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Coming To Faith Through Dawkins
$21.99Add to cartRichard Dawkins = Christian evangelist?
Editors Denis Alexander and Alister McGrath gather other intelligent minds from around the world to share their startling commonality: Richard Dawkins and his fellow New Atheists were instrumental in their conversions to Christianity.
Despite a wide range of backgrounds and cultures, all are united in the fact that they were first enthusiasts for the claims and writings of the New Atheists. But each became disillusioned by the arguments and conclusions of Dawkins, causing them to look deeper and with more objectivity at religious faith. The fallacies of Christianity Dawkins warns of simply don’t exist.
Spending time in this fascinating and powerful book is like being invited to the most interesting dinner party you’ve ever attended. Listen as twelve men and women from five different countries across a variety of professions–philosophers, artists, historians, engineers, scientists, and more–explain their journeys from atheism to faith. In the end, you may come away having reached the same conclusion: authentic Christian faith is in fact more intellectually convincing and rational than New Atheism.
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Early New Testament Apocrypha
$64.99Add to cartBroaden the scope of your New Testament studies with this introduction to early Christian apocryphal literature.
To understand the New Testament well, it is important to study the larger world surrounding it, and one of the primary avenues for this exploration is through reading related ancient texts. But this task is daunting for scholars and novices alike given the sheer size of the ancient literary corpora. The Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies series aims to bridge this gap by introducing the key ancient texts that form the cultural, historical, and literary context for the study of the New Testament.
Early New Testament Apocrypha offers an entry point into the corpus of early Christian apocryphal literature through twenty-eight texts or groups of texts. While the majority of the texts fall within the first four centuries CE, and therefore are useful for uncovering the earliest interpretations assigned to the New Testament, select later texts serve as reminders of how the meanings of New Testament texts continued to develop in subsequent centuries. Each essay covers introductory matters, a summary of content, interpretive issues, key passages for New Testament studies and their significance, and a select bibliography.
Whether you are a scholar looking to familiarize yourself with a new corpus of texts or a novice seeking to undertake a serious contextualized study of the New Testament, this is an ideal reference work for you.
Essays and contributors include:
Part 1: Apocryphal Gospels
*Agrapha, Andrew Gregory
*Fragments of Gospels on Papyrus, Tobias Nicklas
*Gospel of Barnabas, Philip Jenkins
*Gospel of Peter, Paul Foster
*Infancy Gospel of Thomas, Reidar Aasgaard
*Jewish-Christian Gospels, Petri Luomanen
*Legend of Aphroditian, Katharina Heyden
*Pilate Cycle, J. K. Elliott
*Protevangelium of James, Eric M. Vanden
*Eykel Toledot Yeshu, Sarit Kattan Gribetz
*Revelation of the Magi, Catherine PlayoustPart 2: Apocryphal Acts
*Acts of Andrew, Nathan C. Johnson
*Acts of John, Harold W. Attridge
*Acts of Paul, Harold W. Attridge
*Acts of Peter, Robert F. Stoops, Jr.
*Acts of Philip, Christopher R. Matthews
*Acts of Thomas, Harold W. Attridge
*Departure of My Lady Mary from This World (Six Books Dormition Apocryphon), J. *Christopher Edwards
*Pseudo-Clementines, F. Stanley JonesPart 3: Apocryphal Epistles
*Jesus’s Letter to Abgar, William Adler
*Correspondence of Paul and Seneca, Andrew Gregory
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Christ The Cornerstone
$21.99Add to cartWhat does it mean to say Jesus is Lord?
The late Anglican pastor John Stott–named as one of the 100 most influential people in 2005 by Time magazine-was committed to the notion that Jesus’ lordship has ramifications for all of life. Out of this conviction grew his contention that the whole mission of God includes both evangelism and social action. Christ the Cornerstone recovers several decades of his writings exploring the consequences of Jesus’ lordship from the pages of Christianity Today, including the regular “Cornerstone” column he wrote from 1977-1981. In them, he treats such diverse topics as Scripture, discipleship, the worldwide mission of the church, and social concerns such as the value of human life, care for animals, racial diversity, and economic inequality. Gain insight for today from the writings of a guiding light of evangelicalism.