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Author : Ronald E. Heine
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801027772
Examines the role played by the Old Testament in the formation of early Christian thinking.
Author : Theron Mathis
Publisher : Ancient Faith Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1936270153
The writings explored in this book'authentic books of the Bible you've probably never read'are often dubbed ?Apocrypha,? and were cut from the Bible by the Reformers. The Rest of the Bible provides a brief and intriguing introduction to the writings unique to the Greek Old Testament, treasured by the Orthodox Church through the centuries and termed by St. Athanasius ?the Readables.'
Author : Ronald E. Heine
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 144120153X
The contemporary church dismisses Christianity's foundational Scriptures at its own peril. However, the teachings of the Old Testament are less and less at the center of congregational preaching and conversation. The early church fathers--visionaries such as Augustine, Origen, and Tertullian--embraced the Hebrew Scriptures, allowing the Old Testament to play a central role in the formation of their beliefs. As today's Christians struggle to relate to concepts such as the Jewish law and the prophets, pastors and laypersons benefit from looking through the lenses of these thoughtful pioneers. This latest volume in the Evangelical Ressourcement series helps the Old Covenant to come alive.
Author : Richard E. Averbeck
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830899548
From the early days of the church to the present, the Old Testament Law has been a subject of much confusion, debate, and outright theological division. And with good reason: the way Christians understand the Law has massive implications for their individual lives and for the life of the church. To sort through the numerous interpretations and approaches to this thorny issue, we need to start with a solid knowledge of the Law itself. Richard Averbeck provides a comprehensive, accessible discussion of how the Law fits into the arc of the Bible and its relevance to the church today. Beginning with the way God intended the Law to work in its original historical and cultural context, he then explores the New Testament perspective on the Law. Averbeck identifies three biblical theological theses: the Law is good, the Law is weak, and the Law is a unified whole. Rejecting common partitions between categories of law, he makes the case that the whole Law applies to the Christian. Our task is to discern how it applies in the light of Christ. The Old Testament Law for the Life of the Church invites readers to consider how all of Scripture is illuminating and useful for God's people. The church, as the new temple, has much to learn from the Law and about what it means for our doctrine and practice.
Author : Robert C. Hill
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047408079
In the period between the councils of Nicea and Chalcedon in the fourth and fifth centuries, the faithful in the churches of the ecclesiastical district of Antioch were the beneficiaries of the ministry of the Word from distinguished pastors. Included in this ministry were homilies on the Old Testament by John Chrysostom and written commentaries by his mentor Diodore and his fellow student Theodore, and later by Theodoret. Though the biblical text was admittedly Jewish in origin, "the text and the meaning are ours," claimed Chrysostom; and the great bulk of extant remains reveals the pastoral priority given to this often obscure material. Students and exegetes of the Old Testament and its individual authors and books will be introduced here to Antioch1s distinctive approach and interpretation by commentators reading their local form of the Greek Bible. In the course of this survey, readers will gain an insight also into Antioch1s worldview and its approach to the person of Jesus, to soteriology, morality and spirituality.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467438353
This book fills a real need for pastors and students. Though there is currently a large body of material on the theological interpretation of Scripture, most of it is highly specific and extremely technical. J. Todd Billings here provides a straightforward entryway for students and pastors to understand why theological interpretation matters and how it can be done. / A solid, constructive theological work, The Word of God for the People of God presents a distinctive Trinitarian, participatory approach toward reading Scripture as the church. Billings's accessible yet substantial argument for a theological hermeneutic is rooted in a historic vision of the practice of scriptural interpretation even as it engages a wide range of contemporary issues and includes several exegetical examples that apply to concrete Christian ministry situations.
Author : Brian J. Wright
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506438498
Much of the contemporary discussion of the Jesus tradition has focused on aspects of oral performance, storytelling, and social memory, on the premise that the practice of communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE. Brian J. Wright overturns the premise that communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE by examining evidence for its practice in the first century.
