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What are They Saying about the Historical Jesus?

By: David B. Gowler

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What are They Saying about the Historical Jesus?

By: David B. Gowler

This book summarizes, analyzes, and critiques current influential portraits of Jesus. It concludes that any portrait of the historical Jesus must come to terms with Jesus as both an apocalyptic prophet and a prophet of social and economic justice for an oppressed people."--BOOK JACKET.

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Paulist Press

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080914445X

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9780809144457

James Through the Centuries

By: David Gowler

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James Through the Centuries

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The author explores a vast array of interpretations extending far beyond theological commentary, sermons, and hymns, to also embrace the epistle's influences on literature, art, politics, and social theory. The work includes examples of how successive generations have portrayed the historical figure of James the Just, in both pictorial and textual form. Contextualizing his analysis with excerpts from key documents, including artistic representations of the epistle, the author reviews the dynamic interactions between the James and Jesus traditions and compares James's epistle with those of Paul. The volume highlights James's particular concern for the poor and marginalized, charting the many responses to this aspect of its legacy. Drawing on sources as varied as William Shakespeare, John Calvin, Charles Schultz's Peanuts, and political cartoons, this is an exhaustive study of the theological and cultural debates sparked by the Epistle of James"--

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370

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119673895

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9781119673897

What Are They Saying About the Parables? Second Edition

By: Gowler, David B.

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What Are They Saying About the Parables? Second Edition

By: Gowler, David B.

Much has changed in the more than two decades since the first edition of this book appeared. Parable scholarship continues to be a dynamic area of New Testament research, and a number of important studies were published and significant developments have occurred during those years. Jesus’s parables, these simple but profound stories, continue to challenge us, and, even after many readings, continue to reveal new insights.

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256

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Paulist Press

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1587688506

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9781587688508

Host, Guest, Enemy, and Friend

Portraits of the Pharisees in Luke and Acts

By: David Gowler

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Portraits of the Pharisees in Luke and Acts

By: David Gowler

This fascinating study explores the enigmatic portrayals of the Pharisees in Luke and Acts. The characterization of the Pharisees is examined in the context of the social dynamics inherent in the narratives. The fusion of these narratological and social modes of analysis represents not only a fresh approach to the Pharisees in Luke and Acts, but also is a significant methodological advance in gospel study.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1556356900

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9781556356902

Household Conversion Narratives in Acts

Pattern and Interpretation

By: David Matson

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Household Conversion Narratives in Acts

Pattern and Interpretation

By: David Matson

Using features of the narrative-critical method, this book offers an innovative approach to a notable phenomenon in the book of Acts: the conversion of entire households to the Christian faith. When viewed against the household mission of the seventy(-two) messengers in Luke, the stories of Cornelius, Lydia, the Roman jailer and Crispus comprise a pattern of evangelistic activity that provides a common framework for their interpretation. Repetition and variation of the pattern offer important clues for the way each story functions within the wider context of Acts, opening up new lines of interpretation as well as new levels of unity/disunity between the Lukan writings.

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A&C Black

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1850755868

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9781850755869

Host, Guest, Enemy, and Friend

Portraits of the Pharisees in Luke and Acts

By: David Gowler

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James Through the Centuries

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Parables After Jesus

Their Imaginative Receptions Across Two Millennia

By: David B. Gowler,Pierce Chair of Religion Chair Division of Humanities Emory University David B Gowler

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Parables After Jesus

Their Imaginative Receptions Across Two Millennia

By: David B. Gowler,Pierce Chair of Religion Chair Division of Humanities Emory University David B Gowler

Over the centuries, some interpreters have attempted to explain what parables mean. Other interpreters have endeavored to articulate what parables do--how they work rhetorically or poetically. With the parables of Jesus, however, more is required, because Jesus' parables have always demanded a response from readers or hearers. Interpreters, therefore, should also seek to ascertain what parables want, because the parables of Jesus not only stake claims and demand responses; they also challenge their hearers to act. This challenge reverberates across the centuries, calling us continually back to the texts to discover anew what these distinctive and wonderful stories show us about what it means to be human and the ways in which Jesus urges us to follow God in word and deed. The Parables after Jesus is the first book to explore in a comprehensive way the afterlives of the parable tradition--how people have interpreted, been influenced by, and applied Jesus' enigmatic and compelling parables in a multitude of ways, perspectives, eras, contexts, and media. Interpretation is never a solitary endeavor, for each interpreter stands on the shoulders of previous interpreters, continually in dialogue with other interpretations, past and present. Gowler's reception history discusses more than fifty imaginative receptions of Jesus' parables, selected from two millennia of parable interpretation--from those who have dominated discussions to often ignored or suppressed voices. From this we see how the use of Jesus' parables affects society and culture and how powerfully parables have challenged--and continue to challenge--people's hearts, minds, and imaginations.

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1481314106

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Book's by David B. Gowler

What are They Saying about the Historical Jesus?

What are They Saying about the Historical Jesus?

James Through the Centuries

James Through the Centuries

What Are They Saying About the Parables? Second Edition

What Are They Saying About the Parables? Second Edition

Host, Guest, Enemy, and Friend

Host, Guest, Enemy, and Friend

Household Conversion Narratives in Acts

Household Conversion Narratives in Acts

Host, Guest, Enemy, and Friend

Host, Guest, Enemy, and Friend

James Through the Centuries

James Through the Centuries

Parables After Jesus

Parables After Jesus

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