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New Testament Studies offers a unified approach and a selection of
excellent articles that is in no way constrained by theological
positions. The aim of this four-volume set is to provide a rich
teaching and learning resource which generates a real knowledge
transfer based on the best recent New Testament scholarship.
Volume I covers two areas, issues of methodology and recent
advances in historical Jesus research. The former area both lays
the basic groundwork for engaging in the study of the ancient texts
that form the New Testament, but also collects together some of the
more creative reading strategies that have been applied to New
Testament texts over the last few decades. Further, research into
the central figure of the New Testament has a long history, and
there has been renewed interest and fresh advances in this area
over the last twenty years that have reshaped the questions that
are being explored. Volume II looks specifically at the four
canonical Gospels. The volume opens with articles that deal with
general issues such as questions of genre, audience and purpose
before presenting articles that deal with the individual texts.
Also the recent application of social-memory theory to Gospel texts
will be highlighted. Volume III perhaps covers the topic that has
seen the greatest amount of literature published during the last
three decades - the person and letters of Paul the apostle. Three
central areas which will be addressed are: (i) the life and
self-understanding of Paul; (ii) his theological understandings;
and (iii) the purpose of his writings and the issues they raise.
Volume IV is not an assembly of disparate voices, but actually
reflects one of the most important developments in the study of the
New Testament and Early Christianity. Namely, it allows for the
appreciation of the diverse expressions of faith that represented
the Jesus movement in the first two centuries.
A healthy church is a church in which every member--young and
old, mature and immature--unites around the wonderful good news of
salvation through Jesus Christ. Toward that end, this study pays
close attention to the gospel as defined in Romans 1-4.
Participants will learn the Bible's teaching on God, man, Christ,
and our response, and see how these truths apply to the practices
of the local church.
A series of ten 6-7 week studies covering the nine distinctives
of a healthy church as originally laid out in Nine Marks of a
Healthy Church by Mark Dever. This series explores the biblical
foundations of key aspects of the church, helping Christians to
live out those realities as members of a local body. Conveniently
packaged and accessibly written, the format of this series is
guided, inductive discussion of Scripture passages and is ideal for
use in Sunday school, church-wide studies, or small group
contexts.
This careful, sometimes innovative, mid-level commentary touches on
an astonishingly wide swath of important, sensitive issues
theological and pastoral that have urgent resonances in
twenty-first-century life. Roy Ciampa and Brian Rosner reveal how 1
Corinthians directly addresses the claims of unity and truth,
church discipline, sexual matters, the Lords supper, the nature of
love, Christian leadership, and many other significant topics.
Those who preach and teach 1 Corinthians will be grateful to Ciampa
and Rosner for years to come and scholars will be challenged to see
this letter with fresh eyes.
In the epistle to the Colossians, Paul offers a comprehensive
vision of the Christian life; his claims transcend religion and
bring politics, culture, spirituality, power, ethnicity, and more
into play. This exegetical and theological commentary by Scot
McKnight delves deeply into Paul's message in Colossians and draws
out the theology that underpins it. McKnight interacts closely with
the text of Colossians itself while bringing the best of biblical
scholarship to the table. He focuses on reading Colossians in the
context of Paul's other letters, his theology, and his mission to
preach the gospel to the Gentiles. Crafted specifically for
preachers and teachers, this engaging and accessible commentary
offers fresh light on Colossians.
St Paul was a pivotal and controversial figure in the fledgling
Jesus movement of the first century. The New Cambridge Companion to
St Paul provides an invaluable entryway into the study of Paul and
his letters. Composed of sixteen essays by an international team of
scholars, it explores some of the key issues in the current study
of his dynamic and demanding theological discourse. The volume
first examines Paul's life and the first-century context in which
he and his communities lived. Contributors then analyze particular
writings by comparing and contrasting at least two selected
letters, while thematic essays examine topics of particular
importance, including how Paul read scripture, his relation to
Judaism and monotheism, why his message may have been attractive to
first-century audiences, how his message was elaborated in various
ways in the first four centuries, and how his theological discourse
might relate to contemporary theological discourse and ideological
analysis today.
How can we understand God's revelation to us? Throughout the
church's history, theologians have often answered this question by
appealing to a doctrine of illumination whereby the Holy Spirit
shapes our knowledge and understanding of Scripture. Without
denying the role of the Holy Spirit or the cognitive role of
illumination, Ike Miller casts a broader vision of divine
illumination and its role in the Christian life. In his
constructive approach, Miller argues for a fully trinitarian view
of illumination that forms not just our intellect, but also appeals
to the affections and encourages our ethical action. In order to
develop this theology of illumination, he explores both Augustine's
and Karl Barth's readings of the Gospel and Epistles of John,
including Barth's previously untranslated lectures on the Gospel of
John. In light of his careful study of both the Johannine
literature and the theologies of two giants from Christian history,
Miller lays out a doctrine of illumination whereby we are enabled
to know the Father and participate in Christ by the power of the
Holy Spirit. Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture, edited by
Daniel J. Treier and Kevin J. Vanhoozer, promotes evangelical
contributions to systematic theology, seeking fresh understanding
of Christian doctrine through creatively faithful engagement with
Scripture in dialogue with church.
