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Covenant Books Biblical Strategies to Abolish Abortion
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Wipf & Stock Publishers Imprecations in the Psalms
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Canterbury Press Norwich 2000 Years of Prayer
Book SynopsisContaining prayers from every era of our spiritual history, from every continent and from every Christian tradition, this is a book that is equally useful as a worship resource or as an inexhaustible store for personal prayer. Arranged chronologically, the selection begins with the New Testament period and progresses through the Apostolic Fathers, the Age of Augustine, the Orthodox Tradition, the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Medieval ages and through every significant phase of Christian experience to the contemporary Church throughout the world. Here are many classic prayers and others that will be new to readers. A brief introduction to each section and author defines the spiritual characteristics of the age and traces the development of our Christian understanding of prayer through the centuries.Trade Review'this volume presents a sumptuous, seven course feast...' * Theology Today *
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De Gruyter Jalkut Schimoni Zu Könige I Und II
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De Gruyter Jalkut Schimoni Zu Rut
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De Gruyter Jalkut Schimoni Zum Hohenlied
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De Gruyter Jalkut Schimoni Zu Proverbia
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De Gruyter Jalkut Schimoni Zu Ezechiel
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De Gruyter Jalkut Schimoni Zu Ijob
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Independently Published Proverbs for Kids and those who love them: How God Teaches Wisdom Using earthly creatures
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Independently Published Proverbs for Kids and those who love them: How God Teaches Wisdom Using parts of the human body
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Pennsylvania State University Press Milton and the Parables of Jesus
Book SynopsisExamines Milton’s identification with characters in Jesus’s parables. Connects Milton’s engagement with the parables to his self-representation throughout his poetry and prose.Trade Review“Urban’s book makes a valuable contribution to an understanding of the parables—of Milton’s use of them—as well as to a comprehension of a significant aspect of the Renaissance and the Reformation.”—Jonathan Locke Hart Renaissance and Reformation“A significant addition to Milton scholarship in its own right, the book’s detailed endnotes provide a working critical compendium of major studies of Milton over at least the last half-century, up to and including very recent publications. There is not a significant controversy over Milton’s work that David Urban is unwilling to engage, and he does so with judicious fair-mindedness even to scholars with whom he finds himself disagreeing.”—William Shullenberger Review of English Studies“Shrewdly engaging Milton criticism, both new and old, and fastidiously taking stock of Milton’s major works, early and late, Urban proves himself a faithful steward as well here. Subsequent studies on Milton’s debt to the parables will have to track through Urban’s house.”—Bryan Adams Hampton The Seventeenth Century“Urban’s chapters on the sonnets (especially 7 and 19) and the early poems, as well as his discussion of The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce and De Doctrina Christiana, make a persuasive case for Milton’s reliance on Jesus’s parables as means of ethical self-conception.”—Ryan Netzley SEL: Studies in English Literature“While Urban leaves more work to be done with Milton and parables, this book usefully extends the range of future conversations on that topic. I very much recommend it and urge readers to be sure to read all the notes.”—David Ainsworth Ben Jonson Journal“In this highly readable book, Urban offers a sharp focus on the relationship of the personal and the poetic by arguing that, over the course of his life, Milton found deep connections between his own concerns and four of Jesus’s parables from the book of Matthew.”—Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler Renaissance Quarterly“Perhaps Urban’s most evident strength is his extensive engagement with earlier scholarship and controversies within Milton studies, a prowess surely due at least in part to his role as cocompiler and coeditor of John Milton: An Annotated Bibliography, 1989–1999. With respect to the variety and extensiveness of the notes, Urban is a Miltonist’s Miltonist.”—Joshua R. Held Modern Philology“In seeing Milton through the spectacles of the parables and in projecting that vision into his dramatic and poetic works, Urban sheds light on Milton’s meta-narrative of the self, which is at once artistic, theological and existential. Miltonists and readers of Christianity and Literature may welcome Milton and the Parables of Jesus as a major contribution to the study of Milton’s hermeneutic of the Bible and of self.”—Filippo Falcone Christianity and Literature“Milton and the Parables of Jesus offers the most comprehensive critical discussion of Milton’s engagement with biblical parables and consequently provides a potential model for other studies of early modern engagement with biblical parables. . . . Urban’s study introduces a consistent clarity to the topic of early modern parabolic reading that results in a wide range of insights regarding each of Milton’s major poetic works.”