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Tongues Of Fire
$19.93Tongues Of Fire is a refreshingly bold approach to the study of the Holy Spirit. Stroman explores in depth the various manifestations of the Holy Spirit from that “wild, weird day” of Pentecost to the characteristics of the Spirit’s activity today. He maintains that what has followed from that New Testament experience of the Holy Spirit has been a well-disciplined maturity by the church through the ages in which the embarrassing earlier irregularities no longer appear. In that process, he says, the present church has lost something. The spontaneity of the Spirit has been replaced by the accommodations we have sought to make between the Christian life and middle class cultural values. Comparing the strength and vigor of the early church with the confused and sometimes feeble performance of the divided church today, he acknowledges that the early church was open “on the Godward side of life” that is unknown to Christians today.
Stroman examines the patterns that came out of the experience of Pentecost and discovers what meaning they have today. He finds that it is not a question of the Holy Spirit’s activity in our midst, but our awareness of where that activity is taking place.
Toward the end of the book is a chapter on the Trinity. After all, a book on new life in the Spirit must deal with the Trinity. Christian theology begins, continues, and ends with the inexhaustible mystery of God. It helps deal with this mystery and is basic to understanding the Christian experience.
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Roots Of Wisdom
$34.00In this book, Claus Westermann argues that Israel’s early wisdom literature grew out of an oral tradition reflecting an agrarian setting. Dealing primarily with Proverbs 10-31, Westermann demonstrates how the wisdom literature evolved into a form of poetry that had greater universal appeal as the people of Israel became more urbanized. A distinctive feature of Roots of Wisdom is Westermann’s use of other wisdom sayings, particularly those from ancient Africa, to illustrate the logical progression of wisdom poetry being simply observational in character to becoming more universal in character.
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Hollywood Dreams And Biblical Stories
$40.00Powerful culture critique of the Hollywood dream factory comparing celluloid heroes and heroines with those in Scripture while elaborating on American mythology, history, and self-understanding. Commenting on many familiar films, this is a provocative discussion starter.
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Pathway Into The Holy Scripture A Print On Demand Title
$37.99A Pathway into the Holy Scripture contains revised versions of papers given at the jubilee meeting of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and Theological Research, and event that coincided with the 500th anniversary of the birth of the English reformer William Tyndale. The book includes a discussion of Tyndale as biblical interpreter, surveys of current trends in Old and New Testament scholarship, treatments of biblical theology and of Paul’s view of Scripture, chapters on biblical hermeneutics and the doctrine of inspiration, and studies discussing the role of Scripture in the church in earlier periods and in the present day.
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Rhetorical Criticism : Context Method And The Book Of Jonah
$56.66Trible’s work begins with an historical overview of rhetorical criticism, providing the context for discussion of biblical rhetorical criticism. The book of Jonah is the medium for such further exploration of rhetorical criticism within biblical literature, as Trible analyzes its external design and internal structure. Throughout her discussion, Trible employs the same rhetorical tools she introduces and explains within the body of her text. Adding to the didactic value of the text, appendices are included, one of which outlines the structure of Jonah, the other provides a quiz, testing the reader’s ability to single out the rhetorical devices imbedded in Trible’s text. A most welcome tool for those interested in biblical interpretation as well as study of the book of Jonah.
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Clothed With The Sun
$45.00The Bible holds a great treasure of amazing women. They are judges and prophets, caregivers and teachers, prominent matriarchs of large clans or quiet disciples, women who suffered alone or sang joyous praises to God amid the crowds. Their stories come alive in these pages as they are interwoven with the lives of modern women, bound together by common threads of strength and courage in the face of vulnerability and violation. From Eve to Revelation’s woman clothed with the sun–from the first creative impulse to the close of time–female energy has been and will continue to be a river of life and wisdom, of dignity and hope.
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Matthew In History
$26.66In this provocative book, Ulrich Luz points the way beyond the limitations of the historical-critical method as it has been practiced during the past two centuries. He demonstrates the richness of the insights that can be gained when the interpreter considers a variety of effects and influences that a text has had in subsequent history, a method of inquiry he calls Wirkungsgeschichte.
This distinctive approach, which Luz so brilliantly exhibits in his multi-volume commentary on Matthew, is here applied to the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 10, and Matthew 16:18. Insights from the ancient fathers, from Scholastics, from Reformers and Anabaptists, and from many others are adduced to demonstrate the importance of the history of Christian thought for the interpretation of biblical texts.
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New Testament : A Thematic Introduction
$28.33This book reflects J. Christiaan Beker’s experience of more than twenty years of teaching an introductory course in New Testament. In distinction from a history-of-religions ap proach, he aims at allowing the theological thrust of the New Testament to become transparent for today’s readers. The work presupposes the normative and canonical claim of the New Testament for all forms of Christian theology. Beker concentrates on some of the most central issues within the New Testament by surveying sixteen of the twenty-seven book of the New Testament. A chronological sequence is followed, beginning with Paul’s letters. For the student.
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New Testament Foundations For Christian Ethics
$41.66Marxsen examines the New Testament to learn from it what can be distinctively Christian about ethics. He describes and assesses the ethics reflected in the teaching of Jesus, the earliest Christian communities, Paul, and the rest of the New Testament.
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Social Reading Of The Old Testament
$65.00In A Social Reading of the Old Testament author Walter Brueggeman raises a variety of contemporary and intriguing questions on the relation of society and text in the Old Testament. Some of the topics discussed are, the conflictual tension in ancient Israel, the political dimension of mercy, theodicy, violence, horses and chariots and the cry to God of the oppressed and God’s response. He opens to a variety of readers a compelling picture of subversive paradigm and social possibility in the Hebrew Bible.
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From Eve To Esther
$44.00This is the first book-length attempt to focus on female biblical figures in the ancient rabbinic writings of midrash and Talmud. Primary rabbinic sources employed by the author bring new life and insight into the stories of Eve, Deborah, Hannah, Serah bat Asher, and others. As women and men today attempt to reevaluate past historical models, it serves us well to understand the values and inner workings of rabbinic thinking. The examination of what the sources actually say, and not what others would like them to have said, enable reinterpretation of women’s role to proceed on an honest and authentic basis. Biblical women, reclaimed with contemporary midrash, can become paradigms for our modern lives.
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Workbook On Biblical Stewardship A Print On Demand Title (Workbook)
$17.99In today’s ownership culture, with its resulting environmental destruction, a clear biblical understanding of stewardship is more necessary than ever. This nine- chapter journey through the biblical principles of stewardship helps Christians grasp God’s message regarding his people’s role as earthly caretakers.
Printed on large, perforated pages for easy use, Richard E. Rusbuldt’s workbook provides practical, thought-provoking material for individual and group study. Specifically written and arranged to be accessible to adults and young adults, A Workbook on Biblical Stewardship can be used equally well in a Sunday school, adult church school, or small-group setting. Each interactive chapter contains stimulating exercises and probing questions that facilitate discussion.
By contrasting the world’s ownership model of stewardship with the biblical mode of “care-management,” this engaging study offers exciting, practical motivation for living in accord with God’s standards. The Bible describes the Christian as a partner in God’s plan, brought into his household as an heir. This workbook presents a vital and transforming understanding of kingdom stewardship that considers not just money but all aspects of God’s created order: time, physical resources, spiritual gifts, relationships, the gospel message, and life itself.
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