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Item TRANSFORMING Practice :PASTORAL THEOLOGY IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY(MOWBRAY, 1996-06-26) Elaine L. GrahamWe live in an age of uncertainty. Contemporary Western society has been characterized as one in which there is no longer a consensus of values. The assumptions and criteria by which Western science, politics and philosophy have been guided for the past two hundred years, associated with the ideals of progress, humanism and reason have been discredited by critical voices which emphasize fragmentation, pluralism and scepticism. Some have diagnosed this as typical of the postmodern condition, which may be seen as destabilizing many of the nostrums of the Enlight- enment by challenging prevailing concepts of truth, human nature, knowledge, power, selfhood and language that have informed Western thought for two hundred years.Item Uncommon decency: Christian civility in an uncivil world(InterVarsity Press, 1992-02-22) RICHARD J. MOUWThis book could not have been written without the help and inspiration that I have received from many people. Two deserve special mention. Rodney Clapp at InterVarsity Press has been an uncommonly skilled editor. And my wife, Phyllis Gilbert Mouw, has been an uncommonly sensitive partner on an un¬ commonly decent journey.Item Who Needs Theology: An Invitation to the Study of God(Inter Varsity Press, 1996-06-26) Stanley J. Grenz; Roger E. OlsonMany Christians today not only are uninformed about basic theology but even seem hostile to it. What has brought about this appalling lack of interest and frequently open hostility to theology among Christian laypeople, students and even pastors? We are confident that this condition does not result from any in- herent flaw in theology itself or in the intellectual or spiritual lives of ordinary Christians. Rather, it results from popular and pervasive misunderstandings of theology.Item Worship Old and New(Zondervan, 1994-04-14) Robert E. WebberIn the preface to the first edition of Worship Old and New, | wrote: “the pri- mary value of the book is as a classroom text in seminary and college courses on worship. However, it should also be of interest to pastors, Christian education directors, worship committees, and laypersons who wish to be more informed on the subject.” In this second edition of Worship Old and New, I have resisted the temp- tation to write a simplistic and popular introduction to worship. Instead, I have maintained the scholarly flavor of the book and continue to see it as an acade- mic introduction to the vast field of worship studies. Since Worship Old and New was published eleven years ago, an enormous quantity of books covering every aspect of worship has emerged. Additionally, the fires of worship renewal have spread in every direction. I have interacted with this renewed interest in worship in this revised edition. While a good portion of the original text has been maintained, the entire work has undergone significant re- vision. The material has been reorganized into four major divisions: The Biblical Foundations of Worship, A Biblical Theology of Worship, A Brief History of Worship, and The Practice of Worship.Item COME AND SHARE An Introduction to Christian Theology(MAMBO PRESS, 1991-02-12) Canaan Sodindo BananaI should like to express my indebtedness to the following people for their assistance in undertaking research for some of the materials in this book: Crispen Mazodze, Douglas Dziva, Clement Hove, Siyapela Mangena, Rewai Makamani, Paul Muchena and Simukayi Mutamangira. I want to register my deep debt of gratitude to Khiok- Khng Yeo for typing and editing the manuscript in record time. My thanks also go to Charles Mugaviri, Rodgers Phiri, Arthur Vukile Dhliwayo and James Muzondidya for proofreading the manuscript. Last, but not least, 1 must thank my wife Janet and our children who have supported me throughout as I spent many long hours away from them.Item CHRISTIANITY IN ABRICA The Renewal of|a Non Westem Religion(ORBIS - BOOKS, 1995-05-25) Kwame BediakoThis is a rich book, a treasury of good things. It is also (which does not always follow from rich books) an enriching book, one which opens up new visions, and prompts and hints and suggests, a book which invites its readers to explore new paths themselves. Its theme, the nature of African Christianity, might until recently have seemed recondite, and may still appear to be a matter of exotic or specialist interest. If there are still any who are mildly surprised at the existence of such an entity as African Christianity, or at least of such an entity as to furnish a book, Kwame Bediako will quickly disabuse them. Anyone who thinks the subject either peripheral to Africa or peri-Item Christian SPIRITUALITY :An Introduction(BLACKWELL, 1999-09-19) ALISTER E. MCGRATHThis book is an introduction to Christian spirituality, probably one of the most fas- cinating subjects anyone can study. It assumes little knowledge of the subject, apart from a basic familiarity with some aspects of Christianity, and aims to explain as much as possible. By the end of this book, you should be able to move on to more advanced studies of the subject, including detailed study of some of the classic primary texts of Christian spirituality. It will enable to you get far more than you otherwise might out of lectures on the subject, and encourage you to take the subject further.Item How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth:A Guide to Understanding the Bible(Zondervan, 1993-03-13) Gordon D. Fee; Douglas StuartEvery so often we meet someone who says with great feeling, “You don’t have to interpret the Bible; just read it and do what it says.” Usually, such a remark reflects the layperson’s protest against the “professional” scholar, pastor, teacher, or Sunday school teacher, who, by “interpreting,” seems to be taking the Bible away from the common man or woman. It is their way of saying that the Bible is not an obscure book. “After all,” it is argued, “any person with half a brain can read it and understand it. The problem with too many preachers and teachers is that they dig around so much they tend to muddy the waters. What was clear to us when we read it isn’t so clear anymore.” There is a lot of truth in that protest. We agree that Christians should learn to read, believe, and obey the Bible. And we especially agree that the Bible should not be an obscure book if studied and read properly. In fact we are convinced that the single most serious problem people have with the Bible is not with a lack of under standing, but with the fact that they understand most things too well! The problem with such a text as “Do everything without com plaining or arguing” (Phil. 2:14), for example, is not with under standing it, but with obeying it—putting it into practice.Item An Expositional Commentary ACTS(Zondervan, 1996-06-26) James Montgomery BoiceIn the last few years I have come across a number of disturbing books that ring a loud alarm for the church establishment known as evangelicalism. Evangel means "good news," or "the gospel," and the evangelical churches are those that assume they know the gospel and are defending it in a day when liberal churches are not. The books I am referring to say that this is not so, that evangelicals are actually in the process of abandoning the gospel along with many other theological convictions on which the church has been built. One outstanding book is David F. Wells's No Place for Truth: Or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology? Michael Scott Horton edited Power Religion: The Selling Out of the Evangelical Church.Item Together in the Land A Reading of the Book of Joshua(Sheffield Academic Press, 1993-03-23) Gordon MitchellThe text of Joshua presents the reader with a puzzling contradiction. One the one hand, there are commands to slaughter all of the enemy, descriptions of complete destruction and statements recording the success of the conquest, and on the other hand, Rahab's family, the Gibeonites and others continue to live in the land. To this puzzling contradiction, several explanations have been offered.