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  • Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Edited by Mark J. Edwards
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    Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians

    Volume 8

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Mark J. Edwards
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    Paul's letters to the Galatians, Ephesians, and Philippians have struck an indelible impression on Christian tradition and piety. The doctrines of Christ, of salvation, and of the church all owe their profiles to these letters. And for patristic interpreters, who read Scripture as a single book and were charged with an insatiable curiosity regarding the mysteries of the Godhead, ...

  • Same-Sex Attraction and the Church: The Surprising Plausibility of the Celibate Life, By Ed Shaw
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    Same-Sex Attraction and the Church

    The Surprising Plausibility of the Celibate Life

    by Ed Shaw
    Foreword by Vaughan Roberts

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    When Christians have same-sex attraction, how should the church respond?

    Pastor Ed Shaw experiences same-sex ...

  • God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?, By David T. Lamb
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    God Behaving Badly

    Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?

    by David T. Lamb

    God has a bad reputation. Many think of God as wrathful and angry, smiting people right and left for no apparent reason. The Old Testament in particular seems at times to portray God as capricious and malevolent, wiping out armiesand nations, punishing enemies with extreme prejudice.

    But wait. The story is more complicated than that. Alongside troubling passages of God's punishment ...

  • The Jesus Quest: The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth, By Ben Witherington III
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    The Jesus Quest

    The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth

    by Ben Witherington III

    • Voted one of Christianity Today's 1996 Books of the Year

    In recent years Jesus' time, place and social setting have received renewed scholarly attention. New research on the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Jewish and Hellenistic texts has resulted in a surge of new images of Jesus and new ideas about his ministry. Dubbed the Third Quest for the historical Jesus, this recent ...

  • Luke: Historian & Theologian, By I. Howard Marshall
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    Luke: Historian & Theologian

    by I. Howard Marshall

    Apart from the apostle Paul, Luke is arguably the most influential force in the canon of the New Testament. His Gospel and Acts occupy almost a third of the New Testament, and together their narrative voice carries us over a span of more than sixty years, from the birth of Jesus to the imprisonment of Paul in Rome.It is difficult to imagine our understanding of the New Testament period without Luke's ...

  • The Singer Trilogy: The Mythic Retelling of the Story of the New Testament, By Calvin Miller
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    The Singer Trilogy

    The Mythic Retelling of the Story of the New Testament

    by Calvin Miller

    "... I found in a university bookstore a trilogy of books that impacted my life so deeply that—twenty-five years later—I find myself still quoting lines and discussing concepts of truth from them. Literature like The Singer Trilogy will live—like Milton's Paradise Lost and James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones. The Singer must never be allowed to be out of print. Every generation needs to read ...