Outline: Each volume in the Understanding the Bible Commentary Series breaks down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds so that the power and meaning of the biblical texts become transparent to contemporary readers. They present a careful section-by-section exposition of the biblical books with key terms and phrases highlighted and all Greek transliterated. Notes at the close of …
Outline: Each volume in the Understanding the Bible Commentary Series breaks down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds so that the power and meaning of the biblical texts become transparent to contemporary readers. They present a careful section-by-section exposition of the biblical books with key terms and phrases highlighted and all Greek transliterated. Notes at the close of …
Outline: Each volume in the Understanding the Bible Commentary Series breaks down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds so that the power and meaning of the biblical texts become transparent to contemporary readers. They present a careful section-by-section exposition of the biblical books with key terms and phrases highlighted and all Greek transliterated. Notes at the close of …
Outline: Each volume in the Understanding the Bible Commentary Series breaks down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds so that the power and meaning of the biblical texts become transparent to contemporary readers. They present a careful section-by-section exposition of the biblical books with key terms and phrases highlighted and all Greek transliterated. Notes at the close of …
Outline: The Teach the Text Commentary Series gives pastors the best of biblical scholarship and presents the information needed to move seamlessly from the meaning of the text to its effective communication. By keeping the discussion in each carefully selected preaching unit to six pages of focused commentary, the volumes allow pastors to quickly grasp the most important information. Each u…
Outline: The Teach the Text Commentary Series gives pastors the best of biblical scholarship and presents the information needed to move seamlessly from the meaning of the text to its effective communication. By keeping the discussion in each carefully selected preaching unit to six pages of focused commentary, the volumes allow pastors to quickly grasp the most important information. Each un…
Outline: The author has completed a tremendous task: to provide comprehensive guides to all the books of the New Testament, and to furnish them with his own fresh translation of the entire text. Each short passage is followed by a highly readable commentary with helpful background information. The format makes it appropriate also for daily study.
Outline: The New International Biblical Commentary offers the best of contemporary scholarship in a format that both general readers and serious students can use with profit. Based on the widely used New International Version translation, the NIBC presents careful section-by-section exposition with key terms and phrases highlighted and all Hebrew transliterated. A separate section of notes a…
Outline: Bible Study Guides. The guides in this series by the author can be used on their own or alongside his New Testament for Everyone commentaries. They are designed to help you understand the Bible in fresh ways under the guidance of one of the world's leading New Testament scholars. Thoughtful questions, prayer suggestions, and useful backgorund and cultural information all guide you…
Outline: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. 1 & 2 Peter, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church - through aid in preaching, teaching, study groups, a…
Outline: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. Proverbs & Ecclesiastes, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church - providing a rich resource for preachers…
Outline: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. Song of Songs, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church - providing a rich resource for preachers, teachers…
Outline: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. Psalms 1-50, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church and demonstrate the continuing intellectual and pract…
Outline: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. 2 Samuel, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church and demonstrate the continuing intellectual and practica…
Outline: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. 1 Samuel, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church - providing a rich resource for preachers, teachers, stu…
Outline: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places. Genesis, like each commentary in the series, is designed to serve the church - providing a rich resource for preachers, teachers, stud…
Outline: The Pentecostal Manifestos series aims to speak for and to a rising, outward-looking generation of Pentecostal scholarship. Written by both established and newly emerging scholars, the various "manifestos" volumes are to be creative statements, marked by rigorous theological scholarship, reflecting a distinctly Pentecostal engagement with wider themes and concerns in Christian thought…
Outline: The reader brings together key extracts from Polkinghorne's hugely influential writings on core issues such as - the nature of science - creation - the physical world - human nature - love - evil - theology - Jesus - the resurrection - the Trinity - prayer and miracle - providence - time - eschatology - world faiths It will be warmly welcomed by all who are new to Polk…
Outline: Christians affirm that everything exists because of God - from subatomic quarks to black holes. Science often claims to explain nature without including God in the picture at all. In this book, the authors show how it is possible to embrace both views, explaining how God cares for and interacts with his creation, while science offers a reliable way to understand the world he made. T…
Outline: "Atheism deserves better than the new atheists," states Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, "whose methodology consists of criticizing religion without understanding it; quoting texts without contexts; taking exceptions as the rule; confusing folk belief with reflective theology; abusing, ridiculing, and demonizing religious faith and holding it responsible for the great crimes against humanity. R…
Outline: As a theoritical physicist and Anglican priest, the author is uniquely positioned to be one of the world's leading authorities on issues of science and faith. In this compelling work, the author brings the analytical and rational perspective of a scientist to bear on the study of Scripture, providing a fresh, honest look at key themes of the Bible.
