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Author: C. F. D. Moule
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 0713621338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKC.F.D. Moule shows how the earliest Christian writing developed as a response to the daily demands of Christian life in societies indifferent or even hostile to Christianity, and how the selection of certain writings to constitute the basis of Christian belief was a response to specific needs.
Author: Thomas L. Brodie
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 698
ISBN-13: 9781905048038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany are saying that the prevailing paradigm of New Testament origins is going nowhere. In its place, Brodie's stunning book invites us to suspend all 'knowledge' we already have about the history of the New Testament's development, and to be willing to entertain the following thesis. Everything hinges on Proto-Luke, a history of Jesus using the Elijah-Elisha narrative as its model, which survives in 10 chapters of Luke and 15 of Acts. Mark then uses Proto-Luke, transposing its Acts material back into the life of Jesus. Matthew deuteronomizes Mark, John improves on the discourses of Matthew. Luke-Acts spells out the story at length. Add the Pauline corpus, the descendant of Deuteronomy via the Matthean logia, and the New Testament is virtually complete. This is a totalizing theory, an explanation of everything, and its critics will be numerous. But even they will be hugely intrigued, and have to admit that Brodie's myriads of challenging observations about literary affinities demand an answer.
Author: Matthew W. Bates
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0198729561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow and when did Jesus and the Spirit come to be regarded as fully God? The Birth of the Trinity offers a new historical approach by exploring the way in which first- and second-century Christians read the Old Testament in order to differentiate the one God as multiple persons. The earliest Christians felt they could metaphorically 'overhear' divine conversations between Father, Son, and Spirit when reading the Old Testament. When these snatches of dialogue are connected and joined, they form a narrative about the unfolding interior divine life as understood by the nascent church. What emerges is not a static portrait of the triune God, but a developing story of divine persons enacting mutual esteem, voiced praise, collaborative strategy, and self-sacrificial love. The presence of divine dialogue in the New Testament and early Christian literature shows that, contrary to the claims of James Dunn and Bart Ehrman (among others), the earliest Christology was the highest Christology, as Jesus was identified as a divine person through Old Testament interpretation.
Author: Jean Bottéro
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780271040301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJean Bottero, one of the world's leading figures in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, approaches the Bible as an astounding variety of documents that reveal much of their time of origin, historical events, and climates of thought.
Author: Various Authors,
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2008-09-02
Total Pages: 6637
ISBN-13: 0310294142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.
Author: Michael J. Gorman
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2014-06-27
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1630872075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this groundbreaking book, Michael Gorman asks why there is no theory or model of the atonement called the "new-covenant" model, since this understanding of the atonement is likely the earliest in the Christian tradition, going back to Jesus himself. Gorman argues that most models of the atonement over-emphasize the penultimate purposes of Jesus' death and the "mechanics" of the atonement, rather than its ultimate purpose: to create a transformed, Spirit-filled people of God. The New Testament's various atonement metaphors are part of a remarkably coherent picture of Jesus' death as that which brings about the new covenant (and thus the new community) promised by the prophets, which is also the covenant of peace. Gorman therefore proposes a new model of the atonement that is really not new at all--the new-covenant model. He argues that this is not merely an ancient model in need of rediscovery, but also a more comprehensive, integrated, participatory, communal, and missional model than any of the major models in the tradition. Life in this new covenant, Gorman argues, is a life of communal and individual participation in Jesus' faithful, loving, peacemaking death. Written for both academics and church leaders, this book will challenge all who read it to re-think and re-articulate the meaning of Christ's death for us.
Author: Sr. Dr Daniel W. Cowans
Publisher: Guardian Books
Published: 2016-10
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781460007143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Jesus Christ bowed His head on the cross and declared, "It is finished," this was inclusive of the purpose of His suffering, redemption of the world, and the giving of birth to the New Testament church. Therefore, it defies reason to say that the church was born on Pentecost, rather than on the cross, when Pentecost was fifty days after the crucifixion where His work was finished. This book is intended to clarify much of the controversy and to give a better understanding of the promise and process of the birth of the New Testament church. From beginning to end, this book deals expressly with the Christ, the cross, and the church. Dr. Daniel Cowans is Pastor at the Bibleway Church of God in Christ, Toronto; Founder of The Bibleway Institute of Christian Counselling and Theological Studies; a former lecturer at California State Christian University and Victory Bible College in Calgary, AB; and a professor and an accredited affiliate with Mount Olive Bible Institute and Seminary in New York. Dr. Cowans' credentials include: Doctor of Christian Counselling and Psychology (DCC), Canada Christian College PhD, California State Christian University, Los Angeles, California Doctor of Ministry (DMin), Honorary, Mount Olive Bible Institute and Seminary, New York Doctor of Pastoral Counselling (DPC), Honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD), Honorary Dr. Cowans lives in Toronto with his wife, Pauline. They have four children.
Author: Joseph Francis Kelly
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780814629482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKelly turns to the infancy narratives to see what the New Testament says about the Nativity. He also reveals that Christmas celebrations, cards, pageants, and crches are often combinations and embellishments of the gospel narratives.
Author: Charles Francis Digby Moule
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Raymond F. Collins
Publisher: Herder & Herder
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 344
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