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Original Sin: Illuminating the Riddle (New Studies in Biblical Theology #Volume 5)
Par Henri Blocher. 1997
We live in a world shot through with evil. The twentieth century has witnessed suffering and human cruelty on a…
scale never before imagined. Yet, paradoxically, in recent years the doctrine of original sin has suffered neglect and ridicule. In this philosophically sophisticated treatment of the biblical evidence for original sin, Henri Blocher offers a robust response. Interacting with the best theological thinking on the subject, this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume shows that while the nature of original sin is a mystery—even a riddle—only belief in it makes sense of evil and wrongdoing. After a general survey of the biblical evidence, Blocher moves on to discuss the two key texts. First, he considers the relation of the Eden story of Genesis 2 and 3 to modern scientific, literary and theological thinking. Then, he offers a new and groundbreaking interpretation of Romans 5, where Paul discusses Christ and Adam. From this exegetical foundation, he goes on to show how the doctrine of original sin makes sense of the paradoxes of human existence. In the final chapter, he discusses the intellectual difficulties that some feel remain with the doctrine itself. Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A. Carson, aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify, to interact with current scholarship and to point the way aheadIsaiah 40-66 (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture #11)
Par Mark W. Elliott. 2006
No book of the Old Testament is more frequently quoted in the New than Isaiah, and no portion of Isaiah…
is more frequently quoted in the New than the typologically fertile soil of Isaiah 40-66. Still, as interpreted by the fathers, Isaiah presents a message that is far more soteriological than christological, leading readers to a deeper understanding of God's judgment and salvation. Isaiah 40-66 provides us with the closest thing the Old Testament has to offer regarding a systematic theology. The excerpts included in this volume offer us a rich array of differing styles, principles and theological emphases from Theodoret of Cyr to Eusebius and Procopius, to Cyril of Alexandria, Jerome and Augustine. Readers will be enriched by the wide-ranging selections, some of which are translated here into English for the first time.The Gospel of the Son of God: An Introduction to Matthew
Par David R. Bauer. 2019
Meeting the Spirit (LifeGuide Bible Studies)
Par Douglas Connelly. 2018
Who is the Holy Spirit? How does he change our lives? How does he work in the world? In ten…
sessions LifeGuide Bible Study, Douglas Connelly helps you examine these and other critical questions. You will see that the Spirit of God is eager to work in your life to draw you closer to God. This revised LifeGuide Bible Study features additional questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with expanded leader's notes and a "Now or Later" section in each study. For over three decades LifeGuide Bible Studies have provided solid biblical content and raised thought-provoking questions—making for a one-of-a-kind Bible study experience for individuals and groups. This series has more than 130 titles on Old and New Testament books, character studies, and topical studies. PDF download with a single-user license; available from InterVarsity Press and other resellers.How to Give Away Your Faith Bible Study: How To Give Away Your Faith (IVP Signature Bible Studies)
Par Paul E. Little. 1996
If you want to talk about Jesus but you're not sure what to say—or how to say it—this Bible study…
guide is for you. Six studies, based on Paul Little's classic How to Give Away Your Faith, will deepen your understanding of the essentials of faith and strengthen your confidence as you talk with others about the best news of all. As companions to the IVP Signature Collection, IVP Signature Bible Studies help individuals and groups explore and apply biblical truths. Each session includes quotations from How to Give Away Your Faith matched with Scripture passages, reflection questions, and application ideas that equip readers to become effective ambassadors of Christ.Dictionary of the Old Testament: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship (The IVP Bible Dictionary Series)
Par T. Desmond Alexander. 2002
A 2003 LOGOS Book Award WinnerAn ECPA 2003 Gold Medallion Finalist The first five books of the Old Testament lay…
