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Despite the popular theology of our day, Christians should not
expect to get out of experiencing the tribulation or the end times.
Nowhere in the Bible does the Lord promise us this, say Michael
Brown and Craig Keener, two leading, acclaimed Bible scholars. In
fact, they say, Jesus promises us tribulation in this world. Yet
this is no reason to fear. In this fascinating, accessible, and
personal book, Brown and Keener walk you through what the Bible
really says about the rapture, the tribulation, and the end times.
What they find will leave you full of hope. God's wrath is not
poured out on His people, and He will shield us from it--as he
shielded Israel in Egypt during the ten plagues. So instead of
taking comfort in what God hasn't promised, take comfort in the
words of Jesus: He has overcome the world, and we live in his
victory.
Leading Scholar Explores Paul's Teaching on the Mind This major
work by a leading New Testament scholar explores an important but
neglected area of Pauline theology, Paul's teaching about the mind.
In discussing matters such as the corrupted mind, the mind of
Christ, and the renewal of the mind, Paul adapts language from
popular intellectual thought in his day, but he does so in a way
distinctively focused on Christ and Christ's role in the believer's
transformation. Keener enables readers to understand this thought
world so they can interpret Paul's language for contemporary
Christian life. The book helps overcome a false separation between
following the Spirit and using human judgment and provides a new
foundation for relating biblical studies and Christian counseling.
Do miracles still happen today? This book demonstrates that
miraculous works of God, which have been part of the experience of
the church around the world since Christianity began, continue into
the present. Leading New Testament scholar Craig Keener addresses
common questions about miracles and provides compelling reasons to
believe in them today, including many accounts that offer evidence
of verifiable miracles. This book gives an accessible and concise
overview of one of Keener's most significant research topics. His
earlier two-volume work on miracles stands as the definitive word
on the topic, but its size and scope are daunting to many readers.
This new book summarizes Keener's basic argument but contains
substantial new material, including new accounts of the miraculous.
It is suitable as a textbook but also accessible to church leaders
and laypeople.
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Galatians (Hardcover)
Craig S. Keener
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This commentary offers a concise, incisive view of Galatians,
Paul's most polemical letter. Here, Paul is fighting for the
spiritual life and loyalty of some of his hard-won converts. Taking
advantage of a range of persuasive rhetorical approaches, his
letter appears to bristle with anger at the interlopers and the
anguish of spurned affection. In this commentary, Craig S. Keener
mines insights from the ancient world to highlight Paul's
persuasive tactics and how the Galatian Christians would have heard
his intense yet profound message. In so doing, Keener also helps
readers to confront Galatians afresh today, so they can hear more
closely what Paul is and is not saying for the church universal.
Drawing on a wide range of ancient Mediterranean sources to
reconstruct the context of Galatians, Keener helps us to grasp the
issues that Paul was addressing, the reasons that Paul wrote the
letter, and its continuing relevance for contemporary audiences.
Craig Keener carefully examines the New Testament Gospels and the
book of Acts to provide a fuller understanding of what the Holy
Spirit meant in the lives of early believers. Christianity did not
arise in a vacuum, but rather it appropriated, modified, and
utilized the Jewish understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit.
By understanding the world in which Christianity emerged, we can
better understand the earliest believers' experience of God's
empowering and purifying Spirit. This paperback edition contains a
new preface by the author.
In Gift and Giver, leading New Testament scholar Craig Keener takes
a probing look at the various evangelical understandings of the
role of the Holy Spirit in the church. He explores topics such as
spiritual gifts, the fruit of the Spirit, the Spirit's power for
evangelism, and hearing God's voice. His desire is for Christians
to "work for consensus, or at least for unity in God's work despite
our differences on secondary matters." Employing a helpful
narrative approach and an ample number of stories, Keener enters
into constructive dialogue with Pentecostals, moderates, and
cessationists, all the while attempting to learn from each
viewpoint. He seeks to bridge the gap between cessationists and
Pentecostals/charismatics by urging all Christians to seek the Holy
Spirit's empowerment. His irenic approach to this controversial
issue has been endorsed by charismatics and non-charismatics alike.
Sure to provoke helpful dialogue on a topic that has caused
unfortunate divisions within the church, Gift and Giver will be a
valuable addition to college and seminary courses on pneumatology.
It will also be helpful to lay readers interested in a balanced
discussion of spiritual gifts. This repackaged edition includes an
updated preface and a substantive new afterword.
The role of women in positions of worship and church leadership is
one of the most divisive and inconclusive biblical debates. Two
Views on Women in Ministry furnishes you with a clear and thorough
presentation of the two primary exegetical arguments so you can
better understand each one's strengths, weaknesses, and
complexities. Egalitarian - equal ministry opportunity for both
genders (represented by Linda L. Belleville and Craig S. Keener)
Complementarian - men and women fill distinctive ministry roles
(represented by Craig L. Blomberg and Thomas R. Schreiner) This
revised edition brings the exchange of ideas and perspectives into
the traditional Counterpoints format. Each author states his or her
case and is then critiqued by the other contributors. The
fair-minded, interactive Counterpoints forum allows you to compare
and contrast the two different positions and form your own opinion
concerning the practical and often deeply personal subject of women
in ministry. The Counterpoints series presents a comparison and
critique of scholarly views on topics important to Christians that
are both fair-minded and respectful of the biblical text. Each
volume is a one-stop reference that allows readers to evaluate the
different positions on a specific issue and form their own,
educated opinion.
