Christology (Theology of Jesus Christ the Son)

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Ecce Homo : On The Divine Unity Of Christ
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Interacting with theologians throughout the ages, Riches narrates the development of the church’s doctrine of Christ as an increasingly profound realization that the depth of the difference between the human being and God is realized, in fact, only in the perfect union of divinity and humanity in the one Christ. He sets the apostolic proclamation in its historical, theological, philosophical, and mystical context, showing that, as the starting point of “orthodoxy,” it forecloses every theological attempt to divide or reduce the “one Lord Jesus Christ.”

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Christology : A Global Introduction
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In this revised introduction, an internationally respected scholar explores biblical, historical, and contemporary developments in Christology. The book focuses on the global and contextual diversity of contemporary theology, including views of Christ found in the Global South and North and in the Abrahamic and Asian faith traditions. It is ideal for readers who desire to know how the global Christian community understands the person and work of Jesus Christ. This new edition accounts for the significant developments in theology over the past decade.

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Karl Barths Infralapsarian Theology
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Foreword By George Hunsinger
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

Part I: Reappraising Barth’s Lapsarian Position
1. Supra- And Infralapsarianism In The Seventeenth Century: Some Definitions
2. Church Dogmatics 33: Barth’s Lapsarian Position Reassessed

Part II: Barth’s Lapsarian Position In Development, 1920-1953
3.Romerbrief II (1920-1921): Lapsarianism In The “Impossible Possibility” Dialectic
4. The Gottingen-Munster Period (1921-1930): Christology And Predestination In The Subject-Object Dialectic
5. The Bonn Years (1930-1935): Human Talk And Divine Word-New Developments?
6. Gottes Gnadenwahl (1936): Infralapsarian Aspects Of Barth’s Christocentric Doctrine Of Election
7. CD II/2 (1939-1942): Christ As Electing God And Elected Human-Lapsarianism “Purified”
8. CD IV/1 (1951-1953): Adamic History And History Of Christ-Infralapsarian Tendencies In Barth’s Doctrine Of Sin

Conclusion
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index

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Theologians have long assumed that Karl Barth’s doctrine of election is supralapsarian. Challenging decades of scholarship, Shao Kai Tseng argues that despite Barth’s stated favor of supralapsarianism, his mature lapsarian theology is complex and dialectical, critically reappropriating both supra- and infralapsarian patterns of thinking. Barth can be described as basically infralapsarian because he sees the object of election as fallen humankind and understands the incarnation as God’s act of taking on human nature in its condition of fallenness. Tseng shows that most of Barth’s Reformed critics have not understood his doctrine of election accurately enough to recognize his affinity to infralapsarianism and, conversely, that most Barthians have not understood Reformed-orthodox formulations of election with sufficient accuracy in their disagreement with the tradition. Karl Barth’s Infralapsarian Theology offers a clear understanding of both the historic Lapsarian Controversy and Barth’s distinct form of lapsarianism, providing a charitable dialogue partner to aid mutual understanding between Barth and evangelicals.

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Jesus The Priest
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Following his critically acclaimed book Jesus the Temple, Nicholas Perrin here offers an insightful theological contribution to Jesus studies that synthesizes the best in traditional/conservative and liberal reconstructions of Jesus’s life and teaching. Some view Jesus as an eschatological prophet (conservative tradition) while others view him as a teacher of wisdom (liberal tradition). Perrin identifies the priesthood of Jesus as a mediating understanding that sheds crucial light on the kingdom of God. By viewing Jesus as priest, we understand that the central aim of God’s kingdom is not the salvation of individual souls or the creation of a better society but rather the establishment of authentic worship.

