Outlined: Stressing the historical and theological significance of pivotal figures and movements, the author guides the reader through intriguing developments and critical interpretation of the New Testament from its beginnings in Deism through the watershed of the Tubingen school. Familiar figures appear in a new light, and important, previously forgotten stages of the journey emerge. The a…
Outlined: This book provides a fresh approached to the question by examining the works of Plutarch, a Greek essayist who lived in the first and second centuries CE, the author discobers three-dozen periscopes narrated two or more times in Plutarch's Lives, identifies differences between the accounts, and analyzes these differences in light of compositional devices identified by classical schola…
Outlined: From their decades of combined teaching, the authors have produced an ideal resource enabling students to properly read, exegete, and apply the Greek New Testament. Designed for those with a basic knowledge of Greek, this book is a user-friendly textbook for intermedite Greek courses at the college or seminary level. Unique features include: - Practical examples illustrating how k…
Overview: In fourteen chapters on the church's worship, witness and wisdom, the author sets the stage for the recovery of a more biblical imagination that sees every person, thing and event in the light of the one who directs the drama of life: the God of the gospel.
Overview: How do you counsel couples who have a high level of conflict? Utilizing a relational conflict and restoration model, the authors point the way beyond the cycle of pain toward martial healing. This book is a welcome resource to train counselors and therapists who deal with couples often heading toward divorce by the time they look for help.
Overview: Religious communities that possess sacred documents define themselves, at least in part, by how they understand and interpret their sacred texts and how those sacred texs inform the community. The author has brought together thirteen outstanding contributors to this book in order to explore recent understanding of the ways in which the early Jewish and Christian communities of faith…
Overview: "The chain of communication from God to us is strong. It has several solid links: inspiration, collection, transmission, and translations. Together, these four links provide the contemporary Christian with the moral certitude that the Spirit-inspired original text Scripture has been providentially preserved by God, so that for all practical purposes the Bible in our hands is the inf…
Overview: "The New Testament does not develop a systematic doctrine of salvation," writes the author. "Instead, it presents us with a variety of pictures taken from different perspectives." Viewed from different angles salvation may look like living under God's reign, freedom from internal and external forces, or the restoration of broken relationships with God, others, creation and even one's…
Overview: Unsuprisingly, given Sigmund Freud's understanding of religion, the conversation between Christianity and psychoanalysis has been long marked by mutual suspicion. Psychoanalysis originated within a naturalist, post-Enlightment context and sought to understand human functioning and pathology - focusing on phenomena such as the unconscious and object representation - on a strictly emp…
Overview: After years of discussion about the relationship between psychology and theology, it is time to move the discussions to a more intimate level: what actually happens in the Christian counseling office? It is here hat counseling becomes intensely personal, reflecting counselor's spiritual lives as much as their psychological preparation and theological sophistication. This updated lan…
Overview: In this comprehensive and systematic volume, renowned literary expert the author introduces readers to the specific themes, patterns, and techniques used by the biblical authors. A companion to the author's book, this practical guidebook will equip you to interpret each book of the Bible through the lens of its literary forms and features - helping you faithfully read, understand, an…
Overview: This book, a single-volume introduction to Luther's most influential, noted and important writings in the modern translations - including excerpts of his sermons and letters - presents Luther the theologian "steeped in the word of God, speaking to the whole church," even as it takes the reader straight to Luther the man, to his controversial Reformation insights, to his strongest con…
Overview: Despite the author's earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world. The materials gathered and selected by his friend Eberhard Bethge in Letters and Papers from Prison not only brought the author to a wide and appreciative readership, especially in North America, but they also introduced to a broad r…
