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The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues
Better Ways to Read the Bible: Transforming a Weapon of Harm Into a Tool of Healing
Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
The Vision of Ephesians: The Task of the Church and the Glory of God
Men and Women in the Church: A Short, Biblical, Practical Introduction
Being God's Image: Why Creation Still Matters
The Widening of God's Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story
Reading Genesis
Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament
Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End
Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter
God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible
The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross
Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling
Jesus through the Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord
Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
You're Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God’s Design and Why That’s Good News
Blessed: Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Revelation
Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
Becoming God's Family: Why the Church Still Matters
Boy Jesus: Growing Up Judean in Turbulent Times
15 New Testament Words of Life: A New Testament Theology for Real Life
David's Crown: Sounding the Psalms
This Hallelujah Banquet: How the End of What We Were Reveals Who We Can Be
Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World (Jewish Lives)
Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God) – A Biblical Scholar's Guide to Faith Growing Through Doubt
The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood: How God's Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality
Confronting Jesus: 9 Encounters with the Hero of the Gospels
Beyond the Salvation Wars: Why Both Protestants and Catholics Must Reimagine How We Are Saved
The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library)
Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple
Seven Things I Wish Christians Knew About the Bible
Five Views on the Exodus: Historicity, Chronology, and Theological Implications (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology)
The Great Story and the Great Commission: Participating in the Biblical Drama of Mission (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology)
The Royal Priesthood and the Glory of God (Short Studies in Biblical Theology)
Rethinking the Atonement
Women and the Gender of God
Rejoice and Tremble: The Surprising Good News of the Fear of the Lord
Four Views on Heaven (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology)
You Need a Better Gospel: Reclaiming the Good News of Participation with Christ
Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew
Hitchhiking with Prophets: A Ride Through the Salvation Story of the Old Testament
Finding Phoebe: What New Testament Women Were Really Like
The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession
Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables
Union with the Resurrected Christ: Eschatological New Creation and New Testament Biblical Theology
People of the Screen: How Evangelicals Created the Digital Bible and How It Shapes Their Reading of Scripture
Foretaste of the Future: Reading Revelation in Light of God's Mission

John H. Walton
As we begin our study of Genesis 1 then, we must be aware of the danger that lurks when we impose our own cultural ideas on the text without thinking. The Bible's message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism. Its message transcends the culture in which it originated, but the form in which the message was imbedded was fully permeated by the ancient culture. This was God's design and we ignore it at our peril. ...more
John H. Walton

Through love, Paul said, you should make yourselves slaves to one another. Thus freedom and slavery are not simply mutually exclusive terms; they stand in the closest possible relationship to one another and can only be adequately defined in terms of object and goal: what we are slave to and what we are free for.
Timothy George

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