PROTESTANTISM

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...

In the following pages, I’m not going to focus on proving God’s existence or showing how much sense it makes to be a believer. As noted earlier, plenty of books on popular theology do that already. Rather, my main purpose here will be to expos...

В 1986‒1999 гг. издательство Kaiser Verlag выпустило второе собрание сочинений Дитриха Бонхёффера, существенно дополненное новыми документами — «Dietrich Bonhöffer Werke» (цитируется как DBW). Все представленные в нём материалы снабжены подробными...

Cambridge Companions to Religion A series of companions to major topics and key figures in theology and religious studies. Each volume contains specially commissioned chapters by international scholars which provide an accessible and stimul...

Результаты анализа ответов респондентов на вопросы интервью и фокус-групп О ценности природы и животных Цель данного подраздела - представить анализ ответов на вопрос № 1 («Какую ценность имеет природа, животные для человека и для вас лично?»)...

Пособие, которое вы держите в руках, - это малая часть богатого опыта служения христианских лагерей на бескрайних просторах Евразии. Молодые лидеры используют творчество, искусство, музыку, спорт не только для того, чтобы организовать отдых де...

The phrase "salvation in Christ" may well serve as the basic summation of Paul’s central concerns regarding both Christian experience and Christian theology. Paul unpacks his christological soteriology in four ways: through a consistent gramma...

Ordinarily theology has to do with a studied, reflective understanding of things divine, dealing with how the various matters we believe about God and God's ways can be put into a coherent whole. But we do not find Paul reflecting on the Holy...

Since the publication of its first edition in 1982, Edward Fudge’s book. The Fire that Consumes has been the fullest and most thorough exposition and defense of the view that the fate of the unsaved will be final destruction, not (as in the tr...

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...

The Greek of 1 Peter has more than its fair share of syntactical challenges for the Greek student, and it is the aim of this volume to be of assistance in navigating those challenges. Readers will likely want to use this volume in conjunction...

According to a legend recounted in the Apophthegmata Patrum, or Sayings of the Fathers-a name shared in common by various ancient Christian collations of anecdotes about the Egyptian "desert fathers" of the fourth century- the holy man Abba Ma...

When we read Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, we are literally reading somebody else's mail. This letter was originally addressed to a fledgling mission church, a small band of people in the ancient Mediterranean city of Corinth. No dou...

ZondervanCharts Books in the Series Charts of Christian Theology and Doctrine (H Wayne House) Charts of Cults, Sects, and Religious Movements (H. Wayne House) Chronological and Background Charts of Church...

It is now eight years since the first edition of this work appeared under the title The Gospel of Matthew according to a Primitive Hebrew Text (1987). As with all pioneering projects, the book contained a number of errors, typographical and ot...

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...

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...

В своей речи, произнесенной в день Пятидесятницы, Петр показал, что нам нужно пройти и преодолеть на пути к вере в Иисуса Христа. То, что произошло после этой проповеди, показывает, какую радость может принести Христианская вера. Чем ближе мы...

When Thomas Hobbes analyzed the roots of the Roman Catholic Church in 1651, he was making a polemical point designed to expose the non-  and indeed anti- Christian nature of that institution, but in fact, he made an excellent case for historic...

According to the fourth-century church historian Eusebius, a bishop named Papias (writing ca. 125) noted that the disciple Matthew (Mt 9.9; see also Mk 3.18; Lk 6.15; Acts 1.13) recorded sayings of Jesus in the Hebrew language. The text of the...

Different commentaries emphasize differing primary concerns, such as redaction criticism (Gundry 1982), structuralism (Patte 1987), and the history of interpretation (Luz 1989; cf. idem 1994; Schnackenburg 1996). Without minimizing or excludin...

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...

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...