The Shack has touched millions of readers with its portrayal of a compassionate God in the face of great evil. Many have identified with the main character's Great Sadness, the terrible burden of grief that often accompanies and follows a deep loss, for the Great Sadness is part of the human conditi... (more)

Roger Olson provides us with a concise, lively and readable history of evangelical theology. Finding its antecedents in early Pietism of the late seventeenth century, Olson traces its development through the revivalism in Great Britain and America in the eighteenth century from its roots within Pu... (more)

"To say, 'This man is an Arminian,'" John Wesley once complained, "is like saying, 'This is a mad dog.'" Calvinists have propagated misrepresentations of Arminian theology that Olson wants to set at rest concerning the sovereignty of God, grace, justification by faith, predestination, atonement, and... (more)

"The story of Christian theology does not begin at the beginning. . . .Theology is the church's reflection on the salvation brought by Christ and on the gospel of that salvation proclaimed and explained by the first-century apostles." Here is a concise and informative guide to the history of Chri... (more)