Kingdom Prologue

Author : Meredith G. Kline
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597525640

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Kingdom Prologue by Meredith G. Kline Pdf

As intimated by the subtitle, 'Genesis Foundations for a Covenantal Worldview', the immediate literary focus of this study is the book of Genesis and its account of the formative ages in the eschatological movement of the kingdom of God from creation to consummation. As also indicated by the subtitle, our biblical-theological commentary on Genesis is designed to uncover the foundations of God's covenantally administered kingdom with its major historical developments and its institutional structures and functions. In this way 'Kingdom Prologue' seeks to provide an introductory sketch of the overall shape of the biblical worldview and the character of biblical religion.

Author : Meredith G. Kline
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Covenant theology
ISBN : 097064180X

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Kingdom Prologue by Meredith G. Kline Pdf

Author : Michael Beck
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666797169

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Covenant Lord and Cultic Boundary by Michael Beck Pdf

The Reformed Two-Kingdom project has generated a great deal of literature. However, this literature is often characterized by inflamed rhetoric. Further, though it is standard fare to assume that Kline was the architect of the project, in reality, there has been very little scholarly examination of this point. In response, Kline's system is analyzed through the means of a dialectical discourse with three differing models within the Reformed tradition--the Theonomist, Perspectivalist, and Dooyeweerdian schools. Through this means, the study keeps away from surface-level polemics and instead directs readers to the critically important substructural level of current discussions. While clarifying some of the key differences between Kline and his interlocutors, often-overlooked points of nuance are also highlighted. These points are shown to be important in that they present the potential to lessen frustration and impasse in the ongoing dialogue.

Author : Meredith G. Kline
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Kingdom of God
ISBN : OCLC:10413812

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Kingdom Prologue by Meredith G. Kline Pdf

Author : Meredith George Kline
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Covenant theology
ISBN : OCLC:10377985

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Kingdom Prologue by Meredith George Kline Pdf

Author : G. K. Beale
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493437900

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Union with the Resurrected Christ by G. K. Beale Pdf

Union with Christ is an important theological and practical concept that has received considerable attention in recent years. But not much consideration has been given to this union and its benefits in light of Jesus's resurrection and ascension. In this follow-up to his monumental A New Testament Biblical Theology, G. K. Beale summarizes and expands on that work with an eye to fleshing out the theological implications of the resurrection and ascension. Beale explains that Christ's resurrection and ascension place him as the beginning of the eschatological fulfillment of the new creational kingdom. Specifically, Christ is the fulfillment of a cluster of nineteen Old Testament end-time expectations. These eschatological realities attributed to Christ are imprinted on believers through their dynamic union and identification with him. Through careful exegesis, Beale explores these facets and deliberately draws out important practical applications for everyday Christian living in the overlap of the old creation and the new. Students of the New Testament will benefit from this important contribution to New Testament theology.

Author : Pastor Kodjo John Amedome
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781490844923

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7 Secrets from God’S Kingdom by Pastor Kodjo John Amedome Pdf

Secrets of Heaven Revealed! It is by faith, grace, and the spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ that the word was revealed to me. For over a decade, mankind misunderstood the power of our creator. Lord God Almighty has his own plan and purpose for our lives unless he reveals them to you. Through Jesus Christ we can claim our ownership to the kingdom of heaven. I dedicate this book of God to guide Christians and non-Christians for their search and pursuit for the truth. I pray that reading this book will enrich and transform your life. Also he will open your spiritual eyes so you may see; because he is the way the truth and the life. (John 14:6)

Author : J. Alexander Rutherford
Publisher : Teleioteti
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781989560044

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The Gift of Purpose by J. Alexander Rutherford Pdf

Many writers and commentators are convinced that Western culture and society are unravelling. Who can blame them! As I write this, violent protests rage across the USA in response to senseless murders. The political sphere has never seemed to virulent, and a deadly epidemic has affected all our lives. Many are agreed that there are serious problems working themselves out in Western society, yet among Christians, there is little agreement over the approach we should take to the West and its problems. This issue, how Christians should approach engagement with culture, is not a new one, nor is it a uniquely Western issue. Christians in every age and in every culture are confronted with this question. In response to many today who see it as the Christian responsibility to save the West, to preserve its unique cultural heritage and achievements, this author argues that our lives in this world need to be governed by three theological themes, ecclesiology, soteriology, and eschatology. That is, we must prioritize the local church, engage with society with the understanding that earthly kingdoms are manifestations of Satan’s kingdom, and live in light of Christ’s imminent return.

Author : Andrew M. Elam,Robert C. Van Kooten,Randall A. Bergquist
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625646835

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Merit and Moses by Andrew M. Elam,Robert C. Van Kooten,Randall A. Bergquist Pdf

What did writers in the Reformed tradition mean by suggesting that the Covenant of Works with Adam has been republished in the Mosaic Covenant? Not all forms of this doctrine of "republication" are the same. Merit and Moses is a critical evaluation of a particular version of the republication doctrine--one formulated by Meredith G. Kline and espoused in The Law Is Not of Faith (2009). At the heart of this discussion is the attribute of God's justice and the Reformed view of merit. Has classic Augustinian theology been turned on its head? Does--or can--God make a covenant at Sinai with fallen people by which Israel may merit temporal blessings on the basis of works? Have "merit" and "justice" been redefined in the service of Kline's works-merit paradigm? The authors of Merit and Moses examine the positions of John Murray and Norman Shepherd with respect to the reactionary development of the Klinean republication doctrine. Both Shepherd's and Kline's teachings are shown to swing wide of the Reformed tradition when held up to the plumb line of the Westminster Standards, which embody the Reformed consensus on covenant theology and provide a faithful summary of Scripture.