—Phillip J. Donnelley Religion and LiteratureTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Milton’s Hermeneutic of Parables, Milton’s Parabolic ImaginationPart 1: The Parable of the Talents and the Parable of the Laborers1. The Talented Mr. Milton: A Parabolic Laborer and His Identity2. Samson’s Late Call: Parabolic Tension and Resolution in Samson Agonistes3. Abdiel and the Son: Milton’s Ideal Relationship with the Two Parables in Paradise Lost and Paradise RegainedPart 2: The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins4. A “Virgin Wise and Pure”: Parabolic Self-Reference in Sonnet 95. The Wise Virgin in Action: The Lady of A Mask6. Wise Virginity Lost in Paradise Lost7. Perfect and Recovered Virginity in Paradise Regained and Samsom AgonistesPart 3: The Parable of the Householder8. “Out of His Treasury Things New and Old”: The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce and De Doctrina Christiana9. Milton’s Epic Narrators and the Son and Mary in Paradise Regained10. Internal and External Scripture in Samson AgonistesNotesIndex
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IVP Academic Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Songs
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Faithlife Corporation Reading the Psalms Theologically
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Verlag Herder Hausbibel: Einheitsubersetzung. Altes Und Neues
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Time Warner Trade Publishing Angels Among Us: What the Bible Reveals About
Book SynopsisAs a follow-up to This Season of Angels, bestselling author and internationally known minister Perry Stone investigates the angelic encounters of the Bible and explores their meanings and significance.What does the Bible say about angels? And why are they so shrouded in mystery? In This Season of Angels, Perry Stone revealed the pivotal roles angels will play during prophetic seasons. Now, in ANGELS AMONG US, Perry focuses on the angelic encounters of the Bible, and examines why God created them, how their hierarchy works, and more. ANGELS AMONG US will inspire you as you begin or end your day to recognise that you are always protected and guarded by God.
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Moody Publishers Extraordinary Power of Praise The A Study of the
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia On the Perpetual Strangeness of the Bible
Book SynopsisThe language of the Bible can be beautiful but profoundly elusive, possessing a strangeness that only deepens the committed reader’s sense of its impenetrability. This book offers a close reading of the Bible itself, directing attention to the text rather than to commentaries or to ostensible lessons to be discovered by paraphrase.Table of Contents 1. Preliminary 2. On Eating Honey 3. Paul on Life and Death 4. Heaven is Here 5. Seeing Revelation: The Writing 6. Seeing Revelation: The Images 7. Seeing Revelation: The Timing
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Thomas Nelson Publishers Traveling Light
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Kregel Publications,U.S. Proverbs Volume 1 Discovering Ancient Wisdom for
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Matthews Account of the Massacre of the Innocents
Book SynopsisSung 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.Trade ReviewAn intriguing and well-informed study. * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Matthew and Reception History 2. A Close Reading of Matthew 2:16-18 3. Massacre of the Innocents in Early Patristic Tradition (Second to Fifth Centuries) 4. Massacre of the Innocents from Sixth Century to 1516 5. Massacre of the Innocents from 1517 6. Visual Interpretations of the Massacre of the Innocents 7. Concluding Reflections Bibliography Index
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IVP Academic Job
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IVP Academic Psalms 150
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Biblia Americana: America's First Bible
Book SynopsisThis volume of the Biblia Americana (1693-1728) contains Cotton Mather's annotations on Hebrews, James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude, and Revelation, as well as two series of essays on various matters of biblical interpretation. A mixture of pious explications and historical-textual criticism, the annotations are a treasure-trove for scholars interested in the development of Reformed theology and biblical exegesis during a decisive period of intellectual change in the early modern Atlantic world. Mather, an apologetically oriented but deeply learned scholar, confronts the early Enlightenment challenges to the authority of the Bible and core doctrines like the Trinity. He discusses problems of translation, textual variants (e.g., the Johannine comma), but also authorship and canonicity, especially with a view to the so-called Catholic Letters and James. The extensive annotations on Revelation offer a window into the development of Mather's millennialism and, more specifically, his changing interpretations of hotly-debated issues such as the eschatological conversion of the Jews, the expected date for the return of Christ and the nature of His kingdom. In the appended essays, Mather, in conversation with German Pietism, develops a biblical hermeneutic that emphasizes an experiential approach and the need for spiritual illumination. He also engages with antiquarian scholarship on the Scriptures, their original contexts, provenance, and transmission, as well as with literature that situates Judaism and Christianity in a larger history of ancient religions and cultures.