Overview: This book is a classic exposition of what it means to follow Christ in a modern world beset by a dangerous and criminal government. "Every call of Jesus is a call to death", the author wrote. His own life ended in martyrdom on April 9, 1945. Using the acclaimed Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English translation, this new edition features supplemental material from Victoria J. Barnett a…
Overview: This book is the culmination of the author's theological and personal odyssey. Using the acclaimed Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English translation and adapted to a more accessible format, this new edition features an insightful introduction by Clifford J. Green and supplemental material from Victoria J. Barnett. Though caught up in the vortex of momentous forces in the Nazi period, t…
Overview: This book research methods text is updated and streamlined by Johnny Saldana, author of The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. This new edition presents the fundamentals of research design and data management, followed by five distinct methods of analysis: exploring, describing, ordering, explaining and predicting. Several data displays strategies from previous editions are …
Overview: This book by the author has established itself as THE introductory book on the basics of social research. It provides practical and straightforward guidance for those who need to conduct small-scale research projects as part of their undergraduate, postgraduate or professional studies. This brand new fifth edition has been thoroughly updated and revised throughout and includes new m…
Overview: This concise introductory work explores the essentials of doing theological research and writing. It is a handy companion to assist persons as they begin and pursue theological education. It provides an overview of expectations that both various professors have shared and students have reported over many years as basic wisdom to foster quality theological work. It is a time-tested…
Overview: This book is for people working in ministry and mission who want to conduct research about what they do and the context in which they do it. The authors act as companions guiding readers through the process of doing research, the skills required and the ways of thinking theologically that shape research. By providing real examples as well as theory the authors encourage a realistic …
Outline : This book offers a third option, an affordable and accessible tool that walks students through the process. Its goal is to take students directly from a research assignment to a research argument - in other words, from topic to thesis.
Overview: The Apollos Old Testament Commnetary aims to take with equal seriousness the divine and human aspects of Scripture. It expounds the books of the Old Testament in a scholarly manner accessible to non-experts, and shows the relevance of the Old Testament to modern readers. Written by an international team of scholars, the commentaries are intended primarily to serve the needs of thos…
Overview: In this book, the first in the New Studies in Biblical Theology series, the author challenges the common assumption that the New Testament views sanctification as primarily a process. He argues that its emphasis falls upon sanctification as a definitive event, "God's way of taking possession of us in Christ, setting us apart to belong to him and to fulfil his purpose for us." Simply…
Overview: "The Power of Shame" masuk ke dalam diskusi kontemporer mengenai konsep malu, terutama malu dan hormat adalah bagian integral dari konsep masyarakat Indonesia. Teologi Kristen juga mulanya berasal dari orientasi malu, yang tentunya sesuai dengan konteks masyarakat Indonesia. Namun, dalam perkembangannya, pendekatan dunia Barat yang digunakan dalam penyampaian teologi, dan nanti diba…
Overview: This book presents eighteen commissioned articles on biblical exegesis in early Judaism, covering the period after the Hebrew Bible was written and before the beginning of rabbinic Judaism. The essays, all written by experts in the field, are arranged in seven categories: Hebrew Bible, Rewritten Bible, Qumran Literature, Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments, Wisdom Literature, Hell…
Overview: In this book, the author embarks on a dynamic investigation of the developmental history of orthodox theology and its impact on popular interpretations of the New Testament. Relayed in two parts, the first provides a panoramic view of Hellenic influence on the early Christian faith, while the second revisits biblical interpretation. Writing for both the dedicated Christian student …
Overview: What was Christianity to do with power? Why must Christians act as the voice of the voiceless? How can speaking of God in public to help to create new structures of justice and peace? Those are the central questions running through the author's latest book. Here the author demonstrates the many ways in which faithful interpretation of scripture can throw fresh light on the great …
Overview: The author's of this book is a landmark achievement - hermeneutically dexterous, biblically expansive and nourishing to mind, soul and proclamation.
