Examine four major mind-sets in history showing how they have influenced Christianity. Enlightenment Philosophy of modern times has spawned four theological patterns with which we are still struggling today. This book calls us back to the theistic mind-set of the Bible and to an examination of our theological traditions. If you have philosophical interests this is the book for you.

A pioneering survey of Church History. What is Christianity all about? One answer is it gets us to heaven. This book disagrees. Disagrees because of Genesis 1. Genesis 1 tells us God wants us to subdue the earth and do it as his images. That's what Christianity and Church History is all about, doing what God wants.

Developmental Theology explores the ways in which the Lord is calling his people to examine and adapt theology to the new insights he is revealing. God is challenging us not only to look over the theological fence but to leap over it. This volume will help us do that. Edwin Walhout has been examining these matters for the past twenty or so years, and in this stimulating book presents the distillations of his insights. You will find these pioneering chapters challenging to traditional theology, while opening up new and exciting avenues into the future.

If you are mystified by the enigmatic symbolism of the book of Revelation, this is for you All of that weird symbolism is explained in clear devotional terms. Begin at the beginning, work your way through to the end, and you will discover how

First-person interviews with the Old Testament Patriarch. How did God prepare Moses to be able to weld a crowd of emancipated slaves into a viable nation? What gave him the courage to demand that Pharaoh release the Israelites from slavery? What made the Sea of Reeds become dry enough for the people to walk over it? Did you know the golden calf might have been a golden lamb? These and many other insights into the amazing career of this dedicated man of God can be had by reading sensitively these first-person interviews.

First-person Interviews with the prophets and other significant figures in the Old Testament. Besides Jonah, what other prophet had a message for Nineveh? Why did Isaiah go about nearly naked for years? How does Daniel explain why it is possible for him to serve a pagan emperor and still remain a loyal servant of Yahweh? What do you know about the Maccabees? And how about that disciple of Jesus, Simon the Zealot, why is he known as a Zealot? You will find answers to these and many other questions in this comprehensive set of first-person interviews with all the prophets of the Old Testament,...

First-person interviews with the Old Testament Patriarch. How did Abraham become a monotheist? Why did he insist on circumcision? What drove him to sacrifice his son Isaac? Did you know he had several sons after Sarah died and he remarried? You will be intrigued by Abraham's steady courage and devotion to his covenant God, El Shaddai, as you make your way through these first-person interviews.

First-person interviews with the Old Testament King. What did this teen-age boy think when Samuel told him he would be the next king of Israel? What gave him the confidence he could defeat the giant Goliath? Why did he not kill King Saul when he had the opportunity? Why, in his later life, was he reluctant to discipline Joab for treason? You can hardly fail to be both heartened and saddened by the career of this loyal man of God.

The Athanasian Creed's definition of the Christian Trinity is unintelligible and needs to be discarded. Without reading later trinitarian theology into the Bible, and without presupposing an ontological trinity, it is possible to understand the New Testament doctrine of the trinity in a perfectly acceptable and intelligible manner. This is what you may expect to read in this unique and pastoral treatment of The Christian Trinity.

How did Jeremiah get to be a prophet? What kind of commitment did the Lord require of him? Why was he thrown into a muddy cistern? What brought him to Egypt instead of to Babylon? What kept him going in the face of constant rejection and ridicule? You won't be able to read these first-person interviews with the prophet without being deeply touched by his all-too-human reactions to his work.