Peter G. Bolt
Auteur de The Cross from a Distance: Atonement in Mark's Gospel (New Studies in Biblical Theology)
A propos de l'auteur
Peter G. Bolt is lecturer in New Testament at Moore Theological College, Sydney.
Œuvres de Peter G. Bolt
The Cross from a Distance: Atonement in Mark's Gospel (New Studies in Biblical Theology) (2004) 286 exemplaires
The Gospel to the Nations: Perspectives on Paul's Mission: In Honour of Peter T. O'Brien (2000) — Directeur de publication — 110 exemplaires
The Faith once for all delivered : an Australian evangelical response to The Windsor report (2005) 45 exemplaires
Thomas Moore of Liverpool: One of Our Oldest Colonists: Essays and Addresses to Celebrate 150 Years of Moore College… (2007) 20 exemplaires
Jesus' Defeat of Death: Persuading Mark's Early Readers (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series) (2003) 17 exemplaires
Freedom to Libel?: Samuel Marsden V. Philo Free: Australia's First Libel Case (Studies in Australian Colonial… (2017) 6 exemplaires
William Cowper (1778-1858) : the indispensable parson : the life and influence of Australia's first parish… (2009) 6 exemplaires
Launching Marsden's Mission: The Beginnings of the Church Missionary Society in New Zealand, Viewed from New South… (2014) 3 exemplaires
A portrait in his actions : Thomas Moore of Liverpool (1762-1840). Part 1: Lesbury to Liverpool (2010) 3 exemplaires
God's exemplary graduates : character-oriented graduate attributes in theological education (2021) — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
Women, Sermons and the Bible: Essays interacting with John Dickson's Hearing Her Voice (2014) 1 exemplaire
The Narrative Integrity of Mark 13:24-27 (Australian College of Theology Monograph Series) (2021) 1 exemplaire
Questing for Jesus, 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Faith of Jesus Christ: Exegetical, Biblical, and Theological Studies (2009) — Contributeur — 109 exemplaires
Life in the Face of Death: The Resurrection Message of the New Testament (Mcmaster New Testament Studies) (1998) — Contributeur — 76 exemplaires
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Peter wishes to be guided by the apocalypse (unveiling) which the Bible provides and therefore accepts that we are told less about some areas than others, and in particular that our focus must be on Jesus. His chapters move from the periphery of the subject (areas such as New Testament cosmology and the lesser beings that inhabit the underworld) to the centre (areas such as death, and more importantly, the Jesus who defeats it).
I originally picked up the book to see if it would be a good thing to give the young adults who asked about the nature of unclean spirits that the group was reading about in Mark's Gospel. As I went through Peter's book, I first thought it was on the mark for my young friends, then, as the focus swung toward death, I began to think that it was good material but not as relevant to the questions they were asking, but then, on reaching the last chapters, which focus on the the new and coming world of the Spirit that Jesus has opened up for believers and the significance this has the modern approaches to demons and exorcism, I came full circle and saw how valuable it would be for them.
In the minor observations category:
As always, I hate the endless page flipping that endnotes cause - which this book uses for all its Bible references, but at least they are numbered consecutively throughout the entire book making them much easier to find. And, apart from one extremely valuable extended quotation, they are pretty much all references.
That one extremely valuable extended quotation, from Athanasius, supports Peter's presentation of what is a new thought to me, that the ancient Christian writers thought of the cross as a death in the air -- in the realms of the powers opposed to God.… (plus d'informations)