The Secret Codes in Matthew: Examining Israel’s Messiah, Part 6: Matthew 5:21-7:29, by Kevin M. WilliamsFrom Pneuma Review Summer 2002
Part Five of the series examined Yeshua’s1 proclamation, “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill” (Matthew 5:17). We examined that this statement has, over the centuries, given many believers the impression that Yeshua ...
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Graham Ward's The Politics of Discipleship, reviewed by Amos YongAs appearing in the Pneuma Review Spring 2011.
Graham Ward, The Politics of Discipleship: Becoming Postmaterial Citizens, The Church and Postmodern Culture Series (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009), 317 pages, ISBN 9780801031588.
For most readers of The Pneuma Review, this will not be an easy book to read. Graham Ward, ...
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The Secret Codes in Matthew: Examining Israel’s Messiah, Part 5: Matthew 5:13-20, by Kevin M. WilliamsFrom Pneuma Review Spring 2002
After the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-10), there does not appear to be any break in the chronology of Matthew’s narrative. It seems that Yeshua1 (Jesus) continues teaching on this mountain in Galilee (see Matt. 7:28-29). There is however, a break in the context. If the assertions made in the ...
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Let the Bones Dance, reviewed by Timothy Lim Teck Ngern
Marcia W. Mount Shoop, Let the Bones Dance: Embodiment and the Body of Christ (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010), 184 pages, ISBN 9780664234126.
In Let the Bones Dance, ordained theologian-in-residence at University Presbyterian Church (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) Marcia Shoop produces a constructive theology ...
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The Secret Codes in Matthew: Examining Israel’s Messiah, Part 4, by Kevin M. WilliamsFrom Pneuma Review Winter 2002
“Now when He heard that John had been taken into custody, He withdrew into Galilee” (Matthew 4:12).
This verse is not, as some might think, God incarnate fleeing danger. Rather, it is possible that this was in fulfillment of John’s words about Jesus, “He must increase, but I must ...
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Margaret Kostenberger's Jesus and the Feminists, Reviewed by Mara Lief CrabtreeMargaret Elizabeth Kostenberger, Jesus and the Feminists: Who Do They Say That He Is? (Wheaton, Crossway, 2008), 253 pages, ISBN 9781581349597.
Kostenberger, an adjunct professor of women's studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, is an apologist for the male headship and complementarian viewpoints regarding women in ministry leadership. She ...
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The Secret Codes in Matthew: Examining Israel’s Messiah, Part 3, by Kevin M. WilliamsFrom Pneuma Review Fall 2001
Journey through the Gospel to the Hebrews with Kevin Williams as he unveils rich Hebraisms and prophetic Messianic insights.
In the first two parts of our series on the gospel of Matthew, we have looked into the apostle’s claims that Jesus is the promised Messiah. We have ...
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