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Household Conversion Narratives in Acts - Pattern and Interpretation (Hardcover): David Matson Household Conversion Narratives in Acts - Pattern and Interpretation (Hardcover)
David Matson
R4,570 Discovery Miles 45 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Using features of the narrative-critical method, this book offers an innovative approach to a notable phenomenon in the book of Acts: the conversion of entire households to the Christian faith. When viewed against the household mission of the seventy(-two) messengers in Luke, the stories of Cornelius, Lydia, the Roman jailer and Crispus comprise a pattern of evangelistic activity that provides a common framework for their interpretation. Repetition and variation of the pattern offer important clues for the way each story functions within the wider context of Acts, opening up new lines of interpretation as well as new levels of unity/disunity between the Lukan writings.

SonLight - Daily Light from the Pages of God's Word (Hardcover): Sam Polson SonLight - Daily Light from the Pages of God's Word (Hardcover)
Sam Polson; Contributions by Lisa Soland
R908 Discovery Miles 9 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
God is in the Kitchen (Hardcover): Ginger Estavillo Umali God is in the Kitchen (Hardcover)
Ginger Estavillo Umali
R1,035 Discovery Miles 10 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
When We Worship - A Practical Guide on How to Worship God at Home (Hardcover): Cheryl Anderson Hanes When We Worship - A Practical Guide on How to Worship God at Home (Hardcover)
Cheryl Anderson Hanes
R809 Discovery Miles 8 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Meditations on the Letters of Paul - Exercises in Biblical Theology (Hardcover): Herold Weiss Meditations on the Letters of Paul - Exercises in Biblical Theology (Hardcover)
Herold Weiss
R866 R755 Discovery Miles 7 550 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Be Still - A Pregnancy Bed Rest Devotional (Hardcover): Stacey Pylman Be Still - A Pregnancy Bed Rest Devotional (Hardcover)
Stacey Pylman
R971 Discovery Miles 9 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Like Grapes of Gold Set in Silver - An Interpretation of Proverbial Clusters in Proverbs 10:1-22:16 (Hardcover, Reprint 2012):... Like Grapes of Gold Set in Silver - An Interpretation of Proverbial Clusters in Proverbs 10:1-22:16 (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
Knut Martin Heim
R4,723 R4,229 Discovery Miles 42 290 Save R494 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Exegetical study of Proverbs 10:1-22:16. Proverbs are neither statements of this-worldly cause and effect nor universally applicable doctrines of divine order. Rather, a proverb's meaning and 'truth' are conditioned by the context. The author delimits sections which the editor(s) of the collection consciously grouped together in their present sequence. He then examines how these literary arrangements both influence the meaning of the individual proverbs and determine their function in context. Indexes of names, passages and subjects are included.

The Rhythm of Life (Hardcover, New edition): David Adam The Rhythm of Life (Hardcover, New edition)
David Adam
R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Life has its rhythms. We all need to be able to cope with its ebb as well as its flow. We have to survive its darkness as well as its light. We face dry times as well as times of richness. To survive this intricate pattern, we need to have an overriding rhythm of prayer. We need to know that whatever is happening, we are loved by God, and in him we live and move and have our being. "This updated gift edition of one of David Adam's most popular books features new, specially commissioned drawings."

Taking Away the Pound - Women, Theology and the Parable of the Pounds in the Gospel of Luke (Hardcover): Elizabeth V. Dowling Taking Away the Pound - Women, Theology and the Parable of the Pounds in the Gospel of Luke (Hardcover)
Elizabeth V. Dowling
R5,613 Discovery Miles 56 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Against the majority opinion, this study argues that the Lukan Parable of the Talents (Lk 19.11-28) is a story about the use and abuse of power. The parable is also the story of those who suffer adverse consequences when they oppose unjust power structures. This suppression of challenge to oppressive structures evidenced in the Parable of the Pounds fits a pattern that operates in other parts of the Lukan Gospel. We meet it, for example, in the arrest and killing of John the Baptist by Herod, and in the arrest and crucifixion of Jesus. The Parable of the Pounds can be seen as a paradigm for the stories of those characters in the Lukan Gospel who 'lose their pound' when they challenge an oppressive structure, where 'pound' becomes a metaphor for what one has that can be potentially taken away by those in a position of power. This study argues that this pattern of 'taking away the pound' is also seen within stories of women characters who resist patriarchal ideals and expectations. The Parable of the Pounds is used as a lens through which to view the characterizations of Lukan women. New lenses provide new opportunities for perception. This study explores what is opened up by this way of viewing the text. In particular, it explores the ways in which the dynamic of the Parable of the Pounds gives insight into the dynamic operating in the Lukan women's characterizations. LNTS