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Verlag Herder Gottesbilder Des Alten Testaments: Von Israels
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Peter Lang AG The Gospel of Matthew: A Hypertextual Commentary
Book SynopsisThis monograph presents an entirely new solution to the synoptic problem. It demonstrates that the Acts of the Apostles functioned as the structure-giving hypotext for the Gospel of Matthew. Accordingly, the Gospel of Matthew is a reworking of not only the Gospel of Luke, but also, in a strictly sequential way, of the Acts of the Apostles. This strictly sequential, hypertextual dependence on Acts explains the Matthean relocations of the Marcan and Lucan material, numerous Matthean modifications thereof, and many surprising features of the Matthean Gospel. Critical explanations of such features, which are offered in this monograph, ensure the reliability of the new solution to the synoptic problem.Table of ContentsMatthew and Luke, Matthew and Acts – Mt 1-2 as a reworking of Acts 1:1-8:35 – Mt 3:1-9:34 as a reworking of Acts 8:36-12:25 – Mt 9:35-14:36 as a reworking of Acts 13-14 – Mt 15-20 as a reworking of Acts 15:1-18:21 – Mt 21-25 as a reworking of Acts 18:22-21:9 – Mt 26-28 as a reworking of Acts 21:10-28:31
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Pennsylvania State University Press Milton and the Parables of Jesus
Book SynopsisExamines Milton’s identification with characters in Jesus’s parables. Connects Milton’s engagement with the parables to his self-representation throughout his poetry and prose.Trade Review“Urban’s book makes a valuable contribution to an understanding of the parables—of Milton’s use of them—as well as to a comprehension of a significant aspect of the Renaissance and the Reformation.”—Jonathan Locke Hart Renaissance and Reformation“A significant addition to Milton scholarship in its own right, the book’s detailed endnotes provide a working critical compendium of major studies of Milton over at least the last half-century, up to and including very recent publications. There is not a significant controversy over Milton’s work that David Urban is unwilling to engage, and he does so with judicious fair-mindedness even to scholars with whom he finds himself disagreeing.”—William Shullenberger Review of English Studies“Shrewdly engaging Milton criticism, both new and old, and fastidiously taking stock of Milton’s major works, early and late, Urban proves himself a faithful steward as well here. Subsequent studies on Milton’s debt to the parables will have to track through Urban’s house.”—Bryan Adams Hampton The Seventeenth Century“Urban’s chapters on the sonnets (especially 7 and 19) and the early poems, as well as his discussion of The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce and De Doctrina Christiana, make a persuasive case for Milton’s reliance on Jesus’s parables as means of ethical self-conception.”—Ryan Netzley SEL: Studies in English Literature“While Urban leaves more work to be done with Milton and parables, this book usefully extends the range of future conversations on that topic. I very much recommend it and urge readers to be sure to read all the notes.”—David Ainsworth Ben Jonson Journal“In this highly readable book, Urban offers a sharp focus on the relationship of the personal and the poetic by arguing that, over the course of his life, Milton found deep connections between his own concerns and four of Jesus’s parables from the book of Matthew.”—Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler Renaissance Quarterly“Perhaps Urban’s most evident strength is his extensive engagement with earlier scholarship and controversies within Milton studies, a prowess surely due at least in part to his role as cocompiler and coeditor of John Milton: An Annotated Bibliography, 1989–1999. With respect to the variety and extensiveness of the notes, Urban is a Miltonist’s Miltonist.”—Joshua R. Held Modern Philology“In seeing Milton through the spectacles of the parables and in projecting that vision into his dramatic and poetic works, Urban sheds light on Milton’s meta-narrative of the self, which is at once artistic, theological and existential. Miltonists and readers of Christianity and Literature may welcome Milton and the Parables of Jesus as a major contribution to the study of Milton’s hermeneutic of the Bible and of self.”—Filippo Falcone Christianity and Literature“Milton and the Parables of Jesus offers the most comprehensive critical discussion of Milton’s engagement with biblical parables and consequently provides a potential model for other studies of early modern engagement with biblical parables. . . . Urban’s study introduces a consistent clarity to the topic of early modern parabolic reading that results in a wide range of insights regarding each of Milton’s major poetic works.”—Phillip J. Donnelley Religion and LiteratureTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Milton’s Hermeneutic of Parables, Milton’s Parabolic ImaginationPart 1: The Parable of the Talents and the Parable of the Laborers1. The Talented Mr. Milton: A Parabolic Laborer and His Identity2. Samson’s Late Call: Parabolic Tension and Resolution in Samson Agonistes3. Abdiel and the Son: Milton’s Ideal Relationship with the Two Parables in Paradise Lost and Paradise RegainedPart 2: The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins4. A “Virgin Wise and Pure”: Parabolic Self-Reference in Sonnet 95. The Wise Virgin in Action: The Lady of A Mask6. Wise Virginity Lost in Paradise Lost7. Perfect and Recovered Virginity in Paradise Regained and Samsom AgonistesPart 3: The Parable of the Householder8. “Out of His Treasury Things New and Old”: The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce and De Doctrina Christiana9. Milton’s Epic Narrators and the Son and Mary in Paradise Regained10. Internal and External Scripture in Samson AgonistesNotesIndex
