Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

Marxism is one of the revolutionary social-scientific theories that has come to have a prominent place in New Testament studies in the United States.

Who will speak for Hagar or Isaac or Sarah or the daughters of Lot?

What is justice?

The apostle Paul affirms in several places that there is only one God.

Matters pertaining to our Lord's second coming, heaven, hell, and associated topics are often set aside by Christians, sometimes for very understandable reasons.

The Gospel of Matthew opens with a patrilineal genealogy of Jesus that intriguingly includes five women: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, "e;she of Uriah,"e; and Mary.

Christian communities today face enormous challenges in the new contexts and teachings that try to redefine what churches should be.

In Teaching to Justice, Citizenship, and Civic Virtue, a group of teachers considers how students learn and what students need in order to figure out what God is requiring of them.

Life is filled with opportunities to practice nonviolence.

This book is not another volume attempting to persuade the reader of the rights of gays and lesbians in society and in the church.

The emergence of Pentecostalism in Ghana has attracted a massive following and generated institutions that have significantly impacted Christian discourse and national life.

The Bible can and should be an environment in which we live and move and have our being, an environment in which we are shaped by God in different and interrelated ways.

Since the rise of the "e;New Homiletic"e; a generation ago, it has been recognized that sermons not only say something to listeners, they also do something.

In 1861 a young farmer, drafted into the Confederate Army, was wounded in battle and sent home to die.

His birthday was once celebrated as a national holiday and his portrait once adorned the walls of almost every classroom in the United States.

Life After Death takes an in-depth look at the important issues surrounding death.

This book is a commentary on the Acts of the Apostles for the nonspecialist, based on lecture notes accumulated over many years of Professor Mel Storm's introductory course on Acts.

The Bible is a perplexing book.

How does a Christian render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and unto God what is God's?

The weather is all around us all the time.

A Conscious Endeavor is a synopsis of the social teachings and the concept of justice in the Old and New Testament.

Is the Old Testament still relevant for Christians today?

In Glory, Grace, and Truth, Alexander Tsutserov argues that three concepts of the revelation of God as Jesus are unfolded throughout the Gospel of John in terms of a ratification of the covenant of the presence of God.

The Diffusion of Ecclesiastical Authority explores the leadership of the church in Acts from a sociological perspective.

What does the Old Testament say about the problem of suffering?

Does the Apostle Paul have any use for the person of Jesus presented in the Gospels?

How would the image of Jesus appear if it were based only on sayings that scholars generally agreed originated with Jesus?

Christology: How Do We Talk about Jesus Christ Today?

Christians, the Care of Creation, and Global Climate Change is a wake-up call for Christians and others.

When the New Testament was read publicly, what effect did the performances have on the audience?

Drinking from the Same Well is designed for those who seek a praxis-oriented theological grounding in the exploration of cross-cultural perspectives in the field of pastoral care and counseling.

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Colonialism and imperialism continue to impact the personal and social identities of North American preachers and listeners.

In 68 CE, devout Jews left more than one thousand handwritten documents in caves northwest of the Dead Sea.

The world is flooded with novels about secret messages or hidden texts.

Mark's Gospel is much maligned for its redundancy and stylistic sloppiness.

The Christian faith has always stood in a place of tension between its transcendent nature and the surrounding culture.

The Hebrew Bible preeminently hails King David in narratives of kingship.

Paul's letter to Titus is one of the most neglected letters of the New Testament.

Biblical hermeneutics, the art of interpreting Scripture, is a controversial subject in the best of times.

For the last two centuries biblical interpretation has been guided by perspectives that have largely ignored the oral context in which the gospels took shape.

If you sit in a pew, Sunday by Sunday, you will hear parts of Matthew's Gospel read.

Remain in Your Calling explores the way the Apostle Paul negotiates and transforms existing social identities of the Corinthian Christ-followers in order to extend his gentile mission.

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Hermeneutics is the work of Hermes, the Greek demigod, a messenger from the gods and from the dead.

The goal of this book is for readers to experience a personal encounter with the wisdom of Jesus found in Matthew 5-7.

Radical Orthodoxy, whose founding father is John Milbank, claims that God has been pushed to the margins in modernity and that a false and misleading neo-theology has taken hold that needs to be revisited and contested.

If You Call Yourself a Jew reads Romans as a dialogue between Paul and a Gentile proselyte to Judaism.

For a world so out of tune, this treatise intends to correlate from various instruments of learning, a new sound--a sound of hope.

Like many young Christians, Kevin Brown had what he believed to be a strong faith, one that provided answers to all the questions he had and might encounter.