Here at P&R Publishing we release an average of 3 to 4 new titles per month. I thought it would be beneficial to recap the new titles that were released in August and September, since there were 15 new titles released in those 2 months. To learn more about a specific title, click on the title to be directed to our website. Also, make sure to check out sample chapters, table of contents, and even videos that some of the books have available.
1. Extravagant Grace: God’s Glory Displayed in Our Weakness
Author: Barbara R. Duguid
*THIS BOOK IS ALREADY ON ITS SECOND PRINTING!
Released: 8/16/13
Price: $12.99
Pages: 240
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Summary: Barbara Duguid uses the writings of John Newton to help us understand why even mature Christians can’t seem to shake off sin—and to make us joyous once again at God’s extravagant grace.
2. Housewife Theologian: How the Gospel Interrupts the Ordinary
Author: Aimee Byrd
Released: 8/16/13
Price: $12.99
Pages: 240
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Summary: Women who want God to be more than superficially in their lives can rise above the world’s expectations by becoming housewife theologians—finding true meaning and true worship every day. Great for journaling and for group discussion.
3. Christian Interpretations of Genesis 1
Author: Vern S. Poythress
Released: 8/16/13
Series: Christian Answers to Hard Questions
Price: $4.99
Pages: 32
Summary: Several interpretations of Genesis and scientific evidence endeavor to demonstrate harmony: among them young-earth creationism, mature creation, the day-age theory, the analogical-day theory, and the framework hypothesis. Vern Poythress explores which is best.
4. Christianity and the Role of Philosophy
Author: K. Scott Oliphint
Released: 8/16/2013
Series: Christian Answers to Hard Questions
Price: $4.99
Pages: 40
Summary: “The role of philosophy must be subservient to theology,” says Scott Oliphint, who demonstrates that it is only when we begin with God and his Word that we engage in true philosophy.
5. Should You Believe in God?
Author: K. Scott Oliphint
Released: 8/16/2013
Series: Christian Answers to Hard Questions
Price: $4.99
Pages: 32
Summary: People increasingly demonstrate a disbelief in God. In a conversational style, apologist Scott Oliphint discusses why belief is still a preferable and more coherent position than unbelief and answers common objections to Christian belief.
6. Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design
Authors: Guillermo Gonzalez & Jay W. Richards
Released: 8/16/13
Series: Christian Answers to Hard Questions
Price: $4.99
Pages: 32
Summary: What are creationism, evolution, and intelligent design really about? Has materialism displaced God as the best explanation for our existence? Jay Richards and Guillermo Gonzalez serve up a guide for the perplexed.
7. Was Jesus Really Born of a Virgin?
Author: Brandon D. Crowe
Released: 8/16/2013
Series: Christian Answers to Hard Questions
Price: $4.99
Pages: 32
Summary: Do you know why the virgin birth of Christ is a significant doctrine? Brandon Crowe considers seven objections to the virgin birth and investigates the relevant biblical texts.
8. The Morality of God in the Old Testament
Author: G. K. Beale
Released: 8/16/13
Series: Christian Answers to Hard Questions
Price: $4.99
Pages: 48
Summary: Can God be morally good if he commanded the Israelites to exterminate the Canaanites? Beale tackles troubling passages in the Old Testament to show that Scripture can be true and God still good.
9. The Unfolding Mystery (2d. ed.): Discovering Christ in the Old Testament
Author: Edmund P. Clowney
Released: 8/16/2013
Price: $12.99
Pages: 224
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Summary: Beginning with Adam and Eve and closing with the last of the prophets, Dr. Clowney takes a fascinating walk through the Old Testament, revealing Christ in places where he is usually overlooked.
10. Scripture Alone: The Evangelical Doctrine (Paperback Edition)
Author: R. C. Sproul
Released: 9/3/13
Price: $14.99
Pages: 216
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Summary: R. C. Sproul was a leader in the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy (1977–1987) and wrote extensively on the subject. Not all this material is in print, and no volume before Scripture Alone has ever collected his best writings on this doctrine.
11. What Is the Bible?
Author: Guy Prentiss Waters
Released: 9/4/13
Series: Basics of the Faith
Price: $4.99
Pages: 32
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Summary: Waters defines important terms—“revelation,” “inspiration,” and “inerrancy”—clearing away misconceptions, equipping us to understand and answer leading objections to the doctrine of the Bible, and explaining its importance for Christian living.
12. What Is the Incarnation?
Author: William B. Evans
Released: 9/4/13
Series: Basics of the Faith
Price: $4.99
Pages: 32
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Summary: It’s something we celebrate every Christmas, but the truths of the incarnation should impact our lives every day. Evans explores Christ becoming man from many perspectives, reviews objections, and provides satisfying biblical answers and explanations.
13. Reclaiming Monergism: The Case for Sovereign Grace in Effectual Calling and Regeneration (A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy)
Author: Matthew Barrett
EBOOK Only
Released: 9/13/2013
Summary: This e-book is the original dissertation on which Matthew Barrett’s book Salvation by Grace: The Case for Effectual Calling and Regeneration is based. It includes chapters on the history of the monergism-synergism debate; more extensive chapters representing and critiquing synergism; appendixes on the love of God, the will of God, and the relationship between effectual calling and regeneration in the Reformed tradition; as well as an extensive bibliography.
14. Prodigal Press: Confronting the Anti-Christian Bias of the American News Media (Revised and Updated)
Authors: Marvin Olasky and Warren Cole Smith
Released: 9/18/13
Price: $17.99
Pages: 368
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Summary: Despite claiming to be neutral, print and TV journalists increasingly report news from an anti-Christian standpoint. Remarkably, however, leading nineteenth-century newspapers reported news from a Christian perspective. This book reveals how the American news media shifted from a Christian worldview to secular humanism, radically altering what the media covers and how it is reported.
15. Letters to Pastors’ Wives: When Seminary Ends and Ministry Begins
Editor: Catherine J. Stewart
Released: 9/19/13
Price: $14.99
Pages: 288
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Summary: Although their calling is joyous, pastors’ wives encounter special challenges because of the nature of their husbands’ work. These letters from the wives of experienced and well-known pastors provide empathy, wise counsel, and encouragement.
