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Christianophobia

Rupert Shortt — Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

On October 29, 2005, three Indonesian schoolgirls were beheaded as they walked to school — targeted because they were Christian. Like them, many Christians around the world suffer violence or discrimination for their faith. In fact, more Christians than people of any other faith group now live under threat. Why is this religious persecution so widely ignored?

In Christianophobia Rupert Shortt investigates the shocking treatment of Christians on several continents and exposes the extent o

The Kuyper Center Review, Volume Three

Gordon Graham — Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Some religious traditions — such as Lutheran, Wesleyan, and Eastern Orthodox — have aesthetically rich resources upon which to draw for the renewal of arts in everyday life. In contrast, Calvinism is generally suspicious of the arts and has severed its connection with the aesthetics of everyday life.

The essays in this volume attempt to explore new avenues of thought about Calvinism's relation to the arts. Part historical, part theological, and part practical, they offer a wide-ranging e

Abraham Kuyper

James D. Bratt — Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Series: Library of Religious Biography

The definitive biography of Abraham Kuyper, giant of Dutch Calvinism

This is the first full-scale English-language biography of the highly influential and astonishingly multifaceted Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) — theologian, minister, politician, newspaper editor, educational innovator, Calvinist reformer, and prime minister of the Netherlands from 1901 to 1905

Bringing the Word to Life

David J. Trobisch, Richard F. Ward — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The New Testament books were written to be read aloud. The original audiences of these texts would have been unfamiliar with our current practice of reading silently and processing with our eyes rather than our ears, so we can learn much about the New Testament through performing it ourselves.

Richard Ward and David Trobisch are here to help. Bringing the Word to Life walks the reader through what we know about the culture of performance in the first and second centuries, what it took to per

Learning to Dream Again

Samuel Wells — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Beautifully written and extraordinarily insightful, Learning to Dream Again is designed both for Christians who have been to church for years but long to ponder the ambiguities and hard questions of faith and life and for new Christians who are just beginning to investigate how the gospel connects to their most searching questions.

The brief meditations brought together in this book aim at the development of a contemporary Christian wisdom that imitates Jesus' earthy humility, shameful suff

Horizons in Hermeneutics

Matthew R Malcolm, Stanley E. Porter — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

From essays that focus on the horizon of the text through to essays that consider the horizon of the twenty-first century church, this collection invites reflection on the illumination that hermeneutical awareness brings to biblical interpretation. This Festschrift in honor of Anthony C. Thiselton aims to consider, exemplify, and build upon his insights in philosophical hermeneutics and biblical studies, particularly in relation to Paul and his writings.

A Girl Called Problem

Katie Quirk — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Thirteen-year-old Shida, whose name means "problem" in Swahili, certainly has a lot of problems in her life — her father is dead, her depressed mother is rumored to be a witch, and everyone in her rural Tanzanian village expects her to marry rather than pursue her dream of becoming a healer. So when the village's elders make a controversial decision to move their people to a nearby village, Shida welcomes the change. Surely the opportunity to go to school and learn from a nurse can only mean good thin

The Blessed Virgin Mary

Daniel Kendall, Tim Perry — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Series: Guides to Theology

This volume provides a concise, nontechnical historical introduction to the church's thinking about Mary, the mother of Jesus. The first part of the book sketches the development of Marian thought from the second century to the twentieth century. The second part contains an annotated bibliography of the most important and accessible English-language works on Mary.

Tim Perry, an evange

Bully.com

Joe Lawlor — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Seventh grader Jun Li is a brilliant student, more comfortable around computers than people. But his world turns upside down when the principal accuses him of a cyberbullying incident. To prove his innocence, Jun has seven days to track down the true culprit.

Jun's investigation will bring him face-to-face with computer hackers, a jealous boyfriend, and more than one student who has been a victim of bullying. But he discovers along the way that everyone's story is more complicated than it seems &mdas

The Chickens Build a Wall

Jean-Francois Dumont — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The chickens at the farm are building a wall, and no one is quite sure why. But they know one thing: the hedgehog that wandered in must be trouble. So all winter they build and build, until they have a wall that towers over the barn. When spring comes, though, they find that everything hasn't gone quite according to plan . . .

Straining at the Oars

H. Dana Fearon Iii, Gordon S. Mikoski — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

A common complaint of recent seminary graduates is their lack of preparation in practical theology, especially in the tasks of leadership. New pastors encounter a host of challenges that can seem overwhelming.

Biblically oriented, wise, and reassuring, Dana Fearon presents twenty-one difficult situations that young ministers are likely to face on the job, including prayer in the hospital room, a request to baptize a dead infant, handling conflict and criticism, entering dangerous areas to reconcile

The Deliverance of God

Douglas A. Campbell — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

This book breaks a significant impasse in much Pauline interpretation today, pushing beyond both "Lutheran" and "New" perspectives on Paul to a noncontractual, "apocalyptic" reading of many of the apostle's most famous — and most troublesome — texts.

In The Deliverance of God Douglas Campbell holds that the intrusion of an alien, essentially modern, and theologically unhealthy theoretical construct into the interpretation of Paul has produced an individualistic and contractual con

I Wish I Had...

Simona Mulazzani, Giovanna Zoboli — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

With its sharp eyes, the blackbird can see every blade of grass in the meadow. The wings of the wild goose can carry it far away. And the song of the whale fills the wide ocean. Each animal has skills and beauty wholly unique to itself. And in this lyrical book, a child describes the skill and the beauty possessed by various animals.
Giovanna Zoboli's fluid and lyrical descriptions, complemented by Simona Mulazzani's bright and charming illustrations, will leave the reader charmed by its sense wonder an

Nasreddine

Rebecca Dautremer, Odile Weulersse — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

It's time to go to market, so Nasreddine loads up the donkey and sets off with his father. But when onlookers criticize his father for riding while Nasreddine walks, the boy is ashamed. The following week, Nasreddine persuades his father to walk, and let him ride -- but then people criticize the boy for making his father walk! No matter what Nasreddine tries, it seems that someone always finds something to disapprove of.

Nasreddine is a legendary character popular in stories told throughout the Midd