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Irresistible Beauty: Beholding Triune Glory in the Face of Jesus Christ (Samuel G. Parkison)
$16.95What hath beauty to do with systematic theology? In this new monograph, Samuel G. Parkison explores this question by examining the relationship between Christ’s divine beauty and regeneration and faith. Building on recent scholarship in (a) theological retrieval of the Christian tradition, and (b) Protestant developments in theological aesthetics, this project is concerned with soteriology’s aesthetic dimension. While many today may consider beauty a mere matter of preference, glibly assuming that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” Parkison pushes fiercely in the opposite direction, dignifying beauty by recognizing its objective value—a feature of aesthetics that has fallen on hard times since the so–called Enlightenment, and the subsequent “uglification of culture” (as Sir Roger Scruton put it).
In this doxologically flavored, dogmatically charged work, Parkison pulls from a variety of disciplines to demonstrate Christ’s beauty, and the relevance of Christ’s beauty on Christian theology. Irresistible Beauty is the work of a synthetic generalist. It is not strictly a work of exegesis, though it will stand firmly on exegetical findings. It is not strictly a work of biblical theology, though it will be biblical–theological. It is not strictly a work of historical theology, though it will engage in theological retrieval of the church’s history. It is not strictly a philosophical work, though, driven by a love for wisdom, it will be irreducibly philosophical. Thus, this is a systematic–theological work in the full sense of the term—informed and shaped by these disciplines and informing and shaping the pursuit of them.
Irresistible Beauty is sure to stimulate readers who enjoy a wide range of topics: the philosophy of beauty, metaphysics, Classical Christian Theism, biblical theology, and a Protestant Reformed conception soteriology are all dealt with in this dense theological work. Parkison also converses with some of the greatest minds of Christian history (e.g., Athanasius, Hilary of Poitiers, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, Basil the Great, Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, Francis Turretin, John Owen, Jonathan Edwards, Herman Bavinck, Hans Urs von Balthasaar), making Irresistible Beauty a stimulating work for many a reader.
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Why We’re Protestant: The Five Solas of the Reformation, and Why They Matter (Nate Pickowicz)
$13.95One of the key questions the Protestant Reformation asked and answered was: how does a person get right with God? In approaching this question, the Reformers set out to rediscover and establish the bounds of essential Christianity through five declarations: sola Scriptura (Scripture alone), sola gratia (grace alone), sola fide (faith alone), solus Christus (Christ alone), and sola Deo gloria (the glory of God alone). Nate Pickowicz’s guide will help us understand not only the Reformation, but the Christian faith itself.
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Reformation ABCs (Steven J. Nichols)
$13.75The People, Places, and Things of the Reformation – from A to Z!
In 2017, as Protestant Christians commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, many parents are looking for resources to help teach their children about the lasting significance of this influential period.
This informative book by historian Stephen J. Nichols offers kids of ages three to six an engaging way to learn about that pivotal era in church history – while they learn their ABCs!
Featuring charming illustrations by Ned Bustard, this book introduces families to a host of important figures, locations, concepts, and events, including John Calvin, justification by faith alone, Heidelberg, Westminster, and more. Families will be able to see God’s hand in the Reformation and how he used it to shape his people’s understanding of his Word.
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The Thunder: A Novel on John Knox (Douglas Bond)
$12.50John Knox, the Thundering Scot, lives a life of adventure and danger. Here is the surprising story of a man unflinching in his stand for the gospel, even in the face of assassins and death.
Douglas Bond tells an incredible story that is little known today: God’s grace at work in the life of John Knox and the struggle for the Reformation in Scotland. The Thunder is historically informative and spiritually inspiring, as well as highly enjoyable and fast-paced. Here is unfolded the life of a man filled with the grace of Christ and made courageous by his faith in God’s Word.
The Thunder is a book that believing fathers will want their sons to read — in fact, it is an ideal book for fathers to read to their children.
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Wycliffe: Vanguard of Reformation (James A. Wylie)
$11.49With a Foreword by Douglas Bond
“Wycliffe made an eternal impact on future generations by translating the Bible into English. In this book you will learn how he changed history!” — Dr. John Chestnut, President and CEO of Wycliffe Bible Translators
“We urgently need Wycliffe’s perspective, his searching wisdom, his stalwart courage, his passionate embrace of truth. Wycliffe knew from where true freedom comes.” — Douglas Bond, author of The Revolt: Wycliffe’s England and numerous other historical books
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Peter Martyr Vermigli: Christian Biographies for Young Readers (Simonetta Carr)
$13.95Born in Florence, Italy, in 1499, Peter Martyr Vermigli decided that he wanted to teach God’s Word when he grew up. After many years of study, he became a well-respected leader in the Roman Catholic Church, yet he questioned the church’s teachings because he believed they were contrary to the Bible.
