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Will And Grace: The Essence Of The Pelagian Debate, Steve Curtis Sep 2016

Will And Grace: The Essence Of The Pelagian Debate, Steve Curtis

Steve Curtis

The early centuries of the Christian church saw a number of clarifying councils and theological treatises directed at objective doctrines such as the triunity of God and the hypostatic nature of Christ. By the late fourth century, the discussions were becoming more subjective: to what extent does man possess a free will? What is the cause of sin? What are the theological implications involved in salvation, and to what extent does the grace of God hold sway? Such questions naturally led back to the very beginning of time and to the nature of Adam and the consequence of his sin …


How Jesus Became God: One Scholar’S View, James F. Mcgrath Jul 2016

How Jesus Became God: One Scholar’S View, James F. Mcgrath

James F. McGrath

Dr. James McGrath's brief analysis of early Christology. Originally presented as a seminar paper at the University of Michigan, March 19, 2015.


Forward To The Son Of God: Three Views Of The Identity Of Jesus, James F. Mcgrath May 2016

Forward To The Son Of God: Three Views Of The Identity Of Jesus, James F. Mcgrath

James F. McGrath

James McGrath's Forward to: The Son of God: Three Views of the Identity of Jesus, by Charles Lee Irons, Danny Andre Dixon, and Dustin R. Smith. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2015.


Three Skeptics And The Bible: La Peyrère, Hobbes, Spinoza, And The Reception Of Modern Biblical Criticism, Jeffrey Morrow Dec 2015

Three Skeptics And The Bible: La Peyrère, Hobbes, Spinoza, And The Reception Of Modern Biblical Criticism, Jeffrey Morrow

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.

Biblical scholars by and large remain unaware of the history of their own discipline. This present volume seeks to remedy that situation by exploring the early history of modern biblical criticism in the seventeenth century prior to the time of the Enlightenment when the birth of modern biblical criticism is usually dated. After surveying the earlier medieval origins of modern biblical criticism, the essays in this book focus on the more skeptical works of Isaac La Peyrère, Thomas Hobbes, and Baruch Spinoza, whose biblical interpretation laid the foundation for what would emerge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as modern …


“Dei Verbum In Light Of The History Of Catholic Biblical Interpretation.”, Jeffrey Morrow Dec 2015

“Dei Verbum In Light Of The History Of Catholic Biblical Interpretation.”, Jeffrey Morrow

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.


Review Of One True Life: The Stoics And Early Christians As Rival Traditions, By C. Kavin Rowe, Jeffrey Morrow Dec 2015

Review Of One True Life: The Stoics And Early Christians As Rival Traditions, By C. Kavin Rowe, Jeffrey Morrow

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.


Review Of The Book Of Exodus: Composition, Reception, And Interpretation, Ed. Thomas B. Dozeman, Craig A. Evans, And Joel N. Lohr, Jeffrey Morrow Dec 2015

Review Of The Book Of Exodus: Composition, Reception, And Interpretation, Ed. Thomas B. Dozeman, Craig A. Evans, And Joel N. Lohr, Jeffrey Morrow

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.


Review Of Reading Matthew With Monks: Liturgical Interpretation In Anglo-Saxon England, By Derek A. Olsen, Jeffrey Morrow Dec 2015

Review Of Reading Matthew With Monks: Liturgical Interpretation In Anglo-Saxon England, By Derek A. Olsen, Jeffrey Morrow

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.


“Averroism, Nominalism, And Mechanization: Hahn And Wiker’S Unmasking Of Historical Criticism’S Political Agenda By Laying Bare Its Philosophical Roots.”, Jeffrey Morrow Dec 2015

“Averroism, Nominalism, And Mechanization: Hahn And Wiker’S Unmasking Of Historical Criticism’S Political Agenda By Laying Bare Its Philosophical Roots.”, Jeffrey Morrow

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.


“Babylon In Paris: Alfred Loisy As Assyriologist.”, Jeffrey Morrow Dec 2015

“Babylon In Paris: Alfred Loisy As Assyriologist.”, Jeffrey Morrow

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.


Review Of The Rediscovery Of Jewish Christianity: From Toland To Baur, Ed. F. Stanley Jones, Jeffrey Morrow Dec 2015

Review Of The Rediscovery Of Jewish Christianity: From Toland To Baur, Ed. F. Stanley Jones, Jeffrey Morrow

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.


Review Of Isaac On Jewish And Christian Altars: Polemic And Exegesis In Rashi And The Glossa Ordinaria, By Devorah Schoenfield, Jeffrey Morrow Dec 2015

Review Of Isaac On Jewish And Christian Altars: Polemic And Exegesis In Rashi And The Glossa Ordinaria, By Devorah Schoenfield, Jeffrey Morrow

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.