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1 Corinthians (Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament) 4 reviews
David E. Garland
Baker Academic, 2003
the best first corinthians commentary that I have encountered
Several years ago (before Garland's book came out) I did a fairly detailed study over about 6 months on the book of 1 Corinthians. I relied fairly heavily on the commentaries by Thiselton and also by Fee. In the subsequent years, I frequently re-read sections of both commentaries. Recently I wanted to get a more clear understanding of the controversial passages about headcovering and women's ...
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Africa and the Bible 3 reviews
Edwin M. Yamauchi
Baker Academic, 2004
the errors of afrocentrism
This is yet another good book which shatters the many sordid lies and misrepresentations of "afrocentrism".
Mary Lefkowitz also documents the same things quite well in her books. I
highly recommend reading her books to understand the truth about this bizarre social disease called afrocentrism.
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After McDonaldization: Mission, Ministry, and Christian Discipleship in an Age of Uncertainty
John Drane
Baker Academic, 2008
In The McDonaldization of the Church, John Drane critiqued church trends toward "fast food" spirituality while offering suggestions for change. In his long-awaited sequel, After McDonaldization, Drane addresses key questions for Western Christianity in a global context. He argues that increasing numbers of people are turning to "spirituality" even while church attendance has continued to decline in the US and Europe, and that the continuing ...
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Acts (Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament)4 reviews
Darrell L. Bock
Baker Academic, 2007
Best Commentary Available on Acts
I have used a number of commentaries on Acts over the years. Previously my favorites were Haenchen and Fitzmyer. Both had the most exegetical material available until the recent publication of Bock's wonderful commentary. Bock is thoroughly Evangelical and this will be helpful for those who previously had so few options for a good Evangelical commentary on Acts. Bock also does an excellent ...
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360-Degree Preaching: Hearing, Speaking, and Living the Word4 reviews
Michael J. Quicke
Baker Academic, 2003
Holistic, Trinitarian Preaching
Reading 360 Degree Preaching and discussing its content with Dr Quicke has contributed to both my understanding and experience of the Trinity in sermon preparation. In short, it has propelled me towards preaching as worship. Summary Quicke defines preaching as, "sharing the in-breaking of God's good news to create a new people in new community." He takes a fourfold approach in describing the ...
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Acts (Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament)
Mikeal C. Parsons
Baker Academic, 2008
In Acts, the third of eighteen volumes in the Paideia commentary series, leading biblical scholar Mikeal Parsons gleans fresh theological insight into Acts by attending carefully to the cultural and educational context from which it emerges. Parsons see Acts as a charter document explaining and legitimating Christian identity for a general audience of early Christians living in the ancient Mediterranean world. Pastors, graduate and seminary ...
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1, 2, and 3 John (Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament)
Robert W. Yarbrough
Baker Academic, 2008
Robert Yarbrough, coauthor of the bestselling Encountering the New Testament, offers a historical and theological commentary on the Johannine Epistles in this new addition to the BECNT series. The commentary features the author's detailed interaction with the Greek text, explores the relationship between John's Epistles and Jesus's work and teaching, interacts with recent commentaries, is attentive to the history of interpretation, and seeks to ...
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3 Crucial Questions about Spiritual Warfare (Three Crucial Questions) 5 reviews
Clinton E. Arnold
Baker Academic, 1997
Best Book evaluating contemporary Spiritual Warfare so far
This is the best book I've read on Spiritual Warfare so far! Scholarly, yet written in an understandable and readable fashion. Arnold shows keen awareness on what's been happening in contemporary spiritual warfare teachings. The 3 questions he answers are, 1. What is Spiritual Warfare? 2. Can a Christian be Demon-Possesed? 3. Are We Called to Engage Territorial Spirits? The issues he deals with ...
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1 Peter (Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament)3 reviews
Karen H. Jobes
Baker Academic, 2005
I wish I could put 6 stars!!!!
Karen Jobes (Ph.D. Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia) currently is Gerald F. Hawthorne professor of Greek and New Testament in Wheaton College. When she wrote this commentary, she was still in Westmont College in Santa Barbara as associate professor of New Testament. She has proven her ability as competent exegete and expositor by writing a commentary on Esther for NIVAC series.
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Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament 13 reviews
John D. Currid
Baker Academic, 1997
Larger Than Most People Visualize
In the Foreword to John Currid's book, the eminent Kenneth Kitchen writes that the "whole subject of the interrelations of ancient Egypt and the Old Testament is very much larger than most people realize" and in this book Currid has selected a series of themes. I would agree that this is a most apt description. Currid divides his 13 chapters between an introduction and various portions of the Old ...
