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From the various biblical explanations of suffering, this volume chooses to focus on one: suffering sometimes possesses an educational value. It explores the differing versions of this view in Paul, James, 1 Peter, Hebrews, and Luke-Acts, and sets these perspectives against the backdrop of similar explanations in Jewish and Greco-Roman cultures.

In his now classic Hellenistic Mystery-Religions (first published in 1910), Richard Reitzenstein seeks to establish the direct dependence of early Christianity on Hellenistic, Mandaean, and Iranian mythology and ritual.

In the early '70s, James M. Robinson and Helmut Koester, both students of Bultmann, broke new ground in their Trajectories through Early Christianity. The eight essays that comprise this volume seek a wholesale redefinition of the task of New Testament studies, as well as illustrating this newly conceived task.

Oscar Cullmann's The Christology of the New Testament was the standard student textbook in New Testament courses and the measuring stick for scholarly inquiry into Christology for decades. An enduring classic, this book is based on a lifetime of study from one of the most creative and disciplined minds to tackle New Testament Christology.

Examines and underscores the centrality of the concept of perfection for the theologies of Thomas Aquinas and John Wesley - and finds them, surprisingly, largely complementary. Utilising the image of a 'kneeling ecumenism,' this title offers a practical account of how ecumenical conversations can move forward.

It was 1905 when the man destined to become Waco's photographer first opened his shop. Fred Gildersleeve documented the city he loved, establishing his legacy through iconic images that have become Waco's visual memory. The 186 Gildersleeve images in this volume capture the spirit of early Waco.

"Authoritative, comprehensive presentation of Christian texts and texts about Christians in the Oxyrhynchus papyri"--

Offers practical advice on how to achieve joy. Each chapter focuses on a different trait needed to move from grief to joy. The primary narrative arc is spiritual, even though stories of struggle, conflict, and loss are recurrent themes.

Both poetry and cultural history, this book offers a sustained reflection on modernity - people and movements - in poetic meter. Just as Dante, in his Divine Comedy, summed up the Middle Ages on the cusp of modernity, The Five Quintets takes stock of a late modern world on the cusp of the first-ever global century.

A landmark work of research, containing examples of specific ways that Baptists have used Acts in their confessions, sermons, tracts, commentaries, monographs, devotional and denominational literature, speeches, and hymns. This commentary beautifully illustrates the diversity of Baptist responses to this book of Scripture.

The possibility and purpose of what comes between birth and death is ordered by the pattern of Scripture, but is performed faithfully only in obedience to the limits that bind it.--Jeremy James "Expository Times"

Provides a foundational analysis of the text of Hosea. Hosea is distinguished by the detailed and comprehensive attention paid to the Hebrew text. Beyond serving as a succinct and accessible analytic key, Hosea also reflects the most up-to-date advances in scholarship on Hebrew grammar and linguistics.

This grammar, Griffiths suggests, gives Christians new ways to think about the redemption of all things, to imagine relationships with nonhuman creatures, and to live in a world devastated by a double fall.--David Cloutier "The Journal of Religion"

Christianity's rejection, even obliteration, of books--so contrary to its own worldview--testifies both to the perilous nature of texts in transmission as well as to the enduring cultural and ideological power of the written word.--Evgenia Moiseeva "Review of Biblical Literature"

A trial lawyer by trade, a Christian by heart-author Mark Lanier has trained in biblical languages and devoted his life to studying and living the Bible. Living daily with the tension between the demands of his career and the desire for a godly life, Lanier recognizes the importance and challenge of finding daily time to spend in God's Word. He credits the Psalms in particular for his continued growth in faith, obedience, wisdom, and understanding. In Psalms for Living, Lanier shares a year's worth of devotionals gathered over a lifetime of walking with the Lord. For each day of the year, Lanier reflects on the words of the Psalter, relates them back to the struggles facing Christians today, and concludes with a prayer connected to the day's insights. His engagement with the Psalms offers fellow Christians the opportunity to receive the gifts of grace and guidance that come from daily immersion in scripture.

The chapters collectively demonstrate how the creation of new mythic narratives, the revelatory power of mystical experiences, and the sociology of community formation capitalized on Jewish mediator traditions to initiate the praxis of Christ-devotion.

While the relationship between Second Temple Jewish exegesis and early Christian exegesis as demonstrated in the New Testament is universally recognized, the reasons for their similarities and differences are often elusive. Donald Juel in Messianic Exegesis seeks to unknot this tangled web of interpretation.

In the end, The Name of God and the Angel of the Lord reveals that not all gnostic speculation was anti-Jewish and, indeed, emerging gnostic and Christian traditions borrowed as much from Judaism as they criticized and rejected.--Michael A. Williams "Journal of Biblical Literature"

The Reformation was the single most important event of the early modern period of Western civilization. In Reformation in the Western World, Paul Silas Peterson shows how the retrieval of the ancient Christian teachings about God's grace and the authority of Scripture influenced culture, society, and the political order.

Examines the institutional settings for the development of Christian theology. Specifically, Christoph Markschies contends that theological diversity is closely bound up with institutional diversity.

There is tenderness, intensity, and gratitude--which will resonate with all who know both love and loss.--Teresa Black "The Poetry Shelf, Midwest Book Review"

Presents a view of Ethiopian Christianity. Synthesising existing scholarship with interviews and archival research, this title demonstrates that the vernacular nature of the Ethiopian church played a critical role in the development of a state church.