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Zondervan Psalms
Book SynopsisA companion to the acclaimed Word Biblical Commentary, the Word Biblical Themes series helps readers discover the most important themes of a book of the Bible. This series distills the theological essence of a given book of Scripture and serves it up in ways that enrich the preaching, teaching, worship, and discipleship of God’s people.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Patristic Perspectives on Lukes Transfiguration
Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] scholarly and engaging book ... There is much to ponder and enjoy here. * Church Times *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The New Testament Synoptic Transfiguration Narratives Chapter 3: Modern Interpretation of the Synoptic Narratives Chapter 4: Reception of the Transfiguration in 2 Peter, the Apocalypse Of Peter, the Acts Of Peter and the Acts Of John Chapter 5: The Transfiguration in Tertullian And Origen Chapter 6: Interpretation of the Transfiguration in the Greek East After Origen Chapter 7: Interpretation of the Transfiguration in the Latin West After Tertullian Chapter 8: The Earliest Depiction of the Transfiguration Chapter 9: Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Encountering the Parables in Contexts Old and New
Book SynopsisThomas E. Goud is Associate Professor of Classical and Early Christian Studies at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, Canada, and co-chair of the Synoptic Gospels section of the international meeting of Society of Biblical Literature. J. Robert C. Cousland is Associate Professor of Early Christianity and Greek Religion & Mythology at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and former co-chair of the Synoptic Gospels section of the international meeting of Society of Biblical Literature. John Harrison is Professor of New Testament and Ministry at Oklahoma Christian University, USA, and co-chair of the Synoptic Gospels section of the international meeting of Society of Biblical Literature.Table of ContentsContributors Abbreviations Introduction: Encountering the Parables - T.E. Goud, University of New Brunswick in Saint John, Canada, J.R.C. Cousland, University of British Columbia, Canada, John P. Harrison, Oklahoma Christian University, USA Chapter Two: Many-fold Yields by Polyvalent Interpretation: The Parable of the Mustard Seed in the Synoptic Tradition - Ruben Zimmermann, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Germany Chapter Three: Harvest Imagery in Q Parables - Dieter Roth, Boston College, USA Chapter Four: Written and Unwritten Obligations: Dependency Relations in Early Roman Galilee - Douglas Oakman, Pacific Lutheran University, USA Chapter Five: A Realistic Reading of the Parable of the Lost Coin in Q: Gaining or Losing Even More? - Ernest van Eck, the University of Pretoria, South Africa Chapter Six: In Ferment: Is Jesus’ Parable of the Leaven - J.R.C. Cousland, University of British Columbia, Canada Chapter Seven: Telling Stories in a Violent World - T.E. Goud, University of New Brunswick in Saint John, Canada Chapter Eight: Oikodespótis, Kýrios, and Vasiléfs: Identifying Those with Slaves in Matthean Parables in Light of the Literary Evidence and Realia of Roman Palestine in the 1st Century - John P. Harrison, Oklahoma Christian University, USA Chapter Nine: Whose Voices Matter? A Persistent Widow in a Polyphonic Parable (Luke 18:1–8) - Ellen Reinertsen, University of Oslo, Norway Chapter Ten: Mirroring and Echoing: The Blend between Reflection of Reality and Evocation of Tradition in Jesus’ Parables - Stephen Wright, Spurgeon’s College, UK Chapter Eleven: The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard or of a Just Manager? - Deborah Storie, Stirling Theological College, Australia Chapter Twelve: Twenty Years of Experiencing the Parables in/of Africa - Glenna Jackson, Otterbein University, USA Chapter Thirteen: Encountering the Parables: Appreciation and Critique - Mary Ann Beavis, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Index
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IVP Academic Psalms 51150
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Oneworld Publications Mary Founder of Christianity
