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First Corinthians
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George T. Montague, Peter Williamson, Mary Healy
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In this addition to the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture
(CCSS), a seasoned scholar interprets First Corinthians for
pastoral ministers and lay readers alike. The CCSS series, which
will cover the entire New Testament, relates Scripture to life, is
faithfully Catholic, and is supplemented by features designed to
help readers understand the Bible more deeply and use it more
effectively in teaching, preaching, evangelization, and other forms
of ministry.
Praise for the CCSS
"A landmark achievement in theological interpretation of Scripture
in and for the Church. Highly recommended for all "--Michael J.
Gorman, St. Mary's Seminary and University, Baltimore
This book outlines what the Bible teaches about the Jewish people
and religion. Jewish Themes in the New Testament is an examination
of what the New Testament teaches about the Jewish people in the
era of the New Covenant. The core of that teaching is an
affirmation of God's continued faithfulness to them. In a day when
opinions regarding the Jewish people are increasingly polarised as
some stress their position centre-stage and others consign them to
the dustbin of history, this book seeks to demonstrate from the New
Testament that both extremes are wrong. This unique book considers
the theological issues, but it is concerned for much more; it is
about Jewish people and the Jews as a people, as the New Testament
sees them.
Indirect evidence, in the form of early translations ('versions')
and biblical quotations in ancient writers ('patristic citations'),
offers important testimony to the history and transmission of the
New Testament. In addition to their value as early evidence for the
Greek New Testament, versions have a textual tradition of their own
which is often of considerable historical, theological and
ecclesial significance. This volume brings together a series of
original contributions on this topic, which was the focus of the
Eleventh Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New
Testament. The research described here illustrates not just the
ongoing importance and variety of this material, but also the way
in which it may shape the theory and practice of text-critical
scholarship and lead to new insights about this vast and rich
tradition.
This monograph explores the joy theme in Luke- Acts as it relates
to the dynamics of rhetoric, narrative and emotion. The Gospel of
Luke has been called the "gospel of joy", and the joy theme has
also been recognised in Acts. This theme, though, has received
relatively little attention in NT scholarship. Joy in Luke-Acts
examines the joy theme from a socio-rhetorical vantage point,
showing that the joy theme empowers the Lukan rhetoric of reversal.
The theme is a primary method in which the narrator seeks to
persuade the reader to enter into the values and beliefs that
characterise the 'upside-down' world in which YHWH has visited his
people in Jesus.
Writing in an accessible and anecdotal style, Tom Wright helps us
to approach the rich and many-sided story of the book of Acts.
Wright shows how the book builds on Luke's gospel, laying out the
continuing work and teaching of the now risen and ascended Jesus in
the power of the Spirit. His writing captures the vivid way in
which Luke's work draws us all into the story, while leaving the
ending open and challenging, inviting Christians today to pick up
and carry on the story as we in turn live our lives in the service
of Jesus. Tom Wright has undertaken a tremendous task to provide
guides to all the books of the New Testament, and to furnish them
with his own fresh translation of the entire text. Each short
passage is followed by a highly readable discussion, with
background information, useful interpretation and explanation, and
thoughts as to how it can be relevant to our lives today. No
knowledge of technical jargon is required. The series is suitable
for personal or group use. The format makes it appropriate also for
daily study.
This book extends scholarly debate beyond the analysis of pure
historical debates and concerns to focus on the associations
between Acts and the diverse contemporaneous texts, writers, and
broader cultural phenomena in the second-century world of
Christians, Romans, Greeks, and Jews.
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The New Testament, God's Message of Goodness, Ease and Well-Being Which Brings God's Gifts of His Spirit, His Life, His Grace, His Power, His Fairness, His Peace and His Love
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Jonathan Paul Mitchell
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Christopher Armitage considers previous theological perception of 1
John as a text advocating that God abhors violence, contrasted with
biblical scholarship analysis that focuses upon the text's birth
from hostile theological conflict between 'insiders' and
'outsiders', with immensely hostile rhetoric directed towards
'antichrists' and those who have left the community. Armitage
argues that a peace-oriented reading of 1 John is still viable, but
questions if the commandment that the community loves each other is
intended to include their opponents, and whether the text can be of
hermeneutic use to advocate non-violence and love of one's
neighbour. This book examines five key words from 1 John, hilasmos,
sfazo, anthropoktonos, agape and adelphos, looking at their
background and use in the Old Testament in both Hebrew and the LXX,
arguing that these central themes presuppose a God whose engagement
with the world is not assuaging divine anger, nor ferocious defence
of truth at the expense of love, but rather peace and avoidance of
hatred that inevitably leads to violence and death. Armitage
concludes that a peacemaking hermeneutic is not only viable, but
integral to reading the epistle.
