Confused, angry, and hurt after the death of his father, a young R.C. Sproul began his personal search for ultimate truth with these piercing questions: Who are you, God? And why do you do the things you do? In Enjoying God, readers journey with R.C. Sproul to discover the attributes of God through the questions many of us have asked: Where are you, God? Can I trust you, God? and more. In this warm, personal account, Dr. Sproul communicates deep truths...

Jim Cronfel believes "conversion comes from the awareness of eternal conscious torment," that Christianity is about fleeing hell and sin." Annihilationist's believe that even the consideration of a literal, eternal hell is intolerable and "the fire and brimstone school of theology" not to be "biblical Christianity." Yet there are many that promote this belief like Dr. John Stott who was named Time magazine's "100 most influential people in the world"...

Does God suffer? Does God experience emotions? Does God change? How should we interpret passages of Scripture that seem to support one view or the other? And where do the incarnation and Christ's suffering on the cross fit into this? This Spectrum Multiview volume brings together four theologians with decidedly different answers to these questions. The contributors make a case for their own view-ranging from a traditional affirmation of divine impassibility...

With clear writing-technical terms kept to a minimum-and a contemporary approach, emphasizing how each doctrine should be understood and applied by present-day Christians, Making Sense of Christ and the Spirit explores Jesus Christ as fully God and fully man in one person. Topics include: The Person of Christ: including the virgin birth-uniting full deity and humanity in one person while enabling Christ's humanity to be without inherited sin-and...

Coming Full Circle, a unique, multi-collaborative project, provides a working constructive Native Christian theology. Drawing together leading scholars in the field, along with elders and practitioners, this volume seeks to fill a significant lacuna in the area and to encourage young Native American scholars and non-Native theologians to reconsider the rich possibilities present in the intersection between Native theory and practice and Christian...

With clear writing and a contemporary approach, emphasizing how each doctrine should be understood and applied by present-day Christians, Making Sense of the Future explores the fulfillment of Scripture-the bodily return of Christ. Topics include but are not limited to the primary views of the Millennium (thousand years): Amillennialism-the reign of Christ is now being fulfilled; Postamillennialism-Christ will return after the millennium; Premillennialism-Christ...

Aquellos que anhelan un caminar mas profundo en la fe, pueden comenzar su viaje en estas páginas. El Dr. Sproul baja la teología de los estantes polvorientos de las bibliotecas teológicas y expone en términos claros y sencillos más de cien de las doctrinas cristianas más importantes. Ofrece a sus lectores un entendimiento básico de la fe cristiana, que hará brotar un amor por la verdad que dure toda la vida que es fundamental para alcanzar...

La doctrina de la Trinidad, afirmando que hay un solo Dios, pero en la unidad de la divina esencia hay tres personas co-eternas e iguales en todo, de la misma sustancia, pero distintas en la subsistencia, ha sido una de las doctrinas más polémicas, debatidas y controvertidas en la historia de la Iglesia cristiana. Y el punto más conflictivo del cristianismo tanto con el judaísmo como con el Islam. Desde que Tertuliano utilizara por primera vez...

Challenging recent rejections of Hans Urs von Balthasar's groundbreaking study of Karl Barth's theology, Stephen Long argues that these interpreters are myopically impatient with the nuances of Balthasar's reading of Barth and fail to appreciate the longstanding theological friendship that perdured. Even more, current readings threaten to repristinate the embattled divide hallmarking Protestant-Catholic relations prior to Vatican II. Long contends...

El mundo cristiano de habla hispana, aunque sin llegar a disfrutar de la amplia oferta del mercado anglosajón, ha tenido la suerte de contar, a lo largo de los últimos años, con excelentes traducciones de algunas de las mejores obras de Teología Sistemática publicadas en inglés: la de Charles Hodge (CLIE), la de Louis Berkhof (Libros Desafío) y la de Stanley M. Horton (VIDA) entre otras. Todas ellas provienen, sin embargo, de un contexto cultural...