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John The People's Commentary - Destroy This Temple
John The People's Commentary - Destroy This Temple
by BRF - Richard A. Burridge
Destroy This Temple It is not only in his placing of the temple incident at the start of Jesus’ ministry that John differs from the other gospels. He also has this story concerning a saying of Jesus about the destruction of the temple…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Moral World of Biblical Patriarchy and the Problem of Solidarity
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Moral World of Biblical Patriarchy and the Problem of Solidarity
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Moral World of Biblical Patriarchy and the Problem of Solidarity For the author’s purposes it was necessary that the hero of the book be a character at the top of the social order. The hero must be one who quite literally has everything to lose…
Meeting God in Paul - 1c Paul the man
Meeting God in Paul - 1c Paul the man
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Paul the man But what of Paul himself? What kind of a person was he? So far we’ve been sketching out the whole environment, leaving in the middle of it all a human-sized shadow. What kind of man? What age? What do we know of his personal life?…
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, …
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 1c An intelligent response to environmental crisis
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 1c An intelligent response to environmental crisis
by SPCK - Sebastian C.H. Kim and Jonathan Draper
An intelligent response to environmental crisis The ecological crisis challenges us to be reasonable. Put like that, it sounds banal; but given the level of irrationality around the question, it is well worth saying, especially if we are clear about the roots of reasoning in thes…
The Pastoral Letters - Conditions of Service