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The word prolegomenon is from the Greek verb prolegein, which means “to speak beforehand.” In literature, it refers to a brief summary of a book’s purpose and an explanation of the manner in which the author hopes to attain it.   I...

Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? This is the title of a 2011 collection of interviews, edited by John Brockman, on the impact of the Internet on our lives. Is the Internet changing our way of thinking? The recent digital technologie...

Before we can discuss how to write the theology of the New Testament, we need to say something about the legitimacy and possibility of the enterprise.   The New Testament as an Object of Study   The most vocal contempor...

There is a great gulf today between what is popularly known as liberalism and conservatism. Each side demands that you not only disagree with but disdain the other as (at best) crazy or (at worst) evil. This is particularly true when religion...

Robert Bellah’s landmark book, Habits of the Heart, helped many people name the thing that was (and still is) eating away at the cohesiveness of our culture—“expressive individualism.” Elsewhere, Bellah argued that Americans had created a cult...

I was raised in a mainline Protestant church, but in college I went through personal and spiritual crises that led me to question my most fundamental beliefs about God, the world, and myself.   During those years I fell in with som...

The idea for this book first occurred to me in October 1978, in connection with the Summit Conference of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy, held in Chicago. At that time it was apparent that a chief objection to inerrancy was tha...

Walter L. Wilson - A Dictionary of Bible Types Published by Baker Books a division of Baker Publishing Group Ebook edition created 2013 ISBN 978-1-4412-3684-5   Because typology is a subject of much discussion and...

Gregg R. Allison - The Baker Compact Dictionary of Theological Terms Baker Academic, 2016. – 256 p. Ebook edition created 2016 ISBN 978-1-4934-0485-8   The Baker Compact Dictionary of Theological Terms is designed...

After the global economic crisis began in mid-2008, there followed a tragic string of suicides of formerly wealthy and well-connected individuals. The acting chief financial officer of Freddie Mac, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, h...

Ron Rhodes – The Popular Dictionary of Bible Prophecy More Than 350 Terms and Concepts Defined Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House Publishers, 2010 ISBN 978-0-7369-2452-8   The study of prophecy or the end times is know...

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible Edited by: Michael D. Coogan Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011 eISBN: 9780199755417   The field of biblical studies is dynamic, with new discoveries, new methodolo...

POPULAR MEDIA TOOK NOTE RECENTLY when one of film’s most recognized and celebrated stars passed away. As a successful actress since the age of three, Elizabeth Taylor had virtually defined Hollywood’s Golden Age, embodying an image of beauty f...

The fairy tale that Kierkegaard’s pseudonym Johannes Climacus begins to tell above is meant to shed light on no less an elevated theological topos than the Incarnation. It is the centerpiece of the second chapter of Philosophical Fragments, by...

To write yet another translation of the New Testament is probably something of a foolish venture. To revise such a translation for a second edition is arguably to repeat the same folly, on a grander scale. No matter what one produces— reckless...

The main purpose of this book is to discuss the socio-political sphere from a theological point of view.   To that end, first part of the book discusses traditional Orthodox Christian theological approaches to the socio- political...

The name ‘Lamentations’ is a rendering of the Hebrew word קנות (qinot). The fact that the name was employed by the oldest Jewish traditions for the five songs it designates is evident from its use in the Septuagint (0pfjvo1), which was followe...

He was big, greasy and drunk. I couldn’t tell, as he shambled towards me with an almost empty flagon of cheap port in his large fist, whether his intentions were friendly or hostile.   I was new to the bike scene, but had learned a...

The story of The 59 Club really started on the 17th day of October in the year of Our   Lord 1919. For it was then that William Frank Shergold first saw the light of day. Forty-three years later this child became known as Father Bi...

This book—originally not a book at all but merely the introduction to the first ever edition of The Philosophy of Freedom to be published in Russian—was written in Armenia in January this year. The only alternative to embarking on a Darwinisti...

The book of Esther is a wondrous journey for its readers. Despite the plot line, which deals with the annihilation of an entire people, the irony and light-hearted atmosphere of the story create a playful, delightful reading experience. The ma...

Апокрифами (греч. «тайный, скрытый») называют npoизведения иудейской и раннехристианской литературы, содержание которых не вполне совпадает с официальным вероучением. Принятая в иудаизме традиция приписывает собрание священных книг в единое це...

The Jегоmе Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century is а one-volume resource on the entire Вiblе produced bу an international team of Catholic scholars. lts purpose is to provide in-depth analysis and interpretation of the Scriptures f...

Inspired by Pope Francis, The Paulist Biblical Commentary opens the door to the study of Sacred Scriptures for a new generation of believers. This rich resource is the work of women and men who have dedicated themselves to the study of the Scriptu...