Book Archive

By Athalya Brenner, Frank H. Polak

This quantity brings jointly fourteen essays by means of Israeli, ecu and American students honouring the specified contribution of Yairah Amit to the literary examine of the Hebrew Bible and to her public position, fostering particularly where of the Hebrew Bible in Israeli schooling. In religious study she has made major contributions to the learn of redactional and editorial task, which she has continually seen from a rhetorical and literary perspective. those elements have been uniquely constructed in her paintings at the books of Judges and Chronicles, within which literary issues continually result in the popularity of the ideology at the back of the redactor's paintings. one other key topic of hers has been overt and hidden polemics expressed or prompt via the narrative textual content. The reviews assembled within the current quantity care for the various elements of Amit's paintings, from the biblical and post-biblical right down to the mediaeval and the trendy interval. valuable fields are the artwork of the redactor and inner-biblical polemics (Diana Edelman, Cynthia Edenburg, Nadav Na'aman, Meira Polliack, Dalit Rom-Shiloni), literary scrutiny (Ed Greenstein, Lillian Klein Abensohn, Frank Polak), ideology in social and non secular contexts (Ehud Ben Zvi, Israel Knohl), and feminist and cultural experiences in a much broader feel (Athalya Brenner, Cheryl Exum, Yael Feldman, Shulamit Valler).

By Lorin Woolfe

What in heaven does the Bible need to do with management? Everything!The Bible is without doubt one of the such a lot widely-read e-book on this planet. it really is respected for its spiritual precepts and counsel, its knowledge, and its literary attractiveness. learn rigorously and with one other viewpoint, it's also the best number of management case experiences ever written, with vastly priceless and insightful classes for modern leaders and executives. no matter what our non secular ideals, such a lot people within the Western Hemisphere are accustomed to the Bible's tales and heroes. They shape many of the significant archetypes of our collective awareness and will function common examples of management at its top (and worst).

By Steven Bohr

"By technique of a mystery rapture, hundreds of thousands of Christians will without warning vanish. Snatched as much as heaven to satisfy Christ within the clouds, they won't need to face the pains which are to return upon the earth. This disappearing act ushers within the seven-year tribulation. For the 1st three-and-one-half years, human stipulations progressively become worse. in the meantime, political and army energy shifts to a eu confederacy led by means of the Antichrist. This robust guy miraculously survives a head wound and earnings remarkable strength. At some degree of concern, he orchestrates a seven-year peace treaty within the center East. besides the fact that, the Antichrist, who bears Satan’s mark—666—then demonstrates his precise nature. approximately halfway throughout the tribulation, he and his assistant, the fake prophet, terrorize the area and compel everybody to undergo the mark 666 on their palms or forehead."...This situation doesn't come from a few fictional novel. it's the primary prophetic trust approach of hundreds of thousands of Christians who declare to think in Bible inerrancy. even though it sounds as if extraordinary, it really is proclaimed as gospel fact via hundreds of thousands of Protestant ministers and Bible academics worldwide. the place does this sensational prophetic state of affairs come from? Is it firmly in keeping with the testimony of the Holy Scriptures? Has it usually been believed via the Christian church? is that this relatively what the ultimate clash will appear like, or is Protestantism surroundings itself up for an overwhelming delusion?Keep studying ... simply because what you don’t understand can harm you!

By Varese Layzer

Are early Irish tales motivated by means of the Bible or transcriptions of pre-Christian Celtic lore? Layzer explores the sensible and theoretical problems of identifying 'influence' in historical writing, and the dating among the oral and the written, literacy and literature and the disciplines of Irish experiences and bible study.

By J Cheryl Exum

Lately biblical students and scholars became more and more attracted to learning retellings of biblical tales within the arts, not just for his or her relation to the biblical textual content but in addition for the 'story' they need to inform (or, in the event that they aren't strictly 'retellings', for the sunshine they could shed at the biblical text). The 8 full of life contributions to this quantity illustrate more than a few interesting methods to retellings of the Bible in literature, track, paintings and picture and display whatever of the scope of this interesting and speedily increasing sector of inquiry. the current number of essays looks simultaneously in a different factor of the magazine Biblical Interpretation. because it was once based in 1993, Biblical Interpretation has performed a key function in fostering the e-book of articles within the newly constructing region of the reception background of the Bible within the arts. (Originally released as factor 4-5 of quantity 15 (2007) of Brill's magazine Biblical Interpretation)

By Jeppe Sinding Jensen

Religious trust is without doubt one of the so much pervasive and ubiquitous features of human society. faith has shadowed and illuminated human lives for the reason that primitive instances, shaping the area perspectives of cultures from remoted tribes to gigantic empires. ranging from the basis that faith is an idea which might be analysed and in comparison throughout time and cultures, What is Religion? brings the main updated scholarship to undergo on humankind’s so much enduring creation.

