Andreas Ersson Library

By Paul Gondreau

St. Thomas Aquinas' theology of Christ's human passions comes on the top of a medieval debate centering at the fact and quantity of Christ's event of affective affliction. Weighing in at the debate, Aquinas forges a safeguard of Christ's complete humanity that stretches a ways past the inquiry into Christ's passions and seeks to uphold the realism of the dogma of the Incarnation. St. Thomas' doctrine of Christ's human affectivity owes a lot to patristic and medieval proposal. but no much less does it constitution a direction in Christology that stands proud for its originality and intensity of study.

By Eben Alexander

A SCIENTIST’S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE
Thousands of individuals have had near-death studies, yet scientists have argued that they're very unlikely. Dr. Eben Alexander was once a type of scientists. A hugely expert neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs believe actual, yet are easily fantasies produced through brains below severe rigidity.
Then, Dr. Alexander’s personal mind used to be attacked by means of a unprecedented disorder. The a part of the mind that controls suggestion and emotion—and in essence makes us human—shut down thoroughly. For seven days he lay in a coma. Then, as his medical professionals thought of preventing remedy, Alexander’s eyes popped open. He had come again.
Alexander’s restoration is a scientific miracle. however the genuine miracle of his tale lies somewhere else. whereas his physique lay in coma, Alexander journeyed past this global and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the private geographical regions of super-physical lifestyles. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine resource of the universe itself.
Alexander’s tale isn't a delusion. sooner than he underwent his trip, he couldn't reconcile his wisdom of neuroscience with any trust in heaven, God, or the soul. at the present time Alexander is a physician who believes that real health and wellbeing could be completed in simple terms once we discover that God and the soul are genuine and that dying isn't the finish of non-public lifestyles yet just a transition.
This tale will be notable regardless of who it occurred to. That it occurred to Dr. Alexander makes it innovative. No scientist or individual of religion might be in a position to forget about it. studying it is going to swap your existence.

By Thomas J. J. Altizer

The main death-of-God theologian explores the which means and function of radical theology.

In the decision to Radical Theology, Thomas J. J. Altizer meditates at the nature of radical theology and calls readers to adopt the vocation of radical theology as a fashion of dwelling an absolutely tested existence. In fourteen essays, he explores how the dying of God in modernity and the dissolution of divine authority have freed theology to develop into a style of final mirrored image and inventive inquiry now not certain by way of church sanction or doctrinal strictures.

Revealing a wealth of important types for doing radical theological pondering, Altizer discusses the paintings of philosophers comparable to Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Marion, Derrida, and Levinas, between others. assets also are present in the paintings of innovative writers, specially Milton, Blake, and Joyce. within the spirit of Joyce’s right here Comes each person, Altizer is confident that theology is for everybody and that everybody has the authority to do theology authentically. An advent through Lissa McCullough and foreword by way of David E. Klemm aid orient the reader to Altizer’s special realizing of the position of theology after the loss of life of God.

By Gary DeMar, Peter J. Leithart

"Anti-Semitism." The be aware evokes pictures of Nazism, Adolf Hitler, and fuel ovens. In our day "anti-Semitism" is actual, with swastikas painted on synagogues and verbal epithets hurled at Jews by means of the Ku Klux Klan and so-called "white supremacists." Purging our land of such an evil aren't entire by way of accusing others of "anti-Semitism" while there isn't a shred of proof to aid the declare. yet this is often what Hal Lindsey has performed in his newest e-book, the line to Holocaust. He has categorised somebody who doesn't accept as true with him at the factor of eschatology as "unconsciously anti-Semitic." Lies and slander will accomplish not anything ... other than e-book revenues. The authors of The Legacy of Hatred maintains think that Hal Lindsey is inaccurate in making eschatology the try of orthodoxy. This ebook makes transparent that the matter isn't really eschatology yet ethics, obedience no longer expectation. "Anti-Semitism" crosses all eschatological traces, simply as love for the Jews crosses all eschatological strains. Hal Lindsey is fostering a legacy of hatred between his Christian brethren and between those that desperately desire Jesus Christ: the Jews. a short studying of the recent testomony will remind an individual that the Apostles have been zealous for fact. that is the objective of The Legacy of Hatred maintains. The authors are looking to defend a legacy of fact and love so these lifeless of their trespasses and sins may perhaps include Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

By Norman L. Geisler

Love Your Neighbor is a concise advent to Christian ethics. It starts off with a glance on the biblical foundation for morality, defines and describes a variety of philosophical techniques to the topic of ethics, then connects biblical morality with the assumption of absolute fact in philosophy.

