Lee Mcdonald: 13 books
Exploring the Origins of the Bible (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology)
Canon Formation in Historical, Literary, and Theological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
How did the Bible we have come to be? What do biblical scholars mean when they talk about canon, the Septuagint, the Apocrypha, or the Masoretic Text? All this biblical study is interesting, but does it really matter? Leading international scholars explain that it does. This thought-provoking and...
Reformed and Always Reforming (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology)
The Postconservative Approach to Evangelical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
The community of evangelicals sometimes seems so broad as to defy definition, but theological conservatism has been one consistent marker. Now, says theologian Roger Olson, postconservatism is moving beyond conventional battles against liberalism and heresy to posit a dynamic and realistic approach....
Scripture and Tradition (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology)
What the Bible Really Says
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In some of the church's history, Scripture has been pitted against tradition and vice versa. Prominent New Testament scholar Edith Humphrey, who understands the issue from both Protestant and Catholic/Orthodox perspectives, revisits this perennial point of tension. She demonstrates that the Bible...
Defending Substitution (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology)
An Essay on Atonement in Paul
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In recent decades, the church and academy have witnessed intense debates concerning the concept of penal substitution to describe Christ's atoning sacrifice. Some claim it promotes violence, glorifies suffering and death, and amounts to divine child abuse. Others argue it plays a pivotal role in classical...
A New Perspective on Jesus (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology)
What the Quest for the Historical Jesus Missed
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
In this compelling study, renowned author James D. G. Dunn provides a critique of the quest for the historical Jesus. Dunn claims that the quest has been misguided from the start in its attempt to separate the historical Jesus from the Christ of faith.
Dunn argues that Jesus scholars have consistently...
Why Christian Faith Still Makes Sense (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology)
A Response to Contemporary Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In recent years the Christian faith has been challenged by skeptics, including the New Atheists, who claim that belief in God is simply not reasonable. Here prominent Christian philosopher C. Stephen Evans offers a fresh, contemporary, and nuanced response. He makes the case for belief in a personal...
The Story of Jesus in History and Faith
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Many books are available on the historical Jesus, but few address issues that are critically central to Christian faith--namely, Jesus as resurrected Lord, Christ, and Son of God. This comprehensive introduction to the study of the historical Jesus takes both scholarship and Christian faith seriously.
Leading...
by Paul E. Ceruzzi, Howard Rheingold, Lee Felsenstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
First person accounts by pioneers in the field, classic essays, and new scholarship document the collaborative and creative practices of early social media.
Focusing on early social media in the arts and humanities and on the core role of creative computer scientists, artists, and scholars...
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
by Ian McDonald, Yoon Ha Lee, Helena Bell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The January 2013 issue of the Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine, *Clarkesworld.*
This issue features the following stories: "Driftings" by Ian McDonald, "Variations on Bluebeard and Dalton’s Law Along the Event Horizon" by Helena Bell and "Effigy Nights" by Yoon Ha...
A origem da Bíblia
Um guia para os perplexos
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Este é um grandioso trabalho que oferece respostas e explica os caminhos percorridos pela Bíblia até os dias atuais. Em estilo acessível, o autor descreve como a Bíblia cristã teve seu início, desenvolveu-se e por fim, se fixou. Lee Martin McDonald analisa textos desde a Bíblia hebraica até a literatura patrística.
Ethics and Global Security
A cosmopolitan approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
This book will be the first systematic examination of the role that ethics plays in international security in both theory and practice, and offers the reader a concrete ethics for global security.
Questions of morality and ethics have long been central to global security, from the death camps,...
The Biblical Canon
Its Origin, Transmission, and Authority
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
This is the thoroughly updated and expanded third edition of the successful The Formation of the Christian Biblical Canon. It represents a fresh attempt to understand some of the many perplexing questions related to the origins and canonicity of the Bible.