Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

Los rostros de Dios es una obra basada en las ponencias presentadas en el Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Bíblica Española (ABE) celebrado en Sevilla entre el 3 y el 5 de septiembre de 2012 bajo el título «Los rostros de Dios en la Biblia».

Before the Gospels were written, long before the creeds of the Church were hammered out, Christ followers in Philippi sang a hymn of the Christ who, "e;although he was in the form of God .

Scholars have long puzzled over the distinctive themes and sequence of John’s narrative in contrast to the Synoptic Gospels.

In the Bible, there is a drama of defining who are truly God's people-and who are not.

ECPA Gold Medallion Award winnerIn this first volume of a three-volume Old Testament theology, John Goldingay focuses on narrative.

Although forgotten until quite recently, Caryll Houselander, who died in 1954, was a sensitive and profound English Roman Catholic writer on Christian spirituality.

Reboot Your Greek: A Forty-Day New Testament Greek Refresher rekindles the reader's love of reading the Greek New Testament through a step-by-step presentation of basic concepts in easy-to-understand language.

The New Testament does not conform neatly to any modern attempts to define the Christian approach to other religions, argues Basil Scott.

In this new commentary for the Belief series, award-winning author and theologian Willie James Jennings explores the relevance of the book of Acts for the struggles of today.

Contrary to what we might imagine from its title, the Epistle to the Hebrews is immersed in Hellenistic thought.

This book introduces Christian readers of the Bible to the otherworldly way in which the rabbis of ancient times interpreted sacred texts.

What have the Psalms to do with ethics?

The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me So explains how Christians mistake certainty and correct belief for faith when what God really desires is trust and intimacy.

The self-emptying of Christ (kenosis) in Philippians 2 has long been the focus of attention by Christian theologians and interpreters of Paul's Christology.

The Christian church has consistently confessed that the triune God of the gospel is simple and therefore beyond composition.

Few persons have had greater impact on history than Jesus of Nazareth.

My Father's World is a memorial volume celebrating the life of Dr.

The growing movement of post-evangelicalism highlights an opportunity to elevate and center the moral teachings of Jesus.

This book offers a way to engage with the Bible as a set of sacred texts that can serve as a song sheet for believers in exile-those people Bishop John Shelby Spong calls the "e;church alumni association.

Good Book interrogates how white evangelical Christians in the US make the Bible the "e;Good Book.

The Gospel of John has long been recognized as being distinct from the Synoptic Gospels.

Reading the New Testament offers an exciting and contemporary approach to New Testament Studies, which have changed dramatically in the past thirty years.

El Cantar de los Cantares es un libro bíblico de perenne actualidad, porque su tema, el amor, se mantiene vivo a lo largo del tiempo y del espacio.

Intends to make prayer a natural part of your daily life.

The companion to Volume 2 of The New Church's Teaching Series, Roger Ferlo's Opening the Bible, Michael Johnston's Engaging the Word teaches us how to use the critical and practical tools for reading the Bible described by Ferlo to interpret the Hebrew and Christian scriptures: what did they mean for their original audience and what do they mean for us today?

Believers and teachers of faith regularly know the in-breaking of God's Spirit in their midst, when revelatory experiencing unexpectedly shifts habits of thinking, feeling, and doing toward more life-giving ways of being and becoming.

The well-known idiom about death and taxes being the two certainties in life may require a revision with a potential third certainty--old age.

This book puts a creative new reading of Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and literary genre theory to work on the problem of Scripture.

Are the Ten Commandments the standard for Christian living?

John Goldingay is an internationally renowned biblical scholar, teacher, and theologian whose writings have impacted Christians across the globe.

An epoch work in the history of Greek grammars, this is Moulton's third edition of Winer's Grammatik.

When churches experience troubling conflicts, they are likely to be offered Matthew 18:15-17 as the only solution.

Journey to the Manger explores the New Testament’s various accounts of the birth of Jesus: their origins in Old Testament prophecies, the genealogies, the angelic announcements, the journeys and arrivals, and the aftermath of Jesus’ birth for the powerful and the poor alike.

This book offers a way to engage with the Bible as a set of sacred texts that can serve as a song sheet for believers in exile-those people Bishop John Shelby Spong calls the "e;church alumni association.

At a time when the Western church is having to come to terms--painfully and often reluctantly--with its diminished social and intellectual status in the world following the collapse of Christendom, we find ourselves, as interpreters of Paul, increasingly impressed by the need to relocate his writings in their historical context.

Though many Old Testament scholars prefer no longer to speak of the Elohist source in the Pentateuch, Gnuse seeks to defend the existence of this pentateuchal tradition by responding to scholarly critics, isolating texts belonging to the source and offering a theological assessment of these texts.