Christian Theology/Apologetics Books

This is one volume of a series of brief books on contemporary religious movements, comparing what they believe with Christian doctrine and explaini...

Buddhism is from a series of brief books on contemporary religious movements, comparing what they believe with Christian doctrine and explaining ef...

What should the church look like today? What should be the focus of its message? How should I present that message? We live in as pivotal and defin...

What youth workers and parents need to know about adolescent guys: the issues they face and how to help and mentor them.

Churches are noticing less and less emerging generations in their midst. The Emerging Church, winner of the 2004 Christianity Today Book Award, exp...

Just as the world’s peoples are in desperate need of hearing the gospel in their own languages, they are equally in need of experiencing Christ’s m...

In the face of climate change, biodiversity loss, increasing pollution, and the destruction of natural habitats, how can Christians responsibly car...

Jacob and Solomon were polygamists. Abraham---the father of faith---married his sister and was also a polygamist. Tamar and Rahab were prostitutes....

This resource is a summary of the history, leadership, and theological views of the major sects, cults, and religious movements in the U.S.

Charts of Christian Theology and Doctrine provides students of theology with precise and condensed summaries of the concepts and arguments from the...

Christian Mystics: 108 Seers, Saints and Sages celebrates the many types of mystics, visionaries, wisdom keepers, and non-dualists whose spiritual ...

With over 300 quotations, this book invites the reader to delve into the writings of the great contemplatives and mystics of the past two thousand ...

The mystical path is not some sort of static experience for the select few, says Carl McColman, rather, it is a living tradition, a rich and many-l...

These days, many of us live in a state of overreactive fight-or-flight response and chronic stress. The demands of modern life pull us in all direc...

The Bible is words--it is, at the end of the day, nothing more than that. How those words have been read and understood has formed the basis of eve...

This posthumous compilation of writing by beloved scholar, teacher, and musician Mark P. Bangert explores how, in addition to his other contributio...

Promissio is a methodologically rigorous study of all the pertinent Luther texts prior to 1520, thus enabling Bayer to trace Luther's reformational...

The Christian affirmation of a triune God has always perplexed and confounded Jews. Can Jews get beyond understanding the Trinity as inherently tri...

After hundreds of years during which Eve was blamed for originating sin, St. Paul removed her from the narrative of the fall to create a one man/on...

Catholicism entails a challenge. The word catholic means universal. Yet, that universality is expressed through different rites, languages, jurisdi...

The Repentance of YHWH is not an attempt to recover the historical Jesus by looking through Mark's textual window, even if the things the real Jesu...

Evangelical identity in the United States has become increasingly contested over the past several years as many try to fathom adherents' motives. S...

What has Broadway to do with Jerusalem? God on Broadway explores the theological questions cracked open by commercial theatre. It shows how the Gre...

There may be no more urgent cry than that for justice--and no more frequent accusation than that of injustice. But what is meant when these terms a...

Marcion presents the life, thought, and work of Marcion of Pontus in its historical, theological, ethical, and liturgical contexts. It distinguishe...

The Reformations of Medicine is an investigation into Martin Luther's little-studied theologies of physical suffering, healing, and medicine and th...

Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians enacts a historical paradigm shift by unfolding in written form that which was previously only performed o...

Apocalyptic scenarios remain prevalent and powerful in popular culture (television, film, comic books, and popular fiction), in politics (debates o...

World Christianity is concerned not with Christianity as a global cultural and theological monolith, but with local expressions of Christian faith ...

Modern readers often look at the past with distorted presuppositions about women's participation in early Christianity. However, women had a promin...

The Black church often maintains an allegiance to white, Western approaches to wealth and material acquisition. In doing so, it can ignore Jesus's ...

The intersection of religion and music offers opportunity for a profound exploration of meaning-making. Musical lyrics create a rich narrative that...

In Unnatural Death Philip Porter demonstrates sin and death to be intimate with one another; because of sin, creation is held in thrall by death. D...

Renowned liturgist and scholar Gail Ramshaw mines the treasures of the Bible, patristic sermons, theological treatises, mystical reveries, liturgic...

Drawing on experiences from the lab, the local congregation, the immigrant rights movement, the university classroom, the global church, and brain ...

The volume gives a broad overview of ancient non-Nicene theologies; surveys key councils and events from before Nicaea until the final demise of in...

No Western religious concept has been as socially, culturally, economically, and politically significant as that of the apocalypse. Neither heaven ...

Loving through Enmity responds to the failure of US Christian antiracist work to translate love of the enemy into meaningful societal transformatio...

Base ecumenism is an important idea which, although having originated in Latin America, has significant ramifications for the broader ecumenical mo...

Good Enough for God? Recent surveys indicate that the vast majority of Christians, those claiming to be born-again, believe that their salvation i...

Prophecy is a mirror in which we can only see dimly. We do not know the moment of Jesus’ return. The compelling signs of the times indicate that Hi...

Christians often make evangelism into an awkward experience. We host evangelism events and rehearse three–step plans, but we struggle to relate to ...

When those you know and love experience trouble, you don’t want to hand out pat answers or religious platitudes. Instead, you want to offer real ho...

It has become fashionable to believe that Christians are deluded, naive, following myths; and that science has debunked the need for God in society...

A compelling and timely exploration of the spiritual void in modernity, and an invitation to reclaim a more connected and spiritually fulfilling wa...

Alex Duke traces the journey of God’s people through the Bible to show readers how Jesus gives direction, peace, and strength every step of the way...

Mike McGarry helps readers discover that being created in the image of God means your identity, worth, and purpose aren’t dependent on a list of ac...

The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, says Who made God? deals with complex subjects ‘in a palatable form’. A book by a distinguished scientist ...