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War in the Bible: an Examination of Biblical Conflict and Violence
The Bible doesn’t flinch at portraying the world’s violence, especially during wartime. And while there is no such thing as a kind and gentle war, you might be surprised to learn t...
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What is the Holy Spirit? Augustine and Barth Help Us Understand
What is the Holy Spirit?
Is it akin to George Lucas’s pantheistic vision of The Force? Is “it” even the proper pronoun, an affront to the Th...
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Academic eBook SALE 2015: Discounts on New and Classic Texts
The Zondervan Academic eBook Sale is now live. You'll find deals on over a dozen new releases:
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Software Sale on NIDNTTE! (New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology and Exegesis)
For a limited time, the software edition of the New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology and Exegesis (Revised Edition) is 20%...
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My Good Pleasure? – Mondays with Mounce 273
Paul tells the Philippians that “it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work on behalf of his good pleasure (ὑπὲρ τῆς εὐδοκίας...
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Top 10 Biblical Studies Books Your SBL, ETS Book Bag Will Crave
Yes, the marathons of presentations, plenary sessions, lectures, meetings, and receptions known as AAR/SBL and ETS are upon us. But don’t fr...
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Top 10 Theology Books Your SBL, ETS Book Bag Will Crave
Yes, it’s that time of year again: the gauntlet of AAR/SBL and ETS plenary sessions, lectures, meetings, and receptions.
We know it can be a...
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Context is Essential - An Excerpt from Locating Atonement
Much has been written of late on the doctrine of atonement. At the beginning of Locating Atonement, the editors explain how this doctrine ca...
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Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields — Build or Help Build (Zechariah 6:15)?
Two of the things to look for in interpreting the biblical text is the roles of God and of people (see Grasping God’s Word, chs. 3–5 for a ...
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A New Approach to Atonement Theory, Contra Typological or Combinational
A decade ago, two theologians controversially suggested some atonement theories border on “cosmic child abuse.” A few years later, another o...
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One Word Can Make All the Difference - Mondays with Mounce 272
I came across a couple interesting verses. My comments are not so much about grammar as they are about translation, but thought it would be ...
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God's Freedom - An Excerpt from The Holy Spirit
Today we continue our study of the third member of the Trinity. In The Holy Spirit, Chris Holmes takes up the questions surrounding the Spi...
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[Common Places] New Studies in Dogmatics: Barth’s Pneumatology in Christopher Holmes’s The Holy Spirit
Zondervan Academic’s New Studies in Dogmatics series launches this fall with its first volume, Christopher Holmes’s The Holy Spirit, which ...
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3 Misconceptions of One of the Most Unknown, Fruitful Theological Ideas
Molinism and the doctrinal equivalent of scientia media (middle knowledge) is perhaps one of the more fruitful Reformation-era theological t...
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eBook Sale: NIV Application Commentaries Just $4.99
Discover the Bible through this commentary series that helps with both halves of the interpretive task - bringing an ancient message into a ...
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Can you have a “twice Sabbath” (Luke 18:12)? - Mondays with Mounce 271
This phrase in Luke gives us a great example of how words have bundles of meanings, and you have to move beyond the one or two word glosses ...
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South Asian Understandings of the Holy Spirit - An Excerpt from South Asia Bible Commentary
The South Asia Bible Commentary is unique in that it is written by South Asian scholars for South Asian readers. Not only a one volume comme...
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