The Church And Its Mission In The New Testament And Early Christianity

Author : David Edward Aune,Reidar Hvalvik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Church history
ISBN : 3161559096

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The Church and Its Mission in the New Testament and Early Christianity by David Edward Aune,Reidar Hvalvik Pdf

The present volume consists of fifteen essays by colleagues and friends of the late Professor Hans Kvalbein focusing on various aspects of the theme of the church and mission in the New Testament and early Christianity. It also includes a survey of Hans Kvalbein's academic career and scholarship as well as a bibliography of his books and articles. Among the contributions are several related to the question of mission in Acts, while others focus on various texts and topics in the gospels, in Paul, in 1 Peter and Revelation. Some of these interact with Kvalbein's views on aspects of the mission of the early church, such as the understanding of mission in Matthew and the proclamation of the Kingdom of God. Contributors: Jostein Adna, David E. Aune, Ernst Baasland, Johannes Beutler SJ, Peder Borgen, Reinhard Feldmeier, Volker Gackle, Klaus Haacker, Reidar Hvalvik, Halvor Moxnes, Rainer Riesner, Karl Olav Sandnes, Torrey Seland, Oskar Skarsaune, Christoph Stenschke

Author : N. T. Wright,Michael F. Bird
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310528722

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The New Testament in Its World Workbook by N. T. Wright,Michael F. Bird Pdf

This workbook accompanies The New Testament in Its World by N. T. Wright and Michael F. Bird. Following the textbook's structure, it offers assessment questions, exercises, and activities designed to support the students' learning experience. Reinforcing the teaching in the textbook, this workbook will not only help to enhance their understanding of the New Testament books as historical, literary, and social phenomena located in the world of early Christianity, but also guide them to think like a first-century believer while reading the text responsibly for today.

Author : Edward L Smither
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227902950

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Mission in the Early Church by Edward L Smither Pdf

How did Christian mission happen in the early church from AD 100 to 750? Beginning with a brief look at the social, political, cultural, and religious contexts, Mission in the Early Church tells the story of early Christian missionaries, their methods, and their missiology. Edward L. Smither explores some of the most prominent themes of mission in early Christianity, including suffering, evangelism, Bible translation, contextualization, ministry in Word and deed, and the church. Based on this survey, modern readers are invited to a conversation that considers how early Christian mission might inform global mission thought and practice today.

Author : Daniel J. Harrington
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1580511112

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The Church According to the New Testament by Daniel J. Harrington Pdf

In the last days of the twentieth century, leading New Testament scholar and popular preacher Daniel Harrington, S.J., asked himself two powerful questions: What might the church of the first century have to say to the church of the twenty-first century? And How might a brief sythesis of what the New Testament says and does not say about the church help bring greater vitality within and unity among the churches? The result of Father Harrington's research and thinking is this timely and important book.

Author : David Edward Aune,Reidar Hvalvik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Church history
ISBN : 316155910X

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The Church and Its Mission in the New Testament and Early Christianity by David Edward Aune,Reidar Hvalvik Pdf

Author : Morna Dorothy Hooker,Frances Young
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334043812

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Holiness and Mission by Morna Dorothy Hooker,Frances Young Pdf

`Two superb scholars in New Testament and the early Church here show why it is vital to dig deeper into the past in order to live well in the present and enable a better future. Above all they communicate the intensity of life in the Holy Spirit in the cities where Christianity took root - a life uniting head, heart, tongue and practical action. The culminating guidelines for mission in twenty-first century pluralist settings are packed with challenging wisdom centred on the crucified, living Jesus Christ.' David F. Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge `Here is rich and varied food for the mind, repeated provocation for the curious, and much stimulus for hours of discussion. The themes are challenging: How do holiness and mission hang together? Is the city more a threat or an opportunity for Christianity? Is the church really a learning community? How do Christians best work together? What do we need to hear afresh from the Bible and the early church on what really matters? Use the book for a study group. You will benefit greatly from it, and may well be inspired to act upon what you learn.' James D. G. Dunn, former Lightfoot Professor of Divinity, University of Durham `Four strong chapters, organically grounded in the experience and teaching of the Bible and the Early Church, undergird a remarkable finale that lays bare the radical challenge to mission posed by the modern city. This is a profound, accessible and convincing book.' Leslie Griffiths, Superintendent, Wesley's Chapel, London

Author : William J. Larkin,Joel F. Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015047072627

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Mission in the New Testament by William J. Larkin,Joel F. Williams Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive articulation of New Testament teachings on mission from a contemporary American evangelical standpoint. Mission in the New Testament contributes a fresh statement of the biblical foundations of mission, serving as a catalyst for completion of the church's universal mission in this generation.After investigating the historical background of the idea of mission in the Hebrew Scriptures, inter-testamental Judaism, the life of Jesus and the beginnings of the church, the book proceeds in a roughly canonical order through the New Testament. Essays analyze the works of Paul, the Synoptic gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the General Epistles, and the Book of Revelation. Well-versed in the historical-critical method of biblical interpretation, editors and contributors alike offer a cogent argument for recovering the "missional horizon" of the New Testament.

