Half the world's population now lives in cities, and that is where the Church must learn to serve. Rev. Richard Bledsoe has spent his life as a pastor to city leaders in Colorado. Over the years, he has become the unofficial bishop of his city, a recognized adviser to the king. In Metropolitan Manifesto: On Being a Counselor to the King in a Pluralistic Empire, Bledsoe lays out the theology behind his work, explains how to minister to leaders, and shares the lessons of his long experience. The Metropolitan Manifesto is an essential, inspiring testament to the transformative power of the gospel in today's world.

Metropolitan Manifesto

Richard Bledsoe

Theopolis Books

We are witnessing the end of Western Civilization. The present crisis in our culture is the greatest since the first century. Many commentators on the present scene believe that the entire world is moving into a period of neo-tribalism. In this striking book, theologian James B. Jordan argues that this cultural change is part of God's ongoing plan for humanity, the plan by which the Holy Spirit grows God's daughter, humanity, into a bride for His Son. The present crisis provides a tremendous opportunity for the Christian Church to challenge and transform the world as never before. Here, Jordan points to how this can be done. While many view the present crisis with dismay, and are looking backwards to older traditions, Jordan argues that God is calling us forward, and that the Bible points the way.

Crisis, Opportunity, and the Christian Future

Jordan, James B.

Religion & Spirituality

Half the world's population now lives in cities, and that is where the Church must learn to serve. Rev. Richard Bledsoe has spent his life as a pastor to city leaders in Colorado. Over the years, he has become the unofficial “bishop of his city,” a recognized “adviser to the king.” In Metropolitan Manifesto, Bledsoe lays out the theology behind his work, explains how to minister to leaders, and shares the lessons of his long experience. The Metropolitan Manifesto is an essential, inspiring testament to the transformative power of the gospel in today's world.

Metropolitan Manifesto: On Being the Counselor to the King in a Pluralistic Empire

Bledsoe, Richard

The Great Commission involves not merely witnessing to the nations but discipling them. God's purpose is to fill the earth with His glory, bringing about a Christianized world, where each nation follows King Jesus. God will accomplish this through the faithful witness of His Church as He blesses the preaching of the gospel and the teaching of His Word. By the blessing of His Spirit, a true unity of confession will be established among all the nations to the end that every nation and language will praise Him (Rev. 7:9). In Christendom and the Nations James B. Jordan describes the foundational principles of Christian nations, drawing out the teachings of Scripture in regard to foreign policy, borders, immigration, and other foundational issues - all of which play a central role in bringing us closer to the day when "the earth is filled with the knowledge and glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea."

Christendom and the Nations

As the modern world crumbles, Christians scramble for answers. The solution is right in front of us - the Christian church, an outpost of the heavenly city among the cities of men. The Theopolitan Vision explains what the church is, and how the Spirit empowers the church's world-transforming mission through Word and worship, Scripture and liturgy. It shows how the church can be a city of light in a dark age.

Theopolitan Vision

Peter J. Leithart

Christians agree that worship must be biblical, but too many Christians focus on a handful of texts. To understand and do the Christian liturgy, we need to take account of the whole Bible. In Theopolitan Liturgy, Peter J. Leithart examines the liturgical features of creation. The world is a temple. History is a dialogue with God. Life and society is sacrificial. Time follows a liturgical pattern. Because creation is inherently liturgical, the liturgy isn't a retreat from the world. It's a transformation of the world. Church buildings use space as God designed it to be used, as space for worship. In the liturgy, we are trained to respond rightly to God's word, and learn the habit of living sacrifice. The church's calendar Christianizes time, imprinting the gospel on our days and years. Leithart demonstrates that the liturgy isn't a retreat from engagement with the world. It is the church's primary engagement with the world. The liturgy is the initial Christianization of creation. The introduction to the Theopolis Fundamentals Series was Leithart's book, Theopolitan Vision. Leithart's Theopolitan Liturgy is the first book in the series. The early volumes of the Theopolis Fundamentals Series summarize the convictions of the Theopolis Institute in Birmingham, Alabama and James B. Jordan's Biblical Horizons about topics including biblical interpretation, liturgical theology and practice, and the church's cultural and political mission. The Fundamentals will be followed by a collection of Theopolis Explorations volumes that will examine Scripture, liturgy, and culture in more depth and detail.

Theopolitan Liturgy (Theopolis Fundamentals)

Leithart, Peter J.

Biblical rituals are not strange practices or obscure formalities but correspond to the stages of human life, revealing God's design for how we can emulate His ways. In From Bread to Wine: Creation, Worship, and Christian Maturity, James B. Jordan explores how sin disrupts the rhythms of human life and how biblical rituals restore us to our place in God's historical plan with special emphasis on the motifs of bread and wine throughout the Scriptures. 
In the Bible, bread is priestly while wine is kingly and prophetic. Bread comes first and wine later. You eat bread in the morning and drink wine at night. Bread is suitable for children while wine is for adults. Bread is made quickly, but wine takes much longer to ferment and mature. The entire Old Creation, the childhood of humanity (Galatians 4), is the time of bread, while the New Covenant, our maturity in Christ, is the time of bread and wine. Between the two comes the breaking of the bread, the death of Jesus Christ.

