Summer is over and it is time to get back into the swing of a new semester.Actually, I just finished teaching an Early Fall OT Survey course for freshmen, so I have been swinging things for a while. But I still want to celebrate the beginning of a new school year with the traditional Reading Acts book giveaway. As regular readers know, I occasionally purchase a book and when I put it on the shelf I discover I already owned the book. Although this is embarrassing (and possibly a sign of old age), it is good news for readers of this blog since I usually set the book aside for a giveaway.

First up this year is a volume of essays on The Gospel of John and Christian Theology edited by Richard Bauckham and Carl Mosser (Eerdmans, 2008). According to the Eerdmans website, the book is now out of print, although print on demand copies are available. The essays in the collection were first presented at the first St. Andrews University Conference on Scripture and Theology in 2003. This explains the diversity of essays in the book from biblical studies to theology, including “big names” such as Rowan Williams, Miroslav Volf and Jürgen Moltmann.

Here is the table of contents:

Johannine Dualism and Contemporary Pluralism, Stephen C. Barton

Johannine Dualism and Contemporary Pluralism Miroslav Volf

Christianizing Divine Aseity: Irenaeus Reads John D. Jeffery Bingham

Anglican Approaches to St. John’s Gospel, Rowan Williams

Glory or Persecution: The God of the Gospel of John in the History of Interpretation, Tord Larsson

The Historical Reliability of John’s Gospel; From What Perspective Should It Be Assessed?, C. Stephen Evans

The Fourth Gospel as the Testimony of the Beloved Disciple, Richard Bauckham

Bridging the Gap: How Might the Fourth Gospel Help Us Cope with the Legacy of Christianity’s Exclusive Claim over Against Judaism?, Stephen Motyer

Anti—Judaism, the Jews, and the Worlds of the Fourth Gospel Judith Lieu

“The Jews Who Had Believed in Him” (John 8:31) and the Motif of Apostasy in the Gospel of John, Terry Griffith

“The Father of Lies,” “the Mother of Lies,” and the Death of Jesus (John, 12:20-33), Sigve K. Tonstad

The Lazarus Story: A Literary Perspective, Andrew T. Lincoln

The Raising of Lazarus in John 11: A Theological Reading, Marianne Meye Thompson

The Lazarus Narrative, Theological History, and Historical Probability, Alan J. Torrance

The Prologue of the Gospel of John as the Gateway to Christological Truth, Martin Hengel

The Testimony of Works in the Christology of John’s Gospel, Murray Rae

On Guessing Points and Naming Stars: Epistemological Origins of John’s Christological Tensions, Paul N. Anderson

Narrative Docetism: Christology and Storytelling in the Gospel of John, Kasper Bro Larsen

“The Truth Will Set You Free”: Salvation as Revelation, Anastasia Scrutton

God in the World—the World in God: Perichoresis in Trinity and Eschatology, Jürgen Moltmann

To have a chance at winning this book, leave a comment with your name so I can contact you if you win. I will randomize the names from the comments and select one winner at random. There are no geographical limits, I will ship this book to the winner where ever they live.

I will announce the winner (and the next giveaway) on Friday morning, August 31, 2018.