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Abraham's Faith in Romans 4

Paul's Concept of Faith in Light of the History of Reception of Genesis 15:6

By: Benjamin Schliesser

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Abraham's Faith in Romans 4

Paul's Concept of Faith in Light of the History of Reception of Genesis 15:6

By: Benjamin Schliesser

The concept of faith is at the core of Paul's theology, and the classic assage for his understanding of pistis is Genesis 15:6. After discussing the history of scholarship on the Pauline concept of faith, Benjamin Schliesser explores the literary, tradition-historical and structural questions of Genesis 15 and offers a detailed exegesis of verse 6 with its fundamental terms count, righteousness, and believe. He then points to the theological significance of this testimony on Abraham for the Jewish identity; it comes into sight in a multifaceted and nuanced process of reception, from later Old Testament texts (Psalm 106; Nehemiah 9) to a broad array of literature from Second Temple Judaism (Septuagint, Sirach 44, Jubilees 14, 4QPseudo-Jubilees, 4QMMT, 1Maccabees, Philo). In the final and most substantial step, he asks about Paul's hermeneutics of faith: How does Paul, in his exegesis of the Genesis quote in Romans 4, come to view Abraham as the father of all believers? What is the concept of faith that he develops on the basis of Genesis 15:6? Taking into account the manifold textual and thematic links between Romans 4, Romans 3:21-31, and Romans 1:16-17, a unique, twofold structure of faith discloses itself: Pistis designates first a divinely established sphere of power, i.e., a new, christologically determined salvation-historical reality, and second human participation in this reality, i.e., individual believing in the community of believers. Particularly the first aspect is generally overlooked in modern scholarship.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161491971

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9783161491979

Digital Games After Climate Change

By: Benjamin J. Abraham

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Digital Games After Climate Change

By: Benjamin J. Abraham

This book presents the first sustained analysis of the digital game industry’s carbon footprint and its role in exacerbating global climate change. Identifying the ways videogames can actually help combat the climate crisis, it argues for the urgency of transitioning to a fully carbon neutral games industry, exploring the challenges and opportunities inherent in this undertaking. Beginning with an analysis of debates around the persuasive power of games, the book argues that real impact can only be achieved by focusing on the material conditions of game production – by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from making, selling, and playing games, as well as the hardware used to play them. Abraham makes a compelling argument that a sustainable games industry is possible, and outlines the actions that everyone can take to reduce the harms that digital games cause to people and planet.

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263

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Springer Nature

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3030917053

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9783030917050

The Negro's Church

By: Benjamin E. Mays

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The Negro's Church

By: Benjamin E. Mays

Benjamin E. Mays (1894-1984) was President and Professor Emeritus of Morehouse College.

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311

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498234291

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9781498234290

Confirmation Wars

Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times

By: Benjamin Wittes

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Confirmation Wars

Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times

By: Benjamin Wittes

Just in time for the first Supreme Court confirmation of the Obama administration, one of America's most insightful legal commentators updates the critically acclaimed Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times to place the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor in the context of the changing nature of judicial nominations by recent presidents. Our system has gone from one in which people like Sotomayor or recent highly qualified nominees like John Roberts and Samuel Alito are shoe-ins for confirmation to a system in which they are shoe-ins for confirmation confrontations. While rejecting parodies offered by both the Right and Left of the decline of the process by which the United States Senate confirms_or rejects_the president's nominees to the federal judiciary, Wittes explains why and how this change took place. He argues that the trade has been a bad one_offering only the crudest check on executive appointments to the judiciary and putting nominees in the most untenable and unfair situations. Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution

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184

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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144220155X

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Infectious Disease: a Very Short Introduction

By: Marta Wayne,Benjamin Bolker

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Infectious Disease: a Very Short Introduction

By: Marta Wayne,Benjamin Bolker

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Infectious disease is a moving target: new diseases emerge every year, old diseases evolve into new forms, and ecological and socioeconomic upheavals change the transmission pathways that spread disease. But where does disease come from? How is it transmitted from one person to another? And why are some individuals more susceptible than others? In this Very Short Introduction, Marta Wayne and Benjamin Bolker address these questions through the lenses of ecology and evolution. Assessing the management of outbreaks of diseases such as influenza, HIV/AIDS, cholera, and COVID-19, they provide specific examples to illustrate why major diseases still threaten populations all over the world. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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161

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Oxford University Press

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0192858513

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Who Gets What from Government

By: Benjamin I. Page

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Who Gets What from Government

By: Benjamin I. Page

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.

