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by Mary Healy, Peter Williamson, Mary Healy
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Well-respected New Testament scholar and popular speaker Mary Healy unpacks the Letter to the Hebrews, making its difficult and puzzling passages accessible to pastoral ministers, lay readers, and students. Her commentary shows how Hebrews reveals the meaning of Christ's death in light of the Old...
Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross
Contemporary Images of the Atonement
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Because many modern Christians can offer a reasonable explanation of the meaning of Jesus' death on the cross, they find it hard to understand the confusion displayed by the disciples after the events in the last pages of the Gospels. But if Paul were alive today, he would find it inexplicable that...
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...
Paul's Idea of Community
The Early House Churches in Their Cultural Setting, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1994
Robert Banks's widely read Paul's Idea of Community: The Early House Churches in Their Cultural Setting is once again available to laypeople, pastors, and scholars alike. In this extensively revised edition Banks has rewritten chapters for clarity, taken into account recent scholarship on Paul's writings,...
A Case for Historic Premillennialism
An Alternative to "Left Behind" Eschatology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Many evangelical readers who have learned the basics of eschatology from popular authors and more recently from novelists assume that dispensational premillennialism, with its distinctive teachings about the pretribulation rapture of the church, is the only reliable view of the end times and the return...
The Old Testament and Ethics
A Book-by-Book Survey
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
The acclaimed Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics (DSE), written to respond to the movement among biblical scholars and ethicists to recover the Bible for moral formation, offered needed orientation and perspective on the vital relationship between Scripture and ethics. This book-by-book survey of...
The New Testament and Ethics
A Book-by-Book Survey
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This convenient text utilizes material from the well-received Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics to introduce students to the use of the New Testament for moral formation. This handy and affordable book-by-book survey of the New Testament contains key articles written by leading scholars and targeted...
At Home in a Strange Land
Using the Old Testament in Christian Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
The Old Testament is a problem for many Christians. Some find it puzzling, or even offensive; others seem to glibly misuse it for their own ends. There are few resources aimed at enabling ordinary Christians to understand the OT and use it in their lives as followers of Jesus.
In this book...
As Christ Submits to the Church
A Biblical Understanding of Leadership and Mutual Submission
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
What does the Bible really say about gender, the ethics of submission, and male-female roles? In this book, well-regarded theologian Alan Padgett offers a fresh approach to the debate. Through his careful interpretation of Paul's letters and broader New Testament teaching, the author shows how Christ's...
A New Testament Biblical Theology
The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
In this comprehensive exposition, a leading New Testament scholar explores the unfolding theological unity of the entire Bible from the vantage point of the New Testament. G. K. Beale, coeditor of the award-winning Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, examines how the New Testament...
by Bill T. Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
This accessible introduction to the Book of Genesis examines introductory issues, overarching themes, and the overall argument of the book.
Encountering the Book of Psalms (Encountering Biblical Studies)
A Literary and Theological Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
According to author Hassell Bullock, "No collection of poems has ever exercised as much influence on the Western world as the Book of Psalms." The attraction for Jews, Christians, and others is surely the personal element that pervades these poems, which describe the human situation in all...
by Donald A. Hagner
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The Understanding the Bible Commentary Series helps readers navigate the strange and sometimes intimidating literary terrain of the Bible. These accessible volumes break down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds so that the power and meaning of the biblical texts become transparent to...
by John Goldingay
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
The book of Isaiah depicts for its readers what happens when Isaiah volunteers to become Yahweh's gofer--when he acts and speaks on Yahweh's behalf with Yahweh's authority. In this careful and insightful commentary on Isaiah, Goldingay unfolds the voices and messages of those prophetic actions and...