Acts and the History of Earliest Christianity: (Wipf & Stock Publishers) Publisher's Comments: In a comprehensive and detailed survey on its remarkably widespread employment in the Roman empire, Dr. Hengel examines the way in which "the most vile death of the cross" was regarded in the Greek-speaking world and particularly in Roman-occupied Palestine. Details...

Acts of the Apostles: (Augsburg Fortress) Publisher's Comments:Filled with compact, almost aphoristic observations about the text, its background, and its theology. Its insight should sustain its value for a full generation. Details...

Addicted to Mediocrity: Contemporary Christians and the Arts: (Crossway) Publisher's Comments: In this provocative book, Franky Schaeffer shows how Christians today have sacrificed the artistic prominence they enjoyed for centuries and settled instead for mediocrity. The evidence for this sad state of affairs abounds. We are flooded with "Christian" ... Details...

All About the Bible: (Nelson) Publisher's Comments: The Ultimate A-to-Z® Illustrated Guide To The Key People, Places, and Things. Quickly find your answers to "Who," "What," and "Where." What’s Inside: More than 900 informative articles, alphabetically arranged. Identities of persons from Aaron to Zophar. ... Details...

Ambrose of Milan and the End of the Arian-Nicene Conflicts: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This provocative new study reevaluates the history of the early Church. Focusing on the struggle between Ambrose of Milan, upholder of orthodoxy and the famous `Nicene' creed still used in the western Church today, and the heretical Arians who denied the di... Details...

American Hour: (Free Press) Publisher's Comments: The American Hour is a searching assessment of the strength of the American republic at the end of what has been called the "American Century." In an incisive analysis, Os Guinness examines the ways in which the current crisis of cultural authority strikes ... Details...

American Religious Traditions: The Shaping of Religion in the United States, with CD-ROM: (Augsburg) Publisher's Comments: In this fully revised and enhanced edition of his Religion in the New World (Fortress Press, 1990), Wentz extends and deepens his successful account of the shaping of America’s diverse religious traditions. Using religious studies categories, such a... Details...

Amos: A Commentary on the Book of Amos: (Augsburg Fortress) Publisher's Comments:Makes extensive use of ancient Near Eastern sources, and employs medieval Jewish exegesis along with modern Israeli biblical scholarship. Details...

An Aramaic Approach to Q: Sources for the Gospels of Matthew and Luke: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: Maurice Casey reconstructs sources of Q: material found in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke (and not in the Gospel of Mark). He replaces the conventional model of Q as a single Greek document with something more complex. This reconstruction and interpretatio... Details...

An Idiom Book of New Testament Greek, 2nd Edition: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments:The student or translator of the New Testament will often find difficulties which can only be solved by considering the syntax of the passage concerned. Professor Moule here provides a reference book which gives guidance on such problems of exegesis. It is a ... Details...