Overview: This book presents the figure of Paul in all his complexity, with his blend of common and unusual Jewish beliefs and a faith in Christ that brought him into conflict with the socioreligious scene around him. The author elucidates how Paul was variously perceived - as a religious deviant by Jews, as a divisive figure by Jewish Christians, as a purveyor of dubious philosophy by Greeks,…
Overview: Leading Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author argues that the church has lost touch with the revolutionary nature of the cross. Most christians have been taught a reduced message that the death of Jesus was all about "God saves me from my 'sin' so that I could 'go to heaven'." According to the author, this version misconstrues why Jesus has to die, the nature of ou…
Overview: This book, is a complete revision of the monumental 1967 edition and of its 1996 Supplement. The ten-volume set presents readers with the finest classic entries from the first edition, along with hundreds of new entries written by the world's premiere philosophers and philosophical scholars. Including expansive coverage of traditional and enduring topics - like Aristotle, the Greek…
Overview: This book, is a complete revision of the monumental 1967 edition and of its 1996 Supplement. The ten-volume set presents readers with the finest classic entries from the first edition, along with hundreds of new entries written by the world's premiere philosophers and philosophical scholars. Including expansive coverage of traditional and enduring topics - like Aristotle, the Greek…
Overview: This book, is a complete revision of the monumental 1967 edition and of its 1996 Supplement. The ten-volume set presents readers with the finest classic entries from the first edition, along with hundreds of new entries written by the world's premiere philosophers and philosophical scholars. Including expansive coverage of traditional and enduring topics - like Aristotle, the Greek…
Overview: This book, is a complete revision of the monumental 1967 edition and of its 1996 Supplement. The ten-volume set presents readers with the finest classic entries from the first edition, along with hundreds of new entries written by the world's premiere philosophers and philosophical scholars. Including expansive coverage of traditional and enduring topics - like Aristotle, the Greek…
Overview: This book, is a complete revision of the monumental 1967 edition and of its 1996 Supplement. The ten-volume set presents readers with the finest classic entries from the first edition, along with hundreds of new entries written by the world's premiere philosophers and philosophical scholars. Including expansive coverage of traditional and enduring topics - like Aristotle, the Greek…
Overview: This book, is a complete revision of the monumental 1967 edition and of its 1996 Supplement. The ten-volume set presents readers with the finest classic entries from the first edition, along with hundreds of new entries written by the world's premiere philosophers and philosophical scholars. Including expansive coverage of traditional and enduring topics - like Aristotle, the Greek…
Overview: This book, is a complete revision of the monumental 1967 edition and of its 1996 Supplement. The ten-volume set presents readers with the finest classic entries from the first edition, along with hundreds of new entries written by the world's premiere philosophers and philosophical scholars. Including expansive coverage of traditional and enduring topics - like Aristotle, the Greek…
Overview: This book, is a complete revision of the monumental 1967 edition and of its 1996 Supplement. The ten-volume set presents readers with the finest classic entries from the first edition, along with hundreds of new entries written by the world's premiere philosophers and philosophical scholars. Including expansive coverage of traditional and enduring topics - like Aristotle, the Greek…
Overview: This book, is a complete revision of the monumental 1967 edition and of its 1996 Supplement. The ten-volume set presents readers with the finest classic entries from the first edition, along with hundreds of new entries written by the world's premiere philosophers and philosophical scholars. Including expansive coverage of traditional and enduring topics - like Aristotle, the Greek…
Overview: This book, is a complete revision of the monumental 1967 edition and of its 1996 Supplement. The ten-volume set presents readers with the finest classic entries from the first edition, along with hundreds of new entries written by the world's premiere philosophers and philosophical scholars. Including expansive coverage of traditional and enduring topics - like Aristotle, the Greek…
Overview: In this book, the author explains how to preach so that the powerful message of the Bible penetrates the daily lives of your congregation. While we need to be intimately acquainted with Scripture, we also need to understand the context which we preach. Some preach sermons firmly grounded in Scripture, but the message will fall flat if it is not contextually applied. Others excel at…
Overview: This book is the fruit of the first ever interdisciplinary international scientific conference on Mathew's story of the Star of Bethlehem and the Magi, held in 2014 at the University of Gronigen, and attended by world-leading specialists in all relevant fields: modern astronomy, the ancient near-eastern and Greco-Roman worlds, the history of science, and religion. The scholarly discu…
Overview: This book of the author 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 trend toward early high Christology in such scholars as Richard Bauckham, Simon Gathercole, and Richard Hays, the author thoroughly unpacks the humanity of Jesus as understood by Gospel writters wh…