This book is a combination of realism and idealism, in the best sense of both words. It faces realistically the different understandings of human rights that have emerged in various parts of the wo…
This volume offers solid scholarship on what is really important in determining how to understand Christian claims about Jesus as 'messiah'. This book also helps clarify why the dead sea scrolls ar…
Many of the questions individual churches are asking today about their relationship to one another and the goal of unity among them have a very long history. This book tells the story of the way th…
The Old Testament prophets were people who looked at the world and heard God speaking. They looked at the creation and felt God's power. They looked at pain and poverty and felt God's compassion. T…
The purpose and objective of this study will be to arrive at a true understanding of the function of the preacher and of the science of his preaching.
This accessible book offers just such a map. It provides a concise guide to the conflicted history of Christian thought on such topics as the nature of God, free will, evil, death, the afterlife, a…
A biblical examination of the historical, geographical, cultural, and economic background of the New Testament for a 21st century understanding of the first century world. This is not theology, …
Born in Fontaines-lès-Dijon in 1090, Bernard had become, by his twenty-fifth birthday, the abbot of a Cistercian monastery which he had founded in the valley of Clairvaux near Aube, France, some f…
This practical book supplies ministers, theological students, and laymen called upon to preach with a helpful tool for their ministries. Rather than being an attempt at a complete and exhaustive tr…