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I Saw a New Earth

An Introduction to the Visions of the Apocalypse

By: Paul S. Minear

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I Saw a New Earth

An Introduction to the Visions of the Apocalypse

By: Paul S. Minear

From the Preface: There are indeed few books in the Bible where the modern student does not need deft guidance if reading is to prove profitable. In the case of the Book of Revelation that need becomes absolutely essential. When the average student takes up this book, almost without exception the going is tough, the language baffling, the sense of profit minimal. This situation represents a curious reversal, for in earlier centuries no other part of Scripture so greatly intrigued the imagination of Christendom or so greatly fascinated its painters and musicians .... The book at hand is designed to restore the Apocalypse to its rightful place in Christian thinking. The title asserts a continuing conviction: John as a prophet actually saw a new earth. The ordinary ways of perceiving reality had been radically altered by his faith in Christ.... Even moderns., in their traffic with Òthe earth,Ó have accessible a greater diversity of visions than they suppose. The ancient prophet may still have power to enable us to see a new earth. Such at least is the premise that prompted the publication of this book.

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1592443257

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Images of the Church in the New Testament

By: Paul Sevier Minear

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Images of the Church in the New Testament

By: Paul Sevier Minear

First published in 1960, Paul Minear's classic work identifies and explicates ninety-six images for the church found in the New Testament. Comprehensive and accessibly written, it has been used in seminary classes for over thirty years. Its range of reach and incredibly rich discussions of the many images and metaphors make this book a splendid resource for students and pastors. 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.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664227791

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9780664227791

Matthew: The Teacher's Gospel

By: Paul S. Minear

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Matthew: The Teacher's Gospel

By: Paul S. Minear

Most studies of Matthew have been oriented toward a recovery of the portrait of Jesus or toward strengthening faith in him in our time. I have chosen a different orientation. The focus of my attention is on the work of the Evangelist as a teacher and on his intended audience in the churches of the first century--men and women who, like many of us, were charged with basic educational work among adult believers in Jesus Christ. I hope that such an orientation may strengthen your sense of kinship both with the Evangelist, who was a teacher, and with his first readers, who also were teachers." From the Preface This insightful commentary on the Gospel of Matthew will help readers better understand the importance of this book of the New Testament. Paul S. Minear focuses on Matthew as a teacher in the early Christian church, assesses Matthew's impact on Christians in the first century, and examines the fascinating array of literary forms found in this Gospel. Throughout, the book aims at increasing comprehension of the distinctive and constructive theological stance of Matthew.

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1592443346

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Luke the Historian of Israel’s Legacy, Theologian of Israel’s ‘Christ’

A New Reading of the ‘Gospel Acts’ of Luke

By: David Paul Moessner

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Luke the Historian of Israel’s Legacy, Theologian of Israel’s ‘Christ’

A New Reading of the ‘Gospel Acts’ of Luke

By: David Paul Moessner

David Moessner proposes a new understanding of the relation of Luke’s second volume to his Gospel to open up a whole new reading of Luke’s foundational contribution to the New Testament. For postmodern readers who find Acts a ‘generic outlier,’ dangling tenuously somewhere between the ‘mainland’ of the evangelists and the ‘Peloponnese’ of Paul—diffused and confused and shunted to the backwaters of the New Testament by these signature corpora—Moessner plunges his readers into the hermeneutical atmosphere of Greek narrative poetics and elaboration of multi-volume works to inhale the rhetorical swells that animate Luke’s first readers in their engagement of his narrative. In this collection of twelve of his essays, re-contextualized and re-organized into five major topical movements, Moessner showcases multiple Hellenistic texts and rhetorical tropes to spotlight the various signals Luke provides his readers of the multiple ways his Acts will follow "all that Jesus began to do and to teach" (Acts 1:1) and, consequently, bring coherence to this dominant block of the New Testament that has long been split apart. By collapsing the world of Jesus into the words and deeds of his followers, Luke re-configures the significance of Israel’s "Christ" and the "Reign" of Israel’s God for all peoples and places to create a new account of ‘Gospel Acts,’ discrete and distinctively different than the "narrative" of the "many" (Luke 1:1). Luke the Historian of Israel’s Legacy combines what no analysis of the Lukan writings has previously accomplished, integrating seamlessly two ‘generically-estranged’ volumes into one new whole from the intent of the one composer. For Luke is the Hellenistic historian and simultaneously ‘biblical’ theologian who arranges the one "plan of God" read from the script of the Jewish scriptures—parts and whole, severally and together—as the saving ‘script’ for the whole world through Israel’s suffering and raised up "Christ," Jesus of Nazareth. In the introductions to each major theme of the essays, this noted scholar of the Lukan writings offers an epitome of the main features of Luke’s theological ‘thought,’ and, in a final Conclusions chapter, weaves together a comprehensive synthesis of this new reading of the whole.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110391961

