Month: August 2024 (Page 1 of 2)

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Here is a selection of titles recently added to the collection and ready for use

 A missional leadership history: the journey from Wycliffe Bible Translators, to the Wycliffe Global Alliance /Kirk J. Franklin and Susan Van Wynen ; with Deborah Crough. A Missional Leadership History explores the origins of Wycliffe Bible Translators from the passion and vision of a few to a worldwide movement for Bible translation in God’s mission as he makes his name known. Studying official records of Wycliffe International (Wycliffe Global Alliance) from 1942 to 2020, the authors let these documents speak, revealing the thinking of the times. They have also enriched the narrative by placing it in the context of current events, church history, and leadership trends. This unique historical and missiological exploration offers first-hand insights into how mission leaders grappled with the growing and evolving global church, responding in ways that ultimately altered the very fabric of what the original leaders had created. It invites readers to learn from the past and reflect on their own participation in God’s mission today and for the future.

 All things come into being through him: a Christology of creation /David O. Brown. Brown demonstrates how it is possible to embrace deism, without that leading to those problems deism presents to the Christian, namely, the denial of providence, and rejection of the incarnation.

 Christian academic writing: twelve practices and principles for becoming a successful writer /Benjamin L. Merkle and Adrianne Cheek Miles. This concise guide to writing in Christian academic settings offers practices and principles for becoming a successful writer

 Cosmic connections: poetry in the age of disenchantment /Charles Taylor. Taylor delves into the poetry of the Romantics and their heirs, a foundation of his distinctive philosophy of language. Taylor holds that Romantic poetry responded to disenchantment: with old cosmic orders depleted, artists groped to articulate new meanings by bringing connections to life rather than merely reasoning abstractly about life.

 Defining God: Athanasius, Nicaea and the trinitarian controversy of the fourth century /Patrick Whitworth. A vivid account of the fourth-century controversy surrounding the divine status of Christ and the Holy Spirit. This is the story of that controversy: its protagonists, the involvement of imperial power, its theological twists and turns, and the many creeds and councils of this period, including the Nicene Creed.

 Law, politics and the judicial process in Canada /F. L. Morton, ed., Dave Snow, ed. Law, Politics, and the Judicial Process in Canada addresses the most recent issues, controversies, and political conversations regarding the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the growth of judicial power in Canada. Addressing current controversies–including the invocation of the federal Emergencies Act, the fallout from the Supreme Court’s Greenhouse Gas References, and the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown.  It engages with multiple perspectives on controversial issues, juxtaposing competing perspectives to foster debate. Morton and Snow provide an even-handed examination of the institutional implications of an increasingly-important Supreme Court of Canada.

 Rhetoric and religion in the twenty-first century: pluralism in a postsecular age /edited by Michael-John DePalma, Paul Lynch, and Jeff Ringer. Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-First Century engages with religious discourses and issues that continue to shape public life in the United States. This collection of essays centralizes the study of religious persuasion and pluralism, considers religion’s place in U.S. society, and expands the study of rhetoric and religion in generative ways.

 The genius of John Ruskin: selections from his writings /edited with an introduction by John D. Rosenberg. No figure among the Victorians surpasses Ruskin in magnitude of genius, modernity of message, or mastery of prose. Yet for the first half-century after his death in 1900, his genius lay largely undiscovered. This book aims to make Ruskin’s ideas and writings accessible to the modern reader.

 The Old Testament as literature: foundations for Christian interpretation /Tremper Longman, III. In the first of a three-volume project covering the foundations of Old Testament interpretation, a leading scholar explores the language and literature of the Old Testament as keys to understanding the biblical text

 To will & to do: an introduction to Christian ethics. Volume I /Jacques Ellul ; translated by Jacob Marques Rollison. To Will & To Do presents one of the most significant theological contributions of the dynamic twentieth-century thinker Jacques Ellul. Benefiting from recent scholarship on Ellul and a discovery of a lost manuscript, this new edition renders the full text available in English for the first time, combining a fresh translation of Volume I with a first English translation of Volume II. Together, the two volumes constitute the introductory first part of Ellul’s planned four-part treatment of Christian ethics. Volume I examines the origin of the problem of Good and Evil, outlines the contemporary morality of Western society, and provocatively sketches the paradox of an impossible and yet necessary Christian ethics. In constant dialogue with Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Paul Ricoeur, and many other theologians and philosophers, To Will & To Do constitutes a major intervention in twentieth-century theological ethics.

