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Atonement In Hosea And The Prodigal Son: Relationality As Personhood And The Being Of God, Steve Sherwood
Atonement In Hosea And The Prodigal Son: Relationality As Personhood And The Being Of God, Steve Sherwood
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
Excerpt from Introduction: "My project will provide a survey of traditional atonement metaphors, with a particular emphasis upon contrasting penal substitution with a covenantal relational understanding of the atonement, and will then posit that a covenantal relational approach is ideal for resonance with a postmodern audience.
I will seek to determine whether any single biblical metaphor or cluster of metaphors provides an interpretive matrix for all discussion of the atonement in a way that is both biblically faithful and conceptually accessible to a postmodern world. I contend that atonement discussions in typical evangelical contexts may be both biblically insufficient and …
Beyond The Shade Of The Oak Tree: The Recent Growth Of Johannine Studies, Paul N. Anderson
Beyond The Shade Of The Oak Tree: The Recent Growth Of Johannine Studies, Paul N. Anderson
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
The recent growth within Johannine studies has developed as a result of several factors. First, the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls led to an appreciation of the Jewishness of John’s origin. Second, new approaches to John’s composition have emerged, followed by a larger set of inquiries as to the Johannine tradition’s relation to parallel traditions. This has been accompanied by a fourth interest: the history of the Johannine situation. Fifth, new literary studies have posed new horizons for interpretation, and sixth, theories continue to abound on the identity of the Beloved Disciple. A seventh development involves new ways of …
Honest To John! A Response To The Reviews Of The Fourth Gospel And The Quest For Jesus, Paul N. Anderson
Honest To John! A Response To The Reviews Of The Fourth Gospel And The Quest For Jesus, Paul N. Anderson
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
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John And Qumran: Discovery And Interpretation Over Sixty Years, Paul N. Anderson
John And Qumran: Discovery And Interpretation Over Sixty Years, Paul N. Anderson
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
No abstract provided.