"I have used The Child's Story Bible for years . . . and can recommend it enthusiastically", says Ruth Bell Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham. Norman Vincent Peale says of the Story Bible, "The best summary of the Bible in story form available". First published more than 50 years ago, this much-loved Bible storybook continues to instruct and ......
This classic defense of orthodox Christianity, written to counter the liberalism that arose in the early 1900s, establishes the importance of scriptural doctrine and contrasts the teachings of liberalism and orthodoxy on God and man, the Bible, Christ, salvation, and the church. J. Gresham Machen's Christianity and Liberalism has remained relevant ......
The Roots of "Spiritual But Not Religious" in Antiquity
The first volume of Michael Horton's magisterial intellectual history of "spiritual but not religious" as a phenomenon in Western culture Discussions of the rapidly increasing number of people identifying as "spiritual but not religious" tend to focus on the past century. But the SBNR phenomenon and the values that underlie it may be older ......
A collection of expressive and emotional psalms is paraphrased for young readers and uses simple yet powerful imagery to help children talk about their feelings to God.
This work includes an introduction by Mary McDermott Shideler. One of the first women to graduate from Oxford University, Dorothy Sayers pursued her goals whether or not what she wanted to do was ordinarily understood to be "feminine." Sayers did not devote a great deal of time to talking or writing about feminism, but she did explicitly address ......
"But I don't wanna go to church!" Marva Dawn has often heard that cry-and not only from children. "What a sad commentary it is on North American spirituality," she writes, "that the delight of `keeping the Sabbath day' has degenerated into the routine and drudgery-even the downright oppressiveness-of `going to church.'" According to Dawn, the ......
"What is prayer? It's not a passport to heaven. If anything, it's a way of seeing here, a way of being here." In Being Here, acclaimed poet and theologian Padraig O Tuama offers a thoughtful collection of prayers and essays to focus attention in a world full of distractions. Featuring thirty-one collects--an ancient five-fold form of ......
This book by Ephraim Radner constitutes the first significant theological account of the foundations and methods of the figural reading of Scripture. Radner's reintroduces contemporary scholars to a traditional approach to biblical interpretation that dates back to Jewish practice from before the time of Jesus. Figural interpretation continued in ......
The poetry of Charles Peguy (1873- 1914) emerges from a world deeply embedded in supernatural realities and the hidden activities of grace. Nevertheless, it lacks any trace of the "other-worldliness" that frequently characterizes religious poetry. For, though he enters unabashedly into the mysteries of providence and the longings of God's own ......