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Univ of California Press

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0520315499

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9780520315495

SAQs for the Final FRCA

By: James Nickells,Andrew Georgiou,Benjamin Walton

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SAQs for the Final FRCA

By: James Nickells,Andrew Georgiou,Benjamin Walton

A final FRCA exam preparation book containing 9 complete 12-question SAQ papers with full model answers, plus practical exam preparation advice.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521739039

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9780521739030

The Credentialed Court

Inside the Cloistered, Elite Supreme Court

By: Benjamin H. Barton

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The Credentialed Court

Inside the Cloistered, Elite Supreme Court

By: Benjamin H. Barton

The Credentialed Court starts by establishing just how different today’s Justices are from their predecessors. The book combines two massive empirical studies of every Justice’s background from John Jay to Amy Coney Barrett with short, readable bios of past greats to demonstrate that today’s Justices arrive on the Court with much narrower experiences than they once did. Today’s Justices have spent more time in elite academic settings (both as students and faculty) than any previous Court. Every current Justice but Barrett attended either Harvard or Yale Law School, and four of the Justices were tenured professors at prestigious law schools. They also spent more time as Federal Appellate Court Judges than any previous Court. These two jobs (tenured law professor and appellate judge) share two critical components: both jobs are basically lifetime appointments that involve little or no contact with the public at large. The modern Supreme Court Justices have spent their lives in cloistered and elite settings, the polar opposite of past Justices. The current Supreme Court is packed with a very specific type of person: type-A overachievers who have triumphed in a long tournament measuring academic and technical legal excellence. This Court desperately lacks individuals who reflect a different type of “merit.” The book examines the exceptional and varied lives of past greats from John Marshall to Thurgood Marshall and asks how many, if any, of these giants would be nominated today. The book argues against our current bookish and narrow version of meritocracy. Healthier societies offer multiple different routes to success and onto bodies like our Supreme Court.

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Encounter Books

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1641772050

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Echocardiography in Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease

By: Benjamin W. Eidem,Frank Cetta

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Echocardiography in Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease

By: Benjamin W. Eidem,Frank Cetta

Edited by expert clinicians at Mayo Clinic and other leading global institutions, Echocardiography in Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease remains your reference of choice in this fast-changing field. The Third Edition brings you fully up to date not only with all aspects of pediatric echocardiography, but also with multimodality imaging in adult congenital heart disease, making it an invaluable resource for cardiologists, fellows, internists, and radiologists, as well as pediatric echocardiographers and sonographers.

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1825

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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149639402X

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9781496394026

The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics

By: Gerald Benjamin

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The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics

By: Gerald Benjamin

New York remains the Empire State. Its trillion dollar economy makes the state a national-and often world-leader in banking, finance, publishing, soft services (law, accounting, insurance, consulting), higher education, culture, and the arts. With more than one in five of its residents having immigrated from elsewhere, New York State is an ethnic and social harbinger for an increasingly diverse nation. Recent years have found it, like many other big states, challenged to achieve effective governance. How is, can, or should such a state be governed? What is its history? What is its future? The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics offers an unusually comprehensive, detailed, and systematic study of this unique and influential state. The thirty-one chapters in The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics assemble new scholarship in key areas of governance in New York, document the state's record in comparison to other US states, and identify directions for future research. Following editor Gerald Benjamin's introduction, the handbook chapters are organized in five sections that look at the state constitution, state political processes, state governmental institutions, intergovernmental relations, and management and policy areas. Chapters address a wide array of topics including political parties, campaign finance policy, public opinion polling, elections and election management, lobbying and interest group systems, the state legislature, the governorship, the judiciary, the state's "foreign policy," education, health care policy, public safety, economic development, transportation policy, energy policy, and more. A final chapter, compiled by the state archivist, consists of a most extensive annotated bibliography of resources on state history, state political history, the state constitution, and state political processes. Chapter authors include both scholars of New York State and current and former state officials.

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Oxford University Press

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0199996350

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9780199996353

Practicing Witness

A Missional Vision of Christian Practices

By: Benjamin T. Conner

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Practicing Witness

A Missional Vision of Christian Practices

By: Benjamin T. Conner

How might a church infused with missional theology change the way it approaches Christian practices? Interacting both with the missional theology of George Hunsberger and Darrell Guder and with the theology of Christian practices laid out by Craig Dykstra and Dorothy Bass, Benjamin T. Conner argues that allowing these two disciplines to inform one another can enhance the nature of the church s witness, its congregational discipleship, and its theological education. Framing his work with real-world narratives and applications inspired by his work as a minister to adolescents with special needs, Conner shows how a practical missional mindset can redefine and reinvigorate the spirit and purpose of a congregation.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802866115

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9780802866110

Digital Games After Climate Change

By: Benjamin J. Abraham

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Digital Games After Climate Change

By: Benjamin J. Abraham

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Book's by Benjamin J. Abraham

Abraham's Faith in Romans 4

Abraham's Faith in Romans 4

Digital Games After Climate Change

Digital Games After Climate Change

The Negro's Church

The Negro's Church

Confirmation Wars

Confirmation Wars

Infectious Disease: a Very Short Introduction

Infectious Disease: a Very Short Introduction

Who Gets What from Government

Who Gets What from Government

SAQs for the Final FRCA

SAQs for the Final FRCA

The Credentialed Court

The Credentialed Court

Echocardiography in Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Echocardiography in Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease

The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics

The Oxford Handbook of New York State Government and Politics

Practicing Witness

Practicing Witness

Digital Games After Climate Change

Digital Games After Climate Change

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