Baker Academic imprint: 719 books
by George L. Parsenios, Mikeal Parsons, Charles Talbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
In this addition to the well-received Paideia series, a respected New Testament scholar examines cultural context and theological meaning in First, Second, and Third John. Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian readers by attending to the ancient narrative and rhetorical...
by James W. Aageson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Paul's influence on the history of Christian life and theology is as profound as it is pervasive. A brief survey of almost twenty centuries of Christian thought and practice will confirm the enduring importance of Paul for the life of the church in the Roman and Protestant traditions of the West as...
Scripture and Tradition (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology)
What the Bible Really Says
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In some of the church's history, Scripture has been pitted against tradition and vice versa. Prominent New Testament scholar Edith Humphrey, who understands the issue from both Protestant and Catholic/Orthodox perspectives, revisits this perennial point of tension. She demonstrates that the Bible...
The Theology of Augustine
An Introductory Guide to His Most Important Works
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Most theology students realize Augustine is tremendously influential on the Christian tradition as a whole, but they generally lack real knowledge of his writings. This volume introduces Augustine's theology through seven of his most important works. Matthew Levering begins with a discussion of Augustine's...
World of the New Testament, The
Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This volume addresses the most important issues related to the study of New Testament writings. Two respected senior scholars have brought together a team of distinguished specialists to introduce the Jewish, Hellenistic, and Roman backgrounds necessary for understanding the New Testament and the...
Interpreting the Gospel of John
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This tried and true classroom favorite by respected New Testament scholar Gary Burge has been praised for its usefulness. The expanded second edition has been revised throughout to take account of current scholarship and introduces software tools that have become available since the original edition...
Encountering Theology of Mission (Encountering Mission)
Biblical Foundations, Historical Developments, and Contemporary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This fresh, comprehensive text fills a need for an up-to-date theology of mission. It offers creative approaches to answering some of the most pressing questions in theology of mission and missionary practice today. The authors, who are leading mission experts, discuss biblical theology of mission,...
Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian
A Kingdom Corrective to the Evangelical Gender Debate
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Regarding gender relations, the evangelical world is divided between complementarians and egalitarians. While both perspectives have much to contribute, the discussion has reached a stalemate. Michelle Lee-Barnewall critiques both sides of the debate, challenging the standard premises and arguments...
Ephesians
An Exegetical Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
Harold Hoehner has taught biblical exegesis to thousands of students over the years. He now brings that experience to bear on this important work.
He begins with a helpful introduction to the letter of Ephesians in which he addresses issues of authorship, structure and genre, historical setting,...
by Charles H. Talbert, Mikeal Parsons, Charles Talbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Ephesians and Colossians is the first of eighteen volumes in the new Paideia commentary series. This series approaches each text in its final, canonical form, proceeding by sense units rather than word-by-word or verse-by-verse. Each sense unit is explored in three sections: (1) introductory matters,...
by Mikeal C. Parsons, Mikeal Parsons, Charles Talbert
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
In Acts, the third of eighteen volumes in the Paideia commentary series, leading biblical scholar Mikeal Parsons gleans fresh theological insight into Acts by attending carefully to the cultural and educational context from which it emerges. Parsons see Acts as a charter document explaining and legitimating...
by Scot McKnight
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1988
McKnight critiques various interpretive methods and suggests how students with some knowledge of Greek can benefit from different analyses.
The Apostle Paul and the Christian Life
Ethical and Missional Implications of the New Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
The "new perspective" on Paul, an approach that seeks to reinterpret the apostle Paul and his letters against the backdrop of first-century Judaism, has been criticized by some as not having value for ordinary Christians living ordinary lives. In this volume, world-renowned scholars explore...
The Face of New Testament Studies
A Survey of Recent Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
In The Face of New Testament Studies, editors Scot McKnight and Grant R. Osborne bring together New Testament experts who track developments in their specialized fields of research-and why those developments are important. It provides scholars and students with a useful survey of the "state-of-the-question" in New Testament Studies.