Cotton Patch Gospels
Author: Clarence Jordan
Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781573126168
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Author: Clarence Jordan
Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781573126168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clarence Jordan
Publisher: New Win Publishing
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780832910623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clarence Jordan
Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781573124249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cotton Patch Gospel recasts the stories of Jesus and the letters of Paul and Peter into the language of the mid-20th century South. Born out of the Civil Rights struggle, these now classic translations of much of the New Testament bring the far-away places of Scipture closer to home: Gainesville, Selma, Birmingham, Atlanta, Washington, D.C. As Jordan once wrote, "While there have been many excellent translations of the Scriptures into modern English, they still have left us stranded in the long-distant past. We need to have the good news come to us not only in our own tongue but in our own time. We want to be participants in the faith, not merely spectators."
Author: Clarence Jordan
Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781573124232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hulitt Gloer
Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Pub
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781573125192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, Gloer and Stepp interpret Paul's letter to Philemon and the Pastoral Epistles-Titus and 1 & 2 Timothy. Philemon tells a simple and straight-forward story of Philemon and his escaped slave Onesimus. How can the story of an escaped slave returned to his master hold any meaning for believers today? Indeed, in Philemon we encounter a practical working out of Paul's foundational theological ideas-grace, faith, atonement, reconciliation, freedom in Christ, new creation, and the ethical life that stems from these. In their study of the Pastoral Epistles, Gloer and Stepp describe the continuation of Paul's missionary work, the internal and external conflicts, and Paul's gradual withdrawal from the work that has defined his life. In Paul's absence, how will the churches address the conflicts and persecution? They survive and thrive by trusting the successors that Paul provided for them. Like other volumes in this unique series, "Reading Paul's Letters to Individuals" focuses on comprehending the major themes of the epistles and their relationship to the understanding of the early Christian communities. With the focus on the work in its entirety rather than a verse-by-verse methodology, this volume will appeal to the professional and nonprofessional alike, as well as to college and seminary students.
Author: Franklin Scott Spencer
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0687008506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces literary, historical, and theological issues of Luke and Acts. Biblical texts create worlds of meaning, and invite readers to enter them. When readers enter such textual worlds, which are often strange and complex, they are confronted with theological claims. With this in mind, the purpose of the Interpreting Biblical Texts series is to help serious readers in their experience of reading and interpreting by providing guides for their journeys into textual worlds. The controlling perspective is expressed in the operative word of the title--interpreting. The primary focus of the series is not so much on the world behind the texts or out of which the texts have arisen as on the worlds created by the texts in their engagement with readers. In keeping with the goals of the series, this volume provides an introductory guide to readers of the New Testament books of Luke and Acts. It focuses on both the synchronic and diachronic dimensions of the literature in an effort to acquaint readers with literary, historical, and theological issues that will facilitate interpretation of these important books. F. Scott Spencer is Professor of New Testament at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond.
Author: Tom Key
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
Published: 1983-12
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780871292445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis "Greatest Story Ever Retold" is based on the book "The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John" in which the Gospel is presented in a setting of rural Georgia with country music songs, the final and perhaps best work of Harry Chapin.
Author: Jarvis Williams
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0805448578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor Jarvis Williams provides Christians with a biblical worldview of race and race relations by focusing on the biblical writings of Paul.
Author: Clarence Jordan
Publisher: New Win Publishing
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this modern day translation of Paul' message, his letters are taken out of the study and stained-glass sanctuary and placed under God's skies where people toil, laugh, cry and wonder. The Cotton Patch Version is a very colloquial, southern translation.
Author: D. Francois Tolmie
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 311022173X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is dedicated entirely to the interpretation of Paul's Letter to Philemon. The letter is approached from a wide variety of perspectives, thus yielding several new insights into its interpretation. In a first essay the tendencies in the research on the letter since 1980 are outlined. This is followed by essays devoted to the epistolary analysis and to a rhetorical-psychological interpretation of the letter; as well as an essay devoted to the rhetorical function of stylistic form in the letter. After this there are two essays devoted to situating the letter in its ancient context: one views the letter against the background of ancient legal and documentary sources and another one against the background of slavery in early Christianity. The next two essays focus on theological aspects, namely on the letter as ethical counterpart of Paul's doctrine of justification and on the role that love plays in the letter. Three essays focus on ideological issues: the contextual interpretation of the letter in the US, a post-colonial reading of the letter and the letter's legacy of hierarchy and obedience. The volume concludes with four essays on the way in which the letter was interpreted by the some of the Church Fathers: Origen, Jerome, Chrystostom, Augustine and Theodore of Mopsuestia.