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  • The Irony of Barack Obama

    Barack Obama, Reinhold Niebuhr and the Problem of Christian Statecraft

    by R. Ward Holder, Peter B. Josephson ...
    Drawing on the political theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, described by Barack Obama as 'one of my favourite philosophers', this book assesses the challenges facing the President during his first term. It evaluates his success in adhering to Niebuhr's path of 'Christian realism' when faced with the pragmatic demands of domestic and foreign affairs. In 2008 Candidate Obama used the ideas of 'Hope' and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Calvin and the Christian Tradition

    Scripture, Memory, and the Western Mind

    by R. Ward Holder ...
    John Calvin lived in a divided world when past certainties were crumbling. Calvin claimed that his thought was completely based upon scripture, but he was mistaken. At several points in his thought and his ministry, he set his own foundations upon tradition. His efforts to make sense of his culture and its religious life mirror issues that modern Western cultures face, and that have contributed to ... Read more

    $91.09 USD

  • Reinhold Niebuhr in Theory and Practice

    Christian Realism and Democracy in America in the Twenty-First Century

    by Peter B. Josephson, R. Ward Holder ...
    American public life is gripped by a tumult that it has not experienced in at least half a century. Resentment, distrust, despair, fear, envy, and outrage are the passions of the day. Yet it was not long ago that political scientists and theologians could speak of a “Niebuhr renaissance” marked by an appreciation of moral paradox, ethical nuance, and a recognition of the irony of American history. ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • John Calvin in Context

    Edited by R. Ward Holder ...
    John Calvin in Context offers a comprehensive overview of Calvin's world. Including essays from social, cultural, feminist, and intellectual historians, each specially commissioned for this volume, the book considers the various early modern contexts in which Calvin worked and wrote. It captures his concerns for Northern humanism, his deep involvement in the politics of Geneva, his relationships ... Read more

    $118.09 USD

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    by Yves Congar OP ...
    Archbishop Angelo Roncali (later Pope John XXIII) read True and False Reform during his years as papal nuncio in France and asked, A reform of the church 'is such a thing really possible?" A decade later as pope, he opened the Second Vatican Council by describing its goals in terms that reflected Congar's description of authentic reform: reform that penetrates to the heart of doctrine as a message ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Will Many Be Saved?

    What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New Evangelization

    by Ralph P. Martin ...
    The question of whether and how people who have not had the chance to hear the gospel can be saved goes back to the beginnings of Christian reflection. It has also become a much-debated topic in current theology. In Will Many Be Saved? Ralph Martin focuses primarily on the history of debate and the development of responses to this question within the Roman Catholic Church, but much of Martin's ... Read more

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  • The Hebrew Republic

    Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought

    by Eric Nelson ...
    According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe became less, not more, secular with time, and it was the Christian ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Calvin

    by Prof. F. Bruce Gordon ...
    During the glory days of the French Renaissance, young John Calvin (1509-1564) experienced a profound conversion to the faith of the Reformation. For the rest of his days he lived out the implications of that transformation—as exile, inspired reformer, and ultimately the dominant figure of the Protestant Reformation. Calvin's vision of the Christian religion has inspired many volumes of analysis, ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to John Calvin

    Edited by Donald K. McKim ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    John Calvin (1509–64) stands with Martin Luther (1483–1546) as the premier theologian of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. Calvin's thought spread throughout Europe to the New World and later throughout the whole world. His insights and influence continue to endure today, presenting a model of theological scholarship grounded in Scripture as well as providing nurture for Christian ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Iustitia Dei

    A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification

    by Alister E. McGrath ...
    The Christian doctrine of justification is of immense interest to historians and theologians ,and continues to be of major importance in modern ecumenical discussions. The present work appeared in its first edition in 1986, and rapidly became the leading reference work on the subject. Its many acclaimed features include a detailed assessment of the semantic background of the concept in the Ancient ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Theology of the Reformers

    25th Anniversary

    by Timothy George ...
    First released in 1988, this 25th Anniversary Edition of Timothy George’s Theology of the Reformers includes a new chapter and bibliography on William Tyndale, the reformer who courageously stood at the headwaters of the English Reformation. Also included are expanded opening and concluding chapters and updated bibliographies on each reformer.Theology of the Reformers articulates the theological ... Read more

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  • The Reception of Vatican II

    Edited by Matthew L. Lamb, Matthew Levering ...
    From 1962 to 1965, in perhaps the most important religious event of the twentieth century, the Second Vatican Council met to plot a course for the future of the Roman Catholic Church. After thousands of speeches, resolutions, and votes, the Council issued sixteen official documents on topics ranging from divine revelation to relations with non-Christians. But the meaning of the Second Vatican ... Read more

    $28.79 USD