This book weaves together an interpretation of Christian Scripture with a conversation between Colin Gunton and Dietrich Bonhoeffer concerning the role the Holy Spirit plays in shaping the person and work of Christ. The result is a theological description of human personhood gro…
"This book examines a series of ancient Jewish and Christian authors who wrote teleological stories, or stories with fixed endings, to encourage their readers toward specific ethical conduct. For each of the case studies examined in this book, the fixed end point of their narrat…
"This book examines a series of ancient Jewish and Christian authors who wrote teleological stories, or stories with fixed endings, to encourage their readers toward specific ethical conduct. For each of the case studies examined in this book, the fixed end point of their narrat…
"Salvation is often thought to be an all-or-nothing matter: you are either saved or damned. In the ancient world some figures, including Paul the Apostle, John of Patmos, Hermas, the Sethians, and the Valentinians, did not think this way, however. For them, there were multiple l…
"This book examines a series of ancient Jewish and Christian authors who wrote teleological stories, or stories with fixed endings, to encourage their readers toward specific ethical conduct. For each of the case studies examined in this book, the fixed end point of their narrat…
The title of this book borrows from two distinguished scientists: Steven Weinberg describes the developments of the first three minutes of the universe following the explosion of the "Big Bang" 13.8 billion years ago; Paul Davis describes the final subsidence of the universe int…