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Acts (Paperback)
Craig S. Keener
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As the earliest narrative source for the origins of Christianity,
Acts is of unrivalled importance for understanding early
Christianity and the mission that originally brought it from Judea
and Galilee to gentiles, and even the heart of the Roman Empire.
This volume is an abridged version of Keener's monumental,
four-volume commentary on Acts, the longest and one of the most
thorough engagements with Acts in its ancient setting. Sensitive to
the work's narrative unity, Keener's commentary is especially known
for its direct engagement with the wide range of ancient Jewish and
Greco-Roman sources. The original commentary cited some 45,000
references from ancient extrabiblical sources to shed light on the
Book of Acts. This accessible edition, aimed at students, scholars,
and pastors, makes more widely available the decades of research
that Keener has devoted to one of the key texts of Early
Christianity.
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Galatians (Paperback)
Craig S. Keener
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This commentary offers a concise, incisive view of Galatians,
Paul's most polemical letter. Here, Paul is fighting for the
spiritual life and loyalty of some of his hard-won converts. Taking
advantage of a range of persuasive rhetorical approaches, his
letter appears to bristle with anger at the interlopers and the
anguish of spurned affection. In this commentary, Craig S. Keener
mines insights from the ancient world to highlight Paul's
persuasive tactics and how the Galatian Christians would have heard
his intense yet profound message. In so doing, Keener also helps
readers to confront Galatians afresh today, so they can hear more
closely what Paul is and is not saying for the church universal.
Drawing on a wide range of ancient Mediterranean sources to
reconstruct the context of Galatians, Keener helps us to grasp the
issues that Paul was addressing, the reasons that Paul wrote the
letter, and its continuing relevance for contemporary audiences.
This commentary explains 1 and 2 Corinthians passage by passage,
following Paul's argument. It uses a variety of ancient sources to
show how Paul's argument would have made sense to first-century
readers, drawing from ancient letter-writing, speaking, and social
conventions. The commentary will be of interest to pastors,
teachers, and others who read Paul's letters because of its
readability, firm grasp of the background and scholarship on the
Corinthian correspondence, and its sensitivity to the sorts of
questions asked by those wishing to apply Paul's letters today. It
will also be of interest to scholars because of its exploration of
ancient sources, often providing sources not previously cited in
commentaries.
Revelation, part of the Bringing the Bible to Life series, a
companion to Zondervan's NIV Application Commentary, explores both
the historical meaning of the biblical text and its contemporary
significance. Revelation provides a journey through the biblical
book, ten sessions with discussion questions, and a closing section
that assists you and your group in responding to God's Word
together or individually.
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Matthew (Paperback)
Craig S. Keener
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R458
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Matthew was the most popular Gospel in the early church, widely
read for its clear emphasis on Jesus' teaching. Drawing on its use
as a teaching or discipleship manual, Craig Keener expounds Matthew
as a discipleship manual for believers today. In his skilled hands,
this first-century text becomes as relevant and contemporary as
information downloaded from the Internet, while it challenges us
with its divine perspective on how life ought to be lived.In this
clear, incisive commentary, readers will find an introduction with
background material concerning authorship, date and purpose, as
well as a summary of important theological themes. A
passage-by-passage exposition follows that focuses on understanding
what significance the Gospel of Matthew had for its original
readers in order to see its relevance for the church
today.Students, pastors, Bible teachers and everyone who wants to
understand the message of Matthew for the church will benefit from
this excellent resource.
Christianity Today 2013 Book Award Winner Winner of The Foundation
for Pentecostal Scholarship's 2012 Award of Excellence 2011 Book of
the Year, Christianbook.com's Academic Blog Most modern prejudice
against biblical miracle reports depends on David Hume's argument
that uniform human experience precluded miracles. Yet current
research shows that human experience is far from uniform. In fact,
hundreds of millions of people today claim to have experienced
miracles. New Testament scholar Craig Keener argues that it is time
to rethink Hume's argument in light of the contemporary evidence
available to us. This wide-ranging and meticulously researched
two-volume study presents the most thorough current defense of the
credibility of the miracle reports in the Gospels and Acts. Drawing
on claims from a range of global cultures and taking a
multidisciplinary approach to the topic, Keener suggests that many
miracle accounts throughout history and from contemporary times are
best explained as genuine divine acts, lending credence to the
biblical miracle reports.
