DO YOU HAVE AN OPINION? There is an increasing tendency in Evangelical circles to regard disagreement in our allegedly post-modern world as inherently oppressive. Too many people sit on the fence and ignore, or are unaware of, the fact that Christianity is an historical religion. As Laurence Peter ... (more)

When she published "In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins" in 1983, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza revolutionized the world of New Testament studies. She offered in that book a method for interpreting early Christian history that recovers the role of women in pre... (more)

In lyrical essays, Wandering between Two Worlds explores Anita Mathias's naughty Catholic childhood in India; her large, eccentric extended family in the Catholic sea-coast town of Mangalore; her rebellion and atheism as a teenager in St. Mary's Convent, Nainital, her Himalayan boarding school, run ... (more)

This short and highly readable text opens up what will be a completely new and inviting way of understanding God and approaching the task of theology from a unique perspective - the deep understanding of and identification with the ocean of the people of the Pacific. Surrounded by the vastness o... (more)

Martin Luther invented the Reformation slogan sola fide – ‘by faith alone’ – which Philip Melanchthon and John Calvin brandished and defended. Most Protestants since their time have swallowed it whole. But is evangelical obedience – the good works that follow faith and are produced by grace – exclud... (more)

Bridging the gap between Old and New Testament studies and between academia and the Christian community, Scobie offers a unified, scholarly, and relevant approach to Scripture that encompasses the entire sweep of divine revelation. He discusses the nature and task of biblical theology, elaborating o... (more)

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and ... (more)

This work argues that the five New Testament references to the weakness of the Law, read in their respective contexts, support those who advocate the "third use of the Law," In a two-part study, Bayes first sets the historical theological scene and then thorougly analyzes the New Testament texts as ... (more)