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Praying the New Testament: Praying the Scriptures with Elmer Towns
Award-winning author and college professor Elmer Towns brings a unique perspective to the New Testament, translating it directly from the Greek and combining the books into one glorious whole. Infused with life and color, Praying the New Testament includes portraits of the authors, culture, and religious practices of the day. Meticulously researched and written, this is the story of the greatest life every lived. The New Testament comes alive as you pray through the: ??? Gospels. ??? Book of Acts. ??? Letters of apostle Paul. ??? Epistles. ??? Book of Revelation. You will be amazed how the Word of God can permeate your spirit and transform your mind???one exciting page after another!
- GenresPrayer
997 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2008
About the author
Elmer L. Towns
326 books48 followersDr. Elmer Towns is a college and seminary professor, an author of popular and scholarly works (the editor of two encyclopedias), a popular seminar lecturer, and dedicated worker in Sunday school, and has developed over 20 resource packets for leadership education. He began teaching at Midwest Bible College, St. Louis, Missouri, for three years and was not satisfied with his textbooks so he began writing his own (he has published over 100 books listed in the Library of Congress, 7 listed in the Christian Booksellers Best Selling List; several becoming accepted as college textbooks. He is also the 1995 recipient of the coveted Gold Medallion Award awarded by the Christian Booksellers Association for writing the Book of the Year, i.e., The Names of the Holy Spirit.
He was President of Winnipeg Bible College for five years, leading it to receive American Accreditation and Provincial authority to offer degrees (1960-1965). He taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, in greater Chicago, Illinois, in the field of Religious Education and Evangelism (1965-1971).
He is co-founder of Liberty University, with Jerry Falwell, in 1971, and was the only full-time teacher in the first year of Liberty's existence. Today, the University has over 11,400 students on campus with 39,000 in the Distance Learning Program (now Liberty University Online), and he is the Dean of the School of Religion.
Dr. Towns has given theological lectures and taught intensive seminars at over 50 theological seminaries in America and abroad. He holds visiting professorship rank in five seminaries. He has written over 2,000 reference and/or popular articles and received six honorary doctoral degrees. Four doctoral dissertations have analyzed his contribution to religious education and evangelism.
His personal education includes a B.S. from Northwestern College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a M.A. from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary also in Dallas, a MRE from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, and a D.Min. from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.
He was President of Winnipeg Bible College for five years, leading it to receive American Accreditation and Provincial authority to offer degrees (1960-1965). He taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, in greater Chicago, Illinois, in the field of Religious Education and Evangelism (1965-1971).
He is co-founder of Liberty University, with Jerry Falwell, in 1971, and was the only full-time teacher in the first year of Liberty's existence. Today, the University has over 11,400 students on campus with 39,000 in the Distance Learning Program (now Liberty University Online), and he is the Dean of the School of Religion.
Dr. Towns has given theological lectures and taught intensive seminars at over 50 theological seminaries in America and abroad. He holds visiting professorship rank in five seminaries. He has written over 2,000 reference and/or popular articles and received six honorary doctoral degrees. Four doctoral dissertations have analyzed his contribution to religious education and evangelism.
His personal education includes a B.S. from Northwestern College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a M.A. from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary also in Dallas, a MRE from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, and a D.Min. from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.
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May 30, 2018
This book was disappointing. I had hoped to gain fresh insights into praying through the scriptures, but what I got was more of a paraphrase and a commentary. There was a lot of speculation here concerning the feelings of the biblical authors as they wrote each gospel and letter. Some of it was interesting and some simply fanciful. Most of the book is simply the author's translation with "Lord" tacked on here and there to give the impression that one is praying these scriptures. Much of the "prayer" in this book is telling God what he has already told us in his word. The author sets out to translate the New Testament into contemporary, vernacular English, but then, curiously, he uses words such as "verily" and "thou." The editing of the book is also somewhat sloppy. The author often uses wrong words and incorrect spellings. The formatting of the Kindle version is also erratic. You will find better paraphrases of the Bible and better books for teaching one how to pray through the scriptures.
August 27, 2008
Dr. Towns is the best professor ever!!!!!!!
March 31, 2014
Very good study tool. I used it as part of my daily devotions
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