The following quotes are taken directly from The New Testament in Its WorldAn Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First ChristiansN. T. Wright (Author) , Michael F. Bird (Author) From a hand-painted lantern slide documenting the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition of 1909. INTRODUCTIONPaul’s epistle to the Philippians overflows with effervescent joy, sparkling with… Continue reading Philippians – The New Testament In Its World – Wright and Bird
THE NEW TESTAMENT IN ITS WORLD – WRIGHT AND BIRD, ZONDERVAN/SPCKAll of the following quotes are taken directly from “The New Testament In Its World,” by NT Wright and Michael Bird, Zondervan/SPCK INTRODUCTIONThe Thessalonian letters, among the earliest of Paul’s extant letters, are among the earliest writings of the whole New Testament, probably written within… Continue reading Thessalonians – The New Testament In Its World – Wright and Bird
The Liberty Bell was rung to announce the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 8, 1776 All the information below is taken directly from The New Testament In Its World, NT Wright and Mike Bird, Zondervan/SPCK, 2020 The dense and dramatic argument of Galatians excites and confuses readers. This letter is… Continue reading Galatians – The New Testament In Its World – Wright and Bird
The Conversion of Saint Paul by Domenico Morelli, 1876. The reason Paul was ‘doing theology’ was not that he happened to have the kind of brain that delighted in playing with and rearranging large, complex abstract ideas. He was doing theology because the life of God’s people depended on it, depended on his doing it… Continue reading A Primer on Pauline Theology
I believe that we need to read Paul with a sense of his own intense conviction that he was exploring a new country—as fertile, beautiful and exhilarating, above all as real and tangible in its working, as any that a sixteenth-century sailor might have run across in his voyages of discovery. Did Paul transform Christianity?… Continue reading The Story of Paul’s Life and Ministry
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