Description: Many sincere Christians believe that that Christ brought to an end the principle and practice of Sabbathkeeping, and instituted Sundaykeeping instead. To test the validity of this popular view, Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi devoted many years of painstaking research. The results of my investigation were first published by the Pontifical Gregorian University press, in Rome, Italy.
THE SABBATH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT summarize his extensive research by presenting four basic reasons for his belief in the permanence of the principle and practice of Sabbathkeeping in the New Testament. These reasons are presented in a clear and simple way which ordinary readers can understand.
In the second half of the book answers a wide variety of questions people have often asked about the Sabbath. The questions deal with historical, theological and practical aspects of Sabbathkeeping.
Description: In this transcript of the Bailey Lectures given at Berkeley in March and April 1986, one of Europe's outstanding biblical scholars presents the first major study by a biblical scholar of one of the most important and most controversial phrases in contemporary theology. These lectures present a moving and scholarly account of the biblical notion of God's love for the poor. After showing that this concept was prominent among Israel's neighbors, Lohfink examines its unique meaning in the Old and New Testaments, and its affinity to and difference from liberation theology. Second edition.
Description: Johann Baptist Metz, founder of political theology in Europe, is one of the most significant Roman Catholic theologians working since the Second Vatican Council. In A Passion for God, J. Matthew Ashley edits and translates the most important of Metz's recent essays previously unavailable in English. This compelling and diverse collection reflects on such issues as the crucial place of memory in Christian faith and in society as a whole, the role of religious in the Church, the meaning of the mystical virtue of poverty of spirit and the relationship between Christianity and politics in modernity. A Passion for God includes an introduction by Ashley that surveys Metz's career in the context of postconciliar Catholic theology and offers the reader helpful advice for understanding Metz's work. Those interested in the various aspects of North American liberation as well as political or public theology will find this book to be an invaluable resource.