Book SynopsisWho was the real Mary mother of Jesus?Trade Review‘Heroically measured and utterly meticulous… Mary is a signpost both to the past and to the future. She is important. All credit to Chris Maunder for fighting so heroically, inch by passionate inch, to try and allow some extra room for her.’ * Nicola Barker, Spectator *'Refreshing… it is good to see Chris Maunder’s work as a potential for a meeting of minds between those starting from very different perspectives… There is a valuable discussion here on the role of symbolism and metaphor in the use of Scripture… Maunder’s penultimate chapter is headed “Mary and the Incarnation”, and for that section alone there would be justification for buying his book.' * Catholic Herald *‘Chris Maunder builds on his previous research to construct an historical, feminist image of Mary rooted in the New Testament and early Christian history that depicts Mary as a key figure in early Christianity… Mary, Founder of Christianity manages to be both complex and approachable. Maunder moves from broader themes to more specific ones as he concludes. Additionally, the book is well structured as historical context leads to scriptural analysis leads to character-specific analysis… I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a feminist, historical depiction of Mary. Maunder’s structure, evidence, and writing style will appeal to scholars and lay readers alike.’ * Barbara F. Bradley, Religion *'Mother Mary’s contributions to the establishment of Christianity are brought to the fore in this provocative treatise by Maunder... Even those who disagree with Maunder’s unorthodox biblical readings will acknowledge the boldness and originality of what’s on offer.' * Publishers Weekly *‘Maunder answers the burning questions around Mary’s role in the Christian faith, using a scholar’s approach that gives the nonacademic reader an understanding of why the historical mother of Jesus is so important to the foundation of Christianity… Maunder offers plenty of resources in his footnotes, adding further interest for readers interested in studying Christian history.’ * Booklist *‘A welcome addition to the recent resurgence of research on the Marys, and on the leadership of women in early Christianity. In particular, Maunder’s focus on Mary of Nazareth’s status within the family of Jesus is a plausible and culturally relevant approach to an important issue, presented in an accessible and intriguing way.’ -- Mary Ann Beavis, Professor Emerita, St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan‘An excellent examination of the portrait of Mary, Jesus’ mother, according to the canonical gospel accounts.’ * Ally Kateusz, Wijngaards Institute of Catholic Research *‘The book offers the reader much… especially its outline of biblical criticism, which will be particularly useful to those called on to describe modern scholarship… [Maunder’s] case is well argued… His other theme – to explain, challenge and re-contextualise the patriarchy of the Christian tradition – is also handled with care… He writes that this is a book for “free thinkers in the Christian tradition” and its approach will resonate with many PCN members.’ * Progressive Voices *‘Chris Maunder undertakes an important but complicated task in this book. He wants to recover Mary for a world in which women have equal voice and in which a virgin bearing a child seems unbelievable. Like the search for the historical Jesus, Maunder’s search for the historical Mary begins with a framework for interpretation that distinguishes between an historical event and its metaphoric presentation in the gospels. In this reading framework, he finds Mary present before, throughout, and at the end of Jesus’ ministry. He argues for her significant presence in the early church in Jerusalem. In this way, Mary is imagined as a co-founder of Christianity. This is indeed a book for “free thinkers in the Christian tradition” who might find in a reconsideration of Mary an escape from the “delusion of male and hierarchical supremacy”.’ * Jo-Ann Badley, Dean of Theology and Associate Professor of New Testament, Ambrose University *‘The reader is given an attractive and rich theology of Mary in the New Testament… There is… some interesting and careful speculation towards the end of the book on the plethora of Maries at the cross and resurrection, in view of the later traditions of the leadership of the Jerusalem Christian community.’ * Church Times *‘Chris Maunder sets out to place Mary, mother of Jesus, front and centre in the founding story of Christianity… [Maunder] argues his case with fluency and energy. His research and references are thorough and densely presented.’ * Reaction *'Maunder opens up a new and wider window into a new perspective… Challenges to perceived modern theology are what makes this book full of interest. Maunder knows his stuff and presents a strong basis for many a full-bodied discussion.' -- Transforming Ministry
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Medium Aevum Monographs / Ssmll Remorse and Entreaty An Edition of some
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New Paradigm Pub. Searching for Wisdom
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Thomas Nelson Publishers Traveling Light
Book SynopsisWe're all weighed down by loads we were never intended to carry. With New York Times bestselling author and pastor Max Lucado as your guide, Traveling Light invites you to release some of those heavy burdens and experience true rest.
