Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
This Companion explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages.
An ambitious overview of the Bible's impact on English literature – as arguably the most powerful work of literature in...
Apocalyptic Literature Volume 1
Early Christian Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
"Apocalypse" is a Greek word meaning "revelation", "an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling." As a genre, apocalyptic literature details the authors' visions of the end times as revealed by a heavenly messenger or Angel.
This...
Ecologies of Grace
Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
Christianity struggles to show how living on Earth matters for living with God. While people of faith increasingly seek practical ways to respond to the environmental crisis, theology has had difficulty contextualizing the crisis and interpreting the responses. In Ecologies of Grace, Willis Jenkins...
From John of Apamea to Marks Gospel
Two Dialogues with Thomasios: A Hermeneutical Reading of Horáō, Blépō, and Theōréō
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
From John of Apamea to Mark’s Gospel: Two Dialogues with Thomasios: A Hermeneutical Reading of Horáō, Blépō, and Theōréō combines two theological fields of investigation. The first is related to the Patristic theology of Eastern Syrian Christianity and the second resides in the field of Biblical...
by St. Augustine of Hippo
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
The Sermons of St. Augustine, besides their other excellencies, furnish a beautiful picture of perhaps the deepest and most powerful mind of the Western Church adapting itself to the little ones of Christ. In them, he who has furnished the mould for all the most thoughtful minds for fourteen hundred...
by St. Augustine of Hippo
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This edition includes the two books that St. Augustine wrote as explanations on the Sermon On The Mount which our Lord delivered and which are written down in Matthew 5-7.
Erasing Hell
What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
How could a loving God send people to hell? Will people have a chance after they die to believe in Jesus and go to heaven?
With a humble respect for God's Word, Francis Chan and Preston Sprinkle address the deepest questions you have about eternal destiny. They've asked the same questions....
Jesus
A Meditation on His Stories and His Relationships with Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
"We must begin our story of Jesus by granting him permission to surprise us endlessly...." ---from the Introduction
Jesus of Galilee taught through stories, which even today contain the power to startle us out of our prejudices and preconceptions. Now Father Andrew M. Greeley, one...
by John Shelby Spong
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
John Shelby Spong, bestselling author and popular proponent of a modern, scholarly and authentic Christianity, argues that this last gospel to be written was misinterpreted by the framers of the fourth-century creeds to be a literal account of the life of Jesus when in fact it is a literary, interpretive...
by John Shelby Spong
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
From the bestselling author of Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: John Shelby Spong's original groundbreaking classic, now newly revised, reveals the Jesus "behind the language of myth, magic, and superstition."
"In this study I found a Lord, a center for my being. Behind...
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism
A Bishop Rethinks this Meaning of Script
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
By popular demand—study guides to two of Bishop John Shelby Spong's bestselling and controversial works, including questions, reflections, and summaries for group and individual use.
Paul's Certainties
And Other Sermons
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2017
No one can read the Epistles of Paul with any care without noticing in them a strange mingling of humility and assurance in the Apostle’s references to himself. The language of self-depreciation and the language of self-assertion are both to be found in his letters. When thinking of himself in the...
The First Love Story
A Journey Through the Tangled Lives of Adam and Eve
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
From the New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham comes a revelatory journey across four continents and 4,000 years exploring how Adam and Eve introduced the idea of love into the world, and how they continue to shape our deepest feelings about relationships, family, and...
Saving the Bible from Ourselves
Learning to Read and Live the Bible Well
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
ECPA 2017 Christian Book Award Finalist Does the Bible need to be saved? Over the course of the centuries, Bible scholars and publishers have increasingly added "helps"—chapter divisions, verses, subheads, notes—to the Bible in an effort to make it easier to study and understand. In...