the foundation on which the rest of Scripture stands. Its great themes, epochal events and towering figures set down vectors on which the biblical story is played out. The very shape of the rest of the Old Testament would collapse were the Penteteuch to be removed. The structure of New Testament thought would be barely intelligible without it. Here we meet the great ancestral figures of Israel--Abraham, Isaac and Jacob--and the towering figure of Moses, whose presence dominates four of these five books. The creative act of God, the paradisal garden, the exile of Adam and Eve, the judgment of the great flood, the call of Abraham from among the nations, the covenant of Abraham, the exodus from Egypt, the giving of the law at Sinai, the plan of the tabernacle, the varied experiences of Israel in the wilderness, and the announcement of the covenant blessings and curses--all of these and more contribute to a work of world-formative power. This dictionary explores the major themes and contours of the Pentateuch. Behind and beneath the grandeur of the Pentateuch, issues of historicity have both puzzled and beckoned. But whereas in the mid-twentieth century many English-speaking scholars were confident of archaeological support for the patriarchal accounts, the climate has now changed. In the most extreme cases, some contemporary scholars have radically challenged the antiquity of the ancestral stories, arguing for their final composition even as late as the Hellenistic era. This dictionary examines and weighs the historical issues and poses possible solutions. The documentary hypothesis, the former reigning critical consensus, is now widely rumored to be on life support with no heir apparent. Meanwhile, conservative scholars reconsider what indeed a claim to Mosaic authorship should entail. This dictionary offers an assessment of the array of questions surrounding these issues and considers some possible ways forward for evangelical scholarship. At the same time, there has been a fruitful turning to the nature, message and art of the received text of the Pentateuch. Literary studies of brief episodes, sprawling sagas, complex narrative and even the fivefold composition of the Pentateuch itself have delivered promising and exciting results. This dictionary offers both appreciative panoramas and close-up assessments of these developments and their methods. The Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch is the first in a four-volume series covering the text of the Old Testament. Following in the tradition of the four award-winning IVP dictionaries focused on the New Testament and its background, this encyclopedic work is characterized by close attention to the text of the Old Testament and the ongoing conversation of contemporary scholarship. In exploring the major themes and issues of the Pentateuch, editors T. Desmond Alexander and David W.Baker, with an international and expert group of scholars, inform and challenge through authoritative overviews, detailed examinations and new insights from the world of the ancient Near East. The Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch is designed to be your first stop in the study and research of the Pentateuch, on which the rest of the Bible is built. Note: Because this ebook is large, please allow a little extra time to download after purchase.Every Leaf, Line, and Letter: Evangelicals and the Bible from the 1730s to the Present
Par Timothy Larsen. 2021
David Bebbington, University of StirlingKristina Benham, Baylor UniversityCatherine Brekus, Harvard Divinity SchoolMalcolm Foley, Truett SeminaryBruce Hindmarsh, Regent College, VancouverThomas S.…
Kidd, Baylor UniversityTimothy Larsen, Wheaton CollegeK. Elise Leal, Whitworth UniversityJohn Maiden, The Open University, UKMark A. Noll, University of Notre DameMary Riso, Gordon CollegeBrian Stanley, University of EdinburghJonathan Yeager, University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaGood and Evil (LifeGuide Bible Studies)
Par Douglas Connelly. 2008
Meeting God (LifeGuide Bible Studies)
Par J. I. Packer. 2001
1 & 2 Timothy and Titus: Do What You Have Heard (LifeGuide Bible Studies)
Par Pete Sommer. 2001
Deteriorating values. Competing religions. Weakening morality. Do you feel sometimes that the world presents you with more problems than you…
can handle? Timothy and Titus faced all of these tough issues as young church leaders. But Paul encouraged them to put aside timidity and insecurity, and to find strength in Christ. As Pete Sommer guides you in this eleven-session LifeGuide Bible Study, you'll also find the support you need to follow through in obedience to God's Word. For over three decades LifeGuide Bible Studies have provided solid biblical content and raised thought-provoking questions—making for a one-of-a-kind Bible study experience for individuals and groups. This series has more than 130 titles on Old and New Testament books, character studies, and topical studies.Mark 9-16: Part 2: Why Did Jesus Come? (LifeGuide Bible Studies)
