The Epistle of James raises particular historical problems about the origins of Christianity and its relation to contemporary Judaism. This text contextualizes the Epistle of James within the canon of Scripture and analyzes the historical context of James. The Epistle of James includes a considerable range of types of material, aphorisms, parabolic sayings, prophetic oracles, apocalyptic statements, interpretation of the law and ethical parensis. Richard Bauckham explores the different types of material included in the text and demonstrates how a close appreciation of these literary aspects...

Essays on scripture, tradition and reason; at the heart of every major issue confronting the life and thought of all the Christian Churches today. In honour of R. P. C. Hanson.

The Apocalypse of John is a work of immense importance and learning. Yet among the major works of early Christianity included in the New Testament it has received relatively little scholarly attention.This work is a significant contribution to remedying this neglect. The author examines the meticulous literary artistry, creative imagination, radical political critique and profound theology of the Apocalypse of John. It is a sustained enterprise to understand both the form and the message of the Apocalypse in its literary and historical contexts.An invaluable and illuminating work for...

The hopes by which the modern West has lived are widely understood to have failed. At the outset of the third millennium, we see the ideology of historical progress for what it is -- a myth that can no longer provide humanity with grounds for true hope. In "Hope against Hope" Richard Bauckham and Trevor Hart present a way forward -- through a radical faith in a global future that is in God's hands.
Using the present failure of secular hope as the context for a renewal of the Christian vision for the future, Bauckham and Hart seek to re-source Christian hope from its rich heritage of...

This rich study offers the best explanation available of the Christian mission to people of every ethnic group. In plumbing the depths of Matthew's Gospel and other ancient documents, James LaGrand provides a full biblical description of the messianic mission to all people everywhere. He also demonstrates the contemporary relevance of the discussion, showing, for example, why certain modern developments--from Church Growth principles to political apartheid--contradict the Christian gospel. Now available in a paperback edition with a new preface by Richard Bauckham, LaGrand's work offers a...