In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions-what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills’s biography of Augustine and his translation of the Confessions, this is an unparalleled introduction to one …
In just one generation, Judeo-Christian America has become an incubator of revived paganism. Behind the dazzling diversity of pro-choice culture -- abortion rights, the homosexual agenda, radical feminism, the new spirituality, goddess worship and witchcraft -- lies a coherent pagan spirituality bent on absolute control, intolerant of any truth but its own.
This primer on authentic education explores how mind and heart can work together in the learning process. Moving beyond the bankruptcy of our current model of education, Parker Palmer finds the soul of education through a lifelong cultivation of the wisdom each of us possesses and can share to benefit others.
In the modern debate on biblical interpretation and verbal inerrancy, this book gives weighty evidence for the historic Christian position that the Bible, the sacred canon, is the very truth of God and that it can be interpreted, understood, and applied in our time. The book considers the phenomena and data of the Bible and finds them consistent with the teaching of Christ and the apostles that…
This volume lists alphabetically every Hebrew word as it appears in the Old Testament. "The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon" offers grammatical analysis and a meaning according to a word's derivation. An analytical lexicon helps the beginning and intermediate student of Hebrew identify the root words of difficult Hebrew forms.
The distinctive role of women in church history since the time of Christ has been far-reaching in many areas: music, literature, medicine, education, missions, ministry, politics, royalty, and more. Mary Hammack has completed the awesome task of compiling a biographical dictionary of those women who played decisive roles in the development of Christianity throughout history. This work-the fir…
"... undertaken to provide earnest students of the New Testament with an exposition that is thorough and abreast of modern scholar-ship and at the same time loyal to the Scriptures as the infallible Word of God." This statement reflects the underlying purpose of THE NEW INTERNATIONAL COMMENTARY ON THE NEW TESTAMENT. Begun in the late 1940s by an international team of New Testament scholars, …