I found this book helpful, enjoyable, during my study on early chruch history.
This and vol. 2 of the same are the only two books I have in my "print library," because I have bought on Logos everything else I have in print that's on Logos. The minute these volumes become available for purchase on Logos, I will order them. And by "print library" I mean Kindle. Kindle is better than print, but so much less useful and so much less readable than Logos.
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"… Long before Jesus arrived, God had already given Israel a sacrificial system — not to appease an angry deity — but to teach, heal, and restore His people. Blood was never about violence or wrath — it was about life (Leviticus 17:11). Sacrifice was not about satisfying divine rage — it was about drawing near. Atonement…
The Apostle Paul: more letters in the New Testament come from his hand than from anyone else. He is the leader whose dramatic conversion God used to rock the early church and whose tireless efforts helped spread the gospel to the Gentiles. His letters, inspired by the Holy Spirit, continue to radiate joy and deliver…
I would love to have some books by Robert Alter in my Logos Library.
Recent decades have witnessed much scholarly reassessment of late-sixteenth through eighteenth-century Reformed theology. It was common to view the theology of this period-typically labelled 'orthodoxy'-as sterile, speculative, and rationalistic, and to represent it as significantly discontinuous with the more humanistic,…