This commentary explains 1 and 2 Corinthians passage by passage,
following Paul's argument. It uses a variety of ancient sources to
show how Paul's argument would have made sense to first-century
readers, drawing from ancient letter-writing, speaking, and social
conventions. The commentary will be of interest to pastors,
teachers, and others who read Paul's letters because of its
readability, firm grasp of the background and scholarship on the
Corinthian correspondence, and its sensitivity to the sorts of
questions asked by those wishing to apply Paul's letters today. It
will also be of interest to scholars because of its exploration of
ancient sources, often providing sources not previously cited in
commentaries.
Leading New Testament scholar Craig Keener is widely respected for
his thorough research, sound judgments, and knowledge of ancient
sources. His four-volume magnum opus on Acts has received high
praise from all quarters. This commentary on Paul's Letter to the
Galatians features Keener's meticulous and comprehensive research
and offers a wealth of fresh insights. It will benefit students,
pastors, and church leaders alike.
You've heard many Bible stories hundreds of times, but how many
behind-the-scenes details are you missing? A little context is all
you need to discover the rich meaning behind the stories of
Scripture. That's what the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible
provides. Every page is packed with expert insight into the customs
and culture of the Bible.
The earliest substantive sources available for historical Jesus
research are in the Gospels themselves; when interpreted in their
early Jewish setting, their picture of Jesus is more coherent and
plausible than are the competing theories offered by many modern
scholars. So argues Craig Keener in The Historical Jesus of the
Gospels. In exploring the depth and riches of the material found in
the Synoptic Gospels, Keener shows how many works on the historical
Jesus emphasize just one aspect of the Jesus tradition against
others, but a much wider range of material in the Jesus tradition
makes sense in an ancient Jewish setting. Keener masterfully uses a
broad range of evidence from the early Jesus traditions and early
Judaism to reconstruct a fuller portrait of the Jesus who lived in
history.
Highly respected New Testament scholar Craig Keener is known for
his meticulous and comprehensive research. This commentary on Acts,
his magnum opus, may be the largest and most thoroughly documented
Acts commentary ever written. Useful not only for the study of Acts
but also early Christianity, this work sets Acts in its
first-century context. In this volume, the last of four, Keener
finishes his detailed exegesis of Acts, utilizing an unparalleled
range of ancient sources and offering a wealth of fresh insights.
This magisterial commentary will be an invaluable resource for New
Testament professors and students, pastors, Acts scholars, and
libraries. The complete four-volume set is available at a special
price.
Despite a strong belief in the institution and sacredness of
marriage, studies show that Christian spouses experience divorce at
least as much as the secular population. But whatever the reasons
for a divorce--beyond the divorce itself--many Christians want to
know: does the Bible support remarriage? The fact is that no
consensus exists among evangelicals on their views of remarriage,
leaving many Christians confused. This Counterpoints volume
explores the biblical and practical cases for the three main
evangelical views on remarriage after divorce: Remarriage is not
acceptable after divorce - defended by Gordon J. Wenham Remarriage
is acceptable only after adultery or desertion - defended by
William A. Heth Remarriage is acceptable for a variety of reasons -
defended by Craig S. Keener Each of the three contributors offers
his point of view succinctly and with biblical support, and each
interacts with the others to help readers come to their own
conclusions. The Counterpoints series presents a comparison and
critique of scholarly views on topics important to Christians that
are both fair-minded and respectful of the biblical text. Each
volume is a one-stop reference that allows readers to evaluate the
different positions on a specific issue and form their own,
educated opinion.
Highly respected New Testament scholar Craig Keener is known for
his meticulous and comprehensive research. This commentary on Acts,
his magnum opus, may be the largest and most thoroughly documented
Acts commentary available. Useful not only for the study of Acts
but also early Christianity, this work sets Acts in its
first-century context.
In this volume, the first of four, Keener introduces the book of
Acts, particularly historical questions related to it, and provides
detailed exegesis of its opening chapters. He utilizes an
unparalleled range of ancient sources and offers a wealth of fresh
insights. This magisterial commentary will be a valuable resource
for New Testament professors and students, pastors, Acts scholars,
and libraries.
Leading New Testament scholar Craig Keener, one of the most trusted
exegetes working today, is widely respected for his thorough
research, sound judgments, and knowledge of ancient sources. His
four-volume magnum opus on Acts has received high praise from all
quarters. This commentary on 1Â Peter features Keener's
meticulous and comprehensive research and offers a wealth of fresh
insights. It will benefit students, pastors, and church leaders
alike.
Highly respected New Testament scholar Craig Keener is known for
his meticulous and comprehensive research. This commentary on Acts,
his magnum opus, may be the largest and most thoroughly documented
Acts commentary available. Useful not only for the study of Acts
but also early Christianity, this work sets Acts in its
first-century context.
In this volume, the second of four, Keener continues his detailed
exegesis of Acts, utilizing an unparalleled range of ancient
sources and offering a wealth of fresh insights. This magisterial
commentary will be an invaluable resource for New Testament
professors and students, pastors, Acts scholars, and libraries.
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