今天社會瀰漫著相對主義和宗教多元主義的風氣，如病毒般蔓延，叫人懷疑世間有沒有絕對的對錯觀念或真理存在。這風氣流播之廣，甚至連基督教的神學教師與牧師也不能幸免，竟奮力鼓吹多元的讀經觀，主張聖經沒有明確的意義，人人皆可按一己的眼光隨意解讀。這種流風十分危險，若把它推向極致，就會把基督信仰與聖經裂解為一片片由文化、權力、意識形態、性別等社會因素建構成的獨特綜合體，進而予以解構，否定聖經的權威性，否定基督的獨一性，甚至否定神的存在。

本書繼承了宗教改革家挑戰社會現實的勇氣，站於新教傳統立場，藉路德、加爾文、巴特及潘霍華的神學觀點，與一眾宗教多元主義者，如希克、庫比特、尼特及宋泉盛等，展開一場精彩的理性對話，讓教牧及平信徒在這後現代思潮橫行之際，能知己知彼，站穩信仰立場，不為歪風搖動。

Three and a half billion people-the majority of the world's population-profess either Christianity or Islam--and the number is growing. Renowned scholar Miroslav Volf's highly controversial proposal in Allah: A Christian Response is that Muslims and Christians do worship the same God-the only God.

As Volf reveals, warriors in the "clash of civilizations" have used "religions"-each with its own god and worn as a badge of identity-to divide and oppose, failing to recognize the one God whom Muslims and Christians understand in partly different ways.

Writing from a Christian perspective, and in dialogue with leading Muslim scholars and leaders from around the world, Volf reveals surprising points of intersection and overlap between these two faith traditions:

• What the Qur'an denies about God as the Holy Trinity has been denied by every great teacher of the church in the past and ought to be denied by Christians today.
• A person can be both a practicing Muslim and 100 percent Christian without denying core convictions of belief and practice.
• How two faiths, worshipping the same God, can work toward the common good under a single government.

Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"?

Troubling questions—so troubling that many have lost their faith because of them. Others only whisper the questions to themselves, fearing or being taught that they might lose their faith and their church if they ask them out loud.

But what if these questions trouble us for good reason? What if the story of heaven and hell we have been taught is not, in fact, what the Bible teaches? What if what Jesus meant by heaven, hell, and salvation are very different from how we have come to understand them?

What if it is God who wants us to face these questions?

Author, pastor, and innovative teacher Rob Bell presents a deeply biblical vision for rediscovering a richer, grander, truer, and more spiritually satisfying way of understanding heaven, hell, God, Jesus, salvation, and repentance. The result is the discovery that the "good news" is much, much better than we ever imagined.

Love wins.

Recently a new battle has emerged between science and religion. The battle has focused on intelligent design (ID) and the numerous legal, philosophical, and educational concerns surrounding it. Resolution of these concerns centers on two questions: Is ID science? And is ID religion? Despite the fact that ID does not meet the standards of scientific rigor, ID proponents have been able to create a remarkably well-designed marketing plan aimed at imposing a theistic naturalism in schools and scientific discourse. Both the ID movement and some of its most vociferous opponents have a vested interest in suggesting that science, especially evolutionary biology, and religion are incompatible. This book presents a philosophical and legal counterpoint by demonstrating the compatibility between religion and evolutionary biology and the incompatibility between ID and mainstream science.

Seeking the patterns of thought that shaped early beliefs about Jesus as the Christ, the late Robin Scroggs explores the settings in life that sparked the primary christological themes and traces their trajectories through the literature that made up the New Testament.

Each year brings to light new scientific discoveries that have the power to either test our faith or strengthen it--most recently the news that scientists have created artificial life forms in the laboratory. If humans can create life, what does that mean for the creation story found in Scripture? Biochemist and Christian apologist Fazale Rana, for one, isn't worried. In Creating Life in the Lab, he details the fascinating quest for synthetic life and argues convincingly that when scientists succeed in creating life in the lab, they will unwittingly undermine the evolutionary explanation for the origin of life, demonstrating instead that undirected chemical processes cannot produce a living entity.

Does all knowledge of God come through Christ alone, or can human beings discover truths about God philosophically? The Analogy of Being assembles essays by expert Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox theologians to examine the relationship between divine revelation in the person of Jesus Christ and the philosophical capacities of natural reason. These essays were inspired by the lively, decades-long debate between Karl Barth and Erich Przywara, which was first sparked in 1932 when Barth wrote that the use of natural theology in Roman Catholic thinking was the invention of the Antichrist. The contributors to The Analogy of Being analyze and reflect on both sides of Barth and Przywaras spirited discourse, offering diverse responses to a controversy reaching to the very core of Christian faith and theology.

The relationship between Israel and the church continues to be a controversial topic led by this question: Does the church replace, supersede, or fulfill the nation of Israel in God's plan, or will Israel be saved and restored with a unique identity and role?

In Has the Church Replaced Israel?, author Michael J. Vlach evaluates the doctrine of replacement theology (also known as supersessionism) down through history but ultimately argues in favor of the nonsupersessionist position. Thoroughly vetting the most important hermeneutical and theological issues related to the Israel/church relationship, Vlach explains why, "there are compelling scriptural reasons in both testaments to believe in a future salvation and restoration of the nation Israel."

深刻省思信仰的文字，讓現代人產生謙卑的行動力，生命更加自由寬廣。

加爾文說：「天性膽怯、委婉與懦弱的我，被迫去面對這些激烈的風暴……出於對本分責任莊重而謹慎的檢視，我還是說服了自己回到曾經令人痛苦的羊群。」又說：「當我記起我不再屬乎自己，就獻上我的心，作為向上帝的獻祭。」此言是加爾文人生的縮影，他不是完美的聖人，而是一位回轉歸向上帝之後，就再也無法忘卻基督十架的門徒。

雖然總是處於掙扎的景況，卻益發歸屬基督，在那個動盪的時代，他講理，是想要把那徹底翻轉生命的神學觀點說清楚；他自制，是因為要讓奔騰的熱血流向信仰的主。一生心所嚮往，全然是代罪的羔羊，所以當失去最重要的人生伴侶時，這位心碎的改教家仍能看見：「若不是祂，這位提升卑微者，加力量給軟弱人，扶助疲倦者的主，從高天向我伸手，這苦楚必會勝過我。」

本書選自加爾文的書信、講章、著作，坦露深刻的心靈世界，包括個人的信仰經歷、各樣際遇中的心境、服事上的強烈呼召、與其他神學思想的交鋒，相信能夠對現代讀者有所幫助，找到初探他核心思想的路徑，並且被他幾經掙扎卻更加堅定的信心所感動，以致激勵讀者更新自我的信仰。

2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the King James version of the Bible. No other book has been as vital to the development of English writing or indeed to the English language itself. This major collection of essays is the most complete one-volume exploration of the King James Bible and its influence to date. The chapters are written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, who examine the creation of the King James Bible as a work of translation and as a linguistic and literary accomplishment. They consider how it differed from the Bible versions which preceded it, and assess its broad cultural impact and precise literary influence over the centuries of writing which followed, in English and American literature, until today. The story will fascinate readers who approach the King James Bible from the perspectives of literary, linguistic, religious or cultural history.