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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback. Out of the Comfort Zone. Grace. Vision. Action by George Verwer. Contents: Acknowledgements. Foreword. Introduction. A Grace-Awakened Approach to Missions Work. We Are His Witnesses. Taking the Lead. Being a Missions Mobiliser. Future Missionaries - From Where? Finance For the Work. 'Acts 13 Breakthrough'. 152 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).…

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 138 pages. light wear'Between Horror and Hope' is a study of Paul's metaphorical language of death in Romans 6:1-11. The scholarly debate focuses on two main issues; the origin of t he 'commentatio mortis' tradition and its development. Dr. Sabou argues that the origin of this terminology is original to Paul; that it was the apostle's own i nsight into the meaning of Christ's death (a death to sin) and his understandi ng of the identity of Christ in his death (as the anointed davidic king) which g uided him to create this metaphor of dying to sin as a way of describing the r elationship of the believer with sin. On the development of this language of dea th, the author argues that this language conveys two aspects â" horror and h ope. The first is discussed in the context of crucifixion in which Paul explains the believer's death to sin by presenting Christ's death as the death of the anointed davidic king who won the victory over sin and death by rising from the dead. Paul affirms that believers are coalesced with what was proclaimed abo ut Christ's death and resurrection, thereby allowing him to assert that the rele asing of the body from the power of sin is a result of crucifixion. This cruc ifixion is the condemnation inflicted on our past lives in the age inaugurate d by Adam's sin and this is such a horrible event that believers have to stay aw ay from sin since sin leads to such punishment. In contrast, hope is presented i n the context of burial. The believers' burial with Christ points to the fac t that they are part of Christ's family and this is accomplished by the overwhel ming action of God by which he pushes us toward the event of Christ's death, an act pictured in baptism. It is this burial with Christ that allows believers t.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 190 pages. light wearThis study examines some key approaches to ecumenical social ethics in the past century as expressed in the thought of Walter Rauschenbusch Reinhold Niebhur and the World Council of Churches.The author argues that unless Christians are clea r about the ways that theology and philosophy relate to one another and work the mselves out in our practical commitments we will lose the ability to discuss soc ial ethics as individuals and churches let alone reach effective arguments.…