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Remembering the Christian Past

By: Robert Louis Wilken

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Remembering the Christian Past

By: Robert Louis Wilken

This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. Prompting readers to reacquaint themselves with forgotten aspects of Christian tradition, this collection of essays points out the importance of remembering the enduring truths of the faith. Robert Wilken touches on a host of topics that are still pertinent today: the role of commitment in the study of religion, religious pluralism, Christian apologetics, the biblical roots of the doctrine of the Trinity, the spiritual interpretation of the Bible, the importance of examples for living a virtuous life, and the place of the passions in our relation to God.

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0802808808

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Judaism and the Early Christian Mind

A Study of Cyril of Alexandria's Exegesis and Theology

By: Robert L. Wilken

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Judaism and the Early Christian Mind

A Study of Cyril of Alexandria's Exegesis and Theology

By: Robert L. Wilken

Unlike most studies of the thought of the early Church, which have concentrated on the Christian encounter with Hellenism, this investigation of the writings of Cyril of Alexandria reveals the crucial influence of the polemical conflicts with Judaism voiced by the early fathers. After tracing the relationships between Christians and Jews during the first four centuries A.D., Mr. Wilken demonstrates how Cyril's exegetical writings - two-thirds of the extant corpus - grew directly out of his polemical positions. He then discusses the influence of such thinking on Cyril's christology and on his controversy with Nestorius, the bishop of Constantinople during the early fifth century. His concluding analysis of the larger problem of Christian attitudes toward the Jews concentrates on the difficulties raised by the Christians' inability to understand Judaism as anything other than an inferior foreshadowing of Christianity.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725212382

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The Land Called Holy

Palestine in Christian History and Thought

By: Robert Louis Wilken

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The Land Called Holy

Palestine in Christian History and Thought

By: Robert Louis Wilken

Drawing on both primary texts and archaelogy, Wilken traces the Christian conception of a Holy Land from its origins inthe Hebrew Bible to the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in the seventh century.

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Yale University Press

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0300060831

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9780300060836

John Chrysostom and the Jews

Rhetoric and Reality in the Late 4th Century

By: Robert L. Wilken

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John Chrysostom and the Jews

Rhetoric and Reality in the Late 4th Century

By: Robert L. Wilken

John Chrysostom, the golden mouth, the greatest preacher in the early church and a key figure during the transition from the ancient to the Byzantine and medieval worlds, is known as a vehement critic of the Jews. In this study, Robert Wilken presents a new interpretation of John's homilies against the Jews, setting them in the context of the pluralistic society of fourth-century Antioch and against the tradition of ancient rhetoric. In reading John's homilies, Wilken argues, we must not impose on them the anti-Jewish attitudes of medieval times, when Christianity was the dominant force in the West and Judaism was a minority religion. In John's time, Christianity was only one, and by no means the most self-assured, of the cultural forces in Antioch. It had to compete with an established Jewish community and with the classical pagan tradition that underlay education and public life. In 363, the Roman emperor Julian, who had apostatized Christianity to embrace the traditional pagan religion, attempted to rebuild the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. He terrified the Christians, who saw in the Temple's ruins proof of the truth of their religion. Wilken examines John's sermons against this atmosphere of intense religious rivalry and lively polemic between Christians, Jews, and pagans. His book calls not only for a fresh look at John Chrysostom but also for a reconsideration of the continued importance of Judaism in late antique society and in the history of Christianity. Its conclusions will be of interest to historians and theologians, and to participants in the present-day Jewish-Christian dialogue.

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172521251X

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Remembering the Christian Past

By: Robert Louis Wilken

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The Christians as the Romans Saw Them

By: Robert Louis Wilken

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The Christians as the Romans Saw Them

By: Robert Louis Wilken

This book offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.

