Spirit-union Allows for Soul-rest

Religion & Spirituality

Fowler, James A.

Christian Books & Bibles

C.I.Y. Publishing

Early Christian writers used the Latin phrase, unio cum Christo, meaning “union with Christ.” Although the New Testament does not use such a phrase, Paul does tell the Corinthians that “the one who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him” (I Cor. 6:17). Early Greek Christian writers often referred to our “participation in Christ,” even using the word theosis to explain such union. It is important that Christians of our day understand what “union with Christ” really means.

Union with Christ: Seeking a Balanced Understanding

“The Epistle to the Hebrews has long suffered from anonymity. There is anonymity of both author and recipients because these details are not included in the text of the letter. Such anonymity makes the document suspect in the minds of some for it provides no specificity of its intended meaning within a given context.” James A. Fowler concludes that the evidence overwhelming points to the traditional explanation of the Apostle Paul writing from Rome to the Hebrew Christians in Jerusalem, Fowler interprets the text of the Epistle accordingly, allowing for an historically based interpretation that provides definitive specificity to the text. The Epistle to the Hebrews “comes alive” in this commentary.

A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews: JESUS: Better Than Everything

Sometime after Paul had departed from the cities of Galatia, some other teachers arrived with a modified belief-system that inculcated adherence to the Judaic Law of the old covenant. It is difficult to reconstruct the precise identity of these interlopers, but it is obvious that they were advocating the necessity of religious observances (4:10), as well as male circumcision (5:2; 6:12), and attempting to seduce these new Christians into legalistic old covenant concepts (3:2; 4:21). The author believes that “Galatianism” is pervasive and prevalent in the churches today, as religious legalists have duped Christians with the didactic declarations of “how-to” Christian religion in prescribed procedures, formulas, techniques and duties which allegedly determine the distinguishing marks of a true disciple. The Church today is in dire need of the message of “grace and liberty.

A Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians: The Gospel Versus Religion

There is a great need today for Christians to develop a basic understanding of the general theological thrust of Jesus’ life and ministry. Too often, Jesus’ statements and actions have been taken out of their historical or textual context and used for proof-texting existing presuppositions of doctrine or morality. This generalized commentary on the four gospel-records of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in harmony is an attempt to see the “big picture” of the radically new “good news” that Jesus introduced as inherent within Himself, and the inevitable contrast and conflict encountered as He revealed Himself in the context of the prevailing religion and culture of Palestine in the first century.

A Commentary on the Four Gospels: Jesus Confronts Religion

Jim Fowler has cast the entire Christian message into a dramatic form with seven acts. Beginning in the inner sanctum of the loving interactions of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the drama procedes to consider the creation of the angelic and human orders, the fall of man, the redemptive and restorative acts of Jesus Christ, spiritual regeneration and eternal life.

The Divine Drama of Love: The Christian Narrative in Seven Acts

Religious Studies

Jim Fowler explains that Christianity is not a book-religion, not a belief-system, not morality, not role-playing, not social problem-solving, not an ideological option, and not an ...ism, before concluding with the positive emphasis that Christianity IS Christ.

Christianity is NOT Religion

Man As God Intended

A reprint of John Eliot's New Testament in the Algonquin Indian language of Massachusetts first printed in 1661.

Algonquin Indian New Testament

Eliot, John

Chicken Bones of Christian Thought

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