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In this commentary, Michael Bird and Nijay Gupta situate Paul's
letter to the Philippians within the context of his imprisonment as
well as the Philippians' situation of suffering and persecution.
Paul draws the Philippians' attention to the power and progress of
the gospel in spite of difficult circumstances. He also warns them
about the dangers of rival Christian groups who preach out of poor
motives or have a truncated gospel. Bird and Gupta unpack the rich
wisdom and theology of the Christ Hymn (2:6-11). Throughout the
commentary, they apply a broad range of exegetical tools to
interpret this letter including historical, sociological,
rhetorical, and literary analysis, and they give attention to the
reception of this important Pauline text throughout history. Bird
and Gupta also includes short reflections on the meaning of
Philippians for today.
The perfect little gift for your new little love! What better baby
shower or dedication gift than God's Word? The CSB Baby's New
Testament with Psalms will welcome baby now and become a sweet
keepsake later. Features include: Presentation page Gift boxWords
of Christ in redSilver page edgesNew Testament and Psalms in the
CSB (Christian Standard Bible). Part of what makes the CSB Baby's
New Testament special is the text of the Christian Standard Bible.
The CSBs optimal blend of accuracy and readability makes it a
trustworthy, easy-to-understand resource for kids to study and
memorise today -- and to live and share for a lifetime.
Jon Courson is one of the most exhilarating ministers today. In his
unique style, Pastor Jon has written an Old Testament commentary
that is a scholarly work, but is easy to read and makes practical
applications for us in our daily walk with Jesus. This volume
begins Jon Courson's verse-by-verse commentary on the Old
Testament. It is your opportunity to study the Bible with one of
the great Bible teachers of our time.
The Gospel of John is renowned for the challenges it presents to
interpreters: its historical complexity, theological and literary
unity, and its consistently critical stance toward characters known
as 'the Jews'. There is abundant scholarly literature on each of
these challenges, and yet there are very few studies that consider
the Gospel as a whole in light of these pressing issues. Mark
Blumhofer offers a fresh approach to understanding the Fourth
Gospel, one that draws together the insights of scholarship in all
of these areas. He shows that a historically sensitive, ethically
attuned, and theologically and literarily compelling reading of the
Fourth Gospel lies before us in the synthesis of the approaches
that have long been separated. Unlike studies that consider only a
narrow portion of the Gospel, Blumhofer's unique approach draws on
most of it and shows how common themes and interests run throughout
the narrative of John.
The story of the making of the New Testament is one in which
scrolls bumped across cobbled Roman roads and pitched through
rolling Mediterranean seas, finally finding their destinations in
stuffy, dimly lit Christian house churches in Corinth or Colossae.
There they were read aloud and reread, handled and copied,
forwarded and collected, studied and treasured. And eventually they
were brought together to make up our New Testament. This revised
and expanded edition of The Making of the New Testament is a
textbook introduction to the origin, collection, copying and
canonizing of the New Testament documents. Like shrewd detectives
reading subtle whispers of evidence, biblical scholars have studied
the trail of clues and pieced together the story of these books.
Arthur Patzia tells the story, answering our many questions: * How
were books and documents produced in the first century? * What
motivated the early Christians to commit teaching and narrative and
vision to papyrus? * How were the stories and sayings of Jesus
circulated, handed down and shaped into Gospels? * What do we know
about ancient letter writing, secretaries and aEURO~copy shopsaEURO
(TM)? * Why were four Gospels included instead of just one? * How
were Paul's letters, sent here and there, gathered into a single
collection? * Who decided - and by what criteria - which documents
would be included in the New Testament? Explore these questions and
more about these Scriptures whose everyday, gritty story rings true
to their extraordinary message: the palpable mystery of the Word
made flesh.
Scholar and author Andrew David Naselli traces Paul's argument for
the gospel throughout this concise guide to the book of Romans,
providing accessible commentary and unpacking the text verse by
verse.
In recent decades Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Zizek
have shown the centrality of Paul to western political and
philosophical thought and made the Apostle a central figure in
left-wing discourses far removed from traditional theological
circles. Yet the recovery of Paul beyond Christian theology owes a
great deal to the writings of the Jewish rabbi and philosopher
Jacob Taubes (1923-1987). Pauline Ugliness shows how Paul became an
effective tool for Taubes to position himself within European
philosophical debates of the twentieth century. Drawing on
Nietzsche's polemical readings of the ancient apostle as well as
Freud's psychoanalysis, Taubes developed an imaginative and
distinct account of political theology in confrontations with Carl
Schmitt, Theodor Adorno, Hans Blumenberg, and others. In a powerful
reconsideration of the apostle, Taubes contested the conventional
understanding of Paul as the first Christian who broke definitively
with Judaism and drained Christianity of its political potential.
