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        • Intertestamental and New Testament Historical Background
        • The Mundane Settings of The New Testament
        • The Religious and Philosophical Settings of the New Testament
        • The Canon and Text of the New Testament
        • The Study of Jesus Life
        • An Introductory Overview of Jesus Public Life and Ministry
        • Mark: An Apology for The Crucifixion of Jesus
        • Matthew: Handbook for a Mixed Church under Persecution
        • Luke: A Promotion of Christianity in the Greco-Roman World at Large (Part 1)
        • John: Believing in Jesus for Eternal Life
        • Acts: A Promotion of Christianity in the Greco-Roman World at Large (Part 2)
        • The Early Letters of Paul
        • The Major Letters of Paul
        • The Prison Letters of Paul
        • The Pastoral Letters of Paul
        • Hebrews: Jesus as Priest
        • The Catholic or General Letters
        • Revelation: Jesus is Coming!
        • The Case for Expository Preaching
        • What is the Big Idea
        • Tools of the Trade
        • The Road from Text to Sermon
        • The Arrow and the Target
        • The Shapes Sermons Take
        • Making Dry Bones Live
        • Start with a Bang and Quit All Over
        • The Dress of Thought
        • How to Preach so People will Listen
        • Beginnings: The Emergence of Christianity and Denominations
        • Adventist Churches
        • Baptist Churches
        • Brethren Churches
        • Catholic Churches
        • Christian Churches
        • Congregational Churches
        • Episcopal and Anglican Churches
        • Friends (Quaker) Churches
        • Fundamentalist, Bible, and Conservative Evangelical Churches
        • Holiness Churches
        • Lutheran Churches
        • Mennonite Churches
        • Methodist Churches
        • Orthodox Churches
        • Pentecostal Churches
        • Presbyterian Churches
        • Reformed Churches
        • The Setting for the Story Beginning
        • Jesus and the Beginnings of the Church
        • Subapostolic Age
        • The Church and the Empire
        • Heresies and Schisms in the Second Century
        • The Defense against Rival Interpretations
        • The Fathers of the Old Catholic Church and Their Problems
        • Church Life in the Second and Third Centuries
        • Development of the Church during the Third Century
        • Diocletian and Constantine: On the Threshold of the Fourth Century
        • The Church in the Fourth Century
        • The Church in the Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries
        • Christological Controversies to Chalcedon (451)
        • Augustine, Pelagius, and Semipelagianism
        • Transitions to the Middle Ages - Germanic Migrations, Doctrinal Developments, and the Papacy
        • Eastern and Western Churches in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries
        • The Eastern Church from the Seventh to Eleventh Centuries
        • The Western Church from the Seventh to Ninth Centuries
        • Decline and Renewal of Vitality in the West - The Ninth to Eleventh Centuries
        • The Papal Reform Movement and the First Crusade
        • European Christianity in an Age of Adversity, Renaissance, and Discovery
        • The Renaissance and the Christian Faith
        • Luther's Reformation
        • The Swiss Reformations - The Maturation of Internation Calvinism (16th Century)
        • Radicals and Rome - Responses to the Magisterial Reformation (16th Century)
        • Reformations in England - The Politics of Reform (16th Century)
        • Refining the Reformation - Theological Currents in the Seventeenth Century
        • Christianity in an Age of Fear, Crisis, and Exploration (17th Century)
        • Christianity and the Question of Authority (17th Century)
        • Christianity under Duress: The Age of Lights (1680-1789)
        • Christianity in the Age of Lights - The British Isles (1680-1789)
        • Christianity in the Age of Lights - The Kingdom of France (1680-1789)
        • Christianity in the Age of Lights - The Continent of Europe (1680-1789)
        • Christianity in an Age of Revolutions (1770-1848)
        • Adjusting to Modernization and Secularism - The Rise of Protestant Liberalism (1799-1919)
        • Nineteenth-Century Christianity in the British Isles - Renewal, Missions, and the Crisis of Faith
        • The Christian Churches on the European Continent (1814-1914)
        • Global Christianity - A Re-Centered Faith (20th and 21st Centuries)
        • Modern Theological Trajectories - Spiraling into the Third Millennium (20th and 21st Centuries)
        • Catholicism and Orthodoxy - Collision to Collegiality (20th and 21st Centuries)
        • Contemporary American Evangelicalism - Permutations and Progressions (20th and 21st Centuries)
        • Christianity and Islam - The Challenge of the Future (21st Century)
        • The Nature, Necessity, and Methods of Christian Theology
        • The Scope, Sources, and Types of Systematic Theology
        • What is Revelation? General Revelation
        • Revelation, Religion, and Religions
        • Natural Theology: World-views
        • Natural Theology: Theistic Arguments
        • Special Revelation to Israel and in Jesus Christ
        • Biblical Inspiration
        • The Canon of The Bible, The Relation of the Testaments, and The Unity of The Bible
        • Biblical Criticism and Biblical Hermeneutics
        • The Bible As The Word of God: The Truthfulness of the Bible
      • A Guide to Biblical Theology
        • Overview of OT Theology
        • The Purpose-Driven Bible
      • A Guide to the Old Testament
        • Biblical Hermeneutics
          • Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics and Exegesis
          • Four Key Principles of Exegesis
          • Ten Steps for Exegesis
          • Principles for Word Studies
          • Bible Study Application
        • Hermeneutics
          • Biblical Theology: A Canonical, Thematic, and Ethical Approach
            • Introduction
            • The Old Testament Framework
            • The Law
          • The Hermeneutical Spiral
            • Introduction
            • General Hermeneutics
              • Context
              • Grammar

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