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What Every Christian Needs To Know About The Jewishness Of Jesus
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If you were to ask ten people, Who started Christianity? you might hear ten voices giving the same quick response: Jesus. But those ten people would be wrong. Jesus wasn’t a Christian. Jesus lived and died as a Jew. Understanding the Jewishness of Jesus is the secret to knowing him better and understanding his message in the twenty-first century. Walking through Jesus’ life from birth to death, Rabbi Evan Moffic serves as a tour guide to give Christians a new way to look at familiar teachings and practices that are rooted in the Jewish faith and can illuminate our lives today. Moffic gives fresh insight on how Jesus’ contemporaries understood him, explores how Jesus’ Jewishness shaped him, offers a new perspective on the Lord’s Prayer, and provides renewed appreciation for Jesus’ miracles. In encountering his Jewish heritage, you will see Jesus differently, gain a better understanding of his message, and enrich your own faith.

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Miracles Of Jesus
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Christians often view Jesus’s miracles simply as proofs of his divinity. However, as prolific author Vern Poythress shows in this new book, they also serve as “signs of redemption,” foreshadowing the salvation that Christ accomplished through his cross and resurrection. This means that the stories of Jesus’s miracles-like the calming of the storm or the feeding of the 5,000-are relevant for both Christians and non-Christians alike, clearly pointing to the gospel. After setting forth a framework for viewing all of Jesus’s miracles through this lens, Poythress then reflects on the meaning and significance of 26 distinct miracles recorded in the Gospel of Matthew-helping modern readers understand and apply them to their own lives today.

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1 God One Lord Third Edition
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A T&T Clark Title

The book has taken its place among works on Jesus as one consistently cited, consistently read, and consistently examined in scholarly discourse.

Hurtado examines the early cultic devotion to Jesus through a range of Jewish sources. Hurtado outlines an early ‘high’ Christological theology, showing how the Christ of faith emerges from monotheistic Judaism. The book has already found a home on the shelves of many in its two previous editions. In this new Cornerstones edition Hurtado provides a substantial epilogue of some twenty-thousand words, which brings this ground-breaking work to the fore once more, in a format accessible to scholars and students alike.

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Jesus Behaving Badly
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List Of Abbreviations
1. Everybody Likes Jesus
2. Revolutionary Or Pacifist? The King And His Kingdom
3. Angry Or Loving? Prophet Of Israel’s Restoration
4. Environmentalist Or Earth Scorcher? Killing Pigs And Cursing Trees
5. Legalist Or Grace Filled? Be Perfect . . . Or Else?
6. Hellfire Preacher Or Gentle Shepherd? Scaring The Hell Out Of You
7. Antifamily Or Family Friendly? Who’s Your Daddy?
8. Racist Or Inclusivist? Gentile Dogs And Other Riffraff
9. Sexist Or Egalitarian? If We’re So Equal, Why Do The Boys Get All The Good Jobs?
10. Was Jesus Anti-Semitic? Shepherd Of Israel’s Lost Sheep
11. Failed Prophet Or Victorious King? Doomsday Prophet Of The End Of The World?
12. Decaying Corpse Or Resurrected Lord? All The Eggs In One Easter Basket
Discussion Questions
Notes
Scripture Index

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Everybody likes Jesus. Don’t they?

We overlook that Jesus was

Judgmental-preaching hellfire far more than the apostle Paul
Uncompromising-telling people to hate their families
Chauvinistic-excluding women from leadership
Racist-insulting people from other ethnic groups
Anti-environmental-cursing a fig tree and affirming animal sacrifice
Angry-overturning tables and chasing moneychangers in the temple

He demanded moral perfection, told people to cut off body parts, made prophecies that haven’t come true, and defied religious and political authorities. While we tend to ignore this troubling behavior, the people around Jesus didn’t. Some believed him so dangerous that they found a way to have him killed.

The Jesus everybody likes, says Mark Strauss, is not the Jesus found in the Gospels. He’s a figure we’ve created in our own minds. Strauss believes that when we unpack the puzzling paradoxes of the man from Galilee, we find greater insight into his countercultural message and mission than we could ever have imagined.

