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The earliest substantive sources available for historical Jesus research are in the Gospels themselves, when interpreted in their early Jewish setting, their picture of Jesus is more coherent and plausible than are the competing theories offered by many modern scholars. So, argues Craig Keener in The Historical Jesus of the Gospels.
In exploring the depth and riches of the material found in the Synoptic Gospels, Keener shows how many works on the...
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The assumption that Jesus existed as a historical person has occasionally been, questioned in the course of the last hundred years or so, but any doubts that have been, raised have usually, been put to rest in favor of imagining a blend of the historical, the mythical and the theological in the surviving records of Jesus.
Carrier re-examines the whole question and finds compelling reasons to suspect the more daring assumption is correct. He lays...
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Alors qu'aucun écrit de saint Bernard n'est consacré au seul EspritSaint,
les textes qui le concernent foisonnent dans son oeuvre : présence diffuse, difficile à cerner, qui n'a pas reçu des
théologiens l'attention qu'elle mérite. Ici, il s'agit de faire ressortir la profonde cohérence de la doctrine de
Bernard, en laquelle tout s'ordonne autour de cette intuition centrale : au coeur de la Trinité, l'EspritSaint
est l'amour unissant le...
5544) Learning Jesus
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Some Christians are satisfied with an "Arrived Jesus," a Jesus who had fully arrived at the moment of his birth in Bethlehem. He had nothing to learn, nothing to discover, no choices to make, and no place to go except to follow God's tight script for his life. His life was static.
Yet, other Christians believe in a "Becoming Jesus," a Jesus who faced many crossroads and decision points, struggles and crises, all of which shaped his faithful response...
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What makes for powerful preaching? Careful exegesis, logical structure, interesting illustrations, and clear speech can all help. But truly transformative preaching depends on divine power, not human skill alone. Those who would reduce preaching to simple systems or sure-fire strategies for success will find little of interest here. Instead, this book appeals to those (pastors and academics alike) who find themselves confounded by the occasional futility...
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A unified soteriology for the whole church
It is commonly claimed that Western Christianity teaches salvation as deliverance from sin through Jesus's sacrifice on the cross, while Eastern Christianity teaches salvation as deliverance from death-and as deification-through Christ's incarnation. But is it really true that there is no normative, unified doctrine of salvation to be found in Scripture and tradition?
Theologian Khaled Anatolios, deeply...
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The Apostolic Fathers Commentary Series aims to complement the study of early Christianity through historical, literary, and theological readings of the Apostolic Fathers. Writers of the AFCS volumes seek to be mindful of critical scholarship while commenting on a final-form text. Shawn J. Wilhite's commentary on the Didache includes a brief introduction to the Didache, the use of Scripture by the Didachist, and the theology of the Didache. The commentary...
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Is the Christian faith something that can peacefully exist alongside all the other aspects of an ordinary human life, or does it by its very nature turn that life into something else? The author of this book, a member of a monastic community for over forty years, obviously has a vested interest in the answer. But even for believers caught up in the day-to-day life of society, work, and family, the question is an important one, at least if they are...
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Depuis sa disparition, dans le crash de son avion, au large des ctes marseillaises, Antoine de Saint Exupéry (1900-1944) jouit d'une popularité qui ne faiblit pas, en France et dans le monde entier, grâce aux traductions du Petit Prince dans plusieurs centaines de langues. Mais c'est tout au long de son oeuvre que l'écrivain-pilote a su trouver les mots et toucher les coeurs des chercheurs de sens. Antoine de Saint Exupéry nous invite à ne pas...
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This book explores lived experiences of college students that represent late Millennials and Generation Z with a post- modern/post-Christian worldview. The qualitative method of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used to reveal what those experiences were, and four interpretative lenses were used that revealed how the perception of those experiences can be understood.
The research involved 425 students from St. Edward's University...
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How theological education can engender life-giving hope for incarcerated women
Amid dehumanizing conditions, incarcerated people strive to generate hope. As one returning citizen explains, "Hope is not just sitting around waiting for things to change. Hope is not always an individual making things change. Hope is sometimes a community making things change." What can theologians, teachers, and chaplains do to assist their work?
Sarah...
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What role do varied understandings of the church play in the doctrine and interpretation of Scripture?
In The Church's Book, Brad East explores recent accounts of the Bible and its exegesis in modern theology and traces the differences made by divergent, and sometimes opposed, theological accounts of the church. Surveying first the work of Karl Barth, then that of John Webster, Robert Jenson, and John Howard Yoder (following an excursus on interpreting...
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"Reason of the Hope" aims to provide short answers to ten major faith-related topics or issues constantly asked by young Christians and secular folks. This book explores the validity and reliability of the scriptures, creation account of Genesis, end-time events, reformation, moral laws, and apologetics. It also provides a fresh perspective on the life and miracles of Jesus, parables in the gospels, death/resurrection of Jesus, and the second coming...
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The unlikely king who saved England.
Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the English coastlands and countryside they raided, torched, murdered, and destroyed all in their path. Farmers, monks, and soldiers all fell bloody under the Viking sword, hammer, and axe.
Then, when the hour was most desperate, came an unlikely hero. King Alfred rallied the battered and bedraggled kingdoms of Britain and after decades of plotting, praying,...
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In the first century, the resurrection fact faced both Jewish and Greek audiences with a challenge, the challenge of a new reality: Christ, the risen Lord. Since facts are by definition"something that happened" and this happening was witnessed, proclaimed, and recorded, the fact stands for all generations.
In answering critics, a defense of the resurrection consists not only of a response by way of negation (e.g., Christianity is not this), but also...
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Vital insights from Augustine's sermons on the life of faith.
Augustine is not usually thought of today as a preacher, but he delivered sermons weekly over the course of nearly forty years to his congregation in Hippo Regius and occasionally also in Carthage and other Roman cities he visited as bishop. The differences between his sermons and his theological treatises are striking but not surprising considering that the treatises targeted an elite,...
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An evangelical Christian commentary, from an author of the reformed and conservative perspective, offering verse by verse analysis of the Pastoral Epistles: 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus.
Dr. Hamilton Moore focuses on that which lay close to the apostle Paul's heart: the continuation of the truth of the gospel and the mission of God, showing how we — like Timothy and Titus — must hold on to teaching sound doctrine, and live a godly lifestyle,...
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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 from a careful historical analysis of the Last Supper accounts. Yet these accounts, both by the Gospel writers and by Paul, are widely neglected by contemporary...
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Death will strike your congregation. Are you ready? Are they?
Death has become a four-letter word. Whereas in previous generations, the practice of memento mori ("remember death") was embedded in family life, people today have found ways to distance themselves from death. As Western culture becomes increasingly more secular, the Christian understanding of death and the funeral appear more and more strange.
Fear of death affects us all, and so pastors...
5560) Gonna Trouble the Water
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To deny water is to deny life.
"Gonna Trouble the Water" considers the sacred nature of water and the ways in which it is weaponized against non-white communities. With compelling contributions from scholars and activists, politicians and theologians, "Gonna Trouble the Water" de-centers the concept of water as a commodity in order to center the dignity of water and its life-giving character. Firmly grounded at the intersection of environmentalism...
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