Inclusion and Participation of Children in the Gospel according to Luke
This book re-reads Luke's gospel account in light of the historical roles and presence of children in the first century Mediterranean world. By (re)membering child followers of Jesus throughout Luke's narrative, Allen provides an alternate reading of Lukan discipleship with an emphasis on interdependence.
The Benefits of Discipleship in the Gospel of John
In this book, Mark Zhakevich investigates the rewards of following Jesus alongside the call toward continuous discipleship. He argues that John's bouquet of benefits is held together with three primary promises-adoption, friendship, and abiding-which function as motivations toward faithful commitment to Jesus.
The Benefits of Discipleship in the Gospel of John
In this book, Mark Zhakevich investigates the rewards of following Jesus alongside the call toward continuous discipleship. He argues that John's bouquet of benefits is held together with three primary promises-adoption, friendship, and abiding-which function as motivations toward faithful commitment to Jesus.
Has the Christian faith lost its way because it has cut itself loose from its Hebrew roots? Faith, love, witness, and discipleship--the basic tenets of our faith--come from a world very foreign to the stoic philosophy developed through the early centuries of Christendom to the Church today. Christianity is actually a desert faith, forged ......
The Protestant Interpretation Problem and an Embodied Hermeneutic
This book delineates the individualist "interpretation problem" that has long beset Protestant biblical interpretation, and engages theological resources that could serve to move beyond it. Lauren Smelser White argues that readers of Scripture-specifically those who long to submit their lives to God's transforming Word, which they believe the ......
The eighth century BCE Isaiah of Jerusalem, the so-called First Isaiah, is one of the most important theological voices in the Bible. J. J. M. Roberts makes good use of his broad comparative knowledge of ancient Near Eastern historical and religious sources in providing a fresh and original interpretation of this prophet's genuine oracles.
Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Barvery, Wisdom
Women in the Bible aren't shy or retiring; they're fierce and funny and demanding and relevant to 21st-century people. Women in the Biblesome of their names we know, others weve only heard, and others are tragically unnamed. Pastor and provocateur Alice Connor introduces these women and invites us to see them not as players in a mans storyas ......
In the hundred years since The Women's Bible, giant strides have been made in feminist interpretation of the Bible. Now comes the first comprehensive overview of the whole field. The authors systematicallyrecount those efforts to describe the story of women in both testaments, to uncover tendencies not supportive of women, and to describe biblical ......
