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Joshua P. Steele • You're Reading Romans 13 Wrong! Here's How to Read It Correctly
The Swedish Lutheran theologian, Gustav Aulén, published a seminal work on the types of atonement theory in 1930 (Christus Victor). Though time and critical studies have suggested many subtler treatments of the question, no one has really improved on his insight. Especially valuable was his description of the “Classic View” of the atonement. This i
... See morePaul tells us we may have wonderful and valuable spiritual gifts, but without love we are unusable.
Erik Rees • S.H.A.P.E.: Finding and Fulfilling Your Unique Purpose for Life
This is how the story of Israel comes to its climax. The suffering of Israel’s representative has drawn the sting of the world’s evil; Luke made it clear that Jesus’s betrayal, arrest, and death were the point at which the powers of darkness were doing their worst (22:53).
N. T. Wright • How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
that those who follow Schweitzer in placing Jesus within apocalyptic Jewish eschatology belong in a category distinct from those who do not;3 and that this category is where the real leading edge of contemporary Jesus-scholarship is to be found.
N. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
The reality is that, as Anderson is able to reveal from that fabled other side, there is no promised land until the Promised Land of the real heaven. We always think things will finally be . . . well, final when we get “there,” wherever “there” is for us. But there is no there. There’s only here. Because once you get there, there becomes here, and
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