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As 1996 drew to a close, I began waking up periodically with these splitting headaches that were far worse than any hangover I’d experienced during the years when booze and drugs ruled my life. There were mornings when it felt like someone had...

As its title indicates, the main aim of this thesis is to examine the evidence of the Christian literature of the first three centuries AD concerning the general priesthood of the church and the special priesthood of the ordained clergy, showi...

The Contours of Christian Philosophy series will consist of short introductory-level textbooks in the various fields of philosophy. These books will introduce readers to major problems and alternative ways of dealing with those problems. These...

Charles Taliaferro and Elsa J. Marty - Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2018. – 320 p. ISBN 978-1441112385   Some of the earliest recorded philosophy in the West and East concerns...

E. A. Livingstone - The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. – 640 p. ISBN 978-0199659623   Abbot, George (1562–1633), Abp. of *Canterbury from 1611. He became M...

The word 'ethics' is derived from the Greekεθο$orήθος.1It means custom or usage and sometimes custom or practice as prescribed by law. The one instance in the New Testament which exemplifies more closely than any other the idea to which it has...

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...

Robertson McQuilkin and Paul Copan - An Introduction to Biblical Ethics - Walking in the Way of Wisdom Third Edition. – Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014. – 669 p. ISBN 0830828184   Columbia International Univ...

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...