This book bridges the gap between the theological reflection and human experience and encourages fruitful dialogue between divergent interpretations. Organized around central motifs in the Apostles…
Is there a God? How can we know? These questions are the focal points of the philosophy of religion. The author wrestles with these issues looking at the classical arguments for God's existence and…
Religious communities that possess sacred documents define themselves, at least in part, by how they understand and interpret their sacred text and how those sacred texts inform the community. The …
Word and Glory challenges recent claims that Gnosticism, especially as expressed in the Nag Hammadi tractate Trimorphic Protennoia, is the most natural and illuminating background for understanding…
The New Testament contains a story about Jesus of Nazareth. The Christian Church has always understood this narrative as the story of the Son of God, who redeemed the fallen human race by his life,…
Mark told it like it was so you could see Jesus as He is. Each Gospel, or biography of Jesus, is unique. The bold Book of Mark was written to the ruling Romans. This fast-paced narrative is the sho…
This book is a verse-by-verse analysis of the New Testament Gospel of Matthew. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the gospel, which describes the world of Jesus and his first followers. Th…
In this, the first full-scale black systematic theology in twenty years, James Evans emerges as a major and distinctive voice in American theology. Seeking to overcome the chasm between church prac…
One of the daunting challenges facing the New Testament interpreter is achieving familiarity with the immense corpus of Greco-Roman, Jewish, and pagan primary source materials. From the Paraphrase …
Uncovers and examines a common structure to the arguments of Immanuel Kant, Soren Kierkegaard, and William James in regard to the issue of knowledge and belief. These three diverse philosophers fro…