Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church is part of Ad Fontes: Early Christian Sources, a series designed to present ancient Christian texts essential to an understanding of Christian theology, ecclesiology, and practice.This volume focuses on how Scripture was interpreted and used for teaching by early Christian scholars and church leaders.
Based on a talk at the New York Open Center in 1999, this book on the identity of John speaks of Christian initiation in a new way--one whose time has come. What Smith has to say is both extraordinarily suggestive and remarkably conclusive. Covering a lot of ground in a way that is accessible, the author masterfully supplies us with a range of ......
This is an honest engagement with relevant passages in the two primary Testaments of the Christian Bible. Bird invites readers to be honest about what these biblical stories, laws, and sayings meant in their original contexts, highlighting the conflicting messages about "biblical marriage" from Jesus, St. Paul, and St. Augustine.
In Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy, Boyd shows how one of the most familiar stories from the Bible, the Tower of Babel, has been misinterpreted for millennia. He offers a new interpretation, and also examines how the story has shaped politics and intellectual culture to the current day.
The Bible offered a language-world through which African Americans have negotiated the strange land into which they were thrust. Vincent Wimbush outlines six African American readings that correspond to history and how they helped shape a collective self-understanding. When their voices were taken away, the Bible offered a way to speak again.
In this carefully argued book, T. Luke Post shows that "good works" occupy a central, though often overlooked, place in Pauline ethics. Surveying a wide terrain of exegetical territory, Post makes a compelling case that believers "doing good" is a primary aim of Paul's theological, social, and ethical agenda.
Introduction to Preaching: Scripture, Theology, and Sermon Preparation offers a new method for crafting effective, engaging, and inspiring sermons. Using a three-step process-the Central Question, the Central Claim, and the Central Purpose-the book offers helpful instructions and tools for novice and experienced preachers.
Introduction to Preaching: Scripture, Theology, and Sermon Preparation offers a new method for crafting effective, engaging, and inspiring sermons. Using a three-step process-the Central Question, the Central Claim, and the Central Purpose-the book offers helpful instructions and tools for novice and experienced preachers.
This comprehensive sourcebook of Philo of Alexandria presents topics and themes drawn from commonly studied Philonic texts in seven chapters: theology, cosmology, anthropology, ethics, biblical characters, Jewish Law, and Jewish worship and observances.
