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Katherine Joy Kihlstrom Timpte addresses a gap in scholarship by
answering the question: "how is a child supposed to be the model
recipient of the kingdom of God?" While most scholarship on Mark
10:13-16 agrees that children are metaphorically employed because
of their qualities of dependence, Timpte argues that it is more
specifically an image of the disciple's radical transformation,
which both mirrors and reverses the traditional rites of passage by
which a child became an adult. Timpte suggests that Jesus, by
insisting that one must enter the Kingdom of God as a child,
invokes two interlacing images. First, to enter the Kingdom of God,
one must be fundamentally transformed and changed. Second, this
transformation reverses the rite by which a child would have become
an adult, removing the adult's superior status. Beginning with a
summary of the scholarship surrounding children in the Bible,
Timpte explores the perception of children in the ancient world,
their rites of passage and entrance into adulthood, and contrasting
this with the processing of entering the kingdom of God, while also
highlighting childish characters in Mark. Timpte concludes that to
enter into the kingdom as a child means that one must strip off
those things one gained by leaving childhood behind: wealth,
respect, family, much like Jesus, who throughout Mark's Gospel
moves from powerful to powerless, respected to despised, and
accepted by all to rejected even (seemingly) by God. Jesus models
transformation to childhood in an emphasis on what the Kingdom of
God is like.
This is an introductory guide to the four New Testament Gospels as
overlapping accounts of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus,
each with their own distinctive emphases and concerns. Part One
deals first with the fact that there are four Gospels in the canon
and looks at how the fourfold Gospel emerged. The literary
relationships between the Gospels are dealt with next, followed by
the composition of the Gospels. Part Two looks at each Gospel, its
structure, contents, style and narrative technique, its
presentation of Jesus and its particular interests and themes. Part
Three, the main section of the book, takes six key events in the
life of Jesus, most of which are found in all four Gospels, and
examines the parallel versions. The book ends with reflections on
the fourfold Gospel and the singular Jesus, including a discussion
of key issues relating to the 'historical Jesus'. Edward Adams is
Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies at King's College London.
For a hundred years, the million dollar question has been, What was
the nature and state of the tradition between Jesus and the
gospels? Eve surveys the major proposals, offers critical and
constructive commentary, and makes appropriately nuanced
suggestions of his own. On this topic, his work is now the place to
start' Dale C. Allison, Jr. Professor of New Testament, Pittsburgh
Theological Seminary 'Eric Eve has written a magnificent guide to
one of the most exciting areas in Gospels studies today - oral
tradition and memory theory. With clear writing and judicious
assessment, he covers the important personalities and ideas in the
search to get behind the Gospels, from form criticism to the
present. I highly recommend this book to scholars and students
alike' Chris Keith, Professor of New Testament and Early
Christianity, St Mary's University College, London 'Eric Eve gives
a balanced and lucid account of all attempts to reconstruct the
oral tradition behind the written Gospels . . . Eve's judgments on
these questions are fair, his arguments convincing. This is a
foundational book both for Jesus research and for our understanding
of the literary history of the New Testament' Gerd Theissen,
Professor Emeritus of New Testament, University of Heidelberg.
Every Sunday, the Lord's Prayer echoes in every Church around the
world. It is an indispensable element of the faith. It is the way
Jesus taught his followers to pray, and encapsulates the essential
beliefs and attitudes to which all Christians aspire. Here, John
Dominic Crossan, one of the world's leading experts on Jesus and
his times, explores this foundational prayer line by line. This is
quintessential Crossan, providing just the right amount of
historical detail and literary insight to enhance our
understanding, and drawing out the enduring richness and relevance
of Jesus' words for today.
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Paul as Pastor
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Brian S. Rosner, Andrew S. Malone, Trevor J. Burke
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Paul as Pastor demonstrates the critical nature of Paul's pastoral
care to his identity and activities. Despite the fact that Paul
never identifies himself as a pastor, there is much within the
Pauline letters that alludes to this as a possible aspect of Paul's
vocation and commitments, and this has been a topic of relative
scholarly neglect. The contributors to this volume consider the
household setting of Paul's pastoral practice, the evidence of Acts
and a survey of themes in each of the letters in the traditional
Pauline corpus. Additionally, three chapters supply case studies of
the Wirkungsgeschichte of Paul's pastoral practice in the pastoral
offices of the Anglican Communion in the denomination's Ordinal,
and in the lives and thought of Augustine of Hippo and George
Whitfield. As such Paul as Pastor provides a stimulating resource
on a neglected and critical dimension of Paul and his letters and
an invaluable tool for those in pastoral ministry and those
responsible for their training.
