Author : P.D. James
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0857861077
Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author : Hyam Maccoby
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9780760707876
The author presents new arguments which support the view that Paul, not Jesus, was the founder of Christianity. He argues that Jesus and also his immediate disciples James and Peter were life-long adherents of Pharisaic Judaism. Paul, however, was not, as he claimed, a native-born Jew of Pharisee upbringing, but came in fact from a Gentile background. He maintains that it was Paul alone who created a new religion by his vision of Jesus as a Divine Saviour who died to save humanity. This concept, which went far beyond the messianic claims of Jesus, was an amalgamation of ideas derived from Hellenistic religion, especially from Gnosticism and the mystery cults. Paul played a devious and adventurous political game with Jesus' followers of the so-called Jerusalem Church, who eventually disowned him. The conclusions of this historical and psychological study will come as a shock to many readers, but it is nevertheless a book which cannot be ignored by anyone concerned with the foundations of our culture and society. -- Book jacket.
Author : David Limbaugh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1621577597
Originally confined to a small circle of believers centered in Jerusalem, Christianity's stunning transformation into the world's most popular faith is one of history's greatest, most miraculous stories. In Jesus Is Risen, #1 national bestselling author David Limbaugh provides a riveting account of the birth of Christianity. Using the Book of Acts and six New Testament epistles as his guide, Limbaugh takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the sorrow and suffering, as well as the joys and triumphs, of the apostles and other key figures as Christianity bursts through the borders of Judea following the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. Limbaugh particularly focuses on the crucial role that the Apostle Paul played in these historic events. Facing incredible adversities, from arrests to shipwrecks to violent mobs and murder plots, Paul overcomes countless obstacles as he travels far and wide to spread the Gospel. In Jesus Is Risen you will discover: • How the apostles themselves disproved modern arguments that early Christians did not believe in Jesus’ divinity. • The true story behind the first conversion to Christianity by a Gentile. • The many underhanded ways Christianity’s opponents tried in vain to stifle the Church in its infancy. • Paul’s most effective techniques and arguments for bringing converts to Christ. Throughout these pages, Limbaugh’s passion for the Bible is unmistakable and infectious. Replete with deep insights into the actions, arguments, and challenges of the world’s first Christian communities, Jesus Is Risen is a faith-affirming book for Christians at all stages of their faith walk.
Author :
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 37,68 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1615923675
Author : James D. Tabor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 1439123322
Draws on St. Paul's letters and other early sources to reveal the apostles' sharply competing ideas about the significance of Jesus and his teachings while demonstrating how St. Paul independently shaped Christianity as it is known today.
Author : Michael O. Emerson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195147070
Through a nationwide survey, the authors of this study conclude that US Evangelicals may actually be preserving the racial chasm, not through active racism, but because their theology hinders their ability to recognise systematic injustice.
Author : N. T. Wright
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 10,14 MB
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 080287178X
Based on various lectures given at various places and times.
Author : Charles A. Anderson Scott
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Bible
ISBN :
On the theology and Christology of Saint Paul.
Author : John Piper
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433565072
"Besides Jesus, no one has kept me from despair, or taken me deeper into the mysteries of the gospel, than the apostle Paul." —John Piper No one has had a greater impact on the world for eternal good than the apostle Paul—except Jesus himself. For John Piper, this impact is very personal. He does not just admire and trust Paul. He loves him. Piper gives us thirty glimpses into why his heart and mind respond this way. Can a Christian-killer really endure 195 lashes from a heart of love? Can a mystic who thinks he was caught up into heaven be a model of lucid rationality? Can an ethnocentric Jew write the most beautiful call to reconciliation? Can a person who lives with the unceasing anguish of empathy be always rejoicing? Can a man's description of the horrors of human sin be exceeded by his delight in human splendor? Can a man with a backbone of steel be as tender as a nursing mother? If we know this man—if we see what Piper sees—we too will love him. Paul's testimony is a matter of life and death. Piper invites you into his relationship with Paul in the hope that you will know life, forever.
