“You can greatly improve your preaching by sharpening your storytelling skills,” says Author Austin B. Tucker. The Preacher as Storyteller takes a skills-development approach to homiletics. The Preacher as Storyteller: the power of narrative in the pulpit, by Austin B. Tucker. Published in 2008 by B&H Publishing Group, Nashville. “You can greatly improve your preaching by sharpening your storytelling skills,” says Author Austin B. Tucker. The Preacher as Storyteller takes a skills-development approach to homiletics. “... [T]his master rhetorician compellingly demonstrates how a prepared preacher may successfully employ storytelling in order to proclaim the gospel with both biblical fidelity and heartfelt humanity,” wrote Malcolm Yarnell III Ph.D., of SWBTS for the book’s back cover. Excerpt: Long-range planning is essential for children’s sermons as well as for the pastor’s entire pulpit plan. (p. 107) Available at your LifeWay Christian store and online. … [Read more...]
The Best Advice I Never Got: Rants and Observations of a Believing Lawyer
Best Advice starts off with a fascinating description of life in Southern Louisiana and, in succeeding chapters, bloviates on a compilation of topics. The Best Advice I Never Got: Rants and Observations of a Believing Lawyer, by H. Kent Aguillard. Published in 2008 by Pleasant Word, a division of WinePress Publishing, Enumclaw, Wash. Best Advice starts off with a fascinating description of life in Southern Louisiana and, in succeeding chapters, bloviates on a compilation of topics – everything from church to clothing, life to death, money to the lack – and need – thereof. Author H. Kent Aguillard “Tells the truth [as he sees it] about topics ranging from Roe v. Wade to the weekly church bulletin, to the 20th century rituals of death and dying, all woven into stories about football, farming and fishing,” according to the book’s back cover. “His devotion to the local body of believers and his extensive legal career lend credence to his advice on multiple popular culture issues.” Excerpt from a ‘rant’ on Christian music: In my experience, and having visited and spoken in hundreds of churches of different denominations, the form of worship is not what causes one to have a true God-experience. It is the sincerity … [Read more...]
The New Prophecy and New Visions
The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas reported the martyrdom of six Carthaginian Christians in 203. Throughout the Passion, there appears to be evidence of Montanism, an early Spirit-based movement similar to modern-day Pentecostalism. The New Prophecy and “New Visions”: Evidence of Montanism in “The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas” by Rex D. Butler, Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006. The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas reported the martyrdom of six Carthaginian Christians in 203. Throughout the Passion, there appears to be evidence of Montanism, an early Spirit-based movement similar to modern-day Pentecostalism. In this book, Rex D. Butler examines the Passion and proposes that its three authors – Perpetua, Saturus, and the unnamed editor – were Montanists. Although many scholars have discussed both sides of this issue, this work is the most extensive investigation to date. Rex D. Butler is Associate Professor of Church History and Patristics at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. … [Read more...]
The Resurrection of Jesus
Two of today’s most important and popular New Testament scholars air their very different understandings of the historical reality and theological meaning of Jesus’ resurrection. The Resurrection of Jesus: John Dominic Crossan and N. T. Wright in Dialogue, by Robert B. Stewart, editor, Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2006; and London, England: SPCK, 2006. Two of today’s most important and popular New Testament scholars, John Dominic Crossan (co-chair of the Jesus Seminar) and N. T. Wright (Bishop of Durham, Church of England), here air their very different understandings of the historical reality and theological meaning of Jesus’ resurrection. The book highlights points of agreement and disagreement between them and explores the many attendant issues. Other scholars such as Craig Evans, William Lane Craig, Gary Habermas, and Ted Peters contribute related essays on the topic of the resurrection of Jesus. Robert B. Stewart is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Theology at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary where he holds the Greer-Heard Chair of Faith and Culture. … [Read more...]
Intelligent Design
This volume highlights points of agreement and disagreement between two leading intellectuals on the subject: of intelligent design. Intelligent Design: William A. Dembski and Michael Ruse in Dialogue, by Robert B. Stewart, editor, Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2007 The subject of intelligent design has been much in the news in recent months but is often treated in a piecemeal fashion or one-sidedly. This volume highlights points of agreement and disagreement between two leading intellectuals on the subject: William A. Dembski, senior fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, and Michael Ruse, an internationally-known philosopher of science. Each of the contributors presents his or her position in light of the other’s, providing readers with a fair and balanced case for both sides and allowing readers to decide for themselves. Additional contributors include William Lane Craig, Alister McGrath, Wolfhart Pannenberg, John Polkinghorne, Nancey Murphy, J. P. Moreland, Francis Beckwith, Martinez Hewlett, John Lennox, Kenneth Keathley, Hal Ostrander, and Robert Stewart. Robert B. Stewart is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Theology at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, where he … [Read more...]
