Christian Theology/Apologetics Books

Christian doctrine, McClendon tells us, is no laundry list of propositions to be believed, but is rather an essential practice of the church. Doctr...

Think you know everything there is to know about the life that lies beyond this one? Think again. Think you know everything there is to know about ...

One of today's foremost theologians presents the case for embracing religious pluralism as integral to the Christian gospel. Religious pluralism is...

"We would be naive to think that we can hear these narratives with the same clarity that the first hearers did. An equal naivete, however, would b...

Characterizations of Jesus abound: “dying Savior,” “monk,” or “troublemaker,” for example.  But who is Jesus?  Who  was  Jesus—really?  By surveyin...

Offering proven strategies for communicating the gospel to people who are atheistic, agnostic, or "ignostic," the author presents a model of a cong...

Gain fresh insight into The United Methodist Church's teachings about the Holy Spirit. This 8-session study explores how the Holy Spirit produces a...

A comprehensive guide to the theology and practice of evangelism within the Wesleyan tradition. No one would deny that evangelism stands at the hea...

Challenging the church to break the yoke of middle-class captivity and join with Christ who lives among the poor and marginalized, Tex Sample addre...

A distinguished thinker ponders the meaning of Wesley's theology. John B. Cobb, Jr., draws on the historical, critical, and literary work that has ...

This provocative volume illuminates a dimension of John Wesley's theology that has received insufficient attention: his deep and abiding commitment...

In this excellent outline of Christian ethics, Robin W. Lovin achieves a balance between the questions and issues which form the core of the study ...

Fretheim presents here the Old Testament view of the Creator God, the created world, and our role in creation. Beginning with "The Beginning," he ...

This volume contains the edited versions of the major presentations made to the second Consultation on Theology and Evangelism, sponsored by the Fo...

Recent studies in the area of theology and gender have made some groundbreaking insights into the ways in which traditional theology influences--in...

When we stand at the Pearly Gates, God will not ask us what we believed but how we lived. The theology "de jour" originates with John Calvin, with ...

How Christian is evangelism? How biblical is it? In Call and Response: Biblical Foundations of a Theology of Evangelism, Walter Klaiber seeks answe...

Black Religious Experience  is an examination of the role Christian education has played in the African American community, as seen in the work of ...

Over the last thirty years African American voices and perspectives have become essential to the study of the various theological disciplines. Writ...

With theological and scientific expertise, Peters and Hewlett provide a careful and balanced analysis of the wide spectrum of debate between religi...

A fresh way to look at the ministry of The United Methodist Church. United Methodism is often accused of having an incoherent theological center. B...

This volume is intended to set in historical context the official United Methodist theological statements in the Disciplines of 1972 and 1988, and ...

The study of Christian ethics in North America has been profoundly influenced during this century by the work of H. Richard Niebuhr. That influence...

Recent years have witnessed a series of books, articles, and lectures raising serious questions about the Christian doctrine of the Atonement.   Wh...

This book helps beginning theological students grasp the basics of Christian theology. Consciously avoiding the perspective of one school of though...

Liberal/conservative and modern/postmodern concepts define contemporary theological debate. Yet what if these categories are grounded in a set of a...

While many would argue that spirituality is a necessary component of authentic human living, there is a lot of confusion over what spirituality is....

In recent years, the flow of Christian theology has been channeled in diverse streams represented by such trends and movements as black theology, l...

Over the centuries the church developed a number of metaphors, such as penal substitution or the ransom theory, to speak about Christ's death on th...

A treatment of the evolution of Christian thought from the birth of Christ, to the Apostles, to the early church, to the great flowering of Christi...

While the workings of the Trinity challenge our understanding, Bible-believing Christians cannot let themselves downplay the Trinity or ignore it. ...

The doctrine of justification as an alien, imputed righteousness has been under attack for several years. This biblical theology of justification t...

In its tales of gore, rebellion, sexual escapades, and fleeting victory, Judges is one of the books of the Bible in which we most see our need for ...

The humility of God is a mind-boggling concept. The self-sufficient, transcendent Holy One . . . does he really come down to the level of those he ...

What are creationism, evolution, and intelligent design really about? Has materialism displaced God as the best explanation for our existence? Gonz...

As Christians, we are called to speak. Some of us speak out in our workplaces. Others in our schools or neighborhoods. Our audiences may vary in si...

The case for assisted suicide can seem so compelling. Surely it can't be wrong to help desperate people to kill themselves? Don't we have a right t...

Digital technology has become a ubiquitous feature of modern life. Our increasingly fast-paced world seems more and more remote from the world narr...

Everybody loves a good story. In an age when prepackaged gospel formulations leave people cold, well-told Bible stories can be used powerfully by ...

It can be hard to explain why you believe in God. But images and analogies can provide concrete handles for making the Christian faith more plausib...

For more than a century, Bible scholars and university researchers have been systematically debunking what ordinary Christians believed about Jesus...