Overholt shows the usefulness of cultural anthropology to enhance our understanding of ancient Israelite society and to shed light on some puzzling features of Old Testament stories, especially in the Elijah and Elisha cycles.
This book is a work of systematic theology that provides a fresh interpretation of Aquinas on the nature of theology, and uncovers and explores theological affinities between Aquinas and Protestant theologian Karl Barth.
How can we get beyond perceived barriers and find in the Old Testament the speech of God for today? What do we do with the battles, the worldview, the wonders and wrath of God? Holladay offers clear guidance for these and a host of other questions and topics in this most useful book which functions as an innovative introduction to the Old ......
De Doctrina Christiana of Augustine in the Middle Ages
Augustine's ""De doctrina christiana"" has long been recognised as a significant work for understanding the balanced interaction between classical learning and Christianity, as a handbook for spiritual development, and as a guide to the homiletic and exegetical principles of preaching and sacred scripture. More recently, the work has also been ......
Aims to show the harm arising from the huge explosion of the Christian Right. The author demonstrates how the indoctrination received in these churches undermines the mental health of individuals, causing widespread suffering. He also shows how this indoctrination makes bible-believers into unwitting supporters of far-right political causes.
An accomplished biblical scholar here juxtaposes movies and New Testament themes to uncover the mythic dimensions of each and to explore the primary conflicts in American society. Brandon Scott's sage and savvy analysis of more than fifty recent popular American movies, from Dirty Harry to Robocop 2, from Pretty Woman to Thelma and Louise, ......
This volume presents the work of an early-Christian writer who did not write in either Greek or Latin. It is the first of two volumes that offers new English translations of selected prose works of St Ephrem the Syrian (c.AD 309-373). This first volume contains St Ephrem's "Commentary on Genesis", "Commentary on Exodus", "Homily on Our Lord" and ......
"Scripture" is no longer an absolute. In the last two centuries, as Westerners have become more keenly conscious of the flatly historical character of their own biblical documents, they have also realized the normative function of scripture in other traditions. W. C. Smith's vastly erudite work asks how it is that certain texts have so seeped ......
This is a translation of the first 20 distinctions of ""The Decretum"" or ""Concordance of Discardant Canons"", a compilation of extracts from Church councils, Church fathers and other ecclesiastical authorities, composed in the 12th century by Gratian, a Camaldolese monk. It offers a treatise on law.
