Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
Cutting Jesus Down to Size
What Higher Criticism Has Achieved and Where It Leaves Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In this provocative book, noted scholar G. A. Wells tells the story of Higher Criticism: the close study of the scriptures that reveals difficulties and discrepancies. Wells traces the discipline’s German beginnings, exploring the problems in the New Testament that prompted scholars to revise traditional...
by David Lyle Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
The God of the Bible often speaks in poetry.Beginning with an illuminating exploration of eloquence in the divine voice, a highly acclaimed professor of literature opens up the treasury of biblical tradition among English poets both past and present, showing them to be well attuned not only to Scripture's...
Not in God's Name
Confronting Religious Violence
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
***2015 National Jewish Book Award Winner***
In this powerful and timely book, one of the most admired and authoritative religious leaders of our time tackles the phenomenon of religious extremism and violence committed in the name of God. If religion is perceived as being part of the problem,...
Inspiration and Incarnation
Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
How can an evangelical view of Scripture be reconciled with modern biblical scholarship? In this book Peter Enns, an expert in biblical interpretation, addresses Old Testament phenomena that challenge traditional evangelical perspectives on Scripture. He then suggests a way forward, proposing an incarnational...
Reading the Bible Again For the First Time
Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
One of the vital challenges facing thoughtful people today is how to read the Bible faithfully without abandoning our sense of truth and history. Reading the Bible Again for the First Time provides a much-needed solution to the problem of how to have a fully authentic yet contemporary understanding...
by John Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His commentaries cover the larger part of the Old Testament, and all of the new excepting Second and Third John and the Apocalypse. His commentaries and lectures stand in the front rank of Biblical interpretation. The Epistle To The Philippians...
by John Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His commentaries cover the larger part of the Old Testament, and all of the new excepting Second and Third John and the Apocalypse. His commentaries and lectures stand in the front rank of Biblical interpretation. The extraordinary ability...
by John Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This is the annotated edition including * an extensive biographical annotation about the author and his life Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His commentaries cover the larger part of the Old Testament, and all of the new excepting Second and Third John and the Apocalypse....
by John Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His commentaries cover the larger part of the Old Testament, and all of the new excepting Second and Third John and the Apocalypse. His commentaries and lectures stand in the front rank of Biblical interpretation. This volume covers his commentaries on Genesis 1 - 23.
by John Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This is the annotated edition including * an extensive biographical annotation about the author and his life Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His commentaries cover the larger part of the Old Testament, and all of the new excepting Second and Third John and the Apocalypse....
by John Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His commentaries cover the larger part of the Old Testament, and all of the new excepting Second and Third John and the Apocalypse. His commentaries and lectures stand in the front rank of Biblical interpretation. No doubt the Epistle...
The Theological Works of Leo Tolstoy
Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind Youth and Correspondences with Gandhi)
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
In the 1870s Tolstoy experienced a profound moral crisis, followed by what he regarded as an equally profound spiritual awakening, as outlined in his non-fiction work A Confession. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become...
Inductive Bible Study
A Comprehensive Guide to the Practice of Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Following up Robert Traina's classic Methodical Bible Study, this book introduces the practice of inductive Bible study to a new generation of students, pastors, and church leaders. The authors, two seasoned educators with over sixty combined years of experience in the classroom, offer guidance on...
Scripture as Communication
Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Is the Bible just a book of ancient Israelite and Christian history and practices to be read? Or are we engaging in a more interactive practice when we study God's word? Jeannine K. Brown believes that communication is at the heart of what we do when we open the Bible, that we are actively engaging...