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    • God's not dead : evidence for God in an age of uncertainty
      God's not dead : evidence for God in an age of uncertainty
      Rice Broocks.
      Explores "the questions surrounding faith, skepticism, and the meaning of life ... as well as ... evidence for the existence of God and the truths of Christianity"--Dust jacket flap.
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    • Orphan justice : how to care for orphans beyond adopting
      Orphan justice : how to care for orphans beyond adopting
      Johnny Carr with Laura Captari.
      Christians are clearly called to care for orphans, a group so close to the heart of Jesus. In reality, most of the 153 million orphaned and vulnerable children in the world do not need to be adopted, and not everyone needs to become an adoptive parent. However, there are other very important ways to help beyond adoption. Indeed, caring for orphaned and vulnerable children requires us to care about related issues from child trafficking and HIV/AIDS to racism and poverty. Too often, we only discuss or theologize the issues, relegating the responsibility to governments. No one can do everything, but everyone can do something. Based on his own personal journey toward pure religion, Johnny Carr moves readers from talking about global orphan care to actually doing something about it in Orphan Justice. Combining biblical truth with the latest research, this inspiring book investigates the orphan care and adoption movement in the U.S. today, examines new data on the needs of orphaned and vulnerable children, connects "liberal issues" together as critical aspects or orphan care, discovers the role of the church worldwide in meeting these needs, develops a tangible, sustainable action plan using worldwide partnerships, fleshes out the why, what, and how of global orphan care, and offers practical steps to getting involved and making a difference.
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    • The Right of the Protestant Left : God's Totalitarianism
      The Right of the Protestant Left : God's Totalitarianism
      Mark Thomas Edwards.
      "This book explores the centrality of religious realignment for the development of American and global politics during the past century. It tells the story of the "Christian Realists" who led the American Protestant left following World War I. As a public theological community with transnational ties, the Realists attacked modern civilization, preached participatory democratic relations, and called for a catholic world Protestantism. In religion as well as in politics, the Realists and their associates at home and abroad proved to be the authentic religious right of their era. Together, they highlighted the conservativism within twentieth-century American liberalism"-- Provided by publisher.
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    • The quest for the Trinity : the doctrine of God in scripture, history, and modernity
      The quest for the Trinity : the doctrine of God in scripture, history, and modernity
      Stephen R. Holmes.
      The Doctrine of the Trinity was settled in the fourth century, and maintained with only very minor disagreement or development by all strands of the church - Western and Eastern, Protestant and Catholic - until the modern period. In the twentieth century, there arose a sense that the doctrine had been neglected and stood in need of recovery. In this masterful survey of the doctrine of the Trinity, Holmes guides scholars and students on a journey through 2,000 years of the Christian doctrine of God. We witness the church's discovery of the Trinity from the biblical testimony, its crucial patristic developments, and medieval and Reformation continuity. We are also confronted with the questioning of traditional dogma during the Enlightenment, and asked to consider anew the character of the modern trinitarian revival.
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    • The unfolding mystery of the divine name : the God of Sinai in our midst
      The unfolding mystery of the divine name : the God of Sinai in our midst
      Michael P. Knowles.
      When Moses asked God to show him his glory, the LORD passed before him and proclaimed His name. And from that named cascaded a promised of grace and love, compassion and faithfulness, forgiveness and slowness to anger. The story is told in Exodus 34:5-7, but the resonant name reverberates through corridors of Scripture. Michael Knowles teases out the rich dimensions and implications of this name by listening carefully to Exodus 34 and its biblical echoes. He particularly tunes his ear to the spiritual meditations of later sages. In tracing the unfolding mystery of the divine name throughout the span of Israel's story, he finds it startlingly resolved in the God of Sinai becoming present in our midst. The manifold name of God has long captivated those who trace their spiritual ancestry to Abraham, whether they are Jewish, Christian or Muslim. This book brings this spiritual quest into dialogue with Scripture and tradition, and invites us to experience this God of the eternal name.
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