Thinking on God` - The God Who Serves Those Who Serve Him (Hardcover): Don Ruhl Thinking on God` - The God Who Serves Those Who Serve Him (Hardcover)
Don Ruhl
R850 Discovery Miles 8 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hebrew Word Study, 1 - Revealing the Heart of God (Hardcover): Chaim Bentorah Hebrew Word Study, 1 - Revealing the Heart of God (Hardcover)
Chaim Bentorah
R674 R617 Discovery Miles 6 170 Save R57 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jesus Knows Your Name - Walking in the Presence of God. (Hardcover): Christopher Caleb Jesus Knows Your Name - Walking in the Presence of God. (Hardcover)
Christopher Caleb
R715 R632 Discovery Miles 6 320 Save R83 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
God's Scoundrels and Misfits (Hardcover): Michael Braswell, Clemens Bartollas God's Scoundrels and Misfits (Hardcover)
Michael Braswell, Clemens Bartollas; Foreword by John Michael Helms
R981 R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Save R150 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature (Hardcover): Hannibal Hamlin Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature (Hardcover)
Hannibal Hamlin
R2,829 Discovery Miles 28 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature examines the powerful influence of the biblical Psalms on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature. It explores the imaginative, beautiful, ingenious and sometimes ludicrous and improbable ways in which the Psalms were 'translated' from ancient Israel to Renaissance and Reformation England. No biblical book was more often or more diversely translated than the Psalms during the period. In church psalters, sophisticated metrical paraphrases, poetic adaptations, meditations, sermons, commentaries, and through biblical allusions in secular poems, plays, and prose fiction, English men and women interpreted the Psalms, refashioning them according to their own personal, religious, political, or aesthetic agendas. The book focuses on literature from major writers like Shakespeare and Milton to less prominent ones like George Gascoigne, Mary Sidney Herbert and George Wither, but it also explores the adaptations of the Psalms in musical settings, emblems, works of theology and political polemic.

Portraits of Providence - For People in Potholes (Hardcover): Steve Stewart Th D Portraits of Providence - For People in Potholes (Hardcover)
Steve Stewart Th D
R1,050 Discovery Miles 10 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Dog Psalms - Prayers my dogs have taught me (Hardcover, 2nd New edition): Herbert Brokering Dog Psalms - Prayers my dogs have taught me (Hardcover, 2nd New edition)
Herbert Brokering
R284 R261 Discovery Miles 2 610 Save R23 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

"I know dogs in my life the way I know people and cats and trees and landscapes. Dogs help me shape my thoughts, feelings, and prayer life. Dogs have taught me attributes I feel in myself when reflecting and praying. "Dogs have shown me the spirit of being loyal, glad, overwhelmed, protective, committed, vigilant, patient, kind, energetic, discerning, forgiving. Unfolding these attributes of dog life opens my own spiritual being. My relationship with dog mirrors my relationship with God." In Dog Psalms the reader can use a dog's attributes to speak to God.

The Finger of God and Pneumatology in Luke-Acts (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Edward Woods The Finger of God and Pneumatology in Luke-Acts (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Edward Woods
R6,305 Discovery Miles 63 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Woods examines Luke's use of the unusual phrase 'Finger of God' at Lk. 11.20 as a key to understanding the role of the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts. Luke's interest in the Holy Spirit is well-known, so when instead of having Jesus say,' It I cast out devils by the Spirit of God...', as Matthew has it, he writes, 'If I by the finger of God..', Luke poses a question that has puzzled many commentators since. Woods argues that in fact the phrase finger of God' holds the key to understanding the role of the Spirit in Luke-Acts. Taking into account the background to the phrase. Luke's larger theological interests within the Beelzebub section itself, the Travel Narrative, and the programme of Luke-Acts as a whole, he offers a new solution to an old exegetical question.

The Message of John - Here Is Your King (Paperback, Revised edition): Bruce Milne The Message of John - Here Is Your King (Paperback, Revised edition)
Bruce Milne
R411 R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Save R33 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

John's Gospel has had an incalculable impact on human history. Its pages contain a moral and spiritual potency which, over the centuries, has transformed communities, brought about political change and remade human character on a scale without precedent. The power remains in the Gospel today. At its centre, as at the centre of his exposition, is Jesus Christ in his glory and grace, majesty and tenderness. Bruce Milne believes that we can experience his presence even today, for the Gospel was 'written that ... you may have life in his name'. The Gospel of John is a witness to the King, as much a tract for our times as for John's. Bruce Milne's exposition focuses on the ministry of Jesus before his incarnation, during his life on earth and after his resurrection. The centrepiece of this Gospel is the cross, and its background the solemnity of God's judgment of the world.