The author of Hebrews calls God 'Father' only twice in his sermon.
This fact could account for scholarship's lack of attention to the
familial dynamics that run throughout the letter. Peeler argues,
however, that by having God articulate his identity as Father
through speaking Israel's Scriptures at the very beginning and near
the end of his sermon, the author sets a familial framework around
his entire exhortation. The author enriches the picture of God's
family by continually portraying Jesus as God's Son, the audience
as God's many sons, the blessings God bestows as inheritance, and
the trials God allows as pedagogy. The recurrence of the theme
coalesces into a powerful ontological reality for the audience:
because God is the Father of Jesus Christ, they too are the sons of
God. But even more than the model of sonship, Jesus' relationship
with his Father ensures that the children of God will endure the
race of faith to a successful finish because they are an integral
part of comprehensive inheritance promised by his Father and
secured by his obedience. Because of the familial relationship
between God and Jesus, the audience of Hebrews - God's children -
can remain in the house of God forever.
Stefanos Mihalios examines the uses of the hour in the writings of
John and demonstrates the contribution of Danielic eschatology to
Johns understanding of this concept. Mihalios begins by tracing the
notion of an eschatological time in the Old Testament within
expressions such as in that time and time of distress, which also
appear in the book of Daniel and relate to the eschatological hour
found in Daniel. Mihalios finds that even within the Jewish
tradition there exists an anticipation of the fulfillment of the
Danielic eschatological time, since the eschatological hour appears
in the Jewish literature within contexts that allude to the
Danielic end-time events. Mihalios moves on to examines the
Johannine eschatological expressions and themes that have their
source in Daniel, finding evidence of clear allusions whenever the
word hour arises. Through this examination, he concludes that for
the Johannine Jesus use of the term hour indicates that the final
hour of tribulation and resurrection, as it is depicted in Daniel,
has arrived.
Jesus Becoming Jesus, Volume 3 follows upon the previous two
volumes of this series entitled Jesus Becoming Jesus. Volume 1 was
a theological interpretation of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and
Luke, and volume 2 was a theological interpretation of the Prologue
and Book of Signs of John's Gospel (chapters 1-12). Unlike many
conventional biblical commentaries, Weinandy concentrates on the
theological content contained within John's Gospel. This is
accomplished through a close reading of John's Gospel,
theologically interpreting each chapter of the Gospel sequentially.
In so doing he also takes into account the Johannine corpus as a
whole. He also relates John's Gospel to relevant material found
within the Synoptic Gospels, the Pauline Corpus and other New
Testament writings. In this present volume, Weinandy's original
theological interpretation focuses first on the Evangelist's
narrative of the Last Supper, which includes Jesus' washing of his
disciples' feet, followed upon his lengthy farewell address and his
ensuing High Priestly Prayer (chapter 13-17). Although Jesus speaks
of his leaving his disciples, yet their hearts should not be
troubled, for he is going to prepare a place for them in his
Father's house, and he will also send them another Counselor, the
Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will not only convict the world sin,
but he will also empower the disciples to profess their faith in
Jesus as the Father's Son, even in the midst of persecution. All
that Jesus tells his disciple in his final discourse, he then prays
that his Father will accomplish through his forthcoming death and
resurrection-above all that his disciples will share in the same
oneness of love that he and his Father possess. Weinandy
masterfully treats John's Passion and Resurrection Narratives. He
not only theologically interprets the uniqueness of the
Evangelist's narratives, but also how his narratives insect with
the Synoptic accounts. Moreover, Weinandy's theological reading of
Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection weaves together John's
soteriology, ecclesiology, and sacramentality-all of which are
founded upon the Incarnation, that Jesus is the Father's
Spirit-filled incarnate Son. As the title suggests, Jesus, being
named Jesus, in his death and resurrection, definitively enacts his
name and so becoming who he is-YHWH-Saves.
