For the christian, this freedom is liberty from sin and death, and the opportunity to serve one's neighbor. Written in a simple style, "christian Liberty" conveys significant spiritual insight into the grace of God and liberating faith in Christ Jesus. The subject of freedom is both timely and poignantly relevant today.

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The Christian Theological Tradition, 3rd Edition

This text helps students acquire a basic theological literacy in key persons and events of the Bible and the Christian faith, and in Christianity's encounter with culture at large. Historically arranged, god, Jesus, creation, it also addresses five major themes of systematic theology: revelation, and church.

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Confessions Oxford World's Classics

Chadwick's lucid translation and helpful introduction clear the way for a new experience of this classic. About the series: for over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Chadwick renders the details of Augustine's conversion in clear, modern English.

We witness the future saint's fascination with astrology and with the Manichees, and then follow him through scepticism and disillusion with pagan myths until he finally reaches Christian faith. Now, henry chadwick, an eminent scholar of early Christianity, has given us the first new English translation in thirty years of this classic spiritual journey.

Augustine's deeply personal meditations. There are brilliant philosophical musings about Platonism and the nature of God, and touching portraits of Augustine's beloved mother, of St. Confessions. Each affordable volume reflects oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, voluminous notes to clarify the text, and much more.

Pearson. The religious and philosophical value of The Confessions is unquestionable--now modern readers will have easier access to St. To make the confessions accessible to contemporary readers, Chadwick provides the most complete and informative notes of any recent translation, and includes an introduction to establish the context.

Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Chapter themes include obedience, the significance of the cross, self-denial, and how we should live our lives today. However, its intense practicality sets it apart, making it easily accessible for any reader seeking to carry out Christian values in everyday life. In style and spirit, this book is much like Augustine's Confessions, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, or Thomas à Kempis's Imitation of Christ.

In this classic devotional, john Calvin urges readers to apply the Christian life in a balanced way to mind, heart, and hand. Pearson. Rather than focusing on contemplative otherworldliness, the book stresses the importance of a devotedly active Christian life. Confessions.

Machiavelli: Selected Political Writings Hackett Classics

In the pages that follow I have done my best to let him speak in his own voice. Why a new translation? machiavelli was never the dull, pedantic author who appears in the pages of other translations, worthy, says David Wootton in his Introduction. Confessions. Pearson. And indeed, wootton’s machiavelli does just that when the occasion demands: renderings of that most problematic of words, virtu, are in each instance followed by the Italian.

Here are the prince and the most important of the Discourses newly translated into spare, vivid English. Used book in Good Condition. Notes, a map, and an altogether remarkable Introduction no less authoritative for being grippingly readable, help make this edition an ideal first encounter with Machiavelli for any student of history and political theory.

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A Reformation Debate

Pearson. The reformation controversy over justification and church authority is presented through primary sources: historic letters between John Calvin and Cardinal Sadoleto. Used book in Good Condition. Confessions.

Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview

Goheenin print for two decades and translated into eight languages, Albert Wolters's classic formulation of an integrated Christian worldview has been revised and expanded to reach new readers beyond the generation that has already benefited from this clear, concise proposal for transcending the false dichotomy between sacred and secular.

Used book in Good Condition. With a postcript coauthored by Michael W. This twentieth anniversary edition features a new concluding chapter, coauthored with Michael Goheen, that helpfully places the discussion of worldview in a broader narrative and missional context. Confessions. He then outlines a reformed analysis of the three basic categories in human history -- creation, fall, and redemption -- arguing that while the fall reaches into every corner of the world, Christians are called to participate in Christ's redemption of all creation.

Wolters begins by defining the nature and scope of a worldview, distinguishing it from philosophy and theology. Pearson.

The Answer / La Respuesta Expanded Edition: Including Sor Filotea's Letter and New Selected Poems

Used book in Good Condition. Pearson. It includes the fully annotated primary text, the answer/la respuesta 1691, which is Sor Juana's impassioned response to years of attempts by church officials to silence her; the letter that ultimately provoked the writing of The Answer; an expanded selection of poems; an updated bibliography; and a new preface.

Known as the first feminist of the americas, the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz enjoyed an international reputation as one of the great lyric poets and dramatists of her time. While earlier translators have ignored sor juana's keen awareness of gender, this volume brings out her own emphasis and diction, subversiveness, and reveals the remarkable scholarship, and even humor she drew on in defense of her cause.

This expanded, bilingual edition combines new research and perspectives on an inspired writer and thinker. Confessions.

The Lord's Prayer Devotional: Deepening in the Most Well-Known Prayer

Pearson. The lord’s prayer is the simplest yet most profound place to learn how to pray. In these short verses, Jesus himself teaches his disciples how to pray. For this reason, most christians have committed to memory these verses at one time or another in their lives; however, the Lord’s Prayer was meant to be so much more than a rote prayer to be memorized.

Used book in Good Condition. This month-long devotional will help you grasp this larger Biblical context to appreciate the richness of this prayer and the way it brings us into closer fellowship with God. Above all, this prayer realigns us to the gospel and what Christ has accomplished for us. Confessions. Hidden within these short verses is a rich Biblical tapestry that unlocks the depth and meaning of each petition.

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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Penguin Classics. Pearson. An early traveller to the americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his life to protecting the Indian community. Dedicated to philip ii to alert the castilian crown to these atrocities and demand that the Indians be entitled to the basic rights of humankind, this passionate work of documentary vividness outraged Europe and contributed to the idea of the Spanish 'Black Legend' that would last for centuries.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. He wrote a short account of the destruction of the Indies in 1542, torture and slavery, a shocking catalogue of mass slaughter, which showed that the evangelizing vision of Columbus had descended under later conquistadors into genocide.

With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Used book in Good Condition. Confessions. Bartolomé de las casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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He Shines in All That's Fair: Culture and Common Grace

Penguin Classics. How do christians account for the widespread presence of goodness in a fallen world? Different theological perspectives have presented a range of answers to this fundamental question over the centuries. These divergent theological perspectives, lead to questions with very practical implications: what common ground do christians share with those outside the faith? How should Christian treat their non-Christian neighbors? How should Christians relate to the world around them? Does God disapprove when Christians form close friendships with people who are "of the world"? Ought Christians to identify with the joys and sorrows of those who do not confess Christ as their Savior and Lord? In the course of this book Mouw looks at these topics, while seemingly remote and abstract, connecting the larger theological discussions to pressing issues in contemporary society.

Confessions. In he shines in all that's fair richard mouw brings the historic insights of Calvinism to bear on this question and reinterprets them for a broader audience at the turn of the twenty-first century. Those who reject the doctrine of common grace, on the other hand, emphasize the fallenness of the world and the need for the church to maintain a dramatic contrast to it.

Presented as the 2000 stob lectures at calvin college and Calvin Theological Seminary, these soundly reasoned, elegantly written chapters offer an updated, robust understanding of common grace that will be of great value to anyone interested in the relation of church and culture. Defenders of common grace account for the goodness in the world by insisting that God's grace goes beyond salvation to more general gifts of beauty, virtue, and excellence to all human beings -- including those who do not believe in God.

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