This book moves beyond the debate on 'wisdom literature', ongoing in biblical studies, to demonstrate the productivity of 'wisdom' as a literary category.
In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact-a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE.
Theology of Work: New Perspectives emerges from the necessity to continue theological reflection on work in light of the challenges posed by our contemporary world.
Cultus Arborum - Anonymous - Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship was published anonymously in 1890, although the author was most probably Hargrave Jennings, a British Freemason, Rosicrucian, author on occultism and esotericism, and amateur student of comparative religion.
Living in proximity to human disability, with a son who has Down Syndrome, Andrew Barron has come to understand that not only do we live in a world of human difference, but that God wants us to live in this kind of world, for our own flourishing.
Truth before Logic explores the provocative implications of the claim that "e;you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
These study guides, part of a set from noted Bible scholar John MacArthur, take readers on a journey through biblical texts to discover what lies beneath the surface, focusing on meaning and context, and then reflecting on the explored passage or concept.
English History in Forms of Essays (1927) is an audacious and ambitious history of England in an abbreviated form of entries that both illuminate and provide openings for further research.
This volume of studies by the late Milton Anastos contains his major articles published after his previous collection appeared, along with the first publication of a portion of 'The Mind of Byzantium', Anastos's projected multi-volume survey of Byzantine intellectual history.