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.
Diving into the Gospel of John displays the rich and diverse arguments John presents for his thesis that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing, readers/listeners will find eternal life.
In Ancient Echoes, Walter Brueggemann -- one of our most influential biblical scholars -- responds to eight "e;truth claims"e; made by the radical right in US politics.
This book investigates the movement of the Eve parallelism along the chain of tradition, focusing primarily upon the female characters of the Gospel of John.
This study explores the relationship between the individual person (the self), the divine, and other people in the writings of the apostle Paul and the Roman Stoic Epictetus.
For Brueggemann, the Old Testament is an invitation to explore the rich pluralism and diversity of Israel's testimony of faith in Yahweh, the central figure of the Old Testament.
Holyer an Gof Winner 2024: Non-Fiction Class 5a Sacrament an Alter (The Sacrament of the Altar) is a Cornish patristic catena selected and translated from Foxe s Book of Martyrs, which is attached to the translation of Bishop Bonner s Homilies in the Tregear Manuscript (BL Add.
Gaining New Insights from HebrewsGods interactions with Israel were a foreshadowing of the perfect reality in the person of Jesus: absolutely God and absolutely human.
Gaining New Insights from HebrewsGods interactions with Israel were a foreshadowing of the perfect reality in the person of Jesus: absolutely God and absolutely human.
Ephesians' high Christology means that it is impossible to read without making the individual aware of the absolute supremacy of the One who took on flesh for mankind's salvation.
