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  • Authentically Emergent

    In Search of a Truly Progressive Christianity

    by R. Scott Smith ...
    Are Brian McLaren, Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt, and Rob Bell "yesterday's news," as many evangelicals seem to think? Truth and the New Kind of Christian (2005) tried to provide a balanced assessment of McLaren's and Jones's views. But, they seem to be right about much more that is affecting evangelicals than was realized then. Also, that book misunderstood one of their core claims: everything is ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Search of Moral Knowledge

    Overcoming the Fact-Value Dichotomy

    by R. Scott Smith ...
    For most of the church's history, people have seen Christian ethics as normative and universally applicable. Recently, however, this view has been lost, thanks to naturalism and relativism. R. Scott Smith argues that Christians need to overcome Kant's fact-value dichotomy and recover the possibility of genuine moral and theological knowledge. ... Read more

    $37.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Phaedra and Other Plays

    by Seneca, R. Scott Smith ...
    Translated by R. Scott Smith ...
    Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals to violence. The hero of Hercules Insane saves his own family from slaughter, only to commit further atrocities when he goes mad. The horrifying ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Christian Physicalism?

    Philosophical Theological Criticisms

    by R. Keith Loftin, Joshua R. Farris, Thomas Atkinson, John W. Cooper, C. Stephen Evans, Paul L. Gavrilyuk, Bruce L. Gordon, Matthew J. Hart0, Jonathan J. Loose1, Jason McMartin2, Angus Menuge3, Gerald O’Collins4, Brandon Rickabaugh5, Howard Robinson6, R. Scott Smith7, Charles Taliaferro8, J.P. Moreland9, R.T. Mullins0, James T. Turner, Jr1, Marc Cortez2 ...
    On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional soul / body distinction is viable), with occasional articles treating physicalist accounts ... Read more

    $141.99 USD

  • Exposing the Roots of Constructivism

    Nominalism and the Ontology of Knowledge

    by R. Scott Smith ...
    Constructivism dominates over other theories of knowledge in much of western academia, especially the humanities and social sciences. In Exposing the Roots of Constructivism: Nominalism and the Ontology of Knowledge, R. Scott Smith argues that constructivism is linked to the embrace of nominalism, the theory that everything is particular and located in space and time. Indeed, nominalism is ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography

    Edited by R. Scott Smith, Stephen M. Trzaskoma ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The field of mythography has grown substantially in the past thirty years, an acknowledgment of the importance of how ancient writers "wrote down the myths" as they systematized, organized and interpreted the vast and contested mythical storyworld. With the understanding that mythography remains a contested category, that its borders are not always clear, and that it shifted with changes in the ... Read more

    $141.29 USD

  • Reclaiming the Center

    Confronting Evangelical Accommodation in Postmodern Times

    by D. A. Carson, Douglas Groothuis, J. P. Moreland, Garrett DeWeese, R. Scott Smith, Ardel Caneday, Stephen J. Wellum, Kwabena Donkor, William G. Travis, Chad Owen Brand, James Parker III ...
    Reclaiming the Center is a valuable contribution to the study of contemporary evangelicalism. It is a guide for how evangelicals can move forward with wisdom and discernment without succumbing to the spirit of this age. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Virtue Ethics and Moral Knowledge

    Philosophy of Language after MacIntyre and Hauerwas

    by R. Scott Smith ...
    Series series Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy
    We live in a time of moral confusion: many believe there are no overarching moral norms, and we have lost an accepted body of moral knowledge. Alasdair MacIntyre addresses this problem in his much-heralded restatement of Aristotelian and Thomistic virtue ethics; Stanley Hauerwas does so through his highly influential work in Christian ethics. Both recast virtue ethics in light of their ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality

    Testing Religious Truth-claims

    by R. Scott Smith ...
    Series series Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
    Philosophical naturalism is taken to be the preferred and reigning epistemology and metaphysics that underwrites many ideas and knowledge claims. But what if we cannot know reality on that basis? What if the institution of science is threatened by its reliance on naturalism? R. Scott Smith argues in a fresh way that we cannot know reality on the basis of naturalism. Moreover, the "fact-value" ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Truth and the New Kind of Christian

    The Emerging Effects of Postmodernism in the Church

    by R. Scott Smith ...
    The latest clarion call in the never-ending cavalcade of "what's new" in the evangelical world is the confident assertion from some quarters that the church needs to embrace "postmodernism" if it is going to engage postmoderns effectively. Pastors trying to break down the often indigestible subject matter of postmodernism into bite-size chunks in order to equip their people to engage it, and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Debating Christian Theism

    Edited by J. P. Moreland, Khaldoun A. Sweis, Chad V. Meister ...
    Comprising groundbreaking dialogues by many of the most prominent scholars in Christian apologetics and the philosophy of religion, this volume offers a definitive treatment of central questions of Christian faith. The essays are ecumenical and broadly Christian, in the spirit of C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity, and feature lucid and up-to-date material designed to engage readers in contemporary ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • God's Battalions

    The Case for the Crusades

    by Rodney Stark ...
    The author of The Rise of Christianity reviews the history of the seven major crusades from 1095-1291 in this work of religious revisionist history.Distinguished and award-winning scholar Rodney Stark takes on the current vogue in liberal thinking to argue that, in fact, the Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism. They were not conducted for land, ... Read more

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