In this first of two volumes on the book of Genesis, John Gibson--Old Testament General Editor of the Daily Study Bible--offers a probing investigation of the first eleven chapters of Genesis. He provides a perceptive verse-by-verse and even word-by-word examination of the well-known Genesis stories of Creation, the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, Noah and the Flood, and the Tower of Babel. Carrying forward brilliantly the pattern established by Barclay's New Testament series, The Daily Study Bi...
Holiness in Israel (Overtures to Biblical Theology) (Overtures to Biblical Theology S.)
by John G Gammie
Voted one of Christianity Today's Books of the Year What is the fate of those who die never hearing the gospel? Do Hindus, Jews, agnostics and others who do not profess faith in Christ really suffer damnation after death? These and similar questions have long been contemplated by people from every religious persuasion and every walk of life. But in a culture of increasing diversity and growing doubt in the existence of "objective truth," it seems ever more pressing. In this Spectrum Mul...
The Power of Saving Wisdom (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe, #148)
by Cornelis Bennema
Cornelis Bennema elucidates the soteriological function of the Spirit in the Fourth Gospel, and analyzes the interrelationship between John's pneumatology and soteriology along the trajectory of wisdom. As a possible conceptual background for aspects of Johannine pneumatology, he selects the Jewish wisdom tradition and suggests that sapient Judaism understood 'salvation' as an intensification of that work of the Spirit that is already immanent to a person, namely, the mediation of life and wisdo...
Discourse on Free Will (Bloomsbury Revelations) (Milestones of Thought)
by Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther
Desiderius Eramsus (1466/9-1536) was the most renowned scholar of his age, a celebrated humanist and Classicist, and the first teacher of Greek at Cambridge. An influential figure in the Protestant Reformation, though without ever breaking from the Church himself, he satirised both human folly and the corruption of the Church. Martin Luther (1483-1546) was the founder of the German Reformation. His 95 Theses became a manifesto for reform of the Catholic Church and led to his being tried for here...
Forgiveness and Christian Ethics. New Studies in Christian Ethics, Volume 29.
by Anthony Bash
"Is the experience of God's grace in your life a thrilling thing? Just thinking about the fact that God, by His own sovereign plan, decided to be gracious to me is overwhelming. There is nothing greater than receiving grace upon grace." -John MacArthur Simple definitions can make grace feel like an obvious?even mundane?concept. Nothing could be further from the truth. Grace is the defining feature of the Christian faith. Once we understand how undeserving we are and how much favor we've been giv...
John Calvin and John Owen on Mortification (Critic of Institutions,, #3)
by Randall C. Gleason
