Greg Deuble       When Paul wrote to the Corinthians that the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus are “amongst things of primary importance,” the point under […]

Bill Wachtel In so-called “replacement theology,” which is very widespread, literal, ethnic, national Israel is no longer in view as God’s covenant people, but rather the […]

Sir Anthony F. Buzzard The contemporary way of inviting people to become Christians is unlike the biblical method. Today the invitation is rather vague: “Accept Jesus […]

eds. Brown, Fitzmeyer, Murphy, pp. 639, 640 Matthew 4:17: “From then on Jesus began… This introductory formula (used again in 16:21) solemnly inaugurates Jesus’ ministry. Repent […]

by E.R. Craven Now, remembering the close connection in the Jewish mind between the establishment of the Basileia, and the glorious coming of the Son of […]

From The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. “The predominant statement is that the kingdom of God is near, that it has drawn near…that it comes, […]

by Anthony F. Buzzard “…that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Jesus Christ” (Gal. 3:14). “May God give you and your descendants […]

In his multi-volume commentary on Romans the prominent Welsh Protestant scholar Martyn Lloyd-Jones bemoaned the fact that Christianity had lost the hope of the resurrection and […]

The historical Jesus and the theological Christ, Joseph Estlin Carpenter, 1912, p 76f. The Hebrew view of the world was essentially dramatic. It was under the […]