Tag: Gentiles

Free Download B J Oropeza, "Jews, Gentiles, and the Opponents of Paul"
English | ISBN: 1498213715 | 2012 | 424 pages | PDF | 101 MB
B. J. Oropeza offers the most thorough examination in recent times on the subject of apostasy in the New Testament. The study examines each book of the New Testament with a fourfold approach that identifies the emerging Christian community in danger, the nature of apostasy that threatens the congregations, and the consequences of defection. Oropeza then compares the various perspectives of the communities in Christ in order to determine the ways in which they perceived apostasy and whether defectors could be restored. In this second volume of a three-volume set titled Apostasy in the New Testament Communities, Oropeza focuses on the Christ communities of the undisputed and disputed Pauline Letters.

Free Download Summa Contra Gentiles (Audiobook)
English | February 21, 2024 | ASIN: B0CW3TZ115 | M4B@128 kbps | 44h 9m | 2.4 GB
Author: Thomas Aquinas | Narrator: Martin Swain
The four books of the Summa contra Gentiles were written by Thomas Aquinas between 1259-1265, before the considerably larger and more influential, Summa Theologica. The purpose of each work was different. Whereas the Summa Theologica addressed the faithful, especially theology students, the intention of the Summa Contra Gentiles (Systematic Exposition Against Non-Christians) was to speak to a non-aligned and even hostile audience. To that purpose, Aquinas presented arguments ‘refuting specific beliefs or heresies.’
There is some evidence that it was suggested that Aquinas wrote Summa Contra Gentiles to convert particularly the Jews and the Muslims – at least they were underpinned by monotheism. Book I focuses on the one God. There are 102 chapters. Book II concerns the Creation, the physical universe. There are 101 chapters. Book III discusses Providence. There are 163 chapters Book IV looks at ‘Nicean’ Christian doctrine in the light of other monotheistic traditions and practices. There are 97 chapters.

Free Download A Jewish Paul: The Messiah’s Herald to the Gentiles by Matthew Thiessen
English | August 22, 2023 | ISBN: 1540966623, 1540965716 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 3.7 MB
What was the apostle Paul’s relationship to Judaism? How did he view the Jewish law? How did he understand the gospel of Jesus’s messiahship relative to both ethnic Jews and gentiles? These remain perennial questions both to New Testament scholars and to all serious Bible readers.