As a Jewish rabbi steeped in a philosophical tradition marked by
European Christianity, Taubes was, on the contrary, able to
emphasize Paul's Jewishness as well as the political explosiveness
of his revolutionary doctrine of the cross. This book establishes
Taubes's account of Paul as a turning point in the development of
political theology. Loland shows how Taubes identified the Pauline
movement as the birth of a politics of ugliness, the invention of a
revolutionary criticism of the 'beautiful' culture of the powerful
that sides instead with the oppressed.
"This important study is the fruit of a lifetime of reflection,
teaching, and writing on Paul. . . . [This is] the work of a mature
master of his trade who has a firm grasp of an issue crucial to an
understanding of the Pauline view. . . . A beautifully crafted
publication."--Francis J. Moloney, SBD, Australasian Catholic
Record This major contribution to Pauline scholarship by a
widely-respected New Testament scholar is the culmination of over
forty years of teaching on Paul. Brendan Byrne demonstrates that
topics often discussed in Pauline studies and Christian theology go
astray when the significance of the last judgment falls from view.
Offering a fresh Catholic perspective that engages with centuries
of Protestant interpretation, this book recaptures the significance
of the motif of the last judgment for the interpretation of Paul.
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The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical
scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a
commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series
emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural,
and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced
insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical
theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional
resources for the professional theologian and instructor, the
seminary or university student, the working minister, and everyone
concerned with building theological understanding from a solid base
of biblical scholarship. Overview of Commentary Organization
Introduction-covers issues pertaining to the whole book, including
context, date, authorship, composition, interpretive issues,
purpose, and theology. Each section of the commentary includes:
Pericope Bibliography-a helpful resource containing the most
important works that pertain to each particular pericope.
Translation-the author's own translation of the biblical text,
reflecting the end result of exegesis and attending to Hebrew and
Greek idiomatic usage of words, phrases, and tenses, yet in
reasonably good English. Notes-the author's notes to the
translation that address any textual variants, grammatical forms,
syntactical constructions, basic meanings of words, and problems of
translation. Form/Structure/Setting-a discussion of redaction,
genre, sources, and tradition as they concern the origin of the
pericope, its canonical form, and its relation to the biblical and
extra-biblical contexts in order to illuminate the structure and
character of the pericope. Rhetorical or compositional features
important to understanding the passage are also introduced here.
Comment-verse-by-verse interpretation of the text and dialogue with
other interpreters, engaging with current opinion and scholarly
research. Explanation-brings together all the results of the
discussion in previous sections to expose the meaning and intention
of the text at several levels: (1) within the context of the book
itself; (2) its meaning in the OT or NT; (3) its place in the
entire canon; (4) theological relevance to broader OT or NT issues.
General Bibliography-occurring at the end of each volume, this
extensive bibliographycontains all sources used anywhere in the
commentary.
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The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical
scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a
commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series
emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural,
and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced
insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical
theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional
resources for the professional theologian and instructor, the
seminary or university student, the working minister, and everyone
concerned with building theological understanding from a solid base
of biblical scholarship. Overview of Commentary Organization
Introduction-covers issues pertaining to the whole book, including
context, date, authorship, composition, interpretive issues,
purpose, and theology. Each section of the commentary includes:
Pericope Bibliography-a helpful resource containing the most
important works that pertain to each particular pericope.
Translation-the author's own translation of the biblical text,
reflecting the end result of exegesis and attending to Hebrew and
Greek idiomatic usage of words, phrases, and tenses, yet in
reasonably good English. Notes-the author's notes to the
translation that address any textual variants, grammatical forms,
syntactical constructions, basic meanings of words, and problems of
translation. Form/Structure/Setting-a discussion of redaction,
genre, sources, and tradition as they concern the origin of the
pericope, its canonical form, and its relation to the biblical and
extra-biblical contexts in order to illuminate the structure and
character of the pericope. Rhetorical or compositional features
important to understanding the passage are also introduced here.
Comment-verse-by-verse interpretation of the text and dialogue with
other interpreters, engaging with current opinion and scholarly
research. Explanation-brings together all the results of the
discussion in previous sections to expose the meaning and intention
of the text at several levels: (1) within the context of the book
itself; (2) its meaning in the OT or NT; (3) its place in the
entire canon; (4) theological relevance to broader OT or NT issues.
General Bibliography-occurring at the end of each volume, this
extensive bibliographycontains all sources used anywhere in the
commentary.
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