Michael Green (1)Recensioni

These days most people will grant that Jesus Christ was a great teacher who lived in a corner of the old Roman empire. Most also welcome his teachings as a sound basis for civilization. But what difference does that make now? Why has a whole religion been built on this person? What did he actually say and do? And how can we trust the written records about him? This fast-moving, highly readable book introduces Jesus of Nazareth honestly and openly, with no prior knowledge assumed.

Topics discussed include: "I'm not the religious sort", "All religions lead to God", "Jesus was just a good man", "When you are dead ,you're dead" etc.

Less a commentary, more a thematic look at the book of Acts. Explores the book and considers questions such as what of their (being the early Christians) approach - lifestyle - church life etc...
Brilliant book; got so much from it...

DISCO D: BACKUP / TEOLOGÍA / TEOLOGIA CRISTIANA / COLECCION TEOLOGIA CONTEMPORANEA

Written about the church, primarily for clergy and others in Christian leadership. This is a readable and interesting book. It was published nearly 35 years ago, but Michael Green was a forward thinker, assessing what he saw as the way forward, if the church was to survive into the 21st century.

The first few chapters of the book look at what the author perceives as guidelines related to Christian ministry from within the New Testament. In the later chapters he takes an honest look at some of the controversial issues which were dividing the church of the 1980s.

It’s inevitably somewhat dated, and I found the style a little awkward at times, with many parenthetical Scripture references within one paragraph. But there are some thoughtful comments, and far-seeing insights and predictions.

New believers might find this book too critical, and it's unlikely to interest those outside Christian circles. It’s written for those who believe, who see problems in the way church congregations are run, and who would like to see a vision for something different. Long out of print, but often found second-hand.

This is a good theological and pastoral look at Baptism. Green draws together three strands from the Christian tradition on Baptism: The Catholic strand which sees Baptism as a seal of salvation, the protestant strand, which emphasizes human response, and the Pentacostal strand which emphasizes the life of the Spirit. This gives Green a full bodied look at the Sacrament.

He reviews the Biblical material on Baptism, and deals with practical questions about differing views (Green as an Anglican is a proponent of Infant Baptism). His style is irenic and generous. This is a good resource to have on your shelf.

Is Christianity just another escape?

A comprehensive and beneficial analysis of the promotion of Christianity in its first three centuries.

The author discusses the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the message was first promoted, the message itself and the way that it was promoted, those doing the promotion, their motivations, and their strategies, based upon textual and archaeological evidence.

The author does well at showing the critical importance placed on evangelism as part of the Christian life in early Christianity, but also vice versa-- that the Christian life was an important aspect of evangelism in the same period. He does well at showing the challenges that the first century world provided against the promotion of the Gospel and how the early Christians worked to overcome those challenges.

There are times when the author is likely stretching the evidence; as a good Anglican, he still seeks to justify infant baptism and grace only theology, although he does recognize that the bishop/presbyter/elder was the same office in the first century.

Nevertheless, an excellent resource to gain a better appreciation of the work of evangelism done in the first centuries of Christianity, and provides encouragement regarding the ability of doing the same work today.

Overall quite good; a bit overly pessimistic, a bit too Evangelical, but the author writes in an engaging way about many of the surface excuses that many use against considering the claims of the Bible.

El Espíritu Santo es un Espíritu de unidad, que pondría a todos los cristianos, carismáticos o no, a trabajar juntos en amor y confianza.

Good one-book commentary

This is a Anglican view of Baptism

Case 10 shelf 5

Case 13 shelf 3

Cover title: 2 Peter and Jude.

Logos Library

Logos Library

1977

AUTHOR INDEX; GENERAL INDEX; CHAPTER NOTES; ILLUSTRATED

Evangelism Through the Local Church by Michael Green (?)

Case 2 shelf 3

we have reprinted edition of 1990