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Book Cover for: Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation, Robert Chao Romero

Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation

Robert Chao Romero
Baker AcademicBaker Academic

This book takes us beyond caricatures and misinformation to consider how CRT can help us understand persistent inequality and injustice--and to see how Christians working for racial justice can engage it in faithful and constructive ways. Available now! https://t.co/MQI86cNRWU https://t.co/G94GzRn35Q

Paperback, 2023

$23.99Member price:$11.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Galatians, Kathryn Greene-McCreight

Galatians

Kathryn Greene-McCreight
Baker AcademicBaker Academic

In this addition to the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible series, respected scholar Kathryn Greene-McCreight offers a theological reading of Galatians. Available now! Order your copy here: https://t.co/UfJPUrtMXX https://t.co/YpfbP5e1cA

Hardcover, 2023

$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Common Callings and Ordinary Virtues: Christian Ethics for Everyday Life, Brent Waters

Common Callings and Ordinary Virtues: Christian Ethics for Everyday Life

Brent Waters
Baker AcademicBaker Academic

Check out this Concordia Theology review of 'Common Callings and Ordinary Virtues!' This book by Brent Waters offers a theological guide to thinking Christianly about the ordinary nature of everyday life. Read the review here: https://t.co/BYIPgYF6yG https://t.co/oLqaKs34Gr

Paperback, 2022

$27.99Member price:$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Augustine Way: Retrieving a Vision for the Church's Apologetic Witness, Joshua D. Chatraw

The Augustine Way: Retrieving a Vision for the Church's Apologetic Witness

Joshua D. Chatraw
Baker AcademicBaker Academic

Now Available: The Augustine Way by Joshua Chatraw and Mark Allen! The book shows how Augustine defended the faith in late antiquity and how his approach to engaging the culture has significance for apologetics today. https://t.co/eUpRDMs5YX https://t.co/ws1vbqjVI0

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Book Cover for: Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation, Robert Chao Romero

Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation

Robert Chao Romero
Baker AcademicBaker Academic

Listen as Dr. Robert Chao Romero and Dr. Jeff Liou talk with Jemar Tisby about the intersection between Christianity and Critical Race Theory. Listen here: https://t.co/E6AFSHStbF https://t.co/1f604X75Zj

Paperback, 2023

$23.99Member price:$11.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Church After Innovation: Questioning Our Obsession with Work, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship, Andrew Root

The Church After Innovation: Questioning Our Obsession with Work, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship

Andrew Root
Baker AcademicBaker Academic

"We’ll see if innovation and entrepreneurship are the most helpful ways forward for the church...in the secular age of late modernity. It may be a medicine that does more damage than good."—Andrew Root, ‘The Church After Innovation’ Available now! https://t.co/DU76Jvg5Da https://t.co/nt65hosUKM

Paperback, 2022

$27.99Member price:$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Re-Enchanting the Text: Discovering the Bible as Sacred, Dangerous, and Mysterious, Cheryl Bridges Johns

Re-Enchanting the Text: Discovering the Bible as Sacred, Dangerous, and Mysterious

Cheryl Bridges Johns
Baker AcademicBaker Academic

'Re-Enchanting the Text' is available now! This book argues that we must rediscover the Bible as a sacred, mysterious, dangerous, and presence-filled wonderland to counteract biblical illiteracy in an increasingly post-Christian landscape. Order here: https://t.co/EK1oq79zFT https://t.co/qjjXgh8V0Z

Paperback, 2023

$24.00Member price:$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Church and Its Vocation: Lesslie Newbigin's Missionary Ecclesiology, Michael W. Goheen

The Church and Its Vocation: Lesslie Newbigin's Missionary Ecclesiology

Michael W. Goheen
Baker AcademicBaker Academic

Explore Lesslie Newbigin's insights in the world of church missions with these two resources: 'Becoming a Missionary Church' by Michael W. Goheen and Timothy M. Sheridan: https://t.co/9qJmykYGPJ 'The Church and Its Vocation' by Michael W. Goheen: https://t.co/XsEGROJ6mO https://t.co/IWITQjF4X1

Paperback, 2018

$26.00Member price:$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Biblical Reasoning: Christological and Trinitarian Rules for Exegesis, R. B. Jamieson

Biblical Reasoning: Christological and Trinitarian Rules for Exegesis

R. B. Jamieson
Baker AcademicBaker Academic

We're excited to share that 'Biblical Reasoning' won the Gospel Coalition Academic Theology Book Award, and 'Apostolic Imagination' was awarded the Missions and the Global Church Award of Distinction! Congratulations to authors R. B. Jamieson, Tyler R. Wittman, and J. D. Payne! https://t.co/Q8bSjmcSeg

Paperback, 2022

$32.99Member price:$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Interpreting Your World: Five Lenses for Engaging Theology and Culture, Justin Ariel Bailey

Interpreting Your World: Five Lenses for Engaging Theology and Culture

Justin Ariel Bailey
Baker AcademicBaker Academic

Justin Ariel Bailey--author of 'Interpreting Your World'--talked with Christianity Today about faithful involvement with culture! Read what he had to say here: https://t.co/NtzpLe0LU6 https://t.co/DoqdFmzSiF

Paperback, 2022

$22.00Member price:$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book