BROWSE THE COLLECTION
Tag: Read
Full written study with citations and references.
-
The Sacredness of Life as a Cardinal Ethical Norm: An Incarnational, Ontological, and Promise-Plan Synthesis
This study constructs a biblical-theological defense of the sacredness of human life as a cardinal ethical norm in Christian ethics. Grounded primarily in Chapter 8 (“So Much Value: The Sacredness of Life”) of David P. Gushee and Glen…
-
Matthew 13: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
Matthew 13 constitutes the third of five major discourse blocks structuring the First Gospel (Matt 5–7; 10; 13; 18; 24–25), each concluding with the characteristic formulaic colophon, “when Jesus had finished” (Matt 13:53).
-
The Petra Genesis and the Revisionist Revision of Islamic Origins: A Historical-Critical and Biblical-Theological Appraisal
This essay examines historical-critical challenges to the Standard Islamic Narrative S.I.N.) regarding the origins of Islam, focusing on geographical, archaeological, and textual arguments that situate early Islamic sanctuaries in northern Arabia and the Levant—particularly the Nabataean region around…
-
Internal Bridges: Using the Qurʾān to Defend Christ’s Divinity within the Architecture of the Promise-Plan
This essay examines the apologetic method of “internal bridges,” often paired with the so-called Islamic Dilemma, as a text-immanent strategy in contemporary Christian–Muslim encounter.
-
Genesis of Genealogy
The Gospel of Matthew opens not with a static civic registry but with a carefully engineered theological overture. Tracing the genealogy and birth narrative of Jesus (Matt. 1:1–25) and the Gospel’s larger instructional architecture, this essay argues that…
-
Matthew 12: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
Matthew 12 marks a critical turning point in the Gospel narrative, shifting from initial heraldic proclamation to overt conflict between the Messiah, Jesus, and the ruling religious establishment. Within the overarching framework of God’s promise-plan, this chapter demonstrates…
-
The Unified Gospel: Reconciling Jesus and Paul
For more than a century, New Testament scholarship and popular Christian discourse have frequently posited a fundamental theological rupture between Jesus of Nazareth and the Apostle Paul.
-
The Order of Melchizedek:
The figure of Melchizedek presents an unusual hermeneutical phenomenon: an obscure patriarchal character confined in the Hebrew Bible to Genesis 14 18 20 and Psalm 110 4 who nevertheless becomes a cornerstone of Second Temple eschatology and New…
-
The Ashtiname of Muhammad and the Corpus of Prophetic Covenants:
This essay offers a historical-critical, codicological, and biblical theological appraisal of the Ashtiname of Muhammad—the charter of protection traditionally associated with Saint Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai—and of the broader corpus of so-called Prophetic Covenants.
-
The Resurrected Body and the Future of Human Identity: An Exegetical, Canonical, and Promise-Plan Synthesis
This essay examines the relationship between the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ and the destiny of human identity, drawing primarily on Carmen Joy Imes’s