Christian Theology/Apologetics Books

In this book Campbell McAlpine walks us through the finest counsel, advice and encouragement for life ever recorded – the book of Proverbs. Proverb...

W. Waite Willis, Jr. demonstrates the apologetic usefulness of the Christsan doctrine of the Trinity for responding to the challenges of modern ath...

Taking 100 key verses from the Bible author Malcolm Duncan explains the story of Jesus and the significance of his death and resurrection. With suc...

Much of the New Testament was written in urban settings, in which the Christian communities had to deal head-on with issues such as race, equality,...

God's grace demonstrated in the biblical narrative through the lens of covenant. This study analyses the different divine covenants of the Old Tes...

A rounded, coherent and biblically grounded account of the major topics in the study of theology, by one of the world’s most widely respected eva...

Offers an up-to-date overview of trends and patterns in making new disciples within the church. Ten years on from their first book, Evangelism: Wh...

In this comprehensive exposition, a leading New Testament scholar explores the unfolding theological unity of the entire Bible from the vantage poi...

Throughout Christian history, the Gospel of John's distinctive way of presenting the life, works, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus have ...

In an engaging style--characteristic of the author, Walter Brueggemann--this Essential Guide describes the leading motifs of ancient Israel's worsh...

Ethics, the first volume of McClendon’s Systematic Theology, explored the shape of life in the Christian community. Doctrine, the second volume, in...

This is a comprehensive consideration of the book of Acts studying three major divisions in the book centered on Jerusalem, Judaea and Samaria.

Throughout this book, Scott J. Jones insists that for United Methodists the ultimate goal of doctrine is holiness. Importantly, he clarifies the na...

The importance of  Toward a Theology of Radical Involvement  lies in its focus on the theological and ethical perspective of Martin Luther King, Jr...

There Shall Be No Poor Among You  is a careful and comprehensive but not overly technical study of the biblical portrait of the poor and poverty. H...

This is the first volume published in more than twenty years that is specifically focused on the theology of evangelism in the Wesleyan tradition. ...

By exploring five common Christian perspectives ("theological worlds"), this volume helps readers understand the basis of their own Christian attit...

This sequel to Seymour and Miller's popular Contemporary Approaches to Christian Education offers new information and ideas regarding the major the...

Devastating circumstances still enslave most African Americans in American society today, especially in urban environments. They struggle with econ...

Traditional doctrines of sin and salvation center primarily on the moral agency of the sinner. Andrew Sung Park addresses the relational consequenc...

How does an infinite God relate to finite human beings?  How does the death of Jesus Christ bring about human salvation?  How are Christians able t...

A rich articulation of John Wesley's theology that is appreciative of the old and mindful of the new, faithful to the past and attentive to the pre...

Biblical texts create worlds of meaning, and invite readers to enter them. When readers enter such textual worlds, which are often strange and comp...

This book describes and examines the Wesleyan attitude toward and programs with the poor from the time of John Wesley to the present. The chapters ...

Commissioned by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry for use in United Methodist doctrine/polity/history courses. Runyon sets Wesley...

This book theorizes that there was probably more to both the beginning and the ending of Mark's Gospel than we currently have in our Bible. It was ...

The Many Faces of Christology surveys the landscape of traditional and contemporary thought about Jesus. Inbody first grounds his survey in a conci...

There are, it seems, as many definitions of the term "evangelism" as there are people doing the defining. For some, it means proclaiming the gospel...

Draws on themes of the disability-rights movement to identify people with disabilities as members of a socially disadvantaged minority group rather...

In  The Children of Israel , Danna Nolan Fewell explores how imaginative readings of selected scriptural texts might raise adult consciousness and ...

When it first appeared in 1986, James McClendon's  Ethics  laid claim to two compelling theological ideas. First, that a highly distinctive theolog...

In Stewards of Life, Sondra Ely Wheeler presents a compact, basic introduction to the language and principles of contemporary bioethics. Perhaps mo...

A trustworthy guide to the rich and perplexing symbolism of the Book of Revelation. The Bible contains passages of great beauty and comfort and som...

One of the most surprising developments in contemporary Methodist theology is the degree to which leading Methodist and Wesleyan systematic theolog...

An introduction and significance of one of the twentieth century's most influential theologians, Reinhold Niebuhr. Abingdon Pillars of Theology  is...

This book tells how the contemporary church can reclaim its ancient witness through hands-on ministries with the unchurched. When it comes to trans...

Karen Lebacqz here offers a logical yet eminently human framework for ethical decision making. Quoting and clarifying the thoughts of the field's ...

This companion to  Practical Divinity, Volume 1: Theology in the Wesleyan Tradition  enlivens and contextualizes the discussion of the Wesleyan the...

The modern apologetic enterprise, according to Myron Penner, is no longer valid. It tends toward an unbiblical and unchristian form of Christian wi...

This volume is a revision of Langford's earlier work, Practical Divinity: Theology in the Wesleyan Tradition (Abingdon Press, 1983). The major feat...

A major study of John Wesley's political ethics and an attempt to reformulate a Wesleyan orientation to political thinking by drawing the political...