The booklet opens with a short heritage of the assumption of faith, then divides the learn of faith into 4 crucial subject matters - kinds, representations, practices, and associations – and concludes with a last, eye-opening bankruptcy on faith this day. jam-packed with case reviews from quite a lot of religions, previous and current, What is Religion? bargains a truly present, accomplished, but intellectually demanding evaluate of the heritage, theories, practices, and research of religion.

Accessible, wide-ranging, enticing, and brief, What is Religion? is written essentially for undergraduate scholars within the learn of faith, however it can be worthwhile for college students of anthropology, historical past, psychology, sociology, and theology in addition to a person drawn to how and why people got here and stay religious.

By Dennis Kenny

"Promise of the Soul is a religious workbook. via easy, obtainable workouts and reflections, Kenny bargains us useful and confirmed equipment that experience enabled millions of his counseling consumers to relinquish their separation from God s love and stay from the heart.... step-by-step, Kenny s process exhibits us how we will be able to liberate ourselves from self-imposed obstacles and lifetime emotions of inadequacy to reside a extra soul-infused existence. it's very unlikely to learn this ebook with no discovering your self someplace in its pages and surroundings your self loose. it's a genuine opportunity." --From the Foreword by way of Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., writer of Kitchen desk knowledge and My Grandfather s Blessings

"An very good source for making a new covenant that might aid you extend your trust method and your life." --Bernie Siegel, M.D., writer of affection, medication and Miracles and Prescriptions for Living

"This publication, just like the subject itself, is gorgeous and captivating. This religious gentle is steeped within the nice traditions, but its presentation is unique, artistic, and great. a vital secret to meaking peace with God is selecting and therapeutic your religious covenant and figuring out the promise of your soul." --Harold Bloomfield, M.D., writer of constructing Peace with God

"Promise of the Soul is a phenomenal advisor to reading the religious grants or covenants we make with the sacred. no matter if we're Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, or of the other religion, this booklet transcends all paths and ideology to assist each one people establish which sacred grants are restricting and that are useful to our religious unfolding and inherent well-being." --Angeles Arrien, Ph.D., writer of The Four-Fold approach and symptoms of Life

"By bringing to gentle our easy ideals approximately how lifestyles works, Dennis Kenny provides us room to respire, to alter, to be liberated from prisons of our personal making. As a talented chaplain and instructor, he indicates us uncomplicated how one can develop into better, happier humans all that God relatively desires us to be. This publication could simply set you free." --Wayne Muller, writer of Sabbath and the way, Then, we could dwell?

By Martyn Lloyd-Jones

A entire and ACCESSIBLE

SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY of the CHRISTIAN FAITH

You’ve skilled the necessity for sound, biblical doctrine, haven’t you? whilst individuals of a cult confirmed up at the doorstep. while a coworker all started spouting New Age principles. whilst a pastor candidated at your church. while your baby got here domestic from university and desired to understand how the Bible may be real in mild of the entire different worldviews in the market. it's crucial that we expect with readability approximately those matters simply because lots in our world—from the media to our schools—openly defies biblical Truth.

If you’ve discovered the urgency of creating the doctrinal floor on that you stand, the chapters of this publication may help you construct that beginning. Lloyd-Jones sincerely explains the nature and ministries of every individual of the trinity, in addition to the Bible’s instructing at the church, the afterlife, and finish instances. in order to examine extra concerning the nice doctrines of the Bible yet don’t are looking to struggle through long educational works, here's a whole advisor that can assist you study and combine Christian doctrine along with your day-by-day life.

