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Book Synopsis Onesimus Our Brother by : Matthew V. Johnson
Download or read book Onesimus Our Brother written by Matthew V. Johnson and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew V. Johnson is senior pastor at The Good Shepherd Church (Baptist) in Atlanta. --
Book Synopsis LEAVING LAODICEA by : Steve McCranie
Download or read book LEAVING LAODICEA written by Steve McCranie and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Week in the Life of a Slave by : John Byron
Download or read book A Week in the Life of a Slave written by John Byron and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul's epistle to Philemon is one of the shortest books in the entire Bible, and it certainly leaves plenty to the imagination. From the pen of an accomplished New Testament scholar, this vivid historical fiction account follows the slave Onesimus, fleshing out the lived context of first-century Ephesus and providing a social and theological critique of slavery in the Roman Empire.
Book Synopsis The Story of a Runaway Slave by : Charles Spurgeon
Download or read book The Story of a Runaway Slave written by Charles Spurgeon and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Haddon Spurgeon (June 19, 1834 - January 31, 1892) was an English Particular Baptist preacher and is known as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the Church in agreement with the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith understanding, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day. Spurgeon was the pastor of the congregation of the New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London for 38 years. He was a prolific author of many types of works including sermons, an autobiography, commentaries, books on prayer, devotionals, magazines, poetry, hymns, and more. Many sermons were transcribed as he spoke and were translated into many languages during his lifetime. Spurgeon produced powerful sermons of penetrating thought and precise exposition. His oratory skills held his listeners spellbound in the Metropolitan Tabernacle and many Christians hold his writings in exceptionally high regard among devotional literature.
Book Synopsis From the Maccabees to the Mishnah by : Shaye J. D. Cohen
Download or read book From the Maccabees to the Mishnah written by Shaye J. D. Cohen and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the period from the 160s to 63 B.C.E., when the Maccabees ruled the Jews, up to the publication of the Mishnah in the second century C.E.
Author :Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies Stephen E Young Publisher : ISBN 13 :9781481315319 Total Pages :256 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (153 download)
Book Synopsis Our Brother Beloved by : Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies Stephen E Young
Download or read book Our Brother Beloved written by Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies Stephen E Young and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Draws on Positioning Theory to offer a fresh reading of Philemon and challenge traditional interpretations that argue for a pro-slavery perspective in the letter"--
Book Synopsis A Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation of the Letter to Philemon in Light of the New Institutional Economics by : Alex Hon Ho Ip
Download or read book A Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation of the Letter to Philemon in Light of the New Institutional Economics written by Alex Hon Ho Ip and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Alex Hon Ho Ip argues that when Paul wrote to Philemon about Onesimus, his main purpose was not to try and reunite, as is widely held, a runaway slave with his master, but rather to have Onesimus accepted as a beloved brother in Christ. By examining the letter's inner texture, the author shows that Paul's main concern was for Philemon and Onesimus to be reconciled in brotherly love. The inter-textual weave reveals Paul's theological and ethical thoughts on love, which is the basis for the apostle's main argument. By taking a new institutional economics approach to help reconstruct the economic relationship between slave and master, Alex Hon Ho Ip is able to offer a better understanding of the original relationship Paul argued against. With all this in mind, the focus is on re-reading the letter and hearing how Paul's rhetoric exhorts a new relationship between Onesimus and Philemon.
Book Synopsis Popular Lectures on the Books of the New Testament by : Augustus Hopkins Strong
Download or read book Popular Lectures on the Books of the New Testament written by Augustus Hopkins Strong and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Philemon in Perspective by : D. Francois Tolmie
Download or read book Philemon in Perspective written by D. Francois Tolmie and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated entirely to the interpretation of Paul's Letter to Philemon. The letter is approached from a wide variety of perspectives, thus yielding several new insights into its interpretation. In a first essay the tendencies in the research on the letter since 1980 are outlined. This is followed by essays devoted to the epistolary analysis and to a rhetorical-psychological interpretation of the letter; as well as an essay devoted to the rhetorical function of stylistic form in the letter. After this there are two essays devoted to situating the letter in its ancient context: one views the letter against the background of ancient legal and documentary sources and another one against the background of slavery in early Christianity. The next two essays focus on theological aspects, namely on the letter as ethical counterpart of Paul's doctrine of justification and on the role that love plays in the letter. Three essays focus on ideological issues: the contextual interpretation of the letter in the US, a post-colonial reading of the letter and the letter's legacy of hierarchy and obedience. The volume concludes with four essays on the way in which the letter was interpreted by the some of the Church Fathers: Origen, Jerome, Chrystostom, Augustine and Theodore of Mopsuestia.
Book Synopsis The Negro Bible - The Slave Bible by :
Download or read book The Negro Bible - The Slave Bible written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Slave Bible was published in 1807. It was commissioned on behalf of the Society for the Conversion of Negro Slaves in England. The Bible was to be used by missionaries and slave owners to teach slaves about the Christian faith and to evangelize slaves. The Bible was used to teach some slaves to read, but the goal first and foremost was to tend to the spiritual needs of the slaves in the way the missionaries and slave owners saw fit.
