Author: Baba Thomas
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1609570529
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Common Grace is illustrated to evidence how the rich African traditions and values have been sustained through the years. The life lessons are full of common sense and seasoned to position us for greatness and success. They are dependable and life changing. The African stories, riddles, and proverbs are educational, informative, and entertaining. They will challenge you how you think, perceive other cultures, and relate to others and to your own family. This is your opportunity to learn and explore how Africans lived their lives in those days, and your opportunity to share this wisdom with your children, grandchildren, etc.
African Culture in the Eyes of Common Grace
Author: Baba Thomas
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1609570529
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Common Grace is illustrated to evidence how the rich African traditions and values have been sustained through the years. The life lessons are full of common sense and seasoned to position us for greatness and success. They are dependable and life changing. The African stories, riddles, and proverbs are educational, informative, and entertaining. They will challenge you how you think, perceive other cultures, and relate to others and to your own family. This is your opportunity to learn and explore how Africans lived their lives in those days, and your opportunity to share this wisdom with your children, grandchildren, etc.
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1609570529
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Common Grace is illustrated to evidence how the rich African traditions and values have been sustained through the years. The life lessons are full of common sense and seasoned to position us for greatness and success. They are dependable and life changing. The African stories, riddles, and proverbs are educational, informative, and entertaining. They will challenge you how you think, perceive other cultures, and relate to others and to your own family. This is your opportunity to learn and explore how Africans lived their lives in those days, and your opportunity to share this wisdom with your children, grandchildren, etc.
T&T Clark Handbook of Neo-Calvinism
Author: Nathaniel Gray Sutanto
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567698114
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Neo-Calvinism critically advances Reformed orthodoxy for the sake of modern life. Birthed in the Netherlands at the turn to the twentieth century, initiated by Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) and Herman Bavinck (1854-1921), it argued that a life before God entailed the leavening of faith over all human existence. While the movement originated in the Netherlands, the tradition now has a global reach, with practitioners and thinkers applying its insights in diverse ways and in their own contexts. This handbook is a genealogical introduction to this lively and modern branch of the Reformed tradition, with contributors that reflect its global reach. Its four sections chart the theological roots, important original figures, historical contours and the contemporary influence of neo-Calvinism across a diversity of fields.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567698114
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Neo-Calvinism critically advances Reformed orthodoxy for the sake of modern life. Birthed in the Netherlands at the turn to the twentieth century, initiated by Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) and Herman Bavinck (1854-1921), it argued that a life before God entailed the leavening of faith over all human existence. While the movement originated in the Netherlands, the tradition now has a global reach, with practitioners and thinkers applying its insights in diverse ways and in their own contexts. This handbook is a genealogical introduction to this lively and modern branch of the Reformed tradition, with contributors that reflect its global reach. Its four sections chart the theological roots, important original figures, historical contours and the contemporary influence of neo-Calvinism across a diversity of fields.
Work Out Your Salvation
Author: D. Glenn Butner Jr.
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1506479421
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
In Work Out Your Salvation, D. Glenn Butner Jr. demonstrates that participation in markets forms our moral character, perceptions, actions, and ideas. Drawing on experimental economics and moral theology, he argues that the nature of such formation varies based on the design of the market and our interactions within it. How, he asks, does formation of the market relate to the formation of grace--providence, justification, and sanctification? Are these forces at war for our souls? Through a detailed analysis of these three doctrines and the theology of common grace and concurrent divine/human action, Work Out Your Salvation argues that God can work through the social context of markets, through human identity, and through economic incentive structures to foster providentially the created basis for the supernatural gifts of justification and sanctification. Careful and theologically guided participation in a market can, by common grace, provide the occasion for positive spiritual formation through concurrent divine action. However, such formation is not guaranteed. Maladaptive practices, ideas, and identities can also be fostered by markets not oriented toward a supernatural end. Butner provides detailed evidence backed by extensive experimental and empirical research as to which market practices allow Christians to "work out their salvation" (Phil 2:12) and which practices resist such moral transformation. Work Out Your Salvation undermines simplistic endorsements or rejections of capitalism in favor of more nuanced analysis and lays bare which features of markets make us better and which make us worse.
