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Review Of The Sacrifice Of Jesus: Understanding Atonement Biblically, James F. Mcgrath
Review Of The Sacrifice Of Jesus: Understanding Atonement Biblically, James F. Mcgrath
James F. McGrath
Article reviews the book "The Sacrifice of Jesus: Understanding Atonement Biblically," by Christian Eberhart.
What Has Coruscant To Do With Jerusalem? A Response And Reflections At The Crossroads Of Hebrew Bible And Science Fiction, James F. Mcgrath
What Has Coruscant To Do With Jerusalem? A Response And Reflections At The Crossroads Of Hebrew Bible And Science Fiction, James F. Mcgrath
James F. McGrath
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Review Of The Evolution Of Adam: What The Bible Does And Doesn’T Say About Human Origins, James F. Mcgrath
Review Of The Evolution Of Adam: What The Bible Does And Doesn’T Say About Human Origins, James F. Mcgrath
James F. McGrath
Article reviews the book "The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins," by Peter Enns.
Change In Christology: New Testament Models And The Contemporary Task, James F. Mcgrath
Change In Christology: New Testament Models And The Contemporary Task, James F. Mcgrath
James F. McGrath
The purpose of this paper is to review different models of development which have been suggested, and to suggest a way out of the impasse between the two major views which have predominated this field of study.
A Rebellious Son? Hugo Odeberg And The Interpretation Of John 5.18, James F. Mcgrath
A Rebellious Son? Hugo Odeberg And The Interpretation Of John 5.18, James F. Mcgrath
James F. McGrath
A solution to the difficult question of how to interpret John 5.18 appeared to have been provided with the publication of Hugo Odeberg's monumental work, The Fourth Gospel, published in 1929. Odeberg cited a rabbinic expression which characterized a rebellious son as one who 'makes himself equal with his father, and thus suggested that 'the Jews' are here making a similar accusation: they regard Jesus as rebelling against the divine authority. Subsequent scholarship for a long time cited Odeberg as a definitive demonstration of the background and meaning of John 5.18, and thus of the entire passage.
Going Up And Coming Down In Johannine Legitimation, James F. Mcgrath
Going Up And Coming Down In Johannine Legitimation, James F. Mcgrath
James F. McGrath
In his study of Johannine christology Wayne Meeks stressed the importance of understanding the ascent·descent schema in any attempt to understand this christology or explain its origin. The work of sociologists Berger and Luckmann on legitimation has the potential to shed light on an ear her stage in this development. Key passages in John show that ascent-descent language is linked to the motifs of the Son of man and wisdom, and suggest that John has developed these two traditional aspects of christology in response to objections and conflict over Jesus' qualifications to be the revealer, and his relationship to God …