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  • The Making of the New Testament: Origin, Collection, Text & Canon, By Arthur G. Patzia
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    The Making of the New Testament

    Origin, Collection, Text & Canon

    by Arthur G. Patzia

    The story of the making of the New Testament is one in which scrolls bumped across cobbled Roman roads and pitched through rolling Mediterranean seas, finally finding their destinations in stuffy, dimly lit Christian house churches in Corinth or Colossae. There they were read aloud and reread, handled and copied, forwarded and collected, studied and treasured. And eventually they were brought together ...

  • Isaiah 1-39, Edited by Steven A. McKinion
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    Isaiah 1-39

    Volume 10

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Steven A. McKinion
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    For to us a child is born,
    to us a son is given;
    and the government will be upon his shoulder
    and his name shall be called
    "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
    Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

    For the early church fathers the prophecy of Isaiah was not a compendium of Jewish history or theology but an announcement of the coming Messiah fulfilled in the life and ministry ...

  • Isaiah 1-39, Edited by Steven A. McKinion
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    Isaiah 1-39

    Volume 10

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Steven A. McKinion
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    For to us a child is born,
    to us a son is given;
    and the government will be upon his shoulder
    and his name shall be called
    "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
    Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

    For the early church fathers the prophecy of Isaiah was not a compendium of Jewish history or theology but an announcement of the coming Messiah fulfilled in the life and ministry ...

  • Luke, Edited by Arthur Just Jr.
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    Luke

    Volume 3

    Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Arthur Just
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    For the church fathers the Gospels did not serve as resources for individual analysis and academic study. They were read and heard and interpreted within the worshiping community. They served as sources for pastoral counsel and admonition for those who were committed to the Way. Although Matthew and John were generally the preferred Gospels, Luke, because of his particular interests and unique contributions, ...

  • Biblical Theology: Retrospect  Prospect, Edited by Scott J. Hafemann
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    Biblical Theology

    Retrospect Prospect

    Wheaton Theology Conference Series

    Edited by Scott Hafemann

    Ever since Brevard Childs's 1970 declaration of the crisis in biblical theology, the discipline has faced rumors of its imminent demise. But the patient refuses to die. The doctors continue to argue over how to proceed with treatment and even overwhether treatment is worth pursuing, but the patient hangs on.The turn of the millennium appears to be a good time for a fresh assessment of the discipline, ...

  • Evangelicalism & the Stone-Campbell Movement, Edited by William R. Baker
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    Evangelicalism & the Stone-Campbell Movement

    Foreword by Mark A. Noll
    Edited by William R. Baker

    The Stone-Campbell Movement, also known as the Restoration Movement, arose on the frontiers of early nineteenth-century America. Like-minded Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians abandoned denominational labels in order to be "Christians only." They called followers to join in Christian unity and restore the ideals of the New Testament church, holding authoritative no book but the Bible and believing ...