Author: Richard Roberts
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From Jewish Roots to a Gentile World: How the Early Church Transformed Its Identity
One of the most striking features of the earliest Christian communities is that all their members were Jewish. This was no accident: Christianity began within the context of first-century Judaism, and its earliest leaders understood it this way. Jesus drew deeply on Jewish metaphors to describe himself and the people of God—the vine in John 15,…
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Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 – 1945) is one of the best-known Christians of the last century. He was executed in a concentration camp shortly before the end of the Second World War. Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor who became the head of an illegal underground seminary to train leaders for the Confessing Church – a movement…