Edwin A. Judge

Bullies and Saints

History & Biography

“The blunt outrage of a serious historian keeps John Dickson wondering. How have the saints got it so wrong, so often? The tell-tale breakthrough for me came in the middle chapters of this book. Two generations on from Constantine we have the engaged reactions of four young men, close intellectual peers in a single decade. One, Julian, runs the Roman empire and means to get rid of the Christian revolution. The others are bishops or the like in backblocks Cappadocia. All four agree on the flashpoint. The government itself must act, not for the strong, but for the weak and therefore the so-called undeserving, however irrational that seems. John Dickson need not have worried so much. In the long run the revolutionary commands of Jesus have been profoundly built into our secular policy, in spite of church hypocrisy. Indeed, our zeal to expose such hypocrisy is itself a legacy of Jesus’s teaching about the kingdom.”

Hearing Her Voice, Revised Edition

Women

“praying” and “prophesying” in the meeting. So, why not also “teaching”? Must one downplay or discard this ban? In this book, however, we learn that we have been missing the special force of that word anyway. With John Dickson, a careful researcher into the context and setting of the New Testament, we uncover its history. This is no mere “battle over words.” Apart from instinct and the bare data, all meaningful knowledge (i.e., “science”) is revealed through enquiry (i.e., “history”). The testimony of this gifted expositor convincingly discloses the lost meaning of Paul’s “teaching.”

The Book of Acts in Its Ancient Literary Setting

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The Book of Acts in Its Ancient Literary Setting offers a number of quite fresh approaches to Acts. . . A dozen different genres or types of document are explored here, resulting in a rich mix of options. Acts emerges from its isolation into a world of contemporary rhetoric and recording. This work lifts the study of Acts onto a new, much ore contextual plane. . . A most attractive entr?e to a promising series.”