Paul and the Greco-Roman Philosophical Tradition provides a fresh
examination of the relationship of Greco-Roman philosophy to
Pauline Christianity. It offers an in-depth look at different
approaches employed by scholars who draw upon philosophical
settings in the ancient world to inform their understanding of
Paul. The volume houses an international team of scholars from a
range of diverse traditions and backgrounds, which opens up a
platform for multiple voices from various corridors. Consequently,
some of the chapters seek to establish new potential resonances
with Paul and the Greco-Roman philosophical tradition, but others
question such connections. While a number of them propose radically
new relationships between Paul and GrecoRoman philosophy, a few
seek to tweak or modulate current discussions. There are arguments
in the volume which are more technical and exegetical, and others
that remain more synthetic and theological. This diversity,
however, is accentuated by a goal shared by each author - to
further our understanding of Paul's relationship to and
appropriation of Greco-Roman philosophical traditions in his
literary and missionary efforts.
God came in the flesh to show us what love looks like. To truly see
the dynamics of this love, we must take a close look at Jesus's
relationships while he was here on earth. How he loved then is how
he loves now, and how he loves now is how we as believers are to
love. No Greater Love is a study of Jesus's interactions with
people throughout the book of John, including Nicodemus, the woman
at the well, and even the Pharisees. What did this love look like
in action, especially with those who are hard to love? As it turns
out, he didn't love people because they deserved it; he loved them
because he is love. With the great tragedies in our culture today
there is a need for this "Jesus love" that's available to all
believers. May this book help you better know his love for
you--which, in the end, will lead you to becoming more like him.
For many Jewish Christians of the first century, living in the
light of the gospel was challenging. Having accepted Jesus as the
long-awaited Messiah, they were regarded by still-skeptical family,
friends and neighbors as dangerous, misguided and even disloyal to
all that God had said earlier on. The letter to the Hebrews was
written to show that you can't go back to an earlier stage of God's
purposes but must press on eagerly to the one that is yet to come.
In these studies we find encouragement and assurance that pressing
on, even in the face of such close and constant pressure to fall
back, is its own reward. The guides in this series by Tom Wright
can be used on their own or alongside his New Testament for
Everyone commentaries. They are designed to help you understand the
Bible in fresh ways under the guidance of one of the world's
leading New Testament scholars.
Are the Thomas references in the Gospel of John, the Thomas
compositions, and the early Thomas traditions in northwestern and
southern India purely legendary as biblical scholars have assumed
or do they preserve unexamined historical traditions intermittently
as the Thomas Christians in India have believed? Didymus Judas
Thomas is one of the most misunderstood characters from the
beginning of the New Testament history and interpretation. In this
study, Thomaskutty addresses the following questions: whether
Thomas was merely a 'doubting Thomas' or a 'genuine Thomas'? Can we
understand Thomas comprehensively by bringing the New Testament,
apocrypha, and historical traditions together? How was Thomas
connected to eastern Christianity and how does the Thomas
literature support/not support this connectivity? Can we understand
the Thomas traditions related to Judea, Syria, and India with the
help of canonical, extra canonical, and traditio-historical
documents? Thomaskutty investigates the development of the Thomas
literature right from the beginning, examining and questioning the
approaches and methodologies that have been employed in
interpreting these documents, and analyzes the Thomas literature
closely in order to understand the character, his mission
involvements, and the possible implications this may have for
understanding early Christianity in the east.
For two centuries scholars have sought to discover the historical
Jesus. Presently such scholarship is dominated not by the question
'Who was Jesus?' but rather 'How do we even go about answering the
question, "Who was Jesus?"?' With this current situation in mind,
Jonathan Bernier undertakes a two-fold task: one, to engage on the
level of the philosophy of history with existing approaches to the
study of the historical Jesus, most notably the criteria approach
and the social memory approach; two, to work with the critical
realism developed by Bernard Lonergan, introduced into New
Testament studies by Ben F. Meyer, and advocated by N.T. Wright in
order to develop a philosophy of history that can elucidate current
debates within historical Jesus studies.
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