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Puzzling The Parables Of Jesus
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Modern scholarship on the parables has long been preoccupied with asking what Jesus himself said and what he intended to accomplish with his parables. Ruben Zimmermann moves beyond that agenda to explore the dynamics of parabolic speech in all its rich complexity. Introductory chapters address the history of research and distinguish historical from literary and reader-oriented approaches, then set out a postmodern hermeneutic that analyzes narrative elements and context, maps the sociohistorical background, explores stock metaphors and symbols, and opens up contemporary horizons of interpretation. Subsequent chapters then focus on one parable from early Christian sources (Q, Mark, Matthew, Luke, John, and the Gospel of Thomas) to explore how parables function in each literary context. Over all reigns the principle that the meaning or theological “message” of a parable cannot be extracted from the parabolic form; thus the parables continue to invite hearers’ and readers’ involvement to the present day.

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Gospel According To Heretics
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Since what Christian doctrine denies can be as important as what it affirms, it is important to understand teachings about Jesus that the early church rejected. Historians now acknowledge that proponents of alternative teachings were not so much malicious malcontents as they were misguided or even misunderstood. Here a recognized expert in early Christian theology teaches orthodox Christology by explaining the false starts (heresies), making the history of theology relevant for today’s church. This engaging introduction to the christological heresies is suitable for beginning students. In addition, pastors and laypeople will find it useful for apologetic purposes.

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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About God But Were Afraid To Ask (Reprinted
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With a healthy dose of wit and a heaping helping of wisdom, New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas answers questions about Jesus’ life, death, resurrection, and much more.

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Jesus The Storyteller
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While it is widely acknowledged that Jesus told stories, there has not been much focus on why he did so and how these stories contributed to his ministry. Stephen Wright approaches this topic afresh to analyze how considering the parables as “stories” can help our understanding of Jesus and his mission. Wright begins by looking for insights in scholarship from recent decades on the parables and the historical Jesus. He goes on to imagine how these stories would have resonated with hearers in each of the Synoptic Gospels and considers the dynamics between Jesus and his hearers in different locations like Galilee and Jerusalem. Finally, Wright considers the purpose of these parables as an element of Jesus’ ministry and looks at Jesus himself as a storyteller. This book will provide a solid basis for understanding why Jesus spoke in parables and how this distinctive style of speech functioned in his ministry.

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Rediscovering Jesus : An Introduction To Biblical Religious And Cultural Pe
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Preface
List Of Abbreviations
Introduction: “My Jesus”

Part I Introduction: Jesus In The Bible
1. Mark’s Jesus
2. Matthew’s Jesus
3. Luke’s Jesus
4. John’s Jesus
5. Paul’s Jesus
6. The Priestly Jesus
7. The Jesus Of Exiles
8. The Apocalyptic Jesus

Part II Introduction: Jesus Outside The Bible
9. The Gnostic Jesus
10. The Muslim Jesus
11. The Historical Jesus
12. The Mormon Jesus
13. The American Jesus
14. The Cinematic Jesus

Conclusion: “Our Jesus”
Subject Index
Scripture Index

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“My Jesus I love thee, I know thou art mine.” So runs an old familiar hymn. But who is your Jesus? Matthew’s teacher? John’s Word made flesh? Hebrews’ great high priest? What if it turned out that your Jesus is a composite of your favorite selections from the New Testament buffet, garnished with some Hollywood and Americana? Rediscovering Jesus takes us on a gallery tour of biblical portraits of Jesus, from Matthew through Revelation. Our expert guides point out the background and highlights of each New Testament image of Jesus. Then we hit the streets to visit other houses of worship and their scriptures, examining the Jesus of the Book of Mormon and the Quran. Popping into a bookstore, we browse the latest on the Gnostic and the historical Jesus. Then we’re off on a walking tour of Jesus in America, followed by a film festival of Jesus movies. All along the way our tour guides describe and interpret, but also raise questions: How is this Jesus different from other portraits? If this were our only portrait of Jesus, what would our faith be like? Rediscovering Jesus is an enjoyable, informative and challenging look at how we encounter Jesus in Scripture and our culture. It takes us beyond other surveys in its unique probing of the differences our understanding of Jesus can make for faith and life. From the authors of Rediscovering Paul, this is an introduction to Jesus that guides us in our pilgrimage toward seeing Jesus truly.