Par James Hoover. 2012
In the New Testament Gospel of Mark, we meet Jesus, the man who is King. But this king comes to…
serve--not to be served. He eats with sinners rather than royalty. His crown is made of thorns instead of gold. This twenty session LifeGuide Bible Study guide introduces you to the compassionate, suffering, astonishing king who calls us to follow him. For over three decades LifeGuide Bible Studies have provided solid biblical content and raised thought-provoking questions���making for a one-of-a-kind Bible study experience for individuals and groups. This series has more than 130 titles on Old and New Testament books, character studies, and topical studies.The Gospel According to Eve: A History of Women's Interpretation
Par Amanda W. Benckhuysen. 2019
What does it mean to be male and female? Do women and men have different intellectual, spiritual, moral, or emotional…
capacities? Are women especially suited for serving and men for leading? Are women and men equal? While these may seem like relatively recent questions, they have been a topic of conversation throughout Christian history. At the center of this conversation is the biblical character Eve, the archetypal woman of Genesis 1-3. Not simply one woman among many, Eve comes to represent all women, defining the very essence of what it is to be female. As Eve was a woman, so all women were Eve, the conditions of her creation and her involvement in the Fall often serving as a justification for limitations placed on women and for their subordination to men. Over the centuries, women themselves have read and interpreted the story of Eve, scrutinizing the details of the text to discern God's word for them. Often their investigations led them to insights and interpretations that differed from dominant views, shaped as they were by men. The Gospel According to Eve traces the history of women's interpretation of Genesis 1-3, readings of Scripture that affirmed women's full humanity and equal worth. Biblical scholar Amanda Benckhuysen allows the voices of women from the past to speak of Eve's story and its implications for marriage, motherhood, preaching, ministry, education, work, voting, and more.Scripture and Cosmology: Reading the Bible Between the Ancient World and Modern Science
Par Kyle Greenwood. 2015
Christians often claim to hold a biblical worldview. But what about a biblical cosmos view? From the beginning of Genesis…
we encounter a vaulted dome above the earth, a "firmament," like the ceiling of a planetarium. Elsewhere we read of the earth sitting on pillars. What does the dome of heaven have to do with deep space? Even when the biblical language is clearly poetic, it seems to be funded by a very different understanding of how the cosmos is put together. As Kyle Greenwood shows, the language of the Bible is also that of the ancient Near Eastern palace, temple and hearth. There was no other way of thinking or speaking of earth and sky or the sun, moon and stars. But when the psalmist looked at the heavens, the delicate fingerwork of God, it evoked wonder. Even today it is astronomy and cosmology that invoke our awe and point toward the depths of divine mystery. Greenwood helps us see how the best Christian thinkers have viewed the cosmos in light of Scripture—and grappled with new understandings as science has advanced from Aristotle to Copernicus to Galileo and the galaxies of deep space. It's a compelling story that both illuminates the text of Scripture and helps us find our own place in the tradition of faithful Christian thinking and interpretation.Service: Ministry with Heart and Hands (LifeGuide Bible Studies)
Par R. Paul Stevens. 2015
In this LifeGuide Bible Study includes ten sessions exploring service in a variety of contexts: family, the physical creation, society,…
the city, neighbors, relationships, the church and the workplace. Looking inside ministry specifically, R. Paul Stevens examines examples of service that were motivated by imagination, passion, faith, hope and love—from Genesis to Revelation. Out of these studies you will discover how to live and serve wholeheartedly. No matter what your profession, you are a full time minister of Jesus Christ. For over three decades LifeGuide Bible Studies have provided solid biblical content and raised thought-provoking questions—making for a one-of-a-kind Bible study experience for individuals and groups. This series has more than 130 titles on Old and New Testament books, character studies, and topical studies.Spiritual Gifts (LifeGuide Bible Studies)
Par R. Paul Stevens. 2004
You are unique. You have been created and invited by God to participate in his kingdom work. Yet, you have…
