Age Of The Spirit Shaping The Church
In *The Age of the Spirit: How the Ghost of an Ancient Controversy is Shaping the Church* (2014), Phyllis Tickle and Jon M. Sweeney…
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Luther’s Ecumenical Significance An Interconfessional Consultation
68 Peter Manns and Harding Meyer, eds. in collaboration with Carter Lindberg and Henry McSorley, Luther’s Ecumenical Significance: An Interconfessional Consultation, Fortress Press,1984), xxiv…
Did Jonadab collude with Absalom to stage a coup (2 Sam. 13:20 )
( Credit to @creativemechanic for Reference:
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T. M. Luhrmann, When God Talks Back Understanding The American Evangelical Relationship With God (New York Alfred A. Knopf, 2012). Xxv + 434 Pp., $28.95 Hardback; $15.95 Paper.
110 Book Reviews / Pneuma 35 (2013) 87-156 T. M. Luhrmann, When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God (New York:…
Did the Jews truly have nothing to do with the Samaritans? (John 4:9)
Note: this question does not deal with WHY the Jews shunned Samaritans. Rather, it questions the extent to which such shunning actually took place in the Biblical and historical records.
In the Gospel of John the narrator tells us "Je…
Why does The Holy Spirit snatch Philip away immediately after Philip shares The Gospel with the Ethiopian Bureaucrat Eunuch Government Official?
Acts 8:34-40
New American Standard Bible 1995
34 The eunuch answered Philip and said, “Please tell me, of whom does the prophet say this? Of himself or of someone else?” 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture h…
(Proverbs 23:1-3) what does Not desiring deceptive food have anything to do with behaving while dining with important leaders?
(Proverbs 23:1-3)
New American Standard Bible 1995
1 When you sit down
to dine with a ruler, Consider carefully [a]what is before you, 2 And
put a knife to your throat If you are a man of great appetite. 3 Do
not desire his delicacies, Fo…
David Westerlund, Ed., Global Pentecostalism Encounters With Other Religious Traditions (London And New York I. B. Tauris, 2009). X + 302 Pp., $89.50, Cloth.
144 Book Reviews / Pneuma 32 (2010) 123-175 David Westerlund, ed., Global Pentecostalism: Encounters with Other Religious Traditions (London and New York: I. B….
In defending His actions on the Sabbath, does Jesus use φιλέω rather than ἀγαπάω to imply equality with His Father?
In defending His actions of healing the invalid and instructing him to pick up his bed and leave the pool, Jesus compares His actions to His Father’s and makes this statement:
For the Father loves (φιλεῖ) the Son and shows him all that he…
How to reconcile Mark 2:25-26 with 1 Samuel 21:1-5?
1 Samuel 21:1-5 (NKJV)
1 Now David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech was afraid when he met David, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one is with you?” 2 So David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king ha…
How do you reconcile world (κόσμος) in 1 John 2:15-17 with John 3:16-17?
How do you reconcile world (κόσμος) in 1 John 2:15-17 with John 3:16-17?
κόσμος has obviously different meanings as used in the following two passages.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in h…
Is εἰρήνη ὑμῖν (peace be with you) in John 20:19 Jesus using the common greeting שָׁלוֹם לָכֶם (shalom lachem) in the first century?
To clarify this question, I am asking if שָׁלוֹם לָכֶם (shalom lachem) was a common greeting in the first century?
εἰρήνη would normally be translated שָׁלוֹם
ὑμῖν — the dative as used here would be translated with לָ and the 2nd person p…