Eventually forced to flee Italy and the Roman Church, Vermigli joined the Reformers north of the Alps and devoted the rest of his life to teaching, preaching, and writing about the great truths of the Protestant Reformation. He lived in many parts of Europe, and he influenced many of the most important figures of his times.
This volume in the Christian Biographies for Young Readers series retells the story of a servant of Christ who left behind a postion of prominence in the Roman Church to courageously join the cause of the Protestant Reformation. Enhanced by illustrious, photographs, and additional information about the Reformation era, this account shows young readers how God can use the piety and talents of one man to advance the cause of His truth.
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Why Did the Reformation Happen? (Danika Cooley)
$8.25The Church was following the words of men rather than the Word of God but brave men read God’s Word and were saved from their sins. They fought for truth against the most powerful organizations of the time – the Church and the Crown.
In Why Did the Reformation Happen?, Danika Cooley explores how God’s people changed the Church, Europe and the World. This is the story of how the Church rediscovered the gospel and the people again began to center on Christ and not rituals or doctrines of men.
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Who was Martin Luther? (Danika Cooley)
$8.25Martin Luther was a young man who was afraid of a thunderstorm, because he was afraid God was going to judge him. He was a Catholic monk hoping to find the way of salvation. But once the light of the gospel dawned on him, Martin became a reformer who inspired a continent to return to the Word of God!
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Marie Durand: Christian Biographies for Young Readers (Simonetta Carr)
$13.95In 1730, nineteen-year-old Marie Durand was arrested and taken from her home in a village in Southern France for the crime of having a brother who was a Protestant preacher. Imprisoned in the Tower of Constance, Marie would spend the next 38 years there.
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Slaying Leviathan: Limited Government and Resistance in the Christian Tradition (Glenn Sunshine)
$14.50Christians first expressed these political truths under Caesars, kings, popes, and emperors. We need them in the age of presidents.
Leviathan is rising again, and the first weapon we must recover is the longstanding Christian tradition of resisting governmental overreach. Our bloated bureaucratic state would have been unrecognizable to the Founders, and our acquiescence to its encroachments on liberty would have infuriated them. But here is the point: our Leviathan would not have surprised them. They were well acquainted with the tendency of governments to turn tyrannical: “Eternal vigilance is the price we pay for liberty.”
In Slaying Leviathan , historian Glenn S. Sunshine surveys some of the stories and key elements of Christian political thought from Augustine to the Declaration of Independence. Specifically, the book introduces theories of limited government that were synthesized into a coherent political philosophy by John Locke. Locke, of course, influenced the American founders and was, like us, fighting against the spirit of Leviathan in his day. But his is only one of the many stories in this book.
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Redeeming the Time: A Christian Approach to Work & Leisure (Leland Ryken)
$27.00Do you feel guilty when you aren’t working? Have you swallowed the lie that you cannot glorify God, when at rest, even in relaxing times of enjoyment? In Redeeming the Time, Leland Ryken explores topics about the Christian life addressed by no other writings that we know of.
He analyzes and applies the biblical principles that relate to work and leisure, showing God’s good purpose in all sorts of realms of our lives. Finding answers in Scripture and in the rich heritage of theological thinking, Ryken weaves together insights drawn from a wide array of sources. The result is one of the most informed and practical studies on our day-to-day activities.
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The Right Use of the Fathers (John Daille)
$14.75To the faithful Roman Catholic, as to the dissenting Protestant, authority is an important issue. From whence may our duties in doctrine and practice be in infallibly drawn? The Protestant answers, “From Scripture alone.” The Romanist, on the other hand, answers, “From Scripture as it is interpreted by the infallible testimony of the Church, from the time of the Apostles to the present.”
To the defense of this latter position, the writings of the ante-Nicene, Nicene, and post-Nicene fathers are recruited, with the assumption that they all held to a harmonious system of doctrine and that an appeal to such a system should put to rest all controversies.
The truth of the matter is, however, that the fathers often contradicted one another, while many changed their opinions as they judgment matured with study or age. Some of the extant writings are also of doubtful origin, the traditionally accepted authorship at times a matter of dispute. The author of this volume discusses these and other problems that arise from substituting the unreliable testimony of the fathers for the sure word of the enscripturated Word of God.
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The Life of John Calvin (W. J. Grier)
$11.25For Calvin, the Reformation was primarily a movement of the Holy Spirit that turned attention from man-centered religion to God. It is the prayer of the publishers that the retelling of his wonderful story will help in the recovery of God-centered Christianity and the raising up of more ‘burning and shining lights’ today.
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