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The challenge of Jesus' parables.
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ISBN: 0802846386 9780802846389 Year: 2009 Publisher: Grand Rapids (Mich.) Eerdmans


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Variations on the messianic theme
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ISBN: 1618110632 9781618110633 9781934843475 1934843474 Year: 2009 Publisher: Brighton, MA Academic Studies Press

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Over fifty years after the Holocaust, Marion Wyse explores interfaith dialogue between the Jewish and Christian communities and attempts to evaluate what goals these communities have reached and where they now stand. While many painful issues have been addressed and Jews and Christians in dialogue have achieved a solid respect for each other, the basic disagreement over the Christian designation of Jesus as the Jewish messiah still stands. Theologians have suggested varying approaches but none convince both parties. This work employs William James' radical empirical method to show that the original Jewish messianic concept, the Christian shift, and the Jewish repudiation of the shift, can each be seen as valid faith variants.


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Jesus Christ today : studies of Christology in various contexts : proceedings of the Académie internationale des sciences religieuses, Oxford 25-29 August 2006 and Princeton 25-30 August 2007.
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ISBN: 9783110209594 3110209594 Year: 2009 Volume: 146 Publisher: Berlin de Gruyter

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Jesus of Nazareth is a perennial subject of interest, and one of the most influential people that ever lived. The religious movement which flowed from him produced the Christian Church in all its various manifestations. Christian believers have in common a regard for Jesus as Lord and God, in some way a bodily appearance revealing the Father of the universe. Christian thinkers down the centuries have continually tried to define and explain who Jesus was and is. This book draws together some of the best modern thinking about the biblical evidence, the beliefs of the first few centuries when “orthodoxy” was being defined, the past two centuries when churchmen have responded to the challenge of modern rationalism, and some of the reactions to Jesus in the world-wide spread of modern Christianity and in Islam. It concludes with an attempt at a simple formula which might provoke and sustain faith in Jesus Christ in the most recent intellectual environment.


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Geography and the Ascension narrative in Acts
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ISBN: 9780521509626 9780511635540 9781107628311 0511632940 9780511632945 9780511635090 0511635095 0521509629 0511635540 0511699824 1107205964 1107628318 1282336665 9786612336669 0511631731 051163465X 0511634145 Year: 2009 Volume: 146 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The book of Acts contains a strong geographical component. Yet readings of Acts typically ignore or marginalise geography's contribution to the construction of the narrative's theology. In this book Matthew Sleeman argues that Jesus' ascension into heaven is foundational for establishing the 'spatiality' of Acts, showing that the narrative's understanding of place and space is shaped decisively by Christ's heavenly location. Drawing on recent advances in geographical theory, Sleeman offers a 'spatial' interpretation that expands our vision of how space and place inform the theological impulses of Acts. Presenting a complement to conventional 'temporal' readings of Acts, he sheds new light on the theology of the book, and suggests new ways of reading not only Acts but also other New Testament texts. Sleeman's work combines innovative biblical scholarship with accessible and informative geographical analysis, and is suitable for those with research and teaching interests in human geography or biblical studies.


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Key events in the life of the historical Jesus : a collaborative exploration of context and coherence
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ISBN: 9783161501449 3161501446 Year: 2009 Volume: 247 Publisher: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck


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Alternative Christs.
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ISBN: 9781107651890 9780521889025 0521889022 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge university press


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Jesus and philosophy : new essays
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ISBN: 9780521873369 9780521694865 9780511809408 0521873363 0521694868 9780511438509 0511438508 0511809409 1107197961 9781107197961 1281903752 9781281903754 9786611903756 6611903755 0511436386 9780511436383 0511437838 9780511437830 0511435584 9780511435584 0511437161 9780511437168 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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What, if anything, does Jesus of Nazareth have to do with philosophy? This question motivates this collection of essays from leading theologians, philosophers, and biblical scholars. Part I portrays Jesus in his first-century intellectual and historical context, attending to intellectual influences and contributions and contemporaneous similar patterns of thought. Part II examines how Jesus influenced two of the most prominent medieval philosophers. It considers the seeming conceptual shift from Hebraic categories of thought to distinctively Greco-Roman ones in later Christian philosophers. Part III considers the significance of Jesus for some prominent contemporary philosophical topics, including epistemology and the meaning of life. The focus is not so much on how 'Christianity' figures in such topics as on how Jesus makes distinctive contributions to them.


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Socrates and Jesus : the argument that shaped Western civilization
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ISBN: 0875867316 9780875867311 0875867294 9780875867298 0875867308 9780875867304 9780875867298 9780875867304 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York : Algora Pub.,

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This book argues that the uniquely dynamic and propulsive character of Western Civilization, for better and worse, has been generated by a creative argument between the Socratic Greek rationalist tradition and the Judeo?Christian tradition best personified by Jesus.

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