Andrew D. Clarke

Darkness Receding

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Darkness Receding is a standout contribution to the challenge faced within all communities: ‘How to care for the person suffering from severe depression?’ This treatment is fresh, informed, measured and constructive. It rightly places responsibility, neither on the sufferer, nor the overworked pastor. The community, as recipients of God’s gifts of faith, hope, and love, comes into its own when it is companion to the sufferer, patiently holding out these rich graces, not as exhortations, but as gifts.”

Divine Honours for the Caesars

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This volume presents Winter's careful re-evaluation of the extraordinarily rapid spread of social pressure among both Gentiles and Jews, across the first-century Greek East, publicly to honour living Roman emperors as divine beings. His geographically and chronologically focused approach especially reveals a diverse range of responses to this phenomenon both among the Jews and among the first Christians whose primary allegiance was to Jesus as Messiah. By analysing the primary, non-literary sources and building on the scholarship of other ancient historians, this study advances the field in particular and important ways.”

Emerging Leadership in the Pauline Mission

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“"This volume offers a thorough account of the history of Pauline scholarship of local church leadership, together with the most extensive and detailed investigation into the development of such leadership across two ancient cities associated with the Pauline mission: Corinth and Ephesus. It concludes by offering a consistent portrait of leadership development, together with some wide-ranging implications both for this very important historical field, but also for modern-day church leaders. This is a most welcome study.”

Healing, Weakness, and Power

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Audry Dawson's book uniquely addresses the topic of healing in the New Testament by comparing the perspectives of three of its writers. This analysis is set within the contemporary, Graeco-Roman and Jewish contexts in which the first readers were immersed. The focus and insights of this project are profoundly sharpened by Dr. Dawson's own life-long commitment to the care of the sick and her intimate knowledge of the kinds of relationship that evolve between healer and healed. The thoroughness of this contribution and the particular questions that are addressed within its scope will be welcomed by those studying the New Testament miracles, whether their focus be historical, theological, literary, or indeed pastoral.”

Paul’s Covert Use of Scripture

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Enquiry into Paul's use of Scripture is a well-plowed furrow. In this volume, McAuley makes a fresh contribution to this debate by drawing attention to a neglected passage in a neglected epistle. As a consequence, Philippians can now make a contribution, in its own right, to this very important aspect of Pauline hermeneutics.”

Spirit and Kingdom in the Writings of Luke and Paul

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“There has been a well-established debate concerning the pneumatologies of the New Testament writers which in recent decades has focused significantly on works by R. P. Menzies, J. D. G. Dunn and M. M. B. Turner. Cho's argument compares Luke's use of Kingdom terminology and Paul's use of Spirit language within the framework of these three diverse 'dialogue' partners. There is an elegant simplicity to the argument which is commendably reinforced by its highly readable presentation.”

You Belong to Christ

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“"Tucker's extensive treatment of 'social identity theory' offers a helpful alternative perspective to much scholarship addressing Christian identity, suggesting that Paul urged a hierarchy between the different aspects of the Corinthians identity: the 'Christian,' 'gentile,' and 'Corinthian civic.' Their new identity 'in Christ' should influence, but does not replace, existing aspects of their identity.”