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THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 2 The Task
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 2 The Task
by SPCK - N T Wright
2. The Task (i) What to Do with the Wicked Tenants What, then, is the nature of our task? It may help if we begin with another illustration, again concerning a squabble over territory: A man planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a tower…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 18 Historical Method: Hypothesis and Verification
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 18 Historical Method: Hypothesis and Verification
by SPCK - N T Wright
Historical Method: Hypothesis and Verification (i) Introduction There is an important sense in which historical method is just like all other methods of enquiry. It proceeds by means of ‘hypotheses’, which stand in need of ‘verification’. As we saw earlier, a better way of puttin…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 43 Symbols
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 43 Symbols
by SPCK - N T Wright
Symbols (i) Introduction The stories which articulate a worldview focus upon the symbols which bring that worldview into visible and tangible reality. There is no problem in identifying the four key symbols which functioned in this way in relation to the Jewish stories. At the he…
a teacher's dozen Resource PowerPoint Bundle
a teacher's dozen Resource PowerPoint Bundle
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Complete Set of a teacher's dozen Resource PowerPoints The a teacher's dozen Resource PowerPoints are ONLY useable if you have purchased the assembly books. There is a Resource PowerPoint for each of the 12 "a teacher's dozen" assembly books. These enable you to project the praye…
How God Became King - 8c Power and Empire Within First-Century Judaism
How God Became King - 8c Power and Empire Within First-Century Judaism
by SPCK - N T Wright
Power and Empire Within First-Century Judaism As we saw earlier, the Judaism of the postexilic period had quite a well-developed narrative of God and empire. Even though many Jews longed for God to become king in the full, complete way he’d promised, they still believed that in t…
How God Became King - 10g Kingdom, Cross, Resurrection and Ascension
How God Became King - 10g Kingdom, Cross, Resurrection and Ascension
by SPCK - N T Wright
Kingdom, Cross, Resurrection and Ascension A word, in conclusion, about the immediate sequel. I have written extensively about the resurrection elsewhere (The Resurrection of the Son of God, Surprised by Hope) and a fair amount about the Ascension too (in addition to the above, s…
Meeting God in Paul - 3c Living in the new creation
Meeting God in Paul - 3c Living in the new creation
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Living in the new creation In 2 Corinthians 5.17, Paul says that to be baptized in commitment to Jesus is to become or to be involved in a ‘new creation’. Everything is beginning again because the real universe (as distinct from the fantasy world of our fear, selfishness, greed, …
The Minister as Entrepreneur - 8 “Habitually”
The Minister as Entrepreneur - 8 “Habitually”
by SPCK - Michael Volland
“Habitually” Bolton and Thompson tell us that ‘habit’ is the characteristic that distinguishes entrepreneurs from owner-managers in business. They explain, as noted above, that ‘the true entrepreneur just cannot stop being an entrepreneur’…
the historical character of Jesus - 5 “The sacrificial high priest”: Jesus in Hebrews
the historical character of Jesus - 5 “The sacrificial high priest”: Jesus in Hebrews
by SPCK - David Allen
“The sacrificial high priest”: Jesus in Hebrews In many ways, the ambience or ‘feel’ of Hebrews is fundamentally different from that of the rest of the NT, making it ‘almost certainly the most mysterious text to have been preserved in the NT canon’.1 Its focus on sacrifice, new c…
the historical character of Jesus - 7b Jesus in Jude
the historical character of Jesus - 7b Jesus in Jude
by SPCK - David Allen
Jesus in Jude Formerly described as the ‘most neglected book of the New Testament’,19 attention to Jude in recent years has demonstrated how its intricate appropriation and usage of Old Testament and pseudepigraphical material actually warrants no such lack of neglect…
Mere Apologetics - 5d Making Sense of Things: A Case Study
Mere Apologetics - 5d Making Sense of Things: A Case Study
by SPCK - Alister McGrath
Making Sense of Things: A Case Study To explore this further, we shall consider how effective the Christian way of seeing things is at making sense of what we observe. How good is the fit between theory and observation? So how can we make sense of the shape of history and the dis…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 1 Introduction
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 1 Introduction
by SPCK - N T Wright
Chapter One Introduction The land of Israel is a small country. You can walk its length, north to south, in a few days, and from its central mountains you can see its lateral boundaries, the sea to the west and the river to the east…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Household Code
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Household Code
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Household Code Household Duties in Greco-Roman Culture and Early Judaism As long ago as the fourth century BCE, philosophers considered the household a microcosm, the basic social unit whose structure ought to reflect the pyramidal structure of the whole society and even natu…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Violation of Earth and Zion