Christianity Rediscovered
10 best books like Christianity Rediscovered (Vincent J. Donovan): Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church, Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith, The Cure, The Journey of Modern Theology: From Reconstruction to Deconstruction, A Little Book for New Theologians: Why and How to Study Theology, Doing Local Theology: A Guide for Artisians of a New Humanity, God's Country: Faith, Hope, and the Future of the Rural Church, Let Justice Roll Down
Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
An urgent and inspirational collection of essays by a diverse group of celebrities, activists, and artists about what feminism means to them, with the goal of helping readers come to their own personal understanding of the word.
Feminism has never been more deeply and widely embraced and...
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0061551821 |
In Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, top-selling author and Anglican bishop, N.T. Wright tackles the biblical question of what happens after we die and shows how most Christians get it wrong. We do not “go to” heaven; we are resurrected and heaven...
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022122 |
From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans comes a book that is both a heartfelt ode to the past and hopeful gaze into the future of what it means to be a part of the Church.
Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy,...
| Author | Eric O. Jacobsen |
| ISBN | 1587430576 |
Christians often talk about claiming our cities for Christ and the need to address urban concerns. But according to Eric Jacobsen, this discussion has remained far too abstract. Sidewalks in the Kingdom challenges Christians to gain an informed vision for the physical layout and structure of the...
| Author | John S. Lynch |
| ISBN | 7809847577 |
We thought we were cured.
We thought so, but most of us unwittingly carried an old, dead outlook into our new life. We couldn't measure up to the standard we created, so we convinced ourselves it was God's. We read his words through our grid of shame and felt ourselves fall farther and farther behind....
The Journey of Modern Theology: From Reconstruction to Deconstruction
| Author | Roger E. Olson |
| ISBN | 0830840214 |
Modernity has been an age of revolutions--political, scientific, industrial and philosophical. Consequently, it has also been an age of revolutions in theology, as Christians attempt to make sense of their faith in light of the cultural upheavals around them, what Walter Lippman once called the...
A Little Book for New Theologians: Why and How to Study Theology
| Author | Kelly M. Kapic |
| ISBN | 0830839755 |
Whenever we read, think, hear or say anything about God, we are doing theology. Yet theology isn't just a matter of what we think. It affects who we are.
In the tradition of Helmut Thielicke's A Little Exercise for Young Theologians, Kelly Kapic offers a concise introduction to the study of theology...
Doing Local Theology: A Guide for Artisians of a New Humanity
| Author | Clemens Sedmak |
| ISBN | 1570754527 |
Clemens Sedmak's Doing Local Theology, presents the construction of "local theologies" as an enterprise that is not just for Latin Americans, Asians, or Africans. Nor just for theologians. Instead, it is the art of thinking theologically about any local church and implementing a process that grounds...
God's Country: Faith, Hope, and the Future of the Rural Church
With the poetic force of Kathleen Norris and the pastoral warmth of Eugene Peterson, Kansas pastor Roth sets forth a vision for vibrant rural churches, for ministry in congregations that bear a profound sense of both loss and possibility, and for harvesting fruits of transformation and renewal. Rooted...
| Author | John M. Perkins |
| ISBN | 0830743073 |
His brother died in his arms, shot by a deputy marshall. He was beaten and tortured by the sheriff and state police. But through it all he returned good for evil, love for hate, progress for prejudice and brought hope to black and white alike. The story of John Perkins is no ordinary story. Rather, it is a...
A Tribe Apart: A Journey Into the Heart of American Adolescence
For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture--the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed eight teenagers in the typically American town of Reston,...
The Changing Face of World Missions: Engaging Contemporary Issues and Trends
The dramatic changes that have taken place both in global society and in the church have implications for how the church does missions in the twenty-first century. These trends include the rise of postmodernism, the spiritual decline in the West and the advance of the gospel in the rest of the world,...
Encountering Missionary Life and Work: Preparing for Intercultural Ministry
| Author | Tom Steffen |
| ISBN | 0801026598 |
This new volume in the award-winning Encountering Mission series is for current and future missionaries. It provides practical guidance regarding getting ready for the mission field and the realities of life on the field. The authors are well qualified to write such a manual, each having served as...
Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God
| Author | J.I. Packer |
| ISBN | 0801065585 |
"If we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit."-Galatians 5:25The Holy Spirit empowers us, guides us, and enables us to grow and endure in our relationship with the Father through Jesus Christ. Often the most misunderstood member of the Trinity, the Spirit is someone of great focus and...
| Author | Michael Rynkiewich |
| ISBN | 1606087738 |
Description: Globalization and urbanization are twin forces that are powerfully shaping economics, politics, and religion in the world today. Traditional anthropological theories are inadequate to recognize and analyze trends such as global migration, diasporas, and transnationalism. New...
Water from a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries
| Author | Gerald L. Sittser |
| ISBN | 0830834931 |
In Rome in A.D. 165, two men named Carpus and Papylus stood before the proconsul of Pergamum, charged with the crime of being Christians. Not even torture could make them deny Christ, so they were burned alive. Is my faithfulness as strong? In the fifth century, Melania the Younger and her husband, Pinian,...
How to Write a Theology Essay
| Author | Michael P. Jensen |
| ISBN | 1906327122 |
So, you've signed up for your theological studies; you've weathered the storm of those early weeks of language study; you've coped with your early forays into biblical exegesis; and you've been given a sketch of the history of the early church. There's been some spiritual highs and some frustrating...
A highly practical book on how to preach effectively. This is a book for all preachers (of any denomination), be they ordained or readers, students preparing for a preaching ministry, or lay-people called on to preach from time to time. Anyone who preaches knows how much help is needed within preaching,...
