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Glimpses Of Jesus Through The Johannine Lens--An Introduction And Overview Of John, Jesus, And History, Vol. 3, Paul N. Anderson, Jaime Clark-Soles

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Illuminating The Social Conscience Of The Bible's Challenge To Forgive, Paul N. Anderson

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The Social Conscience Of The Saint John's Bible I -- The Invitation To Forgive, Today And Always, Paul N. Anderson

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The Bible is not a safe book. It confronts, disturbs and challenges as well as being comforting, instructive and convicting. As arguably the most impactful book in human history, the reason is that it continues to speak to contemporary audiences -- sometimes in ways that sometimes surprise us -- today and always.

Second Criticality— An Interdisciplinary Approach To The New Testament And Its Contexts, Paul N. Anderson

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In my just-released introduction to the New Testament published by Abingdon1 I find myself trying to make several contributions that make this something of a new and serviceable approach. First, I proceed in canonical order, dividing the book into three parts (the Gospels and Jesus, Acts and the writings of Paul, General Letters and Revelation) beginning each chapter with laying out from three to six crises or background issues that help the reader appreciate the contexts in which the twenty-seven books of the New Testament were written. Nearly sixty crises and contextual issues are outlined overall, and I feel this …

Philadelphia Methodism Walking Tour, Benjamin Hartley

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This is a 22-stop walking tour script of Philadelphia Methodism in collaboration with Palmer Theological Seminary students and staff persons at St. George's United Methodist Church, the oldest Methodist church building in the United States. The 22 stops are within 5 blocks of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. The stories told on the tour are inclusive of the histories of both the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the United Methodist Church as well as other Wesleyan groups which trace their origins to antecedent bodies of the UMC denomination. The walking tour contains a map of the 22 stops and pictures …

On Finding Jesus ... And Divorcing Mary Magdalene, Paul N. Anderson

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Judas -- Traitor Or Hero?, Paul N. Anderson

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I Didn't Know Jesus Was Lost, Paul N. Anderson

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Finding John The Baptist (And Jesus Too), Paul N. Anderson

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On Bone Boxes And The Brother Of Jesus, Paul N. Anderson

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The Quest For The True Cross Of Jesus, Paul N. Anderson

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Book Review: John D. Roth (Ed.), Constantine Revisited: Leithart, Yoder, And The Constantinian Debate. Reviewed By Travis Pickell., Travis Ryan Pickell

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Review of John D. Roth (ed.), Constantine Revisited: Leithart, Yoder, and the Constantinian Debate (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2013). xvi + 200 pp. ISBN 978-1- 61097-819-4

How are we to understand the historical and theological legacy of Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor? Some would say that his conversion signals the initiation of a ‘Constantinian shift’ in the church’s self-understanding, the adoption of a heretical Christendom mentality. This shift, marked by an unsavoury union of church and empire, ultimately meant that the church forsook the peaceful politics of Jesus and adopted the worldly politics of the sword. ‘Constantinianism’, thus …

Out Of Silence: Emerging Themes In Asian American Churches (Book Review), Sunggu Yang

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Fumitaka Matsuoka. Out of Silence: Emerging Themes in Asian American Churches. Wipf & Stock Pub., 2009. 178 pages. ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1606081617

The issue of cultural marginalization and forced retreat is one of the key focal points in Fumitaka Matsuoka’s Out of Silence: Emerging Themes in Asian American Churches. In that double cultural jeopardy, he points out, the Asian American church has served two functions for the people who are part of it. First, the church has been the reservoir of the original Asian cultural and linguistic heritage. In these churches the people celebrate their own culture and practice …

Hagiography, Sunggu Yang

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Jon Boorstin proposes three purposes for film production – voyeuristic, vicarious, and visceral (Boorstin). Scrutinized in light of Boorstin’s proposal, hagiographical films are most likely to have three purposes imbedded in three generic types: investigation, verification, and veneration. In most cases, hagiographical films make biblical references, either textually or visually, in order to maximize each type’s purpose.

