The 27 books of the New Testament did not emerge overnight but were the result of centuries of debate, circulation, and gradual consensus among early Christian communities. While bishops like ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...

A cluster of new and forthcoming titles, including devotionals and other works by popular Christian pastors, theologians, and ...

Founded in 1956, New Testament Abstracts (NTA) is an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy, and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. Every ...

The New Testament is owed some credit for keeping hell alive in Christian thought. However, none of the various concepts associated with hell in the New Testament appear originally therein.

The titles "Old" and "New Testament" were used by St. Paul (2 Corinthians, 2:14). The term "testament," as applied to the two parts of the Bible, means: a covenant, agreement, pact. In the ...

And the New Testament tells a story of a broken relationship, and that's part of the sad story that evolves between Jews and Christians, because it is a story that has such awful repercussions in ...

Other common relationships include a journal that is a supplement to another journal, a journal that is absorbed into another journal, a journal that splits into two or more new journals, or two or ...

First, we review what the Old Testament says and what it means for us. Then, next week, we discuss the New Testament. Let’s start by defining “pride” and then review two well-known stories ...