The Quest of Hermeneutical Jesus
The author leads his readers through the projects of two of the most important and influential scholars in the field of historical Jesus research. The Quest of the Hermeneutical Jesus: The Impact of Hermeneutics on the Jesus Research of John Dominic Crossan and N. T. Wright, by Robert B. Stewart, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, to be published July 2008 The Quest of the Hermeneutical Jesus is a study in how the way in which one reads documents referring to Jesus influences one’s conclusions as to who Jesus was as, a historical figure. In this book the author leads his readers through the projects of two of the most important and influential scholars in the field of historical Jesus research – John Dominic Crossan and N. T. Wright – in order to show readers how their philosophical presuppositions and hermeneutical methods impact their respective historical conclusions concerning Jesus. There is arguably no more important question in religious studies than what can we know about Jesus? Jesus research also is a task in which interpretation of historical texts is unavoidable. Strangely though, there is virtually nothing in print that addresses how one field (hermeneutics) influences the other … [Read more...]
The Future of Atheism
A helpful book which highlights points of agreement and disagreement on the topic of the present status of atheism and which worldview, atheism or Christianity, is preferable. The Future of Atheism: Alister McGrath and Daniel Dennett in Dialogue, by Robert B. Stewart, editor, Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, to be published in October 2008 The subject of atheism has been much in the news recently with the highly publicized release of radically atheistic books. This helpful book highlights points of agreement and disagreement between Alister McGrath and Daniel Dennett on the topic of the present status of atheism and which worldview, atheism or Christianity, is preferable. Other contributors include William Lane Craig, J. P. Moreland, Hugh McCann, Evan Fales, Keith Parsons, Paul Copan, Ted Peters, and Robert Stewart. Robert B. Stewart is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Theology at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, where he holds the Greer-Heard Chair of Faith and Culture. 0 … [Read more...]
The Verbal System of Biblical Aramaic
Analysis of Biblical Aramaic written for biblical scholars. The Verbal System of Biblical Aramaic: A Distributional Approach, by Michael Shepherd, published in 2007 by Peter Lang Publishing. “My primary impetus for the work was the absence of any distributional analysis of the Biblical Aramaic verbal system in biblical scholarship,” Shepherd wrote in an email. He’s an assistant professor of Christian studies at LC. “Such analysis had been done for Biblical Hebrew but not for Biblical Aramaic. The audience for the book is the academic community of biblical scholars who work with biblical and non-biblical Aramaic texts. Nevertheless, the book is accessible to anyone who is interested in reading Biblical Aramaic, particularly pastors who have the responsibility of teaching these texts as well as texts written in Hebrew and Greek. “Knowledge of the verbal systems of the biblical languages is essential to comprehension of the Bible’s meaning. This is no less true for Biblical Aramaic than it is for Biblical Hebrew or Biblical Greek.” … [Read more...]
In the Habit of Acting Together: The Emergence of the Wig Party in Louisiana 1828-1840
Colorful characters and exciting elections make up this lively history. In the Habit of Acting Together: The Emergence of the Whig Party in Louisiana 1828-1840, by Henry O. Robertson, Ph.D., LC History. Published in May 2007 by the Center for Louisiana Studies University Siana. Louisiana differed in many ways from the American political mainstream yet remained oddly parallel in other regards. Economic development, ethnicity, slavery, and regional rivalry between sections of the state had a hand in creating the issues and ideas that fired the imagination of early Whigs. “Colorful characters and exciting elections make up this lively history,” according to a reviewer. Whigs, the author wrote, were in the habit of working together. … [Read more...]
New Testament Greek Primer
Stevens presents the beginning student of the Greek of the New Testament with a user-friendly introduction to the morphology and grammar of the Greek language. New Testament Greek Primer, 2d ed., by Gerald L. Stevens, Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, 2007 Using graphic layouts, copious tables, and clear discussion, Stevens presents the beginning student of the Greek of the New Testament with a user-friendly introduction to the morphology and grammar of the Greek language. The transition from English to Greek is assisted by an appendix of four chapters reviewing English grammar. Vocabulary acquisition is down to words occurring 50 or more times in the New Testament. The second edition to this popular textbook makes corrections, tweaks discussion, and adds helpful explanations. Gerald L. Stevens is Professor of New Testament and Greek at NOBTS. … [Read more...]
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