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Intimately Forsaken: A Trinitarian Christology of the Cross

The lament of Jesus from the cross, as documented in Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34 (“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”), represents one of the most theologically challenging statements within the biblical text. In the aftermath of the two World Wars, pastoral and theological impulses to render God more immediately relatable produced doctrinally distorted interpretations of this cry, some positing an ontological rupture within the Triune God. In Intimately Forsaken, a revised version of his doctoral thesis, Thomas Brand offers an orthodox alternative by developing, as the subtitle indicates, a Trinitarian Christology of the cross. Employing the architectural...

The Last Romantic: C. S. Lewis, English Literature, and Modern Theology

Few authors have displayed the breadth of Christian imagination like C. S. Lewis. From his creative world-building, like Narnia and Perelandra, to his compelling argumentation in Mere Christianity, to the moving imagery of The Great Divorce, Lewis has captured his readers’ attention and pointed them further up and further in. Scholarship on the life and writings of Lewis has blossomed in recent years, and Jeffrey Barbeau’s The Last Romantic: C. S. Lewis, English Literature, and Modern Theology contributes to our understanding of Lewis. Barbeau has published works on British Romanticism, Methodism, and English Romantic-era religion. He brings his areas of...

The Gospel of Mark’s Judaism and the Death of Christ as a Ransom for Many

Many monographs proclaim their ambition to shift a paradigm; few do. In my opinion, this volume stands a better chance than most. This monograph is the second to develop from the author’s doctoral dissertation at McMaster University; the first was published as The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant: 200 BCE–132 CE (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022). The present work applies a nuanced, textured set of conceptualities for discerning and situating the “Jewishness” of an ancient religious text such as the Gospel of Mark, which it employs to undermine the reigning scholarly paradigm, which the author calls “Gentile Mark.” By...

The Greek New Testament, 6th Revised Edition

First published in 1966, the UBS Greek New Testament hits its 60th birthday this year. It has long been the preferred hand edition for its intended audience of translators, students, and pastors. The arrival of this new, sixth edition is a major publishing event, especially as it is accompanied by a completely new textual commentary (reviewed separately). So much has changed with this edition that it can fairly be called the most significant update to the UBS edition in fifty years (when the third edition was first linked with the Nestle-Aland). By way of review, we can highlight the salient...

Miniature Codices in Early Christianity

In our digital age, the shift from text to hypertext has introduced new opportunities and complexities to the task of reading. What it means to “read a book” might mean many different things. One of the reasons that this paradigm shift feels so destabilizing is because of the unrivaled dominance of the codex “book form” that has been at the center of how people organize and access information for thousands of years. An interesting feature about the earliest churches is that they were early adopters of this then innovative publication technology (outpacing the broader Greco-Roman world by several hundred years)....

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