books by Rowan A. Greer

books by Rowan A. Greer

books:

Rowan A. Greer

Rowan Greer

Herder & Herder, 2001

A brilliant book
Christian Hope and Christian Life is one of the best books I've read in years. The basic theme of the book is simple. In the New Testament, we see a consistent emphasis on hope for the future, but different books emphasize different aspects of hope. In the early ...

Four Desert Fathers: Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius Of Egypt, And Macarius Of Alexandria : Coptic Texts Relating ...

St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2004

Broken Lights and Mended Lives: Theology and Common Life in the Early Church
Rowan A. Greer

Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991

A discussion by a broadly respected authority of the complicated relationship between theology and ordinary life in the early church. The first section of the book scrutinizes theology with a view to understanding its bearing upon Christian understandings of life (the theological "stories" of Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, and Augustine). The second ...

Anglican Approaches to Scripture: From the Reformation to the Present
Rowan A. Greer

The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2006

Many of the controversial religious debates of our day grow out of disagreements about how to interpret scripture correctly. Is it a historical or theological text? How do we address the apparent contradictions? In Anglican Approaches to Scripture , the sequel to ATB Book of the Year Christian Hope and Christian Life , Greer shows the ...

Origen: An Exortation to Martyrdom, Prayer, and Selected Works

Origen, Rowan A. Greer, ...

Paulist Press, 1979

Intellectual reverence and the spiritual sense.
These selected works from the writings of Origen (c. 185-254) will give the reader much to contemplate and are complex enough to perhaps frustrate the reader without some foundation in the material. Do not read Origen without first reading the preface (Hans Urs von ...

Early Biblical Interpretation (Library of Early Christianity, Vol 3)

James L. Kugel, Rowan A. Greer

Westminster John Knox Pr, 1986

Major Factors that Shaped Early Scriptural Interpretation
"In the matter of biblical interpretation, if we are not to fantasize about the imperfections and the mistakes of the past, we have to take a close look at how past scholars have made sense of Holy Writ and to ask whether what they said is useful or misleading, ...

Reading in Christian Communities: Essays on Interpretation in the Early Church (Christianity and Judaism in ...

University of Notre Dame Press, 2002

The essays in this book honor and extend the work of Rowan A. Greer, Walter H. Gray Professor Emeritus of Anglican Studies at Yale University Divinity School, by exploring the connections between textual interpretation and the formation of religious identity. A diverse and prestigious group of biblical scholars, church historians, and theologians ...