Book Synopsis Paul Among the People by : Sarah Ruden
Download or read book Paul Among the People written by Sarah Ruden and published by Image. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a common—and fundamental—misconception that Paul told people how to live. Apart from forbidding certain abusive practices, he never gives any precise instructions for living. It would have violated his two main social principles: human freedom and dignity, and the need for people to love one another. Paul was a Hellenistic Jew, originally named Saul, from the tribe of Benjamin, who made a living from tent making or leatherworking. He called himself the “Apostle to the Gentiles” and was the most important of the early Christian evangelists. Paul is not easy to understand. The Greeks and Romans themselves probably misunderstood him or skimmed the surface of his arguments when he used terms such as “law” (referring to the complex system of Jewish religious law in which he himself was trained). But they did share a language—Greek—and a cosmopolitan urban culture, that of the Roman Empire. Paul considered evangelizing the Greeks and Romans to be his special mission. “For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another. For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’” The idea of love as the only rule was current among Jewish thinkers of his time, but the idea of freedom being available to anyone was revolutionary. Paul, regarded by Christians as the greatest interpreter of Jesus’ mission, was the first person to explain how Christ’s life and death fit into the larger scheme of salvation, from the creation of Adam to the end of time. Preaching spiritual equality and God’s infinite love, he crusaded for the Jewish Messiah to be accepted as the friend and deliverer of all humankind. In Paul Among the People, Sarah Ruden explores the meanings of his words and shows how they might have affected readers in his own time and culture. She describes as well how his writings represented the new church as an alternative to old ways of thinking, feeling, and living. Ruden translates passages from ancient Greek and Roman literature, from Aristophanes to Seneca, setting them beside famous and controversial passages of Paul and their key modern interpretations. She writes about Augustine; about George Bernard Shaw’s misguided notion of Paul as “the eternal enemy of Women”; and about the misuse of Paul in the English Puritan Richard Baxter’s strictures against “flesh-pleasing.” Ruden makes clear that Paul’s ethics, in contrast to later distortions, were humane, open, and responsible. Paul Among the People is a remarkable work of scholarship, synthesis, and understanding; a revelation of the founder of Christianity.
Book Synopsis Encountering the New Testament by : Walter A. Elwell
Download or read book Encountering the New Testament written by Walter A. Elwell and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 1998 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains c-disc in back pocket.
Book Synopsis All the Men of the Bible by : Herbert Lockyer
Download or read book All the Men of the Bible written by Herbert Lockyer and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1988-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the Men of the Bible is a portrait gallery and reference library of over 3,000 named biblical characters. A monumental achievement, this book puts comprehensive information on men of the Bible at your fingertips, including a list of major characters. Besides named individuals, it also classifies the thousands upon thousands of unnamed men. And it explores the attributes of the greatest man of all: Jesus, God's biblical model for manhood. Herbert W. Lockyer's 'All' books give you life-enriching insights into the Bible. From characters you can learn from, to teachings you can apply, to promises you can stand on and prophecies you can count on, Lockyer's time-honored works help you wrap your mind around the Bible and get it into your heart. Lockyer's books include All the Apostles of the Bible, All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible, All the Doctrines of the Bible, All the Men of the Bible, All the Women of the Bible, All the Messianic Prophecies of the Bible, All the Miracles of the Bible, All the Parables of the Bible, All the Prayers of the Bible, and All the Promises of the Bible.
Download or read book Onesimus written by Markus McDowell and published by Riversong Books. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "¿based on a true story, Onesimus is a Roman slave who is willing to do questionable acts for freedom of body and soul. But he finds himself on a journey that will test his courage, challenge his view of society, and force him to decide what 'freedom' really means." (Jon Sparks, Historical Fiction Review)Let's go back to the Roman Empire of the First Century¿¿and watch through the eyes of a young, unhappy slave named Onesimus (which means "useful"). He finds himself in a predicament that will lead to torture and perhaps death. The world of the Roman Empire is a highly structured society of deities, slaves, masters, prostitutes, government corruption, soldiers-and a young new religion based on the Jewish faith. Onesimus doesn't know much about it, except that it is quite strange and should probably be illegal.It's a very different world than ours, but the struggles of this young slave are not so different: finding peace, love, purpose, and integrity in a world that seems to care about none of those things.
Book Synopsis Embassy of Onesimus by : Allen Dwight Callahan
Download or read book Embassy of Onesimus written by Allen Dwight Callahan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtually all modern commentaries on Philemon agree with the interpretation from late antiquity that the letter treats the case of Onesimus, a pilfering runaway slave, who Paul is attempting to rehabilitate in the eyes of Philemon, his rightfully angry master. In this commentary, however, Allen Callahan tells another story. His reading of the rhetorical situation and reconstruction of the historical context provides a new narrative for the letter. He interpretation for which he argues is that of several nineteenth-century American abolitionist interpreters. Here, then, is not the story of a runaway slave but a story of the estrangement of two Christina brothers, Onesimus and Philemon. Professor Callahan proposes that his alternative reading of the letter offers a paradigm for Christian reconciliation that necessarily includes diplomacy, persuasion, forbearance, and reparations for injured parties. In other words, the letter speaks of the challenging implications of Christian love and the imperative of Christian justice. If there is an interpretation of great moment to be offered for this otherwise unremarkable piece of correspondence, then the treatment of these themes holds the promise of such an interpretation. Allen Dwight Callahan teaches New Testament at Harvard Divinity School.
Book Synopsis Slavery in the Roman World by : Sandra R. Joshel
Download or read book Slavery in the Roman World written by Sandra R. Joshel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and comprehensive overview of Roman slavery, ideal for introductory-level students of the ancient Mediterranean world.
Book Synopsis Unlikely Leaders by : Ellen Gould Harmon White
Download or read book Unlikely Leaders written by Ellen Gould Harmon White and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
