Bible Study

By North, J. Lionel; North, J. Lionel; Moyise, Steve

ISBN-10: 0567323951

ISBN-13: 9780567323958

ISBN-10: 1283196816

ISBN-13: 9781283196819

ISBN-10: 184127061X

ISBN-13: 9781841270616

This selection of papers from individuals of the 'Use of the previous testomony within the New testomony' seminar (held at St Deinid's, Hawarden, Wales) has been commissioned to honour its retiring chairperson, J.L. North. It contains contributions through Michael Goulder (Isaiah 61), Joel Marcus (Matthew), Maurice Casey (Christology), George Brooke (Parables), Judith Lieu (John), Peter Doble (Acts), Morna Hooker (Philippians), John O'Neill (Galatians), Ivor Jones (2 Thessalonians), Martin Menken (Matthew) and Steve Moyise (Intertextuality). BLURB AS REWRITTEN via PRD eleven JANUARY 2000: it's renowned, yet now not continuously preferred that the 'Bible' of the earliest Christians used to be the previous testomony. How did the hot testomony writers justify their religion within the risen Messiah from those Jewish scriptures? during this ebook, exclusive biblical students provide solutions to those questions, either more often than not phrases and from particular examples. lower than assessment come person New testomony writers (Matthew, Paul, John) and critical topics (the Anointed One, monogamy and divorce), whereas an important passages akin to John eleven, Isaiah sixty six and Revelation 12 are positioned less than the microscope. This assortment demonstrates the ingenuity and power of early Christian scriptural exegesis, and gives the reader an up to the moment photograph of the newest study in a single of the crucial problems with New testomony literary and theological study.

By Karl Barth

ISBN-10: 0567090132

ISBN-13: 9780567090133

Described via Pope Pius XII because the most crucial theologian in view that Thomas Aquinas, the Swiss pastor and theologian, Karl Barth, remains to be an incredible impact on scholars, students and preachers today.

Barth's theology chanced on its expression regularly via his heavily reasoned fourteen-part magnum opus, Die Kirchliche Dogmatik. Having taken over 30 years to jot down, the Church Dogmatics is considered probably the most vital theological works of all time, and represents the head of Barth's success as a theologian.

By Ernest Jackh

By Johannes Nissen, Sigfred Pedersen

ISBN-10: 185075974X

ISBN-13: 9781850759744

By Stephen J. Plant

Bonhoeffer's theology keeps to end up richly fruitful within the twenty first century. This ebook gathers jointly Stephen Plant's scholarly engagement with Bonhoeffer's lifestyles and theology over twenty years. This assortment makes obtainable Plant's special point of view on Bonhoeffer's theology, specifically at the key subject matters of biblical exegesis, ethics and the intimate connections Bonhoeffer discerns among them.

By Patrick Laude

ISBN-10: 0941532747

ISBN-13: 9780941532747

This groundbreaking publication underlines the primordial richness of language by way of focusing upon the non secular features in poetry which serve to bridge the human and the Divine.

By Gary N. Knoppers, Kenneth Ristau

ISBN-10: 1575061651

ISBN-13: 9781575061658

By Stratos E. Constantinidis

ISBN-10: 0786425806

ISBN-13: 9780786425808

This is often an anthology representing the simplest of the 124 papers provided on the twenty ninth Comparative Drama convention (California country collage, Northridge). A three-day occasion, the convention drew students from seventy eight universities and schools from around the world.

The papers integrated the following current study approximately drama in eire, Greece, [England], jap Europe, Korea, Japan and North the US.

By Isaac Asimov, Rafael Palacios

Outdated testomony

By David W. Kling

ISBN-10: 0195310217

ISBN-13: 9780195310214

Nobody can doubt that the Bible has exerted a big effect on Western civilization because the sunrise of Christianity. yet few folks have thought of definitely the right nature of that impression specifically historic contexts. during this ebook, David Kling lines the attention-grabbing tale of ways particular biblical texts have at diversified occasions emerged to be the muse of hobbies that experience replaced the process historical past. by way of interpreting 8 such pivotal texts, Kling elucidates the ways that sacred texts proceed to form our lives in addition to our background. one of the passages he discusses are: * "Upon this rock i'm going to construct my church" (Matthew 16:18), which impressed the formation of the papacy and has served as its beginning for hundreds of years * "The righteous will reside through religion" (Romans 1:17), which stuck the mind's eye of Martin Luther and sparked the Protestant Reformation * "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord: permit my humans pass, so they may possibly worship me'" (Exodus 8:1), which has performed an immense and numerous function in African American background from early slave spirituals throughout the sleek civil rights stream and past * "There is not any longer Jew or Greek, there's no longer slave or loose, there's no longer female and male; for all of you're one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:28), which has been followed by means of feminists as a rallying cry within the conflict for women's ordination all the old episodes he explores--from the start of Christian monasticism to the emergence of Pentecostalism--is proof of the dynamic interaction among Scripture and the social and cultural context within which it truly is interpreted. Kling's leading edge research of this approach exhibits how sacred texts can provide lifestyles to social activities, and the way strong social forces can provide new desiring to Scripture.