The meaning of "e;the millennium"e;--the thousand-year reign of Christ spoken of in Revelation 20--has been controversial for much of the church's history, and even the main perspectives on the matter turn out to be more variegated than is often realized.
The I AM statements exclusive to the Fourth Gospel are seen as the attempt of the author(s) of that Gospel to present the nature and purpose of the earthly life of Jesus by engaging the imaginative faculty of the reader.
While there are many commentaries written today, most have been products of Euro-American scholars who have sought to address questions and concerns of the western church.
Liturgical Elements for Reformed Worship is a series of four liturgical resources: three consisting of liturgical elements for Years A, B, and C, and a fourth, the first such resource to support the implementation of Year D: A Quadrennial Supplement to the Revised Common Lectionary (Cascade Books).
Preachers often think of prophetic preaching in the caricature of the prophet as the lonely outsider confronting the congregation, often angrily, with the congregation's complicity in social injustice and with a bracing call for repentance.
The pastor who seeks to preach expositionally through Psalms faces a daunting task, for the sermon series would take several years to complete and many of the sermons would seem repetitious because of similar psalms.
Using a biblical theology method (explained in SwJT 56:1 [2013] 227-57), this book reflects the content of the text of Isaiah within its Jewish-Christian context.
In this innovative study, Anna Miller challenges prevailing New Testament scholarship that has largely dismissed the democratic civic assembly--the ekklesia--as an institution that retained real authority in the first century CE.
The Gospel of John has been examined from many different perspectives, but a comprehensive treatment of the theme of worship in this Gospel has not yet appeared.
El estudio de la Biblia avanza hoy por sus márgenes, por campos de estudio que contribuyen a reconocer los infinitos sentidos de las Escrituras: los originarios de los libros bíblicos, los desarrollados en la exégesis judía, cristiana e islámica, los desplegados en la cultura y las artes a lo largo de los siglos y los de las múltiples interpretaciones propuestas desde perspectivas actuales.
Believers in an increasingly secular world face the challenge of responding to the cultural changes that have taken place in the past generation, as Christians become a "e;cognitive minority,"e; especially in the West.
This book is a collection of sermons on the Old Testament preached by the author at home and abroad, in churches and in seminary chapels, intended mainly for a lay audience.
How did Christianity spread from a small room of frightened Jewish believers in Jerusalem to a movement that would challenge and eventually overcome Rome, the center of first-century civilization?
This introduction to a biblical theology of the New Testament seeks to revitalize our engagement with the Scriptures for the twenty-first century by showing not only how the assemblage of ancient writings consisting of both Old and New Testaments is intrinsically relevant, but also how we can remain faithful to Jesus Christ, the organizing principle of those writings, in the process.