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Scripture’s Knowing
A Companion to Biblical Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Scripture's Knowing is a guide to the emerging field of philosophical study of Scripture, specifically about knowing. Assuming that the Scriptures speak verbosely and persistently about knowing, what do the biblical authors have to say? How do they conceptualize ideas like truth and knowledge? Most...
Biblical Knowing
A Scriptural Epistemology of Error
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
With major themes like the knowledge of good and evil, knowing that YHWH is your God, knowing that Jesus is the Christ, and the goal of developing Israel into a wise and discerning people, Scripture clearly stresses human knowledge and the consequences of error. We too long for confidence in our understanding,...
Union with God in Christ
Early Christian and Wesleyan Spirituality as an Approach to Islamic Mysticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
A significant number of Muslim communities throughout the world reflect varying degrees of involvement in Islamic mysticism. What bridges are present in this context that will facilitate not only evangelism, but also discipleship and community formation? Matthew Friedman guides the reader on a journey...
Caesar and the Lamb
Early Christian Attitudes on War and Military Service
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Through the available patristic writings Caesar and the Lamb focuses on the attitudes of the earliest Christians on war and military service. Kalantzis not only provides the reader with many new translations of pre-Constantinian texts, he also tells the story of the struggle of the earliest Church,...
by Thomas W. Mann
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
The Former Prophets of the Hebrew Bible includes the books of Joshua through 2 Kings, a narrative of ancient Israel's history of some seven hundred years from the conquest of Canaan to the exile, when Israel lost the land. From a critical perspective the narrative is a composite document incorporating...
Faith, Freedom, and Higher Education
Historical Analysis and Contemporary Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
While debates abound today over the cost, purpose, and effectiveness of higher education, often lost in this conversation is a critical question: Should higher education attempt to shape students' moral and spiritual character in any systematic manner as in the past, or focus upon equipping students...
Prisms of Faith
160
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
In Prisms of Faith, a diverse and distinguished group of scholars approach the theme of religious education and Catholic identity from their respective disciplinary perspectives, offering compelling insights of interest to scholars, catechists, and the general reader alike. The first three chapters...
Storied Revelations
Parables, Imagination, and George MacDonald’s Christian Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Parables--used by Jesus to reveal to us the kingdom of God, used to move us from being bystanders to active recipients of God's work of revelation--are constantly at risk of being buried as mummies of prose, as George MacDonald puts it. We become so familiar with the language of Scripture that Jesus'...
Beware the Evil Eye Volume 2
The Evil Eye in the Bible and the Ancient World—Greece and Rome
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
In the present volume, Elliott addresses the most extensive sources of Evil Eye belief in antiquity--the cultures of Greece and Rome. In this period, features of the belief found in Mesopotamian and Egyptian sources are expanded to the point where an "Evil Eye belief complex" becomes apparent....
Beware the Evil Eye Volume 3
The Evil Eye in the Bible and the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
The Evil Eye is mentioned repeatedly throughout the Old Testament, Israel's parabiblical writings, and New Testament, with a variety of terms and expressions. The Old Testament (Greek Septuagint) contains no less than fourteen text segments involving some twenty explicit references to the Evil Eye...
Beware the Evil Eye Volume 1
The Evil Eye in the Bible and the Ancient World—Introduction, Mesopotamia, and Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus of Nazareth makes reference to one of the oldest beliefs in the ancient world--the malignity of an Evil Eye. The Holy Scriptures in their original languages contain no less than twenty-four references to the Evil Eye, although this is obscured by most modern Bible...
Aidan of Lindisfarne
Irish Flame Warms a New World
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Seventh-century Ireland is becoming a land of saints, scholars, and spiritual foster mothers as well as warriors. The boy Aidan, a descendant of Saint Brigid, is formed by all of these as well as by a pilgrimage, aborted by an Arab uprising, on which he meets a follower of the Prophet Muhammad. He...
Trembling Love
Fear, Freedom, and the God Who Is for Us
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
That we are afraid is no revelation. Only God has the power to calm our fears and to make us courageous. But what happens when God refuses to meet your expectations? What happens when Jesus turns out to be more difficult to deal with, more serious, and more unpredictable than we once thought he was?...
Making Sense of Genesis
Its Unfolding Ideas and Images
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Early Genesis is like a table of contents for the rest of the book, a seed from which the rest of Scripture and history unfolds: so many ideas, images, and events can be traced back to it. Like the seeds that are so often our staple for life, Genesis also provides food for the soul, true wisdom, and...