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Richard N. Soulen and R. Kendall Soulen - Handbook of Biblical Criticism Fourth Edition. – Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011. – 272 p. ISBN 0664235344   This book is for the beginning and intermediate st...

John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow - Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2010. – 1406 p. ISBN 978-0-8028-2549-0   The field of Second Temple Judaism has emerged as a...

Paul Thigpen - Dictionary of Quotes from the Saints Charlotte, NC: TAN Books, 2001. – 340 p. ISBN 1505132150   Abba Theodore, a respected abbot among the monks in the deserts of ancient Egypt, once criticized a younger...

W. Randolph Tate - Handbook for Biblical Interpretation - An Essential Guide to Methods, Terms, and Concepts Second Edition. – Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012. – 544 p. ISBN 0801048621   This work is patterned af...

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...

Harry J. Gensler, Earl W. Spurgin - A to Z of Ethics Lanham, MD: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. – 426 p. ISBN 978-0-8108-7588-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)   Of all the branches of philosophy, the one th...

Norman Solomon - Historical Dictionary of Judaism Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. – 528 p. ISBN 978-1-4422-4141-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4422-4142-8 (ebook)   Judaism has never been the religion o...

D. Stephen Long, Rebekah L. Miles - Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics New York, NY: Routledge, 2020. – 550 p. ISBN: 978-0-367-36287-4 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-37916-6 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-34508-1 (ebk)  ...

George D. Chryssides - Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements Lebanon: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2012. – 446 p. ISBN 978-0-8108-6194-7 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8108-7967-6 (ebook)   New religious...

Robert Audi - Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015. – 1201 p. ISBN 978-1-107-01505-0 Hardback ISBN 978-1-107-64379-6 Paperback   Philosophy has always done extraordinar...

Leslie Houlden - Jesus in History, Thought, and Culture - An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2003. – 1032 p. ISBN 1-57607-856-6 (alk. paper) ISBN 1-57607-857-4 (e-book)   It is hard to think of a...

The expression “philosophy of religion” did not come into general use until the nineteenth century, when it was employed to refer to the articulation and criticism of humanity’s religious consciousness and its cultural expressions in thought,...

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...