Kingdom Expressions
Kingdom Expressions

Author: J. D. Payne

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1418545961

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In our changing world how do Christians come together in non-traditional ways? An expert takes a look at some of the most significant gospel-advancing movements and trends to take place in the latter twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States. New Christian groups examined include: the Church Growth Movement, Missional Church Movement, Multisite Movement, the rise of church planting networks, the House Church Movement, and the Emerging Church Movement. Readers are introduced to each expression, along with important definitions, history, convictions, and influential leaders. Features include: A close look at non-denominational movements that reach new people for Christ Explanations of how contemporary Christianity is changing Concise guide to non-traditional Christian groups "

The Meaning and Uses of βασιλεία in the Gospel of Matthew
The Meaning and Uses of βασιλεία in the Gospel of Matthew

Author: Tobias Ålöw

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-04-04

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 9004686959

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Contrary to the prevailing view that βασιλεία is a verbal noun signifying God’s rule, this study demonstrates how the term’s pragmatic range in Matthew’s Gospel covers both five distinct types of use and their integration into a coherent concept. The study, which is the first to examine all occurrences of βασιλεία in the First Gospel from the perspective of semantic monosemy, extends and enhances our appreciation of the Matthean Zentralbegriff, and engenders a more accurate apprehension of the nature and aims of the Matthean narrative and the theological views it conveys.

Heaven and Earth in the Gospel of Matthew
Heaven and Earth in the Gospel of Matthew

Author: Jonathan T. Pennington

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007-11-30

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 9047421841

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A much-overlooked aspect of the Gospel of Matthew is the theme of heaven and earth. Rather than being a reverential circumlocution for God, ‘heaven’ in Matthew is part of a highly developed discourse of heaven and earth language. Matthew’s idiolectic way of using heaven language consists of four aspects: 1) a distinction in meaning between singular and plural forms of ouranos; 2) frequent use of the heaven and earth word pair; 3) regular reference to the Father in heaven; and 4) the recurrent use of the Matthean expression, kingdom of heaven. This book examines the historical precedents for each of these aspects and shows in Matthew how they serve one overriding theological purpose: to highlight the tension that currently exists between heaven and earth or God and humanity, while looking forward to its eschatological resolution.

Earthquakes and Eschatology in the Gospel According to Matthew
Earthquakes and Eschatology in the Gospel According to Matthew

Author: Brian Carrier

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2020-11-09

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 3161596722

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In this study, Brian Carrier provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that seismic language plays within the Matthean Gospel narrative. After reconstructing what connotations seismic language likely carried in Matthew's cultural context, the author utilizes an historically informed author-oriented narrative criticism that is complemented with redaction criticism to analyze the relationships that Matthew's seismic references display with regards to each other and to the overall narrative. This analysis leads to the conclusion that Matthew's seismic references collectively indicate that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus together represent the partial fulfillment of the Old Testament eschatological Day of the Lord.

Supernatural Skyline
Supernatural Skyline

Author: Jim Hylton

Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers

Published: 2010-08-21

Total Pages: 622

ISBN-13: 0768490790

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While revival may be for a season, the Kingdom of God is “unshakeable and never-ending.” The Supernatural Skyline unpacks revival, then proposes God’s greater plan of continuing Kingdom encounters. Full of supernatural experiences and practical expressions of Christ living in and working through His people today, The Supernatural Skyline will expand your vision of the Kingdom to include exciting new spiritual possibilities. Written for thinking Christians who want church life to be meaningful, relevant, and culturally engaging, The Supernatural Skyline contends that the church needs to accept the “keys to the Kingdom” and use those keys to unlock doors currently closed to Christ and His purpose. Defining the Kingdom of God as Jesus’ life enacted in every sphere—justice, government, economics, education, art—any realm that influences people and their culture—this book will challenge you to consider fresh concepts and biblically sound principles.

With Christ
With Christ

Author: Jean-Francois Baudoz

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2005-04

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780814618288

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While spending almost a year in retreat at the Abbey of Tamie, Jean-Franois Baudoz, a biblical scholar, was inspired to write this spiritual journey. Far from presenting a collection of "pious pieces of advice," this journey proposes to restore our inner unity, by focusing on the figure of Christ, the very core of our growth in faith and yet often remote from our concerns. With Christ draws from three sources: daily life with its joys, its rifts, and its times of transition; the Rule of Saint Benedict, centered on the hearing and welcoming of God's Word; and finally the Gospel and the words of Jesus. Could it be that the man from Nazareth, followed step by step, from the desert to Jerusalem, from the parables to the silence of the cross, is the one to open for us an authentic inner truth?

The Parables of Jesus
The Parables of Jesus

Author: Arland J. Hultgren

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2000-06-22

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 9780802860774

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Outlines the parables of Jesus and discusses how each of the parables can be taught and preached.

New Dictionary of Christian Ethics & Pastoral Theology
New Dictionary of Christian Ethics & Pastoral Theology

Author: David J. Atkinson

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2013-11-21

Total Pages: 1054

ISBN-13: 083089618X

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Encompassing a wide range of topics--from the timely (health care and business ethics) to the traditional (atonement, suffering and the kingdom of God)—this work features an easy-to-use reference system and eighteen articles that introduce readers to key themes in moral, pastoral and practical theology. Edited by David J. Atkinson and David F. Field with consulting editors Arthur Holmes and Oliver O'Donovan.

Rediscovering Faithfulness
Rediscovering Faithfulness

Author: Kenneth W. M. Wozniak

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2024-07-09

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1666755508

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What does faithfulness mean for modern Christians who find themselves immersed in a social and moral context two millennia removed from that of Jesus? As a notion endorsed by Christians universally, irrespective of church tradition, geographic location, economic and political milieu, or spiritual experience, faithfulness is essential to mature Christian living. Yet many in the modern church have lost—or perhaps forgotten—the true nature of faithfulness, and thus have wandered from that which God envisages for believers. Rediscovering what faithfulness entails, however, is altogether possible. Theological ethicist Kenneth W. M. Wozniak takes the reader on a journey of encounter, looking to the earliest Christians and their understanding of fidelity to the way of Jesus as a model for believers today, and as the means by which the essence of faithfulness—rooted not in adherence to a performance standard but rather in personal cultivation of the divine character—the Jesus way not only can be discovered, but also embraced and enjoyed by the one who aspires to align with the very being of God.

First Expressions
First Expressions

Author: Steve Taylor

Publisher: SCM Press

Published: 2019-12-30

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 033405849X

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Seeking insight from the real-life development of the earliest expressions of emerging church from their birth, through times of adolescent angst and into the reality of adulthood, this book offers a unique insight into the long-term sustainability of fresh expressions.