You Will Be My Witnesses : A Festschrift in Honor of the Reverend Dr. Allison A. Trites on the Occasion of His Retirement

by Trites, Allison A.; Ashley, Timothy R.; Wilson, Robert S.; Wooden, R. Glenn

• ISBN13: 9780865546905
• ISBN10: 0865546908
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Mercer Univ Pr

Summary

"The publication of this volume celebrates thirty-seven extraordinary years of teaching at Acadia Divinity College and more years than that of dedicated service to the church. It is a joy to honor the lifetime service of Allison Trites for his ministry of teaching and service to the church. His commitment to the work of Christ has been an encouragement to all of his colleagues, fellow workers, and students, not to mention his fellow church members at the Wolfville United Baptist Church" (from the foreword). The two sections of this excellent collection of essays are "Biblical Studies" and "History and Theology, " and include contributions by the following. Timothy R. Ashley Manfred T. Brauch Daniel Goodwin Larry J. Kreitzer Richard N. Longenecker Tim McLay Andrew MacRae James R. C. Perkin Kevin Quast Alan P. F. Sell Robert S. Wilson John Tudno Williams Roy Williams R. Glenn Wooden

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	vii
Foreword	ix
Lee M. McDonald
Editors' Preface	xii
R. Glenn Wooden, Timothy R. Ashley, Robert S. Wilson
Introducing the Man	1	(5)
Andrew MacRae
Publications of Allison A. Trites	6	(5)
Biblical Studies	11	(154)
A Friend in Need: Pastoral Practice in the Face of Doubt	12	(18)
Timothy R. Ashley
The Witness of Daniel in the Court of the Kings	30	(23)
R. Glenn Wooden
Jesus the Servant-Vicarious Sufferer: A Reappraisal	53	(28)
John Tudno Williams
Death, Descent, and Deliverance in Matthew 27:51b-53	81	(13)
Tim McLay
The Samaritan Woman: An "Unorthodox" Witness (John 4:1-42)	94	(15)
Kevin Quast
The Pauline Concept of Mutuality as a Basis for Luke's Theme of Witness	109	(18)
Richard N. Longenecker
Epaphras and Philip: The Undercover Evangelists of Hierapolis	127	(17)
Larry J. Kreitzer
"In Christ": Key to the Tension in Paul's Eschatological Thought	144	(21)
Manfred T. Brauch
History and Theology	165	(144)
" ... a thing begunne rather then fynnesshed ... ": William Tyndale as Witness	166	(22)
James R. C. Perkin
"The Gospel Its Own Witness": Deism, Thomas Paine, and Andrew Fuller	188	(42)
Alan P. F. Sell
"The Liquid Sepulcher of the Gospel": Baptismal Practice and Popular Belief among Regular Baptists in Maritime Canada	230	(31)
Daniel Goodwin
From Revivals to Evangelism: Changing Patterns of Growth among Maritime Regular Baptists, 1850-1900	261	(18)
Robert S. Wilson
"This Little Light of Mine" in a Postmodern World	279	(30)
Roy Williams
Index	309