{"title":"Christopher M Hays","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"eight-million-exiles-book-christopher-m-hays-9780802882394","title":"Eight Million Exiles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow pastors, scholars, and others can use Missional Action Research to make a real difference for displaced persons abroad\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristian scholars are often motivated to live the gospel by serving the vulnerable. But how do we put our academic research to practical use to help those in need? Christopher M. Hays explains how his interdisciplinary team of theologians, social scientists, pastors, and local partners combined efforts to support internally displaced persons of Colombia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOver eight million people have been driven from their homes by violence perpetrated by paramilitary and guerilla groups in the past two decades. The Colombian government is unequipped to deal with the sheer magnitude of the crisis. To serve displaced persons in a more robust and holistic way, the Faith and Displacement project developed Missional Action Research. This innovative method incorporated direct leadership and participation from local churches and displaced persons with stakes in the research process. The resulting curriculum covered: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eTraining in trauma-informed mental health care\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHarnessing the unrecognized skills and resources of the community\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEmpowering displaced people economically through microenterprises and other ventures\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSupporting participants with effective spiritual and pastoral care\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eWeaving survivors' firsthand testimony with interdisciplinary theology, \u003ci\u003eEight Million Exiles\u003c\/i\u003e will impress readers with the urgency of this conflict and inspire them with the model developed to address it. Let a small seminary in Medellín show you how to make a tangible difference in vulnerable communities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49745641996561,"sku":"NGR9780802882394","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51583717048593,"sku":"CIN0802882390G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0802882390.jpg?v=1751329583"},{"product_id":"evangelical-faith-and-the-challenge-of-historical-criticism-book-christopher-m-hays-9780801049385","title":"Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical Criticism","description":"This carefully argued book urges evangelical Christians to reexamine the potential of historical-critical biblical criticism. The authors seek not universal acceptance of what they propose so much as fresh evangelical engagement with questions involving the methods of biblical criticism--and therefore with Scripture itself. In this aim they succeed admirably.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eMark A. Noll\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Notre Dame \u003cbr\u003eHays and Ansberry provide evangelical students with something they rarely see: a discussion of the major critical issues in biblical studies combined with a respectful, discerning appreciation for the biblical text as \u003ci\u003escripture\u003c\/i\u003e. Too often students must choose between academic rigor and personal belief. A well-written volume treating these issues is a rare gift to a new generation of students now looking at many of these issues for the very first time.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eGary M. Burge\u003c\/b\u003e, Wheaton College \u003cbr\u003eA learned and pastoral collection of essays calling for evangelicals to engage with and integrate into their faith the genuine insights of historical criticism. The contributors exhibit the courage to give both faith and historical criticism the respect they deserve. This volume is a welcome addition to the growing number of evangelical voices calling for a reassessment of an evangelical doctrine of Scripture, not as an attack but for the end goal of supporting and enriching the evangelical movement.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003ePeter Enns\u003c\/b\u003e, Eastern University \u003cbr\u003eChris Hays and Chris Ansberry engage in the courageous task of showing how evangelical scholars can soberly address the hot-potato issues in biblical scholarship, even appropriate many critical insights, without selling out on what evangelicals traditionally believe. This is the type of discussion on faith and criticism that evangelical scholarship has needed for years.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eMichael Bird\u003c\/b\u003e, Ridley Melbourne College of Mission and Ministry, Australia \u003cbr\u003eA project like this is long overdue. Our students need to read essays and books that will not only orient them to the goals and methods of critical biblical scholarship but also provide them with a sieve with which to sift what they are reading. While a book of this sort could deal with two dozen or more critical subjects, the editors have chosen eight that scream the most loudly for attention. The contributors handle controversial notions with integrity, seriousness, respect, and a commitment to fairness.