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Price: $20.95
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Sale: $16.92
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Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Giorgio Agamben
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 227.107
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Publication Date: 2005-11-07
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Reading Level: 216
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Description: In The Time That Remains, Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be “the fundamental messianic texts of the West.” He argues that Paul’s letters are concerned not with the foundation of a new religion but rather with the “messianic” abolition of Jewish law. Situating Paul’s texts in the context of early Jewish messianism, this book is part of a growing set of recent critiques devoted to the period when Judaism and Christianity were not yet fully distinct, placing Paul in the context of what has been called “Judaeo-Christianity.”
Agamben’s philosophical exploration of the problem of messianism leads to the other major figure discussed in this book, Walter Benjamin. Advancing a claim without precedent in the vast literature on Benjamin, Agamben argues that Benjamin’s philosophy of history constitutes a repetition and appropriation of Paul’s concept of “remaining time.” Through a close reading and comparison of Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History” and the Pauline Epistles, Agamben discerns a number of striking and unrecognized parallels between the two works.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $14.29
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Manufacturer: InterVarsity Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Benjamin Wiker::William Dembski
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Publisher: InterVarsity Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 261.51
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Publication Date: 2002-07
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Reading Level: 327
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Description: Abortion. Euthanasia. Infanticide. Sexual promiscuity.Ideas and actions once unthinkable have become commonplace. We seem to live in a different moral universe than we occupied just a few decades ago. Consent and noncoercion seem to be the last vestiges of a morality long left behind. Christian moral tenets are now easily dismissed and have been replaced with what is curiously presented as a superior, more magnanimous, respectful and even humble morality. How did we end up so far away from where we began? Can the decline be stopped?Ben Wiker, in this provocative and insightful book, traces the amazing story that explains our present cultural situation. Wiker finds the roots of our moral slide reaching all the way back to the ethical theory and atheistic cosmology of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus. Christian teaching had been in contention with this worldview long before it reached its pinnacle with the rise and acceptance of Darwinism. But it was Darwinism, Wiker contends, that provided this ancient teaching with the seemingly modern and scientific basis that captured twentieth-century minds. Wiker demonstrates that this ancient atomistic and materialistic philosophy supplies the guiding force behind Darwinism and powerfully propels the hedonistic bent of our society while promoting itself under the guise of pure science.This book is a challenge not only to those who believe Darwinism to be purely scientific fact but to Christian who have at times inconsistently lived out their Christian moral convictions and so have failed to recognize and address the ancient corrosive underpinnings of our present moral and intellectual crisis.
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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $3.83
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Manufacturer: Brazos Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David B. Burrell
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Publisher: Brazos Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 223.106
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Publication Date: 2008-03-01
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: An ancient commentator called Job a "strange and wonderful book." For many readers, "strange" might do. Though Job has been characterized as an answer to the problem of suffering, for many the book fails to satisfy the longing for answers it supposedly contains. Perhaps that, in fact, is the point of Job--there are no satisfactory arguments for why people suffer. In this compact yet substantial volume, David B. Burrell argues that this is the message of Job. Burrell engages major movements of the book in theological and philosophical reflection. The book also contains an interfaith perspective with the inclusion of a chapter by Islamic scholar A. H. Johns on the reading of the Job figure in the Koran. Burrell finally concludes that Job's contribution to the problem of suffering is as an affirmation that God hears and heeds our cries of anguish. EXCERPT While an initial reading of the story which frames the book of Job suggests a classical theodicy of divine testing and of reward and punishment, we shall later see (with the help of real friends) just how misguided a reading that is. For now, it will suffice to note how the drama's unfolding belies such a reading, notably in the counterpoint between each of Job's friends and Job himself. For while they each address arguments to Job, his riposte to their arguments is addressed not to them but to the overwhelming presence of the God of Israel, to inaugurate an implicit dialogue vindicated by that same God who ends by announcing his preference for Job above all of them. Indeed, they incur the wrath of that God for attempting vigorously to take God's side! Yet since this is the very One who has taken such care to reveal his ways to a particular people (to whom Job does not belong), one cannot escape concluding that the entire dramatic exchange--between Job and his interlocutors and even more between Job and the God of Israel--must be directed against a recurrent misappropriation of that revelation on the part of the people entrusted with it. So it must be that the book's primary role in the Hebrew canon will be to correct that characteristic misapprehension of the revelation displayed by Job's friends, as their "explanation" of his plight turns on reading the covenant as a set of simple transactions.
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Price: $26.00
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Sale: $23.40
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Manufacturer: InterVarsity Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jay Wesley Richards
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Publisher: InterVarsity Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 231.4
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Publication Date: 2003-10
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Reading Level: 292
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Description: - God is sovereign.
- God is perfect.
- God is immutable.
- God created everything.
- God is triune.
- The Son of God was incarnate in Jesus Christ.
The essential tenets of classical theism regarding the doctrine of God can be stated fairly easily. However, questions have been raised regarding the coherence of these beliefs taken as a whole. Some have seen fit to abandon classical theism. Others have acknowledged tensions in the traditional concept of God and have sought to resolve them by means of making significant concessions. Jay Wesley Richards believes that classical theism with its biblical norm can and ought to be maintained. He shows how a philosophical defense, using the analytical tools of modal logic, can be mounted that preserves traditional Christian beliefs. Richards astutely defends essentialism, arguing that it is both intrinsic to the Christian understanding of God and preserves the contingency of creation and the God-world relation. To further clarify and defend his proposal he engages appreciatively and critically the thought of Karl Barth and Charles Hartshorne as well as addressing the related and currently debated matters of divine simplicity and immutability.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $6.50
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Manufacturer: Ignatius Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Spitzer S.J.