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Yale University Press

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0300098391

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Hellenistic Dimensions of the Gospel of Matthew

Background and Rhetoric

By: Robert S. Kinney

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Hellenistic Dimensions of the Gospel of Matthew

Background and Rhetoric

By: Robert S. Kinney

In the search for Matthean theology, scholars overwhelmingly approach the Gospel of Matthew as the "the most Jewish Gospel." Studies of its Sitz im Leben focus on its relationship to Judaism, whether arguing from the perspective that Matthew wrote from a cloistered Jewish community or as the leader of a Gentile rebellion against such a Jewish community. While this is undoubtedly an important and necessary discussion for understanding the Gospel, it often assumes too much about the relationship between Judaism and Hellenism (via Martin Hengel). Robert S. Kinney argues for a hybridized perspective in which Matthew's attention to Jewish sources and ideas is not denied, but in which echoes of Greek and Roman sources can be observed, focusing on identifying Matthew's use of rhetoric and its possible echoes of Greco-Roman philosophical disciple-gathering teachers.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161545230

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The Case for Progressive Dispensationalism

The Interface Between Dispensational & Non-dispensational Theology

By: Robert L. Saucy

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The Case for Progressive Dispensationalism

The Interface Between Dispensational & Non-dispensational Theology

By: Robert L. Saucy

Debate abounds on the future of Israel and Israel's relation to the Church. Saucy affirms that the Old Testament prophecies are completely fulfilled in the future, the nation of Israel has a prophetic future, and Israel is not the Church. But he shows that the fulfillment of OT prophecy begins in the present church age and there is a continuity between the Church and the OT messianic program rather than an unrelated mystery parenthesis.

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Zondervan

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0310304415

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9780310304418

The Postmodern Bible

By: George Aichele,Fred W. Burnett,Robert M. Fowler,David Job ling,Tina Pippin,Wilhelm Wuellner,Bible and Culture Collective

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The Postmodern Bible

By: George Aichele,Fred W. Burnett,Robert M. Fowler,David Job ling,Tina Pippin,Wilhelm Wuellner,Bible and Culture Collective

The burgeoning use of modern literary theory and cultural criticism in recent biblical studies has led to stimulating--but often bewildering--new readings of the Bible. This book, argued from a perspective shaped by postmodernism, is at once an accessible guide to and an engagement with various methods, theories, and critical practices transforming biblical scholarship today. Written by a collective of cutting-edge scholars--with each page the work of multiple hands--The Postmodern Bible deliberately breaks with the individualist model of authorship that has traditionally dominated scholarship in the humanities and is itself an illustration of the postmodern transformation of biblical studies for which it argues. The book introduces, illustrates, and critiques seven prominent strategies of reading. Several of these interpretive strategies--rhetorical criticism, structuralism and narratology, reader-response criticism, and feminist criticism--have been instrumental in the transformation of biblical studies up to now. Many--feminist and womanist criticism, ideological criticism, poststructuralism, and psychoanalytic criticism--hold promise for the continued transformation of these studies in the future. Focusing on readings from both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, this volume illuminates the current multidisciplinary debates emerging from postmodernism by exposing the still highly contested epistemological, political, and ethical positions in the field of biblical studies.

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Yale University Press

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0300068182

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9780300068184

Gods and the One God

By: Robert McQueen Grant

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Gods and the One God

By: Robert McQueen Grant

Compares early Christian beliefs about God with the religious beliefs of others in the Roman Empire and traces the development of Christian theology

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664250114

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9780664250119

Scripture, Creed, Theology

Lectures on the History of Christian Doctrine in the First Centuries

By: Robert L. Calhoun

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Scripture, Creed, Theology

Lectures on the History of Christian Doctrine in the First Centuries

By: Robert L. Calhoun

In this long-awaited edition of the late Robert Lowry Calhoun's lectures on the history of Christian doctrine, a powerful case is made for the scriptural basis of the ancient ecumenical creeds. The way Calhoun reads the patristic authors helps us see that the Trinitarian "three-yet-one" and Christological "two-yet-one" creedal formulations provide patterns for sorting out the highly diverse biblical ways of speaking of God and of the Messiah (Jesus) so that they are not contradictory. The implied lesson (all the more effective for many of Calhoun's students, just because he let them draw this conclusion by themselves) is that the creeds are not to be understood as deductions from scripture (which they are not in any straightforward way) but as templates for interpreting scripture. It is Trinitarian and Christological patterns of reading--which are implicitly operative for vast multitudes even in churches that profess to be creedless--that make it possible to treat the entire bible, Old and New Testaments together, as a unified and coherently authoritative whole.

