Sigve Tonstad

have been spoken to. How else can I put it? Perhaps a statement by Samuel Coleridge will help explain what I mean: “In the Bible there is more that finds me than I have experienced in all other books put together.”¹

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Conflict is in the air from the beginning of the Gospel of John. “Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, ‘Jesus is making and baptiz­ing more disciples…

On October 31, 1517, a young man dressed as a monk nailed ninety-five statements to a door in Wittenberg. Once more light from heaven was breaking through the darkness surrounding suffering sinners: God had come in search of man.

The…

Having started my doctoral studies, I was determined that for my dissertation I was going to look at the theme of cosmic conflict in the book of Revelation. I did so, realizing that the bulk of current scholarship had relegated the book of…

My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples" (Isa. 56:7, italics added). Isaiah's dramatic pronouncement contains a radical vision of inclusion, reaching out to people previously left out on the periphery…