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  • Genesis 12-50, Edited by Mark Sheridan
    Paperback

    Genesis 12-50

    Volume 2

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Mark Sheridan
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    Genesis 12–50 recounts the history of the patriarchs—Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. From their mentors Paul, Peter, Stephen, and the author of the letter to the Hebrews, the early fathers learned to draw out the spiritual significance of the patriarchal narrative for Christian believers. The Alexandrian school especially followed Paul's allegorical use of the story of Sarah ...

  • Mark, Edited by Christopher A. Hall and Thomas C. Oden
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    Mark

    Volume 2

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Christopher A. Hall
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    Christianity Today Book Award Winner

    The early church valued the Gospel of Mark for its preservation of the apostolic voice and gospel narrative of Peter. Yet the early church fathers very rarely produced sustainedcommentary on Mark. This brisk-paced and robust little Gospel, so much enjoyed by modern readers, was overshadowed in the minds of the fathers by the magisterial ...

  • Commentaries on the Twelve Prophets: Volume 2, By Jerome
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    Commentaries on the Twelve Prophets

    Volume 2

    Ancient Christian Texts

    by Jerome
    Edited by Thomas P. Scheck

    Jerome (c. 347-419/20), one of the West's four doctors of the church, was recognized early on as one of the church's foremost translators, commentators, and advocates of Christian asceticism. Skilled in Hebrew and Greek in addition to his native Latin, he was thoroughly familiar with Jewish traditions and brought this expertise to bear on his understanding of the Old Testament. Beginning in 379, ...

  • Mark, Edited by Thomas C. Oden and Christopher A. Hall
    Paperback

    Mark

    Volume 2

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Thomas C. Oden and Christopher A. Hall

    Christianity Today Book Award Winner

    The early church valued the Gospel of Mark for its preservation of the apostolic voice and gospel narrative of Peter. Yet the early church fathers very rarely produced sustained commentary on Mark. This brisk-paced and robust little Gospel, so much enjoyed by modern readers, was overshadowed in the minds of the fathers by the magisterial ...

  • Beauty, Order, and Mystery: A Christian Vision of Human Sexuality, Edited by Todd Wilson and Gerald L. Hiestand Beauty, Order, and Mystery: A Christian Vision of Human Sexuality, Edited by Todd Wilson and Gerald L. Hiestand
    Ebook

    Beauty, Order, and Mystery

    A Christian Vision of Human Sexuality

    Center for Pastor Theologians Series

    Edited by Todd A Wilson and Gerald L. Hiestand

    Humans are sexual creatures.

    Our sexuality can be a beautiful and mysterious expression of what it means to be human. But it can also become distorted and sinful.

    Perhaps no issue is as urgent for the church today, orconfronts it with as many questions, as human sexuality: What does it mean to fulfill God’s will through our sexuality? To what extent should our sexuality ...

  • The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate, By John H. Walton
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    The Lost World of Adam and Eve

    Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate

    The Lost World Series

    by John H. Walton
    Contributions by N. T. Wright

    Christianity Today Biblical Studies Award of Merit

    For centuries the story of Adam and Eve has resonated richly through the corridors of art, literature and theology. But for most moderns, taking it at face value is incongruous. And even for many thinking Christians today who want to take seriously the authority of Scripture, insisting on a "literal" understanding ...

  • 1 Peter: An Introduction and Commentary, By Wayne A. Grudem
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    1 Peter

    An Introduction and Commentary

    Tyndale New Testament Commentaries

    by Wayne A. Grudem
    Series edited by Eckhard J. Schnabel
    Consulting Editor Nicholas Perrin

    Peter's short letter to the "exiles of the dispersion" addresses many topics: holiness, the sufferings of Christ, God's sovereignty in salvation and life, the grace of God, the work of the Holy Spirit, the church as the new peopleof God, the reality of the unseen spiritual world, and trusting in God in the midst of daily circumstances. What ties all these concepts together, Wayne ...

  • The Message of Psalms 1–72, By Michael Wilcock
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    The Message of Psalms 1–72

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by Michael Wilcock

    The book of Psalms is a favorite of Christians, even though we frequently read it in portions and pieces, hopscotching through the familiar and avoiding the odd, the unpleasant, and the difficult. But though the individual psalmsarose from an assortment of times, experiences, and settings, the book is composed in a deliberate pattern, not as a random anthology. The meaning of the ...