Author : Adolf Harnack
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1330278402
Excerpt from Bible Reading in the Early Church All that need be said of the interest and importance of the question of the use of the Holy Scriptures in the Early Church has been set forth in the Introduction. The "History of the New Testament" includes not only the history of its versions in various languages, but also the history of its use. Again, the history of the use is also, in its first stages at least, included in the subject of "Introduction to the New Testament," because the question in what sense the collection of writings known as the New Testament was regarded as a Canon of religion is not decided by saying that it was regarded as canonical, but can only be answered by finding out what use was actually made of this collection. No objection, therefore, can be raised against our including the following investigation in our New Testament Studies, which deal principally with the subject of "Introduction to the New Testament." The public use of the New Testament in the ancient Church is, as a matter of course, included in every considerable work on the History of the Canon of Scripture - cf. Glaue's Die Vorlesung heiliger Schriften im Gottesdienste (1907 - and it is simply an oversight that the private use has not also been taken into consideration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Christopher A. Hall
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830876648
Many Christians today long to become reacquainted with their ancient ancestors in the faith. They see a deeper worship and devotion in the prayers and hymns of the early church. And they believe that the writings of the early church can shed new light on their understanding of Scripture. But where and how do we begin? Our first encounter with the writings of the church fathers may seem like visiting a far country where the language, assumptions, concerns and conclusions are completely unfamiliar to us. In Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers Christopher Hall helps us through this cultural confusion, introducing us to the early church, its unique world, and the sights and sounds of Scripture that are highlighted for them. As Hall points out, the ancient fathers hear music in Scripture where we remain tone-deaf. Despite their occasional eccentricities, theirs is a hearing refined through long listening in song, worship, teaching, meditation and oral reading. And like true masters they challenge and correct our modern assumptions as they invite us to tune our ears to hear the divine melodies of the Bible. Reading Scriptue with the Church Fathers is an exceptional guide. Hall provides a warm, winsome, informative and indispensable introcution to who these leaders and scholars were, how they read and interpreted Scripture, and how we might read Scripture with them for all its worth. Note: Because this ebook is file is large, please allow a little extra time to download after purchase.
Author : Lawrence Boadt,Richard J. Clifford,Daniel J. Harrington
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781616436704
Daily life in Ancient Israel - Great prophets including, Hosea, Amos, Isaiah - People and lands of the Old Testament.
Author : Eugen J. Pentiuc
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195331233
This book examines the receipt, transmission, and interpretation of the Old Testament in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Looking at the various ways Orthodox Christians sought to assimilate the Old Testament in the spiritual, liturgical, and doctrinal fabric of their faith community, Pentiuc pays special attention to: liturgy, iconography, monastic rules and canons, conciliar resolutions, and patristic works in Greek, Syriac and Coptic.
Author : Walter Kaiser, Jr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734506733
The author, who is an expert in the Old Testament, urges Christians to recognize the importance of the Old Testament. Dr. Kaiser demonstrates through eighteen chapters the rich teaching and history of the Old Testament that served as the foundation for the teaching of Jesus and the apostles, as well as Christians since the first century A.D. He argues that one is unable to understand much of the New Testament without a thorough understanding of the Old Testament.
Author : D. H. Williams
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801031649
"While the patristic age is marked by the development of the Apostle's and the Nicene creeds, D. H. Williams contends we must not neglected the lesser known yet just as significant theological texts and expressions of worship that were seminal in shaping early Christian identity. In this sourcebook, Williams gathers key writings from the first through sixth centuries that illustrate the ways in which the church's confessions, teaching, and worship were expressed during that time. More than an anthology, this sourcebook introduces the primary sources of Christian antiquity."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Stephen De Young
Publisher : Ancient Faith Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1955890048
Infanticide. Holy war. Divine wrath. Violence in the Old Testament has long been a stumbling block for Christians and skeptics alike. Yet conventional efforts to understand this violence-whether by downplaying it as allegory or a relic of primitive cultures, or by dismissing the authority of Scripture altogether-tend to raise more questions than they answer. God Is a Man of War offers a fresh interpretation of Old Testament accounts of violence by exploring them through the twofold lens of Orthodox tradition and historical context. Father Stephen De Young examines what these difficult passages reveal about the nature of Christ and His creation, bearing witness to a world filled not only with pain and suffering-often of human making-but also with the love of God.
Author : R. W. L. Moberly
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441243096
A top Old Testament theologian known for his accessible and provocative writing probes what is necessary to understand and appropriate the Hebrew Bible as a fundamental resource for Christian theology and life today. This volume offers a creative example of theological interpretation, modeling a way of doing Old Testament theology that takes seriously both the nature of the biblical text as ancient text and also the questions and difficulties that arise as believers read this text in a contemporary context. Walter Moberly offers an in-depth study of key Old Testament passages, highlighting enduring existential issues in the Hebrew Bible and discussing Jewish readings alongside Christian readings. The volume is representative of the content of Israel's Scripture rather than comprehensive, yet it discusses most of the major topics of Old Testament theology. Moberly demonstrates a Christian approach to reading and appropriating the Old Testament that holds together the priorities of both scholarship and faith.
