God's Own Party - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God's Own Party write by Daniel K. Williams. This book was released on 2012-07-12. God's Own Party available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In God's Own Party, Daniel K. Williams presents the first comprehensive history of the Christian Right, uncovering how evangelicals came to see the Republican Party as the vehicle through which they could reclaim America as a Christian nation.
People of the Book
People of the Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook People of the Book write by David Lyle Jeffrey. This book was released on 1996. People of the Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author examines the "cultural and literary identity among Western Christians which the centrality of 'the Book' has helped to create, and the Christian use of the phrase 'People of the book.'"--Preface.
The Making of the Bible
The Making of the Bible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of the Bible write by Konrad Schmid. This book was released on 2021-10-29. The Making of the Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The authoritative new account of the BibleÕs origins, illuminating the 1,600-year tradition that shaped the Christian and Jewish holy books as millions know them today. The Bible as we know it today is best understood as a process, one that begins in the tenth century BCE. In this revelatory account, a world-renowned scholar of Hebrew scripture joins a foremost authority on the New Testament to write a new biography of the Book of Books, reconstructing Jewish and Christian scriptural histories, as well as the underappreciated contest between them, from which the Bible arose. Recent scholarship has overturned popular assumptions about IsraelÕs past, suggesting, for instance, that the five books of the Torah were written not by Moses but during the reign of Josiah centuries later. The sources of the Gospels are also under scrutiny. Konrad Schmid and Jens Schrter reveal the long, transformative journeys of these and other texts en route to inclusion in the holy books. The New Testament, the authors show, did not develop in the wake of an Old Testament set in stone. Rather the two evolved in parallel, in conversation with each other, ensuring a continuing mutual influence of Jewish and Christian traditions. Indeed, Schmid and Schrter argue that Judaism may not have survived had it not been reshaped in competition with early Christianity. A remarkable synthesis of the latest Old and New Testament scholarship, The Making of the Bible is the most comprehensive history yet told of the worldÕs best-known literature, revealing its buried lessons and secrets.
The Christian Book of Why
The Christian Book of Why - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Christian Book of Why write by John McCollister. This book was released on 2010. The Christian Book of Why available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Lutheran minister concisely and straightforwardly answers more than five hundred questions relating to Christian belief and ritual. This is a must for pastors, students, teachers--anyone interested in understanding why Christians of all denominations live and worship as they do.
Making Wise the Simple
Making Wise the Simple - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Wise the Simple write by Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos. This book was released on 2005-09-14. Making Wise the Simple available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Too long restricted to children's storybooks and cinematic extravaganzas, the Torah -- comprising the first five books of the Bible -- is an underappreciated mother lode of divine instruction, vitally important for Christians and the church. Convinced that both those who take the Torah too literally and those who neglect it are guilty of a naïve simplicity, Johanna van Wijk-Bos presents guidelines to help ordinary Christians recover this treasure in their faith and practice. Having lived in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation, van Wijk-Bos recognizes that after the attempted annihilation of the Jews from Christian Europe, it cannot be business as usual for Christianity. In light of the Holocaust, Christians must commit themselves to the restoration of just relations between Christians and Jews. This commitment to address all that fractures human relations undergirds van Wijk-Bos's call for Christians to reengage the Torah. Making Wise the Simple points out how God's care for and engagement with the whole world in the Torah set the tone for the entire biblical story. The book pays special attention to how our treatment of strangers lies at the heart of the Torah's teaching. Without attempting a purely Jewish reading of the Torah, van Wijk-Bos reclaims the Torah as a vibrant word for the Christian community in covenant with God. Written in a personal style conversant with current scholarship but sprinkled with anecdotes, this book is for everyone who has a hunger and enthusiasm for what the biblical text may convey, the courage to ask disturbing questions of the text, and an openness to old words that may bring forth new things, perhaps even making one wise.
