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Messianic Exegesis

Juel, Donald H.

While the relationship between Second Temple Jewish exegesis and early Christian exegesis as demonstrated in the New Testament is universally recognized, the reasons for their similarities and differences are often elusive. Donald H. Juel in Messianic Exegesis seek...

The Jewish Roots of Christological Monotheism

Second Temple Judaism exerted a profound and shaping influence upon early Christianity. The Jewish Roots of Christological Monotheism documents this influence by exploring the ways in which the Christian praxis of Christ-devotion in the first two centuries of...

Justification in the Second Century

Arnold, Brian J.

T. F. Torrance’s influential The Doctrine of Grace in the Apostolic Fathers (1948) relegated the collection of Christianity’s earliest noncanonical witnesses to a fall from grace. According to Torrance, the Apostolic Fathers abandoned Paul’s “justification by faith” and...

Augustus H. Strong and the Dilemma of Historical Consciousness

Wacker, Grant

At the end of the nineteenth century, Augustus Strong emerged as one of the most influential church leaders and theologians in America. But, as Grant Wacker reveals in this masterful study, Strong also proved to be as tragic a figure as he was influential.Strong was forced to choose between conceptu...

Baptists through the Centuries

Bebbington, David W.

Baptists through the Centuries provides a clear introduction to the history and theology of this influential and international people. David Bebbington, a leading Baptist historian, surveys the main developments in Baptist life and thought from the seventeenth century to the present.The Baptist move...

A Year at the Catholic Worker

Ellis, Marc H.

Sixty-six years ago the Catholic Worker movement began with the opening of a shared apartment as a house of hospitality and the selling of the Catholic Worker newspaper for a penny a copy in Union Square. It began amidst the Great Depression with millions out of work and the foundation of American c...

A Time to Keep

Radner, Ephraim

The miracle of birth and the mystery of death mark human life. Mortality, like a dark specter, looms over all that lies in between. Human character, behavior, aims, and community are all inescapably shaped by this certainty of human ends. Mortality, like an unwanted guest, intrudes, becoming a...

LDS in the USA

Trepanier, Lee / Newswander, Lynita K.

From the politics of Glenn Beck to reality television's Big Love and the hit Broadway show The Book of Mormon, Mormons have become a recognizable staple of mainstream popular culture. And while most Americans are well aware of the existence of Mormonism--and some of the often exaggerated myths a...

Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels

Hays, Richard B.

The claim that the events of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection took place “according to the Scriptures” stands at the heart of the New Testament’s message. All four canonical Gospels declare that the Torah and the Prophets and the Psalms mysteriously prefigure Jesus. The a...

Reading the Bible Intertextually

Reading the Bible Intertextually explores the revisionary hermeneutical practices of the Bible. Here some of the world's foremost interpreters of the New Testament examine the varied and distinctive ways that the canonical texts engage in conversation with other parts of the Bible.

Decreation

Griffiths, Paul J.

Death is not the end—either for humans or for all creatures. But while Christianity has obsessed over the future of humanity, it has neglected the ends for nonhuman animals, inanimate creatures, and angels. In Decreation, Paul J. Griffiths explores how orthodox Christian theology might be deve...

Words Well Spoken

It has been more than two decades since the publication of George Kennedy's influential New Testament Interpretation Through Rhetorical Criticism (1984). The essays in Words Well Spoken demonstrate the influence of Kennedy's work on New Testament studies. The essays offer applications of his...