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paperbackPermission to Be Black
My Journey with Jay-Z and Jesus
by A. D. "Lumkile" Thomason
Embracing your Christian identity does not make you "soft." Embracing your Black identity does not make you less Christian.
Throughout American history, Black people were not given the freedom to acknowledge their suffering. A. D. Thomason believes that the Holy Spirit brings freedom and liberation as we're able to name our pain, recognize its roots in history and society, ...
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paperbackThe Challenge of Jesus
Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is
The IVP Signature Collection
by N. T. Wright
In the midst of many well-publicized and controversial books on Jesus, N. T. Wright's lectures and writings have been widely recognized for providing a fresh, provocative, and credible portrait. Originally published in 1999 and with a new introduction in 2015, The Challenge of Jesus presents an accessible introduction to the "quest for the historical Jesus" and why it matters ...
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paperbackJesus the Messiah
A Survey of the Life of Christ
by Robert H. Stein
In this accessible introduction to Jesus Christ, Robert Stein draws together the results of a career of research and writing on Jesus and the Gospels. Now in paperback, this classic textbook treats every episode in the life of Jesus with historical care and attention to its significance for understanding the life and ministry of Jesus. Clearly written, ably argued, and geared to the needs of students, ...
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caseboundRediscovering Jesus
An Introduction to Biblical, Religious and Cultural Perspectives on Christ
by David B. Capes, Rodney Reeves, and E. Randolph Richards
Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention
One of Nijay Gupta's Best Academic New Testament Books
Who is your Jesus? Matthew's teacher? John's Word made flesh? Hebrews' great high priest? What if it turned out that your Jesus is a composite of your favorite selections from the New Testament buffet, garnished with some Hollywood and Americana?
Rediscovering ...
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paperbackJesus Behaving Badly
The Puzzling Paradoxes of the Man from Galilee
by Mark L. Strauss
Everybody likes Jesus. Don't they? We overlook that Jesus was
- Judgmental—preaching hellfire far more than the apostle Paul
- Uncompromising—telling people to hate their families
- Chauvinistic—excluding women from leadership
- Racist—insulting people from other ethnic groups
- Anti-environmental—cursing a fig tree and affirming animal sacrifice
- Angry—overturning ...
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paperbackThe Historical Jesus
Five Views
Spectrum Multiview Book Series
Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul R. Eddy
Contributions by Robert M. Price, John Dominic Crossan, Luke Timothy Johnson, James D. G. Dunn, and Darrell L. BockChristianity Today Book Award winner
The scholarly quest for the historical Jesus has a distinguished pedigree in modern Western religious and historical scholarship, with names such as Strauss, Schweitzer and Bultmann highlighting the story. Since the early 1990s, when the Jesus quest was reawakened for a third run, numerous significant books have ...
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paperbackThe 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, ...
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paperbackFabricating Jesus
How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels
by Craig A. Evans
Modern historical study of the Gospels seems to give us a new portrait of Jesus every spring--just in time for Easter. The more unusual the portrait, the more it departs from the traditional view of Jesus, the more attention it gets in the popular media. Why are scholars so prone to fabricate a new Jesus? Why is the public so eager to accept such claims without question? What methods and assumptions ...
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paperbackHard Sayings of Jesus
The Hard Sayings Series
by F. F. Bruce
Like his original hearers many people today find Jesus' sayings hard. Some sayings are hard because they are difficult to understand, others because the demands they make on us are only too clear.
F. F. Bruce examines seventy of the hard sayings of Jesus to clear away the cultural and historical difficulties which keep us from grappling with the real challenge of Jesus' message. Evident ...
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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 ...
