Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 23 results for “douglas sweeney”
Skip side bar filters

  • The American Evangelical Story

    A History of the Movement

    by Douglas Sweeney ...
    The American Evangelical Story surveys the role American evangelicalism has had in the shaping of global evangelical history.Author Douglas Sweeney begins with a brief outline of the key features that define evangelicals and then explores the roots of the movement in English Pietism and the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century. He goes on to consider the importance of missions in the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Suffering and Victorious Christ

    Toward a More Compassionate Christology

    by Richard Mouw, Douglas Sweeney, Willie Jennings ...
    American theologians tend to focus on the great hope Christians have through Christ's resurrection, emphasizing Christ's victory while minimizing or ignoring his suffering. Through their engagements with Japanese Christians and African American Christians on the topic of Christology, Richard Mouw and Douglas Sweeney have come to recognize and underscore that Christ offers hope not only through his ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Essential Jonathan Edwards

    An Introduction to the Life and Teaching of America's Greatest Theologian

    by Owen Strachan, Douglas Sweeney ...
    You've heard his name, you've probably heard your pastor quote him, but who is he really?250 years later, Jonathan Edwards, America’s consummate pastor-theologian, continues to capture the attention of Christians around the world. Yet Edwards left us over 1,200 sermons and thousands of pages of other publications, not to mention the literal thousands of books that have been written about Edwards ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Jonathan Edwards on Beauty

    by Owen Strachan, Douglas Sweeney ...
    Series series The Essential Edwards Collection
    Beauty is hard to describe, but easy to identify. It resides in expected and unexpected places in our world. Beauty is present in our world in a variety of forms. Yet while the average person might think about the reality of beauty from time to time, few people would think about the source of beauty. Where does beauty come from? Why is it here?Several hundred years ago Jonathan Edwards did some ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Jonathan Edwards Lover of God

    by Owen Strachan, Douglas Sweeney ...
    Series series The Essential Edwards Collection
    Jonathan Edwards stands tall in America’s historical memory. A great philosopher, a great preacher, a great theologian. Edwards was a complex and gifted person, one who defies easy characterization. He intimidates us, and we distance ourselves from him because at the most fundamental level, he’s just not like us.It is of course true that Jonathan Edwards was a combination of many rare things: an ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Jonathan Edwards on True Christianity

    by Owen Strachan, Douglas Sweeney ...
    Series series The Essential Edwards Collection
    What is a true Christian? What is the church? Though these are fundamental questions they often go unanswered in our current evangelical context. Far too many pastors and thinkers celebrate the trappings of faith and the mere benefits of Christianity, ignoring the biblical testimony on true conversion that shouts from countless texts from Scripture.This has fed an age-old problem: nominal ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Jonathan Edwards on Heaven and Hell

    by Owen Strachan, Douglas Sweeney ...
    Series series The Essential Edwards Collection
    The question of the afterlife is, for many today, one of preference. Christians trained to evangelize unsaved people with the query, “If you were to die today, do you know where you would go – heaven or hell?” have grown befuddled when met with the response, “I don’t believe in heaven or hell.” Something in our culture has changed. The ground has shifted beneath our feet. We did not feel it. But ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Jonathan Edwards on the Good Life

    by Owen Strachan, Douglas Sweeney ...
    Series series The Essential Edwards Collection
    What is the good life that we so often hear talk of in our modern age?Is it cars that drive fast, houses that resemble castles? Is it unbounded sexual pleasure, unrestrained personal gratification of all one’s desires? Is it quiet and solitude, individual removal from the storm and thunder of modern society? Or is it obedient Christian faith that causes spiritual corpses to burst forth with godly ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Substance of Our Faith

    Foundations for the History of Christian Doctrine

    by Douglas A. Sweeney ...
    Christianity Today 2024 Award of Merit (Academic Theology)Doctrine is central to Christian discipleship and maturity. Unfortunately, it is often sidelined in churches' teaching ministry as irrelevant or impractical. Countering this, leading church historian Douglas Sweeney defines doctrine as church teaching intended for the shaping of daily faith and practice.The Substance of Our Faith addresses ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Edwards the Exegete

    Biblical Interpretation and Anglo-Protestant Culture on the Edge of the Enlightenment

    by Douglas A. Sweeney ...
    Scholars have long recognized that Jonathan Edwards loved the Bible, but preoccupation with his roles in Western "public" life and letters has eclipsed the significance of his biblical exegesis. In Edwards the Exegete, Douglas A. Sweeney fills this lacuna, exploring Edwards' exegesis and its significance for Christian thought and intellectual history. As Sweeney shows, throughout Edwards' life the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards

    by Douglas A. Sweeney ...
    Series series Religion in America
    Nathaniel Taylor was arguably the most influential and the most frequently misrepresented American theologian of his generation. While he claimed to be an Edwardsian Calvinist, very few people believed him. This book attempts to understand how Taylor and his associates could have counted themselves Edwardsians. In the process, it explores what it meant to be an Edwardsian minister and intellectual ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards

    A Reader

    by Jonathan Edwards ...
    Jonathan Edwards, widely considered America’s most important Christian thinker, was first and foremost a preacher and pastor who guided souls and interpreted religious experiences. His primary tool in achieving these goals was the sermon, out of which grew many of his famous treatises. This selection of Edwards’ sermons recognizes their crucial role in his life and art.The fifteen sermons, four of ... Read more

    $25.69 USD