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Our concern is with the Bible. What are the exact melodies, harmony and counterpoint of its haunting music? To what battles do its trumpet fanfares summon us? It has been the common conviction of all Christians that their life must be lived un...

Джон Пайпер и Н. Т. Райт - две наиболее влиятельные фигуры в англоязычных церквях на сегодня.   Это легко увидеть. Пайпер сочетает в себе величественное видение божественной славы со своим христианским гедонизмом и нео-пуританским...

The first thing that happened in the life of the church was translation . On the Day of Pentecost, God’s powerful wind swept through Jesus’ followers, filling them, like the sails of a great ocean-going sailing ship, so that they could take Go...

A little over a century ago, Albert Schweitzer suggested that providing an explanation for how a small Jewish sect proclaiming a rabbi from the backwater town of Nazareth to be the messiah of Israel so quickly transitioned to a movement primar...

Can biblical interpretation change the world? It may be a moot point in light of widespread biblical illiteracy, a consequence of the decline of biblical civilization in America, and in the West in general. 1 There was a time, however, when bi...

In his watershed book, The Quest of the Historical Jesus , written at the dawn of the twentieth century, Albert Schweitzer points out that the modern quest was motivated from its very beginnings by more than just the historical aim of discover...

Seventy-five years ago, anyone who took the Waldörfer train from Hamburg to Grosshansdorf and got out at Buchenkamp station found himself alone among open fields. Left and right, arable lands stretched away, divided not by fences but by hedger...

Friends,   In the spring of 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, and with it we saw another expression of Christian Nationalism expose itself. Many of us were used to the familiar American variety, but could it be that a similar spirit of...

This book tells the story of the origins and development of ancient Mediterranean Christianity up to the fifth century in the post-Roman West. It is easier to see when this story ends than when it begins.   How odd, the reader migh...

The essays gathered here concern two areas that continue to occupy the best efforts of the apostle Paul’s interpreters today and, often enough, to set them at odds with one another. One is the effort to understand Paul’s relationship to his an...

What makes for good preaching? Many different opinions could be advanced, depending on the perception and frame of reference of the hearer. Some would say that preaching should be standardized, such as a three point sermon format. Others would...

It is with great excitement that I present this volume. There has been some amazing work on the topic of children in the Bible and the ancient world. To understand children’s lives more effectively, comparative methods, and specifically histor...

Christian doctrine focuses upon God and the way in which God grants not just life but also meaning to all other things. To turn to the doctrine of God, therefore, is to consider both a particular item of concern (namely, God or theos) and a sp...

Преди малко повече от десет години светата ни Обител прие предложението на неколцина хуманитаристи и съвместно с тях започна систематична дигитализация на ръкописното и архивното манастирско наследство, имаща за цел задълбоченото му изучаване....

“When  God began creating heaven  and earth,  the earth was  void and desolate, there was  darkness  on the face of the deep, and the spirit of God moved over  the waters....”  Thus  unfolds  the most  revolutionary  as  well  as  the most  in...

Обширное введение в Новый Завет - введение к корпусу Н.Т. Райта Двое из самых плодовитых на сегодняшний день евангельских исследователей Нового Завета объединили свои знания для создания удивительного тома: отчасти введен...

Actually, the whole thing started when I asked my mother if there was going to be a war. There was always something on television about missiles and nuclear bombs. Once I watched a science show on public television and the scientists said that...

G. K. Chesterton (1909: 29) humorously said about Revelation, “And though St. John the Evangelist saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.” I suppose I am adding to the wildness in wri...

In the mosaic of the Church of St. Sabina in Rome, made under Pope Celestine (422-432), at the sides of the great historical inscription there are two female figures, the “Ecclesia ex circumcisione” on the left and the “Ecclesia ex gentibus” o...

My interest in 2 Clement was probably first aroused in a significant way as a result of a conference in Oxford, held in 2004 and arranged by myself and my colleague Andrew Gregory, on the Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament. Many of the pa...

Students and scholars in the field of biblical studies will be familiar with numerous Introductions presenting the Hebrew Bible from a wide range of perspectives and methodologies. One may therefore wonder whether there is any need for yet ano...

1. Григоровичев паримејник, од крајот на XII - почетокот на ХIII век, спаѓа меѓу најпознатите македонски средновековни текстови, одамна привлекувајќи го вниманието на палеословенистиката, пред се како најстар денес познат словенски препис на п...

Skillful exegesis of the New Testament is essential for those who aspire to teach and preach the Word of God properly. Seasoned students of the Bible have always been involved in this task to some degree.   The beginning student, h...

In the summer of 1952 1 completed the writing of a dissertation entitled “The Eschatological Discourse of Mark 13, with particular reference to the rise and development of the Little Apocalypse Theory.” The theme had been selected in view of t...