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Publisher: Ignatius Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.7
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Publication Date: 2000-10
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Reading Level: 347
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $4.00
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Manufacturer: Westminster John Knox Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William Sloane Coffin
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 2005-01-01
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: This collection of inspiring credos by William Sloane Coffin melds Christian spirit with social justice. Coffin's credentials are impressive--he served as chaplain of Yale University and Williams College, and he is the inspiration for the character Rev. Sloan in the Doonesbury comic strip. He is also a lifelong social crusader and peace activist. In James Carroll's exquisite introduction he recalls a night in 1972 when he and Coffin and numerous other ministers were thrown in jail for trespassing at the U.S. Capitol (while protesting the war in Vietnam). It was Coffin's baritone voice that broke the jailhouse silence, singing out Handel's "Messiah" and comforting the frightened men of the cloth. In fact, Coffin, author of The Heart is a Little to the Left has never been afraid to speak or sing out his beliefs. "I like to believe that I am an American patriot who loves his country enough to address her flaws," he states in the preface. "Today these are many, and all preachers worth their salt need fearlessly to insist that 'God 'n' Country' is not one word." Editor Stephanie Egnotovich reviewed a lifetime of Coffin's sermons and unpublished speeches and then excerpted and organized them into categories. His words and her editing created a book that is full of quotables. For example: On Social Justice and Economic Rights: "In the United States grim poverty is a tragedy that great wealth makes a sin." On Social Justice and Civil Liberties: "Prejudice disfigures the observer, not the person observed. If only the latter could remember it." On Patriotism: "All nations make decisions based on self-interest and then defend them in the name of morality." On War and Peace: "We are beginning to resemble extinct dinosaurs who suffered from too much armor and too little brain." For the leftist leaning Christian, this is the book you'll want to take on your next spiritual retreat, political protest, or any situation where left-leaning Christians gather to create social change. And when it's not being carted around in a satchel, it deserves a permanent residence on your lifelong spiritual contemplations bookshelf. --Gail Hudson
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Price: $36.99
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Sale: $22.08
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Manufacturer: Baker Academic
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John W. Cooper
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Publisher: Baker Academic
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Dewey Decimal Number: 211.2
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Publication Date: 2006-11-01
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Panentheism has gained popularity among contemporary thinkers. This belief system explains that "all is in God"; as a soul is related to a body, so God is related to the world. In Panentheism--The Other God of the Philosophers, philosopher and theologian John Cooper traces the growth and evolution of this intricate theology from Plotinus to Alfred North Whitehead to the present. This landmark book--the first complete history of panentheism written in English--explores the subject through the lens of various thinkers, such as Plato, Jürgen Moltmann, Paul Tillich, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Charles Hartshorne, and discusses how panentheism has influenced liberation, feminist, and ecological theologies. Cooper not only sketches the evolution of panentheism but also critiques it; ultimately, he offers a defense of classical theism. This book is for readers who care deeply about theology and think seriously about their faith.
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $9.53
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Manufacturer: InterVarsity Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: C. Stephen Evans
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Publisher: InterVarsity Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200.1
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Publication Date: 1985-03
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Reading Level: 1
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Description: C. Stephen Evans examines the central themes of philosophy of religion, including the arguments for God's existence, the meaning of revelation and miracles, and the problem of religious language.
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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $10.69
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Manufacturer: InterVarsity Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William A. Dembski
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Publisher: InterVarsity Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 210
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Publication Date: 2007-10-17
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Reading Level: 312
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Description: "Einstein once remarked that the most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." This statement, quoted by William Dembski, is a way of summarizing intelligent design theory, which argues that it is possible to find evidence for design in the universe. The author of The Design Inference (a scholarly exploration of this topic published by Cambridge University Press) in this book aims to show the lay reader "how detecting design within the universe, and especially against the backdrop of biology and biochemistry, unseats naturalism"--and above all Darwin's expulsion of design in his theory of evolution. Intelligent Design is organized into three parts: the first part gives an introduction to design and shows how modernity--science in the last two centuries--has undermined our intuition of this truth. The second and central part of the book examines "the philosophical and scientific basis for intelligent design." The final part shows how "science and theology relate coherently and how intelligent design establishes the crucial link between the two." This suggests that Dembski is not simply rejecting Darwin and naturalism on fundamentalist or biblical grounds. While grounded in faith, he wishes to show how "God's design is accessible to scientific inquiry." As such, the book should be of interest to all thinking believers. --Doug Thorpe
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $4.98
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Manufacturer: Fair Winds Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Laurence Gardner
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Publisher: Fair Winds Press
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Edition: Rev Exp
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230
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Publication Date: 2002-09-01
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Reading Level: 464
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Description: From royal and suppressed archives comes documented proof of the heritage of Jesus in the West and the long awaited discovery of the Holy Grail. In fulfilling this time-honored quest, penetrating new light is cast upon the Grail Code of Service and the venerated feminine element, upheld in chivalry but forsaken by the Church in order to forge a male dominated society. This unique work offers revelatory insight concerning the descendant heirs of Jesus and his brother James while, in documenting a hidden legacy of the Messiah, it unveils hitherto guarded facts about characters such as Mary Magdalene and Joseph of Arimathea. Tracing the sacred lineage through centuries of persecution and Inquisition, Bloodline of the Holy Grail reveals a systematic suppression of authentic records and a strategic manipulation of the New Testament Gospels. Featuring all the charm and adventure of Arthurial romance, coupled with enthralling Rosicrucian and Templar disclosures, this extraordinary work has a cutting edge of intrigue that removes the established blanket of enigma to expose one of the greatest conspiracies ever told. |
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