Outline : How is it that a first-generation Jewish messianic movement undertook a mission to the pagan world and rapidly achieved a momentum that would have a lasting and significant impact on world history? This momentous question has surprisingly eluded the concentrated focus of historians and New Testament scholars. Perhaps it is because the story of early Christian mission encompasses so mu…
Outline : Hello Daddy! We want to know you. And be close to you. Please show us how. With lyrical text from The Jesus Storybook Bible and new illustrations. The Lord's Prayer comes alive for children like never before. Cuddle up with your little one as you both discover God's Never Stopping, Never Giving Up, Unbreaking, Always and Forever Love.
Outline: "Required reading for every current and future cross-cultural worker" Drawing on decades of teaching and mission experience, leading missiologist Darrell Whiteman helps people in ministry learn how to explore and understand their social, cultural, and religious context so they can more effectively witness to people in cultural different from their own.
Outline: Learning Greek is one thing. Retaining it and using it in preaching, teaching, and ministry is another. Greek for Life offers practical guidance, inspiration, and motivation to help readers learn, retain, and use Greek for ministry, setting hem on a lifelong journey of reading and loving the Greek New Testament. The book also surveys helpful resources for recovering Greek after a long …
Outline : "This book will stimulate and sharpen the thinking of any pastor or teacher" This accessible introduction to hermeneutics helps students and pastors better interpret and understand God's Word.
Outline : Do you know what love is? It means that I'll be kind, and try to be the sweetest friend that you could ever find. Love is kind, patient, full of hope, and so much more! Celebrate love with your little one as you read this perfect cuddle-up read-aloud book that features. 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8
Outline : The Christian church of the early centuries spread throughout much of Asia, Africa, and Europe, spoke many languages, was situated within diverse cultural settings, and had varied worship practices; yet it maintained a vital unity on core teachings at the heart of the Christian faith. Author Donald Fairbairn helps readers understand both the variety and unity of the church in this piv…
Outline : "A contribution to Christology that is an edifying as it is scholarly" This book challenges reductive modern readings of the transfiguration and shows how the mountain scene is not only about Jesus's glory as man but about his glory as God.
Outline : When we read Scripture, we enter the divine classroom for sanctifying instruction. In Taught by God, Brandon D. Smith contends that Scripture is not simply a collection of historical facts or moral rules; it is an encounter with the living God. Engaging with figures such as Origen, Justin, Hugh of St. Victor, Aquinas, and Luther, Smith illustrates how a premodern way of reading Script…
Outline : The book of Joel bears witness to the power of prophetic literature. With vivid imagery - locusts, droughts, invasions, apocalyptic signs - the book guides readers through visions of devastation and terror to promises of restoration and hope. In his commentary, Joel Barker explores the meaning of this prophetic book and how Joel's understanding of God, his people, and his creation fin…
Outline : This newly revised third edition of Jesus and the Gospels prepares readers for an in-depth exploration of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Esteemed New Testament scholar Craig Blomberg considers the Gospels’ historical context while examining fresh scholarship, critical methods, and contemporary applications for today. Along with updated introductions, maps, and diagrams, Blomberg’s…
Outline : This sequel to G. K. Beale's renowned A New Testament Biblical Theology fleshes out nineteen significant theological realities and benefits of the believer's union with the resurrected Christ. Union with Christ is an important theological and practical concept that has received considerable attention in recent years. But not much consideration has been given to this union and its bene…
Outline : Over 2 million readers around the world have had their spiritual lives enriched and their understanding of God’s Word expanded by The MacArthur Study Bible. Drawing on more than fifty years of dedicated pastoral and scholarly work, Dr. John MacArthur’s verse-by-verse study notes, book introductions, and articles display an unparalleled commitment to interpretive precision—with t…
Outline : "A Historically informed and theologically sensitive reading of the gospels" This survey textbook offers an accessible introduction to the four Gospels in their literary, canonical, and theological contexts. Part 1 examines what the Gospels are and how we got four canonical Gospels. Part 2 explores the role history, narrative, and theology play in our reading of the Gospels. Part 3 ex…
Outline : "Previous few texts succeed where this one excels" Many introductions to the New Testament focus on critical issues such as authorship, background, and history. While this book addresses these important issues as well, its focus is on reading the text of the New Testament itself. The authors pay attention to how the New Testament documents fit together as a canonical whole that supple…
Outline : Mark Awabdy offers a substantive and useful commentary on the book of Numbers that is both critically engaged and sensitive to the theological contributions of the text. This is the second volume in a new series on the Pentateuch, which complements other Baker Commentary on the Old Testament series: Historical Books, Wisdom and Psalms, and Prophets. Each series volume covers one book …
Outline : Pairing depth of scholarship with contemporary application, the authors of From Pentecost to Patmos have produced a unique introductory New Testament textbook. Craig Blomberg and Darlene Seal provide the context and clarity that readers need to better understand Acts through Revelation, showcasing the historical, linguistic, and theological implications found in each book. This second…
