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How God Became King - 10g Kingdom, Cross, Resurrection and Ascension
How God Became King - 10g Kingdom, Cross, Resurrection and Ascension
by SPCK - N T Wright
Kingdom, Cross, Resurrection and Ascension A word, in conclusion, about the immediate sequel. I have written extensively about the resurrection elsewhere (The Resurrection of the Son of God, Surprised by Hope) and a fair amount about the Ascension too (in addition to the above, s…
How God Became King - 11c A Different Way of Reading the Creed
How God Became King - 11c A Different Way of Reading the Creed
by SPCK - N T Wright
A Different Way of Reading the Creed So what’s the alternative? What ideas might we ‘festoon’ around this magnificent document, doing justice to the fact that those who framed it undoubtedly intended it to illuminate and to be illuminated by the scriptural witness, rather than cl…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Introduction of Speaker and Themes
The Women's Bible Commentary - Introduction of Speaker and Themes
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Introduction of Speaker and Themes Despite the declaration that Ecclesiastes is king in Jerusalem, the speaker is probably best described as a sage or teacher, perhaps a mid-level official in the provincial administration…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Israelites in Egypt
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Israelites in Egypt
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Israelites in Egypt The descendants of Jacob number seventy when they arrive in Egypt. They multiply and fill the land of Egypt with language reminiscent of the fertility of creation in Genesis (Exod. 1:7; Gen. 1:28)…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Levirate Marriage
The Women's Bible Commentary - Levirate Marriage
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Levirate Marriage In numerous preindustrial societies, a male relative of a deceased man is expected to marry or to have sex with the dead man’s widow. Such relationships, called “levirate” from the Latin levir, “brother-in-law,” vary in form and purpose from culture to culture…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Sexual-Offense Laws
The Women's Bible Commentary - Sexual-Offense Laws
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Sexual-Offense Laws Deuteronomy 22:13–29, the most extensive biblical treatment of the topic of adultery, is a valuable if ambiguous source of at least one Judahite group’s assumptions and ideals about women’s sexuality; they have been the subject of much feminist and womanist sc…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Parable of the Yeast
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - The Parable of the Yeast
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Parable of the Yeast By teaching in parables, Jesus assumes Wisdom’s role. The third of seven parables gathered in chapter 13 presents a woman as a main character. Paralleling 13:31–32, the immediately preceding parable of the Mustard Seed…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Trickery as Vengeance in Men’s Literature
The Women's Bible Commentary - Trickery as Vengeance in Men’s Literature
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Trickery as Vengeance in Men’s Literature Genesis 34 is a tale of trickery involving female sexuality. Dinah, daughter of Leah and Jacob, is raped by Shechem, the son of Hamor. The question of status that is addressed through trickery is not her status, however, but that of her b…
The Women's Bible Commentary - A Series of Accusations
The Women's Bible Commentary - A Series of Accusations
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
A Series of Accusations That it is the elite men of Jerusalem who are the actual targets of Isaiah’s criticism becomes clear in the most explicit of the prophet’s accusations, a series of “woe” oracles detailing such atrocities as greedy accumulation of real estate at others’ exp…
Great Christian Thinkers - 49 St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Great Christian Thinkers - 49 St. Bernard of Clairvaux
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
St. Bernard of Clairvaux St. Bernard of Clairvaux is often called “the last of the Fathers” of the Church because once again in the twelfth century he renewed and brought to the fore the important theology of the Fathers… Taken from Great Christian Thinkers by Pope Benedict XVI
How God Became King - 10f Kingdom and Cross in Mutual Interpretation