Bøger af Michael Allen

Sanctification, the latest volume in the New Studies in Dogmatics series, offers a Christ-centered account of sanctification by viewing the doctrine within its wider canonical and creedal context, bringing its distinctly Christian definition and thoroughly gracious character into greater relief.

Exploring the possibility of justifiable disobedience opened up by John Rawls Law of Peoples, this book looks at disobedience justified by appeal to standards of decency shared by peoples who do not otherwise share commitments to the same principles of justice, and whose societies are organized according to very different basic social institutions.

During the 2004 presidential election, Congress and the president remade the post-World War II national security infrastructure in less than five months, creating the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)...

In light of recent interest in whether the Protestant Reformers interpreted Paul correctly, this edited volume enables a more careful reading of the Reformers themselves. Each chapter pairs a Reformer with a Pauline text and brings together historical theologians and biblical scholars to examine these Reformation-era readings of Paul's letters.

Drawing deeply on the catholic and Reformed heritage, leading theologians introduce the major doctrines of the Christian faith, displaying the power of theological retrieval for the church's renewal.

Offers evidenced-based insight into how children learn science, as well as which teaching approaches are most successful

Discover two new concepts that take instructional design beyond ADDIE and help you produce better, more effective learning products.

This collection explores how technologies become forms of power, how people embed their authority in technological systems, and how the machines and the knowledge that make up technical systems strengthen or reshape social, political, and cultural power.

Can Christians and churches be both catholic and Reformed? In this volume, two accomplished young theologians argue that to be Reformed means to go deeper into true catholicity rather than away from it. Their manifesto for a catholic and Reformed approach to dogmatics seeks theological renewal through retrieval of the rich resources of the historic Christian tradition. The book provides a survey of recent approaches toward theological retrieval and offers a renewed exploration of the doctrine of sola scriptura. It includes a substantive afterword by J. Todd Billings.

Nature Tales is a charming collection of encounters with the natural world. Including beautifully drawn illustrations and a foreword from Sir David Attenborough, Nature Tales is a charming celebration of Britain's wildlife and countryside.

This New Casebook on Seamus Heaney follows the astonishingly rapid growth of a literary reputation. In particular, the Casebook shows how a wide range of contemporary theoretical approaches have been brought into play as Heaney has become increasingly central for general readers of poetry, academics and students at school and university.

At the height of the Cold War between America and Russia, hundreds of spacecrafts travelled into outer space. They sent back awe-inspiring images and sounds from Earth orbit, the Moon, and the planets of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. This work is an exploratory story of this cultural and political phenomenon.

Contemporary US Cinema examines important developments in American film-making over the past three decades, citing them as instances both of change and of continuity within the practices and processes of earlier phases of classic Hollywood cinema.