 "The Advocate (The national gay & lesbiannewsmagazine)")
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Rescuing Christ from the "Christians": V. Gene Robinson's installation as an Episcopal bishop was greeted largely by silence from gay quarters. Yet as Old Catholic Archbishop Bruce Simpson points out, the power of religion in the world remains unmatched in swaying public opinion and, more urgently, in damaging gay youth. Where is our pride--and our outrage?(Commentary)
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More vividly than in any previous historical moment, elements of the Christian church are at war with anybody involved in promoting equal treatment for gay and lesbian people. The recent elevation of V. Gene Robinson to the clerical rank of bishop within the Episcopal Church did not start this war, but it has crystallized the battle lines. But do gay people realize the significance of this war?
The antigay forces in this confrontation--ranging from the Vatican to the Fam...
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The Promise of the Father: Jesus and God in the New Testament
Interpretation
; The Promise of the Father: Jesus and God In the New Testament by Marianne Meye Thompson Westminster John Knox, Louisville, 2000. 206 pp. $16.95. ISBN 0-664-22197-1. THE IMMEDIATE IMPETUS for this study is the contemporary debate over God language and, more particularly, about the role of scripture
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New Testament Themes
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
; New Testament Themes. By David Arthur deSilva. St. Louis: Chalice, 2001, 151 pp., $15.99 paper. The introduction of deSilva's book briefly outlines his plan, proposes four interrelated, dominant themes of the NT (grace, discipleship, the church, and apocalypticism), and states the intended
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Keeping It Real: The Image of God in the New Testament
Interpretation
; The image of God in the New Testament represents a mix of traditions from the Hebrew Bible, early Judaism, and Hellenistic popular philosophy. Throughout these traditions the theme is integrally connected to the search for meaning in human existence. The Priestly Writer, Philo, and Paul understood
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Render to God: New Testament Understandings of the Divine
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
; Render to God: New Testament Understandings of the Divine. By Jerome H. Neyrey. Minneapolis: Portress, 2004, xviii + 313 pp., $23.00 paper. In Render to God, Neyrey seeks to address "the neglected factor in New Testament study," the study of God in the NT. Neyrey uses concepts from Judean and
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Living as families in the light of the New Testament
Interpretation
; ... God in the power of the Spirit of God. "Likewise you wives, be submissive to your husbands" (1 Pet 3:1) If the Bible is "good news" for families it is not because it is politically correct! From the viewpoint of political correctness, the Bible is a "problem ...
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"Learning Christ": Eschatology and spiritual formation in New Testament Christianity
Interpretation
; The rhetoric of eschatology was formative of early Christian spirituality. Through such discourse the New Testament writers reshaped the community's perception of time and space, and enabled their audiences to "learn Christ." No authentic Christian spirituality exists without defining reference to
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Idolatry In The New Testament
Interpretation
; The New Testament inherits its attitude toward idolatry from the Old Testament and early Judaism. In all three, idolatry is the primal sin and is connected with sexual immorality and avarice. Both Jesus, in his response to the question about tribute, and Paul; in his treatment of food sacrificed to
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Family ties: how the early church became a community.("Life Together: Family, Sexuality and Community in the New Testament and Today" and "The Ancient Church as Family")
The Christian Century
; Life Together: Family, Sexuality and Community in the New Testament and Today. By Stephen C. Barton. T & T Clark, 256 pp., $24.95 The Ancient Church as Family By Joseph H. Hellerman. Fortress, 295 pp., $23.00. STEPHEN BARTON is more concerned with biblical interpretation than with detailing
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'That Jesus, What a Character!' Jack Miles Offers a Literary Treatment of the New Testament: Christ; A Crisis in the Life of God
Forward
; Easter season seems a fitting time to revisit last fall's publication of Jack Miles's book "Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God," which was put on bookshelves just in time for the holidays -- all the holidays. As in his previous, Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "God: A Biography" (Knopf, 1996), Miles
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Christ in the theologies of Paul and John: a study in the diverse unity of new testament theology.
Theological Studies
; THE NEW TESTAMENT CONTAINS a number of witnesses to Jesus Christ, but it is the testimonies of Paul and John that have most influenced the history of Christian theology. Paul, like a laser beam, relentlessly focuses on the redemptive moment of Christ's death and resurrection to explain how God
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