LEAVING LAODICEA
Author : Steve McCranie
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780977155835
Onesimus Our Brother
Author : Matthew V. Johnson
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 11,22 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451410212
Book Description
Matthew V. Johnson is senior pastor at The Good Shepherd Church (Baptist) in Atlanta. --
A Week in the Life of a Slave
Author : John Byron
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830870784
Book Description
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.
The Negro Bible - The Slave Bible
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781936533800
Book Description
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.
The Story of a Runaway Slave
Author : Charles Spurgeon
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2018-03-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781986313742
Book Description
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.
From the Maccabees to the Mishnah
Author : Shaye J. D. Cohen
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664250171
Book Description
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.
Our Brother Beloved
Author : Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies Stephen E Young
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781481315319
Book Description
"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"--
A Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation of the Letter to Philemon in Light of the New Institutional Economics
Author : Alex Hon Ho Ip
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161547287
Book Description
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.
Philemon in Perspective
Author : D. Francois Tolmie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 311022173X
Book Description
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.
Popular Lectures on the Books of the New Testament
Author : Augustus Hopkins Strong
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 19,43 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Bible
ISBN :
