Two times govern Paul's thought world: the death and resurrection of Jesus, marking the origin of the believer's life; and Christ's return or parousia, culminating God's purposes with this world. Between these two times Paul is concerned about how believers behave-how they walk. J. Paul Sampley provides a guidebook for all who want to understand ......
"This is a fascinating study which confirms that there is as much support in the Fathers as in heterodox sources - though different! - for the idea of a suffering God." - Louis Dupre, Yale University "Joseph Hallman here makes a significant contribution to the perennial theological dilemma, how can an unchanging God relate to a changing ......
Did Israelite Jewish apocalyptic literature originate among alienated or disenfranchised groups? In this overview of apocalypticism in the Hebrew Bible, Stephen Cook contends that such thinking and writing stems from priestly groups that held power.
Intended for couples about to be married, this book offers a sound, practical approach to such topics and concerns as expectations, decision-making, intimacy, friendship, communication, conflict, children, and looking to the future. Questions for discussion and reflection are included for each chapter.
Many of us would like to know more about the Bible, but don't know where to begin. A Beginner's Guide to Reading the Bible is a concise introduction that assumes no previous acquaintance with Scripture. The author provides an overview of the content of the Bible, a look at the kinds of literature it contains, describes how the Old and New ......
Before starting to read one of the 66 books in the Bible, it is helpful to have an overview of the book. A Beginner's Guide to the Books of the Bible provides accurate, concise, and easy-to-understand introductions to each of the 39 books of the Old Testament and 27 books of the New Testament. Each description discusses the book's purpose, ......
A study of global food security that is focused at the household level. Filled with dozens of revealing figures, charts, and tables, including a food security index that ranks developing countries in terms of their vulverability to hunger, it provides a basic introduction to issues of food security.
An introduction to the theory and practice of internal evaluation, the process by which staff members evaluate programmes or problems of direct relevance to an organization's management. The author defines the role and skills of internal evaluators, the unique characteristics of evaluation within an organizational context, and explains how to bridge the gap between evaluators and managers. How to identify the user's needs and select appropriate evaluation methods, the stages of internal evaluation growth and the techniques required at each stage and developing and managing the internal evaluation resource are all described in detail.
The authors describe, illustrate and discuss the problem of substance abuse, current theory and research in causes and risk factors and alternative intervention approaches. These issues span topics of epidemiology, treatment, prevention, programme planning and evaluation. Particularly noteworthy is the material on the evaluation of intervention programmes and the dissemination of these programmes outside the research function. This text should be of interest to professionals. researchers and students in clinical psychology, child and adolescent psychology, social work, nursing and evaluation methods.