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Anthropological Reflections on Missiological Issues4 reviews
Paul G. Hiebert
Baker Academic, 1994
Anthropological Reflections on Missiological Issues
This is a collection of essays by one of the best missiologist/anthropologist writers of our day. Paul Hiebert provides lucid and stimulating papers on epistemology (also see his "Missiological Implications of Epistemological Shifts" (Trinity Press, 1999) Critical Contextualization (see also "Introduction to Folk Religion" co-authored with Shaw and Tienou (Baker 1999) and other great pieces ...
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American Evangelism: Its Theology and Practice 1 review
Darius Salter
Baker Academic, 1996
Somewhat interesting
This was a somewhat interesting book detailing and describing the changes and methods employed for Evangelism in America. A historical book that does a fairly good job of providing an overall picture from the town-to-town evangelists, Methodism, television and radio evangelists such as Oral Roberts, and the pinnacle of modern evangelism, Rev. Billy Graham. Explores some of the successes and ...
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Announcing the Kingdom: The Story of Gods Mission in the Bible6 reviews
Arthur F. Glasser, Charles E. Van Engen, ...
Baker Academic, 2003
The Most Thorough Book on the Kingdom of God!
Having read 5 well-published books within a timespan of 3 months on the subject of the Kingdom of God, this book was the most thorough and thought provoking. It's one downfall is the author's propencity to be sidetracked from the main subject at hand and his use of secular humanistic venacular. Besides these, it is very comprehensive and a joy to read yet not written for one's first book on the ...
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The American Church Experience: A Concise History2 reviews
Thomas A. Askew, Richard V. Pierard
Baker Academic, 2004
A great resource.
After I graduated from seminary I followed up on my promise to myself to read all those books I never got around to reading because of the interruptions of course schedules and meeting class requirements (it's a promise that seems never-ending, for, as the Preacher said, "of the publishing of books there is no end."). At one point I took up the reading of the two-volume set on the history of ...
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Analytical Key to the Old Testament (4 book Set)3 reviews
John Joseph Owens
Baker Academic, 1992
Hebrew Help!
If you are like me, your Hebrew skills aren't where you would like them to be. Owens gives an abundance of help in this area. Word-by-word, the masoretic text is analyzed and translated. Especially helpful is the verb analysis. However, one should not expect to see any commentary, since that is not what these volumes are designed to give. This set of books won't teach you Hebrew, but it you ...
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And I Turned to See the Voice: The Rhetoric of Vision in the New Testament (Studies in Theological ...
Edith M. Humphrey
Baker Academic, 2007
Vision reports in the New Testament--Stephen's vision at his stoning, Paul's experience in the third heaven, John's apocalyptic visions on the isle of Patmos--pull readers and listeners into a dramatic and dynamic thought world. Author Edith M. Humphrey takes a literary-rhetorical approach to examine how word and image work together in understanding vision reports, demonstrating how biblical visions convey and reinforce messages that deeply ...
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Anthropological Insights for Missionaries7 reviews
Paul G. Hiebert
Baker Academic, 1985
Anthropological insights are for missionaries!
Missionaries should learn and understand culture of the people to whom they want to preach the gospel. I agree with Hiebert that without all that knowledge their message may be irrelevant and meaningless in cultural enviroment that is different from the cultural background of missionaries, especially if they came from the West. Missionaries must be tolerant for other cultures and keep interest in ...
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Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Ancient-Future)11 reviews
Robert E. Webber
Baker Academic, 1999
Highly relevant and insightful
I found this book exciting and easy to read. The reason is that Webber connects the ethic and doctrine of the ancient Church to the postmodern world. The situations are quite similar. Webber, a conservative Baptist turned evangelical Episcopalian, argues that the history of the Church consists of different paradigms. Each paradigm is a different expression of the faith, relevant for the time, but ...
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The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement2 reviews
Douglas A. Sweeney
Baker Academic, 2005
Very Well Written!
I was very impressed with this book. Some of the other evangelical histories I've read (namely the ones by Mark Noll) have been very detailed, but not always interesting to read. Now, from the keyboard of Douglas Sweeney, we have a tight history of the evangelical movement that reads like a novel. He traces the origins of evangelicalism to the first Great Awakening in the 1730s. We learn of how ...
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