It has been slowly dawning on me over many years that there is a
fundamental problem deep at the heart of Christian faith and
practice as I have known it . . . we have all forgotten what the
four gospels are about'. With this surprising and radical
assertion, highly respected theologian and former Bishop of Durham
Tom Wright launches a groundbreaking work sure to shake up and
revolutionise much Christian thinking on the very heart and meaning
of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Tom Wright leads us, intelligently
and graciously to seeing the new reality of the gospel story; one
that is so explosive that the church in many generations has found
it too much to take and so has watered it down rather than allowing
its full impact to be felt.
This text brings together in one volume two previous books that
laid the groundwork for the construction of the entries in
Diccionario Griego-Espanol del Nuevo Testamento (Greek-Spanish
Dictionary of the New Testament), namely Metodo de Analisis
semantico aplicado al griego del Nuevo Testamento (Method of
Semantic Analysis applied to the Greek of the New Testament) and
Metodologia del Diccionario Griego Espanol del Nuevo Testamento
(Methodology of the Greek Spanish Dictionary of the New Testament),
by Juan Mateos and Jesus Pelaez. In the introduction and first part
of the text, the concepts of dictionary and meaning are defined and
a critical analysis of the dictionaries of F. Zorell, W. Bauer
(Bauer-Aland) and Louw-Nida is conducted. Their methodologies are
examined with the purpose of then presenting a method of semantic
analysis and the steps for establishing the semantic formula of the
various classes of lexemes, which functions as the basis for
determining lexical and contextual meaning. In the second part the
necessary steps for composing the dictionary's entries are
proposed. The text concludes with an analysis of related lexemes in
order to demonstrate the accuracy of the suggested method. For the
first time, a carefully developed method of semantic analysis and
the corresponding methodology are presented before the construction
of the dictionary's entries.
New Testament Theology in a Secular World is an important and
original new work in Christian apologetics. It is the first book to
apply constructivist theory to biblical studies.
Biblical Studies scholar Peter Lampe tackles head on such questions
as: What do we understand by "reality?" How does this relate to
what theology calls the "reality of God" or the "reality of
resurrection?" How can we account for the concept of "revelation"?
Lampe argues that in talking about "reality" theologians must make
an effort to engage with the concept of "reality" as it is
discussed in the fields of philosophical epistemology and sociology
of knowledge. However, as Lampe shows, Theology has so far hardly
or only reluctantly participated in this dialogue.
Sung Cho addresses the seeming contradiction of Herod the Great's
massacre in Matthew 2:16-18, questioning why such a tragedy had to
occur, why it was included in the good news of Jesus, and what
connection it has to ancient prophecies. In creating a reception
history of the Massacre of the Innocents, Cho progresses through
two millennia worth of interpretation and depiction to highlight
key works for discussion. Beginning with a close reading of Matthew
2:16-18, Cho moves to analyse depictions of the tragedy in the
Early Patristic Tradition, from the sixth century to the early
modern period, and thus to the present day; complete with an
examination of visual interpretations of the massacre. Cho's
examination provides a positive step to understanding the depths of
human suffering with the help of many diverse perspectives.
This engaging commentary on the Gospel of Matthew is the fifth of
seventeen volumes in the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture
(CCSS), which will cover the entire New Testament. This volume,
like each in the series, relates Scripture to life, is faithfully
Catholic, and is supplemented by features designed to help readers
understand the Bible more deeply and use it more effectively.
Praise for the CCSS:
"These commentaries are both exegetically sound and spiritually
nourishing. They are indispensable tools for preaching, catechesis,
evangelization, and other forms of pastoral ministry."--Thomas G.
Weinandy, OFM Cap, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
In this addition to the well-received Paideia series, a respected
New Testament scholar examines cultural context and theological
meaning in First, Second, and Third John. Paideia commentaries
explore how New Testament texts form Christian readers by attending
to the ancient narrative and rhetorical strategies the text
employs, showing how the text shapes theological convictions and
moral habits, and making judicious use of maps, photos, and
sidebars in a reader-friendly format.
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