The Devil's Tabernacle is the first book to examine in depth the intellectual and cultural impact of the oracles of pagan antiquity on modern European thought. Anthony Ossa-Richardson shows how the study of the oracles influenced, and was influenced by, some of the most significant developments in early modernity, such as the Christian humanist recovery of ancient religion, confessional polemics, Deist and libertine challenges to religion, antiquarianism and early archaeology, Romantic historiography, and spiritualism. Ossa-Richardson examines the different views of the oracles since the Renaissance--that they were the work of the devil, or natural causes, or the fraud of priests, or finally an organic element of ancient Greek society. The range of discussion on the subject, as he demonstrates, is considerably more complex than has been realized before: hundreds of scholars, theologians, and critics commented on the oracles, drawing on a huge variety of intellectual contexts to frame their beliefs. In a central chapter, Ossa-Richardson interrogates the landmark dispute on the oracles between Bernard de Fontenelle and Jean-François Baltus, challenging Whiggish assumptions about the mechanics of debate on the cusp of the Enlightenment. With erudition and an eye for detail, he argues that, on both sides of the controversy, to speak of the ancient oracles in early modernity was to speak of one's own historical identity as a Christian.

The Devil's Mousetrap approaches the thought of three colonial New England divines--Increase Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and Edward Taylor--from the perspective of literary theory. Author Linda Munk focuses on the background of these men's ideas and on the sources from which they drew, both directly and indirectly, in framing their theology. She notes that the language used in the pulpit by Mather, Edwards, and Taylor is full of allusions to the Bible and Apocrypha, to Puritan treatises, and to post-biblical exegesis, Jewish and Christian. Munk proceeds to unpack many allusions that have, for the most part, proven to be unclear to contemporary readers, in order to provide essential insights into the construction of Puritan theology.

In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, and Islamic traditions have been critically selected, translated and introduced by internationally recognized scholars and spiritual leaders.

In the summer of 1997, Dr. Derber had prepared a message to preach in a conference that his church was hosting, but the night before he was scheduled to preach, God spoke to him. It was well after midnight when he went to bed and his 3 A.M. prayer time was not far off. As he laid his head down on the pillow, the Lord said, “Philip, I’ve got a plan.” He replied, “Lord, I know You have a plan.” God said, “No Philip, I have a plan.” He told the Lord, “Let me go to sleep and tell it to me in the morning.” The Lord ignored that and said, “I have a plan, Philip, to bankrupt the devil!” That immediately captured his attention. Imagine a plan that would not only bring the wealth of the sinner into the hands of the church, but would also paralyze all of the devil's operations. In this book, Dr. Derber expounds this Master Plan that the Lord downloaded into him that night. Get ready to receive your wealthy place as you become a part of God's Master Plan in Bankrupting the devil.

Mankind has spent untold sums of money to erect churches, temples, shrines, mosques, and other houses of worship, and yet we have only provided three Holy of Holies in recorded history where the Lord God could live among his people. All have been destroyed. In "The Next Tabernacle: According to the Lord God's Word," Charles Keech makes a powerful argument for the building of a new tabernacle. Citing scripture from both the Old and New Testaments, he explains what the tabernacle was, why it was important, and what we must do to restore it. Those who desire that God dwell among us once again will find Mr. Keech's message difficult to ignore.

Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the mundane, the foolish, working in unawesome people, things, and places.In our day of celebrity worship and online posturing, this is a refreshing, even transformative way of understanding God and our place in his creation. It urges us to treasure a life of simplicity, to love those whom the world passes by, to work for God's glory rather than our own. And it demonstrates that God has always been the Lord of the cross--a Savior who hides his grace in unattractive, inglorious places.Your God Is Too Glorious reminds readers that while a quiet life may look unimpressive to the world, it's the regular, everyday people that God tends to use to do his most important work.