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1506479421
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
In Work Out Your Salvation, D. Glenn Butner Jr. demonstrates that participation in markets forms our moral character, perceptions, actions, and ideas. Drawing on experimental economics and moral theology, he argues that the nature of such formation varies based on the design of the market and our interactions within it. How, he asks, does formation of the market relate to the formation of grace--providence, justification, and sanctification? Are these forces at war for our souls? Through a detailed analysis of these three doctrines and the theology of common grace and concurrent divine/human action, Work Out Your Salvation argues that God can work through the social context of markets, through human identity, and through economic incentive structures to foster providentially the created basis for the supernatural gifts of justification and sanctification. Careful and theologically guided participation in a market can, by common grace, provide the occasion for positive spiritual formation through concurrent divine action. However, such formation is not guaranteed. Maladaptive practices, ideas, and identities can also be fostered by markets not oriented toward a supernatural end. Butner provides detailed evidence backed by extensive experimental and empirical research as to which market practices allow Christians to "work out their salvation" (Phil 2:12) and which practices resist such moral transformation. Work Out Your Salvation undermines simplistic endorsements or rejections of capitalism in favor of more nuanced analysis and lays bare which features of markets make us better and which make us worse.
Visions of Vocation
Author: Steven Garber
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830896260
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Vocation is more than a job. It is our relationships and responsibilities woven into the work of God. In following our calling to seek the welfare of our world, we find that it flourishes and so do we. Garber offers here a book for parents, artists, students, public servants and businesspeople—for all who want to discover the virtue of vocation.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830896260
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Vocation is more than a job. It is our relationships and responsibilities woven into the work of God. In following our calling to seek the welfare of our world, we find that it flourishes and so do we. Garber offers here a book for parents, artists, students, public servants and businesspeople—for all who want to discover the virtue of vocation.
All That God Cares About
Author: Richard J. Mouw
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1493423738
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
How do Christians account for the widespread presence of goodness in a fallen world? Richard Mouw, one of the most influential evangelical voices in America, presents his mature thought on the topic of common grace. Addressing a range of issues relevant to engaging common grace in the 21st century, Mouw shows how God takes delight in all things that glorify him--even those that happen beyond the boundaries of the church--and defends the doctrine of common grace from its detractors.
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1493423738
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
How do Christians account for the widespread presence of goodness in a fallen world? Richard Mouw, one of the most influential evangelical voices in America, presents his mature thought on the topic of common grace. Addressing a range of issues relevant to engaging common grace in the 21st century, Mouw shows how God takes delight in all things that glorify him--even those that happen beyond the boundaries of the church--and defends the doctrine of common grace from its detractors.
Wisdom and Wonder
Author: Abraham Kuyper
Publisher: Russell Media
ISBN: 1937498913
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Publisher: Russell Media
ISBN: 1937498913
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Abraham Kuyper
Author: James D. Bratt
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802869068
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
This is the first full-scale English-language biography of the highly influential and astonishingly multifaceted Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) - theologian, minister, politician, newspaper editor, educational innovator, Calvinist reformer, and prime minister of the Netherlands from 1901 to 1905. James Bratt is the ideal scholar to tell the story of Kuyper's remarkable life and work. He expertly traces the origin and development of Kuyper's signature concepts - common grace, Christian worldview, sphere sovereignty, Christian engagement with contemporary culture - in the dynamic context of his life's story.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802869068
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
This is the first full-scale English-language biography of the highly influential and astonishingly multifaceted Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) - theologian, minister, politician, newspaper editor, educational innovator, Calvinist reformer, and prime minister of the Netherlands from 1901 to 1905. James Bratt is the ideal scholar to tell the story of Kuyper's remarkable life and work. He expertly traces the origin and development of Kuyper's signature concepts - common grace, Christian worldview, sphere sovereignty, Christian engagement with contemporary culture - in the dynamic context of his life's story.
