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Representing the fruit of a lifetime of study, this work from a revered evangelical scholar provides a concise summary of Paul's teaching about Je...

This handy, accessible introduction to reading theology helps readers engage doctrine critically and charitably. It serves as a primer to theologi...

For the better part of fifteen centuries, Christians read Scripture on two complementary levels, the literal and the spiritual. In the modern peri...

Edited by Richard S. Briggs and Joel N. Lohr In this concise volume, a team of fresh Old Testament voices explores the theological dimensions of th...

This engaging text offers a fresh alternative to standard introductions to Jesus. Combining literary and sociohistorical approaches and offering a...

In this volume an expert teacher of the Bible provides an introduction to New Testament exegesis that will appeal to students across the spectrum....

In partnership with the Dutch Reformed Translation Society, Baker Academic is proud to offer in English for the very first time the fourth and fin...

Renewing the Center is an important foundational book for the emerging church. The second edition includes a new foreword by Brian McLaren and a n...

Theological interpretation of the Bible is key to the health and vitality as well as the belief and practice of the church. Just how it is done ha...

by Michael W. Goheen There is a growing body of literature about the missional church, but the word missional is often defined in competing ways wi...

The writer of the letter to the Hebrews said, "See to it that no one misses the grace of God." Over the centuries much ink has been spilled on the...

Though most of the Protestant world can trace its roots back to the Reformation, many people today have only a vague knowledge of Martin Luther's ...

Was Jesus just a spiritual leader, like Buddha, Krishna, Confucius, and Muhammad? Or is he something more--something else entirely? In God among ...

by Walter Brueggemann In the pages of the Hebrew Bible, ancient Israel gave witness to its encounter with a profound and uncontrollable reality exp...

While many of us struggle to understand it, the Trinity is one of the most important teachings of the Christian faith. It defines God's very essen...

Let's be real. Theology is intimidating. There are so many unfamiliar words and difficult concepts--or so it seems. Would you like to know the bas...

When it comes to the big questions about suffering and evil--Did God create evil? How could a good God allow evil? How could a loving God allow pe...

How would you respond to the question, "Why should I be Christian instead of Muslim, Hindu, or Buddhist?" In answering, you might focus on what S...

Drawing upon the most recent discoveries and scholarship in archaeology and the first-century Near East, The Dawn of Christianity reveals how a be...

America's response to the September 11 attacks spotlighted many of the country's longstanding goals on the world stage: to protect liberty at home...

The Bible has long served as the standard for Christian practice, yet believers still disagree on how biblical passages should be interpreted and ...

Biblical theology attempts to explore the theological coherence of the canonical witnesses; no serious Christian theology can overlook this issue....

C. S. Lewis is one of the most influential and beloved Christian writers of the past century, and interest in him continues to grow as books about...