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Omnipresence Of Jesus Christ
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This important book reassesses the classic Chalcedonian view of Jesus: “one person, two natures.” It carefully rejects all forms of kenotic Christology and affirms that Jesus possessed and used all the divine attributes, in particular, that of omnipresence, arguing that evangelical scholars have abandoned this important truth. This has ramifications for our view of the Holy Spirit and of Christ’s presence with his people. It challenges us to read the Scriptures again and to live in the presence of Jesus.

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Getting Jesus Right
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IS IT POSSIBLE THAT MUSLIMS ARE WRONG ABOUT JESUS AND VARIOUS TENETS OF ISLAM? Is the famous Muslim writer Reza Aslan mistaken in his portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth and apologetic for Islam? Professor James Beverley and Professor Craig Evans take an in-depth look at subjects at the core of the Muslim-Christian divide: the reliability of the New Testament Gospels and the Qur’an, and what we can really know about Jesus and the prophet Muhammad. Importantly, they also examine the implications of traditional Islamic faith on the status of women, jihad and terrorism.

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Uncovering The Life Of Jesus (Student/Study Guide)
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Introduction
1. Standing Room Only
2. Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?
3. You Can Go Home Again!
4. Everybody Is Somebody To Jesus
5. Game Over…?
6. The Son Also Rises

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Every Christian knows that Jesus is good news for everyone. Yet most of us struggle to share this good news with the people closest to us. Becky Pippert has spent years talking to people about Jesus and her experience shines through on each page of these six Bible studies in Luke.

Uncovering the life of Jesus has been designed to make it easy for any Christian to share their faith with friends and family. The expertly crafted questions are designed to open up conversations as you look at six encounters with Jesus from the Gospel of Luke.

This flexible resource allows you to share your faith with one or more of your friends wherever they’re at spiritually and wherever you happen to meet up. All you need is a coffee and a copy of Uncovering the life of Jesus for everyone. Even the Bible passages are included inside.

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Rejoicing In Christ
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If we want to know who God is, the best thing we can do is look at Christ. If we want to live the life to which God calls us, we look to Christ. In Jesus we see the true meaning of the love, power, wisdom, justice, peace, care and majesty of God. Michael Reeves, author of Delighting in the Trinity, opens to readers the glory and wonder of Christ, offering a bigger and more exciting picture than many have imagined. Jesus didn’t just bring us the good news. He is the good news. Reeves helps us celebrate who Christ is, his work on earth, his death and resurrection, his anticipated return and how we share in his life. This book, then, aims for something deeper than a new technique or a call to action. In an age that virtually compels us to look at ourselves, Michael Reeves calls us to look at Christ. As we focus our hearts on him, we see how he is our life, our righteousness, our holiness and our hope.

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Jesus Christ : A Guide For Study And Devotion (Student/Study Guide)
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In this book, the third in the Heart of Christian Faith series, Alister E. McGrath provides an exploration of how we can best understand Jesus Christ using analogies, illustrations, and stories. This short, accessible guide also provides a pastoral and spiritual consideration of the difference that our belief in God makes to the way in which we think about ourselves and our world. With future volumes to examine other core Christian principles, McGrath’s new series will define “mere Christianity” to a new generation for many years to come.

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Parables Unplugged : Reading The Lukan Parables In Their Rhetorical Context
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Contents:
1. Introduction: Toward A Natural Hearing
2. The Bad Samaritan (Luke 10)
3. Odd Images Of God (Luke 11:5-13; 18:1-8)
4. Persuading The Pharisees (Luke 15)
5. The Steward On Trial (Luke 16:1-9)
6. A Final Plea: The Wicked Tenants (Luke 20:9-19)
7. The Father Of The Bride (Luke 14:12-24)
8. The Rich Man In Hell (Luke 16:19-31)
9. Conclusion

