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The Anointed Church: Toward a Third Article Ecclesiology
Over recent decades, Spirit Christology has utilized a pneumatological perspective to gain significant insight into the person and life of Christ. The Anointed Church extends this work, providing the first constructive and systematic ecclesiology developed through the approach of a Third Article Theology.
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Engaging the Passion: Perspectives on the Death of Jesus
Engaging the Passion gathers an impressive array of scholars to survey how the death of Jesus has been portrayed and represented in Scripture, liturgy and music, literature, art and film, and theology and ethics--from the first to the twenty-first centuries.
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An Apocryphal God: Beyond Divine Maturity
Mark McEntire continues the story begun in "Portraits of a Mature God," extending his narrative beyond the conclusion of the Hebrew Bible as Israel and Israel's God moved into the Hellenistic world.
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Reading the Bible in an Age of Crisis: Political Exegesis for a New Day
We live in an age in which economic, ecological, and political crises are not the exception, but the rule. The Cold War polarities that shaped an earlier "political exegesis" have been replaced; increasingly, crisis is the engine of a global "turbo-capitalism."
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John's Use of Ezekiel: Understanding the Unique Perspective of the Fourth Gospel
Scholars have long puzzled over the distinctive themes and sequence of John?s narrative in contrast to the Synoptic Gospels. Brian Neil Peterson now offers a remarkable explanation for some of the most unusual features of John.
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James in Postcolonial Perspective: The Letter as Nativist Discourse
James confronts the exploitive wealthy; it also opposes Pauline hybridity. K. Jason Coker argues that postcolonial perspectives allow us to understand how these themes converge in the letter.
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The Creative Word Second Edition: Canon as a Model for Biblical Education
Every faith community knows the challenges of inviting new members and the next generation into its shared life, without falling into an arid traditionalism or a shallow relativism. Walter Brueggemann finds a framework for education in the structure of the Hebrew Bible canon, with its assertion of center and limit (in the Torah), of challenge (in the Prophets), and of inquiry (in the Writings).
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The Formation of the Christian Scriptures
The Formation of the Christian Scriptures is the second volume in a two-part introduction to the New Testament tracing the processes by which the various parts of the New Testament as we know it came to be written and put together, accepted as Scripture, and then translated.
$34.00
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Understanding and Using the Bible
Understanding and Using the Bible is an engaging and exciting introduction to biblical methods and practices of study, edited by two trusted teachers in collaboration with a diverse array of contributors.
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A Commentary on Acts
The book of Acts recounts the birth of the church and the ministry of the disciples. It is of critical importance in the New Testament, and in this helpful guide, the section-by-section commentary draws out the historical, theological, and pastoral significance of the biblical text.
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A Free Corrector: Colin Gunton and the Legacy of Augustine
This stunning and thorough work evaluates Colin Gunton's treatment of Augustine's legacy on the Trinity and the doctrine of creation.
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In Defense of Doctrine: Evangelicalism, Theology, and Scripture
Joining the recent call to theological interpretation of Scripture, Rhyne R. Putman provides a constructive model that forwards a descriptive and normative pattern for reading Scripture and theological tradition together.
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Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament: History, Hermeneutics, and Ideology
Stalder asks how Palestinian Christians have read the Old Testament in the period before and under the British Mandate and in light of the foundation of the modern State of Israel. He outlines a future hermeneutic that respects religious communities without writing off the Old Testament prematurely.
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Threshing Floors In Ancient Israel: Their Ritual and Symbolic Significance
Jaime L. Waters here examines the various personnel active in the construction and operation of threshing floors to draw a more complete picture of ancient Israelite social life.
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The Problem of Perception and the Experience of God: Toward a Theological Empiricism
Can experiences of God serve to inform and justify our theological beliefs and practices? The central claim in this work is that there is a radical mistake in many contemporary accounts that require grounding a theological story of God?s availability to us in experience in a prior general philosophical theory of perception.
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The Disciples' Prayer: The Prayer Jesus Taught in Its Historical Setting
Christians around the world recite the "Lord's Prayer" daily, but what exactly are they praying for--and what relationship does it have with Jesus' own context?
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Triune Eternality: God's Relationship to Time in the Theology of Karl Barth
This book argues that a proper comprehension of Barth's theological conception of time and eternity is best achieved by understanding three important contexts: the doctrinal, the conceptual, and the developmental.
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Power and Politics in the Book of Judges: Men and Women of Valor
Here John C. Yoder studies political culture and behavior in premonarchic Israel, focusing on the protagonists in the book of Judges. In a fascinating turn, he explores the variety of strategies these men and women of valor used to gain and consolidate their power.
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The Jewish Pseudepigrapha: An Introduction to the Literature of the Second Temple Period
Designed with the beginning student in mind, this volume introduces the reader to the books that did not make it into the Bible or the Apocrypha but that remained popular among Jews and early Christians for centuries.
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The Divine in Acts and in Ancient Historiography
In this excellent book, Scott Shauf compares the portrayal of the divine in Acts with portrayals of the divine in other ancient historiographical writings.
$49.00
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