Outline : Recognizing that faithful theological study is an integrative task, the Theology for the People of God series uniquely combines biblical and systematic theology in dialogue with historical theology and with application to church and life. The series addresses classic doctrines of systematic theology and other relevant topics, pairing careful scholarship with the practical understandin…
Outline : The Touchstone Text series addresses key Bible passages, making high-quality biblical scholarship accessible for the church. The series editor is Stephen B. Chapman. Since the beginning of Christianity, the Lord's Prayer has occupied an important place in the lives of Jesus's disciples, for it is the prayer Jesus himself taught them. This volume helps readers understand how this class…
Outline : Recognizing that faithful theological study is an integrative task, uniquely combines biblical and systematic theology in dialogue with historical theology and with application to church and life. The series addresses classic doctrines of systematic theology and other relevant topics, pairing careful scholarship with the practical understanding that theology finds its focus within the…
Outline: What is sanctity? Devotion, culture, art, theology, liturgy, history: through fascinating selected case studies, Profiling Saints offers a fresh kaleidoscopic perspective on sanctity as it developed and was understood and represented in the Early Modern global world up to the post-revolutionary period. The authors, drawing on their expertise in a rich array of disciplines, will lead re…
Outline: Religious texts of various literary genres reveal the transforming expressions of piety from medieval times to the early modern period. Focused on prayer books and addressing a worldwide readership, this bi-lingual volume contextualizes a specific genre, devotional literature, within a broad geographical and chronological framework, bringing together local and global to define the plac…
Outline: Were early modern religious conflicts wars 'of religion', 'between religions', or 'about religion'? The ways in which war was waged and peace was agreed in the 'long sixteenth century' were strongly influence by, had a deep connection with, and produced a lasting impact on, the religious divide of Latin Christianity in the wake of the Reformation. This collection of essays seeks to ana…
Outline: At the Synod of Dordrecht, deep questions of grace, justification and faith were at stake. In this volume lines are drawn to the historical, theological and political context during that period. Patristics, Middle Ages, metaphysical questions and the church polity of Dordt are discussed as well as with some hermeneutical reflections.
Outline : This work examines John Calvin's understanding of the relationship between Jews and Christians at a fundamental level. After reviewing the status of Jews and Hebrew studies in Europe in in the late Middle Ages, the author turns specifically to Calvin's interpretation of Scripture. Several important questions are addressed: How did Calvin understand the relationship between Jews and Ch…
Outline : The bilingual, interdisciplinary volume offers groundbreaking contributors on social, economic, cultural, and church historical aspects of the early modern era in the Carpathian Basin. In doing so, it challenges and completely reevaluates previously held research opinions on the history of tolerance in Transylvania.
Outline: Every four years, the International Calvin Congress gathers together a wide spectrum of presents from leading scholars to early-career researchers to learn from each other through several days of plenary lectures, panel sessions, and discussions. The fruits of the 13th quadrennial international Calvin Congress are now available. Several contributors focus directly on the conference the…
Outline : This volume presents collected essays from scholars around the world on various aspects of Petrus van Mastricht (1630 - 1706) theology, philosophy, and reception in the context of his time. The status of theology and philosophy in the wake of the Enlightenment had many of the same problems we see in theology today as relating to the use and appropriation of classical theology in a 21s…
Outline: How can a Christian historian be faithful to the discipline of history as well as their own religious commitments? Arnold Dallimore, a Canadian church-historian, wrote an extensive two-volume biography of George Whitefield, among others, in which he exemplifies a theology-oriented historiographical approach. Ian Hugh Clary's study examines Dallimore's historiography focusing on questio…
Outline: In the lead up to the Synod of Dort, William Ames (1576 - 1633) established himself as a champion of Reformed orthodoxy through a series of polemical writings against Arminianism. While his best-known work, The Marrow Theology, is widely studies, these Latin anti-Arminian works have long been neglected by scholars. This book provides the first extensive study of these polemical works. …
Outline : Richard Hooker (1553/4 - 1600) was the premier theologian of the early church of England, and has been treated in the past by scholars primarily as the architect of "Anglicanism." The contributors to this volume facilitate new perspectives on Richard Hooker's theology. A wide range of scholars consider Richard Hooker's theology within the full context of late 16th- and early 17th-cent…
Outline: The understanding of personhood is one of the central issues of debate in many academic disciplines as well as in society at large. This collection of specially commissioned essays provides a modern theological exploration. Against a background of the renaissance of trinitarian thought, the authors explore the interrelationship between divine personhood, as it is expressed in the doctr…
Outline: How do you navigate the intersection between faith and your academic discipline? In Faithful Learning, Jacob Shatzer offers an accessible theological primer for Christian educators who desire to understand their disciplines through a theological lens. Each chapter includes doctrinal introductions followed by paradigms that reader can learn from and implement. Ultimately, Shatzer outlin…
Outline : How we read the Bible has a profound impact on how we understand what mission is. This book encourages us to explore the Bible's grand narrative and to bring the whole counsel of God in Scripture to our understanding of who we are and what we must do as God's people.