Foreword To John's Gospel In New Perspective, Paul N. Anderson

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Over the last half century or more of Johannine scholarship, three issues have been of primary critical concern. One subject of interest has been the literary origin and composition of the Fourth Gospel. A second has been the application of new-literary analyses to the Johannine narrative, wherein the literary artistry and rhetorical design of the text is studied in order to discern how John’s message is conveyed in the interest of better understanding what is being said. A third area of interest has been a sustained interest in the Johannine situation, seeking to learn more about the history of Johannine …

"On Seeking The Truth (And Being Found By It) -- A Christocentric Double Search" (Chapter 11 Of Befriending Truth: Quaker Perspectives), Paul N. Anderson

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The Religious Society of Friends emerged in great synergy with "the Seekers" of Northwest England three-and-a-half centuries ago, and they still have a great deal to offer the seekers of the 21st Century. In a day and age where more and more young people are registering as "none" when it comes to their religious affiliation, there nonetheless abides a deep hunger for spiritual reality, which some religious institutions fail to deliver. Because a Quaker spirituality of education envisions the classroom as "a meeting for worship in which learning is welcome," the quest for truth is a part of all disciplines, …

Augustinianisms And Thomisms (Chapter Nine Of The Cambridge Companion To Political Theology), Eric Gregory, Joseph Clair

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Excerpt: "The standard linage of Augustine and Aquinas that emerges in twentieth-century textbooks of political philosophy is that of two fundamentally opposed theological approaches to the political. Augustine, in one corner, is the clear-eyed realist, convinced that political society is fallen, mired in the consequences of original sin and the contingent necessity to restrain evil, vice, and sin. Aquinas, in the other corner, is the more cheerful Aristotelian, who emphasizes the inherent goodness and naturalness of political society and its beneficial purposes for human flourishing.' These contrasting visions continue to animate diverse Christian understandings of the limits and possibilities of …

Political Affections: Civic Participation And Moral Theology. By Joshua Hordern. Reviewed By Travis Pickell., Travis Pickell

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Review of Political Affections: Civic Participation and Moral Theology. By JOSHUA HORDERN. Pp. 336. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2013. ISBN: 978-0-19-964681-4.

“Fire tends upwards, stone downwards. By their weight they are moved and seek their proper place ... My love is my weight: wherever I go my love is what brings me there” (Augustine, Confessions 13.9). Augustine long ago recognized that affections are an inescapable dimension of human existence. Why, then, have emotions and affections been so largely neglected, even opposed, in political philosophy? In Political Affections, Joshua Hordern, University Lecturer in Christian Ethics at the University of Oxford and …

The Rock Of The Church (Day Four Of "Seven Days With Pope Francis And The St. John's Bible"), Paul N. Anderson

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A meditation on the illumination Peter's Confession in the St. John's Bible

The Feeding Of The Multitudes (Day Five Of "Seven Days With Pope Francis And The St. John's Bible"), Paul N. Anderson

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A meditation on the illumination Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes in the St. John's Bible

The Healing Of The World (Day Six Of "Seven Days With Pope Francis And The St. John's Bible"), Paul N. Anderson

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A meditation on the illumination Two Cures in the St. John's Bible

The Outpouring Of The Spirit (Day Seven Of "Seven Days With Pope Francis And The St. John's Bible"), Paul N. Anderson

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A meditation on the illumination Pentecost in the St. John's Bible.

Seven Days With Pope Francis And The Saint John’S Bible, Paul N. Anderson

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Seven Days Of Illumination—The Mission Of Pope Francis And The Saint John’S Bible, Paul N. Anderson

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God's Promises To Abraham ... And The World (Day Two Of "Seven Days With Pope Francis And The St. John's Bible"), Paul N. Anderson

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A meditation on the illumination Abraham and Sarah in the St. John's Bible

The Creation Of The Cosmos (Day One Of "Seven Days With Pope Francis And The St. John's Bible"), Paul N. Anderson

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A meditation on the illumination Creation in the St. John's Bible

Commandments Of Love (Day Three Of "Seven Days With Pope Francis And The St. John's Bible"), Paul N. Anderson

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A meditation on the illumination The Ten Commandments in the St. John's Bible

The Social Conscience Of The Saint John's Bible Ii -- On Syrian Refugees And The Reversals Of Christmas, Paul N. Anderson

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The Embarrassing And Alluring Biblical Giant, Brian R. Doak

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Quakers And Scripture, Howard R. Macy

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This chapter explores how the Quakers’ use of the Bible has developed, recognizing changes both in the Friends movement and in its historical and cultural settings. Friends’ approaches to Scripture have varied widely as they have responded over time to the influences of the Enlightenment, revivalism, fundamentalism, Modernism, and other factors. The chapter describes how Quakers have viewed the authority and inspiration of the Bible and how they have held the importance of the Bible in tension with the inward teaching of Christ, whom they refer to as the ‘Word of God’. The chapter also contrasts various forms of Bible …