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John Piper · 2006 · Book
John Piper's systematic examination of Jesus's moral teachings emerges from his conviction that contemporary Christianity has softened or avoided the radical nature of Christ's ethical demands. Writing as a Reformed pastor and…
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Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
James K. A. Smith · 2006 · Book
James K. A. Smith's provocative work emerges from the culture wars of the early 2000s, when many evangelical Christians viewed postmodernism as an existential threat to biblical faith. Writing as a Reformed…
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Joel B. Green · 2007 · Commentary
Joel Green's commentary on 1 Peter emerged from the Two Horizons New Testament Commentary series, designed to bridge rigorous exegetical work with contemporary theological reflection. Writing as a Wesleyan scholar, Green addresses…
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Darrell L. Bock · 2007 · Commentary
Darrell Bock's commentary on Acts emerged from his decades of teaching New Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary and his recognition that Acts often receives less sustained attention than the Gospels or Paul's…
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Peter Leithart · 2007 · Book
Peter Leithart's The Baptized Body emerged from his concern that contemporary Christianity had lost touch with the profound social and ecclesial dimensions of baptism. Writing as a Reformed theologian increasingly convinced of…
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Alister McGrath · 2007 · Book
Alister McGrath's comprehensive historical study examines the Protestant Reformation not as a single sixteenth-century event but as an ongoing revolution centered on what he terms Christianity's "dangerous idea" — the belief that…
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Mother Teresa (St. Teresa of Calcutta) · 2007 · Book
Come Be My Light presents the private correspondence of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, compiled and edited by Brian Kolodiejchuk from letters she wrote to her spiritual directors and superiors over nearly fifty…
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Alister McGrath · 2007 · Book
Alister McGrath's response to Richard Dawkins emerged from the widespread cultural influence of The God Delusion, published just one year earlier in 2006. As a professor of theology at Oxford University with…
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Dethroning Jesus Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ
Darrell L. Bock · 2007 · Book
Dethroning Jesus emerges from Dallas Theological Seminary professor Darrell Bock's concern about the proliferation of alternative portraits of Jesus in early twenty-first-century popular culture. Written in the wake of bestsellers like The…
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John C. Lennox · 2007 · Book
The God Delusion Debate emerged from John Lennox's direct engagement with Richard Dawkins' influential 2006 attack on religious belief. As a mathematician and philosopher of science at Oxford University, Lennox found himself…
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God's Undertaker God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?
John C. Lennox · 2007 · Book
John Lennox, a mathematician at Oxford University, wrote this defense of theistic belief in response to the aggressive atheism promoted by prominent scientists like Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawking in the early…
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How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
Thomas Oden · 2007 · Book
Thomas Oden's historical investigation emerged from his decades-long engagement with early Christian texts and his growing recognition that Western Christianity had systematically obscured its African foundations. Writing as a Methodist theologian who…
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Sinclair B. Ferguson · 2007 · Book
Sinclair Ferguson's In Christ Alone emerged from his concern that contemporary evangelicalism had lost sight of the profound biblical truth of union with Christ. Writing as a Reformed theologian and experienced pastor,…
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Christopher J. H. Wright · 2007 · Book
Christopher Wright's exploration of divine fatherhood emerges from his conviction that Christians have too often bypassed the Hebrew Scriptures in their understanding of God as Father. Writing as both biblical scholar and…
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International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies scholars; editors Albert Pietersma and Benjamin G. Wright · 2007 · Scripture
A New English Translation of the Septuagint is a landmark modern scholarly English rendering of the Septuagint and related Greek versions. The Septuagint, the ancient Greek form of the Jewish Scriptures, was…
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Fleming Rutledge · 2007 · Book
Fleming Rutledge's collection of sermons emerges from her decades as an Episcopal priest preaching through the turn of the millennium, a period when American Christianity faced increasing cultural marginalization and internal theological…
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Pauline Christology Pauline Christology: An Exegetical-Theological Study
Gordon Fee · 2007 · Book
Gordon Fee's magisterial study emerges from decades of wrestling with the christological implications of Paul's letters, particularly the tensions between Paul's Jewish monotheism and his worship of Christ as divine. Writing as…
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Jerry Bridges · 2007 · Book
Jerry Bridges wrote this practical guide to address what he saw as a troubling inconsistency in evangelical Christianity: the tendency to condemn obvious sins like adultery or theft while overlooking subtler but…
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Salvation Belongs to Our God Salvation Belongs to Our God: Celebrating the Bible's Central Story
Christopher J. H. Wright · 2007 · Book
Christopher Wright's work emerges from his conviction that contemporary Christianity has fragmented the biblical narrative into disconnected theological topics, losing sight of salvation as the Bible's unifying theme. Writing as both a…
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Seized by Truth Seized by Truth: Reading the Bible as Scripture
Joel B. Green · 2007 · Book
Joel Green's Seized by Truth emerges from the contemporary crisis in biblical interpretation, where historical-critical methods have often displaced Scripture's role in Christian formation and community life. Writing from within the Wesleyan…
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N. T. Wright · 2007 · Book
N. T. Wright's systematic exploration of Christian eschatology emerged from his recognition that much contemporary Christianity had lost touch with its central hope. Writing as both New Testament scholar and Anglican bishop,…
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Rowan Williams · 2007 · Book
Tokens of Trust emerged from Rowan Williams' desire to address the fundamental question of why Christian faith remains credible in a skeptical age. Originally delivered as lectures, this work represents Williams' attempt…
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R. C. Sproul · 2007 · Book
R.C. Sproul's "The Truth of the Cross" emerges from his decades of teaching systematic theology and confronting what he saw as widespread confusion about the atonement in contemporary evangelicalism. Writing in 2007,…
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Edward Fudge · 2007 · Book
Two Minutes with the Bible emerged from Edward Fudge's decades-long practice of writing brief daily email devotions for friends and colleagues. What began as informal spiritual encouragement shared through digital correspondence grew…
