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    <title>best in theology; v. 1</title>
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    <namePart>Packer, James Innell</namePart>
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    <publisher>Christianity Today</publisher>
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  <tableOfContents>Section 1 : Old Testament / edited and introduction by Bruce K. Waltke -- Current issues in Psalms / Patrick D. Miller,  Jr -- Education in Ancient Israel / James L. Crenshaw -- Social matrix and canonical shape / Norman K. Gottwald.</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Section 2 : New Testament / edited and introduction by D.A. Carson -- Grace, works, and staying saved in Paul / R.H. Gundry -- Jesus and the authority of the Mosaic Law / Douglas J. Moo.</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Section 3 : Church history / edited and introduction by Nathan O. Hatch -- Beyond war and peace: a reappraisal of the encounter between Christianity and science / David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers -- The functions of faith in primitive Pentecostalism /  Grant Wacker.</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Section 4 : Systematic theology / edited and introduction by David F. Wells -- Secularisation and secularism: some Christian considerations / Klaus Bockmuehl -- Liberation in the New Testament / R.T. France -- Religion and the American dream: a study in confusion and tension / Robert D. Linder -- Afrikaner civil religion and the current South African crisis / David J. Bosch.</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Section 5 : Ethics/spiritual life  / edited and introduction by Klaus Bockmuehl -- Evangelism and social responsibility: from Wheaton '83 / C. Rene Padilla -- A premillennial view of law and government / Norman L. Geisler -- A guide to devotional reading / James M. Houston -- The "finger of God" in evangelism / Leighton Ford.</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Section 6 : Practical theology/pastoral psychology and counseling  / edited and introduction by David G. Benner -- Making sense of divorce grief / Stanley Hagemeyer -- Healing in the Koinonia: therapeutic dynamics of church community / Leigh C. Bishop -- The concept of responsibility in psychopathology and psychotherapy / Bruce Narramore.</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Section 7 : Practical theology/missions  / edited and introduction by Miriam Adeney -- A vision for evangelising the real America / C. Peter Wagner -- Missions and our present moment in history / Harvey M. Conn -- Teaching power encounter / Timothy Warner.</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Section 8 : Practical theology: homiletics  / edited and introduction by Haddon W. Robinson -- The new media environment: evangelism in a visually-oriented society / Richard V. Peace.</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>Section 9 : Practical theology: Christian education  / edited and introduction by Kenneth O. Gangel -- A call for Christian humanism / D. Bruce Lockerbie -- A rise in evangelical youth movements / Bruce Shelley -- A conception of excellence in teaching / Klaus Issler.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">J.I. Packer, general editor ; edited by Paul Fromer.</note>
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    <topic>Doctrine (theology)</topic>
    <topic>essays</topic>
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