Books

Theology and the Globalized Present focuses on the world's future in God and God's creativeness. In response to a globalized economy that reconfig...

by Gregory A. Boyd The Old Testament God of wrath and violence versus the New Testament God of love and peace-it's a difference that has troubled C...

You're probably missing some of the most interesting books of the Bible. In the Jewish tradition, the five books known as "The Five Scrolls" perfo...

by Samuel Wells Pastors, priests, and pastoral caregivers often accompany people who are struggling to negotiate experiences of sickness, bereaveme...

Evangelicalism is reaching an inflection point. The exodus of millennials from Evangelical churches and the growth of those self-identifying as "N...

by David H. Jensen Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their u...

In The God Who Goes before You, Michael S. Wilder and Timothy Paul Jones establish a foundation for Christian leadership that draws not from human...

by Jeremy Royal Howard & Doug Powell After Easter provides a brief case for the historical reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and desc...

by Rebecca McLaughlin Christianity is the most widespread global belief system, and promises to remain so well into the future. But for many educat...

On 31 October 1517, Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses on the castle church door in Wittenberg. More than any other event, this has the b...

The Bible’s command to “rejoice continually” seems impossible and, frankly, unreasonable. Yet despite the apparent difficulty in fulfilling this c...

There’s a big difference between judgment and love, obligation and freedom, a wage and a gift. The difference characterizes an extraordinary amoun...

Humans are built to wander. History is crisscrossed by their tracks. Sometimes there are obvious reasons for it: to get better food for themselves...

Apart from the doctrine of God, no doctrine is as comprehensive as that of creation. It is woven throughout the entire fabric of Christian theolog...

edited by Gerald Hiestand and Todd Wilson What does it mean to both affirm the goodness of God's creation and anticipate the new creation? Bringing...

One of the central tasks of pastoral ministry is preaching the Word of God. Yet those who are called to ministry may feel unprepared, unable, or u...

According to Scripture, the Word of God is "living and active" (Heb 4:12). That affirmation was embraced by the Protestant Reformers, whose unders...

What does it mean to be male and female? Do women and men have different intellectual, spiritual, moral, or emotional capacities? Are women especi...

As readers, we bring our cultural understanding and values to the text. Our biases and background influence what we observeand what we overlook. W...

How should one approach the task of theology?The question of methodology is increasingly one of interest among theologians, who recognize that the ...

As human beings, we are created with desires.We all long for meaningful relationships, lives that reflect goodness, engagements with beauty, and t...

by John Stott Who is Jesus Christ? While Jesus and his teaching continue to hold appeal, many people question the plausibility or relevance of the ...

Carol Berry and her husband met and befriended Henri Nouwen when she sat in his course on compassion at Yale Divinity School in the 1970s. At the ...

by Cyd Holsclaw and Geoff Holsclaw "I guess I believe that God loves me. But does he like me?" We all know what it's like to feel overlooked, disco...