God is calling forth a people to walk in radical obedience in preparation for His coming. Read about the crucified ones. Allow the Holy Spirit to press you upward toward the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
From 21 to 24 September 2021, the IV International Theological Congress of the Passionists took place in Rome, at the Pontifical Lateran University on the theme: The Wisdom of the Cross in a Pluralistic World". It took place in the context of the Jubilee Celebrations for the Third Centenary of the Foundation of the Passionist Congregation and aims to deepen the topicality of the Cross in the context of the many contemporary areopagi. During the four days, more than 100 speakers, scholars and specialists from many academic and cultural circles with an international reach, from Roman universities as well as from many nations of the various continents, took turns. The rich scientific, cultural and spiritual experience of the Congress is collected in three volumes (over 1,100 pages), the first of which has also been translated from Italian into four languages (English, French, Spanish and Portuguese).
The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1991-1992, volume 2, contains messages given by Brother Witness Lee from August 31, 1991, through June 19, 1992. At the end of August 1991 Brother Lee traveled from Anaheim to Berkeley, California. In early September he returned to Anaheim and remained there until the end of November. During that time he visited Huntington Beach, California. At the end of November Brother Lee traveled to Reston, Virginia, for the Thanksgiving weekend conference. In early December he returned to Anaheim and remained there until the end of the third week in May 1992. From there he traveled to Irving, Texas, for the Memorial Day weekend conference. He returned to Anaheim and remained there until the beginning of September, at which time he visited Seattle, Washington, for a weekend conference. He then returned to Anaheim and remained there until the end of the third week in November. During the last week in November he traveled to Atlanta, Georgia, for the Thanksgiving weekend conference, after which he returned to Anaheim and remained there until the end of the year. The contents of this volume are divided into thirteen sections, as follows: 1. Five messages given in Berkeley, California, on August 31 through September 2, 1991. These messages were previously published in a book entitled Five Emphases in the Lord's Recovery and are included in this volume under the same title. 2. A message given in Chinese in Anaheim, California, on October 11, 1991. This message is included in this volume under the title Knowing the Body of Christ and Learning to Coordinate and Serve in the Body. 3. Three messages given in Anaheim, California, on October 14 through 21, 1991. These messages are included in this volume under the title Fellowship with the Elders and Co-workers concerning the Practice of the Lord's New Way. 4. A message given in Huntington Beach, California, on October 13, 1991. This message is included in this volume under the title The Need to Have a Definite Beginning in the Practice of the God-ordained Way. 5. Four messages given in Anaheim, California, on November 11 through 25, 1991. These messages are included in this volume under the title The Work and Warfare to Build Up the Body of Christ. 6. Six messages given in Reston, Virginia, on November 28 through December 1, 1991. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Intrinsic View of the Body of Christ and are included in this volume under the same title. 7. A message given in Reston, Virginia, on December 1, 1991. This message is included in this volume under the title The Church as God's Increase and the Profit of Practicing the New Way. 8. A message given in Anaheim, California, on December 16, 1991. This message is included in this volume under the title Taking the Lead to Build Up the Church through the Practice of the New Way. 9. Two messages given in Anaheim, California, on January 1 and 2, 1992. These messages are included in this volume under the title The Present Need in the Lord's Recovery. 10. A message given in Anaheim, California, on February 1, 1992. This message is included in this volume under the title Fighting for the Truth of God's Economy under the Leadership of the Divine Revelation. 11. Four messages given in Chinese in Anaheim, California, on February 15 and 16, 1992. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Law and Grace of God in His Economy and are included in this volume under the same title. 12. Seventeen messages given in Anaheim, California, on February 21 through June 19, 1992. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Christian Life and are included in this volume under the same title. 13. Fourteen messages given in Anaheim, California, on February 22 through June 13, 1992. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Practice of the Church Life according to the God-ordained Way and are included in this volume under the same title.
What Does it Mean to Be "Crucified With Christ?" During his lifetime, renowned teacher A.W. Tozer was often invited to speak at seminaries, churches, and Bible conferences on the topic of the cross and its meaning for the Christian life. Now, in this never-before-published distillation of his best teaching on the subject, you will gain a fresh understanding of the cross's centrality to your walk of faith in Christ. The apostle Paul declared in his letter to the Galatians that he had been "crucified with Christ." But what does this mean? Is this a claim every believer can and should make? The Crucified Life is a comprehensive examination of these questions, answered with the deep, biblical thinking for which Tozer was revered. "God is ingenious in developing crosses for His followers," Tozer was fond of saying. At the heart of this book, you will find a call to follow Christ to the cross and be raised to new life--a call to live the crucified life.
When world-class biblical scholar Bart Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the mistakes and changes that ancient scribes made to the New Testament and shows the great impact they had upon the Bible we use today. He frames his account with personal reflections on how his study of the Greek manuscripts made him abandon his once ultraconservative views of the Bible. Since the advent of the printing press and the accurate reproduction of texts, most people have assumed that when they read the New Testament they are reading an exact copy of Jesus's words or Saint Paul's writings. And yet, for almost fifteen hundred years these manuscripts were hand copied by scribes who were deeply influenced by the cultural, theological, and political disputes of their day. Both mistakes and intentional changes abound in the surviving manuscripts, making the original words difficult to reconstruct. For the first time, Ehrman reveals where and why these changes were made and how scholars go about reconstructing the original words of the New Testament as closely as possible. Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our cherished biblical stories and widely held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself stem from both intentional and accidental alterations by scribes -- alterations that dramatically affected all subsequent versions of the Bible.
The 20th and 21st Centuries have been characterized by theologians and philosophers rethinking theology and revitalizing the tradition. This unique anthology presents contributions from leading contemporary theologians - including Rowan Williams, Fergus Kerr, Aidan Nichols, G.R. Evans and Tracey Rowland - who offer portraits of over fifty key theological thinkers in the modern and postmodern era. Distinguished by its broad ecumenical perspective, this anthology spans arguably one of the most creative periods in the history of Christian theology and includes thinkers from all three Christian traditions: Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox. Each individual portrait in this anthology includes a biographical introduction, an overview of theological or philosophical writing, presentation of key thoughts, and contextual placing of the thinker within 20th Century religious discourse. Overview articles explore postmodern theology, radical orthodoxy, ecumenical theology, feminist theology, and liberation theology. A final section includes portraits of important thinkers who have influenced Christian thought from other fields, not least from Continental philosophy and literature.