In this expanded and updated third edition of an important work, respected Pauline scholar Victor Paul Furnish presents an analysis of some of Paul's most famous yet often misunderstood ethical teachings. Dr. Furnish enriches his discussion of key Pauline topics including: sex, marriage, divorce, homosexuality, women in the church, and the Church in the world. He pays particular attention to the socio-cultural context of Paul's ministry, the complexity of his thought, the character of his moral reasoning, and the way his thought and reasoning may inform and challenge us today. Victor Paul Furnish is University Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Emeritus at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, and general editor of the Abingdon New Testament Commentaries.
First published in 1968--and out of print since the 1980s--Victor Paul Furnish's treatment of Paul's theology and ethics has long been regarded as the key scholarly statement and most useful textbook on Paul's thought. Now, Theology and Ethics in Paul is available once again as part of the Westminster John Knox Press New Testament Library. Featuring a new introduction from Richard Hays, this timeless volume is as relevant in this century as it was in the last. The New Testament Library offers authoritative commentary on every book and major aspect of the New Testament, as well as classic volumes of scholarship. The commentaries in this series provide fresh translations based on the best available ancient manuscripts, offer critical portrayals of the historical world in which the books were created, pay careful attention to their literary design, and present a theologically perceptive exposition of the text.
A personal journey into the family archives of a talented photographer, this book explores Paul Weinberg's past as he retraces his family's footprints to far-flung small towns in the interior of South Africa--where his ancestors found a niche in the hotel trade. Part visual narrative and part multilayered travel book, this record is organized in the form of postcards to Weinberg's great grandfather, Edward. Weaving history, historiography, and memoir into a personal pilgrimage, it sets up a dialogue between the past and present and questions who records history and who is left out of it. The family's hotels are also revisited within these pages, and their evolution explored.
Accurate identification of insects and diseases is essential for good management. It helps growers to avoid costly mistakes, and is especially valuable for growers using Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to minimise their use of pesticides. This book presents the key results of recent extensive research and wide consultation. It is essential reading for all potato growers and industry advisers in Australia. The latest research information; detailed and reliable; easy to read and to use; fully illustrated to aid identification.
This is a Latin-English-Greek-Hebrew interlinear edition of the books of Genesis, Exodus, and Leviticus. The text contains the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate, the English of the Douay-Rheims Translation, the Greek of the Septuagint, and the Hebrew of the Westminster Lenningrad Codex.
----- Table of Contents ------ Foreword- Conference Program 2013- Just How Preposterous is Gurdjieff's View of History??A Chronology of the Descents to Planet Earth: Hugh Hubbard- Autostereograms and the 'creation of images without words': Farzin Deravi- Inturned Meditation: The Atlantean Temples Allegory: Seymour Ginsburg with Stephen Aronson- Esoteric Writing: Anthony Blake- Seminar: Beelzebub's Tales, “Just a Wee Bit More about the Germans,” chapter 36- French Muddling of Gurdjieff's All and Everything: Paul Beekman Taylor- Confessions of an American Muddler Ending the Beelzebub Wars: Stephen A. Grant- The Initiation of Motherhood: Kristina Turner Seminar: Meetings With Remarkable Men, chapter 9, “Piotr Karpenko”- Conscience Dialogue: Ocke de Boer with Farzin Deravi- Sufism and Beelzebub's Tales: Elements in Gurdjieff's Discourse on the Soul: ?Michael Pittman - What Color Was That Canary? – “Serious Thoughts” are hidden? within the “easily grasped outer form” of Meetings With Remarkable Men: John Amaral and Derek Sinko- Seminar: Beelzebub's Tales, “France,” chapter 37- Al Renton Memorial- Index
I've searched for you.' The patient struggled to get the words out. 'There are...more.' 'More what, Mr. Baroni?' Perspiration beaded on the old man's upper lip and his already pale complexion blanched. He pulled Freeman closer and gasped, 'I'm sorry. Find the others...'" In Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. David Freeman is given a strange wooden bead by a dying patient and soon finds himself pursued by a murderous band of Zulus, thought to be responsible for the gruesome murders of three elderly gentlemen in London, England. Homeland Security agents Patrick Dartson and Adnan Fazeph are assigned the case and discover Freeman's bead to be one of twenty-four passed along to the world's first Scoutmasters in 1919 by Lord Baden-Powell in England. The Zulus are not content to merely steal the talisman but feel it necessary to ritually behead the owner in order to restore the bead's power. Much of the beads' history and power remains a mystery-and the Zulus may not be alone in their pursuit. The agents devise a plot to capture the Zulus alive but can they succeed before Freeman and his girlfriend, Pam Blanchard, become their next victims? "Baden-Powell's Beads," the first book in the Beads series, is based on the true story of Zulu beads recovered in the Boer War. Paul Parsons uses historically accurate events and religious history to weave a gripping, fast-paced thriller that keeps readers enthralled until the very end.
This is a Latin-English-Greek-Hebrew interlinear edition of the books of Tobit, Judith, Esther and I & II Maccabees. The text contains the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate, the English of the Douay-Rheims Translation, the Greek of the Septuagint, and the Hebrew of the Westminster Leningrad Codex.
Paul's letters are the earliest surviving Christian writings and therefore the earliest documentary evidence for what Jesus's followers knew and said about him. The present volume deals with questions frequently asked about Paul. Did he know Jesus personally? If not, then how much did Paul know about Jesus, and how did this information come to him? Where in his letters does Paul make use of Jesus's teachings, how does he employ them, and what kind of authority does he accord them? Above all, why does Paul place so much emphasis on Jesus' death and resurrection? How is he able to proclaim these as saving events? Finally, a closing chapter considers how several writings in the Pauline tradition variously continued and altered the apostle's own interpretation of Jesus. Because these Pauline understandings of Jesus have remained so influential across twenty centuries, the more fully they are appreciated the more one is helped in understanding Jesus today.
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