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Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter
Revealing Revelation: How God's Plans for the Future Can Change Your Life Now
Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
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Becoming God's Family: Why the Church Still Matters
Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling
Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament
Finding Phoebe: What New Testament Women Were Really Like
Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables
Why the Gospel?: Living the Good News of King Jesus with Purpose
Women and the Gender of God
Pauline Theology as a Way of Life: A Vision of Human Flourishing in Christ
The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession
An Introduction to the New Testament
The New Testament and the People of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #1)
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?
The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration
Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: A Comprehensive Bible Commentary on Old Testament Quotations, Allusions & Echoes That Appear from Matthew through Revelation
Jesus and the Victory of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #2)
The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #3)
Paul: A Biography
The Theology of the Book of Revelation (New Testament Theology)
The Gospel According to John
The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics
Paul and the Faithfulness of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #4)
Paul: In Fresh Perspective
The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians

David Bentley Hart
Most of us would find Christians truly cast in the New Testament mold fairly obnoxious: civically reprobate, ideologically unsound, economically destructive, politically irresponsible, socially discreditable, and really just a bit indecent. Or, if not that, we would at least be bemused by the sheer, unembellished, unremitting otherworldliness of their understanding of the gospel. We are quite accustomed, after all, to thinking of Christianity as a fairly commonsensical creed as regards the pract ...more
David Bentley Hart, The New Testament

Christopher Hitchens
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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