Story as TorahHow do the grand stories of Israel and her heroes, as well as the many seemingly mundane incidents found in these narrative stories, help guide today's readers in their daily behavior? Renowned scholar Gordon Wenham offers Story as Torah, a succinct monograph demonstrating how Old Testament narratives can indeed function as "Torah," informing one's ethical choices. He uses the books of Genesis and Judges as test cases, working with texts that offer
"The work of writing clarifies who we are in relation to both God and the world about us
Author Douglas Sweeney begins with a brief outline of the key features that define evangelicals and then explores the roots of the movement in English Pietism and the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century
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and text-critical evidence
The word evangelism evokes strong reactions among Christians
such as the "emerging church" movement
the relationship between the two has been addressed only peripherally if not altogether overlooked
Bock offers students of the New Testament a substantive yet highly accessible commentary
Besides utilizing seminal and current sources from the field of organizational studies
enabling us to experience the formative power of the imagination for ourselves
and it does this through stories we understand on a register that is closer to body than mind
