Living in God's Two Kingdoms
Title | Living in God's Two Kingdoms PDF eBook |
Author | David VanDrunen |
Publisher | Crossway |
Total Pages | 210 |
Release | 2010-10-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 143352452X |
Modern movements such as neo-Calvinism, the New Perspective on Paul, and the emerging church have popularized a view of Christianity and culture that calls for the redemption of earthly society and institutions. Many Christians have reflexively embraced this view, enticed by the socially active and engaged faith it produces. Living in God’s Two Kingdoms illustrates how a two-kingdoms model of Christianity and culture affirms much of what is compelling in these transformationist movements while remaining faithful to the whole counsel of Scripture. By focusing on God’s response to each kingdom—his preservation of the civil society and his redemption of the spiritual kingdom—VanDrunen teaches readers how to live faithfully in each sphere. Highlighting vital biblical distinctions between honorable and holy tasks, VanDrunen’s analysis will challenge Christians to be actively and critically engaged in the culture around them while retaining their identities as sojourners and exiles in this world.
Living in God's Two Kingdoms
Title | Living in God's Two Kingdoms PDF eBook |
Author | David VanDrunen |
Publisher | Crossway |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1433514044 |
VanDrunen uses the two-kingdoms theory to demonstrate how God's response to the civil and spiritual kingdoms inform an active yet critical Christian engagement with culture.
Living in God's Two Kingdoms
Title | Living in God's Two Kingdoms PDF eBook |
Author | David VanDrunen |
Publisher | Crossway Books |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781433514067 |
VanDrunen uses the two-kingdoms theory to demonstrate how God's response to the civil and spiritual kingdoms inform an active yet critical Christian engagement with culture.
Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms
Title | Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms PDF eBook |
Author | David VanDrunen |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | 477 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0802864430 |
Conventional scholarship holds that the theology and social ethics of the Reformed tradition stand at odds with concepts of natural law and the two kingdoms. But David VanDrunen here challenges that status quo through his careful, thoroughgoing exploration of the development of Reformed social thought from the Reformation to the present. - from publisher description.
Martin Luther's Understanding of God's Two Kingdoms
Title | Martin Luther's Understanding of God's Two Kingdoms PDF eBook |
Author | William J. Wright |
Publisher | Baker Academic |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0801038847 |
A leading Reformation scholar historically reassesses the original breadth of Luther's theology of the two kingdoms and the cultural contexts from which it emerged.
The Two Kingdoms
Title | The Two Kingdoms PDF eBook |
Author | W. Bradford Littlejohn |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 118 |
Release | 2017-04-11 |
Genre | Lutheran Church |
ISBN | 9780692878170 |
What does it mean to live as citizens of this world and of the world-to-come? How can we render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's? In recent years, fresh controversy has erupted over these age-old questions, and especially over the meaning and relevance of the Reformation's "two-kingdoms" doctrine. At stake in such debates is not simply the shape of Christian politics, but the meaning of the church, the nature of human and divine authority, and the scope of Christian discipleship. In this concise guide, Reformation scholar and Christian ethicist Bradford Littlejohn first sketches the history of the doctrine and clears away common misunderstandings. He then shows that the two-kingdoms doctrine can offer a valuable framework for thinking about pastoring, politics, and even financial stewardship.
Christ and Culture Revisited
Title | Christ and Culture Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | D. A. Carson |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2012-01-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0802867383 |
Called to live in the world, but not to be of it, Christians must maintain a balancing act that becomes more precarious the further our culture departs from its Judeo-Christian roots. How should members of the church interact with such a culture, especially as deeply enmeshed as most of us have become? In this award-winning book -- now in paperback and with a new preface -- D. A. Carson applies his masterful touch to that problem. After exploring the classic typology of H. Richard Niebuhr with its five Christ-culture options, Carson offers an even more comprehensive paradigm for informing the Christian worldview. More than just theoretical, Christ and Culture Revisited is a practical guide for helping Christians untangle current messy debates about living in the world.