Recent North Park Theological Seminary Faculty Publications

Edited by Philip J. Anderson, Professor of Church History

Norwegians and Swedes in the United States, edited by Philip J. Anderson and Dag Blanck, features eighteen essays that explore interactions among Swedish and Norwegian immigrants to America. The book focuses on themes of friendship and competition through the lenses of identity, language, religion, and politics.

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Edited by Robert L. Hubbard Jr., Professor of Old Testament

Marked by a broad evangelical perspective, up-to-date research, and contributions from respected biblical scholars, The Eerdmans Companion to the Bible offers a reliable and illuminating guide to the entire Bible. Whether readers find the Bible familiar or foreign, they will appreciate the Companion’s informative articles and its commentary by Connie Gundry Tappy on all of the Old and New Testament books. This comprehensive reference work, edited by Robert L. Hubbard Jr. and Gordon D. Fee, promises to make the Word of God come alive as never before.

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C. John Weborg, Lecturer

In this reflective volume, C. John Weborg helps pastors remain healthy for ministry by maintaining vocational clarity.

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Paul DeNeui, Professor of Missiology and Intercultural Studies

That Man Who Came to Us, by Paul DeNeui and Sawai Chinnawong, tells the story of the life of Jesus Christ through traditional Thai art. Featuring black and white line drawings inspired by an art form born in northern and central Thailand, That Man tells the story of Christ as fully God, yet fully human. Artist Sawai Chinnawong employs the regions' popular distinctive artistic style originally used to depict Buddhist moral principles and other religious themes. A meditative and teaching tool, That Man is a simple yet powerful book that communicates Christ in both the Thai and English languages. The book also includes cultural notes and scripture references for further study. By depicting Christ in the context of Thai tradition, That Man proves the many ways Christ is present-and can be found-in every culture.

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Editors: James K. Bruckner, Michelle A. Clifton-Soderstrom, and Paul E. Koptak

In this volume the faculty of North Park Theological Seminary engage and interact with the six Covenant affirmations in fresh, new ways. Their discussions and insights reveal some of the joys, challenges, difficulties, and blessings that the affirmations elicit.

The many new members and new churches of the Covenant will discover strength and identity in these pages. Long-term members and friends will rediscover the sinew from which they and their churches have grown. Still others can investigate and discover the heart of Covenant discipleship applicable to all Christians seeking to live in the word. May the writers' appreciation for these central beliefs be shared by all who read Living Faith.

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Soong-Chan Rah, Associate Professor of Church Growth & Evangelism

The United States is currently undergoing the most rapid demographic shift in its history. By 2050, white Americans will no longer comprise a majority of the population. Instead, they'll be the largest minority group in a country made up entirely of minorities, followed by Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans. Past shifts in America's demographics always reshaped the country's religious landscape. This shift will be no different.

Soong-Chan Rah's book is intended to equip evangelicals for ministry and outreach in our changing nation. Borrowing from the business concept of "cultural intelligence," he explores how God's people can become more multiculturally adept. From discussions about cultural and racial histories, to reviews of case-study churches and Christian groups that are succeeding in bridging ethnic divides, Rah provides a practical and hopeful guidebook for Christians wanting to minister more effectively in diverse settings.

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Edited by Paul DeNeui, Professor of Missiology and Intercultural Studies

If Christian mission in Asia and most of the non-Western world is ever to advance, Paul DeNeui writes that it must seriously consider the importance of family networks. Far too long the strategy of a “one by one” approach has stifled the spread of the gospel, reinforced a highly individualized unbiblical theology and destroyed social relationships that might lead to conversation, conversion and social transformation. The title, Family and Faith in Asia: The Missional Impact of Social Networks, attempts to issue a wake-up call to serious reflection on a highly ignored social reality in Buddhist and many other social contexts. The book is a resource useful for anyone wishing to study practical approaches to issues related to family and faith in Asia, particularly in Buddhist contexts for mission.

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Soong-Chan Rah, Associate Professor of Church Growth & Evangelism

Winner of the 2010 Golden Canon Leadership Book Award

In this book professor and former pastor Soong-Chan Rah calls the North American church to escape its captivity to Western cultural trappings and to embrace a new evangelicalism that is diverse and multiethnic. Rah brings keen analysis to the limitations of American Christianity and shows how captivity to Western individualism and materialism has played itself out in megachurches and emergent churches alike. This prophetic report envisions a dynamic evangelicalism that fully embodies the cultural realities of the twenty-first century.

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Michelle A. Clifton-Soderstrom, Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics

In Angels, Worms and Bogeys: The Christian Ethic of Pietism, Michelle Clifton-Soderstrom demonstrates how the fathers and mothers of Pietism brought together faith and life, Word and deed, and piety and social reform in an effort to get back to the power of God's Word to engender faith and transform human life. This book tells the stories of three early Pietists — Philipp Jakob Spener, Johanna Eleonora Petersen, and August Hermann Francke — as they attended to class, gender, poverty, and education through the lens of scripture. This book rehabilitates the Pietist heritage and its central role in the birth of Evangelicalism and also challenges a religious culture that too commonly juxtaposes faith and social action.

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Robert L. Hubbard Jr., Professor of Old Testament

Joshua is the latest book in the NIV Application Commentary Series. Robert Hubbard serves as one of the editors of the series, in addition to authoring this volume. The book of Joshua contains stories that are difficult to comprehend, as it recounts two major transitions in the lives of God's chosen people. From Moses to Joshua, from the life of herders to a settled nation, the bloodshed and ethnic cleaning make Joshua a challenging interpretive task. Hubbard probes beneath the surface of the text to apply the timeless themes of this book to the 21st century.

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Edited by Paul DeNeui, Professor of Missiology

Paul DeNeui has edited the sixth volume in a series rooted in the SEANET Missiological Forum held in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Communicating Christ in Asian Cities: Urban Issues in Buddist Contexts developed from a keen awareness of unique urban concerns for evangelistic mission in the myriad and complex cultures of Asian Buddhism. The authors included here write from many years of experience as evangelical mission theologians, scholars, pastors and practitioners working in Asian urban Buddhist contexts. This book addresses foundational issues of ministry in the framework of Asian Buddhist cities, several contextual issues specific to peoples of Asian Buddhist cities, and strategic means of evangelization useful in specific Asian urban Buddhist contexts.

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James K. Bruckner, Professor of Old Testament

This commentary on Exodus uses a verse by verse format to explain the content of the book as well as its theological meaning. It has extensive notes for for those wishing to examine any issue in greater depth. The goal of this series is to provide a close reading of the text that brings together the concerns of the church and the academy. North Park Theological Seminary professor James K. Bruckner elucidates the many critical theological themes of the book, as well as examining the more detailed passages involving the tabernacle.

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Stephen J. Chester, Professor of New Testament

Conversion at Corinth: Perspectives on Conversion in Paul's Theology and the Corinthian Church began as a doctoral dissertation directed by John Barclay at the University of Glasgow, and is published in the series: Studies of the New Testament and Its World. Conversion at Corinth offers refreshingly new and, at points, innovative light on the well-worn path of Paul’s conversion and his theology. Stephen Chester ably grapples with Paul’s conception of conversion of others, as well as his converts’ own perceptions of the experience, most notably those of the church he founded in Corinth.

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