Criticism & Interpretation
epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Anthony C. Thiselton

(1) The image-part or picture-half of the parable is not merely an illustrative or homiletical device to make a lesson more vivid or memorable. It is a means of creating ...
( Category: Exegesis & Hermeneutics March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-09-01 | Author:Bockmuehl, Markus [Bockmuehl, Markus]

Jesus’s Jewish Identity? A Historic Oxymoron As the ancients concluded, to assert the Jewishness of Jesus is a dangerous nonsense; it substitutes semantic games for a truthful account of either ...
( Category: Exegesis & Hermeneutics March 3,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-13 | Author:David Pawson

Three deportations When the Babylonians overran Judah they did not wipe out everything, as the prophet Habakkuk had expected them to do. They were actually much gentler. They deported the ...
( Category: Guides March 3,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2015-02-25 | Author:David G. Horrell [Horrell, David G.]

Thirdly, some scholars suggest that various Greek and Roman traditions of moral instruction have a significant influence on Paul’s ethics. Paul’s lists of ‘vices and virtues’ (e.g. Gal 5.19–23), his ...
( Category: New Testament March 3,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2006-11-29 | Author:Grant R. Osborne [Osborne, Grant R.]

6. Listener-relatedness. Listener-relatedness takes us to the heart of the parable form. Primarily Jesus intended to elicit a response from the listener, either positive or negative (see “The Purpose of ...
( Category: Exegesis & Hermeneutics March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Johnson Thomaskutty

7 The Acts of Thomas Introduction The apocryphal book that delineates the twelve great acts of Apostle Thomas (cc. 1–107, 114–158), the Hymn of the Pearl (cc. 108–113), and his ...
( Category: Exegesis & Hermeneutics March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-31 | Author:J. Daniel Hays & J. Scott Duvall [Hays, J. Daniel & Duvall, J. Scott]

The Canon of the New Testament M. James Sawyer Introduction Canon (Greek: kanon) originally designated a “reed” that was used for measuring. From this usage, the idea of measuring was ...
( Category: Handbooks March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-31 | Author:Euan Cameron [Cameron, Euan]

( Category: New Testament March 1,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Hans Urs von Balthasar [von Balthasar, Hans Urs]

f. The Final Period I. THE LEGACY OF GOETHE To the extent that the overweening character of the Hegelian Geist (spirit) and its left-wing off-shoots fail to determine the nineteenth ...
( Category: Christian Theology March 1,2020 )
mobi |eng | 1990-05-31 | Author:Hans Urs von Balthasar [Balthasar, Hans Urs von]

b. Hidden Easter 1. The inauguration of the kingdom and the dawning of glory are one and the same thing in Jewish hopes. It was therefore inevitable that the Resurrection ...
( Category: Christian Theology March 1,2020 )
mobi |eng | 1984-11-30 | Author:Hans Urs von Balthasar [von Balthasar, Hans Urs]

2. THE RADIANCE OF FREEDOM Anselm’s most important dogmatic treatises revolve round the problem of freedom: the early work, De veritate, points up the ethical element in truth, De libertate ...
( Category: Christian Theology March 1,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1999-08-01 | Author:Bernard Ramm [Ramm, Bernard]

BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR CHAPTERS IV AND V Horne, An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. Angus and Green, Cyclopedic Handbook to the Bible. Todd, Principles of ...
( Category: Exegesis & Hermeneutics March 1,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2004-04-21 | Author:Hans Urs von Balthasar [Balthasar, Hans Urs von]

2. LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS Soloviev paves the way toward his system of pan-unity by a preliminary delimitation of the field of philosophical thought. Only the independent subject is capable of ...
( Category: Christian Theology February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-02 | Author:Tarico, Valerie

Don’t tell me what you believe. Tell me what you do, and I’ll tell you what you believe. —Anonymous Beliefs are only one small part of what governs our intentions ...
( Category: Spiritual Growth February 29,2020 )
mobi |eng | 1989-09-30 | Author:Hans Urs von Balthasar [von Balthasar, Hans Urs]

5. PLOTINUS a. God in All and Above all The second figure who sums up the achievement of the old world and offers it to the new is Plotinus (who ...
( Category: Christian Theology February 29,2020 )