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Author: Stanley E. Porter
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9004138919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pauline letters continue to provoke scholarly discussion. This volume includes papers that raise questions regarding the canon of Pauline writings. Some essays treat a single dimension or single letters, while others deal with the entire canonical formation process.
Author: Alvar Ellegard
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-12-31
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 1448108195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe starting point for the book is the following anomoly: If Jesus lived as has been supposed at the beginning of the 1st century AD, the only NT documents written by a near contemporary, the Epistles of St Paul, make no mention of him as an historical figure, neither do they record any of his sayings, but rather they talk of him as a vision or mystical experience of the risen Christ. Further, the same is true of the earliest Christian non-NT texts, such as the Epistles of St Clement, roughly contemporary with Paul. Furthermore, contemporary records of the region from non-Christian sources, such as those by the Jewish historian Josephus, fail to mention Jesus at all where we would expect them to; the mentions that there are have recently been shown to be later interpolations by medieval Christian apologists - the gospel accounts of Jesus and his millieu are inaccurate in all major respects e. g. the relative dates of Herod and Pilate, if contemporary Roman and Jewish historians, who had no theological axe to grind, are taken as measure. By comparative textual studies, the author shows that the gospel accounts of Jesus' life and sayings were written approximately 100 years after Jesus is supposed to have lived, and so 100 years later than alleged contemporaries such as Paul, Clement, Josephus etc.
Author: Philip L. Tite
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-07-26
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9004228055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChallenging nearly two centuries of scholarship, this book offers a close analysis of Laodiceans. Philip Tite offers a detailed study of this Latin letter by exploring the epistolary conventions utilized by the letter writer.
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Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 0857861018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
Author: Sir William Mitchell Ramsay
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 508
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sam Storms
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1629996076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew other issues have separated the church more than the issue of tongues. Sam Storms focuses on this controversial subject with his signature insights to theology and the gifts of the spirit. What does the gift giver say about the gift He gave? Storms seeks to bring balance to this subject in The Language of Heaven as he wrestles with this s...
Author: Colin J. Hemer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1987-03-01
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0567319431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith a new foreword by David E. Aune, this modern classic by Colin J. Hemer explores the seven letters in the book of Revelation against the historical background of the churches to which they were addressed. Based on literary, epigraphical, and archaeological sources and informed by Hemer's firsthand knowledge of the biblical sites, this superb study presents in the clearest way possible a picture of the New Testament world in the later part of the first century and its significance for broader questions of church history.
Author: Rutherford Hayes Platt
Publisher: Nelson Bibles
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 660
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresented here are two volumes of apocryphal writings reflecting the life and time of the Old and New Testaments. Stories told by contemporary fiction writers of historical Bible times in fascinating and beautiful style.
Author: Jerry Bridges
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 1631466232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe all admire humility when we see it. But how do we practice it? How does humility--the foundational virtue of the normal Christian life--become a normal part of our everyday lives? Jerry Bridges sees in the Beatitudes a series of blessings from Jesus, a pattern for humility in action. Starting with poverty in spirit--an acknowledgment that in and of ourselves we are incapable of living holy lives pleasing to God--and proceeding through our mourning over personal sin, our hunger and thirst for righteousness, our experience of persecutions large and small, and more, we discover that humility is itself a blessing: At every turn, God is present to us, giving grace to the humble and lifting us up to blessing.
Author: John E. Hartman
Publisher: WestBow Press
Published: 2011-02-03
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1449710794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvangelical Christians have a long and influential history in the United States. In recent decades modern culture has penetrated the evangelical community causing it to stray far from its roots. Letters to Laodicea: A Call to Repentance for Evangelical America grew out of an Internet dialogue between author John E. Hartman and his son concerning the deep decline in evangelical churches in America and the collapse of Western culture generally. Hartmans work opens the eyes of many who do not realize what is happening to the evangelical community. Learn some of the reasons we are losing our message and the spiritual vitality central to spiritual maturity. Discover how evangelicals are committing spiritual adultery in their deepening love affair with the world. Many have exchanged the gospel for therapy and a compromised message with little authority, life, and power. However, there is a way out of the ongoing collapse in a lifestyle of repentance and a return to basic spiritual and life disciplines. The possibility of presenting the gospel witness to a culture dying from within and facing enormous problems it cannot resolve hangs in part on what happens to the American evangelical community. Letters to Laodicea: A Call to Repentance for Evangelical America opens the door to a new level of Christian spirituality and ministry opportunity for those willing to meet the challenge to look deeper and make radical spiritual change in a time of turmoil, mixed with the potential for good.
