Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christian Theology - Systematic

For too long, the third person in the Trinity has been sidelined in mainstream Christian teaching. Many people go to church their entire lives and are not introduced to the Holy Spirit. The River by Mike Nicholson was written as a crash course on the role of the Holy Spirit in your personal life, the church community, and in the world at large. The book relies heavily on the image of the Holy Spirit as God's river of delights, a river of life that flows out of heaven, through the Christ of the cross, and out of you and me into a thirsty, needy world. It also contains stories and...

"A great central reality of contemporary church theology is that Western hegemony has been decentered by the growth and vitality of gospel faith elsewhere in the world. This decentering of Western theology--with its imperial assumptions and its Enlightenment epistemology (either in the affirmations of progressivism or in the resistance of evangelicals) --means that theology can and will be expressed in other terms. This in turn means that neither Rome nor Wittenberg nor Geneva nor Canterbury is any longer the epicenter of theological work.

In his wide-ranging study, David Moe brings...

Looking Ahead considers Christianity in our time as it confronts the crisis of the relevance of the church and the challenge facing biblical theology. The reflections and observations in this book are autobiographical in nature because they mirror the personal perspective of one who for sixty-five years has sought to communicate the Christian faith with intellectual and spiritual integrity. In the process, the author provides personal contemporary interpretations of the tenets of the Apostles' Creed and some of the familiar words of our common religious vocabulary. Ultimately, the summary...

Looking Ahead considers Christianity in our time as it confronts the crisis of the relevance of the church and the challenge facing biblical theology. The reflections and observations in this book are autobiographical in nature because they mirror the personal perspective of one who for sixty-five years has sought to communicate the Christian faith with intellectual and spiritual integrity. In the process, the author provides personal contemporary interpretations of the tenets of the Apostles' Creed and some of the familiar words of our common religious vocabulary. Ultimately, the summary...