Why should anyone believe in God in a world with so much pain? How can I be part of the church when it's so full of hypocrisy? Isn't "spiritual but not religious" enough? What makes Jesus more important than Muhammad, Buddha, or other religious leaders? Why should I trust Christianity when it's hurt so many people? What if it hurt me? Most Christians have found themselves in conversations with nonbelieving friends and family where these kinds of questions...

Analyzes the New Testament chronologically through each book of the Bible, detailing how the core values of Christianity took shape and developed over time.

Personal, experiential faith is seldom given a seat at the table of academic theology and biblical studies. David Crump, however, with the assistance of Søren Kierkegaard's religious philosophy, claims that "authentic understanding, and thus authentic Christian commitment, can only arise from the personal commitment that is faith."
Examining the various biblical, historical, cultural, theological, and academic hurdles demanding a truly Kierkegaardian...

IVP Readers' Choice Award Does God call women to serve as equal partners in marriage and as leaders in the church? The answer to this straightforward question is deeply contested. Into the fray, Lucy Peppiatt offers her work on interpretation of the Bible and Christian practice. With careful exegetical work, Peppiatt considers relevant passages in Ephesians, Colossians, 1 Peter, 1 Timothy, and 1 Corinthians. There she finds a story of God releasing...

"How to Read the New Testament Book by Book by Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart helps people read the New Testament as a whole by showing how each book fits into the grand narrative of Scripture. For each book of the New Testament readers are given orienting data, a brief overview, advice for reading, and a section-by-section walkthrough"--

The editors of The Jewish Annotated New Testament show how and why Jews and Christians read many of the same Biblical texts - including passages from the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Psalms - differently. Exploring and explaining these diverse perspectives, they reveal more clearly Scripture's beauty and power. Esteemed Bible scholars and teachers Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler take readers on a guided tour of the most popular Hebrew Bible...

New Testament scholar James D. G. Dunn has written numerous commentaries, books, and essays sharing his thought with the world. In this small, straightforward book designed for a lay audience, Dunn focuses his fifty-plus years of scholarship on the central question posed by the New Testament--who is Jesus? Dunn surveys the New Testament books from Matthew to Revelation, exploring and unpacking what they actually say about Jesus. Dunn's Jesus according...

Highlights many of the women in the New Testament.

"This book traces through the Bible the important theme of the new creation. It moves from God's creation of the universe to the rebellion of his human creation against him, with all the misery that entailed, and then describes what our gracious God is doing to restore his creation, especially humanity, to what he intends for it to become"--

Two theological scholars debate the historical basis of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, and discuss their divergent views on such major issues of Christianity as the Immaculate Conception, the divinity of Jesus, and the Resurrection.