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This book has been prompted by the dishonesty of much contemporary treatment of the Bible. It is not a 'debunking' of the Bible, but an attempt to show what qualities and what preliminary assumptions are needed for the Bible to be genuinely unders...

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Offers a well-nuanced and well-grounded constructive theology of Trinitarian atonement.

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A believing Christian, Hough compiled this book as an aid to prayer in a busy, modern life. It returns to the source (3rd century) of what later became known as 'Lectio Divina' in the West and the 'Jesus Prayer' in the East - w...

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In this highly original work, Elaine Pagels demonstrates how evidence from gnostic sources may challenge the assumption that Paul writes his letters to combat "gnostic opponents" and to repudiate their claims to secret wisdom. Drawing upon evidenc...

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At the center of Christianity stands the figure of Jesus and the message he embodied -- the gospel. This book seeks to make what is at the heart of the Christian religion available in a new way for our time. Excellent for parish study.

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Because the Bible is an ancient book, it invites the preacher back into its world in order to understand; because the Bible is the churchs Scripture, it moves forward into our world and addresses us here and now. from the authors Introduction

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This book is the second in a three-volume set of commentaries on all of the readings in the newly revices Common Lectionary, including all alternate readings.

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This book represents a continuation of study, debate, and conversation, particularly within the Episcopal Church in the U.S., concerning the authority and function of the Bible in the church.

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Professor Borg, a nationally known Jesus scholar, offers an accessible guide through the growing maze of literature and research on Jesus. A welcome resource for libraries and researchers, the book focuses on the renaissance in Jesus studies in th...

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This is the third and final volume in the comprehensive three-volume set of commentaries on all of the lectionary texts for Sunday reading (including the Psalms) and for special days in all communions, treating the readings for each year in a sing...

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While the commentaries in this book build on detailed and precise scholarly knowledge concerning the New Testament, they do not presuppose knowledge of the original Greek New Testament or of the Hebrew scriptures. Rather, they attempt to provide c...

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This work applies insights from the social sciences and from Greco-Roman rhetoric to Philippians, distilling the benefits of these new disciplines for the study of this letter.

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Although now an Anglican priest and head of one of the prestigious colleges in Cambridge University, John Polkinghorne has spent most of his adult life working as a theoretical physicist. He is therefore uniquely qualified to set forth the relatio...

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This is a book for people who are grieving, specifically for those who in their grieving are searching for answers to questions that might be called "religious," for those who want to find hope when their world appears to be falling apart. A uniqu...

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Horsley (classics and religion, U. of Mass.-Boston) studies the basic political and economic relations that prevailed in Roman Palestine, focusing on implications for the residents of Galilee. He looks at the roots of Galilean independence, the ci...

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These lively commentaries offer serious students of the New Testament fresh translations and in-depth insights to the New Testament writings. The series analyzes the historical and cultural contexts of the biblical texts and examines the role that...

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In this addition to the NTC series, Luke Timothy Johnson calls attention to the fact that the three letters of Paul to his delegates Timothy and Titus do not make easy reading. Why? Because they are written in a context completely different from o...

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These lively commentaries offer serious students of the New Testament fresh translations and in-depth insights to the New Testament writings. The series analyzes the historical and cultural contexts of the biblical texts and examines the role that...

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The Book of Revelation is one of the most difficult of biblical books to understand, depicting the clash of cosmic powers, the interplay of bizarre images, and the specific problems of particular churches in the Roman province of Asia. Despite its...

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The first part of the book deals with Israel in the theology of Judaism, Israel as a kingdom of priests and holy nation, Israel as family, and Israel as (Christian) Rome. The second part examines Jesus and the absence of Israel, the Israel of Jame...

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Frederick Houk Borsch is Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. He formerly taught at Princeton University where he was Dean of the Chapel and at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific where he was also Dean and President.

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In this book Vernon K. Robbins provides an accessible introduction to socio-rhetorical criticism, illustrating the method by guiding the reader through the study of specific New Testament texts and stories. An opening chapter outlines this new app...

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This is an absorbing and exceptionally perceptive account of how deep symbols or words of power, which tend to be a culture's normative language, have undergone diminishment in contemporary postmodern society. Edward Farley explains that such dimi...

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Here is a thoroughly original work on the meaning of teaching by one who has been widely credited with reshaping the field of religious education in the United States, and to have had a significant effect also in many other countries. Part 1 estab...

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The urgent question for Christian mission in North America today has to do with churches and congregations and the crisis of their identity in the culture of modernity. According to Alan J. Roxburgh, the church has shifted from the center of cultu...

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Well-known liturgical scholar and writer Philip Pfatteicher turns his attention in this book to "liturgical spirituality" as distinct from "liturgy and spirituality," which assumes two essentially separate disciplines. "Liturgical spirituality" is...

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A resourceful and thorough study of an important issue in New Testament and systematic theology, this book is one that takes human action and reception into full account. Where does God's revelation reside--in the event or in the interpretation? I...

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This is a study of eleven character-shaping incidents in Matthew related to the disciples. In introducing the study, Richard Edwards points out that Matthews story does not focus primarily on the disciples. It is, instead, a story of the life of J...

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