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What Happens When You Trust In God's Faithfulness?
Therefore, siblings, having boldness for entrance into the holies by the blood of Jesus, which is a new and living way he inaugurated for us through the veil-that is, his flesh, and having a great Priest over the house of God, let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith as those who have been sprinkled from an evil conscience with respect to the hearts and as those who have been washed with pure water with respect to the body; let us hold fast to an unwavering confession of...
The Letter to the Hebrews
How can the Letter to the Hebrews help Christians grow in their faith? The Letter to the Hebrews tells us that God is trustworthy—that we can trust in Jesus’s defeat of death to lead us to eternal life. Complicating this crucial message, the letter’s enigmatic origins, dense intertextuality, and complex theological import can present challenges to believers wrestling with the text today.
Mary, Daughter of Eve and Mother of God
In honor of Women’s History Month, we are celebrating and uplifting women’s contributions to society and the academy. This guest post is written by one of our authors, Amy Peeler (Women and the Gender of God and Hebrews). I am who I am because of my mom. I know this statement is simplistic. Many people—my father included, along with other family members, mentors, and friends—contributed to the formation of my identity and vocation.
How God the Father Is Not a Boy
Review by Sarah Puryear One day my two elementary school-age children, a boy and a girl, were talking with two of their friends, another boy and another girl. One of the boys said, “God is a boy,” and one of the girls said, “No, he isn’t!” When I asked what they were talking about, they told me they were debating whether boys or girls are better.
How God the Father Is Not a Boy
Review by Sarah Puryear One day my two elementary school-age children, a boy and a girl, were talking with two of their friends, another boy and another girl. One of the boys said, “God is a boy,” and one of the girls said, “No, he isn’t!” When I asked what they were talking about, they told me they were debating whether boys or girls are better.
A Sermon on the Apostles’ Creed
By Amy Peeler Some are disturbed when the public square replaces “Happy Holidays,” with “Merry Christmas,” but I wonder if reticence on the part of nonbelievers to celebrate the Mass of Christ’s birth is on to something true. Christmas is a Christian claim. Christmas is controversial, even scandalous. It is an offense, a holy offense, to make the claim that the Son of God was born of a woman. I’d like to consider the power of the affirmation in three steps.
Eerdmans Titles Featured on the Michael Ramsey Prize 2023 Longlist
Two of our very own Eerdmans titles, Women and the Gender of God by Amy Peeler and The Love That Is God: An Invitation to Christian Faith by Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, have been featured on the Michael Ramsey Prize 2023 Longlist! Women and the Gender of God and The Love That Is God are two of 13 books that have been selected from over 110 recommended by the general public and entered by publishers, as some of the best works of accessible and inspiring theology written from January 1,...
Ezekiel 18
By Amy Peeler Ezekiel is not, I must admit, a part of my canon within a canon. It’s not my go-to book, but as it has shown up in the lectionary a bit this year, so it has garnered my attention. If you are like me, you might need a little background reminder: Ezekiel is one of the prophets during the time of Judah’s exile, when that southern Kingdom of Israel was being conquered by the Babylonians. It is a controversial book, for several reasons.
Fully Human
By Amy Peeler When and where I was growing up, humanism was a bad thing. It was the secular worldview elevating humans and denigrating God. Imagine my surprise then when I landed my first teaching job at a Christian college and was instructed that the aim of our curriculum was to increase our student’s humanism. Wait, what? It took some time and some patience on behalf of my colleagues and deans before I came to embrace that word in the way they intended it.
Getting God Right? by John C. Clark
feminism Book Review Women and the Gender of God by Amy Peeler Eerdmans, 2022 (286 pages, $24.99, paperback) reviewed by John C. Clark Christians roundly affirm that God values women—or so one might think. No, contends Amy Peeler, associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College. The church’s chronic “failures against women proceed unabated, sometimes malicious and predatory, sometimes subconscious and unintended, practiced by both men and women, on each other and on themselves” (1).
