Margaret Barker shows that Revelation represents some of the oldest material in the New Testament, some of it from Jesus himself. Her work illuminates the formative years of christianity in the social, religious, and political situation of mid-first-century Palestine in quite a remarkable way. This book will have profound implications for the understanding of Christian origins and the development of Christian liturgy.
Margaret Barker shows that Revelation represents some of the oldest material in the New Testament, some of it from Jesus himself. Her work illuminates...
What did "Son of God," "Messiah," and "Lord," mean to the first Christians when they used these words to describe their beliefs about Jesus? In this book Margaret Barker explores the possibility that, in the expectations and traditions of first-century Palestine, these titles belonged together, and that the first Christians fit Jesus' identity into an existing pattern of belief. She claims that pre-Christian Judaism was not monotheistic and that the roots of Christian Trinitarian theology lie in a pre-Christian Palestinian belief about angels--a belief derived from the ancient religion of...
What did "Son of God," "Messiah," and "Lord," mean to the first Christians when they used these words to describe their beliefs about Jesus? In thi...
Much of the sacramental worship of the Western church is predicated on the assumptions (formed mainly in the last fifty years but linked with the theology of the early church) that the Eucharist is best understood as a communal meal and that God's presence is therefore best apprehended in the gathered community. The theology of Eucharistic sacrifice has been increasingly marginalized. The architectural ideal expression of these assumptions is a centralized communal space, with the altar in the midst of the people. A rigid adherence to these principles has had a drastic architectural and...
Much of the sacramental worship of the Western church is predicated on the assumptions (formed mainly in the last fifty years but linked with the theo...
Redraws the map of the New Testament and Christian origins confronting much of the scepticism of recent New Testament scholarship to offer a new understanding of Resurrection, Christology, atonement and parousia.
Redraws the map of the New Testament and Christian origins confronting much of the scepticism of recent New Testament scholarship to offer a new un...