Author : Markus Bockmuehl,Michael B. Thompson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567102379

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Vision for the Church by Markus Bockmuehl,Michael B. Thompson Pdf

What is the Church? Perhaps more importantly, what is it meant to be? How did its earliest members understand this body of which they had become a part?This is a textbook collection of fifteen essays by an international group of New Testament experts. They bring together a dynamic range of perspectives on how the early Christians viewed the Church: its origins, purpose and relation to Jewish Scriptures and to Jesus Christ; its place in the world and in God's plan; its community life and worship, in theory and in practice

Author : Robert Lewis Plummer
Publisher : OCMS
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1842273337

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Paul's Understanding of the Church's Mission by Robert Lewis Plummer Pdf

This book engages in a careful study of Pauls letters to determine if the apostle expected the communities to which he wrote to engage in missionary activity. It helpfully summarizes the discussion on this debated issue, judiciously handling contested texts and provides a way forward in addressing this critical question. While admitting that Paul rarely explicitly commands the communities he founded to evangelize, Plummer amasses significant incidental data to provide a convincing case that Paul did indeed expect his churches to engage in mission activity. Throughout the study, Plummer progressively builds a theological basis for the churchs mission that is both distinctively Pauline and compelling.

Author : Paul Barnett
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830826998

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Jesus and the Rise of Early Christianity by Paul Barnett Pdf

Paul Barnett not only places the New Testament within the world of caesars and Herods, proconsuls and Pharisees, Sadducee and revolutionaries, but argues that the mainspring and driving force of early Christian history is the historical Jesus.

Author : Stanley E. Porter,Cynthia Long Westfall
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630879945

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Christian Mission by Stanley E. Porter,Cynthia Long Westfall Pdf

How did a first-generation Jewish messianic movement develop the momentum to become a dominant religious force in the Western world? The essays here first investigate the roots of God's mission and the mission of his people in the Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism, specifically in the Psalms, Isaiah, and Daniel. The contributions then discuss the mission of Jesus, and how it continued into the mission of the Twelve, other Jewish believers (in the Gospels, General Epistles, and Revelation), and finally into Paul's ministry to the Gentiles documented in the book of Acts and his epistles. These essays reach backward into the background of what was to become the Christian mission and forward through the New Testament to the continuing Christian mission and missions today.

Author : James R. Edwards
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493420216

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From Christ to Christianity by James R. Edwards Pdf

How did the movement founded by Jesus transform more in the first seventy-five years after his death than it has in the two thousand years since? This book tells the story of how the Christian movement, which began as relatively informal, rural, Hebrew and Aramaic speaking, and closely anchored to the Jewish synagogue, became primarily urban, Greek speaking, and gentile by the early second century, spreading through the Greco-Roman world with a mission agenda and church organization distinct from its roots in Jewish Galilee. It also shows how the early church's witness can encourage the church today.

Author : Stanley E. Porter,Andrew W. Pitts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004372740

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Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement by Stanley E. Porter,Andrew W. Pitts Pdf

This book explores the events, people, and writings surrounding the early Jesus movement. The essays are divided into four groups: the movement’s formation, production of its early Gospels, description of the Jesus movement itself, and the Jewish mission and its literature.

Author : David Alan Black
Publisher : Energion Publications
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781631990465

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Seven Marks of a New Testament Church by David Alan Black Pdf

What is the church? What does it look like? What should it look like? For answers to these questions David Alan Black looks to the first century church and our founding documents in the New Testament. What were the characteristics of a Christian assembly in the first century? In his study he finds seven things that defined the church then: Evangelistic Preaching, Christian Baptism, Apostolic Teaching, Genuine Relationships, Christ-Centered Gatherings, Fervent Prayer, and Sacrificial Living. Dr. Black believes each of these things should characterize our twenty-first century churches as well. And that is the challenge. How can we apply these principles in our own lives and church congregations? This brief book won't answer all your questions. What it will do is point you toward the right way to find the answers. Ultimately, Dave Black believes that “the more we understand the Scriptures, the more we understand our responsibility to submit our lives and our futures to its radical teachings.” This is the challenge. Will you answer it?

Author : Helmut Koester
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015005711596

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Introduction to the New Testament: History and literature of early Christianity by Helmut Koester Pdf

This work has established itself as a classical text in the field of New Testament studies. Written in a readable, non-technical style, it has become an indispensable textbook and reference for teachers, students, clergy, and the educated layperson interested in a scholarly treatment of the New Testament and its background in the Judaic and Greco-Roman world.