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For far too long, Lauri Thuren argues, the parables of Jesus have been read either as allegories encoding Christian theology-including the theological message of one or another Gospel writer-or as tantalizing clues to the authentic voice of Jesus. Thuren proposes instead to read the parables “unplugged” from any assumptions beyond those given in the narrative situation in the text, on the common-sense premise that the very form of the parable works to propose a (sometimes startling) resolution to a particular problem. Thuren applies his method to the parables in Luke with some surprising results involving the Evangelist’s overall narrative purposes and the discrete purposes of individual parables in supporting the authority of Jesus, proclaiming God’s love, exhorting steadfastness, and so on. Eschatological and allegorical readings are equally unlikely, according to Thuren’s results. This study is sure to spark learned discussion among scholars, preachers, and students for years to come.

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Jesus The Temple And The Coming Son Of Man
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A seasoned Gospels scholar offers an in-depth commentary on Mark 13, the so-called Little Apocalypse. Was Jesus speaking of the end-time return of the Son of Man or the coming destruction of Jerusalem or both? How can we know? Here is a careful and insightful commentary on an important and puzzling discourse of Jesus.

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Jesus El Mesias – (Spanish)
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No es que haya otro; lo que hay es que algunos os turban y pretenden pervertir el Evangelio de Cristo. Pero aunque nosotros o un angel del cielo os anunciase otro evangelio distinto del que os hemos anunciado, sea anatema. (Sagrada Biblia, version Nacar Colunga) Cuantas veces ha leido el relato de la alimentacion de los cinco mil en Mateo y se ha preguntado como lo habra dicho Marcos? Quizas haya leido lo que Lucas dijo de la entrada triunfal de Jesus, pero quisiera saber tambien como lo dijo Juan. Jesus el Mesias (Yeshua haMashiach) de acuerdo a los evangelios surgio de esa necesidad, ya que Natanael Ben-Yehoshua Alrabi, al igual que usted, deseaba encontrar tales respuestas en la vida del historico Jesus. Este relato es, pues, una historia que presenta todos los eventos tomados directa y exclusivamente de los cuatro evangelistas. Esta narrativa no reemplaza la Biblia, ni es otro evangelio diferente. Jesus El Mesias . . . es el resultado de seis aos de investigacion y organizacion. Es la historia de la vida y los eventos de Jesus el Mesias en un orden cronologico que puede seguirse facilmente en una sola leida

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Encountering Jesus : Character Studies In The Gospel Of John – Second Editi
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Contents:
Preface To The Second Edition
1. Introduction
2. Jesus: The Life-Giving Revealer
3. John: Witness Par Excellence
4. The World: Enveloped In Darkness But Loved By God
5. “The Jews”: Opponents Par Excellence
6. Andrew And Philip: Finders Of People
7. Simon Peter: A Shepherd In The Making
8. Nathanael: The Genuine Israelite
9. The Mother Of Jesus: A Catalyst In His Ministry
10. Nicodemus: In The Twilight Zone
11. The Samaritan Woman: An Unexpected Bride
12. The Royal Official: His Word Is Enough For Me
13. The Invalid At The Pool: A Lame Response
14. The Crowd: A Faceless, Divided Mass
15. The Twelve: Slow But Sticky
16. Judas Iscariot: The Black Sheep Of The Family
17. The Man Born Blind: Once I Was Blind But Now I See
18. Martha: The Ideal Johannine Confessor
19. Mary Of Bethany: At Jesus’ Feet
20. Lazarus: The Dead Shall Hear His Voice
21. Thomas: Let Me See And Touch
22. The Beloved Disciple: The Unique Eyewitness
23. Pilate: Securing A Hollow Victory
24. Mary Magdalene: Recognizing The Shepherd’s Voice
25. Joseph Of Arimathea: Faith And Fear
26. Conclusion

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Applying a comprehensive theory of character to the Gospel of John, Cornelis Bennema provides a fresh analysis of both the characters and their responses to Jesus. While the majority of scholars view most Johannine characters as “flat,” Bennema demonstrates that many are complex, developing, and “round.” John’s broad array of characters and their responses to Jesus correspond to people and their choices in real life in any culture and time. This book highlights how John’s Gospel seeks to challenge its readers, past and present, about where they stand in relation to Jesus.