Jesus - Why He Spoke in Parables (Hardcover): Carlo Maria Martini Jesus - Why He Spoke in Parables (Hardcover)
Carlo Maria Martini; Translated by Salesians of Don Bosco
R965 Discovery Miles 9 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Reading First Peter with New Eyes - Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of First Peter (Hardcover): Robert L. Webb,... Reading First Peter with New Eyes - Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of First Peter (Hardcover)
Robert L. Webb, Betsy Bauman-Martin
R5,607 Discovery Miles 56 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Reading First Peter with New Eyes" is the second of four volumes that incorporate essays examining the impact of recent methodological advances in New Testament studies of the letters of James, 1 and 2 Peter and Jude. It includes rhetorical, social-scientific, socio-rhetorical, ideological and hermeneutical methods, as they contribute to understanding First Peter and its social context. Each essay has a similar three-fold structure, ideal for use by students: a description of the methodological approach; the application of the methodological approach to First Peter; and a conclusion identifying how the methodological approach contributes to a fresh understanding of the letter. "Reading First Peter with New Eyes" follows on from the first volume in the series, "Reading James With New Eyes", edited by Robert, L. Webb and John S. Kloppenborg.

Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought (Hardcover): Philip C. Almond Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought (Hardcover)
Philip C. Almond
R2,708 Discovery Miles 27 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book offers a fascinating account of the central myth of Western culture - the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Philip Almond examines the way in which the gaps, hints and illusions within this biblical story were filled out in seventeenth-century English thought. At this time, the Bible formed a fundamental basis for studies in all subjects, and influenced greatly the way that people understood the world. Drawing extensively on primary sources he covers subjects as diverse as theology, history, philosophy, botany, language, anthropology, geology, vegetarianism, and women. He demonstrates the way in which the story of Adam and Eve was the fulcrum around which moved lively discussions on topics such as the place and nature of Paradise, the date of creation, the nature of Adamic language, the origins of the American Indians, agrarian communism, and the necessity and meaning of love, labour and marriage.

Bible Study Notes (Hardcover): Edward Aboderin Bible Study Notes (Hardcover)
Edward Aboderin
R1,128 R962 Discovery Miles 9 620 Save R166 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Torn Veil - Matthew's Exposition of the Death of Jesus (Hardcover): Daniel M. Gurtner The Torn Veil - Matthew's Exposition of the Death of Jesus (Hardcover)
Daniel M. Gurtner
R2,825 Discovery Miles 28 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this 2006 text, Daniel M. Gurtner examines the meaning of the rending of the veil at the death of Jesus in Matthew 27:51a by considering the functions of the veil in the Old Testament and its symbolism in Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism. Gurtner incorporates these elements into a compositional exegesis of the rending text in Matthew. He concludes that the rending of the veil is an apocalyptic assertion like the opening of heaven revealing, in part, end-time images drawn from Ezekiel 37. Moreover, when the veil is torn Matthew depicts the cessation of its function, articulating the atoning role of Christ's death which gives access to God not simply in the sense of entering the Holy of Holies (as in Hebrews), but in trademark Matthean Emmanuel Christology: 'God with us'. This underscores the significance of Jesus' atoning death in the first gospel.

Waiting for the Train - Biblical Food for Growing Before Going (Hardcover): Josh McDowell Waiting for the Train - Biblical Food for Growing Before Going (Hardcover)
Josh McDowell; Storyteller
R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Samaritan Mission in Acts (Hardcover): V.J. Samkutty The Samaritan Mission in Acts (Hardcover)
V.J. Samkutty
R6,301 Discovery Miles 63 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The portrait of the Samaritan mission in Acts 8:4-25 is the climax of various Lukan episodes involving the Samaritans. This work shows that the function of this portrait makes better sense in light of the historical context of the Samaritans up to and including the New Testament period, and of Luke's special interest in the Samaritans as depicted in his Gospel. A review of the socio-ethnic and religious contexts of the Samaritans points to the conclusion that they struggled to establish the legitimacy of their identity and status as a people. In some Jewish circles, they were considered as socially outcasts, ethnically foreigners, and religiously apostates, syncretists and idolaters. From a Jewish point of view, any unplanned and unauthorised mission of the church to Samaritans could cast doubts on the legitimacy of the mission itself and of nascent Samaritan Christianity. In his Gospel, Luke uses the Samaritan references to defend the legitimacy of the Samaritans and their status as part of Israel, and to portray Jesus' anticipation of a future mission to them. His literary ability and theological interest includes the Samaritans in the anticipated eschatological and soteriological plan of God. Thus, he attempts to reverse the popular anti-Samaritan feelings of some Jews, as well as the saying in Mt. 10:5, making them neighbours who show mercy and also true worshippers of God, who obey the Law. In Acts 8:4-25, Luke defends the divine origin and legitimacy of both the mission and Samaritan Christianity. He sets the mission in accordance with the commission of Jesus and in the divine context of persecution. He shows the kerygmatic and pneumatic legitimacy of Philips's ministry, the apostolic legitimacy of the Jerusalem apostles, and the purity of the new community in the way Simon was dealth with. This rhetorical and theological function of Acts 8:4-25 using an anticipation-legitimation device may suggest an apologetic purpose of Luke.

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