This book features first-class biblical scholars who steep readers in the biblical texts about Jesus. These essays focus on the New Testament writers' various understanding of Jesus, their differin…
Life is for living, but there is also a dark side to life - the mocking specter of death that permeates every facet of human activity and invades every corner of our consciousness. But death is not…
Throughout the centuries Christians have sought to understand better the nature of the earliest features of the gospel message, for in that understanding lies the opportunity to make relevant the g…
These essays examine what the New Testament says about the subject of discipleship, highlight the features of both unity and diversity that appear throughout the New Testament, and suggest how Chri…
At one point in this great work, the author quotes another researcher, "it is doubtful whether we can hope to understand the contents of any mind whose presuppositions we have not yet learned to re…
The parables recorded in the gospels are central to an understanding of Jesus and his ministry, and their teachings form, in large part, the heart of the Christian gospel. Though commonly assumed t…
Does Sharp discontinuiety best characterize the development of Chrsitology in Jewish Christianity during the first Century? Neither, says the author, who contends that the newer evidence from the D…
This wide-ranging collection of essays on the church takes account of historical and sociological as well as theological factors. . . . Christians have always insisted that the church is God's new …
The Christian life cannot be fully understood or experienced without first grasping the importance of prayer. Yet prayer, as it is found in the Christian scriptures, has received limited attention …