Hermeneutics category: 533 books
How Human is God?
Seven Questions about God and Humanity in the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Walter Cardinal Kasper has written, “It is time, it is the right time, to speak of God.” This book invites readers to use their God-given ability to work through important questions that many people have about God today: Why is God so angry in the Bible? Is the biblical God male or female...
The Inspiration and Interpretation of Scripture
What the Early Church Can Teach Us
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
What is true of Scripture as a result of being inspired? What should divine inspiration cause us to expect from it? The answers to these questions in the early church related not just to the nature of Scripture's truth claims but to the manner in which Scripture was to be interpreted.
In this...
by Joshua Ray
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Whether you are a new believer or a seasoned Christian, this book will give you some beneficial tools to help you read and understand scriptures deeply. If you haven't had any formal training in reading the bible then this is a great resource for approaching the bible to get the most out of what you...
The Book of Knowledge of Good and Evil
Volume One, What Can be Seen From the Other Side?
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
After at least 20 years of my research in the Bible, beginning with the mission of trying to prove that the Bible is the Word of God, I have come to the conclusion that the Bible was not written perfectly, therefore concluding that maybe we shouldn’t be so lazy, as to call the entire Bible The Word...
by St. John Chrysostom
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
St. Chrysostom's Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans in one of the closest and most argumentative of thse he has left us. The style of the Epistle itself called for this, being such as almost constantly to remind anattentive reader of the necessity of froming some notion of the views and feelings...
by Linda Fritch
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Yawns, droopy eyelids, shuffling feet and clock watching are often associated with Sunday morning preaching. But here are ten sermons full of life, vigor and enough creative imagination guaranteed to keep you alert and on the edge of your seat as you read these inspiring messages from these ancient...
Bible Translation Basics
Communicating Scripture in a Relevant Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Over the past thirty years, scholars have made significant advances in understanding how human communication functions. They have moved from looking for meaning in texts alone to seeing texts as providing clues that lead hearers to discover the speaker’s intended meaning. Hearers use other inputs...
Encountering Jesus, Encountering Scripture
Reading the Bible Critically in Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2013
Personal, experiential faith is seldom given a seat at the table of academic theology and biblical studies. David Crump, however, with the assistance of Søren Kierkegaard's religious philosophy, claims that "authentic understanding, and thus authentic Christian commitment, can only arise from...
by Edward D. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
It is a daunting task for the new Bible student to walk into a store for the purpose of purchasing a Bible. Immediately, he is met with shelves upon shelves of more than 100 different English translation choices: AMP, AT, ASV, BLE, CEB, CEV, ERV, ESV, HCSB, IB, ISV, JB, KJ21, LB, MLB, NAB, NASB,...
by St. John Chrysostom
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
These Homilies are often less complete in exposition than those on earlier books of the New Testament, and in literary excellence will not compare with the Homilies on the Statues, and many other discourses given at Antioch. But to the student of preaching, they are quite as instructive, if not really...
by Bo Giertz
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Bo Giertz wrote this book drawing upon the exegetical insights that he received from his mentor Anton Fridrichsen before, during and after his trip to Palestine in the early 1930's.
The book is a third-person retelling of the gospels that brings into account various Old Testament references and the...
The World of the Bible
Understanding the world's greatest bestseller
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
The authors of the 66 books of the Bible reflect the social, cultural and religious contexts in which they lived. Understanding these contexts can greatly enrich and deepen our appreciation of the Bible's meaning and message. In this splendid book, John Drane provides an unparalleled survey of the...
by Davide Ziliani
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
The Hermeneutical Paraphrase contained in this book comes from the study of the original text in the version of Wang Bi (226 d.C.- 249 d.C).
I take the liberty, therefore, to make an hypothesis on the creation of the DAODEJING (Tao Te Ching): perhaps, it was the work of an exotic monastic community...
50 POWERFUL SERMON OUTLINES, VOL. 3
GREAT FOR PASTORS, MINISTERS, PREACHERS, TEACHERS, EVANGELISTS, AND LAITY
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2019
Dr. Christopher Toote has written a master-preacher guide for pastors and teachers to learn how to outline a sermon, access a biblical text, understand multiple ways to interpret the Bible, and provide applicable meaning in today's world. Dr. Toote understands how to prepare, present, and apply God's...