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Volume 38.3 (March, 2012)
The Study Of The Historical Jesus And Human Memory
By By Dale C. Allison Jr., the Errett M. Grable Professor of
New Testament and Early Christianity at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
Theology
For The Church
By Beth Felker Jones, Ph.D, assistant
professor of theology, Wheaton College; portions of this essay were excerpted
from Touched by a Vampire: Discovering the Hidden Messages in the
Twilight Series (2009) by permission of
Multnomah Books, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No
part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in
writing from the publisher.
Forsaken: The Trinity And The Gospel
By Thomas H. McCall, Ph.D., associate
professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity
School, and author of Forsaken: The Trinity, the Cross and Why It
Matters (IVP Academic, forthcoming).
Consider Wesley
By Dr. Henry H. Knight III, Donald
and Pearl Wright Professor of Wesleyan Studies,
Saint Paul School of Theology.
Volume 38.2 (February, 2012)
Public Discipleship and Spiritual Formation
By Richard J. Mouw,
author of the newly revised and expanded Uncommon
Decency: Christian Civility in an Uncivil World (InterVarsity,
2010).
What Is The Gospel?
By Ken Schenck,
dean and professor of New Testament and Christian Ministry, Wesley Seminary
at Indiana Wesleyan University.
Helping The Church Be The Church: The Contribution Of
The New Monasticism
By Bret Wells, D.Min. candidate
in Missional Church Studies at Perkins
School of Theology, owner/director of Missional Monks
(http://www.missionalmonks.com) and Director of IT for The Academy of Missional Wisdom
(www.missionalwisdom.com/Missional_Wisdom_Foundation/Academy.html).
Consider
Wesley
By Dr. Henry H. Knight III, Donald and
Pearl Wright Professor of Wesleyan Studies, Saint Paul School of
Theology.
Volume 38.1 (November, 2011)
Premodern Biblical Exegesis:
Why Does It Matter For
Preachers And Teachers Today?
By J. Todd Billings, Associate
Professor of Reformed Theology at Western Theological Seminary, and author of
Union with Christ: Reframing Theology and Ministry for the Church (Baker Academic, 2011). This article is
adapted from his book, The Word of God for the People of God: An Entryway
to the Theological Interpretation of Scripture (Eerdmans, 2010).
How John Wesley Read The Bible
By Randy L. Maddox, William Kellon Quick Professor of Theology and Wesleyan Studies,
Duke Divinity School, and author of Responsible Grace: John Wesley’s
Practical Theology (Abingdon, 1994).
This article distills: “The Rule of
Christian Faith, Practice, and Hope: John Wesley on the Bible,” Methodist
Review 3 (2011): 1–35.
Teenagers And The Art of Translation: Parents Matter
Most
Excerpted from Almost
Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church (Oxford, 2010) by Kenda
Creasy Dean, edited and abridged by Nathan T. Stucky.
Consider Wesley
By Dr. Henry
H. Knight III, Donald and Pearl Wright Professor
of Wesleyan Studies, Saint Paul School of Theology.
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