Truth Untold: Meditations on the Gospel

Houlden, Leslie

Religion & Spirituality

SPCK Publishing

Since the Common Worship Lectionary first came into use, many short preaching aids have been published. They have ranged from brief notes to almost complete sermons. This new companion offers an understanding of some points of significance in each lection for every Sunday and for other major days. It combines the latest scholarship with the conviction that the text should address today's world, squarely facing up to the difficulties that some passages may present to modern congregations. It does not aim to provide a substitute for sermon preparation, but to stimulate reflection among those engaged in this work. This is a serious academic commentary on the readings, by scholars who are also aware of the demands and purposes of preaching. The book provides the academic background knowledge essential for interpreting the texts; does not shirk difficult questions; stimulates the prospective preacher to see new ways of reading the text; covers the Anglican variations not dealt with in American commentaries.

Common Worship Lectionary: A Scripture Commentary (Year A)

Christian Books & Bibles

Since the Common Worship Lectionary first came into use, many short preaching aids have been published. They have ranged from brief notes to almost complete sermons. This new companion offers an understanding of some points of significance in each lection for every Sunday and for other major days. It combines the latest scholarship with the conviction that the text should address today's scholarship with the conviction that the text should address today's world, squarely facing up to the difficulties that some passages may present to modern congregations. It does not aim to provide a substitute for sermon preparation, but to stimulate reflection among those engaged in this work. This is a serious academic commentary on the readings, by scholars who are also aware of the demands and purposes of preaching. The book: provides the academic background knowledge essential for interpreting the texts; does not shirk difficult questions; stimulates the prospective preacher to see new ways of reading the text; covers the Anglican variations not dealt with in American commentaries.

Common Worship Lectionary: A Scripture Commentary (Year B) (Scripture Commentary (Year B) #Houlden, Leslie (Formerly Pro)

Rogerson, John

Since the Common Worship Lectionary first came into use, many short preaching aids have been published. They have ranged from brief notes to almost complete sermons. This new companion offers an understanding of some points of significance in each lection for every Sunday and for other major days. It combines the latest scholarship with the conviction that the text should address today's world, squarely facing up to the difficulties that some passages may present to modern congregations. It does not aim to provide a substitute for sermon preparation, but to stimulate reflection among those engaged in this work. This is a serious academic commentary on the readings, by scholars who are also aware of the demands and purposes of preaching. The book - provides the academic background knowledge essential for interpreting the texts; does not shirk difficult questions; stimulates the prospective preacher to see new ways of reading the text; covers the Anglican variations not dealt with in American commentaries. ""Real scholarship and valuable resources [are] to be found in this volume..."" John McCourt, Church Times on previous volume

Common Worship Lectionary: A Scripture Commentary (Year C)

Leslie Houlden explores the distinctive theology which guided each evangelist in creating his gospel. He then looks at the way Christian doctrine relates to the vision of each of the gospel writers and shows that they are in fact based only on a small part of the gospels themselves. This approach brings life into the rather abstract study of doctrine, and has astonishing and original implications of relevance to all Christians.

The Strange Story of the Gospels

Society for Promoting Christian

The famous Pelican takes on a new look in this important series of commentaries on the New Testament. Originally published by Penguin Books, it has now been taken over by SCM Press who will continue it and develop it further. The commentaries on the four gospels in paperback will continue to be published by Penguin Books; cased editions of these books and editions of all other commentaries, both cased and paperback, will in future be published by SCM Press. In their new format, the commentaries will aim, as before, to provide explanations of the books of the New Testament which are neither abstruse and academic, nor over-simplified, fundamentalist or out of date. Paul's Letters from Prison covers the 'captivity epistles' which, though of uncertain authorship, are commonly attributed to the apostle Paul: Philippians, Colossians, Philemon and Ephesians.

Paul's Letters from Prison (Scm Pelican Commentaries)

SCM Press

The extraordinary success of The Da Vinci Code has dramatically intensified interest in the mysterious origins of Christianity. But in fact there has always been huge curiosity about a wide range of contentious issues concerning Jesus and early Church history. Who was the 'real' Jesus? How much do we really know about his disciples? What is written in the 'secret' early Christian writings, such as the Gnostic Gospels? How did the Church Fathers decide which beliefs were heretical and which weren't? Who were the first Popes and how did they take control of the early Church? Decoding Early Christianity addresses all such questions, separating truth from legend, and showing how the early Church Fathers and Popes interpreted competing views and traditions to produce, over time, an approved and codified view of Jesus and his followers, and developed an accepted liturgy with which to worship him. Expertly written by a team of highly distinguished authors, it is a clear and engaging exploration of fact and fiction for anyone who wants to be reliably informed on the subject. The authors show how speculative fancies arise from a mixture of tenuous evidence and wishful thinking, and bring the issues back to the solid - but no less extraordinary - evidence in the main canon of the Gospels and the Acts.
After Leslie Houlden's Introduction, which briefly explores the nature and context of the different issues, nine chapters, each written by an expert, tackle the evidence: 'What Did Jesus Do and Teach?' (Leslie Houlden), 'Who Were the Disciples?' (Stephen Need), 'Who Were the First Popes?' (Graham Gould), 'What is the Apocryphal New Testament?' (Stuart Hall), 'What was Gnosticism?' (Stuart Hall), 'What Was the Qumran Sect and Did Jesus Share their Beliefs?' (Stephen Need), 'How Did the Early Christians Worship?' (Graham Gould), 'Who Were the Heretics and What Did they Believe?' (Lionel Wickham) and 'What Did Constantine Do for Christianity?' (Graham Gould).

Decoding Early Christianity: Truth and Legend in the Early Church

History

Hall, Stuart G.

Need, Stephen

Gould, Graham

Wickham, Lionel

World

Praeger

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