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1) In His steps
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English
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What does it mean to follow in the steps of Jesus? Such is the question posed by a disheveled young vagrant who interrupts the morning service in the First Church of Raymond. Responding to the eloquent sermon's call to "follow Christ, " the ailing stranger confronts the astounded parishioners with the treatment he received in their town the week prior. Compelled to reply to the visitor's implications, Reverent Maxwell proposes the plan of a year-long...
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English
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"Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, page-turning works of nonfiction that have changed the way we read history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor details the events leading up to the murder of the most influential man in history: Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly two thousand years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was brutally...
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Extremely controversial work in its day which resulted in major backlash for its author. In the book, Strauss theorizes that early Christians invented Jesus' miracles as a way to portray him as the Messiah the Old Testament spoke of. Translated by the famous novelist and skeptic George Eliot.
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Zondervan, Willow Creek Resources
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Updated & expanded.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
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English
Description
The book consists primarily of interviews between Strobel (a former legal editor at the Chicago Tribune) and biblical scholars such as Bruce Metzger. Each interview is based on a simple question, concerning historical evidence (for example, "Can the Biographies of Jesus Be Trusted?"), scientific evidence, ("Does Archaeology Confirm or Contradict Jesus' Biographies?"), and "psychiatric evidence" ("Was Jesus Crazy When He Claimed to Be the Son of God?")....
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Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Argues against skeptical New Testament scholarship, citing recent research to dispel obsolete claims about Jesus and maintain that Jesus of Nazareth was as the Gospels described him.
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Pub. Date
2007
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165 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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What does the Bible teach about Jesus? Who is Jesus?
Christ: He is My Lord is a thorough study of what the Bible teaches and says about Jesus Christ. By looking at Jesus through both the Old and New Testament Scriptures, this book details the person of Christ (how Jesus is both true God and true man), what it means when Christians refer to his "humiliation and exaltation," his three-fold office as Prophet, Priest, and King, and what exactly Jesus...
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English
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This work presents a meticulously researched biography of Jesus that draws on biblical and historical sources to place his achievements and influence against the turbulent backdrop of his time. Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, the author sheds new light on one of history's most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus Christ through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived: first-century Palestine, an age awash in apocalyptic...
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English
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One of the best-known and most important references on the life of Christ ever written, Alfred Edersheim's "The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah" is a storehouse of information on the background of the New Testament. This classic work successfully portrays the streets, the marketplaces, the religious conflicts, the people, and the places of Jesus' earthly ministry.
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Pub. Date
2007
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ix, 237 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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New York Times best-selling author Darrell Bock teams with Daniel Wallace to help lay readers separate fact from fiction and help from hype in the recent best-selling Jesus books and television specials. There is a quest going on. It's the quest to reduce Jesus to a mythic legend or to nothing more than a mere man. Scholars such as Elaine Pagels and James Tabor are using such recent discoveries as the Gospel of Judas and the Gospel of Thomas to argue...
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Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
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ix, 150 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Of the many recent books on the historical Jesus, none has explored what the latest biblical scholarship means for personal faith. Now, in Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg addresses the yearnings of those who want a fully contemporary faith that welcomes rather than oppresses our critical intelligence and openness to the best of historical scholarship. Borg shows how a rigorous examination of historical findings can lead to a new...
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Pub. Date
1953
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211 pages ; 19 cm
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English
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This volume includes an acclaimed novella of a woman's escape from a loveless marriage, and in the author's final story, a provocative depiction of Jesus.
In St. Mawr, a woman's encounter with a noble stallion inspires her to seek a new life full of vitality. Abandoning both her brittle homeland and her sterile marriage, she sets out on a journey of self-discovery that takes her all the way to the mountains of the American West.
Lawrence's final...
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English
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The story recounts the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. Betrayed by his best friend and enslaved by the Romans, Judah Ben-Hur seeks revenge but instead finds redemption through his encounters with Jesus Christ. Generations have thrilled to the sacred destiny of the mighty charioteer Ben-Hur, whose enduring tale began as a bestselling 1880 novel that later inspired equally popular...
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English
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One of the most highly regarded works of intellectual history of the past decade, Jesus Through the Centuries is an original and compelling study of the impact of Jesus on cultural, political, social, and economic history. Noted historian and theologian Jaroslav Pelikan reveals how the image of Jesus created by each successive epoch - from rabbi in the first century to liberator in the 19th and 20th centuries - is a key to understanding the temper...
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English
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"In her fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family in Sepphoris with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, a relentless seeker with a brilliant, curious mind and a daring spirit. She yearns for a pursuit worthy of her life, but finds no outlet for her considerable talents. Defying the expectations placed on women, she...
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HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
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English
Description
"Many believe that the Gospel stories of Jesus are based on eyewitness testimony and are therefore historically reliable. Now for the first time, New Testament scholar and . . . author Bart D. Ehrman . . . surveys research from the fields of psychology, anthropology, and sociology to explore how oral traditions and group memories really work and questions how reliable the Gospels can be. Focusing on the decades-long gap between when Jesus lived and...
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Son Publishing
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
160 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The thesis of this book relates to an area of doctrine that has never been addressed in the Bible-believing church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Instead, even the best expositors and theologians have followed what others have said before and interpreted the events of Jesus' life in terms of the use of his divine abilities despite hints and evidence to the contrary. The author demonstrates that Jesus lived entirely as a man based on the positive searching...