From the late first century to the end of late antiquity, three rival traditions—pagan, Jewish, and Christian—found themselves at odds over one issue in particular: the nature of the relationship...
In a world full of demigods, heroes, daimones, and Olympians, how did early Christians conceptualize Jesus’s divinity? What symbols, images, and literary motifs were available to them as elements...
Ephraim Radner is one of the most creative and imaginative (if at times deeply unsettling) Christian thinkers of our day. He has offered searching analysis of Christian divisions and advocated tirelessly...
In By the Word Worked, Fleming Rutledge exhibits a lifetime of wisdom gained from reflection upon the power of the Word of God to address, convict, comfort, and exhort the church. Rutledge contends...
The Fire and the Cloud is a non-supersessionist biblical Christology developed from close readings of Israel’s Scriptures. In this work, the second in a trilogy that began with All Things Beautiful:...
Throughout the Psalms we witness David cry out for deliverance in seasons of anguish and grief, seeking refuge and strength from the Lord. Likewise, Jesus petitioned God in the garden of Gethsemane...
The Parable of the Prodigal Son stands as one of the most powerful imaginings of the grace of God extended to fallen humanity: its themes of departure, longing, and embrace speak to the very heart of...
After several centuries of controversy, the early church came to an uneasy consensus that Jesus was both fully human and fully divine. In his divinity, orthodox Christianity claimed, he shared fully...
Series edited by Wayne Coppins and Simon Gathercole
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481315685
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Hardcover
Christology, Torah, and Ethics in the Gospel of Matthew, the tenth and final volume in the Baylor-Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity series, brings together seven of Matthias Konradt’s most...
The Speeches in Acts and the Essence of Christianity
by Christopher R. J. Holmes
Price: $42.99
ISBN: 9781481317863
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Hardcover
In reading Scripture, we encounter not only the living God, but an invitation to the mysteries of the text itself. As readers dig through the soil of the text, they eventually discover living water--a...
From the early days of the Christian faith, the relationship between the twin realities of Jesus' historical particularity and universal presence has been a theological puzzle. The apparent dichotomy...
God calls humans to be creative. The human drive to represent transcendent truths witnesses to the fact that we are destined to be transfigured and to transfigure the world. It is worth asking, then,...
The incarnation of God in Jesus poses numerous challenges for the historical consciousness. How does a particular human at a particular time embody the eternal? And how does that embodiment work itself...
Transformation and Citizenship in the Commonwealth of God
by Julien C. H. Smith
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481313100
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: November 2020
Format: Paperback
Salvation and human flourishing--a life marked by fulfillment and well-being--have often been divorced in the thinking and practice of the church. For the apostle Paul, however, the two were inseparable...
The doctrine of the incarnation stands at the heart of Christian faith and formation. Perhaps for that very reason, Christian claims about the incarnation are hotly contested. Specifically, a common...
The consideration of the person of Christ is often disentangled from his 'work.' But this doctrinal tidying can be misleading and theologically dangerous. Christians contend that humans need to be...
