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Learning the A, B, C & Ds of the Human Condition

 

 

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Chap.4

Chap.5

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Table of Contents

Bibliography

 

Acolatse, Esther E., Powers, Principalities, and the Spirit: Biblical Realism in Africa and the West (Grand Rapids: 2018).

Balmer, Randall, Race and the Rise of the Religious Right (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2021).

Barna Group, The State of Discipleship (The Navigators, 2015).

Beck, Richard, Reviving Old Scratch: Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2016

Bishop, Bryan, Boundless: What Global Expressions of Faith Teach Us about Following Jesus (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2015).

Brauch, Manfred T., Abusing Scripture: The Consequences of Misreading the Bible (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2009).

Brueggemann, Walter and John Brueggemann, Rebuilding the Foundations: Social Relationships in Ancient Scripture and Contemporary Culture (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2017). 

Cacioppo, John T. and William Patrick, loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection (New York: W.W. Norton, 2008).

Charles, Mark and Soong-Chan Rah, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2019).

Crouch, Andy, The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place (Grand Rapids; Baker Books, 2017).

Curtice, Kaitlin B., Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2020).

De La Torre, Miguel A., Decolonizing Christianity: Becoming Badass Believers (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2021).

Detweiler, Craig, Selfies: Searching for the Image of God in a Digital Age (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2018).

Dickson, John, Bullies and Saints: An Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian History (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Reflective, 2021).

Edgar, William, Created & Creating: A Biblical Theology of Culture (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2017).

Ellis, Bruce and Peter Goodwin Heltzel, eds., Evangelicals and Empire: Christian Alternatives to the Political Status Quo (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2008).

Grenz, Stanley J., The Social God and the Relational Self: A Trinitarian Theology of the Imago Dei (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001).

Grindheim, Sigurd, Living in the Kingdom of God: A Biblical Theology for the Life of the Church (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2019).

Hellerman, Joseph H., The Ancient Church as Family (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001).

Hiebert, Paul G., Transforming Worldviews: An Anthropological Understanding of How People Change (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008).

Johnson, Todd M. and Cindy M. Wu, Our Global Families: Christians Embracing Common Identity in a Changing World (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2015).

Kambara, Kary A., A Theology of Worship: ‘Singing’ a New Song to the Lord (2011). Online at http://4X12.org.

_______, The Gender Equation in Human Identity and Function: Examining Our Theology and Practice, and Their Essential Equation (Gender Study, 2018). Online at http://www.4X12.org.

_______, Hermeneutic of Worship Language: Understanding Communion with the Whole of God (Worship Language Study, 2013). Online at http://4X12.org.

_______, Worshiping God in Likeness of the Trinity: Not Determined ‘in Their Way’ (Uncommon Worship Study, 2016). Online at http://4X12.org.

Keith, Chris and Larry W. Hurtado, eds., Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2011).

Lanier, Jaren, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (New York: Alfred A, Knopf, 2010).

Lennox, John C., 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Reflective, 2020).

Matsuo, T. Dave, “Did God Really Say That?” Theology in the Age of Reductionism (Theology Study, 2013). Online at http://4X12.org.

______, The Disciples of Whole Theology and Practice: Following the Diversity of Reformation or the Wholeness of Transformation (Discipleship Study: 2017). Online at http://www.4X12.org

______, The Diversity of the Integral Gospel: Repurposing Diversity to Re-image the Global Church (Diversity Study, 2022). Online at http://www.4X12.org.

______, The Feelings of Jesus’ Heart: His Whole Person’s Affective Narrative (Narrative Study, 2023). Online at http://www.4X12.org.

______, The Essential Dimension & Quality for Theology & Practice: Discovering the Function of Music as Basic to Significance in Life (Study on Music-like Theology: 2019). Online at http://www.4X12.org.

______, Following Jesus, Knowing Christ: Engaging the Intimate Relational Process (Spirituality Study, 2003). Online at http://www.4X12.org.

______, The Face of the Trinity: The Trinitarian Essential for the Whole of God & Life (Trinity Study, 2016). Online at http://www.4X12.org.

______, The Feelings of Jesus’ Heart: His Whole Person’s Affective Narrative (Narrative Study, 2023). Online at http://www.4X12.org

______, The Global Church Engaging the Nature of Sin & the Human Condition: Reflecting, Reinforcing, Sustaining or Transforming (Global Church Study, 2016). Online at http://www.4X12.org.

______, The Gospel of Transformation: Distinguishing the Discipleship and Ecclesiology Integral to Salvation (Transformation Study, 2015). Online at http://www.4X12.org.

______, The Human Order of Creation & Its Political Theology for the New Creation: Distinguishing God’s Integral Way of Life (Political Theology Study: 2021). Online at http://www.4X12.org.

______, Interpretation Integrated in ‘the Whole-ly Way’: The Integral Education and Learning of Knowing and Understanding God (Bible Hermeneutics Study: 2019). Online at http://www.4X12.org.

______, Jesus’ Gospel of Essential Justice: The Human Order from Creation through Complete Salvation (Justice Study: 2018). Online at http://www.4X12.org.

______, Jesus into Paul: Embodying the Theology and Hermeneutic of the Whole Gospel (Integration Study, 2012). Online at http://www.4X12.org.

______, The Person in Complete Context: The Whole of Theological Anthropology Distinguished (Theological Anthropology Study, 2014. Online: http://www.4X12.org.

_______, The Person, the Trinity, the Church: The Call to Be Whole and the Lure of Reductionism (Wholeness Study, 2006). Online at http://www.4X12.org.

_______, The Relational Progression: A Relational Theology of Discipleship (Discipleship Study, 2004). Online: htt://www.4X12.org.

_______, Sanctified Christology: A Theological & Functional Study of the Whole of Jesus (Christology Study, 2008). Online at http://www.4X12.org.

_______, What’s Next? A New Future or Repeating the Past (Essay for Tomorrow: 2020). Online at http://www.4X12.org.

_______, The Whole of Paul and the Whole in His Theology: Theological Interpretation in Relational Epistemic Process (Paul Study, 2010). Online at http://www.4X12.org.

McGilchrist, Iain, The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Modern World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010).

McKnight, Scot, Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2014).

McKnight, Scot, and Laura Barringer, A Church Called TOV: Forming a Goodness Culture that Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale, 2020).

Middleton, J. Richard, The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1 (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2005).

Millar, J. Gary, Changed Into His Likeness: A Biblical Theology of Personal Transformation (Downers Grove, IL: Apollos/IVP Academic, 2021).

Rasmussen, Joshua, Who Are You, Really?: A Philosopher’s Inquiry into the Nature & Origin of Person (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2023).

Thacker, Jason, The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Thrive, 2020).

Turkle, Sherry, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (New York: Basic Books, 2011).

Volf, Miroslav and Matthew Croasmun, For the Life of the World: Theology that Makes a Difference (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2019).

Welker, Michael, In God’s Image: An Anthropology of the Spirit (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2021).

 

 

 

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