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Eyes of Faith

A Study in the Biblical Point of View

By: Paul S. Minear

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Eyes of Faith

A Study in the Biblical Point of View

By: Paul S. Minear

With respect to comprehensiveness of the treatment, Dr. Minear has written one of the most important books in the field of Biblical interpretation that has appeared for many years. 'Christendom' This is an original and substantial piece of work. It is carefully constructed and expressed with felicity and freshness of phrase and without needless repetition. 'Andover Newton Theological School Bulletin' Since the book is essentially biblical both in perspective and in the nature of the problems which it discusses, it is admirably fitted to the temper of those who are interested in the development of biblical theology. 'Religion in Life' The book is full of brilliant insights, and a wide knowledge of literature and philosophy is drawn on for illustration . . . 'Journal of Biblical Literature

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159244203X

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John: The Martyr's Gospel

By: Paul S. Minear

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John: The Martyr's Gospel

By: Paul S. Minear

This volume makes a contribution to interpretation of this Gospel focusing attention on the Gospel itself as a series of conversations between the early Christian prophet and his immediate audience, the charismatic leaders and their followers in the churches of Judea and Jerusalem before the war with Rome, A.D. 66-70. The context of these conversations is one of great danger, often of martyrdom, which impelled the spirit-guided prophet to address to his charismatic colleagues these messages from the risen Lord. The book analyzes the central thrust of these messages, provoking fresh encounters between modern readers and the ancient author.

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1592443338

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The Kingdom and the Power

An Exposition of the New Testament Gospel

By: Paul S. Minear

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The Kingdom and the Power

An Exposition of the New Testament Gospel

By: Paul S. Minear

Long regarded as one of the premier theologians of the New Testament, Paul Minear has inspired generations and influenced the path of biblical scholarship. The Kingdom and the Power represents Minear's most thorough exposition of the New Testament message, spanning the range of genres and theologies within the biblical record. In clear prose, Minear sets forth the heart of the early church's proclaimation and shows its enduring relevance for the modern church.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664229077

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Christians and the New Creation

Genesis Motifs in the New Testament

By: Paul Sevier Minear

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Christians and the New Creation

Genesis Motifs in the New Testament

By: Paul Sevier Minear

In this major thematic work, senior scholar Paul Minear examines the Genesis motifs that are echoed in numerous parts of the New Testament. By doing so, Minear links the story of the old creation with the story of the new creation as he examines the language of beginnings--creation, fall, and curse--found in both testaments. Minear concludes that there is a need to reexamine the legacy of the old creation in order to understand and value the gift of the new creation.

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0664255310

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The Obedience of Faith

The Purposes of Paul in the Epistle to the Romans

By: Paul S. Minear

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The Obedience of Faith

The Purposes of Paul in the Epistle to the Romans

By: Paul S. Minear

Minear puts forward the significance of using the information uncovered from the last three chapters of Romans (14-16) to reconstruct the picture of the situation in Rome and to interpret the letter as a whole accordingly. He challenges the assumption held by many commentators that there was a single Christian congregation in Rome where different groups of Christians worshipped side by side. Minear proposes that Paul is trying to unite the strong and the weak communities in Rome. Paul does this by employing twelve axioms in efforts at reconciliation in 14.1-15.13. According to Minear, it is the purpose of the rest of Romans to explain, support, and defend these axioms.

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1725200473

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The Structure of Romans

The Argument of Paul's Letter

By: Paul B. Fowler

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The Structure of Romans

The Argument of Paul's Letter

By: Paul B. Fowler

We increasingly recognize that Paul did not write his letter to the Romans primarily out of doctrinal concerns. Paul B. Fowler presses that insight home in this attentive, yet eminently readable, study of the letter’s structure. The principles of Fowler’s reading are that rhetorical questions in Romans 3‒11 structure the argument, not as responses to criticism but as Paul’s careful guiding of the reader, and that these chapters, like the paraenesis in Romans 12‒15, address specific circumstances in Rome. Careful attention to the rhetorical structure of the letter points to tensions between Jew and Gentile that aggravate the already precarious situation of the Roman congregation. In the course of his argument, Fowler explodes the common conceptions that Paul employs diatribal technique to answer objections and that he is primarily engaged in a debate with Jews. In short, Fowler demonstrates that the apostle is not writing defensively, but responding with sensitivity to the volatile atmosphere caused by Claudius’s expulsion of some Jews from Rome. The book includes an appendix on rhetorical devices and another on epistolary formulas in Paul’s letters.

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Fortress Press

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1506416195

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Book's by Paul S. Minear

I Saw a New Earth

I Saw a New Earth

Images of the Church in the New Testament

Images of the Church in the New Testament

Matthew: The Teacher's Gospel

Matthew: The Teacher's Gospel

Luke the Historian of Israel’s Legacy, Theologian of Israel’s ‘Christ’

Luke the Historian of Israel’s Legacy, Theologian of Israel’s ‘Christ’

Eyes of Faith

Eyes of Faith

John: The Martyr's Gospel

John: The Martyr's Gospel

The Kingdom and the Power

The Kingdom and the Power

Christians and the New Creation

Christians and the New Creation

The Obedience of Faith

The Obedience of Faith

The Structure of Romans

The Structure of Romans

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