulfillment of Israel's \"Second\" gathering? -- Matthew 23:39: Will the Jews be saved when they see the Messiah in His glory? -- Luke 21:2: Is Jerusalem no longer trampled on by the Gentiles since A.D. 1967? \r\n11. God's ultimatum to Israel: The seventy weeks of Daniel -- The unbreakable unity of the seventy weeks -- Reasons for dissecting the weeks? -- Did Christ put an end to Israel's sacrifices? -- When did Christ become the Anointed One? -- Literal exegesis of Daniel's seventieth week eliminates gap hypothesis -- 12. The predicted tribulation and hope for the church -- The Blessed Hope of the church -- The predicted Tribulation for Israel and the church -- Christ's promise of protection in the Tribulation -- The Posttribulation Parousia of Christ in Matthew 24 -- Hoe does Christ apply the predicted \"abomination\" of Daniel 9? -- Paul's answer to the imminency expectation. \r\n\r\nOther Notes: \tIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index.\n\nPublished in: Berrien Springs, Mich.\n\nPhysical description: xiv, 226 pages ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":"Andrews University monographs. Studies in religion","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Watch for the light : readings for Advent and Christmas.","author":"Plough Publishing House","isbn":"087486917X","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Plough Pub. House"},"datePublished":"2001","inLanguage":"English","description":"Action in waiting \/ Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt -- Black rook in rainy weather \/ Sylvia Plath -- The dangers of Advent \/ J.B. Phillips -- Meditation \/ Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster -- Waiting for God \/ Henri Nouwen -- In defense of humility \/ Bernard of Clairvaux -- Annunciation \/ Kathleen Norris -- Where God enters \/ Meister Eckhart -- The divine dawning \/ St. Thomas Aquinas \/ Karl Rahner -- Concerning the light \/ Isaac Penington -- A sky full of children \/ Madeleine L'Engle -- The shaking reality of Advent \/ Alfred Delp -- To be a virgin \/ Loretta Ross-Gotta -- The penitential season \/ William Stringfellow -- From the stable to the cross \/ J. Heinrich Arnold \/ Edith Stein -- Yielding to God \/ Philip Britts -- Mosaic of the Nativity \/ Jane Kenyon -- The original revolution \/ John Howard Yoder -- Christmas joy \/ Emmy Arnold -- To believe \/ Karl Barth -- The God we hardly knew \/ Oscar Romero \/ William Willimon -- Be not afraid \/ Johann Christoph Arnold -- Genealogy and grace \/ Gail Godwin -- The man who is God \/ Leonardo Boff -- The light of the world \/ G.M. Hopkins \/ Evelyn Underhill -- Room for Christ \/ Dorothy Day -- Shipwrecked at the stable \/ Brennan Manning -- The coming of Jesus in our midst \/ Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- The holy mother \/ Romano Guardini -- Bethlehem \/ Annie Dillard -- To you Christ is born \/ Martin Luther -- The mystery \/ St. John Chrysostom -- Ox and ass \/ Giovanni Papini -- The Christmas gospel \/ Dorothee Soelle -- The grand miracle \/ C.S. Lewis -- Christ's history, and ours \/ Gustavo Gutie\u0301rrez -- The visited planet \/ Philip Yancey -- The time of no room \/ J.T. Clement \/ Thomas Merton -- When the time was fulfilled \/ Eberhard Arnold -- Only a rumor \/ Soren Kierkegaard -- The wise men \/ Ernesto Cardenal -- The journey of the Magi \/ T.S. Eliot -- The showing forth of Christ \/ John Donne -- Love alone \/ Gian Carlo Menotti -- The disarming child \/ Jurgen Moltmann.\n\nPublished in: Farmington, PA\n\nPhysical description: xvii, 330p., 20 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}}]}