Honor Patronage Kinship Purity

Download Honor Patronage Kinship Purity full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Honor Patronage Kinship Purity ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Honor, Patronage, Kinship, & Purity

Author : David A. deSilva
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1514003864
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Honor, Patronage, Kinship, & Purity by : David A. deSilva

Download or read book Honor, Patronage, Kinship, & Purity written by David A. deSilva and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For contemporary Western readers, it can be easy to miss or misread cultural nuances in the New Testament. To hear the text correctly we must be attuned to its original context. As David deSilva demonstrates, keys to interpretation are found in paying attention to four essential cultural themes: honor and shame, patronage and reciprocity, kinship and family, and purity and pollution. Through our understanding of honor and shame in the Mediterranean world, we gain new appreciation for how early Christians sustained commitment to a distinctive Christian identity and practice. By examining the protocols of patronage and reciprocity, we grasp more firmly the connections between God’s grace and our response. In exploring kinship and household relations, we grasp more fully the ethos of the early Christian communities as a new family brought together by God. And by investigating the notions of purity and pollution along with their associated practices, we realize how the ancient map of society and the world was revised by the power of the gospel. This new edition is thoroughly revised and expanded with up-to-date scholarship. A milestone work in the study of New Testament cultural backgrounds, Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity offers a deeper appreciation of the New Testament, the gospel, and Christian discipleship.

One Another

Author : David Arthur DeSilva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781628249163
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (491 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis One Another by : David Arthur DeSilva

Download or read book One Another written by David Arthur DeSilva and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, David deSilva guides us through the images of the church that remind us that we are a family, a temple made of living stones, a single organism called “the body of Christ.” Each image reinforces our connections with and our obligations to one another, if the new person that the Spirit seeks to bring to life within each one of us is to flourish and reach maturity. He explores the apostolic vision for our interaction with one another, challenging us to be—and to receive—the gifts that Christ intends for us to be for one another—welcoming, loving, serving, encouraging, watching over, and restoring one another—so that each individual disciple feels the strength, support, and guardianship of the whole body impelling him or her on to the full stature of Christ."--Publisher.

Families in the New Testament World

Author : Carolyn Osiek
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664255466
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (554 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Families in the New Testament World by : Carolyn Osiek

Download or read book Families in the New Testament World written by Carolyn Osiek and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the family like for the first Christians? Informed by archaeological work and illustrated by figures, this work is a remarkable window into the past, one that both informs and illuminates our current condition. The Family, Culture, and Religion series offers informed and responsible analyses of the state of the American family from a religious perspective and provides practical assistance for the family's revitalization.

An Introduction to the New Testament

Author : DAVID A DESILVA
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1789740010
Total Pages : 1075 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (897 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis An Introduction to the New Testament by : DAVID A DESILVA

Download or read book An Introduction to the New Testament written by DAVID A DESILVA and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 1075 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor deSilva's outstanding textbook sets a new standard for the genre. The usual topics of New Testament introduction are integrated with instruction in interpretative strategies and application to ministry formation. The attractive layout includes numerous maps, photographs and text-boxes.

Seeing Things John's Way

Author : David A. deSilva
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664224493
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (244 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Seeing Things John's Way by : David A. deSilva

Download or read book Seeing Things John's Way written by David A. deSilva and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emotionally evocative power of the book of Revelation has been often noted and experienced by interpreters, but until now it has never been systematically explored. The strange visions of the book of Revelation provide some of the most difficult passages of the New Testament, yet Christians have long been fascinated by its power and provocative pronouncements. David deSilva analyzes how the book argues and persuades us to see the world through the eyes of John, and suggests that the study of ancient rhetoric is particularly valuable in understanding the book of Revelation. deSilva interprets the book of Revelation as a rhetorical and communicative strategy to persuade a particular audience for specific goals. Throughout this analysis, he pursues John's construction of his own authority, John's use of emotion and logic, and his attempt to shape the formation of the reader. Despite the complexities of Revelation, deSilva has produced a remarkably clear text sure to cause readers to rethink their view of Revelation.

Seek the Welfare of the City

Author : Bruce W. Winter
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802840912
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Seek the Welfare of the City by : Bruce W. Winter

Download or read book Seek the Welfare of the City written by Bruce W. Winter and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Bruce W. Winter maps out the role and obligations of Christians as benefactors and citizens in their society. Winter's scholarly insight is enhanced through the selective use of important ancient literary and nonliterary sources. Contrary to the popular perception that early Christians withdrew from society and sought to maintain a low profile, this outstanding study explores the complexities of the positive commitments made by Christians in Gentile regions of the Roman empire.

