In this book Professor Hollenweger takes a sharp look at the biblical understanding of conversion and engages in a porcess of rethinking evangelism to meet the changing patterns in our society.
Main topics are such controversial issues as the conversion of an evangelist, discovering what the Holy Spirit is doing already in the world. And a critical look at the sermons as a medium of communication; heaven and hell or universalism; the dialogical and situational evangelism of the New Testament.

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This handbook contains over a hundred essays, and with each essay a brief biblography is found, which will serve to introduce the reader to some of the morden works treating the topic at greater length.
This book is not only and invaluable companion and reference book for ministers and students of theology; it is also a stimulating guide to modern religious beliefs for the general reader.

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This volume come to grips with problems about Chiristian attitude and activity faced by people in every walk of life.
Mainly concerned with the body of convictions common to all Christians, it explains the various ideas of the nature of God; of man and his relation to God; of sin, its nature and its manifestations; of salvation - when and how obtained; or prayer or providence; of Christian faith - its personal aspects and world-wide importance.
Written directly to the man in the pew, it is a practical book which offers light and direction for those who are bewildered in the seeming complexities of Christian belief and practiced and desire to understand and live by the basic principles.

Meaning of faith. Understanding the Bible. Religion and science. Reality and nature of God. Jesus Christ our Lord. Good friday and easter. What is man?. Salvation. Prayer and providence. Eternal life. Christian in society. Christian faith and the present crisis.

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"Preaching Old Testament" meets the need for more direcction in how to preach from the Hebrew Bible. You will learn particularly helpful techniques for preaching the narrative portinons of the Bible and why preaching from the Old Testament is theologically important.
After exploring theological reasons for preaching in the narrative mode, Holbert introduces a narrative homiletics and discusses its definition, problems, and possibilities. He then introduces some of the methods and techninques of a literaly analysis of narrative portions of the Hebrew Bible, which includes such element such elements as plot, actions and speech, constrasting characters, and point of view.
Two sample narrative sermons with brief comments inside the bodies of the sermons and extensive comments at he end of the sermons illustrate how the pastor can read and interpret the Old Testament story.

Theological reflexion on narrative. Narrative preaching. Reading the Bible's narrative. A pure narrative sermon: "The best laugh of all". A frame narrative sermon: "God, the mohabite window".

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