 Unspeakable cults: an essay in Christology /Paul J. DeHart. Unspeakable Cults considers the nature and potential resolution of the conflict between the relativistic assumptions of the modern historical worldview and the classical Christian assertion of the absolute status of Jesus of Nazareth as God’s saving incarnation in history. DeHart contends that an understanding of Jesus’ history is possible, proposing a model of the relation of divine causation to historical causation that allows the affirmation of Jesus’ divinity without a miraculous rupture of the world’s immanent causal patterns.

 Varieties of Christian universalism: exploring four views /edited by David W. Congdon ; with contributions by David W. Congdon, Tom Greggs, Morwenna Ludlow, and Robin A. Parry. Christian universalism is an umbrella of different theological interpretations of the idea that all people will be saved. This book provides a concise map of four major approaches to universal salvation

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 Becoming an academic writer: 50 exercises for paced, productive, and powerful writing /Patricia Goodson. With its friendly, step-by-step format, Becoming an Academic Writer helps readers improve their writing by engaging in deep, deliberate, and daily practice. Featuring 50 exercises, this guide is organized so readers can either work through exercises in order, or focus on specific areas.

 Christianity in Chinese public life: religion, society, and the rule of law /edited by Joel A. Carpenter and Keven R. den Dulk. The West tends to view religion-and-state relations in China in bipolar terms: dissidents’ resistance and government repression. But as this work shows, the interaction of religion, society, and governance in China is much more subtle and complex than that. The contributors of this volume focus on Christianity in China to examine the prospects for social and political change. Christianity in Chinese Public Life deftly explores the question: does an increase of religious activity in China amount to a nudging forward of democratization?

 Clinical handbook of couple therapy /edited by Jay L. Lebow and Douglas K. Snyder This comprehensive handbook has introduced tens of thousands of practitioners and students to the leading forms of couple therapy practiced today. Prominent experts present effective ways to reduce couple distress, improve overall relationship satisfaction, and address specific relational or individual problems.

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 Living undivided: loving courageously for racial healing and justice /Chuck Mingo and Troy Jackson, with Holly Crawshaw. Founders of the Courageous Love movement provide a proven, practical, biblical plan to move from fearful avoidance of racial issues to brave investment in actionable change.

 The Keynesian revolution and our empty economy: we’re all dead /Victor V. Claar, Greg Forster. This book considers the cultural legacy of the Keynesian Revolution in economics. It assesses the impact of Keynes and Keynesian thinking upon economics and policy, as well as the response of the Chicago and Austrian schools, and the legacy of all three in shaping economic life. The book is a call to restore economics to its roots in moral and cultural knowledge, reminding us that human beings are more than consumers. Drawing on paradigms from earlier historical periods while affirming modern market systems, this book encourages a return to a view of human beings as persons with the right and responsibility to discover, and do, the things in life that are intrinsically good and enduring.

 The secret thoughts of an unlikely convert: an English professor’s journey into Christian faith /Rosaria Champagne Butterfield. In her late 30s, Rosaria encountered something that turned her world upside down — the idea that Christianity, a religion that she had regarded as problematic and sometimes downright damaging, might be right about who God was. That idea seemed to fly in the face of the people and causes that she most loved. What follows is a story of what she describes as a train wreck at the hand of the supernatural. These are her secret thoughts about those events, written as only a reflective English professor could.

 Unforgivable?: exploring the limits of forgiveness /Stephen Cherry. Cherry argues that while forgiveness can be transformative in the aftermath of harm, it can also, if not handled with care, become an additional pressure and anxiety for those who have been harmed. He teases out the way in which Christian understandings often lie behind pressure to forgive, identifying a number of typical mistakes with the Christian approach to forgiveness. Reflecting on many examples from real life as well as literature, and on the insights of psychologists and philosophers, Cherry uses the tension between the desire to forgive and the protest that a person is unforgivable to push towards understandings of forgiveness that avoid the harshness of binary models. Cherry’s challenging book brims with energy and blends human insight with intellectual vision. It argues that if forgiveness is to play a part in the aftermath of harm without inflicting further harm it must be presented in a non-idealized way and only following acknowledgement of the depth of the human impact of the harm done.