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Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) · 2003 · Book
Truth and Tolerance emerged from Joseph Ratzinger's deep concern about the relativistic currents reshaping Western culture at the turn of the twenty-first century. Writing as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine…
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Fleming Rutledge · 2003 · Book
Fleming Rutledge's "The Underdogs" emerged from her decades of preaching in affluent Episcopal parishes, where she observed how easily comfortable Christianity could domesticate the radical nature of the gospel. Writing as both…
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Adele Ahlberg Calhoun · 2003 · Book
Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's dictionary emerged from the growing hunger for spiritual depth in contemporary Christianity and the accompanying confusion about traditional practices and terminology. Published by The Upper Room, the Methodist devotional…
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Lamin Sanneh · 2003 · Book
Lamin Sanneh wrote this short book in the form of answers to questions — the questions he had spent years fielding from Western audiences, students, journalists, and colleagues who could not quite…
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Edward Fudge · 2004 · Book
Edward Fudge's Beyond the Sacred Page emerges from decades of biblical study within the Restorationist tradition, where questions of proper biblical interpretation carry particular weight for communities committed to restoring New Testament…
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Darrell L. Bock · 2004 · Book
Breaking the Da Vinci Code emerged as Darrell Bock's scholarly response to Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code, which presented controversial claims about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and early Christianity as…
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Bridging the Great Divide Bridging the Great Divide: Musings of a Post-Liberal, Post-Conservative Evangelical Catholic
Robert Barron · 2004 · Book
Robert Barron's collection of essays emerged from his years teaching systematic theology at Mundelein Seminary and his growing conviction that the standard categories of liberal versus conservative had become inadequate for authentic…
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Holman Bible translation team; general editor Edwin Blum · 2004 · Scripture
A significant evangelical committee translation, the Holman Christian Standard Bible was produced as a fresh rendering of the complete Bible from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, based on modern critical texts rather…
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Ruth Haley Barton · 2004 · Book
Ruth Haley Barton's Invitation to Solitude and Silence emerged from her own experience of spiritual burnout and the discovery that traditional evangelical approaches to spiritual growth had left her feeling empty despite…
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Paul Tripp · 2004 · Book
Lost in the Middle emerged from Paul David Tripp's pastoral observations of the widespread crisis facing middle-aged Christians who find themselves spiritually adrift despite years of faithful church attendance and biblical knowledge.…
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NLT Bible Translation Committee · 2004 · Scripture
The Second Edition of the New Living Translation is a major reworking of the 1996 New Living Translation, undertaken to increase precision while retaining the readability that characterized its predecessor. Covering the…
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I. Howard Marshall · 2004 · Book
I. Howard Marshall's New Testament Theology emerges from decades of wrestling with a fundamental tension in biblical scholarship: how to account for the undeniable diversity of voices, genres, and theological emphases across…
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John Behr · 2004 · Book
The Nicene Faith represents the second volume of John Behr's ambitious project to reconstruct the formation of Christian theology in its earliest centuries. Writing as both patristic scholar and Orthodox priest, Behr…
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Christopher J. H. Wright · 2004 · Book
Christopher Wright's comprehensive study emerges from decades of teaching Old Testament ethics at All Nations Christian College and his conviction that evangelical Christians have often neglected the Hebrew Scriptures as a source…
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John Piper · 2004 · Book
John Piper's meditation on Christ's crucifixion emerged from his conviction that contemporary Christianity had lost sight of the cross's central importance. Writing as a Reformed pastor and preacher, Piper crafted this work…
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James Bryan Smith · 2004 · Book
Room of Marvels emerged from James Bryan Smith's decades of teaching spiritual formation and his recognition that many Christians struggle to move beyond initial conversion into deeper spiritual maturity. Writing as a…
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Speaking the Truth in Love Speaking the Truth in Love: Education, Mission and Witness in Contemporary Orthodoxy
Thomas Hopko · 2004 · Book
Speaking the Truth in Love emerged from Thomas Hopko's decades of experience as dean of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary and his deep engagement with the challenges facing Orthodox Christianity in America…
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Alister McGrath · 2004 · Book
Alister McGrath's "Theology: The Basics" emerged from his recognition that theology had become increasingly specialized and inaccessible to general readers, despite growing public interest in religious questions. Writing as an Oxford professor…
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Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition
Hans Boersma · 2004 · Book
Hans Boersma's theological investigation emerges from contemporary Christianity's struggle with the apparent violence embedded in traditional atonement theology. Writing amid postmodern critiques that view penal substitution and satisfaction theories as legitimizing divine…
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What About the Soul? What About the Soul? Neuroscience and Christian Anthropology
Joel B. Green · 2004 · Book
Joel Green's inquiry emerges from the collision between advancing neuroscience and traditional Christian beliefs about human nature. Writing as both a biblical scholar and someone attentive to scientific developments, Green addresses the…
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John Piper · 2004 · Book
When I Don't Desire God emerges from John Piper's pastoral recognition that even committed Christians regularly experience seasons of spiritual dryness, when worship feels hollow and God seems distant. Writing in 2004…
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D. A. Carson · 2005 · Book
D. A. Carson's critique emerged in response to the growing influence of the emerging church movement in the early 2000s, particularly voices like Brian McLaren, Rob Bell, and Tony Jones who were…
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Eugene H. Peterson · 2005 · Book
Eugene Peterson's ambitious exploration of spiritual theology emerged from his decades as a pastor and translator who witnessed the erosion of genuine spiritual formation in contemporary Christianity. Writing as both practitioner and…
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Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) · 2005 · Book
Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures emerged from Joseph Ratzinger's growing concern about Europe's spiritual and cultural trajectory in the early twenty-first century. Written during his final years as Prefect of the…
