If we are to believe many modern commentators, science has squeezed God into a corner, killed and then buried him with its all-embracing explanations. Atheism, we are told, is the only intellectually tenable position, and any attempt to reintroduce God is likely to impede the progress of science. In this stimulating and thought-provoking book, John Lennox invites us to consider such claims very…
This book will be a great aid in making your communication more pointed and effective. The illustrations cover the gamut of life, including such subjects as alcohol, the Bible, brotherly love, capitalism, the Church, cigarettes, conformity, crime, drugs, Holy Spirit, hunger, money, nuclear destruction, pollution, revolution, sex education, space exploration, war, witnessing, worship, and young …
Imagine a sports-mad culture, deep into Eastern spirituality, political globalism, and religious syncretism. Where women, finding child-rearing an inconvenience, abandon or abort their babies. A society where divorce and remarriage touches everyone. Imagine a society overrun by sexual deviancy and perversion. Sound familiar? It would sound familiar to the apostle Paul. The culture to which he m…
Foundations of Christian Thought is a clear, evenhanded presentation of the interconnection between faith and learning, and the modern worldviews competing for our attention, including naturalism, secular humanism, atheistic existentialism, pantheism, and the New Age movement. Guided by the author's fresh approach, readers on the college campus, in the workforce, and elsewhere will learn to rel…
An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology gathers some of the most significant and influential writings in political theology from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Given that the locus of Christianity is undeniably shifting to the global South, this volume uniquely integrates key voices from Africa, Asia, and Latin America with central texts from Europe and North America on…
Although China has long been considered a culture of fables, legends, and the polytheistic worship of many deities, author Chan Kei Thong takes readers on a step-by-step journey through 4.000 years of ancient Chinese traditions and rituals to reach a startling modern-day conclusion : The ancient Chinese worshiped a monotheistic God whom they called Shang Di, the same God the Hebrews of the Bibl…