Outline: The author's latest book meets the need for an accessible introduction to the various ways in which Jesus used Scripture, both in teaching and in his understanding of his ministry. After analysing, the scriptural quotations and allusions in the four canonical Gospels, the author examines the work of a range of key scholars (Borg, Crossan, Dun, France, Kimball, Vermes and Wright), and…
Outline: This book is a tried-and-tested, straightforward, readable introduction to worship in the first four centuries of the Church's existence. It describes what Christians actually did, but also explains why they acted as they did. Why did they choose some patterns instead of others? How did they see and understand their worship? What effect did all this have on developing Christian id…
Outline: Accessibly surveying the approaches to hermeneutics from the patristic period to the present day, the author's book provides and introduction to the philosophical issues underlying the development of hermeneutics as well as a theoritical basis for understanding hermeneutics in different faith traditions. Questions for reflection and discussion are included.
Outline: In this book, the author asks what the Old Testament says about the global dilemmas that we face today and considers how the Bible can help us to engage with them. The Old Testament, he argues, is a witness to faith that can encourage us to be better people and to create a better world.
Outline: In this dymanic and encouraging book, the author argues that the test of faith is not so much "What do you believe?" but "How has faith transformed your life and the world around you?" It is through the practice of Christianity that we come to understand its central doctrines, and are drawn into Christian community. In community, we can become not merely a body of like-minded people,…
Outline: The twenty statements by churches and church bodies - in particular the World Council of Churches - that comprise the first part of the book, and the commentary that follows, are designed to offer some answers to those questions. This book is offered in the hope that the churches throughout the world will continue to reflect on the significance of the Jewish people for their own faith…
Outline: The authors identify the opportunities available to exegete for making Pauline/Paulinist theology intelligible as a coherent understanding of the Christian faith. In doing so, they offer constructive ways for determining the meaning of Paul's letters in the first century, in order to move toward their meaning for today. Comparing representative passages from the letters traditionally…
Outline: In this book, the author provides a Hebrew Bible textbook admirably suited to college and university courses in religious studies. At one accessible and comprehensive, this book approaches the Bible through the categories of comparative religion, carefully distinguishing the religion of ancient Israel from the religion represented in the Bible and discussing such dimensions of religio…
Outline: The reform of the Catholic Church in the sixeenth century was historically as important as the contemporary Protestant Reformation. Though never committed solely to fighting Protestantism, it inevitably also became a Couner Reformation, since it soon faced the threat created by Luther and his successors. The century between the career of Ignatius Loyola and that of Vincent de Paul be…
Outline: The author examines the key events that will bring greater understanding of this fascinating period, in addition to sharpening the reader's perspective on today's church. The author explores the implications of - the Thirty Years' War - the rise of Pietism and the Enlightenment - colonization and revolution in America - the French Revolution - other critical events His examinat…
Outline: In this exchange from the 1995 Hein/Fry Lectures Series, the authors mount important, though divergent, anayses of the contemporary situation regarding Scripture and suggest varying strategies to meet it.
Outline: The author shows us that, far from a theological puzzle reserved for professional theologians, the trinitarian name of God leads every believer into the very substance and nature of God. Here we encounter the divine self-communicating love, eternally generated by Father, Son and Spirit. It is "God's self-interpretation offered in sacrificial love for our salvation." The whole tapest…
Outline: For decades, millions of Christians have discovered William Barclay's Daily Study Bible to be the ideal New Testament commentary series for both devotional reading and serious Bible study. Now, carrying forward brilliantly the pattern established by Barclay, this book has been extended into a coverage of the entire Old Testament. Invaluable for individual devotional study, for group …
Outline: This book containing the structure, growth, and preservation of the Bible, Introductions to the several Books, with Summaries of Contents, History and Chronology, Antiquities, Natural History, Glossary of Bible Words, Index of Proper Names, Index of Subjects, Concordance, Maps, and Index of Places.
Outline: This book containing the structure, growth, and preservation of the Bible, Introductions to the several Books, with Summaries of Contents, History and Chronology, Antiquities, Natural History, Glossary of Bible Words, Index of Proper Names, Index of Subjects, Concordance, Maps, and Index of Places.
Outline: This book containing the structure, growth, and preservation of the Bible, Introductions to the several Books, with Summaries of Contents, History and Chronology, Antiquities, Natural History, Glossary of Bible Words, Index of Proper Names, Index of Subjects, Concordance, Maps, and Index of Places.
Outline: This book containing the structure, growth, and preservation of the Bible, Introductions to the several Books, with Summaries of Contents, History and Chronology, Antiquities, Natural History, Glossary of Bible Words, Index of Proper Names, Index of Subjects, Concordance, Maps, and Index of Places.
Outline: This book containing the structure, growth, and preservation of the Bible, Introductions to the several Books, with Summaries of Contents, History and Chronology, Antiquities, Natural History, Glossary of Bible Words, Index of Proper Names, Index of Subjects, Concordance, Maps, and Index of Places.
Outline: This book containing the structure, growth, and preservation of the Bible, Introductions to the several Books, with Summaries of Contents, History and Chronology, Antiquities, Natural History, Glossary of Bible Words, Index of Proper Names, Index of Subjects, Concordance, Maps, and Index of Places.
Outline: With succinct and probing analysis, this book reintroduces the Apostles' Creed to a new generation, proving that its message is much more than abstract concepts to be argued by theologians. In this book, the author addresses the great questions that the creed answers: - How can we know God? - Who needs the Church? - Can we still believe in the resurrection? - Is there really only…
Outline: In this captivating book - which been comparison with Frank Morison's classic Who Moved the Stone? - the author offers an enthusiastically detailed examination of the life and death of Jesus. Pairing modern and historical investigation with the of result of current archaeological and anthropological discoveries, this book presents a startling vision of the Christ of faith through the…
Outline: - For the first time since it originally appeared, this classic work has been newly typeset in an easy-to-read modern typeface, making reading, studying, consulting easier than ever before. - The most relevant citations of Scripture, rabbinic sources, and the works of Philo and Josephus are supplied to complement the author's masterful assessment of the writings of Jesus' day. Th…
Outline: In this volume, the author has made a representative selection from Luther's extensive writings, and has also provided the reader with a lucid introduction to his thought.
Outline: In this book Wheaton New Testament professor Nicholas Perrin takes on Ehrman and others who claim that the words of Jesus have been corrupted beyond recovery. The author not only gives us a compelling layperson's guide to the story behind modern Jesus scholarship, but also tells his own story, a journey from secularism to Buddhism to orthodox Christianity. For the author, both storie…
Outline: The most authoritative, accessible guide of its kind, this book can be used with any major English Bible translation. It will be welcomed by preachers of all denominations, teachers, lay readers, public speakers, and others who must properly pronounce biblical words and phrases. Divided into two sections: "Biblical Terms" (both proper and common names) and "Non-biblical Terms," this …
Outline: In this book well-known author Michael Green provides readers with an essential guide that will help us find our way through the increasingly disorienting "religious" maze. In an easy-to-read manner he discusses views held by many and highlights important differences between Christianity and other faiths. The author claims that no other teacher than Christ ever claimed to bring God …