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1621890376

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The Myth of Christian Beginnings

By: Robert L. Wilken

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The Myth of Christian Beginnings

By: Robert L. Wilken

In this challenging and vividly written book Dr. Wilken shows that there never was a golden age in the Christian past. Christian hope did not come to fulfillment in the age of apostles, nor in the time of Constantine, nor in the Middle Ages, nor during the Reformation, nor in the revivals of the 19th century, nor in the movements of renewal in our own time. The history of Christianity is a story of imperfection and fragmentation, but also a history of hoping and striving for an end that cannot be seen yet bears on the present. With lively examples from the Christian past Wilken shows that change has been an abiding feature of Christian tradition. Often those who proposed new ways of thinking and acted in unexpected ways turned out to be more faithful than those who repeated the old formulas. As much as the past may give specificity and concreteness to renewal in the present Christian hope is set on things that are yet to be.

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1725225883

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The God That Did Not Fail

How Religion Built and Sustains the West

By: Robert Royal

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The God That Did Not Fail

How Religion Built and Sustains the West

By: Robert Royal

Secular humanists and other “progressives” have been predicting the demise of religion for the past 250 years. But they keep running into a problem: those who were supposed to be liberated by the secular gospel that God is Dead aren’t buying it. Except for some parts of western Europe and in countries culturally destroyed by Communism, secularization in the radical sense has not occurred. While it has not obliterated the religious impulse, however, the drive towards “progressive irreligion” has, Robert Royal believes, encouraged ignorance of religion’s central role in the development of the West. In The God That Did Not Fail, Royal offers an original reading of religion in ancient Greece and Rome, of Christianity and Judaism, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Reformation, the several modern Enlightenments, culminating with a profound assessment of our current postmodern moment. He concludes that since religion is a permanent part of human nature and of the particular character of the West, our efforts should be directed not into a quixotic effort to deny the undeniable, especially as we face challenges from Islamic fundamentalism, but into promoting a well thought out and dynamic interplay of faith, reason, and modern freedoms.

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Encounter Books

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1594035172

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Liberty in the Things of God

The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom

By: Robert Louis Wilken

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Liberty in the Things of God

The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom

By: Robert Louis Wilken

From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke In the ancient world Christian apologists wrote in defense of their right to practice their faith in the cities of the Roman Empire. They argued that religious faith is an inward disposition of the mind and heart and cannot be coerced by external force, laying a foundation on which later generations would build. Chronicling the history of the struggle for religious freedom from the early Christian movement through the seventeenth century, Robert Louis Wilken shows that the origins of religious freedom and liberty of conscience are religious, not political, in origin. They took form before the Enlightenment through the labors of men and women of faith who believed there could be no justice in society without liberty in the things of God. This provocative book, drawing on writings from the early Church as well as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, reminds us of how “the meditations of the past were fitted to affairs of a later day.”

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Yale University Press

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0300245491

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9780300245493

The Limits of Ancient Christianity

Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R.A. Markus

By: Robert Austin Markus

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The Limits of Ancient Christianity

Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R.A. Markus

By: Robert Austin Markus

Sixteen essays explore the end of ancient Christianity

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University of Michigan Press

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0472109979

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Judaism and the Early Christian Mind

A Study of Cyril of Alexandria's Exegesis and Theology

By: Robert L. Wilken

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A Study of Cyril of Alexandria's Exegesis and Theology

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Remembering the Christian Past

Remembering the Christian Past

Judaism and the Early Christian Mind

Judaism and the Early Christian Mind

The Land Called Holy

The Land Called Holy

John Chrysostom and the Jews

John Chrysostom and the Jews

Remembering the Christian Past

Remembering the Christian Past

The Christians as the Romans Saw Them

The Christians as the Romans Saw Them

Hellenistic Dimensions of the Gospel of Matthew

Hellenistic Dimensions of the Gospel of Matthew

The Case for Progressive Dispensationalism

The Case for Progressive Dispensationalism

The Postmodern Bible

The Postmodern Bible

Gods and the One God

Gods and the One God

Scripture, Creed, Theology

Scripture, Creed, Theology

The Myth of Christian Beginnings

The Myth of Christian Beginnings

The God That Did Not Fail

The God That Did Not Fail

Liberty in the Things of God

Liberty in the Things of God

The Limits of Ancient Christianity

The Limits of Ancient Christianity

Judaism and the Early Christian Mind

Judaism and the Early Christian Mind

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