Contents : Answering the wake-up call from hell -- A war of biblical proportions -- The line drawn in the sand -- Jihad : a truly unholy war -- A further distorted Islam -- The sword's edge : the Palestinian Liberation Organization -- A blood-soaked history; a blood-soaked future -- The road through Baghdad leads to Jerusalem -- What lies ahead for the U.S.? -- The wake-up call from heaven : pr…
Contents: Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part 1 -- The Word of God and the Heart of Preaching; Warm-Up; 1 -- Biblical Preaching Must Be Centred on God's Word; 2 -- Biblical Preaching Must Pray God's Word; 3 -- Biblical Preaching Must Understand God's Word; Part 2 -- The Teacher and the Work of Preaching; Warm-Up; 4 -- Biblical Preaching Must Be Focused; 5 -- Biblical Preaching Must Be …
Contents : A sufficient Bible : finding answers in scripture -- How do we know what to believe? -- The Bible warrants our confidence -- Does the Bible speak meaningfully to every human problem? -- The Bible is a sufficient guide for relational living -- Understanding people : a tarnished image and broken relationships -- How can people truly change? -- People bear the image of God! -- Dependen…
Contents: Introducing the Book of Revelation -- John's vision of the heavenly Christ -- Letters to churches -- More letters to churches -- John's vision of God and the Lamb -- Opening the seven seals of God's scroll -- Sounding the seven trumpets -- The Satanic trinity: The dragon and the two beasts -- The seven bowls of God's wrath -- The final victory and the Last Judgment -- John's vision of…
Other Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: pt. 1. A structure for Old Testament ethics. The theological angle -- The social angle -- The economic angle -- pt. 2. Themes in Old Testament ethics. Ecology and the earth -- Economics and the poor -- The land and Christian ethics -- Politics and the nations -- Justice and righteousness -- Law and the legal system -- Culture and family -- The way of the individual -- pt. 3. Studying…
Contents: pt. 1 The sources of Paul's ethical teaching -- The Old Testament and Judaism -- The Hellenistic world -- The teaching of Jesus -- pt. 2 The Pauline exhortations -- The use of traditional material -- The assimilation of traditional material -- The varied modes of exhortation -- The problem of "kerygma" and "didache" -- pt. 3 The themes of Paul's preaching -- This age and the age to co…
Contents: 1. The Christocentric focus of all Holy Scripture -- The need for the Christocentric focus in prophetic interpretations -- 2. The key to the Old Testament: Literalism or the New Testament? -- The key to the Old Testament: the New Testament -- Literalism in late Judaism -- The key to the Old Testament: Christ in the New Testament -- 3. The literal and allegorical interpretations -- Th…
Contents: Commentary on the books of the Old Testament -- Commentary on the books of the Apocrypha -- Commentary on the books of the New Testament -- General articles. Biblical interpretation ; Geographical and historical setting ; The making of the literature ; The religion of the Bible ; Text, canon, and translation -- Chronology -- Measures and money -- Index of scripture references -- Maps …
Bibeltext engl. und griech., in griech. Schr. - Beil.: Witnesses, signs, abbreviations. - Auf Banderole: The scholarly edition of the Greek New Testament.
Preface / David P. Gushee and Walter C. Jackson -- Section I. Transitions into community -- The nature of Christian community and the theological seminary / Mark A. Seifrid -- Facing doubt and crisis with integrity in a seminary setting / Melanie Greer Nogalski and James D. Nogalski -- The seminary experience : tips and traps / Marsha A. Ellis Smith -- Section II. Personal formation and calling…