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Extraordinary Women of Christian History

What We Can Learn from Their Struggles and Triumphs

by Ruth A. Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016

Christianity has long been criticized as a patriarchal religion. But during its two-thousand-year history, the faith has been influenced and passed down by faithful women. Martyrs and nuns, mystics and scholars, writers and reformers, preachers and missionaries, abolitionists and evangelists, these...
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Red Letter Christians

A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics

by Tony Campolo
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011

In today's political environment, who speaks for whom is not always clear. Over the past couple of decades, evangelical Christians have tended to be associated with the religious right and the most conservative positions of the Republican Party. Rebelling against this designation are those who prefer...
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Made Well

Finding Wholeness in the Everyday Sacred Moments

by Jenny Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

Finding Wholeness through Tears, Joys, and the Everyday From the woman fighting cancer to the man who has lost his child to the girl sinking into depression, so many of us are engaged in daily battles as we long for healing. When he walked the earth, Jesus said to an unwell man, "Do you...
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Pastors in the Classics

Timeless Lessons on Life and Ministry from World Literature

by Leland Ryken, Philip Ryken, Todd Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

Throughout the history of English literature, church ministers have figured prominently in novels, plays, morality tales, and even poetry. Pastors in the Classics is a unique, unprecedented collection of relevant literary masterpieces in which the pastor's experience is a major part of the story. Part...
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Exploring the Origins of the Bible (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology)

Canon Formation in Historical, Literary, and Theological Perspective

by Craig Evans, Lee McDonald
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...
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Justification of God, The

An Exegetical and Theological Study of Romans 9:1-23

by John Piper
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1993

John Piper presents a careful, reasoned study of the doctrine of election. He dissects Paul's argument to highlight the picture of God and his righteousness painted in Romans 9. Undergirded by his belief that the sovereignty of God is too precious a part of our faith to dismiss or approach weak-kneed, Piper explores the Greek text and Paul's argument with singular deftness.
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The Parables

Jewish Tradition and Christian Interpretation

by Brad H. Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008

Fully one-third of Jesus' words in the Synoptic Gospels occur in parables. It could be said that knowing the parables is essential for understanding the person of Christ. In this work, Brad Young displays his unique perspective as a scholar steeped in both Jewish and Christian studies. While parables...
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Theological Introduction to the Pentateuch, A

Interpreting the Torah as Christian Scripture

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

In this concise volume, a team of fresh Old Testament voices explores the theological dimensions of the Pentateuch and provides specific examples of critically engaged theological interpretation. This Pentateuch text is unique in that it emphasizes theological reading, serving as an affordable supplement...
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Are You the One Who Is to Come?

The Historical Jesus and the Messianic Question

by Michael F. Bird
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009

Did Jesus claim to be the long-awaited "messiah"? Going against much contemporary scholarship, Australian scholar Michael Bird argues that he did. He begins by exploring the messianic expectations in the Old Testament and Second Temple Jewish literature. Next, Bird points out weaknesses...
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Matthew

Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist

by Warren Carter
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1968

For ten years, the well-received first edition of this introduction offered readers a way to look at scriptural texts that combines historical, narrative, and contemporary interests. Carter explores Matthew by approaching it from the perspective of the "authorial audience"--by identifying...
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Love in the Gospel of John

An Exegetical, Theological, and Literary Study

by Francis J. SDB Moloney
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013

The command to love is central to the Gospel of John. Internationally respected scholar Francis Moloney offers a thorough exploration of this theme, focusing not only on Jesus's words but also on his actions. Instead of merely telling people that they must love one another, Jesus acts to make God's...
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The New Testament

A Historical and Theological Introduction

by Donald A. Hagner
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012

This capstone work from widely respected senior evangelical scholar Donald Hagner offers a substantial introduction to the New Testament. Hagner deals with the New Testament both historically and theologically, employing the framework of salvation history. He treats the New Testament as a coherent...
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by Karen H. Jobes, Moisés Silva
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015

This comprehensive yet user-friendly primer to the Septuagint (LXX) acquaints readers with the Greek versions of the Old Testament. It is accessible to students, assuming no prior knowledge about the Septuagint, yet is also informative for seasoned scholars. The authors, both prominent Septuagint...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016

Leading Scholars Debate a Key New Testament Topic The relationship between Matthew, Mark, and Luke is one of the most contested topics in Gospel studies. How do we account for the close similarities--and differences--in the Synoptic Gospels? In the last few decades, the standard answers to...
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