Jesus’s command to “be perfect” puzzles modern readers, but it wasn’t always that way.
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The Political Challenge of Jonah: Reflections on Niebuhr and Postliberalism
The political aspects of the Book of Jonah are too frequently overlooked.
The End of Interpretation: Reclaiming the Priority of Ecclesial Exegesis
Ephraim Radner reviews R. R. Reno’s new book on the interpreting Scripture within Church tradition
The Real Origins of Church Offices: Jewish and Greco-Roman Context for the Pastoral Epistles
Can historical context break the deadlock on endless church polity debates?
Hemmingsen on Mark 7
It is significant that Christ not only healed a man, but that, in order for the man to be healed, others had to bring him to Christ.