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Originally published in three volumes in 1973, Robert Funk s classic 'Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek' utilizes the insights of modern linguistics in its presentation of the basic...

Rewrites the narrative plan for salvation as the story of religion calling us out of nature and gradually making us ourselves.Author: Don CupittPublisher: Polebridge PressPublication Date: Dec 14,...

A Scandalous JesusAuthor: Joseph A. BesslerPublisher: Polebridge PressPublication Date: Feb 18, 2013Number of Pages: 272 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1598151223ISBN-13: 9781598151220

Don Cupitt believes that a new and truly global religious consciousness has been quietly easing itself in around the world. It does not need any visible organization and does not make any...

The Acts of the Apostles is not history. Acts was long thought to be a first-century document, and its author Luke to be a disciple of Paul--thus an eyewitness or acquaintance of eyewitnesses to...

Acts of ThomasAuthor: Harold W. AttridgePublisher: Polebridge PressPublication Date: Jun 15, 2010Number of Pages: 166 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1598150219ISBN-13: 9781598150216

According to Lloyd Geering the doctrines of Incarnation and Trinity, which began as attempts to reflect the indwelling of God in human beings, were soon distorted to proclaim the reality of a sacred...

An essential resource for the analytical study of the gospels, The Complete Gospel Parallels goes beyond the standard parallels. This book gives those who study the gospels in English a one-volume...

The Complete Gospels is the first publication ever to collect the canonical gospels and their extracanonical counterpoints under one cover. The selected extracanonical gospels date from the first and...

At some point very early on in its development, Christianity split between two different pathways: one path stayed with the teaching of Jesus and the primacy of ethics, the other started with the...

Scientific assertions about our shared origins with other species and shared dependence on global ecosystems are often resisted and even dismissed on the grounds that humans are different from all...

Rediscovered in 1873, the Didache provides a glimpse of early Christian ritual and liturgy. This text, which dates to the late first or early second century, is the very first manual for Christian...

Where many scholars see an end-time prophet not well-suited to today's world, David Galston finds a human Jesus who inspires honesty in the practice of Christianity. Like other ancient purveyors of...

Embracing the Human Jesus: A Wisdom Path for Contemporary ChristianityAuthor: David GalstonPublisher: Polebridge PressPublication Date: Jul 23, 2012Number of Pages: 284 pagesBinding: Hardback or...

Ethics in the Last Days of Humanity is not about the science of global warming so much as the absence of a serious ethical and religious response to it. When all existing 'reality' breaks down,...

According to Hagenston, Jesus had such a hard edge when it came to Gentiles that he coined his own unflattering term for them-dogs. He limited what he was offering strictly to Jews. Yet the religion...

The books of the New Testament are not the infallible words of God. The texts were in a state of flux during the faith s early centuries. We can and should build on that flexible tradition. These are...

Finding a Sense of Place: An Environmental History of ZenaAuthor: Bob H. ReinhardtPublisher: Polebridge PressPublication Date: Mar 26, 2013Number of Pages: 172 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The earliest version of the New Testament, now in English for the first time History preserves the name of the person responsible for the first New Testament, the circumstances surrounding his work,...

Folly of God: A Theology of the UnconditionalAuthor: John D. CaputoPublisher: Polebridge PressPublication Date: Nov 17, 2015Number of Pages: 148 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

The idea of evolution is the most life-changing concept to have emerged in modern times, but most people know of it only in fragments. The evolution of the universe, of planet Earth, of life and of...

The voice of Jesus has for centuries been obscured and his vision skewed even by well-intended gospel writers, who transmitted his words to serve their own concerns. The Gospel of Jesus frees Jesus'...

The voice of Jesus has for centuries been obscured and his vision skewed even by well-intended gospel writers, who transmitted his words to serve their own concerns. The Gospel of Jesus frees Jesus'...

Gospel of Luke (Scholars Bible)Author: Richard I. PervoPublisher: Polebridge PressPublication Date: Feb 25, 2014Number of Pages: 232 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 159815141XISBN-13:...

Lost for more than fifteen hundred years, the Gospel of Mary is the only existing early Christian gospel written in the name of a woman. Karen L. King tells the story of the recovery of this...

Gospels, Jesus, and Christian Origins: Collected EssaysAuthor: William O. Walker Jr.Publisher: Polebridge PressPublication Date: Dec 01, 2015Number of Pages: 384 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Back when belief in predestination was powerful, there was only one way life could go. Today we have a stronger sense of contingency and find ourselves clinging to lost loves, missed opportunities,...

Since the earliest days of the movies more than a century ago, moviemakers have been intrigued by "the greatest story ever told." They have tried, with varying degrees of success, to capture the life...

Since the earliest days of the movies more than a century ago, moviemakers have been intrigued by "the greatest story ever told." They have tried, with varying degrees of success, to capture the life...

Often referred to by the press and critics alike as a single voice, the Jesus Seminar is not, in fact, monolithic writes Bernard Brandon Scott. "Biblical scholars are notoriously independent and...