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Christ's Fulfillment of Torah and Temple is a concise introduction to the Christian theology of salvation in light of the contributions of Thomas Aquinas. In this cogent study, Matthew Levering identifies six important aspects of soteriology, each of...

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume I lays the groundwork for a constructive contribution to the contemporary debate regarding divine action. Noted scholar, William J. Abraham argues that the concept of divine action is not a closed concept-like...

Compiled during the early years of the Reformation, Institution of a Christian Man lays out the principles of the nascent Church of England. In his definitive new edition, Gerald Bray charts the development of this text from the first version introduced...

In this volume, a noted theologian brings together an ecumenical roster of leading scholars to explore trinitarian faith as it is concretely experienced in the life of the church. Drawing upon and fostering renewed interest in trinitarian theology, the...

Thousands of words have been written about the first ten words in the Bible: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth," a simple and profound statement that has ignited a firestorm of debate and controversy. People often only focus on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610972338Author Kent EilersFormat PaperbackPage Count 556Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498236751Author Timothy HullFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

On the publication of Orthodoxy in 1908, Wilfrid Ward hailed G. K. Chesterton as a prophetic figure whose thought was to be classed with that Burke, Butler, Coleridge, and John Henry Newman. When Chesterton died in 1936, T. S. Eliot pronounced that...

Be anchored in the faith "once for all entrusted to the saints" (Jude v. 3) with timeless wisdom shared from church history. The Christian faith is founded upon unchanging, timeless truth. From the days of the early church until the day of Christ's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830849178Author Samantha L. MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm...

St Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) was one of the greatest Christian writers of medieval Europe. Although best known as the inventor of the famous 'ontological argument' for God's existence, his writings cover all the chief aspects of Christian doctrine...

Ten essays highlight different aspects of Jonathan Edwards's life and legacy and show how his teachings are just as relevant today as they were three centuries ago.About the AuthorJohn Piper is founder and lead teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor...

John Wyclif (d.1384) has too frequently been described as "Morning Star of the Reformation" and only recently begun to be studied as a fourteenth-century English philosopher and theologian. This work draws on recent scholarship situating Wyclif...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935271277Author Douglas G HanscombFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Ideas Into Books WestviewPublisher Ideas Into Books WestviewWeight(grams)...

This is the first translation into English of Marsilio Ficino's De Christiana religione, a text first written in Latin in 1474, the year after its author's ordination in the Roman Catholic Church. On the Christian Religion is this Florentine humanist's...

Martin Luther King's public life lasted only 13 years - yet in that time, he changed the USA's attitude to civil rights forever and continues to inspire human rights movements today. Richard Reddie has written the first book on King since Barack Obama...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692446270Author Vincent McNabb O PFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Mediatrix PressPublisher Mediatrix PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601789341Author J. V. FeskoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Reformation Heritage BooksPublisher Reformation Heritage Books

Postcolonial Politics and Theology seeks to reform and reimagine the field of political theology-uprooting it from the colonial soil-using the comparative lenses of postcolonial politics and theology to bring attention to the realities of the Global...

Dante's Commedia compels readers to confront the mystery of their existence, to seek understanding of their relationship to the living conscious reality from which all possible experience arises. By pursuing these lines of inquiry, says Vittorio...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852448267Author David H. WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 614Imprint GracewingPublisher Gracewing

This is a study of the life, monastic writings and spiritual theology of John Cassian (c.365-430). Cassian's writings were the bridge between eastern monasticism and the developing Latin monasticism of Southern Gaul, and exerted a major influence on the...

Across lines of tradition and denomination, many Christians express a purely propositional sense of belief, focused primarily on the existence of God and facts about Christ, contributing to a transactional approach to salvation. But belief is about more...

Andrew Louth examines all the traditions on which Denys' work draws: the Fourth Century Greek theologians, pagan philosophy and Syrian Christian thought. The corpus of Denys the Areopagite appeared in the sixth century and have since been deeply...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725292154Author Michel Ren BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666751505Author Stephen N WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

On the publication of Orthodoxy in 1908, Wilfrid Ward hailed G. K. Chesterton as a prophetic figure whose thought was to be classed with that Burke, Butler, Coleridge, and John Henry Newman. When Chesterton died in 1936, T. S. Eliot pronounced that...

A fresh exploration of the category Jewish Christianity, from its invention in the Enlightenment to contemporary debates For hundreds of years, historians have been asking fundamental questions about the separation of Christianity from Judaism in...

2018 Book Award Winner, The Gospel Coalition (Academic Theology) A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2019 Will all evil finally turn to good, or does some evil remain stubbornly opposed to God and God's goodness? Will even the devil be...

This is a collection of essays from leading theologians outlining current state of theological thought on the trinity. The book aims at showing the most important topics and paradigms in modern Trinitarian theology. It is supposed to be a comprehensive...

The New Testament has had a profound impact on Western society. But what do we actually know about its evolution? In what context did the texts originate? Who was Jesus, and how did he become the 'Son of God'? Were the four evangelists reliable...

No other theological text polarized the early modern Catholic world as much as Cornelius Jansen's Augustinus. In it the erudite bishop not only reconstructed St. Augustine's teaching on grace and free will, but also threw down the gauntlet to the Council...

Setting the Captives Free explores how a theological understanding of slavery goes against the idea of a God who is loving and just with the intention of being widely used in churches, activist organisations and groups, and by individuals. Ardently...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666738490Author Donald GoergenFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Pickwick PublicationsPublisher Pickwick Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592440535Author Paul Van BurenFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

The first volume of our new series, Fathers of the Church: Shorter Works, will be available in the summer of 2021. This series, to be printed only in paperback format, will offer English translations of treatises, homilies, poems, and letters of the...

The contemporary church dismisses Christianity's foundational Scriptures at its own peril. However, the teachings of the Old Testament are less and less at the center of congregational preaching and conversation. The early church fathers--visionaries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830815258Author Stanley J. GrenzFormat PaperbackPage Count 393Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 582gDimensions(mm)...

Martin Luther was classically orthodox.Scholars often portray Luther as a heroic revolutionary, totally unlike his peers and forebears--as if he alone inaugurated modernity. But is this accurate? Is this even fair? At times this revolutionary model of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830828272Author Thabiti M. AnyabwileFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams)...