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Alister McGrath · 2007 · Book
Alister McGrath's response to Richard Dawkins emerged from the widespread cultural influence of The God Delusion, published just one year earlier in 2006. As a professor of theology at Oxford University with…
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Dethroning Jesus Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ
Darrell L. Bock · 2007 · Book
Dethroning Jesus emerges from Dallas Theological Seminary professor Darrell Bock's concern about the proliferation of alternative portraits of Jesus in early twenty-first-century popular culture. Written in the wake of bestsellers like The…
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John C. Lennox · 2007 · Book
The God Delusion Debate emerged from John Lennox's direct engagement with Richard Dawkins' influential 2006 attack on religious belief. As a mathematician and philosopher of science at Oxford University, Lennox found himself…
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God's Undertaker God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?
John C. Lennox · 2007 · Book
John Lennox, a mathematician at Oxford University, wrote this defense of theistic belief in response to the aggressive atheism promoted by prominent scientists like Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawking in the early…
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How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
Thomas Oden · 2007 · Book
Thomas Oden's historical investigation emerged from his decades-long engagement with early Christian texts and his growing recognition that Western Christianity had systematically obscured its African foundations. Writing as a Methodist theologian who…
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Sinclair B. Ferguson · 2007 · Book
Sinclair Ferguson's In Christ Alone emerged from his concern that contemporary evangelicalism had lost sight of the profound biblical truth of union with Christ. Writing as a Reformed theologian and experienced pastor,…
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Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) · 2007 · Book
Joseph Ratzinger wrote this theological study of Jesus Christ while serving as Pope Benedict XVI, driven by his conviction that historical-critical scholarship had obscured rather than illuminated the figure of Jesus. Published…
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Christopher J. H. Wright · 2007 · Book
Christopher Wright's exploration of divine fatherhood emerges from his conviction that Christians have too often bypassed the Hebrew Scriptures in their understanding of God as Father. Writing as both biblical scholar and…
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International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies scholars; editors Albert Pietersma and Benjamin G. Wright · 2007 · Scripture
A New English Translation of the Septuagint is a landmark modern scholarly English rendering of the Septuagint and related Greek versions. The Septuagint, the ancient Greek form of the Jewish Scriptures, was…
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Fleming Rutledge · 2007 · Book
Fleming Rutledge's collection of sermons emerges from her decades as an Episcopal priest preaching through the turn of the millennium, a period when American Christianity faced increasing cultural marginalization and internal theological…
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Pauline Christology Pauline Christology: An Exegetical-Theological Study
Gordon Fee · 2007 · Book
Gordon Fee's magisterial study emerges from decades of wrestling with the christological implications of Paul's letters, particularly the tensions between Paul's Jewish monotheism and his worship of Christ as divine. Writing as…
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Priority of Christ The Priority of Christ: Toward a Postliberal Catholicism
Robert Barron · 2007 · Book
Robert Barron's systematic theological work emerges from his conviction that Catholic theology had become trapped between the equally inadequate options of precritical fundamentalism and liberal accommodation to secular modernity. Writing as both…
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Jerry Bridges · 2007 · Book
Jerry Bridges wrote this practical guide to address what he saw as a troubling inconsistency in evangelical Christianity: the tendency to condemn obvious sins like adultery or theft while overlooking subtler but…
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Salvation Belongs to Our God Salvation Belongs to Our God: Celebrating the Bible's Central Story
Christopher J. H. Wright · 2007 · Book
Christopher Wright's work emerges from his conviction that contemporary Christianity has fragmented the biblical narrative into disconnected theological topics, losing sight of salvation as the Bible's unifying theme. Writing as both a…
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Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) · 2007 · Letter
Spe Salvi is Pope Benedict XVI's second encyclical, issued in November 2007 during a period when secular culture increasingly viewed traditional Christian hope as outdated. Taking its title from Romans 8:24 ("we…
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Seized by Truth Seized by Truth: Reading the Bible as Scripture
Joel B. Green · 2007 · Book
Joel Green's Seized by Truth emerges from the contemporary crisis in biblical interpretation, where historical-critical methods have often displaced Scripture's role in Christian formation and community life. Writing from within the Wesleyan…
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N. T. Wright · 2007 · Book
N. T. Wright's systematic exploration of Christian eschatology emerged from his recognition that much contemporary Christianity had lost touch with its central hope. Writing as both New Testament scholar and Anglican bishop,…
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Rowan Williams · 2007 · Book
Tokens of Trust emerged from Rowan Williams' desire to address the fundamental question of why Christian faith remains credible in a skeptical age. Originally delivered as lectures, this work represents Williams' attempt…
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R. C. Sproul · 2007 · Book
R.C. Sproul's "The Truth of the Cross" emerges from his decades of teaching systematic theology and confronting what he saw as widespread confusion about the atonement in contemporary evangelicalism. Writing in 2007,…
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Edward Fudge · 2007 · Book
Two Minutes with the Bible emerged from Edward Fudge's decades-long practice of writing brief daily email devotions for friends and colleagues. What began as informal spiritual encouragement shared through digital correspondence grew…
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Acedia & Me Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
Kathleen Norris · 2008 · Book
Kathleen Norris's deeply personal exploration of acedia emerged from her own devastating encounter with this ancient spiritual malady during her husband's prolonged illness and her own struggles with depression and creative paralysis.…
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Body, Soul, and Human Life Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature of Humanity in the Bible
Joel B. Green · 2008 · Book
Joel Green's systematic examination of biblical anthropology emerges from decades of debate between materialist and dualist interpretations of human nature in Christian theology. Written as contemporary neuroscience increasingly challenges traditional soul-body distinctions,…
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Os Guinness · 2008 · Book
Os Guinness wrote this urgent appeal for civility in American public life during the polarized aftermath of the 2004 and 2008 elections, when political discourse had descended into what he saw as…
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D. A. Carson · 2008 · Book
D. A. Carson's systematic examination of H. Richard Niebuhr's influential typology emerges from decades of theological reflection and cross-cultural ministry experience. Writing more than fifty years after Niebuhr's seminal Christ and Culture,…
