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Body: A Biblical Spirituality for the Whole Person
A Biblical Spirituality for the Whole Person
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The word spirituality is notoriously difficult to define. It is often used in a vague way to refer to the inner relationship between the self and God. The implication is that people only relate to God with their “inner” being (soul/spirit) and not with any other part of who they are. There is...
Christian Doctrine and the Grammar of Difference
A Contribution to Feminist Systematic Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Christian Doctrine and the Grammar of Difference argues that the most potent and resourceful theological response to the challenging questions of gender and difference is to be found in a retrieval of a doctrinal framework for feminist theology. In particular, it is suggested that a doctrinal narrative...
Christian Understandings of the Future
The Historical Trajectory
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how God works in the world. How do we, as we examine the vast and varied output of those who came before us, understand the unity and the diversity of their...
by David R. Cartlidge, David L. Dungan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Since its first appearance in 1980, Documents for the Study of the Gospels has been a welcome and highly regarded sourcebook for the study of the historical environment of the Gospels, introducing religious, philosophical, and literary texts comparable to various aspects of the Gospels and illuminating...
Divine Simplicity: A Biblical and Trinitarian Account
A Biblical and Trinitarian Account
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The Christian church has consistently confessed that the triune God of the gospel is simple and therefore beyond composition. The various divine attributes do not represent parts of God that, when combined, make up God‘s nature. However, what was once part of the theological tradition from Irenaeus...
Luke the Composer
Exploring the Evangelist's Use of Matthew
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The literary relationships among the Synoptic Gospels have long attracted scholarly attention which has now generally coalesced into the predominant Two- (or Four-) Source Hypothesis and leading alternatives, the Griesbach (or Two-Gospel) Hypothesis (Mark used Matthew and Luke) and the Farrer Hypothesis...
The Woman Babylon and the Marks of Empire
Reading Revelation with a Postcolonial Womanist Hermeneutics of Ambiveilence
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The “Great Whore” of the Book of Revelation—the hostile symbolization used to illustrate the author’s critique of empire—has attracted considerable attention in Revelation scholarship. Smith seeks to dismantle the either/or dichotomy within the “Great Whore” debate. Using postcolonial...
James in Postcolonial Perspective
The Letter as Nativist Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
James confronts the exploitive wealthy; it also opposes Pauline hybridity. K. Jason Coker argues that postcolonial perspectives allow us to understand how these themes converge in the letter. James opposes the exploitation of the Roman Empire and a peculiar Pauline form of hybridity that compromises...
Rethinking Early Christian Identity
Affect, Violence, and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Maia Kotrosits challenges the contemporary notion of “early Christian literature,” showing that a number of texts usually so described—New Testament writings including Hebrews, Acts, the Gospel of John, Colossians, and 1 Peter, as well as the letters of Ignatius, the Gospel of Truth, and the...
Rejected Prophets
Jesus and His Witnesses in Luke-Acts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Although several scholars have written about how Luke portrays Jesus and the apostles as prophets, no one has yet provided a comprehensive theory as to why Luke’s protagonists resemble the prophets. McWhirter shows that Luke uses these biblical prophets as precedents, seeking to legitimate the apostles’...
A Complicated Pregnancy
Whether Mary was a Virgin and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The virgin birth is a much-loved story in the Christian tradition. It is the standard "origin story" of Jesus, marking the incarnation of the Son of God. Today, however, many theologians dispute the tradition of the virginal conception on both historical and scientific grounds.
As...
Love Itself Is Understanding
Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theology of the Saints
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) sets out to reunite Truth and holiness by returning the saints to their proper place at the heart of philosophy, theology, and metaphysics. Love Itself is Understanding is one of the first systematic treatments of Balthasar’s theology of the saints. Matthew Rothaus...
Puzzling the Parables of Jesus
Methods and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Modern scholarship on the parables has long been preoccupied with asking what Jesus himself said and what he intended to accomplish with his parables. Ruben Zimmermann moves beyond that agenda to explore the dynamics of parabolic speech in all their rich complexity. Introductory chapters address the...
Time of Troubles
A New Economic Framework for Early Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Economic realities have been increasingly at the center of discussion of the New Testament and early church. Studies have tended to be either apologetic in tone, or haphazard with regard to economic theory, or both‒‒either imagining the ancients as involved in “primitive” economic relationships,...