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eDaniel I. Block\u003c\/b\u003e, Wheaton College","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50001219682577,"sku":"CIN0801049385G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50116240605457,"sku":"CIN0801049385VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50984421654801,"sku":"NIN9780801049385","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52926772773137,"sku":"CIN0801049385A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801049385.jpg?v=1751138469"},{"product_id":"when-the-son-of-man-didn-t-come-book-christopher-m-hays-9781506425474","title":"When the Son of Man Didn't Come","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe delay of the Parousia-the second coming of Christ-has vexed Christians since the final decades of the first century. This volume offers a critical, constructive, and interdisciplinary solution to that dilemma. The argument is grounded in Christian tradition while remaining fully engaged with the critical insights and methodological approaches of twenty-first-century scholars. The authors argue that the deferral of Christ's prophesied return follows logically from the conditional nature of ancient predictive prophecy: Jesus has not come again because God's people have not yet responded sufficiently to Christ's call for holy and godly action. God, in patient mercy, remains committed to cooperating with humans to bring about the consummation of history with Jesus' return.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCollaboratively written by an interdisciplinary and ecumenical team of scholars, the argument draws on expertise in biblical studies, systematics, and historical theology to fuse critical biblical exegesis with a powerful theological paradigm that generates an apophatic and constructive Christian eschatology. The authors, however, have done more than tackle a daunting theological problem: as the group traverses issues from higher criticism through doctrine and into liturgy and ethics, they present an innovative approach for how to do Christian theology in the twenty-first-century academy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51031710302481,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51031712399633,"sku":"NIN9781506425474","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52471996711185,"sku":"NLS9781506425474","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/150642547X.jpg?v=1755598840"},{"product_id":"fe-y-desplazamiento-book-christopher-m-hays-9781666754223","title":"Fe Y Desplazamiento","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51285115830545,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51285117665553,"sku":"NIN9781666754223","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52663562535185,"sku":"NLS9781666754223","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1666754226.jpg?v=1751058183"},{"product_id":"luke-s-wealth-ethics-book-christopher-m-hays-9783161502699","title":"Luke's Wealth Ethics","description":"The theme of wealth is one of the perennial hot topics in Lukan interpretation, as scholars have often found Luke's teachings on the proper use of wealth to be intractably self-contradictory. Christopher M. Hays addresses the apparent incongruity in Luke's ethical paraenesis. Alternately disputing and drawing upon earlier accounts of Lukan wealth ethics, he argues that Luke's Gospel narrates a spectrum of behaviors which actualize the basic principle of renunciation of all. Undertaking a narrative-critical, ethic description, he shows that in Luke's Gospel the manifestation of a disciple's renunciation depends upon two factors: the disciple's vocation and his or her wealth. The author proceeds to analyze the text of Acts and to demonstrate that Luke displays the Jerusalem community, and to a lesser extent, the Diaspora Church, as faithfully appropriating and enacting Jesus' teachings on possessions.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52150469132561,"sku":"NLS9783161502699","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783161502699.jpg?v=1757610216"},{"product_id":"renunciar-a-todo-book-christopher-m-hays-9786124252310","title":"Renunciar a Todo","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52475655913745,"sku":"NLS9786124252310","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52762603159825,"sku":"NIN9786124252310","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9786124252310.jpg?v=1759842869"},{"product_id":"fe-y-desplazamiento-book-christopher-m-hays-9781666754216","title":"Fe Y Desplazamiento","description":"Durante decadas, la nacion de Colombia ha sufrido el flagelo del desplazamiento forzado debido al conflicto armado, lo cual ha dejado mas de ocho millones sin hogar y sin tierra. Para responder ante esta crisis, los teologos de la Fundacion Universitaria Seminario Biblico de Colombia crearon una metodologia--la investigacion-accion misional--a fin de entender el fenomeno del desplazamiento forzado, movilizar las iglesias del pais y asi fomentar la recuperacion holistica de las victimas. Se involucraron docenas de estudiosos y profesionales de cuatro continentes, ademas de coinvestigadores seleccionados de las mismas comunidades desplazadas. La investigacion abarco los campos de la teologia, la economia, la politica, la pedagogia, la sociologia y naturalmente la teologia. El fruto de esta colaboracion innovadora fue una intervencion llamada Fe y Desplazamiento, la cual se ha implementado en docenas de comunidades a lo largo del pais. Este libro recopila sus hallazgos y aprendizajes, describiendo el potencial de la metodologia de investigacion-accion misional y demostrando el poder de la investigacion teologica interdisciplinar, puesta al servicio de la mision de la iglesia local.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52663489167633,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52663489888529,"sku":"NLS9781666754216","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781666754216.jpg?v=1762272150"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-christopher-m-hays.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}