Outline: One of today's most controversial and heated issues is whether or not the conflict between science and religion can be reconciled. In this book renowned philosophers Daniel C. Dennett and Alvin Plantinga expand upon the arguments that they presented in an exciting live debate held at the 2009 American Philosophical Association Central Division conference. An enlightening discussion …
Outline: In this book particle physicist the author introduces readers to the mysteries of modern physics and astronomy, including the laws of nature, quantum physics, fine-tuning and current cosmological models. He shows that, despite the remakable achievements of science, the latest reserch in these fields does not lead to simple physicalism. Far from ruling out a divine Creator, modern phy…
Outline: What might be described as a Pentecostal worldview has become a powerful cultural phenomenon, but it is often at odds with modernity and globalization. This book confronts questions of spirituality in the face of contemporary science. The essays in this volume illustrate how Pentecostalism can usefully engage with technology and scientific discovery and consider what might be distin…
Outline: In the debate between science and religion, emotions run high, fuelled by polemical bestsellers like The God Delusion and, at the other end of the spectrum, high-profile campaigns to teach 'Intelligent Design' in schools. Yet there is much more to the debate than the clash of these extremes. As the author shows in this balanced and thought-provoking introduction, many have seen harmo…
Outline: Many Christians are torn between their belief in the Bible and the conclusions of science. Physicist Richard Carlson and biblical scholar Tremper Longman address the longstanding problem of how to relate scientific description of the beginnings of the universe with the biblical creation passages found in Genesis chapters 1 and 2. Experts in their respective fields, these two authors …
Outline: Perhaps no topic appears as potentially threatening to evangelicals as evolution. The very idea seems to exclude God from creation. Yet many evangelicals have come to accept the conclusions of science while still holding to a vigorous belief in God and the Bible. How did they make this journey? How did they come to embrace both evolution and faith. Here are stories from a communit…
Outline: Theologian Harry Lee Poe and chemist Jimmy H. Davis begin by exploring together how the God of the Bible and the physical universe interact. They then turn to explore the question. What kind of universe do we live in? In particular they identify many ways that the universe, including human history itself, is constituted to allow for divine interaction with it.
