The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus & the Truth of the Traditional Gospels
10 best books like The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus & the Truth of the Traditional Gospels (Luke Timothy Johnson): On the Incarnation, Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak, Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak, "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide, The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide, Jesus and the God of Israel: God Crucified and Other Studies on the New Testament's Christology of Divine Identity, The Apostolic Preaching & Its Developments, Letters to Spiritual Children, Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness, The Jesus Quest
| Author | Athanasius of Alexandria |
| ISBN | 0913836400 |
I was pleased to find On the Incarnation remarkably fresh and engaging, still fierce and still passionate too. Such is rarely the case with works of theology, particularly when orthodoxy has robbed them even of the novelty of heresy, for dry-as-dust disquisitions on settled questions often summon...
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak
| Author | Jean Hatzfeld |
| ISBN | 1590512731 |
To make the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is a painful task that we have no right to shirk-it is part of being a moral adult."
-Susan Sontag
In the late 1990s, French author and journalist Jean Hatzfeld made several journeys into the hilly, marshy region of the Bugesera, one...
Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
| Author | Jean Hatzfeld |
| ISBN | 0312425031 |
During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war. Several years later, journalist Jean Hatzfeld traveled to Rwanda to interview ten participants in the killings, eliciting extraordinary testimony...
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
| Author | Samantha Power |
| ISBN | 0060541644 |
Former UN Ambassador Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning analysis of America's repeated failure to stop genocides around the world
In her Pulitzer Prize-winning examination of the last century of American history, Samantha Power asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders...
The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide
| Author | Jean Hatzfeld |
| ISBN | 0374271038 |
A powerful report on the aftereffects of the genocide in Rwanda--and on the near impossibility of reconciliation between survivors and killers
In two acclaimed previous works, the noted French journalist Jean Hatzfeld offered a profound, harrowing witness to the unimaginable pain and...
Jesus and the God of Israel: God Crucified and Other Studies on the New Testament's Christology of Divine Identity
| Author | Richard Bauckham |
| ISBN | 0802845592 |
How did Christians come to believe that Jesus was God in the flesh? The usual answer is that this belief developed slowly, from a very human Jesus early on to one who became more and more divine until full Trinitarian theology took hold. A large impetus in this was the penetration of Christianity into the...
The Apostolic Preaching & Its Developments
| Author | C.H. Dodd |
| ISBN | 0801029090 |
This is an excellent book for those interested in the new perspective on Paul. Dodd was one of the pioneers of that perspective and he touches on the subject in this book. The second essay is inferior to the other two and he is somewhat a product of his times - the well read reader can believe that he studied...
Letters to Spiritual Children
| Author | Abbot Nikon (Vorobiev) |
| ISBN | 1879066033 |
This book unfolds the abc's of spiritual life over the course of several letters to Abbot Nikon's spiritual children. It deserves a far, far wider readership than it has now, and I am forever grateful to the translators. These are letters containing a spiritual knowledge that was experiential, suffered...
Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness
| Author | Richard B. Hays |
| ISBN | 1481302329 |
In Reading Backwards Richard B. Hays maps the shocking ways the four Gospel writers interpreted Israel's Scripture to craft their literary witnesses to the Church's one Christ. The Gospels' scriptural imagination discovered inside the long tradition of a resilient Jewish monotheism a novel and...
| Author | Ben Witherington III |
| ISBN | 0830815449 |
Who is the Jesus behind the Gospel narratives? How would he have been understood by his contemporaries? Did the church transform a charismatic rabbi or a peasant-philosopher into its heavenly, incarnate Lord? Does the key to Jesus' real identity actually lie in the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Peter...
St. Paul the Traveler and Roman Citizen
| Author | William Mitchell Ramsay |
| ISBN | 0825436397 |
The story of Paul has always captivated Christians--a terrible persecutor of the church turned phenomenal Christian missionary. In addition to being a primary source for much of modern theology, the biblical accounts of Paul and his travels have always been a reference point for historians. For...
Paul and the Faithfulness of God
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0800626834 |
This highly anticipated two-book fourth volume in N. T. Wright's magisterial series, Christian Origins and the Question of God, is destined to become the standard reference point on the subject for all serious students of the Bible and theology. The mature summation of a lifetime's study, this landmark...
The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture's Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity
| Author | Andreas J. Köstenberger |
| ISBN | 1433501430 |
Beginning with Walter Bauer in 1934, the denial of clear orthodoxy in early Christianity has shaped and largely defined modern New Testament criticism, recently given new life through the work of spokesmen like Bart Ehrman. Spreading from academia into mainstream media, the suggestion that diversity...
The Unquenchable Flame: Discovering the Heart of the Reformation
Burning pyres, nuns on the run, stirring courage, and comic relief: the Protestant Reformation is a gripping tale, packed with drama. But what motivated the Reformers? And what were they really like? The Unquenchable Flame, a lively, accessible, and fully informative introduction to the Reformation...
Saving the Reformation: The Pastoral Theology of the Canons of Dort
| Author | W. Robert Godfrey |
| ISBN | 1642890308 |
There has been renewed interest in the five points of Calvinism among many Christians today. But these doctrines are not a product of the twenty-first century. So where did they come from, and why are they so important? Dr. W. Robert Godfrey takes us back to 1618-19 when the Canons of Dort were written...
O mie și una de nopți: repovestire după basmele arabe
Cu mult timp în urmă a trăit un sultan fără seamăn, pe nume Şahriar, a cărui stăpânire se întindea până în cele mai îndepărtate colţuri ale pământului. Aflând că fratele său fusese trădat de aleasa lui, sultanul a hotărât, cu mintea înnegurată de mânie, să piardă, rând...
| Author | Eusebius |
| ISBN | 0198149247 |
Cameron and Hall have given us an accessible translation and introduction to this controversial and fascinating work by the 4th-century bishop, biblical exegete, and ecclesiastical historian Eusebius of Caesarea. The Life of Constantine has received a great deal of attention, much of it derisive,...
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Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture
| Author | Jaroslav Pelikan |
| ISBN | 0300079877 |
One of the most highly regarded works of intellectual history of the past decade, Jesus Through the Centuries is an original and compelling study of the impact of Jesus on cultural, political, social, and economic history. Noted historian and theologian Jaroslav Pelikan reveals how the image of Jesus...
Acts and the History of Earliest Christianity
| Author | Martin Hengel |
| ISBN | 1592441904 |
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The Resurrection of the Son of God
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0800626796 |
Why did Christianity begin, and why did it take the shape it did? To answer this question – which any historian must face – renowned New Testament scholar N.T. Wright focuses on the key points: what precisely happened at Easter? What did the early Christians mean when they said that Jesus of Nazareth...
Christianity at the Crossroads: How the Second Century Shaped the Future of the Church
| Author | Michael J. Kruger |
| ISBN | 0281071314 |
Christianity in the twenty-first century is a global phenomenon. But in the second century, its future was not at all certain. Initially Christianity possessed little social or cultural influence and found itself fighting for its life. While apostolic tradition was emerging as a "rule of faith,"...
The Vindication of Tradition: The 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
| Author | Jaroslav Pelikan |
| ISBN | 0300036388 |
In this carefully reasoned book, noted historian and theologian Jaroslav Pelikan offers a moving and spirited defense of the importance of tradition.
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