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Grupo Nelson Reflexiones Sobre Los Salmos
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BroadStreet Publishing Tpt the Book of PsalmsPart 2
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Family Relations in the Gospel of Mark
Book Synopsis The social values of honor and shame, which have attracted much research from cultural anthropology and New Testament studies for the past five decades, is the main focus of the book. This book proposes the need to combine major contributions of narrative, rhetorical, and cultural anthropological approaches to trace the development of the twofold honor-shame concept throughout the Marcan narrativewith special attention to family relations. Though adequate social-scientific and socio-rhetorical studies in Mark's Gospel (even in relation to honor and shame) have been conducted, there are still few scholarly monographs that trace the honor-shame motifs from the start to the end of the narrative through the use of helpful insights from literary methods and heuristic models (e.g., challenge-riposte; patronclient relation). Thus, this book seeks to undertake this kind of research. It argues further that Mark intends to reverse the content of the honor-shame value system of his audience bTrade Review“The early church was accused of turning the world upside down (Acts 17:6). According to this well-written and well-researched book by Narry F. Santos, that was, in part, Mark’s point in writing his Gospel. Mark wanted to create a radical redefinition (a turning upside down) of the honor-shame value system of his world. This is an important book; after all, our present broken world also deserves to be turned upside down through the teaching of Jesus.”—Joel F. Williams, Professor of New Testament Studies, Biblical Seminary of the Philippines“I commend Narry F. Santos for attempting several important tasks in this volume: the use of honor and shame as a sustained interpretive framework in conjunction with other recently developed methods, and his sustained effort to interpret the entire Markan narrative. As a result, he provides a useful lens for discriminating a number of features of Mark, including how to understand a variety of passages in relation to each other. In the final chapter, he provides a useful summary of how his reading re-orients the Jesus story in Mark.”—Stanley E. Porter, President, Dean, and Professor of New Testament, McMaster Divinity College“In Western culture, honor and shame discussions are almost foreign territory, yet its presence is deeply embedded in the biblical world and culture because our individualism obscures our connections to others and issues tied to those links. Narry F. Santos’s study of honor and shame in Mark reintroduces us to that perspective and takes us through an illuminating journey in how Mark teaches us through such concerns. Not only do we get to see Jesus’s teaching from a fresh angle, we also see how he challenged us to change how we live in the world as a result.”—Darrell L. Bock, Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies, Dallas Theological SeminaryTable of ContentsHonor and Shame and the Narrative Reversal of Family Relations in the Gospel of Mark – Honor and Shame and Family Relations in the First-Century Mediterranean World – Honor–Shame Integration and Transformation in the Gospel of Mark – Real Honor and Shame in the New Family of Jesus (Narrative Reversal in Mark 1:1–8:21) – Transformation of Honor and Shame in Jesus’s Teaching (Narrative Reversal in Mark 8:22–10:52) – From Jesus’s Shameful Death to Triumphant Honor (Narrative Reversal in Mark 11:1–16:8) – Insiders and Outsiders in the Gospel of Mark and Intergroup Boundaries and Conflict with the Marcan Community – Subject Index – Scripture Index.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Choose the Narrow Path
Book SynopsisWhy is it that churches agree to the same basic faith in hundreds of dialogues, and yet remain locked in an ecumenical winter? In Choose the Narrow Path, Bishop Pierre Whalon argues that to acknowledge the same doctrines while acting as if churches should remain separate is not only a recipe for disaster, but it is also itself a sin. This book spells out that doctrinal agreement in Part I, while Part II uncovers a more personal reaction, structured around the Nicene Creed.The primary argument is that, while churches may be one, holy, and catholic in what they believe, none of them is truly apostolic in their action. To begin to address this failing, the author calls for exceptional intercommunion for members of all churches that subscribe to the Narrow Path but are still reluctant to walk it together.Bishop Pierre Whalon offers clear points about the challenges that Churches face, but also a way forward through what he describes as the narrow pathTrade