This Reader charts John Webster's theology from its earliest development, guiding the reader through selective essays that represent his corpus. It is an excellent introduction to the breadth of his writings, which teaches students how to engage with his particular mode of theological argument. T&T Clark Reader in John Webster starts with a biographical, chronological and topical survey of Webster's theological development. It notes his shifting conversation partners and his abiding theological principles. The editor places the essays in context with short introductions, as well as editorial footnotes clarifying key terms, historical or exegetical arguments or polemical emphases. This is an essential introduction to Webster's work and his impact on classical and contemporary theology.

Este valioso libro viene a llenar un hueco enorme en la Teolog a Cristiana en lengua castellana: La falta de informaci n confiable sobre los or genes jud os de la fe cristiana. Para aquellos que buscan la sencillez, el libro expresa muchas verdades fundamentales que permanecieron ocultas en los antiguos tratados de la historia de la Iglesia en un lenguaje simple y ameno. En cambio, para aquellos que aman la seriedad acad mica el tratado est lleno de referencias cuidadosamente documentadas, frutos de la erudici n moderna y la antiqu sima tradici n de Israel. El inicio de esta obra provee al lector de la perspectiva hist rica del origen jud o de la Iglesia y su posterior separaci n de Israel. Luego, expone las fallas de las hip tesis aramea y griega como idiomas originales del Nuevo Testamento, y demuestra el origen hebreo de los Evangelios y las ense anzas de los ap stoles. Los siguientes cap tulos se enfocan en la judaidad de Jesucristo, y por qu nunca abandon su fe ancestral para fundar una religi n separada del tronco tradicional del juda smo del Segundo Templo. Explican, adem s, por qu las ense anzas de Jesucristo o Yahush a ha Mash aj son todas ellas jud as e interpretarlas fuera de ese marco religioso inevitablemente lleva a graves errores en la doctrina y la pr ctica de la fe. Por ltimo, explora con integridad teol gica c mo los Padres de la Iglesia y los Reformadores Protestantes forjaron con su antisemitismo los cap tulos m?'s vergonzosos de la historia humana: Las Cruzadas, la Santa Inquisici n y el Holocausto. Sin duda alguna, su consistente punto de vista jud o nazareno lo hace un libro sumamente interesante, informativo y conmovedor que debe ser le do por cada pastor, seminarista, misionero y estudiante sincero de la Biblia; tanto cristiano como jud o por igual.

A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking is a search for authenticity that combines critical thinking with a yearning for heartfelt poetics. A physiognomy of thinking addresses the figure of a life lived where theory and praxis are unified. This study explores how the critical essays on music of German-Jewish thinker, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) necessarily accompany the downfall of metaphysics. By scrutinizing a critical juncture in modern intellectual history, marked in 1931 by Adorno's founding of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, neglected applications of Critical Theory to Jewish Thought become possible. This study proffers a constructive justification of a critical standpoint, reconstructively shown how such ideals are seen under the genealogical proviso of re/cognizing their original meaning. Re/cognition of A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking redresses neglected applications of Negative Dialectics, the poetics of God, the metaphysics of musical thinking, reification in Zionism, the transpoetics of Physics and Metaphysics, as well as correlating Aesthetic Theory to Jewish Law (halakhah). >

For centuries, Jews have been known as the "people of the book." It is commonly thought that Judaism in the first several centuries CE found meaning exclusively in textual sources. But there is another approach to meaning to be found in ancient Judaism, one that sees it in the natural world and derives it from visual clues rather than textual ones. According to this conception, God embedded hidden signs in the world that could be read by human beings and interpreted according to complex systems. In exploring the diverse functions of signs outside of the realm of the written word, Swartz introduces unfamiliar sources and motifs from the formative age of Judaism, including magical and divination texts and new interpretations of legends and midrashim from classical rabbinic literature. He shows us how ancient Jews perceived these signs and read them, elaborating on their use of divination, symbolic interpretation of physical features and dress, and interpretations of historical events. As we learn how these ancient people read the world, we begin to see how ancient people found meaning in unexpected ways.