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	A Shared Mercy: Karl Barth on Forgiveness and the Church by Jon Coutts (Goodreads Author), John B. Webster (Foreword) 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Looking Back, Leaning Forward: Wrestling with a Church’s Story by Jon Coutts (Goodreads Author), Heather Renée Morgan (editor), David E. Fitch (foreword) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Unconscious Christianity in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Late Theology: Encounters with the Unknown Christ

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Excellent book. It shows that no evangelicals take a "traditional" view of marriage, that Taylor is better than Trueman on modernity, and that it's hasty to call this a "first order issue". ...more
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More of a couples book than a take on marriage, but it's target audience will likely be helped by it. (I expected it to explain its title's reframing of marriage but it was pretty lite in that regard). ...more
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Helpful book! "Even in the midst of this crisis, they sought neither the retrieval of a premodern synthesis, nor .. some postmodern alternative... They offered up their service to their time" (151). ...more
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