ReviewBishop Pierre Whalon’s Choose the Narrow Path is a much needed and highly accessible handbook of the contemporary Ecumenical Movement for the unity of the Christian Churches. Within the space of 221 pages Bishop Whalon provides a history of the Movement, a concise summary of the current dialogues, and above all a new theological framework, “The Narrow Path,” that serves to uplift both experts and the general public in this era of division and pessimism surrounding Church affairs. The Rt. Rev. R. William Franklin —Assisting Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, Member of the Faculty of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, and Chair of the Standing Commission on Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations of The Episcopal Church. As the latest volume in the Studies in Episcopal & Anglican Studies series, Bishop Pierre Whalon's book is timely indeed, given the divisions not only among Christians but also in much of society both at home and across the globe. Whalon offers clear points about the challenges that Churches face, but also a way forward through what he describes as 'the narrow path.' There is much here for all the various branches of the Jesus Movement to take seriously and, hopefully, act upon, if we hope to show the world God's Way of Love. —The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church and author of Love is the Way and Crazy Christians The rhetoric of church unity can at times seem a theological nuisance. Pierre Whalon has gone beyond the rhetoric to produce a sound scriptural-based systematic treatise with concrete practical applications. The book comes at a time the revived language of synodality is resonating with the churches, including the Roman Catholic Church. This book will be of great significance to the synodal enterprise. It will be discussed for a long time across denominational boundaries, especially by ecumenists and ecclesiologists. It may well be the catalyst, as the subtitle suggests, That Opens the Way for the Churches to Walk Together. —Prof. Cyril Orji, Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Dayton, OH Bishop Whalon’s Choose the Narrow Way is a passionate and carefully reasoned call for all churches to permit Christians to receive Communion if they are far from their own churches. His call is based on clear, accessible analysis of the documents of the Ecumenical Movement, showing the universal agreement on the basics of Christian faith. He follows with a brilliant exposition of his own theology, to show how deeply it accords with the “Narrow Way” of common faith. This is a book for Christians of all stripes to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest—great for study groups and church leaders alike. —The Very Reverend Dr. William S. Stafford, Dean Emeritus of The School of Theology, Sewanee, USA To walk any narrow path with a precipice on either side is very dangerous, but Bishop Pierre Whalon proves to be an excellent and sure-footed guide for the churches to try to walk together. No stranger to this heady ecumenical terrain, he draws on his wide and deep experience of the church in Europe and the USA to lay out carefully all the progress made in dialogues especially between Roman Catholics and Anglicans, but also with our brothers and sisters in the Orthodox, Methodist and Lutheran traditions. But even more important than all these committees and statements is his passionate but carefully explained systematic theology which calls for action now so that we can avoid the scandal of disunity which threatens to plunge us into the depths, and instead to witness together to Jesus the Risen Christ. —The Rev'd Canon Professor Richard A. Burridge, The University of ManchesterTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations – Introduction – Utrecht and Uppsala – Roman Catholic bilateral dialogues – Other churches in dialogue – Particular resources – Gift ecumenism; receptive ecumenism; transformative ecumenism – Choose the Narrow Path – Conclusion – Bibliography – Index.
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Crossway Books The Lord of Psalm 23
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Tyndale House Publishers Psalms 141 A Christian Union Bible Study
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Tyndale House Publishers Psalms 4289 A Christian Union Bible Study
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Tyndale House Publishers Psalms 90150 A Christian Union Bible Study
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Wipf & Stock Publishers An Intertextual Commentary to the Psalter
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IVP Academic Treasuring the Psalms: How to Read the Songs that
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Harrison House Proverbs
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