Chris Tilling
Biography
Chris Tilling wrote Paul's Divine Christology, co-wrote How God Became Jesus with others, and edited Beyond Old and New Perspectives on Paul.
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Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Gorman's reading of Paul resonates with the real concerns and questions of ecclesial communities as much as it challenges the paradigms of professional New Testament scholars. . . . Combining exegesis of Paul's letters with hermeneutics and missiology, Gorman throws new light on old debates such as those involving the language of God's righteousness and various participatory themes. One of the leading Pauline scholars of our age, Gorman writes in ways that resonate with the missional concerns of the gospel itself.”
Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Midrash
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“What a tremendous service to the academic community for providing an English translation of this multifaceted, rich, and deeply learned resource!”
Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Midrash
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“What a tremendous service to the academic community for providing an English translation of this multifaceted, rich, and deeply learned resource!”
Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Midrash
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“What a tremendous service to the academic community for providing an English translation of this multifaceted, rich, and deeply learned resource!”
Theology
“I am excited to see this new edition of Bishop John Robinson's In the End, God. Many evangelicals will benefit from Robinson as he grapples with questions about appropriate foundations and the role of scripture, as well as his concern to both take the reality of hell seriously and to contest sentimental understandings of God's love. Those of us who remain undecided about Universalism or who prefer to simply hope the universalists are right, will also be challenged by his insistence to put together a theological system that is a 'best fit' to the facts of revelation and Christ's accomplished work. Contemporary scholars engaged in 'theological exegesis' will also find much worthy of consideration given Robinson's intelligent and theological alert handling of scripture. While some details of his argument are dated, and other aspects remain highly debatable, it is arguably with the benefit of hindsight that the best of Robinson's arguments can be appreciated. This new edition also has a number of added features, such as Trevor Hart's insightful introduction, new subheadings, and three appendices.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“[This book is] a ‘scholarly majority’ buster! And a deeply learned and persuasive one at that! The earliest Christ followers seemed to understand Jesus to be fully divine. Fair enough—but what did Jesus himself think? He didn’t kick around the shores of Galilee announcing his divinity, right? 'Greetings, Capernaumites, I’m God. Don’t look at me like that, I’m begotten not made, didn’t you know!' So all that divine Christology must be a later Christian theological imposition, right? Wrong! The claim that Jesus is the divine Messiah indeed makes more sense of the data than any alternatives. Well beyond a mere trotting out of the same well-worn arguments, Pitre presents an up-to-date case that ‘the “smoke” of early divine Christology originated in the “fire” of Jesus’s own divine messianism.’ This is an explosive blend of courage, logic, and premier biblical scholarship!”
Theology
“With the swell of publications emerging from such able and diverse scholars as Daniel Kirk, Richard Hays, Brant Pitre, Crispin Fletcher-Louis and others, the time is ripe for a little more systematic reflection on early adoptionist claims. Not only does Michael Bird helpfully summarize the present state of discussion, but he also makes a number of incisive exegetical observations along the way, particularly in relation to Paul and Mark. . . . Any future assertions that the earliest Christology was adoptionist, only becoming ‘fully divine’ later, will have to reckon with Bird’s perceptive exegesis.”
Jesus, History, and Revelation
Theology
“What has Barth got to do with Wright? Are they Athens and Jerusalem, oil and water? As someone with a proclivity for theologically textured readings of Paul in a broadly Barth-inspired key, I am drawn to apocalyptic readings, at least in their more recent iterations. But were many of my own consequent criticisms of Wright off-target? Mallary has provided us with a profoundly learned, deeply researched, and charitable reading of both Barth and Wright that reveals they share far more in common than many of us have been willing to admit, and which thereby helps us talk about what actually separates them. But this book is not merely a critique of how scholarly caricatures are lazily mobilized to easily dismiss an “opponent.” It offers its own constructive case that builds on a wide array of scholarship relating to both Barth and Wright. Moreover, and precisely on the overlap of Jesus, history, and revelation, Mallary shows that there is ground for a far more fruitful reconsideration of the constructive overlap and differences between the two. I am left with some hesitations, lots of useful questions, a sharper set of criticisms of both Wright and Barth, yet also a deep admiration for arguably the finest scholarship on the relation between Barth and Wright ever penned. If that were not enough, Mallary also succeeds—and with skill and finesse—in demonstrating what charitable, yet vigorously incisive, scholarship can look like.”
