Cleansed Lepers, Cleansed Hearts
Title | Cleansed Lepers, Cleansed Hearts PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Shellberg |
Publisher | Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1451485247 |
Pamela Shellberg shows that Luke's use of the language of "clean" and "unclean" has particular first-century medical connotations that make it especially powerful for expressing his understanding of the universal salvation prophesied by Isaiah and by Jesus. Shellberg traces how the stories of Jesus' cleansing of leprous bodies in the Gospel become the pattern for the divine cleansing of Gentile hearts throughout Acts, and one of Luke's primary expressions of the means of God's salvation and favor through the dissolving of distinctions between Jew and Gentile.
Holy Bible (NIV)
Title | Holy Bible (NIV) PDF eBook |
Author | Various Authors, |
Publisher | Zondervan |
Total Pages | 6637 |
Release | 2008-09-02 |
Genre | Bibles |
ISBN | 0310294142 |
The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.
Truth and Grace; or, Leprosy proved and Leprosy cleansed. Matt. vii. 28-viii. 4
Title | Truth and Grace; or, Leprosy proved and Leprosy cleansed. Matt. vii. 28-viii. 4 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 12 |
Release | 1844 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Leper and the Leper's House Cleansed: Being an Exposition Upon Some Part of the XIVth Chapter of Leviticus, the Mystery of which is Explained and Applied to the State and Condition of a Sinner's Becoming a Saint, Etc
Title | The Leper and the Leper's House Cleansed: Being an Exposition Upon Some Part of the XIVth Chapter of Leviticus, the Mystery of which is Explained and Applied to the State and Condition of a Sinner's Becoming a Saint, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Worden |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 104 |
Release | 1695 |
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ISBN |
The Desire of Ages
Title | The Desire of Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen G. White |
Publisher | Bytes 4 the Heart |
Total Pages | 888 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | Seventh-Day Adventists |
ISBN |
Cyclopaedia of Poetry
Title | Cyclopaedia of Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 910 |
Release | 1877 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word
Title | Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word PDF eBook |
Author | Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis |
Publisher | Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | 756 |
Release | 2011-11-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1681491796 |
To the unstudied eye, Matthew's gospel can seem a terse narrative, almost a historical document and not the tremendously spiritual (and doctrinal) storehouse that it is. Erasmo Leiva here acts as our guide, showing Matthew's prose to be not terse so much as economical--astoundingly so given its depth. The lay reader can derive great profit from reading this. Each short meditation comments on a verse or two, pointing to some facet of the text not immediately apparent. Leiva's work is scholarly but eminently approachable by the non-technical reader. The tone is very much gustate et videte, quoniam suavis est Dominus [taste and see how good the Lord is]-as it is "friend, come up higher!". The goal of the book is to help the reader experience the heat of the divine heart/the light of the divine Word. Leiva points to Matthew's gospel as being deeply ecclesial because it is first Christological. He comments on the Greek text, demonstrating to the reader nuances in the text that defy translation into English without serious revision of the text. Leiva uses linguistic analysis to aid the non-Greek reader with the literal meaning of the text; numerous quotes from the Fathers and the liturgy of the church demonstrate the way the Tradition has lived and read the Word of God. His theological reflection vivifies doctrine by seeking its roots in the words and actions of Jesus.