The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Searching for treasure, tricking others into doing his work, and running away with Huckleberry Finn--Tom Sawyer's antics and mischief-making are sheer, child-pleasing delight. This simpler version of Twain's classic is ideal for elementary readers.

Christ the Tiger: A Postscript to Dogma

Things have a way of falling to pieces. The shingles blow off the roof. The fender rusts through and the exhaust pipe drags. Cuff fray, nylons run, hair fall out, joints stiffen, and wattles appear under our chins. Nothing is exempt, not even our ideas. [ 1st Paragraph ] This is one reason why I find the Incarnation compelling. For in the figure of Jesus Christ there is something that escape…

Stir, Change, Create: Poems and Essays in Contemporary Mood for Concerned Stu…

In this brief collection of poems and essays, the renowned professor of linguistics at the University of Michigan and member of the Board of the Wycliffe Bible Translators addresses himself to the problems facing college students of today. Dr. Pike sees the vocation of today's youth as being to “stir, change, create.'' This ideal requires the re-evaluation of the status quo and demands tha…

Reformation: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Edition

1st; Paperback

ISBN/ISSN

9781845507015

Collation

128 hlm.; 12.7 x 19.3 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

270

The Certainty of Faith

The timeliness of this book, first published in 1901, is shown by the fact that a great number of academic texts quote from it. "The Certainty of Faith" is one of the small but powerful classics written by one of the greatest theologians Holland has ever produced. Bavinck examines the difference between the certainty of science and that of religion historically, biblically, and theologically.

Hard Times

Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the striet utihuarism Thomas Gradigrind and the heartless factory qwner Josiah Bounderby. However, human joy is not excluded thanks to Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding c…

Guide for the Christian Assembly: 9th to 21st Weeks

With the introduction of the new lectionary the Guide For the Christian Assembly has been completely revised. The purpose is twofold: to provide a manual which studies the new formularies in depth, and to indicate in the commentary how the Word of God pro- claimed in scripture is complemented by his word elsewhere the word, that is, which, mysteriously informs actual happenings in the world and…

Christ Crucified: A Puritan's View of the Atonement

In this stimulating work Stephen Charnock links the Old and New Testaments with this classic explanation of how the sacrifice of Jesus Christ fulfils the Old Testament sacrificial system. He particularly illustrates the importance of the Passover, and opens up our understanding of the differences which characterize the New Testament Church era. He shows that Jesus willingly submitted to the pai…

The Origin of Paul's Religion

J. Gresham Machen's fascinating account of the Apostle Paul explains and sheds light on the religious beliefs of the titular subject, which remain an important component of Biblical theology. Paul was one of the first proponents of Christianity, establishing some of the first recorded Christian churches in the 1st century AD. As an early preachers of the religion Paul's attitudes are, in Machen…

The Power of Prayer: The New York Revival of 1858

The Autumn of 1857 saw New York in the midst of financial failure which ruined many of its one million people. J.W. Alexander, returning there from Europe, found ‘a pall of mourning over every house’. But, unlike other times of national disaster this era was accompanied by a renewed spirit of prayer to be followed by a manifestation of the ‘marvellous lovingkindness’ of God as thousands…