Exploring one of the most controversial figures in recent evangelical theology, this book thoroughly examines core features of Stanley J. Grenz's Trinitarian vision.

What is the Church's mission? What does it mean to participate in God's mission personally? How do "mission" and culture interact and conflict?This book articulates various evangelical views regarding the church's mission and provides a healthy, vigorous, and gracious debate on this controversial topic. In a helpful Counterpoints format, this volume demonstrates the unique theological frameworks, doctrinal convictions, and missiological conclusions that inform and ...

Christians have always believed in the triune God, but they haven't always understood or used the doctrine of the Trinity consistently.In order to form a coherent view of trinitarian theology, it's important for Christians to have a working knowledge of the two legitimate models for explaining this doctrine:Classical – presenting a traditional view of the Trinity, represented by the Baptist theologian Stephen R. Holmes and the Roman C...

In this book, established scholars from different religions, regions, and disciplines continue the dialogue that Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen began in his A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World series and respond to his work in light of their diverse expertise and context. Each of the three parts focuses on a key area of Kärkkäinen’s engaging work: 1) highlighting how his method shaped each volume, 2) highlighting his commitment to global perspectives, and 3) highlighting his...

Exploring California as a theological place, this book renders critical engagement with significant Californian religious and theological phenomena and the inherent theological impulses within major Californian cultural icons. Harnessing conceptual tools inherent to theology, through theological reflection, assessment, and critique, the chapters in this volume begin to ascertain the significance of various empirical data and that no other qualitative methodological Californian study has do...

Los Angeles is a global crossroads of migrating communities that presents a case study of migration, transnationalism, and interfaith engagement with significant implications for thinking and practice in other global hubs. This book weaves together contributions from internationally-recognized scholars who were brought together for the 2020 Missiology Lectures at Fuller Theological Seminary. They examine historical waves of migration — European Protestant, Asian, Latino/a, and Muslim — int...

Three female-led tales of fantasy, occult empowerment, and human bondage for those readers who prefer to use the darker sides of their imaginations with the help of character-driven plotlines.Read on, as a wealthy man about town finds himself infatuated with a woman from Eastern Europe who turns out to be a vampire of the most irresistible kind… A vampire, moreover, who does not take her nourishment from the blood of man but, rather, his obedience.A dying aunt imparts a tal...

"House of Servitude… Plus-2" brings us three works of fantasy and female-led fiction, in which three very different women from the East assert themselves over three European men with a number of things in common.Vulnerability, weakness, and desperation but some of them.Read on, as a husband takes off after walking in on his beloved wife and a best friend and ends up on the Cornish coast… A fateful location for him because it's here that he takes lodgings with the eponymous ...

Book-Four in the “Houses of Servitude” collection this time brings us three tales of female-led autocracy in the home and beyond.Read on as a wife conspires with the friend and widow who is now his partner to bring him to his knees and worse by his previously loving wife to become not only her househusband but that of the German widow he can’t abide also.Another wife is led to the darkside by a wealthy and conniving Indian neighbour who thinks it is a waste of time for her ...

Four books describing what happens when certain women of the East - with certain DOMINANT yearnings - come into contact with men of the West in possession of certain submissive traits… Even if those men have yet to be made aware of this crucial fact!First up is Malkin Jamali’s “A Malkin is Born”, as a devout and god-fearing Indian widow with certain off-the-wall desires, living on the south coast of England, is given the opportunity to realise her most fervent sexual fantasy. A lon...

The first book in the “Venus in the East” collection brings you 3-books of exotic female-led fiction describing women with, shall we say, “Off-the-wall” tastes.Read on as a menopausal wife allows the changes to her character to have her sell her husband and the father of her children. Sale made to a monstrous and sociopathic Japanese woman he has travelled to meet in her country to purchase some artefacts for their antique-emporium… A trip from which he will never return... No matt...

An international cast of theologians come together in this volume to offer essays in tribute to the late Stanley J. Grenz, one of the leading theologians of his generation. Accordingly, the volume includes timely explorations in some of the most exciting areas in contemporary theology. It is only fitting that these very explorations revolve around the key motifs of Grenz's theology (Trinity, community, eschatology) and the key sources from which he drew for theology's construction (Scriptu...