Johan Christiaan Beker's Books

The New Testament

A Thematic Introduction

By: Johan Christiaan Beker

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The New Testament

A Thematic Introduction

By: Johan Christiaan Beker

This book reflects J. Christiaan Beker's experience of more than twenty years of teaching and introductory courses in New Testament. In distinction from a history-of-religions approach, he aims at allowing the theological thrust of the New Testament to become transparent for today's readers. The work pre-supposes the normative and canonical claim of the New Testament for all forms of Christian theology. Beker concentrates on some of the most central issues within the New Testament by surveying sixteen of the twenty-seven books of the New Testament. A chronological sequence is followed, beginning with Paul's letters.

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152

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Augsburg Fortress Pub

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080062775X

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9780800627751

Paul the Apostle

The Triumph of God in Life and Thought

By: Johan Christiaan Beker

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Paul the Apostle

The Triumph of God in Life and Thought

By: Johan Christiaan Beker

With a new preface by the author, this book posists two pillars as the foundations of Paul's thought: (1) the interaction between coherence and contingency in Paul's interpretation of the gospel and (2) the apocalyptic character of his gospel.

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452

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Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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0800618114

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9780800618117

The Triumph of God

The Essence of Paul's Thought

By: Johan Christiaan Beker

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The Triumph of God

The Essence of Paul's Thought

By: Johan Christiaan Beker

The special character of Paul's interpretation is marked by his ability to embody in his thought and praxis the movement of the incarnation, that is, the condescension of God into the depth of the human condition, so that the eternal Word of the gospel is able to become ever anew a word on target for the people to whom the gospel is addressed.

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174

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Fortress Press

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145141000X

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9781451410006

Suffering and Hope

The Biblical Vision and the Human Predicament

By: Johan Christiaan Beker

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Suffering and Hope

The Biblical Vision and the Human Predicament

By: Johan Christiaan Beker

This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. This compelling study by J. Christian Beker provides a moving, triumphant answer to one of life's greatest mysteries -- the presence of suffering in God's world. Now an established classic in the discussion of the problem of evil, Suffering and Hope plumbs the Old Testament's response to earthly pain as well as Paul's own dealings with "redemptive suffering." Beker seeks to understand how the Bible's view of suffering relates to our present experience of suffering and to the Christian hope for the future of creation. His concern is with the quality and character of both suffering and hope in a world where the question of suffering is inescapable. This powerful new edition features a foreword by Ben C. Ollenburger that describes the story behind the book -- the dehumanizing conditions Beker endured as a slave laborer during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands and the ways in which they helped shape the particular poignancy of his view of suffering. Readers will be moved both by Beker's personal transparency and by his biblical vision of "hopeful suffering" -- the apocalyptic trust in God's eventual victory over the power of death that poisons his creation.

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