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"Sexual themes are never far beneath the surface where there are human beings. This was certainly the case for Christians in the first-century world. Some began in a strongly Jewish context and worked out their faith in dialogue with their scriptural heritage. Others had to work out their sexual ethics in a world strongly influenced by Greco-Roman ideals and practices. In The New Testament on Sexuality William Loader explores the relevant cultural...
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"Looking at the New Testament through the lens of literary study, Kyle Keefer offers an engrossing exploration of this revered religious text as a work of literature but also keeps in focus its theological ramifications. Unique among books that examine the Bible as literature, this brilliantly compact introduction offers an intriguing double-edged look at this universal text - a religiously informed analysis using a literary framework - plot, character,...
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"This historical introduction to the New Testament investigates the foundation of the new religious movement in the life of Jesus, the experiences that acted as the catalyst of missionary activity after his death, the factors that led to a separation of the movement from Judaism, and the development of the ecclesial structures through which Christianity has influenced subsequent secular and religious history."- Back of cover.
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The idea of a feminist approach to Scripture often produces knee-jerk reactions that one's in for mangled language at best and an anti-Christian attitude at worst. In this clear, highly readable work, Nicholas King explains the feminist approach to Scripture and the reasons and aims behind it. The author makes the approach accessible and sympathetic to those both interested in and alarmed by the topic.
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In "Recovering Jesus," Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld leads you through an honest and careful study of the testimony of Jesus's first-century followers, as well as more recent scholarly and popular witnesses. The result is a journey that will challenge you to move beyond the Jesus you think you know to a deeper understanding of who he was and why he matters. This text will be a valuable tool in academic settings, as well as for believers and nonbelievers...
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"Five years after his book about God as portrayed in the Old Testament - God: A Biography - Jack Miles gives us his consideration of Christ. He presents Christ as a hero of literature based only in part on the historical Jesus, asking us to take the idea of Christ as God Incarnate not as a dogma of religion but as the premise of a work of art, the New Testament." "As this story begins, God has not kept his promise to end the five-hundred-year-long...
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A journey into the heart of Christianity that explores the mysterious and often paradoxical lives and legacies of the Twelve Apostles -- a book both for those of the faith and for others who seek to understand Christianity from the outside in. Peter, Matthew, Thomas, John: Who were these men? What was their relationship to Jesus? Tom Bissell provides answers to these ancient, elusive questions. He examines not just who these men were (and weren't),...
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