One of America's leading pastoral counselors draws on the most recent psychological insights to describe in everyday language common personality disorders that make human interaction so difficult. Dr. Oates focuses on eight 'ways of life' that are observed in parents, teacher, employers, employees, pastors, and members of the congregation: in short, throughout all walks of life. He examines the reasons why individuals develop as they do and ...

Theologian R.C. Sproul expounds the classic doctrine of predestination. Predestination, he says, isn't just for Calvinists. It is for all biblical Christians. Predestination doesn't imply a whimsical or spiteful God, but paints the portrait of a loving God who provides redemption for radically corrupt humans. ...

Thomas N. Finger's believers church systematic theology that uses an eschatological framework, a major emphasis in historic Anabaptism. ...

How do you understand the first three verses of the Bible? Be careful- your answer may tell more than you realize! In this in-depth study, Russ Bixler critiques the popular theory that these verses describe a creation out of nothing- as well as the theory of evolution! Instead he shows, from the original Hebrew, how the Creation week is a recent event (6,000-10,000 years ago) and how the primeval universe and earth can still be billions of years ...

Revelation is the study of how, when, and where God reveals himself and of what is disclosed. This book is an excellent introduction to revelation that brings its subject into the theological inquiry of the next century.In discussing the major themes of the narrative of revelation, Gabriel Fackre provides an overview of the traditional models of revelation, introducing readers to the work of such twentieth-century giants as Barth, Tillich, ...

Richard Coleman pushes both scientists and theologians past the paradigms of comparison and contrast, opposition and competition, and argues that two disciplines must challenge each other as each seeks to find truth from its own particular tradition.
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A theologist calls upon Christians to become a force for social change in theworld. (Theology) ...

"The Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms" is the perfect companion to your theological studies. Three hundred-plus definitions include both English terms, from accommodation to wrath of God, and foreign terms, from a posteriori to via media. It also covers a broad group of theologians, from Anselm of Canterbury to Ulrich Zwingli. And it includes entries for theological movements and traditions, from the Alexandrian School to Wesleyanism. ...

Celtic revivals in Scotland. Ireland and Wales from 1625 to 1839. A true Celtic Spiritual! ...

Studying such literary figures as Frederick Buechner, Albert Camus, George Dennison, Ursula K. LeGuin, C.S. Lewis, Alan Paton, Ignazio Silone, Alice Walker, Elie Wiesel, and Charles Williams, Brown illustrates "the liberating power of fiction" by enabling the reader to enter their worlds. Brown asserts that although there is no faith that offers ironclad guarantees against future struggles, the wisdom of these authors can help us toward praising ...