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Luke Timothy Johnson
Is discipleship about personal sanctification or social reform?
Believers are divided on a question central to Christian identity: what does it mean to follow Jesus? For centuries, imitating Christ meant…
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Luke Johnson, Graeme Boyd
The ultimate guide to hosting parties, with practical advice for mastering the art of entertaining.
Naomi Johnson
Join Alfy as he goes on lots of adventures, colour along in the paperback and let your imagination run wild in the kindle version. Artist Luke Margetts skillfully illustrates Alfy's…
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Luke Johnson
Ferocious Animals will remind you of who and what we are beneath all the cool digital interfaces- animals, burning with ferocity for a mouthful of life’s flesh.
The thirteen stories…
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For eight years between 1998 and 2006, Luke Johnson wrote a regular column as The Maverick in The Sunday Telegraph . The Maverick quickly developed a cult following among readers…
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The people of Siwale village in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, were still celebrating independence from Britain when Robert Mugabe’s government, unhappy that they had voted for a rival political party, sent soldiers…
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AFTER THE ARK, Luke Johnson’s remarkable first collection of poetry, chronicles the author’s upbringing as the son of two ministers. A seasonal triptych, the poems root themselves in the landscapes…
A book of reckoning, a book of ghosts, a book of lineal fracture and generational fatherlesness. It's a visceral guide through boyhood into fatherhood. One that yields witness to trauma…
Running your own business is nowhere near as tough as you might think. So what are you waiting for? In this title, the author sets out to inspire - and…
Chris Averill
Insight into the often closed world of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). An honest and often brutal account of building a business to sell and avoiding the pitfalls along the way.
Google apps are an amazing set of online tools for word processing, spreadsheets, email, storage and more, accessible online, on mobile devices and across multiple locations. Learn how to make…
Robert Kelsey
A practical guide to attacking the most common of phobias: fear of failure A practical guide to attacking the most common of phobias: fear of failure Since its publication in…
A selection of homilies and sermons preached inOrdinary Timethat focus on the texts of the lectionary and the demands of Christian life. Some are short talks delivered in…
Johnson believes Christian spirituality needs an intellectual recasting that takes seriously the life of ordinary people in a world shaped by modernity rather than the monastery by discerning the narrative…
Luke T. Johnson
In Contested Issues in Christian Origins and the New Testament, Luke Timothy Johnson offers a series of independent studies on a range of critical questions from the historical Jesus to…
A collection of talks and essays by scholar Luke Timothy Johnson, on topics important to the contemporary Church –
Second in the two-part writing scholars call Luke-Acts, this volume continues the story begun in the Gospel of Luke, showing how the Good News offered by Jesus was eventually extended…
Luke J Johnson
: boys is a cartography of scars, bloodlines, wounds that stretch between generations, between the living and the dead. These are poems lush with song, familial love, and the gritty…
This book is written as an exercise in theological reflection on one of the knottiest questions imaginable: the connection between being a Christian and the way we own and use…
This volume of the New Testament Library offers a thorough and careful commentary on the complicated book of Hebrews, showing its meaning within the context of ancient culture and the…
Luke Johnson here issues a provocative call for a radically new direction in New Testament studies that can change the way we have viewed the entire phenomenon of early Christianity.
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Focusing on the Gospel as it appears and not on its source or origin, this commentary explores just what Luke is saying and how he says it.
Luke Timothy Johnson offers a compelling interpretation of the New Testament as a witness to the rise of early faith in Jesus. Critically judicious and theologically attuned to the role…
First of a two-volume work providing a framework for understanding the life and thought of the apostle Paul –
In this addition to the NTC series, Luke Timothy Johnson calls attention to the fact that the three letters of Paul to his delegates Timothy and Titus do not make…
A selection of sermons or homilies preached over a fifty-year period explicitly linked to the church’s liturgical year–thus, In Season. The sermons exemplify how engagement with lectionary texts, the church’s…
Miracles are not confined to the stories of Scripture; these signs of God’s presence and power in creation are experienced throughout our daily existence. Yet cultural challenges and modernity’s skepticism…
In the first book to challenge the findings of the Jesus Seminar, the controversial group of 200 scholars who claim Jesus only said 18 percent of what the Gospels attribute…
Looks at Jesus as a living person, and suggests that being a Christian entails putting on the mind of Christ .
Luke Timothy Johnson begins his study of the practical issue of how decisions are made in the church by admitting to a bias: that there ought to be a connection…
The letters of Paul to Timothy, one of his favorite delegates, often make for difficult reading. This book provides a commentary that will help lay readers navigate the letters and…
Offers a history of the interpretation of the Letter of James , highlighting the vast appreciation for it over the centuries. This book identifies the first-century authors as none other…
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The question of Christianity’s relation to the other religions of the world is pertinent and difficult. This title identifies four distinct ways of being religious: religion as participation in benefits…
Argues that theology can respond faithfully to the living God only by paying due attention to human bodily experience Scripture points to the human body and lived experience as the…
In this and every age, the church desperately needs prophecy. It needs the bold proclamation of Gods transforming vision to challenge its very human tendency toward expediency and self-interest to…
Though there is much interest among biblical literalists in the historical figure of James, Johnson (New Testament and Christian origins, Emory U., Georgia) focuses on the letter attributed to him…
The second of a two-volume work providing a framework for understanding the life and thought of the apostle Paul, focused on discerning Paul’s voice and exploring interpretive issues throughout the…
A memoir by Luke Timothy Johnson in which Johnson reflects on the life experiences that made him a scholar and on the general requirements of scholarship –
Johnson, a New Testament scholar and Catholic theologian, clarifies the history of the Creed, discussing its evolution from the first decades of the Christian Church to the present day.
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Explores the Apostle Paul’s use of shame and reclaims its positive usage for moral formation.
Over the decades, histories of Lyndon Johnson have continued to evolve. There remain many debated questions even more than 40 years after his death. The 37th president is, even today…