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PaperbackJesus and the Restoration of Israel
A Critical Assessment of N. T. Wright's Jesus the Victory of God
Edited by Carey C. Newman
N. T. Wright's Jesus and the Victory of God is widely heralded as one of the most significant and brilliantly argued works in the current "third quest" of the historical Jesus. In this second volume of his multivolume investigation entitled Christian Origins and the Question of God, Wright uncovers a Jesus that most historians and believers have never met.Rooted and engaged in the soil ...
PaperbackSpiritual Practices of Jesus
Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke's Earliest Readers
by Catherine J. Wright
Luke's Gospel was written to transform. In its original context, readers would have seen a portrait of Jesus as an ideal teacher and king, able to shape his people through exemplary leadership. They would have come to the Gospel expecting to be changed for God's purposes through the imitation of Jesus' lifestyle and adoption of his teaching. When today's readers approach the text ...
PaperbackThe Resurrection of Jesus
A New Historiographical Approach
by Michael R. Licona
The question of the historicity of Jesus' resurrection has been repeatedly probed, investigated and debated. And the results have varied widely. Perhaps some now regard this issue as the burned-over district of New Testament scholarship. Could there be any new and promising approach to this problem?Yes, answers Michael Licona. And he convincingly points us to a significant deficiency in approaching ...
PaperbackJesus Christ
Savior and Lord
Christian Foundations
by Donald G. Bloesch
- Voted one of Christianity Today's 1998 Books of the Year
With his customary encyclopedic reach and epigrammatic style, Donald Bloesch turns his attention to the hotly disputed, yet absolutely crucial, subject of the person and work of Jesus Christ. In Jesus Christ he draws on more than forty years of devoted study to bring much-needed clarity to the ongoing discussion ...
PaperbackJesus and the Rise of Early Christianity
A History of New Testament Times
by Paul W. Barnett
The pathway to understanding the New Testament leads through the vibrant landscape of the first-century Greco-Roman world. The New Testament is rooted in the concrete historical events of that world.In Jesus the Rise of Early Christianity Paul Barnett not only places the New Testament within that world of caesars and Herods, proconsuls and Pharisees, Sadducees and revolutionaries, but argues ...
HardbackDictionary of Jesus and the Gospels
The IVP Bible Dictionary Series
Edited by Joel B. Green, Jeannine Brown, and Nicholas Perrin
ECPA Christian Book Award Winner
Biblical Foundations Award Winner
Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference
An Essential Reference forStudying Jesus and the Gospels
Jesus has been described as sage, shaman, revolutionary, marginal Jew, Mediterranean peasant or a prophet ...
PaperbackCoffee with Jesus
by David Wilkie
One of Library Journal's Best Books
Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award Finalist
Midwest Publishing Association Honorable Mention
Thousands of people starteach day with a shot of Coffee with Jesus, the enormously popular online comic strip. Irreverent at times, yet always insightful, this volume ...
PaperbackThe Parables of Jesus
The Jesus Library
by David Wenham
Good news for the needy. Bad news for the power brokers. Jesus came into the world announcing a new order where Satan is overthrown and broken relationships are restored. Jesus' most vivid portraits of this new kingdom are found in the parables.
David Wenham explores the splendor and subtleties of Jesus' world-changing message, offering a nontechnical but comprehensive look at dozens of Jesus' ...
PaperbackJesus with Dirty Feet
A Down-to-Earth Look at Christianity for the Curious Skeptical
by Don Everts
Most folks think of Jesus
as the man who started Christianity.But it turns out
he wasn't just a man,
and he didn't just start Christianity.Most folks think of Jesus
as an other-worldly religious leader,
a great moral teacher,
or maybe they don't think of him at all.But he had dirty feet,
partied,
cooked breakfast
and got himself killed.Who was this guy?
PaperbackJesus the Miracle Worker
A Historical and Theological Study
by Graham H. Twelftree
"Jesus went throughout Galilee, teachingproclaimingand healing every disease and every sickness among the people." (Mt 4:23)
Few today doubt that Jesus was viewed by many of his contemporaries as a miracle worker. And many scholarstoday would agree that Jesus was a healer and an exorcist. But what does this mean? Was Jesus simply a master at relieving psychological distress, a healer ...
