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Sensing the Scriptures
Aminadab's Chariot and the Predicament of Biblical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
This book explores the ways that Christians, from the period of late antiquity through the Protestant Reformation, interpreted the Bible according to its several levels of meaning. Using the five bodily senses as an organizing principle, Karlfried Froehlich probes key theological developments, traditions,...
Believe Me
The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
A historian’s discerning, critical take on current American politics
“Believe me” may be the most commonly used phrase in Donald Trump’s lexicon. Whether about building a wall or protecting a Christian heritage, the refrain has been constant. And to the surprise of many, a good 80...
At the Limits of the Secular
Reflections on Faith and Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2014
This volume presents an integrated collection of constructive essays by eminent Catholic scholars addressing the new challenges and opportunities facing religious believers under shifting conditions of secularity and "post-secularity."
Using an innovative "keywords" approach,...
How (Not) to Be Secular
Reading Charles Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present" -- it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times.
Taylor's landmark book A Secular Age (2007)...
Lifting Hearts to the Lord
Worship with John Calvin in Sixteenth-Century Geneva
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
The Church at Worship is a series of documentary case studies of specific worshiping communities from around the world and throughout Christian history — case studies that can inform and enrich worship practices today. In Lifting Hearts to the Lord Karin Maag brings together a wealth of primary...
by Scot McKnight
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Scot McKnight here explains the Letter of James both in its own context and as it may be seen in light of ancient Judaism, the Graeco-Roman world, and emerging earliest Christianity.
From beginning to end, the book is shaped for pastors, teachers, and scholars. McKnight is less interested in...
by Brant Pitre
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Who did Jesus of Nazareth claim to be? What was his relationship to early Judaism? When and how did he expect the kingdom to come? What were his intentions? Though these key questions have been addressed in studies of the historical Jesus, Brant Pitre argues that they cannot be fully answered apart...
Stories with Intent
A Comprehensive Guide to the Parables of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Winner of the 2009 Christianity Today Award for Biblical Studies, Stories with Intent offers pastors and students a comprehensive and accessible guide to Jesus' parables. Klyne Snodgrass explores in vivid detail the historical context in which these stories were told, the part they played in Jesus'...
A Man Attested by God
The Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Thought-provoking alternative perspective on the full humanity of Jesus Christ
In A Man Attested by God J. R. Daniel Kirk presents a comprehensive defense of the thesis that the Synoptic Gospels present Jesus not as divine but as an idealized human figure.
Counterbalancing the recent...
The Apocalyptic Imagination
An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
One of the most widely praised studies of Jewish apocalyptic literature ever written, The Apocalyptic Imagination by John J. Collins has served for over thirty years as a helpful, relevant, comprehensive survey of the apocalyptic literary genre.
After an initial overview of things apocalyptic,...
The Gospel of the Lord
How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Balanced, comprehensive survey of the critical questions involved in studying the four Gospels
In this book, through a distinctive evangelical and critical approach, Michael Bird explores the historical development of the four canonical Gospels. He shows how the memories and faith of the earliest...
Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy
On Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
A highly regarded expert on the Jewish apocalyptic tradition, John J. Collins has written extensively on the subject. Nineteen of his essays written over the last fifteen years, including previously unpublished contributions, are brought together for the first time in this volume. Its thematic essays...
by N. T. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Did the historical person Jesus really regard himself as the Son of God? What did Jesus actually stand for? And what are we to make of the early Christian conviction that Jesus physically rose from the dead?
In this book N. T. Wright considers these and many other questions raised by three...
Reading for Preaching
The Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets, and Journalists
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In Reading for Preaching Cornelius Plantinga makes a striking claim: preachers who read widely will most likely become better preachers.
Plantinga -- himself a master preacher -- shows how a wide reading program can benefit preachers. First, he says, good reading generates delight, and the...