Christians in an Age of Wealth by Craig L. Blomberg

Author:Craig L. Blomberg
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780310416593
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2013-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

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1. Smith and Emerson with Snell, Passing the Plate, 35.

2. Rodney Stark, The Rise of Mormonism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), 123.

3. Marty E. Stevens, Temples, Tithes, and Taxes: The Temple and the Economic Life of Ancient Israel (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2006), 6.

4. Kenneth A. Mathews, Genesis 11:27 – 50:26 (NAC; Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2005), 157.

5. Cf. further David A. Croteau, You Mean I Don’t Have to Tithe? A Deconstruction of Tithing and a Reconstruction of Post-Tithe Giving (Hamilton, ON: McMaster Divinity College Press; Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2010), 90 – 93.

6. For the best possible spin on such buildings as places to inspire praise for God, based on the Old Testament temple, see Allen P. Ross, Recalling the Hope of Glory: Biblical Worship from the Garden to the New Creation (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2006), 242 – 52.

7. On the earliest centuries of the synagogue, see esp. Birger Olsson and Magnus Zetterholm, eds, The Ancient Synagogue: From Its Origins until 200 C.E. (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 2003).

8. For guidance on when they may be appropriate, see Thom S. Rainer, The Book of Church Growth: History, Theology, and Principles (Nashville: Broadman, 1993), 271 – 79.

9. Blomberg, Neither Poverty nor Riches, 46.

10. Cf. Peter C. Craigie, The Book of Deuteronomy (NICOT; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1976), 233 – 34.

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