New Title: Kregel Pictorial Guide to Church History Vol. 5

The Kregel Pictorial Guide to Church History Volume 5: The Church in the Late Modern Period A.D. 1650-1900
9780825427862
By: John Hannah
Kregel Publications

The fifth installment of the Kregel Pictorial Guide to Church History from DTS’s own Dr. John Hannah has arrived.  You can find this title on our New Titles display as well as in our DTS faculty section.  We also have the first four volumes of this very helpful series available.  Come check them out!

Publisher Marketing: Sound research and illuminating visuals make biblical and historical times and teachings come alive for today’smiddle-school and high-school students as well as pastors looking for a concise overview of familiar topics. This volume continues the valuable tradition of the best-selling Kregel Pictorial Guide series with their full-color introductions that make history easy to understand and interesting to learn. With his fifth installment on church history, experienced professor John D. Hannah presents the important teachings and happenings of the church between 1650 and 1900 A.D. From the Enlightenment, through the Second Great Awakening, and into a Post-Civil War America, this valuable resource serves as a handy, concise guide to the development and teachings of the church.

Review: The Next Christendom

The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity
9780195183078
By: Philip Jenkins
Oxford Press

Review By: Mike Pocock

Although I already knew that Christianity, and especially evangelical Christianity, was spreading rapidly outside the West, Jenkins documented that trend in a very readable and compelling fashion. Even more significant, he showed that part of the reason for this growth in “the Global South” as he calls it, is that Christianity was not a Western religion when it started, and is translatable into any culture today. In other words, Jenkins strips away any objection to Christianity which rests on its being a “Western Religion” or simply the spiritual arm of western imperialism. The truth is, the Gospel changes lives in any age and context where it is believed. Jenkins has written articles since The Next Christendom, like “Reading the Bible in the Global South,” (International Bulletin of Missionary Research, April, 2006). All of Jenkins’ works on global Christianity are an eye opening challenge.

New Arrival: Swindoll’s Insights on John

Insights on John (Swindoll’s New Testament Insights)
ISBN 9780310284352
By: Charles Swindoll
Zondervan

DTS’s own Chuck Swindoll has released the second volume of his New Testament Insights series. Come by the Bookcenter to check it out on our new titles table.

Jacket Description/Back:
Combining rich, rock-solid scholarship with a storyteller’s imagery and passion, Chuck Swindoll has a gift for sweeping people into the immediacy of the Scriptures. This landmark series is the legacy of a master teacher and communicator to the church of Jesus Christ. You’ll gain remarkable new insights into the Bible—and far more. God’s Word will come alive for you, filled with drama, power, and truth, as you journey with Chuck chapter by chapter through the New Testament.

New Arrival: ESV Bible Atlas

ESV Bible Atlas
9781433501920
Author(s): John D. Currid & David P. Barrett
Crossway (2010)

This just arrived at the Bookcenter.  It looks to be a very promising addition to anyone’s personal Bible reference library.  The ESV Bible Atlas is divided into three sections beginning with a very helpful introduction to Biblical lands, followed by a historical geography of the Biblical world, and ending in a section devoted entirely to full-color regional maps.  A really cool added feature of this atlas is the CD that it provides in the back which has a searchable index along with digital maps.  Make sure to stop by the store to take a look at this.  You can find this atlas on our new titles display at the front of the store.

Publisher Marketing:

This groundbreaking, full-color companion to the ESV Bible combines visual appeal with state-of-the-art historical and geographical resources in one user-friendly volume.
Capitalizing on recent advances in satellite imaging and geographic information systems, the Crossway ESV Bible Atlas offers Bible readers a comprehensive, up-to-date resource that blends technical sophistication with readability, visual appeal, and historical and biblical accuracy.

All the key methods of presenting Bible geography and history are here, including more than 175 full-color maps, 70 photographs, 3-D re-creations of biblical objects and sites, indexes, timelines, and 65,000 words of narrative description. The atlas uniquely features regional maps detailing biblically significant areas such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, Italy, and Greece. It also includes a CD with searchable indexes and digital maps, and a removable, 16.5 x 22-inch map of Palestine.

This carefully crafted reference tool not only sets a new standard in Bible atlases but will help ESV readers more clearly understand the world of the Bible and the meaning of Scripture.