LIBROS DEL AUTOR: mark d baker

5 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: mark d baker

  • Centered-Set Church
    Mark D Baker / Mark D. Baker
    Christians can be adept at drawing lines, determining what it means to be 'a good Christian' and judging those who stray out of bounds. Other times they erase all the lines in favor of a vague and inoffensive faith. Both impulses can come from positive intentions, but either can lead to stunted spiritual life and harmful relationships. Is there another option?The late missionar...
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    26,68 €

  • Ministering in Honor-Shame Cultures
    Jayson Georges / Mark D Baker / Mark D. Baker
    Many a Westerner has had a cross-cultural experience of honor and shame. First there are those stuttering moments in the new social landscape. Then after missed cues and social bruises comes the revelation that this culture-indeed much of the world-runs on an honor-shame operating system. When Western individualism and its introspective conscience fails to engage cultural gears...
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    35,73 €

  • Economics & The Virtues
    Jennifer A. Baker / Mark D. White
    While ethics has been an integral part of economics since the days of Adam Smith (if not Aristotle), many modern economists dismiss ethical concerns in favor of increasing formal mathematical and computational methods. But recent financial crises in the real world have reignited discussions of the importance of ethics to economics, including growing calls for a new approach to ...
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    167,21 €

  • Recovering the Scandal of the Cross
    Joel B Green / Joel B. Green / Mark D Baker / Mark D. Baker
    For the first-century Roman world the cross was first and foremost an instrument of shameful and violent execution. But early Christians, who had seen their world upended by the atoning power of the cross of Christ, came to view it in an entirely different light. Deeply scandalous, it was paradoxically glorious. For the cross of Christ marked the epochal saving event in God’s d...
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    35,78 €

  • Religious No More
    Mark D. Baker
    Too many Christians are religious - their faith is more a human endeavor than a response to God’s loving initiative. Such religion assumes that our value comes not from God but from what we do. It absorbs principles and postulates from the surrounding society, leading to further misconceptions about God and our relation to our Creator. All this hinders people from experiencing ...
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    24,03 €