Theology
“Beware! Don't read this book if you aren't ready for a head-exploding, previous-theology-mashing, and page-turning exposition of the saving significance of Jesus! Put it down and walk away if you'd rather hang on to penal substitutionary atonement (PSA) or something else similarly unbiblical. This is a book that will satisfy the academic as well as call the Christian into profound discipleship. You will end up using the words 'union' and 'participation' with more joy and depth than ever before as you think about the saving significance of Jesus.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This book is an astonishing achievement! It’s a wide-ranging, bold, thought-provoking, and vigorous engagement with almost the entire sweep of the New Testament canon in relation to Paul! . . . And you are in safe hands with these two excellent up-and-coming scholars, who both demonstrate astonishing awareness of the relevant exegetical and meta-hermeneutical questions raised. Read this book!”
Martin Luther and the Rule of Faith
Theology
“What a rich and rewarding book! Todd Hains has provided us with an energizing guide to reading the Bible precisely as Holy Scripture. He shows not only that Luther was profoundly trinitarian in his Bible reading, but more importantly how. And his insights cut to the bone, shedding light on Luther's reading of Scripture as rooted in familiarity with the Ten Commandments, the Apostles' Creed, and the Our Father. In doing this, Hains reaches into our own reading of Holy Scripture with surprising immediacy. Prepare for some of your caricatures of Luther to be smashed, but also be prepared to be delighted and fed by a work dripping with theological wisdom and energy.”
New Testament Christological Hymns
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Drawing on an impressive breadth of scholarship, Gordley offers a mature and careful study of an important field of research, with implications for early Christology, liturgy, and much more besides. He is to be congratulated for producing such a useful, learned, and constructive work that also makes important and pointed criticisms of recent scholarship. Gordley has written a book that will need to be consulted by all engaged in these and related debates.”
Pain and Paradox in 2 Corinthians
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“B. G. White's reworking of his monograph on 2 Corinthians is a rare achievement and a hopeful sign for the future of Pauline scholarship. It combines rigorous, attentive scholarship with a genuinely pastoral sensibility, without diluting either. As for academic vibrancy, this book represents one of the most significant recent contributions to the study of 2 Corinthians and, by extension, to Pauline theology more broadly. White effectively recenters the letter's theological and pastoral logic, moving beyond readings that treat it primarily as an exercise in apostolic self-defense. The result is a recalibration of how we read 2 Corinthians as Scripture for the church. But this is also why his project lends itself so well to pastoral adaptation. The natural integration of careful academic argument with reflective, discipleship-oriented reflections is something I hope will become more common in the future. In that sense, this book is also something of a flagship example of the kind of scholarship our churches and seminaries urgently need: intellectually serious, theologically alert, and pastorally wise.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Quite simply outstanding, accessible to those with little theological education yet packed with enough depth to keep an experienced reader engrossed. . . . Campbell’s exegetical skill and theological erudition are here joined by a remarkable pastoral and even prophetic depth, which confronts us with the phenomenon of Paul in a unique way.”
Theology
“Pauline Dogmatics is quite simply the most enjoyable biblical or theology related book I have ever read, and I consider it to be the best book on Pauline theology ever written. A superlative endorsement like this would make me cynical too, but I mean it. This is theology written not simply about Paul, but with Paul, under Paul, illuminating Paul, which reaches beyond the cerebral assault into my own life and practices with unnerving immediacy. And its penny-drop-moment-o-meter is off the scale! This is a dazzling Pauline dogmatics, animated by what matters most: the reality of God in Christ. As such it yields astonishing results. Prepare to have your minds scrambled, your interpretive tables overturned, your exegetical hair ruffled, and your theological horizons blown apart. With unique insight, Campbell slam-dunks the most important thing to get right when reading Paul, and he then pushes this through in what can only be called joyful directions. Utterly. Brilliant.”
Apologetics
“In this important book, one of America’s most brilliant young scholars wrestles with issues of profound importance concerning Jesus and his identity. Pitre, in a lively and direct manner informed by up-to-date scholarship, presents a case for Jesus as the divine Son of God, fully human and fully God. Along the way he bursts some scholarly bubbles and sets a much needed cat amongst the proverbial pigeons. A delight to read!”
The Divine Christology of the Apostle Paul
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“What a tremendous and well-conceived resource! This fine work offers those entering these discussions a detailed road map. The authors are careful and knowledgeable guides. But more than that, there is also much in these pages for experts to learn from; their helpful criticisms of major scholarly contributions, my own included, deserve sustained attention, as does their positive set of proposals. Paul matters. What he wrote remains load bearing with wide-ranging consequences. And to understand Paul aright, nothing remains as important as the continued need to think and rethink who Jesus is for Paul, and why this matters. This rich and learned book is an immensely valuable aid to that end.”
Theological Authority in the Church
Theology
“Although I was unconvinced by aspects of his argument, Nemes provides a great service in clearing away some fog and sharpening key issues, exegetical and theological. As such, this book is an invigorating and tightly argued conversation starter. Indeed, I make it a point to read everything this young scholar writes and, despite my remaining disagreements, know of no other book on theological authority that brings into such sharp relief the subject matter so well.”
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