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Luis de Molina: The Life and Theology of the Founder of Middle Knowledge

Luis de Molina: The Life and Theology of the Founder of Middle Knowledge

by Kirk R. MacGregor

When Luis de Molina died in Madrid in 1600, he had every reason to believe he was about to be anathametized by Pope Clement VIII. The Protestant Reformation was splitting Europe, tribunals of the Inquisition met regularly in a dozen Spanish cities, and the Pope had launched a commission two years earlier to investigate Molina’s writings. Molina wa… Read more…

Introducing Christian Doctrine

Introducing Christian Doctrine

by Millard J. Erickson and L. Arnold Hustad

Leading evangelical scholar Millard Erickson offers a new edition of his bestselling doctrine text (over 100,000 copies sold), now thoroughly revised throughout. This book is an abridged, less technical version of Erickson's classic Christian Theology. Pastors and students alike will find this survey of Christian theology and doctrine to be biblical, con… Read more…

Exploring Christology and Atonement: Conversations with John McLeod Campbell, H. R. Mackintosh and T. F. Torrance

Exploring Christology and Atonement: Conversations with John McLeod Campbell, H. R. Mackintosh and T. F. Torrance

by Andrew Purves

Andrew Purves, the author of many works in pastoral theology, has spent his life exploring the significance of Jesus Christ for the life of the church. As a professor of historical theology, he has also investigated the significance of patristic and Reformed theology for understanding Christ. In Exploring Christology and Atonement, Purves brings these concer… Read more…

Theology as Retrieval: Receiving the Past, Renewing the Church

Theology as Retrieval: Receiving the Past, Renewing the Church

by W. David Buschart and Kent Eilers

"Tradition is the living faith of the dead." —Jaroslav Pelikan The movement to retrieve the Christian past is a mode of theological discernment, a cultivated habit of thought. It views the doctrines, practices and resonant realities of the Christian tradition as deep wells for a thirsty age. This movement across the church looks back in order to move forwa… Read more…

Faith, Freedom and the Spirit: The Economic Trinity in Barth, Torrance and Contemporary Theology

Faith, Freedom and the Spirit: The Economic Trinity in Barth, Torrance and Contemporary Theology

by Paul D. Molnar

Distinguished scholar Paul Molnar adds to his previous work, Divine Freedom and the Doctrine of the Immanent Trinity, to help us think more accurately about the economic Trinity, about divine and human interaction in the sphere of faith and knowledge within history. Exploring why it is imperative to begin and end theology from within faith, Molnar relies on … Read more…

Reformed Catholicity: The Promise of Retrieval for Theology and Biblical Interpretation

Reformed Catholicity: The Promise of Retrieval for Theology and Biblical Interpretation

by J. Todd Billings, Michael Allen and Scott R. Swain

Can Christians and churches be both catholic and Reformed? In this volume, two accomplished young theologians argue that to be Reformed means to go deeper into true catholicity rather than away from it. Their manifesto for a catholic and Reformed approach to dogmatics seeks theological renewal through retrieval of the rich resources of the historic Christian… Read more…

Covenants Made Simple: Understanding God’s Unfolding Promises to His People

Covenants Made Simple: Understanding God’s Unfolding Promises to His People

by Jonty Rhodes

What do the various covenants given throughout the Bible mean to us? Are they relevant to our lives? A rainbow now and then may remind us of God’s promise to Noah, and we’ve memorized the part about the new covenant in Jesus’ blood at communion—but do we dig any deeper? Jonty Rhodes guides us in an engaging study of covenant theology and why it matte… Read more…

Exploring Christian Theology : Volume 1: Revelation, Scripture, and the Triune God

Exploring Christian Theology : Volume 1: Revelation, Scripture, and the Triune God

by Michael J. Svigel and Nathan D. Holsteen

The Foundations of Theology in Everyday LanguageDallas Seminary professors Nathan Holsteen and Michael Svigel are passionate about the key doctrines of Christianity. They want readers to know why they're important and why they matter. This volume includes two parts:· How Firm a Foundation: Revelation, Scripture, and Truth· God in Thre… Read more…

Everyone's a Theologian: An Introduction to Systematic Theology
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Everyone's a Theologian: An Introduction to Systematic Theology

by R. C. Sproul

Narrated by Sproul, R. C.

Many people react negatively to the word theology, believing that it involves dry, fruitless arguments about minute points of doctrine. Yet as Dr. R.C. Sproul argues,everyone is a theologian. Any time we think about a teaching of the Bible and strive to understand it, we are engaging in theology. Therefore, it is important that we put the Bible's varied … Read more…

Theology and the End of Doctrine

Theology and the End of Doctrine

by Christine Helmer

This book is about the crisis brought about by doctrine's estrangement from reality--that is from actual lives, experiences, histories, and from God. By invoking "the end of doctrine," Christine Helmer opens a new discussion of doctrinal production that is engaged with the challenges and possibilities of modernity. The end of doctrine refers on the one h… Read more…

From Nothing: A Theology of Creation

From Nothing: A Theology of Creation

by Ian A McFarland

Too often the doctrine of creation has been made to serve limited or pointless ends, like the well-worn arguments between science and faith over the question of human and cosmic origins. Given this history, some might be tempted to ignore the theology of creation, thinking it has nothing new or substantive to say.… Read more…

Words of Life: Scripture as the Living and Active Word of God

Words of Life: Scripture as the Living and Active Word of God

by Timothy Ward

Throughout Christian history, the overwhelmingly predominant view of the Bible has been that it is itself the living and active word of God. In this book Timothy Ward explains and defends what we are really saying when we trust and proclaim, as we must, that the Bible is God's word. In particular he describes the nature of the relationship between the li… Read more…


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