Bible in the Contemporary World

Bible in the Contemporary WorldHermeneutical Ventures A crucial responsibility for Christian interpreters of Scripture, says Richard Bauckham, is to understand our contemporary context and to explore the Bible's relevance to it in ways that reflect serious critical engagement with that context. In this book Bauckham models how this task can be carried out. Bauckham calls for our reading of Scripture to lead us to greater engagement with critical issues in today's world, including

and love God and his neighbor

Moments 'til Midnight imaginatively retells the final twelve hours of Paul's life

Theological Institutes was a critical landmark in the development of Methodist doctrine

An annotated text of all 269 Bible verses originally written in Aramaic

With biblical wisdom

Richard Bauckham (New Testament professor at Scotland’s University of St

The aim of No Neutral Words is to convince you to consider your “word budget” and show you that every single word you speak is an eternal investment in your hearers for either life or death

and sacrifice

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and various spiritual leadership qualities

Protestant liberalism

Five Bible scholars refute the assertions in Bart Ehrman's "How Jesus Became God