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Jesus Is The Question
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Contrary to some common assumptions, Jesus is not the ultimate Answer Man, but more like the Great Questioner. In the Gospels Jesus asks many more questions than he answers. To be precise, Jesus asks 307 questions. He is asked 183 of which he only answers 3. Asking questions was central to Jesus’ life and teachings. In fact, for every question he answers directly he asks-literally-a hundred. Jesus is the Question considers the questions Jesus asks-what they tell us about Jesus and, more important, what our responses might say about what it means to follow Him. Through Jesus’ questions, he modeled the struggle, the wondering, the thinking it through that helps us draw closer to God and better understand, not just the answer, but ourselves, our process and ultimately why questions are among Jesus’ most profound gifts for a life of faith. A game-changer of a book.

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From Crisis To Christ
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Scholars continue to unearth valuable understandings of the historical and religious worlds out of which the New Testament writings emerged. This beautifully crafted introduction notes more than two dozen contextual crises and how the biblical text addresses and reflects them. From the ministry of Jesus, to the rise and progress of the Christian movement, to the epistles of Paul and other leaders, to a vision of God’s final cosmic victory, the New Testament books are succinctly introduced in literary, historical, and theological perspectives. Designed for optimal use in a 14- or a 10-week undergraduate or graduate course, each chapter is designed with four primary features in mind: (a) contextual crises shedding light on the subject; (b) connections with the biblical writings being discussed in that chapter; (c) primary features of the book(s) being discussed; and (d) an application section dealing with the relevance of the biblical content then and now. Anderson also uses call-out boxes and shorter vignettes to heighten particular themes, while images, charts, and maps are used to make information accessible for students.

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Christ The Light
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Light is one of the most ancient and significant metaphors adopted by Christianity by which to understand the significance of Jesus Christ. The Easter liturgy, for instance, is marked by beautiful and powerful rituals proclaiming Christ as the light of the world in his death and resurrection. That understanding developed over subsequent centuries into a larger doctrine of illumination-how Christians come to understand and know God through Christ the Light. In this work, David Whidden takes up that theme in contesting a standard paradigm of interpretation that asserts that Aquinas eliminated the doctrine of illumination in his theology.

In Christ the Light, Whidden argues that illumination is a critical systematic motif in Aquinas’ theology, one that involves the nature of truth, knowledge, and God; at the root, Aquinas’ theology of light, or illumination, is christological, grounding human knowledge of God and eschatological beatitude. This volume establishes the theological network formed by the crucial motif of light/illumination in Aquinas, from how theology operates to the systematic, sacramental, and moral coordinates in Aquinas’ theology. Christ the Light thus provides a much needed and illuminating retrieval of the one of the most important and creative theologians in the western Christian tradition.

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Christ Crucified : Understanding The Atonement
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Part 1: The Way Of The Cross
1. A Man Of Sorrows
2. From The Third To The Ninth Hour
3. The Divine Paradox: The Crucified Son

Part 2: The Word Of The Cross
4. Substitution: The Man For Others
5. Expiation: Covering Our Sin
6. Propitiation: Averting The Divine Anger
7. Reconciliation: God’s Way Of Peace
8. Satisfaction: Enough To Justify Forgiveness
9. No Other Way?
10. Redemption: Setting The Prisoners Free
11. Victory: Disarming The Powers

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The crucifixion of Jesus Christ is presented in all four Gospels, and occupies considerable space in the overall narrative. How could the life, let alone the death, of one man 2,000 years ago be the salvation of the human race? The biblical explanation is that the crucified one was the Son of God, acting and suffering in cooperation with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. This is the primary answer to “the scandal of particularity.” The death of this one person has universal, inclusive and cosmic significance, because in him the Creator acts and suffers. Further, there is the special relationship between Christ and humanity: he was “with” us, and he was “for” us. The grandeur of the cross lies in the fact that here the incarnate Son of God offered himself in our place, bearing the penalty for our sin. The cross achieved expiation, propitiation, reconciliation, justification, redemption, forgiveness and victory. No single one of these tells the whole truth, nor do all of them together exhaust the meaning of the cross. Macleod shows that these concepts are interrelated and interdependent, and that together they give a coherent picture of the salvation wrought by Jesus at Calvary.