This quantity contains the subsequent 3 books in one:

1. God the daddy, God the Son
2. God the Holy Spirit
3. The Church and the final Things

By Paul Tilich

It is a one-volume model hardback model of Tillich's Systematic Theology, that was once published in 3 volumes over 20 years. Tillich, in his sequence on Systematic Theology, addresses the final challenge of that means and meaninglessness nowa days. Written in the course of the 20th century, Tillich's theology is vastly prompted via the highbrow advancements of the past due nineteenth/early 20th century philosophies, together with such faculties of suggestion as phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, etc.) in addition to existentialism, and particularly concerns equivalent to `the loss of life of God' philosophical/theological speculations. Tillich's theology is additionally considerably encouraged via (as are the highbrow advancements of which he was once half) higher old occasions comparable to the 1st and moment international wars. Tillich, a local of Germany, observed meaninglessness first-hand within the trench battle of the 1st international battle, during which he served as a chaplain. He additionally observed difficulties within the upward thrust of the Nazi occasion, not only for political and cultural matters, but in addition theological matters (such because the idolatry of the country over God).

Tillich, lively out of Germany throughout the upward push of the Nazi strength, spent the rest of his profession educating in universities and seminaries within the usa. this primary quantity of his significant paintings in Systematic Theology used to be produced in 1950, whereas he was once in place of abode at Union Theological Seminary in ny urban, drawn there by means of his buddy and fellow theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.

In the 1st half, Tillich discusses the resources of theology as he sees them - scripture (both textual content and the occasions in the back of the text), the final church heritage and culture, and the broader traditions and background of faith on the earth. Tillich has an issue with seeing adventure as a resource, yet really prefers this to be obvious extra properly because the medium during which the assets are understood and analysed. Tillich introduces norms and the rational personality of systematic theology - Tillich is in lots of methods writing for philosophers who've discounted the validity of theology within the smooth international; through emphasising the points of cause and common sense in his process, he consists of extra weight in that neighborhood. Tillich additionally develops his recognized approach to Correlation, a dialectical procedure of engagement among the temporal state of affairs and the everlasting in an ongoing process.

Tillich explores many of the features and courting of cause and revelation, together with methods of attempting to make feel in a rational demeanour of revelations, together with what constitutes ultimate revelation. From the following, Tillich proceeds along with his ontological buildings - one of many keys to Tillich's total theology is contained the following, during which God is the `ground of being'. a few have accused Tillich of being an existential atheist, simply because they've got heard that Tillich claims that God doesn't exist - whereas it truly is actual that, for Tillich, God doesn't exist, it isn't precise that there's no God; Tillich defines the time period `existence' as being `that that's created', and as God isn't really a created being, God can't exist. really, God is whatever higher, anything deeper - the floor of being. God additionally turns into the one applicable `ultimate problem' (another key point in Tillich's theology) - that idea is built during this quantity as well.

The moment part is essentially Tillich's Christology. Tillich has a small part that relates the second one quantity to the 1st, and restates a few significant issues from the 1st part, yet in a short time jumps into the thoughts of existence/existentialism and Christian theology, constructing from there innovations of sin and human estrangement (setting the level for Christ and salvation/redemption within the new being of Christ). For Tillich, the relevant query of the age is one among that means, and Christ is significant, as a brand new Being, who has a area of expertise and a universality, yet no longer in commonplace Christian theological ways.

Tillich's 3rd part addresses issues of lifestyles within the Spirit, how his total theological constructs of God as final challenge and the floor of Being, translated via humanity's estrangement and redemption via Christ because the New Being, may have an impression on our personal lives. Tillich develops rules of self-actualisation and self-creativity, religious presence in religion and love, non secular presence manifested in old occasions, and a few of the ambiguities. it is a ideal aspect at which to debate dogmatic matters reminiscent of Trinitarianism, a problematical build even for the main rational and standard of theologies. Tillich concludes with a dialogue of eschatology, the assumption of `end-times' (not to be stressed with the type from `Left at the back of' novels) and the way the dominion of God is found in truth previous and current. This additionally ways themes equivalent to immortality and eternity - Tillich states that Christianity has conventional obvious person participation in everlasting existence when it comes to immortality and resurrection, yet that during truth immortality isn't really a biblical time period - it's a Platonic proposal taken on board by way of the church.

Tillich's theology used to be written in volumes: the 1st quantity produced in 1950, the second one in 1957 and the 3rd quantity in 1963, many years earlier than Tillich's dying in 1965. Taken jointly, this theology represents a huge theological strength within the 20th century, and person who is certain to proceed to have impression for generations to come back.

By P. R. Ackroyd, C. F. Evans

Quantity 1 of The Cambridge historical past of the Bible matters the earliest interval right down to Jerome and takes as its critical subject the method wherein the books of either Testaments got here into being and emerged as a canon of scripture, and using canonical writings within the early church.