Outline: The author takes a scientist's reading of this ancient text as a centrepiece to make the case for science as deeply human and ancient activity. Drawing on stories from the modern science of chaos and uncertainty alongside medieval, classical and Biblical sources, he challenges the current "science and religion" debate as operating with the wrong assumptions and in the wrong space. T…
Outline: What does it mean for the Christian doctrine of the Fall if there was no historical Adam? If humanity emerged from nonhuman primates - as genetic, biological, and archaeological evidence seems to suggest - then what are the implications for a Christian understanding of human origins, including the origin of sin? This book gathers a multidisciplinary, ecumenical team of scholars to a…
Outline: Get answers to the difficult questions surrounding faith and science. - Adam and Eve - The Age of the Earth - Climate Change - Evolution - Fossil Record - Genesis Flood - Miracles - Cosmology - Bing Bang Theory - Bioethics - Darwinism Death - Extraterrestrial Life - Multiverse - String Theory - and much, much more What is the relationship between Christianity and science? How does …
Outline: The relationship between science and religion (SR) has often been portrayed as combative. However, the interface of the two discipline is complex and nuanced, and they have much to learn from each other. This book welcomes readers to the SR dialogue. This helpful introductory work is simultaneously an encyclopedia, an annotated bibliography, and a survey. The book's stalwart adviso…
Outline: This book explores the interplay between chance and providence in the monotheistic religious traditions, looking at how their interaction has been conceptualized as our understanding of the workings of nature has changed. This lively historical conversation has generated intense ongoing theological debates, and provocative response from science: what are we to make of the history of o…
Outline: The Church and Postmodern Culture series features high-profile theorists in continental philosophy and contemporary theology writing for a broad, nonspecialist audience interested in the impact of postmodern theory on the faith and practice of the church. Many in the church who are wrestling with ministry in a postmodern era view deconstruction as a negative aspect of the postmodern …
Outline: That the author is the most significant contemporary European philosopher cannot be doubted. He has yet to be completely understood and his place in the framework of European thought has still to be evaluated. His concern with the Being of being is a reflection of his deep longing to understand demands rejection of such definition as rational, economic, or pragmatic. That the author'…
Outline: The main topics covered are 'the great commandment', the synagogue and its function, the parable, the Sabbath, divorce and forgiveness. These topics differ not only in subject matter, but also in the type comparison offered - legal, historical, literary, theological and even contrasting themes. Reading the texts will produce questions for dialogue - some suggested questions for discu…
Outline: As in other volumes of the Cambridge Bible Commentary, there are introductions to the books dealt with, followed by the text of the New English Bible divided into sections. Each section of the text is followed by the commentary upon it. The preaching of the prophets Hagai and Zechariah gave a new impetus to the life of the 'remnant' of the Jewish people returned from the Babylonian …
Outline: The plan of this volume of commentary on the New English Bible text of three Old Testament books follows the pattern established by the New Testament series of Cambridge Bible Commentaries on the New English Bible. The main divisions of the text are those provided by the New English Bible itself. The text is further subdivided for the purposes of the commentary, which is printed in s…
Outline: The prophet Ezekiel in exile from the land of Judah came to see the reason for his country's downfall, and prophesied its eventual restoration with the revival of faith and more responsibility. This visionary book is often difficult to understand. The author's commentary makes is meaning available to the modern reader, particularly by explaining the historical context. When so expl…
Outline: The five Old Testament books dealt with this volume of the Commentary occupied a special place in Hebrew tradition as selected readings for major festivals and were accordingly brought together in Hebrew manuscripts to form a group of five scrolls. The books of The Five Scrolls vary greatly: debate about their holiness and authority is recorded from the second century A.D. onwards, an…
Outline: The Chronicles, divided into two books purely for convenience, have long suffered from neglect; this is partly because much of their content can be found elsewhere in the Old Testament and partly because their presentation, emphasizing genealogies and ritual ceremonies, has lacked appeal for modern man over the last few hundred years. Yet these books, with their theological interpret…
Outline: This series of commentaries of the New English Bible is designed for use in schools and colleges for the minister and the layman. Each volume comments on one book, or a few short books, of the Bible and in each the text is given in full. Sections of text and commentary alternate, so that the reader does not have to keep two books open, or turn from one part of the book to the other,…
Outline: The Cambridge Bible Commentary gives the full text in the NEB version, with a lucid untechnical commentary designed for students in schools and colleges, for ministers of religion, and laymen generally. The volume is meant to be read as an uninterrupted unity, with introductory sections leading straight into the text, which is itself interwoven with the commentary. The central theme…
Outline: The author's volume, like the others in the series, contains the text in the NEB translation, with introductory material preceding it, and a commentary directly following each section of text. The author explains the nature and function of the whole book, its place in Jewish religious history and thought, and among the Old Testament books, and its continuing relevance today.