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Food Foretelling Followers And Fulfillment Cycle B
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The Sermon Titles Included In This Book Are:
Am I Eating Manna Or Bread From Heaven? (John 6:35, 41-51)
Who Do You Think He Is? (John 6:51-58)
Just Who Does This Guy Think He Is? (John 6:56-69)
Garbage In… Garbage Out Or You Are What You Eat (Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23)
Who Does Jesus Belong To Anyway? (Mark 7:24-37)
Six Days To Make A Decision For Christ (Mark 8:27-38)
Speaking Truth To Power And Hope To The Powerless (Mark 9:30-37)
Gouge-Your-Eye-Out Sunday (Mark 9:38-50)
And They Lived Happily Ever After… Or Did They? (Mark 10:2-16)

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Who is Jesus?
How do we care for the powerless?
Are we called to serve others?
Can we be redeemed from sin?

Food, Foretelling, Followers, and Fulfillment: Jesus on His Way to Jerusalem revisits these daring ideas spoken by a man on his way to the cross. Jesus always challenged the presuppositions of those around him. He had come to transform the world in a way that no one had expected, and Jesus’ bold truths laid the foundations of the early church.

McCracken-Bennett sets out to answer those questions as he leads churches through the events of the middle of the season after Pentecost. The author exposes his conviction that a culture of discipleship can only be created through a careful understanding of Jesus’ character and mission. Through insightful dialogue, McCracken-Bennett considers the weight of Jesus’ words for anyone who claims to be a follower and challenges pastors and congregations to examine well-known scriptural truths in new and thought-provoking ways.

Whether one is looking for a sermon resource or simply pursuing a thoughtful reflection on scripture, Food, Foretelling, Followers, and Fulfillment: Jesus on His Way to Jerusalem expands our vision of Jesus by weaving a deep historical knowledge of scripture with present-day narratives and exposing the sustaining relevance of Jesus’ words in today’s culture.

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Ordinary Time With Jesus Cycle B
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The Sermons Included In This Book Are:
Jesus’ No-Nonsense Guide To Being Rich (Mark 10:17-31)
Jesus’ No-Nonsense Guide To Success (Mark 10:35-45)
Jesus’ No-Nonsense Guide To Discipleship (Mark 10:46-52)
Free Indeed! (John 8:31-36)
The Lazarus Experience (John 11:32-44)
A Cross-Shaped Life (Mark 12:28-34)
Why Bother? (Mark 12:38-44)
No, We’re Not There Yet (Mark 13:1-8)
Jesus: The Original Superhero? (John 18:33-37)
No Reason To Worry (Matthew 6:25-33)

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Nothing about Jesus was ordinary.
He defied the expectations of religious leaders.
He embraced the castaways.
He surrendered to a crude wooden cross.

It is extraordinary, then, that more than 2,000 years beyond his death and resurrection, his words continue to transform — even in the most mundane moments of our lives. Inevitably, discouragement finds its way to our hearts. We get caught up in the demands of life, and we often forget that we can find Jesus in our everyday moments of work, play, and home.

Yamasaki’s Ordinary Time with Jesus presents ten sermons for the season after Pentecost (last third) that beautifully weave the gospel scriptures with our daily experiences. She reminds us to surrender our ideas, our hopes, and our expectations to Jesus as she closes each sermon with a simple prayer, emphasizing total dependence upon Christ.

Pastors can rely upon each sermon found within the pages of Ordinary Time with Jesus to challenge both themselves and their congregations to live a “cross-shaped life,” one that reaches up to God and out to others. Whether looking for a sermon resource, a private devotional, or a small-group study, readers will be refreshed by Yamasaki’s commitment to scriptural authority as it intersects with her relevant understanding of today’s culture. Throughout each sermon, Yamasaki invites readers to journey with her, confidently proclaiming the magnificence of an extraordinary God living and breathing in ordinary times.