From Bread to Wine: Creation, Worship, and Christian Maturity

The Theopolis Liturgy and Psalter presents a number of liturgical materials used by the Theopolis Institute in Birmingham, Alabama for its courses and fellows programs. Containing materials for a Matins, Sext, and Vespers service, the Theopolis Liturgy and Psalter provides a teaching liturgy to help students develop a taste for liturgical worship. The Theopolis Liturgy and Psalter also contains a selection of Psalms translated by James B. Jordan with numerous settings arranged by Jordan as well as part of an effort to train God's people to chant the Psalms, or to sing them in a manner as close as possible to the text God provided. The Theopolis Liturgy and Psalter is mostly the work of James B. Jordan with an introduction by Theopolis Institute President Peter J. Leithart, a Primer on Liturgy by Jeffrey J. Meyers, and an Introduction to the Psalter by James B. Jordan. This text is a First Edition.

Theopolis Liturgy and Psalter

"Adam, made of the ground, would by implication bring forth new trees, and thus trees and plants are among the symbols for human beings throughout the Bible. The woman taken from Adam's side was the first such tree. She would have a 'seed, ' language taken from the trees and plants of Gen. 1:11-12. Her womb would yield 'fruit' (Gen. 30:2). Like the soil on the original third day, the Adamic soil brought forth a plant seeding seed and trees that had fruit with seed in her."- From Trees and Thorns: Studies in the First Four Chapters of Genesis Presented for the first time in one volume, Trees and Thorns: Studies in the First Four Chapters of Genesis compiles studies from James B. Jordan on more than 130 aspects of stories in the first four chapters of the Book of Genesis, including observations about the biblical distinction between man and woman, ground water and heavenly water, permission and prohibition, the war waged by the Serpent against the Bride and the Messianic Seed, and more. Jordan's book shows how the narrative features and patterns in the early chapters of the Bible are critical to understanding the rest of God's Word as well as the effect of these formative chapters on our understanding of worship, theology, and the sacraments.

Trees and Thorns: Studies in the First Four Chapters of Genesis

James B. Jordan

Review "Like everything Jim wrote, Trees and Thorns helps us see through new eyes-to see the whole world and its history refracted in the everyday contrast between fruitful trees and bramble bushes. These essays don't just teach us how to see. They teach us how to be. They're full of cautions: Watch out for the thorns. They're full of exhortations: Be a tree of life, planted by rivers of water, giving fruit and bearing leaves for the healing of nations," - Peter J. Leithart, President of Theopolis Institute, author of Matthew Through New Eyes: Jesus as Israel (Athanasius Press), Revelation (T&T Clark International Theological Commentary), and more."Genesis is one of the longest books of the Bible and a commentator who wants to discuss everything will find that he has used up his page limit before he has gotten far into the book. Who has time and space enough to talk at length about gardens and sweat and noses and so on? There is a place for a commentary, even a relatively detailed commentary, that takes the reader through the whole book with what Calvin referred to as "lucid brevity." But there is also a place-and not only a place, but a great need-for someone to spend time on the small details that such a commentary might easily gloss over, to compare Scripture with Scripture, to tease out of the text of Scripture things we might otherwise miss as we hurry on to the next verse." - John Barach, author, editor of Trees and Thorns, co-editor of The Glory of Kings: A Festschrift in Honor of James B. Jordan. Product Description "Adam, made of the ground, would by implication bring forth new trees, and thus trees and plants are among the symbols for human beings throughout the Bible. The woman taken from Adam's side was the first such tree. She would have a 'seed, ' language taken from the trees and plants of Gen. 1:11-12. Her womb would yield 'fruit' (Gen. 30:2). Like the soil on the original third day, the Adamic soil brought forth a plant seeding seed and trees that had fruit with seed in her."- From Trees and Thorns: Studies in the First Four Chapters of GenesisPresented for the first time in one volume, Trees and Thorns: Studies in the First Four Chapters of Genesis compiles studies from James B. Jordan on more than 130 aspects of stories in the first four chapters of the Book of Genesis, including observations about the biblical distinction between man and woman, ground water and heavenly water, permission and prohibition, the war waged by the Serpent against the Bride and the Messianic Seed, and more.Jordan's book shows how the narrative features and patterns in the early chapters of the Bible are critical to understanding the rest of God's Word as well as the effect of these formative chapters on our understanding of worship, theology, and the sacraments. About the Author James B. Jordan was born in 1949. His father was a professor of French Literature and his mother a piano teacher and a poet. He served as a Military Historian in the US Air Force for four years. He began seminary training at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS, and graduated with an M.A.R. and a Th.M. from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, majoring in Systematic Theology. In 1987 he founded Biblical Horizons, presently located in Niceville, FL. Beginning in 1999, Jordan served part time as Professor of Biblical Studies at the Reformed Theological Seminary of St. Petersburg, Russia. He is author of more than a dozen books, including From Bread to Wine: Creation, Worship and Christian Maturity, Christendom and the Nations as well as The Handwriting on the Wall: A Commentary on Daniel, as well as scores of monographs and short essays.

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Metropolitan Manifesto

Crisis, Opportunity, and the Christian Future

Metropolitan Manifesto: On Being the Counselor to the King in a Pluralistic Empire

Christendom and the Nations

Theopolitan Vision

Theopolitan Liturgy (Theopolis Fundamentals)

From Bread to Wine: Creation, Worship, and Christian Maturity

Theopolis Liturgy and Psalter

Trees and Thorns: Studies in the First Four Chapters of Genesis

Trees and Thorns: Studies in the First Four Chapters of Genesis