Given the mission of Doctor of Ministry programs to develop theologically reflective practitioners, Dyrness’s book provides an excellent resource for encouraging students to consider fresh theological perspectives on God’s activity in a pluralistic world....
"Ultimately, this book is about choices." Those familiar with the published work of Paul Borthwick, which spans 30 years of research and writing, will be accustomed to the focused challenges that the author provides, particularly along the lines of global perspective and Great Commission engagement....
Stephen Macchia, founding president of Leadership Transformation and director of the Pierce Center for Disciple-Building at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, has put together an exceptional practical guide for Christian leaders on how to experience restoration in the context of human brokenness through God’s love....
This paper is a personal reflection revealing the author’s ideas of faith and belief to have previously been inadequate as they have focussed on believing in particular certainties, even when this way of thinking about faith proved self-destructive....
When Jesus returns to this earth, he will receive a church that is “without spot, wrinkle, or blemish (Eph. 5:27), and that church is dynamically multicultural, multiracial, and subsequently, multidimensional....
With a plethora of books available on leadership in today's market, this book on leadership makes a great contribution to the literature on the subject because its focus is more on the leader than leadership....
Who should serve the church as elders and deacons? And what are the essential elements of their job descriptions? These are the two basic questions that Thabiti Anyabwile seeks to answer in his book Finding Faithful Elders and Deacons....
In 1979 I began my ministry as a newly ordained priest in the Episcopal Church in a parish outside of Philadelphia. Almost immediately I was confronted with a responsibility for which I had been given no training or preparation in my years of seminary education....
Out of her experience with the Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity and the Purity of the Church of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in 2001-2006, Frances Taylor Gench has written a book about listening to conflicts within scripture while attending to various forms of disagreement...
Defending the Faith, Engaging the Culture, is a collection of papers in which theological seminary faculty revisit topics relating to biblical inerrancy that stirred L. Russ Bush III (1944-2008), a Southern Baptist professor and apologist....