The Best of The Reformed Journal
Author: James Bratt
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 1467435473
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
For four decades, from 1951 to 1990, The Reformed Journal set the standard for top-notch, venturesome theological reflection on a broad range of issues. With a lively mix of editorial comment, articles, and reviews, it addressed topics as diverse as the civil rights movement, feminism, the Vietnam War, South African apartheid, the plight of Palestinian Christians, and the rise of the Christian Right, all from a Reformed perspective. In this anthology James Bratt and Ronald Wells have assembled select pieces that exemplify the Journal's position at the cutting edge of thoughtful Christian engagement with culture.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 1467435473
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
For four decades, from 1951 to 1990, The Reformed Journal set the standard for top-notch, venturesome theological reflection on a broad range of issues. With a lively mix of editorial comment, articles, and reviews, it addressed topics as diverse as the civil rights movement, feminism, the Vietnam War, South African apartheid, the plight of Palestinian Christians, and the rise of the Christian Right, all from a Reformed perspective. In this anthology James Bratt and Ronald Wells have assembled select pieces that exemplify the Journal's position at the cutting edge of thoughtful Christian engagement with culture.
The Grace and Truth Paradox
Author: Randy Alcorn
Publisher: Multnomah
ISBN: 030756469X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Christians trying to model their lives after Jesus may find that He gets buried under lists, rules, and formulas. Now bestselling author Randy Alcorn offers a simple two-point checklist for Christlikeness based on John 1:14. The test consists of balancing grace and truth, equally and unapologetically. Grace without truth deceives people, and ceases to be grace. Truth without grace crushes people, and ceases to be truth. Alcorn shows the reader how to show the world Jesus -- offering grace instead of the world's apathy and tolerance, offering truth instead of the world's relativism and deception. Grace or Truth…or Both? Truth without grace breeds self-righteousness and crushing legalism. Grace without truth breeds deception and moral compromise. Is it possible to embrace both in balance? Jesus did. Randy Alcorn offers a simple yet profound two-point checklist of Christlikeness. “In the end,” says Alcorn, “we don’t need grace or truth. We need grace and truth. And for people to see Jesus in us, they must see both.”
Publisher: Multnomah
ISBN: 030756469X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Christians trying to model their lives after Jesus may find that He gets buried under lists, rules, and formulas. Now bestselling author Randy Alcorn offers a simple two-point checklist for Christlikeness based on John 1:14. The test consists of balancing grace and truth, equally and unapologetically. Grace without truth deceives people, and ceases to be grace. Truth without grace crushes people, and ceases to be truth. Alcorn shows the reader how to show the world Jesus -- offering grace instead of the world's apathy and tolerance, offering truth instead of the world's relativism and deception. Grace or Truth…or Both? Truth without grace breeds self-righteousness and crushing legalism. Grace without truth breeds deception and moral compromise. Is it possible to embrace both in balance? Jesus did. Randy Alcorn offers a simple yet profound two-point checklist of Christlikeness. “In the end,” says Alcorn, “we don’t need grace or truth. We need grace and truth. And for people to see Jesus in us, they must see both.”
Eyes to See
Author: Tim Muehlhoff
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830831665
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
When we encounter suffering or tragedy, we wonder: Where is God? If God exists, then why doesn't he show himself? Tim Muehlhoff unpacks the doctrine of common grace and offers examples from contemporary culture to uncover how God is present and working in ordinary, everyday places. Discover how God cares for our troubled world as he gives you eyes to see.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830831665
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
When we encounter suffering or tragedy, we wonder: Where is God? If God exists, then why doesn't he show himself? Tim Muehlhoff unpacks the doctrine of common grace and offers examples from contemporary culture to uncover how God is present and working in ordinary, everyday places. Discover how God cares for our troubled world as he gives you eyes to see.