Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?
Carl E. OlsonMajor feature films such The Passion of the Christ and Risen, and books such as Bill O'Reilly's Killing Jesus raise many questions about one of the greatest controversies in history--what really happened to the crucified body of Jesus...
Romano Guardini, widely recognized as the theological mentor of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), and the author of The Lord, offers a series of meditations on the life of Christ in a similar vein to the Pope's Jesus of Nazareth s...
Saints and Scoundrels in the Story of...
Nancy GuthrieThe story of Jesus includes all kinds of characters. Some see these people as mere examples to follow or to avoid, and some have only heard about them in Sunday school stories. But their interactions with Jesus reveal much more about ...
And the Angels Were Silent: The Final...
Max LucadoYou can tell a lot about a person by the way he dies.In the last week of his life, Jesus deliberately sets his face toward Jerusalem—and certain death. This is no ordinary week. Even the angels are silent as they ponder the final da...
The Deity of Christ: A John MacArthur...
John F. MacArthurHow is Jesus also God? Long ago, Jesus asked his disciples, "Who do you say that I am?" It's a question everyone must answer, and we need Scripture to tell us how. The Deity of Christ is a biblical defense of Jesus' divi...
The Dawning of Indestructible Joy: Da...
John PiperAdvent is for adoring Jesus.The Christmas season is one of the busiest times of year. But it's also a season of reflection and preparation for that special day when we mark Immanuel's coming—the arrival of our eternal God in our own...
Our Lady of Guadalupe: Mother of the ...
Carl AndersonNearly a decade after Spain's conquest of Mexico, the future of Christianity on the American continent was very much in doubt. Confronted with a hostile colonial government and Native Americans wary of conversion, the newly-appointed ...
Nothing except the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is a greater miracle or wonder in human history. God becoming flesh in human history is the greatest marvel. Avatar is what this is called in Hindu religious tradition. Jesus of Nazareth...
A Defense of the Nicene Definition: (...
St AthanasiusSt. Athanasius of Alexandria (298-373), Confessor and Doctor of the Church, was one of the principal architects of the Nicene Creed. He persisted throughout his life, in and out of persecution, in explaining and defending Christ's div...
Jesus: A Very Short Introduction
Richard BauckhamAward-winning religious scholar Richard Bauckham here explores the historical figure of Jesus, evaluating the sources and showing that they provide us with good historical evidence for his life and teaching. To place Jesus in his prop...
The Bond of the Covenant within the B...
John a. BouwersThis book records the written and oral debate of several seminary professors of Reformed Protestant persuasion. In it they discuss the contours and details of the theology of the covenant as it has developed particularly in the Canadi...
The Real Kosher Jesus: Revealing the ...
Michael L. Brown PhdJesus-Yeshua.The most influential Jew who ever lived. The most controversial Jew who ever lived. He has been called a rabbi, a rebel, a reformer, a religious teacher, a reprobate sinner, a revolutionary, a redeemer. Some have claimed...
Extravagant Love: The Self-Emptying o...
Ruth BurrowsThe theme of the book is the self-outpouring in love, or the kenosis, of Jesus Christ. The kenosis of the Son of God is at the heart of the identity of the Sisters of Jesus of Nazareth, for whom these reflections were initially compos...
Christ Actually: Reimagining Faith in...
James CarrollAn exploration of transcendent faith in modern times—from the author of the New York Times–bestselling Constantine's Sword What can we believe about—and how can we believe in—Jesus Christ in light of the Holocaust and other a...
Jesus the Son of God: A Christologica...
D. A. CarsonAlthough it is a foundational confession for all Christians, much of the theological significance of Jesus's identity as "the Son of God" is often overlooked or misunderstood. Moreover, this Christological concept stands at ...
Anonymous: Jesus' Hidden Years...and ...
Alicia Britt CholeWe all experience times of hiddenness, when our potential is unseen and our abilities unapplauded. This book redeems those times by reminding us that though we often want to rush through these anonymous seasons of the soul, they hold ...
The Unfolding Mystery (2d. ed.): Disc...
Edmund P. ClowneyBeginning with Adam and Eve and closing with the last of the prophets, Dr. Clowney takes a fascinating walk through the Old Testament, revealing Christ in places where he is usually overlooked.
“Integrity, wit and passion. A fine advocate for the best of Christian thought and a faith that encompasses the human as well as the divine.” —Stephen FryChristianity is in crisis, and its founder is often misunderst...
Walking Backwards to Christmas
Stephen CottrellCongregations are often confused or uninspired by the emphasis on Old Testament themes during Advent and too "over" Christmas by December 26 to pay much attention to the gospel stories that follow Jesus' birth. Walking Backw...
The Power of Parable: How Fiction by ...
John Dominic CrossanThe world's foremost Jesus scholar John Dominic Crossan shows us how the parables present throughout the New Testament not only reveal what Jesus wanted to teach but also provide the key for explaining how the Gospels' writers sought ...
In Did Jesus Exist? historian and Bible expert Bart Ehrman confronts the question, "Did Jesus exist at all?" Ehrman vigorously defends the historical Jesus, identifies the most historically reliable sources for best understa...
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Ear...
Bart D. EhrmanThe bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus, one of the most renowned and controversial Bible scholars in the world today examines oral tradition and its role in shaping the stories about Jesus we encounter in the New Testament—and u...
The Heart of the Gospel: God's Son Gi...
Sinclair B. FergusonHow can we truly know that God always does what is best for us? Focusing on Romans 8:32, Sinclair Ferguson reminds us what lies at the heart of the gospel. In the atonement, we behold the Father who refused to spare his own Son—and ...
Found in Him: The Joy of the Incarnat...
Elyse M. FitzpatrickWe Were Lost. Now We're Found…in Him.Everyone has experienced isolation and alienation. We lost more than a nice home when we were banished from Eden. We lost relationship with God and with each other. But then God did the unthinka...
Alive: How the Resurrection of Christ...
Gabriel N. E. FluhrerDid Jesus Christ really rise from the grave? The credibility of the Christian faith rests on this claim, and Jesus’ own disciples laid down their lives to defend it. However, the resurrection of Christ is often dismissed as fant...
It Is Finished: Why You Can Quit Reli...
Blaise ForetThere is a generation that has come to the end of religion and let go of the pressure to "measure up" in their spiritual journey. They have abandoned the idea of an angry God in the sky who is keeping a list of humanity's ri...
The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to ...
Tripp FullerChristology is crazy. It's rather absurd to identify a first-century homeless Jew as God revealed, but a bunch of us do anyway. In this book, Tripp Fuller examines the historical Jesus, the development of the doctrine of Christ, the q...
A famed historian once noted that, regardless of what you think of him personally, Jesus Christ stands as the central figure in the history of Western civilization. A man violently rejected by some and passionately worshipped by other...
Understanding Jesus: 50 Reasons Why J...
Andrew HamiltonDivided into three sections, Understanding Jesus presents historical and scriptural background to knowing Jesus better. The book outlines fifty reasons based on: What We Can Know About Jesus? Why Was Jesus Remembered? and Why Might Je...
Counterfeit Christs - Finding the Rea...
Trent HornIn Counterfeit Christs, Trent looks at eighteen phony versions of Jesus that we encounter today. Some are the creation of non-Christians: like skeptics who dismiss Jesus as a fictional composite of ancient myths, secular humanists who...