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  • Faithful Antiracism: Moving Past Talk to Systemic Change, By Christina Barland Edmondson and Chad Brennan
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    Faithful Antiracism

    Moving Past Talk to Systemic Change

    by Christina Edmondson and Chad Brennan
    Foreword by Korie Little Edwards and Michael O. Emerson

    Reader's Choice Award Winner

    It's time to move past talk. It's no longer news to most of us that our society has a deep-seated racism problem. Christians of all ethnic and economic backgrounds are tired of seeing the ugly legacy of racism play out before their eyes and feeling ill-equipped to respond. They watch as friends and family members leave the visible ...

  • Job, Edited by Manlio Simonetti and Marco Conti
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    Job

    Volume 6

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Manlio Simonetti and Marco Conti
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    The book of Job presents its readers with a profound drama concerning innocent suffering. Such honest, forthright wrestling with the problem of evil and the silence of God has intrigued a wide gamut of readers both religious and nonreligious.

    Surprisingly, the earliest church fathers showed little interest in the book of Job. Not until Origen in the early third century is ...

  • Ezekiel, Daniel, Edited by Kenneth Stevenson and Michael Glerup
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    Ezekiel, Daniel

    Volume 13

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Kenneth Stevenson and Michael Glerup
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    The books of Ezekiel and Daniel are rich in imagery that is taken up afresh in the New Testament. Echoes of Ezekiel—with its words of doom and hope, vision of a new temple, and scroll-eating prophet—are especially apparent in thebook of Revelation. Daniel is most notable in supplying terminology and imagery for Jesus of Nazareth's favored self-description as "Son of man," a phrase ...

  • Matthew, Edited by Jason K. Lee and William M. Marsh
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    Matthew

    New Testament Volume 1

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Jason K. Lee and William M. Marsh

    "As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, 'Take, eat; this is my body.'"

    How should one interpret these words of Jesus?

    The sixteenth-century Reformers turned to Scripture to find the truth of God's Word, but that doesn't mean they always agreed on how to interpret it. For example, when approaching ...

  • Hebrews, Edited by Erik M. Heen and Philip D. W. Krey
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    Hebrews

    Volume 10

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Erik M. Heen and Philip D. W. Krey
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    Distinctive in form, content, and style, the epistle to the Hebrews offers a profound high Christology and makes an awe-inspiring contribution to our understanding of Jesus as our High Priest. The earliest extant commentary on theletter comes to us in thirty-four homilies from John Chrysostom. These homilies serve to anchor the excerpts chosen by the editors of this volume because ...