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The Trinity in the Gospel of John : A Thematic Commentary on the Fourth Gospel
By: Royce Gordon Gruenler | April 8, 2004
Gruenler explores something he calls disposability. Father, Son, and Spirit are there for the other—servants who place themselves at the other person's disposal in an act of total generosity.
Exploring Spiritual Direction
By: Ellen M. Kogstad | December 5, 2003
Life sometimes comes in shock waves. A marriage teetering between life and death. A child born to an unmarried teenage daughter. A job loss. A notice of house foreclosure.
The Dreaded T-Word: Theology and Why Women Avoid It
By: Carolyn Custis James | August 9, 2003
The Dreaded T-Word: Theology adn Why Women Avoid It
Hermeneutics in Pink and Blue
By: Christiane Carlson-Theis | August 9, 2003
Hermeneutics in Pink and Blue
The Kingdom of God and the Ministry of Women
By: John E. Phelan, Jr. | August 9, 2003
The Kingdom of God and the Ministry of Women
Why the Devil Hates Women in Ministry
By: J. Lee Grady | August 9, 2003
How can women embrace the necessary courage to engage in spiritual warfare that will advance Christ’s kingdom?
Book Review: The Trinity and Subordinationism: The Doctrine of God and the Contemporary Gender Debate
By: Kim A. Pettit | April 30, 2003
Have you heard the claim that relationships between men and women should image the "eternal subordination" in the Trinity? If so, read this book. With a profound, concise course in Trinitarian theology and hermeneutics, using two case studies to exemplify points, The Trinity & Subordinationism is highly recommended.
A Tale of Two Cultures: Understanding the Historical and Cultural Context of the NT Epistles
By: James R. Payton, Jr. | February 1, 2002
In the evangelical world, we stress the importance of context for understanding Scripture rightly. We warn against “taking a verse out of context,” because the meaning of a verse is shaped or influenced by the paragraph or chapter in which it appears. Context may not be everything in interpretation, but the literary context is undeniably [...]
New Testament Limits of Authority and Hierarchical Power
By: Del Birkey | July 31, 2001
There are six evident restrictions on authority that Christ the Head authorized and that apostolic missionaries set in motion in the New Testament house churches. These biblical boundaries of authority (exousia) unveil the extent to which complementarians practice masculine domination among God’s people.
The Intolerable Goal of Role Theology
By: Del Birkey | April 30, 2001
In recent decades, traditionalists have dug for deeper roots in search of a viable biblical theology on which to support their superstructure of hierarchy. What has emerged instead in contemporary complementarianism is a sociocultural and extrabiblical “theology of roles.” It is this to which we will direct our critique.