In this book, Frank W. Hughes and Robert Jewett argue that the Apostle Paul wrote eight letters to the church in Corinth, and that those letters were edited and reshaped into 1 and 2 Corinthians. This analysis, using redaction and rhetorical criticism, provides many insights into Paul's difficult relationship with the Corinthians.
"This book tells the story of religion and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. It rejects simplistic frameworks of secularization and enlightenment and emphasizes, instead, continuing and powerful Protestant ideas of God's oversight in shaping and motivating human activity in the realms of narrative, medicine, missions, charity, and ......
A revealing look at the identity and mission of the black church What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls, or to transform the social order? This question is especially fraught when the church is one built by an enslaved people and formed, from its beginning, at the center of an oppressed ......
In The Dynamics of Human Life in the Bible: Receptivity and Power, Martin J. Buss describes the dynamics of human life that are encouraged in the Bible and how biblical guidance parallels those of non-Christian religious traditions.
Frend's masterful survey, here presented with a new Preface and updated bibliographies, traces the historical and theological development of the Christian church from apostolic times through the fifth century. Frend charts the tumultuous and momentous process by which an obscure Palestinian Jewish sect became the official religion of the Roman ......
In The Early Luther Berndt Hamm, armed with expertise both in late-medieval intellectual life and in Luther, presents new perspectives that leave old debates behind.
The Church and Kingdom Communities of Those Who Belong to the Lord
In this book, Robert Doyle provides a disciplined introduction to ecclesiology using descriptive criticism of biblical themes and careful analysis of the history of interpretation.
On the 600th Anniversary of Their Declaration (1420-2020)
The Four Articles of Prague within the Public Sphere of Hussite Bohemia seeks to answer how and to what extent the Hussite movement influenced Bohemia's transformation and constitutional development. It situates the Four Articles of Prague (presented here in a new translation) within the conceptualized framework of the European Reformation.