Honor and Grace in Anthropology

Author : John George Peristiany
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521619325
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Honor and Grace in Anthropology by : John George Peristiany

Download or read book Honor and Grace in Anthropology written by John George Peristiany and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays develops a line of thought in anthropology which was opened in the 1960s by the editors (and some of the same contributors) in Honor and Shame: The Values of a Mediterranean Society. The essays, half of them historical and half contemporary, deal with different aspects of honour and grace, and the strategies and transactions by which they can be obtained.

The World of the New Testament

Author : Joel B. Green
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1441240543
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The World of the New Testament by : Joel B. Green

Download or read book The World of the New Testament written by Joel B. Green and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the most important issues related to the study of New Testament writings. Two respected senior scholars have brought together a team of distinguished specialists to introduce the Jewish, Hellenistic, and Roman backgrounds necessary for understanding the New Testament and the early church. Contributors include renowned scholars such as Lynn H. Cohick, David A. deSilva, James D. G. Dunn, and Ben Witherington III. The book includes seventy-five photographs, fifteen maps, numerous tables and charts, illustrations, and bibliographies. All students of the New Testament will value this reliable, up-to-date, comprehensive textbook and reference volume on the New Testament world.

Herder's Political Thought

Author : Vicki A. Spencer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442695358
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Herder's Political Thought by : Vicki A. Spencer

Download or read book Herder's Political Thought written by Vicki A. Spencer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-04-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Gottfried Herder was a philosopher and important intellectual presence in eighteenth-century Germany. Herder's Political Thought examines the work of this significant figure in the context of both historical and contemporary developments in political philosophy. Vicki A. Spencer reveals Herder as one of the first Western philosophers to grapple seriously with cultural diversity without abandoning a commitment to universal values and the first to make language and culture an issue of justice. As Spencer argues, both have made Herder a source of inspiration for the pluralist turn of contemporary political philosophy. Contending that in an era of globalization, it is no longer possible to ignore Herder's crucial insights on the relationship between cultural membership and individual identity, Spencer demonstrates how these ideas can help us understand, and perhaps resolve, the linguistic and cultural-political struggles of our times.

Honor, Shame, and the Gospel

Author : Christopher Flanders
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645082830
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Honor, Shame, and the Gospel by : Christopher Flanders

Download or read book Honor, Shame, and the Gospel written by Christopher Flanders and published by William Carey Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Honorific Gospel: Biblically Faithful & Culturally Relevant Christians engaged in communicating the gospel navigate a challenging tension: faithfulness to God’s ancient, revealed Word—and relevance to the local, current social context. What if there was a lens or paradigm offering both? Understanding the Bible—particularly the gospel—through the ancient cultural “language” of honor-shame offers believers this double blessing. In Honor, Shame, and the Gospel, over a dozen practitioners and scholars from diverse contexts and fields add to the ongoing conversation around the theological and missiological implications of an honorific gospel. Eight illuminating case studies explore ways to make disciples in a diversity of social contexts—for example, East Asian rural, Middle Eastern refugee, African tribal, and Western secular urban. Honor, Shame, and the Gospel provides valuable resources to impact the ministry efforts of the church, locally and globally. Linked with its ancient honor-shame cultural roots, the gospel, paradoxically, is ever new—offering fresh wisdom to Christian leaders and optimism to the church for our quest to expand Christ’s kingdom and serve the worldwide mission of God.

The New Testament in Its Social Environment

Author : John E. Stambaugh
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664250126
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The New Testament in Its Social Environment by : John E. Stambaugh

Download or read book The New Testament in Its Social Environment written by John E. Stambaugh and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the history of the Near East

Transformation

Author : David A. deSilva
Publisher : Lexham Press
ISBN 13 : 1577995856
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (779 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Transformation by : David A. deSilva

Download or read book Transformation written by David A. deSilva and published by Lexham Press. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gospel is often presented as little more than a "get out of hell free" pass. But is that all there is to it? What made it so compelling that the Apostle Paul would give up everything, enduring hardships and deprivation to preach good news? David deSilva argues that some Christians have unintentionally reduced the gospel to a message Paul would hardly recognize. The "gift of righteousness" is far richer than many of us have dared to imagine! In Transformation: The Heart of Paul's Gospel, deSilva examines the gospel message as presented in Paul's letters. He demonstrates that Paul had nothing less than in mind than the means to transform and renew all of creation--including ourselves. Prepare to let Paul's message of change and renewal transform your own thinking.

