Author: Mr. Bruce W. Winter
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: christians, graeco, century, roman, world, first, citizens, welfare, city, benefactors, seek
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1994-11-15
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0802840914
ISBN-13: 9780802840912

In this book, Bruce W. Winter maps out the role and obligations of Christians as benefactors and citizens in their society. Winter’s scholarly insight is enhanced through the selective use of important ancient literary and nonliterary sources. Contrary to the popular perception that early Christians withdrew from society and sought to maintain a low profile, this outstanding study explores the complexities of the positive commitments made by Christians in Gentile regions of the Roman empire.

Author: Andrew D. Clarke
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: christians, graeco, century, roman, world, first, ministers, community, church, leaders, serve
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2000-03
List price: $34.00
ISBN-10: 0802841821
ISBN-13: 9780802841827

An informative look at leadership roles in the first-century church. This volume explores the nature of leadership roles and positions in the Christian communities of the early church. Drawing from ancient source material as well as from the New Testament, Andrew Clarke describes the theories and practices of organization and leadership in key areas of first-century Graeco-Roman society--the city, the colony, associations, Jewish synagogues, the family--and discusses the extent to which these models influenced the first Christians in defining their own communities. Providing a fascinatin

Author: Sidney H. Griffith
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: world, christians, muslims, ancient, modern, jews, islam, church, shadow, mosque
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2007-10-26
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0691130159
ISBN-13: 9780691130156

Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world’s Christians lived and worshipped under Muslim rule. Just who were the Christians in the Arabic-speaking milieu of Mohammed and the Qur’an? The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque is the first book-length discussion in English of the cultural and intellectual life of such C

Author: Ben Witherington III
Publisher: IVP Academic
Keywords: letters, hellenized, christians, homilies, timothy, john, titus, socio, volume, rhetorical, commentary
Number of Pages: 623
Published: 2006-10-25
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0830829318
ISBN-13: 9780830829316

Letters and Homilies for Hellenized Christians is the first of three volumes extending Ben Witherington’s innovative socio-rhetorical analysis of New Testament books to the latter-Pauline and non-Pauline corpora. A second volume will continue the focus on letters and homilies for Hellenized Christians (1-2 Peter), while a third will focus on letters and homilies for Jewish Christians (Hebrews, James and Jude). By dividing the volumes according to the socio-religious contexts for which they were written, Witherington sheds fresh light on the documents, their provenance, character and impo

Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: HarperOne
Keywords: believe, christians
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2005-02-15
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0060761539
ISBN-13: 9780060761530

A succinct statement of Christian doctrine from one of Christianity’s most beloved thinkers.

Author: F, N Heazell
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Keywords: christians, kurds
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-05-12
List price: $76.00
ISBN-10: 1593331061
ISBN-13: 9781593331061

Kurds and Christians is a compilation of letters (some translated from Syriac), narratives of journeys and local traditions, and various documents pertaining to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Mission to the Assyrian Church of the East. The documents cover the ecclesiastical and social life of the Church of the East and the Anglican Mission, the School of Urmia, Kurdish troubles in the area (which caused the murder of some native clergymen), and the printing press with its various publications. The book is adorned with 17 pictures and a map.

Author: John MacQuarrie
Publisher: T. & T. Clark Publisher
Keywords: christians, mary
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0567087514
ISBN-13: 9780567087515

This work explains the basic beliefs held about Mary in the Christian church. Mary is shown as a figure of unity and reconciliation in the Church. Each chapter explores a different event associated with Mary, from her Immaculate Conception to her Assumption.