The ebook then strikes from its philosophical foundation to a pragmatic software of Christian ethics, contemplating a variety of social, biomedical, and private matters. It doesn't take a partisan or denominational method of those concerns, yet squarely faces them with an open brain and open Bible.

By Witness Lee

This publication consists of messages given by means of Brother Witness Lee in December 1962 in l. a., California.

By Ambrosios Giakalis

This ebook, newly revised and up-to-date, examines the japanese Church's theology of icons mainly at the foundation of the acta of the 7th Ecumenical Council of 787. The political situations resulting in the outbreak of the iconclast controversy within the 8th century are mentioned intimately, however the major emphasis is at the theological arguments and assumptions of the council contributors. significant issues comprise the character of culture, the connection among snapshot and truth, and where of christology. eventually the argument over icons used to be concerning the accessibility of the divine. Icons have been held by means of the iconophiles to speak a deifying grace which raised the believer to participation within the lifetime of God.

By James K. A. Smith

What does it suggest to assert we are living in a "secular" global? Charles Taylor's landmark booklet a mundane Age offers a enormous background and research of what it ability for us to stay in our submit- Christian current — a pluralist international of competing ideals and turning out to be unbelief. This ebook by way of Jamie Smith is a small box advisor to Taylor's family tree of the secular, making it available to a wide range of readers.

Smith's How (Not) to Be Secular can be, even though, a philosophical guidebook for practitioners — one of those how-to handbook that eventually deals information on the right way to reside in an earthly age. It's an event in self-understanding and the way to get our bearings in postmodernity. even if one is proclaiming religion to the secularized or is wondered that there stay humans of religion nowadays, this can be a philosophical tale intended to aid us find the place we're and what's at stake

By John C. Lennox

'The Grand Design', by means of eminent scientist Stephen Hawking, is the most recent blockbusting contribution to the so-called New Atheist debate, and claims that the legislation of physics themselves introduced the Universe into being, instead of God. during this fast and forthright answer, John Lennox, Oxford mathematician and writer of 'God's Undertaker', exposes the failings in Hawking's common sense. In full of life, layman's phrases, Lennox courses us in the course of the key issues in Hawking's arguments - with transparent reasons of the most recent clinical and philosophical tools and theories - and demonstrates that faraway from disproving a author God, they make his life appear the entire extra possible.

By Peter Rollins

What if one of many center calls for of an intensive Christianity lay in a decision for its betrayal, whereas the last word act of asserting God required the leaving behind of God? And what if constancy to the Judeo-Christian Scriptures demanded their renunciation? in brief, what would it not suggest if the single method of discovering genuine religion concerned betraying it with a kiss?

Employing the insights of mysticism and deconstructive conception, The constancy of Betrayal delves into the subversive and innovative nature of a Christianity that dwells in the church whereas at the same time undermining it.

"About 30 years in the past, I stumbled on the evocative word 'religionless Christianity' in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's later writings, and it has stayed with me ever due to the fact that. In his new ebook The constancy of Betrayal, Peter Rollins has teased out - as Bonhoeffer by no means had the opportunity to do - profound probabilities hidden within the word. As a massive fan of Peter's first ebook, i locate his moment no much less considerate, stimulating, and every now and then unsettling - continually in a such a lot (de)constructive manner. His subversive parables, his shrewdpermanent turns of word, and his beguiling readability all conspire to tempt the reader into that the majority fertile and terrifying of actions - to imagine to the very rim of one's realizing, after which to faithfully think the fact that lies a long way beyond." - Brian McLaren, author/activist