The Social Sciences and New Testament Interpretation

Author : Richard L. Rohrbaugh
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781565634107
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (341 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Social Sciences and New Testament Interpretation by : Richard L. Rohrbaugh

Download or read book The Social Sciences and New Testament Interpretation written by Richard L. Rohrbaugh and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methods and findings from the social sciences are increasingly important for New Testament scholars. Unfortunately, however, anthropology and related disciplines are still unfamiliar territory for many students of the Bible. This work acquaints readers with this territory by providing introductions and basic bibliographic orientations to the application of social-scientific categories to New Testament research.Although it is impossible to know fully how ancient people lived their daily lives, these essays come as close to realizing that goal as we moderns are likely to get. Required reading for anyone who respects Scripture enough to investigate the world in which it was written and to which its writers originally spoke . . . an invaluable resource for pastor, seminarian, and scholar alike. William R. Herzog II, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School

Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes

Author : E. Randolph Richards
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830843795
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes by : E. Randolph Richards

Download or read book Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes written by E. Randolph Richards and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible was written within collectivist cultures. When Westerners, immersed in individualism, read the Bible, it's easy to misinterpret important elements—or miss them altogether. In any culture, the most important things usually go without being said. So to read Scripture well we benefit when we uncover the unspoken social structures and values of its world. We need to recalibrate our vision. Combining the expertise of a biblical scholar and a missionary practitioner, Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes is an essential guidebook to the cultural background of the Bible and how it should inform our reading. E. Randolph Richards and Richard James explore deep social structures of the ancient Mediterranean—kinship, patronage, and brokerage—along with their key social tools—honor, shame, and boundaries—that the biblical authors lived in and lie below the surface of each text. From Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar to Peter's instructions to elders, the authors strip away individualist assumptions and bring the world of the biblical writers to life. Expanding on the popular Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes, this book makes clear how understanding collectivism will help us better understand the Bible, which in turn will help us live more faithfully in an increasingly globalized world.

The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse

Author : Vernon K. Robbins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134826672
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse by : Vernon K. Robbins

Download or read book The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse written by Vernon K. Robbins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original study, Vernon Robbins expounds and develops his system of socio-rhetorical criticism, bringing together social-scientific and literary-critical approaches to explore early Christianity.

Introducing the Apocrypha

Author : David A. deSilva
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493413074
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Introducing the Apocrypha by : David A. deSilva

Download or read book Introducing the Apocrypha written by David A. deSilva and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the Old Testament apocryphal books summarizes their context, message, and significance. The first edition has been very well reviewed and widely adopted. It is the most substantial introduction to the Apocrypha available and has become a standard authority on the topic. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated throughout to reflect the latest scholarship. The book includes a foreword by James H. Charlesworth.

Pillars of Cloud and Fire

Author : Herbert Robinson Marbury
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479894885
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Pillars of Cloud and Fire by : Herbert Robinson Marbury

Download or read book Pillars of Cloud and Fire written by Herbert Robinson Marbury and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the birth of the United States, African Americans were excluded from the newly-formed Republic and its churches, which saw them as savage rather than citizen and as heathen rather than Christian. Denied civil access to the basic rights granted to others, African Americans have developed their own sacred traditions and their own civil discourses. As part of this effort, African American intellectuals offered interpretations of the Bible which were radically different and often fundamentally oppositional to those of many of their white counterparts. By imagining a freedom unconstrained, their work charted a broader and, perhaps, a more genuinely American identity. In Pillars of Cloud and Fire, Herbert Robinson Marbury offers a comprehensive survey of African American biblical interpretation. Each chapter in this compelling volume moves chronologically, from the antebellum period and the Civil War through to the Harlem Renaissance, the civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Obama era, to offer a historical context for the interpretative activity of that time and to analyze its effect in transforming black social reality. For African American thinkers such as Absalom Jones, David Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Frances E. W. Harper, Adam Clayton Powell, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the exodus story became the language-world through which freedom both in its sacred resonance and its civil formation found expression. This tradition, Marbury argues, has much to teach us in a world where fundamentalisms have become synonymous with “authentic” religious expression and American identity. For African American biblical interpreters, to be American and to be Christian was always to be open and oriented toward freedom.