Outline: Popularly known as the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7 has been described as "the essence of Christianity" and inspired many commentaries. However, New Testament professor Charles Quarles believes a fair number of those volumes either present Christ's sermon as containing an impossible spiritual ethic or instead dilute its message so much that hardly any ethical challenge remains. Als…
Outline: The Bible tells us that Christ has three "offices" - those of Prophet, Priest, and King. Viewed alongside his humuliation and exaltation, they provide a fully rounded understanding of his work and insight into the ongoing roles of the church. In this biblical theology, Richard Belcher explores and defines the basic funcations of prophets, priests, and kings through an analysis of key O…
Outline: Christians instinctvely desire to be like Jesus. Yet evangelical and Reformed thinkers have done little to wed this desire to sound theology and responsible biblical interpretation. With careful attention to Luke's gospel, Jimmy Agan demonstrates that we can - and must - follow Christ's example precisely because we embrace him as Savior.
Outline: Was God telling the truth when he said, "you will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart"? In his #1 bestseller The Case for Christ, Lee Strobel examined the claims for Christ, reaching the hard-won verdict that Jesus is God's unique son. In The Case for Faith, Strobel turns his skills to the most persistent emotional objections to belief - the eight "heart barriers" …
Outline : According to the Christian faith, Jesus Christ is the ultimate revelation not only of the nature of God the Creator but also of how God the Creator relates to the created order. The New Testament explicitly relates the act of creation to the person of Jesus Christ - who is also a participant within creation, and who is said, by his acts of participation, to have secured creation's ult…
Outline: "Compels us to rethink what we thought we knew about the New Testament" David Moffitt challenges reductive views of the atonement and offers new perspectives on the saving significance of the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus in the New Testament.
Outline: Nineteen biblical scholars and theologians in this volume explore the notions of union and participation within Pauline theology, teasing out the complex web of meaning conveyed through Paul's theological vision of being "in Christ." With essays that investigate Pauline theology and exegesis, examine highlights from reception history, and offer deep theological reflection, this exempla…
Outline: What can we believe about - and how can we believe in - Jesus Christ in light of the Holocaust and other atrocities of the twentieth century and the drift from religion that followed? In his urgent and provocative new book, the author traces centuries of religious history and theology to face this core challenge to modern faith, and to rescue it for the secular age. The author's sea…
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Sit in the Courtroom as the Savior Testifies
Witness the disturbing display of events as Jesus stands against His detractors and the unbridled might of the Roman Empire. In this unsparing up-close account, you will experience the greatest injustice in history - the trial and punishment of Jesus of Nazareth - and gain a fresh appreciation for the enormity of the stakes.
His innocen…
Outline: The church in America has been willingly taken captive. The captors are American culture and ideals: consumerism, pragmatism, self-sufficiency, individualism, positive thinking, personal prosperity, and nationalism. These are antithetical to the gospel, but we have neverthelss made them part and parcel with it. We are well on our way to a Christless Christianity. The result? The f…
Outline: With the expertise of a veteran biblical scholar and the wisdom of a seasoned pastor, the author skillfully guides us on Jesus' journey from the Last Supper to the cross. Through the lens of the Old Testament, the author navigates the Gospel accounts of events that include the meal in the upper room, Peter's denials, the taunts and jeers of soldiers and bystanders, and the anguish of…
Outline: Theologian Bruce Ware takes us back to the biblical text, where we meet a profoundly human Jesus who faced many of the same difficulties and limitations we experience today. The author explores the significance of Christ's humanity and helps us learn, by the power of the Spirit, to follow in Jesus's steps.
Outline: The late Thomas F. Torrance has been called "the greatest Reformed theologian since Karl Barth" and "the greatest British theologian of the twentieth century" by prominent voices in the church and academy. In this book, the author presents a full account of the meaning and significance of the life and person of Jesus Christ, demonstrating that his work of revelation and reconciliatio…
Outline: This book provides a critical reading of the history of major atonement theories, offering an in-depth analysis of the legal and political contexts within which they arose. The book engages the latest work in atonement theory and serves as a helpful resource for contemporary discussions.
Outline: How did early Christians remember Jesus - and how did they develop their own Christian identities and communities? In this revelatory book, the author explores how transgression contributed to early Christian identity in the Gospels, Acts, Letters of Paul, and Revelation. Examining Jesus as a friend of sinners, challenger of purity laws, transgressor of conventional masculine values…
Outline: In this captivating book - which been comparison with Frank Morison's classic Who Moved the Stone? - the author offers an enthusiastically detailed examination of the life and death of Jesus. Pairing modern and historical investigation with the of result of current archaeological and anthropological discoveries, this book presents a startling vision of the Christ of faith through the…
Outline: In this cutting-edge collection of essays, an extraordinary and diverse group of biblical scholars, theologians, and ethicists from around the world explore the breadth and depth of what the humanity of Christ means for twenty-first-century Christians. Contributors Marcia J. Bunge, Sarah Coakley, Thomas W. Gillespie, Paul D. Hanson, John F. Hoffmeyer, Catherine Keller, Peter Lampe, Pa…
Overview: This book is the first chronicle of this quest from its beginnings to the present day. It described the different - yet amazingly similar - Jesuses that have emerged over the past 300 years: Jesus the deist rationalist of the 18th-century English coffee houses; Jesus the Hegelian synthesizer of Judaism and Hellenism of the early 19th century; Jesus the mythologized moralist of David …
Outline: This momentous book argues that the four Gospels are closely based on the eyewitness testimony of those who personally knew Jesus. Noted New Testament scholar the author challenges the prevailing assumption that the accounts of Jesus circulated as "anonymous community traditions," asserting instead that they were transmitted in the names of the original eyewitnesses. To drive home this…
Outline: This book makes a plea for us to recover the original gospel as "good news", which is still news and still fresh. This book succinctly an without pretense demonstrates that the gospel is defined by the apostles in 1 Corinthians 15 as the completion of the story of Israel in the saving story of Jesus. The author shows us that the gospel was preached by Jesus, and that the sermons in the…
Outline: The author's book is one of these books. When it was first published in 1988, few could predict that this volume would touch off a firestorm. Ironic, indeed, given the simple question on which it is based: What does Jesus mean when he says, "Follow me"? The answer - as MacArthur wrote - may not be what you think. The author tackes the error of easy-believism. Is it possible to acc…
Overview: Leading Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author argues that the church has lost touch with the revolutionary nature of the cross. Most christians have been taught a reduced message that the death of Jesus was all about "God saves me from my 'sin' so that I could 'go to heaven'." According to the author, this version misconstrues why Jesus has to die, the nature of ou…
Overview: In this book, the author provides real answers to twenty-eight theological objections. The author treats these objections seriously and fairly, building answers from the often suprising teachings in Rabbinic literature and the Hebrew Scriptures. As the author's answers progressively reveal, belief in Yeshua - Jesus - is not something alien to Jewish tradition but is profoundly roote…
Correcting misconceptions about Mosaic Law in Jesus' time, this title addresses the teachings of Jesus on major legal topics like divorce, oaths, the Sabbath, purity rules, and the various love commandments in the Gospels.
Correcting misconceptions about Mosaic Law in Jesus' time, this title addresses the teachings of Jesus on major legal topics like divorce, oaths, the Sabbath, purity rules, and the various love commandments in the Gospels.
Correcting misconceptions about Mosaic Law in Jesus' time, this title addresses the teachings of Jesus on major legal topics like divorce, oaths, the Sabbath, purity rules, and the various love commandments in the Gospels.