Outline: "Invites us to participate in the transformative work of the Spirit" This book offers a fresh look at the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, focusing specifically on the question of the person and work of the Spirit in the Christian life.
Outline: Deep faith requires consistent study of God's word, but to understand the original text as God intended, students of Scripture must develop a strong inductive, historical, and descriptive exegetical process. In Biblical Theology, Andreas J. Kostenberger and Gregory Goswell offer a clear, comprehensive methodology for interpreting the sixty-six books of the Bible - identifying their cen…
Outline : Petrus van Mastricht's Theoretical-Practical Theology presents one of the most comprehensive methods of treating Christian doctrine. In it, Mastricht treats every theological topic according to a four-part approach: exegetical, dogmatic, elenctic, and practical. As a body of divinity, it combines a rigorous, scholastic treatment of doctrine with the pastoral aim of preparing people to…
Outline: Recognizing that faithful theological study is an integrative task, the Theology for the People of God series uniquely combines biblical and systematic theology in dialogue with historical theology and with application to church and life. This series addresses classic doctrines of systematic theology and other relevant topics, pairing careful scholarship with the practical understandin…
Outline : Modern theology claimed it ignited a renaissance in Trinitarian Theology. Really, it has been a renaissance in social trinitarianism. Classical commitments such as divine simplicity have been jettisoned, the three persons have been redefined as three centers of consciousness and will, and modern agendas in politics, gender, and ecclesiology determine the terms of the discussion. Conte…
Outline : How can we read the text of scripture well, rightly, and faithfully? Challenges abound when it comes to reading Scripture, including not only the variety of actual interpretations of the Bible but also the plurality of reading cultures, each with its own preferred frame of reference. A cynical observer might say that Christians have never agreed upon how to interpret the Bible, or eve…
Outline: Interpreting Scripture brings together N.T. Wright's most important articles on Scripture and hermeneutics over the last two decades. Many of the included studies have never been published or are only available in hard-to-find larger volumes and journals. This companion volume to Interpreting Jesus and Interpreting Paul is essential reading for all with a serious interest in the Bible …
Outline: Interpreting Paul brings together N. T. Wright's most important articles on Paul and his letters since the publication of his magisterial Paul and the Faithfulness of God in 2013. Many of the included studies have never been published or are only available in hard-to-find larger volumes and journals. This companion volume to Interpreting Scripture and Interpreting Jesus is essential re…
Outline : Interpreting Jesus brings together N. T. Wright's most important and influential articles on Jesus and the Gospels over the last three decades. Many of the included studies have never been published or are only available in hard-to-find larger volumes and journals. This companion volume to Interpreting Scripture and Interpreting Paul is essential reading for all with a serious interes…
Outline : Theology of ministry seems to be in vogue these days. There is a growing awareness that questions about the legitimacy, content and structure of church ministry need to be thought through to enable churches to meet their missional challenges. Moreover, these challenges are not only limited to some churches or denominations. There is a growing awareness that the search for an appropria…
Overview: The subject of this volume is Francis Turretin's federal theology as a defense of the doctrine of grace. Specifically, it deals with Turretin's exposition of the twofold covenant of God, that is the covenant of nature and the covenant of grace. In treating this subject, the author has a twofold objective: first, to contribute to an understanding of Turretin's theology, and second, t…
Outline : Though undertreated by modern scholars, Martin Luther'slectures on Deuteronomy are critical to understanding histheological development as an exegete as well as the courseof the Reformation in the wake of Luther's return from theWartburg in 1522. In these lectures, Luther engages deeplywith Moses, whom he sees as an author, prophet, and ruler.These three ways of regarding Moses allow …
Overview: In Lutheran Germany of the post-Reformation era (ca. 1580-1750), a genre of pastoral, ethical writings was developed that consisted in casuistry and in topically or thematically related theological counsels, intended to instruct the consciences of Christians. Examining the Thesaurus Consiliorum Et Decisionum (1623/1671), the author illustrates the different ways in which Lutherans re…
Outline : Every Sunday, there's a battle for your heart. You understand the importance of attending church, but you probably find your attention being pulled away from Sunday services by distractions of schedule, work, family, finances, or other competing priorities. With so much going on in your life, how will you prepare your heart and mind to offer God the worship he deserves? Christians und…