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Each chapter begins with a brilliantly sketched account of the city in which the church addressed lived, followed by an exposition of the Letter to that church, concise, well-illustrated and written in an arresting style. His gift of bringing out the valuable meanings of Greek words is particularly helpful. This book will be a boon to teachers, preachers and Bible readers. Baptist TimesDone with admirable clarity and most interestingly. It is just the kind of book to help anyone who wishes to lead a Bible Study Group. Expository TimesDr Barclay brings to his task the experience of the tried preacher as well as the learning of the scholar. British WeeklyA direct and devotional commentary such as could be used in any parish group.View Review

Offers a reading of the political history of the world as an against-story, a story of an anti-traditional tradition. This text presents an alternative reading of the history of the political world and the ideas that have inspired their political philosophy.

In this text, Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel explores the sources of friendship in the Bible, in the Christian tradition and in contemporary literature. Thoughts and reflections from leading theologian including Jurgen Moltmann, Sallie McFague and Carter Heyward.

By the author of Honest to God and The Priority of John.

Don Cupitt's ethics may seem strange and furious; but he says that this is a religious ethic to fit the truth about the world and our own life as we now understand it.

Shows how such a claim entails a 'non-ontology' suspended between rational philosophy and revealed theology, interweaving the two, while denying them any pure autonomy from each other. The author defends the claim by Henri de Lubac that Western theology since the early modern period had lost sight of the key to integrating faith and reason.

Investigates the Russians' own view of their conversion, the origin and development of the Russian religious-ideological myth from the 14th century to its secular transformation in the 18th century, the controversies of the 19th, and its influence now.

Argues that historical investigation of the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus in only the first stage. Investigation is also needed into the systematic and philosophical implications of the exegetical findings.

The first completely new introduction to the New Testament to appear from Germany since the 1970s and likely to replace the standard work by W.G. Kummel. Provides a comprehensive account of the current state of scholarship.

This book, dedicated to the memory of David Stacey, Morna Hooker's late husband, is an expanded version of the Shaffer Lectures delivered atYale Divinity School in February 1995. It is more than just a commemoration, however, since it also carries on David Stacey's work on Prophetic Drama in the Old Testament, published by Epworth Press in 1990, and contains as an appendix his ideas for a second volume, outlined in a lecture on 'The Last Supper as Prophetic Drama'.Professor Hooker begins by reviewing the prophetic actions in the OId Testament and compares them with the way in which prophetic figures behaved in Jesus' day, in particular John the Baptist and the so-called sign prophets. Then she turns to Jesus himself and considers those actions which can be described as prophetic signs or dramas. She discusses the sign of Jonah, the refusal to perform signs, the miracles and other prophetic actions like the renaming of Simon, Jesus' eating with tax-collectors and sinners and the prophetic signs associated with Jerusalem, reaching a climax in the Last Supper. A final chapter examines the different ways in which the four evangelists interpreted Jesus' prophetic actions.Here is a fascinating study which contributes much to our understanding of the Gospel tradition and shows that biblical theology is still alive and flourishing.Morna Hooker was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Robinson College.