Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
by William Manuel
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Who speaks for God? Matthew 23 is the last of Jesus’ public ministry, and the clearest contest between Jesus and the Pharisees in answering this question. The purpose of this book is to investigate the confrontation between Jesus, as Messiah, and the Pharisees, as teachers of the law, in Matthew...
by Adam Taylor Ross
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
DOES THE NEW TESTAMENT REALLY TEACH NONVIOLENCE? In a world increasingly seen as dangerous, hostile, and violent, which threatens entire communities and nations, this question grows in importance. So does the answer. What are Christians to do? What does it look like to live out the way of the...
LA BIBLIA GNÓSTICA
Las Secretas Enseñanzas de Jesus Grabadas por Sus Discípulos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 9, 2015
"Y aconteció que, cuando Jesús había resucitado de entre los muertos, que pasó once años discurriendo con sus discípulos, enseñándoles ..." - La Pistis Sophía
Los apóstoles escribieron lo que Jesús les enseñó...
LA REVOLUCIÓN DE BELCEBÚ
La Historia del Demonio que Renunció al Mal y el Hombre que Lo Guió
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Cuenta la historia increíble de Samael Aun Weor y su exitoso esfuerzo para convertir el demonio Belcebú.
"Durante eternidades, Belcebú estaba viviendo en la oscuridad de las cavernas tenebrosas ... Belcebú ignoraba que estaba mal. Estaba atacando furiosamente los magos blancos y considerando...
by Ikechukwu Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
Studies in the book of Philippians (Pauline Epistles Series Book 2) is a verse by verse analytical study commentary.
Paul enjoins us to Rejoice in the Lord and be joyful whether in suffering for the sake of the Gospel (chapter one), in serving (chapter two), in believing (chapter three) or in giving...
by Shamai Gelander
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This book deals with the world of the psalms, in order to reveal the elements of faith as expressed in the various prayers. It includes an encompassing study of the variety of experiences: How can an individual in distress experience a situation which contrasts his actual reality altogether? What...
The First Testament
A New Translation
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Awash in a sea of Bible translations, do we need yet another? Most translations bend the text toward us. They make the rough places smooth, the odd bits more palatable to our modern sensibilities. In every translation something is gained and something lost. In The First Testament: A New Translation,...
Killing Enmity
Violence and the New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Is the New Testament inherently violent? In this book a well-regarded New Testament scholar offers a balanced critical assessment of charges and claims that the Christian scriptures encode, instigate, or justify violence. Thomas Yoder Neufeld provides a useful introduction to the language of violence...
A New Humanity
A Walk Through the Letter of Ephesians
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book is a call for everyone to live out the humanity that God has given us through Jesus. This book is a must read for everyone looking for their sense of purpose and destiny in life.
Lombardi leads us into an interaction with the apostle’s breathtaking vision. A New Humanity helps...
Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine
The Scandal of the Scandal of Particularity
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Central to debates about Jesus is the issue of whether he uniquely embodies the divine. While this discussion continues unabated, both those who affirm and those who dismiss, Jesus' divinity regularly eclipse the reality that in many of the earliest strands of the Christian tradition when Jesus' divinity...
A Case for Theistic Evolution
A Zondervan Digital Short
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Derived from Three Views on Creation and Evolution, this digital short argues that Christians need not oppose evolution and that God in fact created the world through evolutionary processes. More specifically, Van Till proposes a position called fully gifted creation, which he defines as the understanding...
How the Bible Works
An Anthropological Study of Evangelical Biblicism
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2004
What do evangelicals believe when they 'believe in the Bible?' Despite hundreds of English versions that differ in their texts, evangelicals continue to believe that there is a stable text—'the Bible'—which is the authoritative word of God and an essential guide to their everyday lives. To understand...
by Chris Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2014
A short note gives the context for each Sunday's scripture readings in the Roman Catholic Lectionary – who, why, and for whom.This volume contains notes for the Sundays and principal feasts in Year B from Advent 2017 to Pentecost 2018. Similar volumes have been published for Year A,...
How to Read the Bible Like a Seminary Professor
A Practical and Entertaining Exploration of the World's Most Famous Book
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Many people admire and even revere the Bible, but they simply do not understand what they read, much less how to study Scripture. Yet they wish they could. In this insightful and alternately amusing guide, Professor Mark Yarbrough shows how easy and gratifying it is to unlock the hidden truths of...