The Message of Holiness

Author: Derek Tidball
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 083082412X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
Derek Tidball surveys the Scriptures for a comprehensive biblical understanding of the elusive mandate from God to "be holy as I am holy." The triune God of glory, he contends, sets us on paths that lead us through encounters with God, ourselves, our enemies and our companions to our ultimate destination, where we discover that we have been reshaped by God into his own image.

The Message of the Song of Songs

Author: Tom Gledhill
Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press
ISBN: 1783596481
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
In unrivalled poetic language, the Song of Songs explores the whole range of emotions experienced by its two lovers as they work out their commitment to each other, consummated in marriage. The Song's powerful and unabashed affirmation of love, loyalty and earthy sexuality is urgently relevant today, when commercialised eroticism is in, and permanency in relationships is out. Tom Gledhill argues that beauty, intimacy and sexual consummation are to be celebrated, but not as ends in themselves. Rather, the point to another world, another dimension, only occasionally and dimly perceived. God has chose the love of a man and a woman as an image of his own love of his people.

The Message of Isaiah

Author: Barry G. Webb
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 1514006367
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
In this BST volume, Barry Webb showcases the outstanding brilliance of style, poetic power, and foretaste of the gospel that the book of Isaiah offers. With accessible insight, he shows how the threads of the Old Testament come together in Isaiah, training our ears and hearts to resonate with its great biblical-theological themes.

Ecclesiastes

Author:
Publisher: Canongate U.S.
ISBN: 9780802136145
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
The publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincided with an extraordinary flowering of English literature and is universally acknowledged as the greatest influence on English-language literature in history. Now, world-class literary writers introduce the book of the King James Bible in a series of beautifully designed, small-format volumes. The introducers' passionate, provocative, and personal engagements with the spirituality and the language of the text make the Bible come alive as a stunning work of literature and remind us of its overwhelming contemporary relevance.

A Passion for Truth

Author: Alister McGrath
Publisher: IVP Academic
ISBN: 9780830815913
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Voted one of Christianity Today's 1997 Books of the Year! Decades ago, evangelicalism was given up for dead in the academy. But since World War II, evangelical intellectualism has made a surprising comeback. Esteem has been regained especially in such disciplines as history and philosophy. Now evangelical theologians are making their bid for academic respectability. A Passion for Truth, written by one of evangelicalism's outstanding younger theologians, seeks to show that the movement has in its heritage excellent resources to engage the scholarly debates of the day. McGrath first sets forth the constructive ground on which evangelicalism stands, then shows how this revivified school of thought might respond to such important theological and cultural realities as postmodernism, religious pluralism and postliberalism. His book is fresh and exciting evidence that evangelicalism is coming of age.

Ecclesiastes

Author: Craig G. Bartholomew
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 0801026911
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
A world-renowned Old Testament scholar provides a careful exegetical reading of Ecclesiastes with theological insights for serious students of the Bible.

The Message of Job

Author: David J. Atkinson
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 1514005212
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Why do people suffer? What is God's role in suffering? The book of Job is all about human suffering. In his accessible and pastoral exposition of Job's story, David Atkinson shows the power of the book to engage our human needs and offers the strong comfort someone else has been there before.

The Wisdom of Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes

Author: Derek Kidner
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830896414
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Sensitive to both literary form and theological content, Derek Kidner introduces Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes, explaining their basic character and internal structure. He also summarizes and evaluates the wealth of modern criticism focused on each book. Looking at all three books together, Kidner shows how their many voices compare, contrast and ultimately give a unified view of life.

The Message of Proverbs

Author: David J. Atkinson
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 1514006308
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
Proverbs' instruction in the art of living has been long tried and long proven. This BST commentary wonderfully illuminates the ancient cultural and religious background and brings the wisdom of Proverbs in conversation with the wisdom of God now more fully displayed in Christ, clarifying the place of Proverbs in the pattern of God's word.

The Message of Ecclesiastes

Author: Derek Kidner
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 1514006324
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 107

Book Description
With imagination and clarity, Derek Kidner introduces the book of Ecclesiastes, an unusual book that nevertheless speaks powerfully to each generation. In this BST volume, Kidner reveals how the Preacher faces the fear that God is distant and nothing has meaning, and leads us to finally encounter the God who was present all along.