Books written by Paul Louis Metzger
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New Wine Tastings: Theological Essays of Cultural Engagement
The man for whom they're auditioning—Sam Phillips—stops them and tells them gospel like that doesn't sell. When pressed, Phillips says he doesn't believe Cash. He later adds: If you was hit by a truck and you were lying out there in ...
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Exploring Ecclesiology: An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction
In John chapters 1, 2, and 4 we see a temple imagery that harks back both to temple worship in general and to the eschatological anticipation of renewed temple worship found in passages like Ezekiel 43. In his graphic visions of the ...
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Trinitarian Conversations Volume 2: Interviews with More Theologians
These interviews are transcribed and many are available in e-books. In this volume, we compile the conversations we've had with 18 theologians, in more than 50 interviews.
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Trinitarian Soundings in Systematic Theology
Colin Gunton, this collection represents a distinctive treatment of systematics, intent on showing the vitality of approaching all aspects of the faith from a self-consciously Trinitarian perspective.
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Connecting Christ: How to Discuss Jesus in a World of Diverse Paths
Connecting Christ encourages believers to be not only better communicators and witnesses but also listeners to people of other worldviews and traditions—skills that are crucial in defending against today’s negative connotations and ...
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Trinitarian Soundings in Systematic Theology
Relational Personhood Ratzinger's definition of Trinitarian personhood as pure relationality— Persona est relatio—has two important consequences. First, the persons become so transparent that it is difficult to distinguish them from the ...
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New Wine Tastings: Theological Essays of Cultural Engagement
Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction: Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2008. Davis, Ellen F. “Property and Trespass: The Drama of Eating.” Ex Auditu, forthcoming.
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Exploring Ecclesiology: An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction
This book shows why that dichotomy is false by pointing us toward a more holistic ecclesiology--the church biblical, trinitarian, sacramental, missional, and eschatological. This book needs to be read and heeded!
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Setting the Spiritual Clock: Sacred Time Breaking Through the Secular Eclipse
Setting the Spiritual Clock serves as a guide and traveling companion for the liturgical year, which circles the glorious Son as he breaks through the secular eclipse.
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The Word of Christ and the World of Culture: Sacred and Secular through the Theology of Karl Barth
Foreword by Colin Gunton This beautifully constructed work by Paul Louis Metzger explores whatKarl Barth, the theological giant of the twentieth century, had to sayabout the relation of Christianity to modern culture.
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Beatitudes, Not Platitudes: Jesus' Invitation to the Good Life
However, we look for happiness, wellness, blessing, and honor in different places and with mixed results. This book helps us reimagine the good life by taking a fresh look at the Beatitudes as citizens of Jesus’ ever-new kingdom order.
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Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Dicisions in a Consumer Chruch
Metzger here argues that the evangelical Christian church needs to admit this fault and intentionally move away from race, class, and consumer segregation.Challenging the consumerism that fosters ethnic and economic divisions and distorts ...
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A World for All?: Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology
Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology William F. Storrar, Peter J. Casarella, ... for common purposes in society is not seen as a betrayal of mission but as the context in which the Christian witness to God's ...
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More Than Things: A Personalist Ethics for a Throwaway Culture
... To Flourish or Destruct : A Personalist Theory of Human Goods , Motivations , Failure , and Evil ( Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 2015 ) , 280n12 . 45. Smith , To Flourish or Destruct , 255 . 46. We must take into account ...
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Beatitudes, Not Platitudes: Jesus’ Invitation to the Good Life
However, we look for happiness, wellness, blessing, and honor in different places and with mixed results. This book helps us reimagine the good life by taking a fresh look at the Beatitudes as citizens of Jesus' ever-new kingdom order.