Author : G. K. Beale
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 1153 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467422307

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The Book of Revelation by G. K. Beale Pdf

This monumental commentary on the book of Revelation, originally published in 1999, has been highly acclaimed by scholars, pastors, students, and others seriously interested in interpreting the Apocalypse for the benefit of the church. Too often Revelation is viewed as a book only about the future. As G. K. Beale shows, however, Revelation is not merely a futurology but a book about how the church should live for the glory of God throughout the ages -- including our own. Engaging important questions concerning the interpretation of Revelation in scholarship today, as well as interacting with the various viewpoints scholars hold on these issues, Beale's work makes a major contribution in the much-debated area of how the Old Testament is used in the Apocalypse. Approaching Revelation in terms of its own historical background and literary character, Beale argues convincingly that John's use of Old Testament allusions -- and the way the Jewish exegetical tradition interpreted these same allusions -- provides the key for unlocking the meaning of Revelation's many obscure metaphors. In the course of Beale's careful verse-by-verse exegesis, which also untangles the logical flow of John's thought as it develops from chapter to chapter, it becomes clear that Revelation's challenging pictures are best understood not by apparent technological and contemporary parallels in the twentieth century but by Old Testament and Jewish parallels from the distant past.

Author : Guy Prentiss Waters,J. Nicholas Reid,John R. Muether
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433560064

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Covenant Theology by Guy Prentiss Waters,J. Nicholas Reid,John R. Muether Pdf

A Comprehensive Exploration of the Biblical Covenants This book forms an overview of the biblical teaching on covenant as well as the practical significance of covenant for the Christian life. A host of 26 scholars shows how covenant is not only clearly taught from Scripture, but also that it lays the foundation for other key doctrines of salvation. The contributors, who engage variously in biblical, systematic, and historical theology, present covenant theology not as a theological abstract imposed on the Bible but as a doctrine that is organically presented throughout the biblical narrative. As students, pastors, and church leaders come to see the centrality of covenant to the Christian faith, the more the church will be strengthened with faith in the covenant-keeping God and encouraged in their understanding of the joy of covenant life.

Author : Meredith G. Kline
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781619708525

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Genesis by Meredith G. Kline Pdf

Meredith G. Kline is famous in the Reformed community for his teaching and writings in the area of biblical and covenant theology. In the mid-1990s, just after Kline finished writing what is considered to be his magnum opus (a study of the book of Genesis called Kingdom Prologue), he wrote a brief commentary on the same biblical text. Genesis: A New Commentary was not published during his lifetime and is just now being made available to the public. Many of Kline s former students, as well as many pastors and laypeople in the Reformed community, consider his work to have had a transformative effect on their faith and thinking. His teaching and writings (he wrote seven books and more than seventy articles) were filled with fresh, insightful interpretations. Meredith Kline s posthumously published Genesis: A New Commentary which distills his mature views on the book of Genesis and, indeed, on Scripture as a whole will appeal greatly to those who already admire his work, and make his thinking accessible to a broader audience. The commentary has been edited by Kline s grandson Jonathan G. Kline, who received his PhD in Hebrew Bible from Harvard University, and contains a foreword by Michael S. Horton, the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California. "

Author : Jeffrey L. Morrow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532693823

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Liturgy and Sacrament, Mystagogy and Martyrdom by Jeffrey L. Morrow Pdf

For far too long the Bible has been studied as just one among many historical and cultural documents from ancient history. That it is a foundational text for Western civilization is clear. What is too often forgotten or ignored in academic discussions, however, is that the Bible has also inspired the lives of countless saints throughout history; men and women who sought to love God and love neighbor to the point of offering heroic sacrifices, sometimes giving up their very lives. Much of biblical scholarship over the past two centuries, however, has reduced the Bible to a dead historical document with little-to-no relevance for today, beyond intellectual curiosity. This, in part, lies at the root of the tragic separation of theology from biblical studies. That theology and biblical exegesis are at an impasse has become a commonplace in academic discourse. Liturgy and Sacrament, Mystagogy and Martyrdom is an attempt to bridge the gap between theology and exegesis. It seeks to develop a theological interpretation of Scripture relying upon the best of traditional Christian exegesis and modern biblical scholarship, so that the Bible can serve, once again, as the wellspring of Christian life.

Author : William Edgar
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830873135

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Created and Creating by William Edgar Pdf

The gospel of Jesus Christ is always situated within a particular cultural context. But how should Christians approach the complex relationship between our faith and our surrounding culture? Should we simply retreat from culture? Should we embrace our cultural practices and mindset? How important is it for us to be engaged in our culture? And how might we do that with discernment and faithfulness? William Edgar offers a rich biblical theology in light of our contemporary culture that contends that Christians should—indeed, must—be engaged in the surrounding culture. By exploring what Scripture has to say about the role of culture and by gleaning insights from a variety of theologians of culture—including Abraham Kuyper, T. S. Eliot, H. Richard Niebuhr, and C. S. Lewis—Edgar contends that cultural engagement is a fundamental aspect of human existence. He does not shy away from those passages that emphasize the distinction between Christians and the world. Yet he finds, shining through the biblical witness, evidence that supports a robust defense of the cultural mandate to "be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it," (Genesis 1:28). With clarity and wisdom, Edgar argues that we are most faithful to our calling as God's creatures when we participate in creating culture.

Author : John Scalzi
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466822061

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Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City: Prologue by John Scalzi Pdf

Old Man's War author John Scalzi's sendup of the heroic fantasy genre, a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story. An over-the-top, humorous short story representing the prologue for a "future" book (written as an April Fool's Joke) published on Tor.com. The title of the series and book was created from an amalgamation of the most commonly used words in fantasy and science fiction novels over the previous decade. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.