Women and the Gender of God
Written by Amy Peeler Reviewed By Marcus Johnson Amy Peeler, associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, has written a book with an ostensibly obvious thesis: “God does indeed value women” (p. 7). This thesis, which she calls “audacious,” has a lurking theme present throughout the book that is intended to strengthen its point: God is not male.
Who and Where Is Jesus?
By Amy Peeler I’d like us to consider two questions this morning: “Jesus, who are you?” and “Jesus, where are you?” Let’s begin with the “who.” Jesus’ statement that he is the way, the truth, and the life is one of those very well-known biblical phrases that succumbs easily to the temptation of abstraction. It can become a free-floating proof text that can mean anything or nothing. Without context, we might wonder: He is the way to what? Who gets to define truth?
PODCAST – Women, Gender, and the Incarnation | Amy Peeler & Gerald Hiestand
Women, Gender, and the Incarnation Amy Peeler & Gerald Hiestand How does the incarnation relate to our theology of gender? What does it mean that we describe God as "Father" and "Son"? What significance, if any, do we assign to Jesus' maleness? How should orthodox Christians engage with critical and post-Christian feminist scholarship? What can we learn about masculinity and femininity from the biblical narrative?
Born of the Virgin Mary
By Amy Peeler “He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary.” Some are disturbed when the public square replaces “Happy Holidays” with “Merry Christmas,” but I wonder if reticence on the part of nonbelievers to celebrate the mass of Christ’s birth is on to something true. Christmas is a Christian claim. Christmas is controversial, scandalous even. It is an offense, a holy offense, to make the claim that the Son of God was born of a woman.
Amy Peeler - EerdWord
Women and the Gender of God by Amy Peeler is available now! Through a deep reading of the incarnation narratives of the New Testament and other relevant scriptural texts, Peeler shows how the Bible depicts a God beyond gender and a savior who, while embodied as a man, is the unification in one person of the image of God that resides in both male and female.
PODCAST – Wrestling with Gender and a Call to Ministry | Amy Peeler
Wrestling with Gender and a Call to Ministry Amy Peeler CPT Fellow Amy Peeler returns to the podcast to discuss some of her journey of faith and education. Dr. Peeler recounts her experiences as a spiritually earnest child who involved herself in ministry opportunities from a young age. She goes on to describe her own wrestlings with biblical texts as a college student. Finally, she shares on some of the theological vision for female identity from her new book Women and the Gender of God.
Women and the Gender of God | Get to Know the Author
God values women. While many Christians would readily affirm this truth, the widely held assumption that the Bible depicts a male God persists—as it has for centuries. This misperception of Christianity not only perniciously implies that men deserve an elevated place over women but also compromises the glory of God by making God appear to be part of creation, subject to it and its categories, rather than in transcendence of it.
Brandon J. O’Brien: Scripture as a Cross-Cultural Experience
In this episode Heather and Brandon talk about how we often read our own cultural values, perspectives and assumptions, into the Biblical text, and forget that Scripture is actually a cross-cultural experience. This episode will help each of us be better readers and perceivers of the Bible. Guest Bio Brandon J. O'Brien has a PhD from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
Reconsidering Power
It’s almost three o’clock on a Wednesday afternoon. I’m trying to finish up a bit of writing [this blog post] while constantly keeping an eye on the top right-hand corner of my computer screen. Three o’clock is right when my daughter’s school day ends. Readers of Power Women might very well recognize these words. They are taken almost verbatim from the first essay, “Divvying Up Love: Scholarly Ambition and Motherhood as Spiritual Formation” by Maria Su Wang.
10 Questions with Amy Peeler
Amy Peeler is Associate Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College and Associate Rector at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Geneva, Ill. She is a leading scholar on the book of Hebrews, and in this interview, Timothy Gatewood (executive editor of Credo) discusses her research interests, as well as her journey into the academy. Before biblical studies you started pursuing a degree in psychology for a career in counseling. When did you realize that you wanted to teach the Bible for a living?
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