probably also experienced feelings of uncertainty about how to serve God, about what gifts you have to use, and about God's purpose for your life. In this eight-session LifeGuide Bible Study, R. Paul Stevens helps you to recognize your spiritual gifts and the gifts of others. And he leads you to consider how to practically use these gifts to glorify God in your relationships, your work and your world. This revised LifeGuide Bible Study features additional questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with expanded leader's notes and a "Now or Later" section in each study. For over three decades LifeGuide Bible Studies have provided solid biblical content and raised thought-provoking questions—making for a one-of-a-kind Bible study experience for individuals and groups. This series has more than 130 titles on Old and New Testament books, character studies, and topical studies. PDF download with a single-user license; available from InterVarsity Press and other resellers.Prayer: An Adventure with God (LifeGuide Bible Studies)
Par David Healey. 2002
You pray for your own needs and for the needs of others. You pray in the face of conflict, and…
you pray for forgiveness. You pray to pour out your heart to God and to gain a glimpse of God's heart for you. As David Healey leads you through twelve-session LifeGuide Bible Study, the prayers of men and women in the Bible (Mary, Abraham, Moses, Daniel and more!), you will gain new insights into why, what and how to pray. And you will experience more fully the adventure that prayer can be. Now available in IVP's revised LifeGuide Bible Study format, Prayer features questions for starting group discussions and for personal reflection, as well as a new "Now or Later" section following each session. PDF download with a single-user license; available from InterVarsity Press and other resellers. For over three decades LifeGuide Bible Studies have provided solid biblical content and raised thought-provoking questions—making for a one-of-a-kind Bible study experience for individuals and groups. This series has more than 130 titles on Old and New Testament books, character studies, and topical studies.Abiding in Christ (LifeGuide Bible Studies)
Par Carolyn Nystrom, J. I. Packer. 2009
"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love." John 15:9 Before Jesus left…
this world he gave specific encouragement and instructions to his disciples on what to expect and how to live after he had gone. These words still apply to his disciples today. In this eight-session LifeGuide Bible Study, trusted guides J. I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom lead you through a study of Jesus' farewell to his disciples in John 14--17 to help you discover what it means to abide in Christ during the time between Christ's departure and his second coming. For over three decades LifeGuide Bible Studies have provided solid biblical content and raised thought-provoking questions—making for a one-of-a-kind Bible study experience for individuals and groups. This series has more than 130 titles on Old and New Testament books, character studies, and topical studies. PDF download with a single-user license; available from InterVarsity Press and other resellers.From a close study of key Old and New Testament texts and interaction with historical and contemporary theologians, Bradley Green…
shows how different aspects of the Christian life are each God-elicited, real and necessary. Reaffirming the best Reformed voices, this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume provides a biblical theology of the nature, role and place of works, obedience and faithfulness in the new covenant. Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A. Carson, aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify, to interact with current scholarship and to point the way ahead.John: 9 Studies For Individuals Or Groups (N. T. Wright for Everyone Bible Study Guides)
Par N. T. Wright, Kristie Berglund. 2009
With a scholar's mind and a pastor's heart, N. T. Wright helps us discover the clues John gives in his…
gospel that we might see even more clearly the reality of who Jesus is, the new creation he inaugurates and the difference that all makes. When you read detective stories, you quickly learn that what may look like an irrelevant little detail may actually be the clue to solving the mystery. A good writer will put in all kinds of detail; nothing is there by accident. Nothing in John's Gospel is there by accident either. And all the details in John are designed ultimately to come together. In these studies we discover the clues John gives that we might see even more clearly the reality of who Jesus is, the new creation he inaugurates and the difference that all makes.