KARL BARTH IS NOW REGARDED AS THE GREAT PROPHET OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. "Barth's Christology has, it is said, spoken the liberating word for our day. In it, we are told, God's sovereignty above man and his gracious presence with man, are kept in proper balance. "Barth's theology is rapidly becoming the rallying point for mod-ern ecumenism. Roman Catholic and New Protestant theologians a…
JESUS THE MESSIAH - This is the official abridged edition of Alfred Edersheim's monumental and classic work "The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah." It reduces the original 6 volumes into one manageable (87 chapter!) work and omits many of the heavy and technical footnotes. If you want the original, with all the Greek notes and appendixes this may not be for you - but if you want a lucid, in-…
"~Nearly two centuries ago there occurred a phenomenon unique in the history of the Western church the voluntary church of America. European visitors to America in the eighteenth and nineteenth century were deeply interested in this radical solution to the problem of religious diversity that had plagued Europe for so long a solution based…
A study of the natural basis for supernatural formation. As the sub-title indicates, this is a study of the natural basis for supernatural formation. It stresses the fact that today we live in a culture in transition, that supernatural living rests upon a natural basis, and that modern formation of religious must take into account the personality, attitudes, psychological needs and self-concept…
Here is a book that was written over fifteen hundred years ago by a mystic in North Africa. Yet to those who have ears to hear, it has a great deal to say to many of us who are not mystics, today, in America. The City of God is a monumental theology of history. It grew out of St. Augustine’s meditations on the fall of the Roman Empire. But his analysis is timeless and universal. That is to sa…
"Our Reasonable Faith" is an accessible digest of the author's famous four volume "Reformed Dogmatics" and clearly presents the fundamental doctrines of Biblical theology. A practical handbook of theology, it is an outstanding and comprehensive statement of Christian faith and doctrine. Fully supported by Scriptural references, this book provides students, teachers, pastors, and lay readers wit…
“Religion, the fear of God, must therefore be the element which inspires and animates all theological investigation. That must be the pulsebeat of the science. A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To profess theology is to do holy work. It is a priestly ministration in the house of the Lord. It is itself a service of worship,…
"A Book Called In Latin Enchiridion Militis Christiani, And In English The Manual Of The Christian Knight"" is a book written by the famous Dutch philosopher and theologian, Desiderius Erasmus, in 1503. The book is a guide for Christian knights on how to live a virtuous life and how to defend their faith. It is divided into four sections, each focusing on a different aspect of Christian life: f…
"It takes no courage to sign up as a Protestant." With these words, David Wells opens his bold challenge to the modern church. In this volume, Wells offers the summa of his critique of the evangelical landscape, as well as a call to return to the historic faith, one defined by the Reformation solas (grace, faith, and Scripture alone), and to a reverence for doctrine. "The Courage to be Protesta…