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Seeing The Lords Glory
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Contents:
Introduction
Part 1
1. Kyriocentric Visions In The Context Of Crisis And Performative Prayer
2. Motifs Associated With Kyriocentric Visions In Apocalyptic And Early Rabbinic Literature
3. Kyriocentric Prayers And Devotions As The Context For Visions Among Early Disciples Of Jesus
4. Kyriocentric Visions As The Impetus For Early Deity Christology
Part 2
5. Traces Of Kyriocentric Visions In The New Testament
6. Kyriocentric Prayers And Devotions In The New Testament
Part 3
7. Modifications Of The Lord-Jesus Identification In The New Testament And The Early Church
8. Four Alternative Tradition Histories Or Textures In Early Christology
9. Three Movements That Marginalized Visions Of The Anthropic Form Of The Lord
Conclusion
Bibliography

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The “dilemma of early Christology,” Kaiser observes, is found in the early Christian claims to have “seen the Lord” and “beheld his glory”-expressions that in early Judaism would have pointed unequivocally to visions of Israel’s God. The shift of those claims onto the figure of Jesus is usually explained either as a result of the resurrection of Jesus, presumed as a historical event, or on the influence of pagan polytheism. Kaiser examines the phenomenon of “kyriocentric” visions in Second Temple Judaism, asking whether such traditions are sufficient to account for the shape of early claims regarding the divinity of Christ.

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1. Not Through Semen Surely
2. From Where Was This Child Born
3. Deus Est Invare
4. Light Was That Godhead
5. We Worship One Who Rose From His Tomb
6. The Name Above Every Name

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Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Role Of Prophets In Luke-Acts
2. Messiah And Savior
3. Trustworthy Prophets
4. “A Light For The Gentiles”
5. A Rejected Prophet
6. The Doom Of Jerusalem
7. Prophets Like Jesus
8. Rejected Prophets
9. “To The Ends Of The Earth”

Conclusion
Index Of Names
Index Of Biblical References

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Although several scholars have written about how Luke portrays Jesus and the apostles as prophets, no one has yet provided a comprehensive theory as to why Luke’s protagonists resemble the prophets.

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1. New Breath For Old Bones (Ezekiel 37:1-14)
2. Healing And Restoration (Mark 5:21-43)
3. A Love Stronger Than Death (John 11:1-44)
4. Broken Bread And Open Eyes (Luke 24:13-35)
5. To The End Of The Age (Matthew 28)
6. Both Lord And Messiah (Acts 2:22-36)
7. No Meaningless Work (1 Cor 15:50-58)
8. The Spirit Of Life In Our Bodies (Rom 8:1-17)
9. New Clothing (Col 3:1-17)
10. All Things Made New (Revelation 21:1-8)

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Introduction
1. God Revealing God
2. Now, A Word From God
3. Help Is On The Way
4. Life In The Light Of Incarnation
Notes

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Jesus defies simplistic, effortless, undemanding explications. To be sure, Jesus often communicated his truth in simple, homely, direct ways, but his truth was anything but apparent and undemanding in the living. Common people heard Jesus gladly, not all, but enough to keep the government nervous, only to find that the simple truth Jesus taught, the life he lived, and the death he died complicated their settled and secure ideas about reality. The gospels are full of folk who confidently knew what was what–until they met Jesus. Jesus provoked an intellectual crisis in just about everybody. Their response was not, “Wow, I’ve just seen the Son of God,” but rather, “Who is this?”–from the Introduction. The church uses the concept of “Incarnation,” (from the Latin word for “in the flesh”) to help us understand that Jesus Christ is both divine and human. The Incarnation is the grand crescendo of our reflection upon the mystery that Christ is the full revelation of God; not only one who talks about God but the one who speaks for and acts as God, one who is God.

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