"When was the church founded? Jesus spoke of the kingdom of God and not of a religious organization subsequently called church. We don't find in the Gospels expressions which make reference to the foundation of a new religious community, a new and distinct community of followers of Jesus. But after the resurrection of Jesus, his followers, as a result of his express command, gather together not only those from the people of Israel but me ..."
2(1st Edition) Incomplete Commentary on Matthew (Opus imperfectum) (Ancient Christian Texts) by James A. Kellerman, DrThomas C. Oden, Intervarsity Press, IvpAcademic Hardcover, 254 Pages, Published 2010 by IvpAcademic ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-2902-6, ISBN: 0-8308-2902-4
"In the translator's introduction to this volume, James Kellerman relates the following story: As Thomas Aquinas was approaching Paris, a fellow traveler pointed out the lovely buildings gracing that city. Aquinas was impressed, to be sure, but he sighed and stated that he would rather have the complete Incomplete Commentary on Matthew than to be mayor of Paris itself. Thomas's affection for the work attests its great popularity during ..."
"Among the Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon were all thought by the early church fathers to have derived from the hand of Solomon. To their minds the finest wisdom about the deeper issues of life prior to the time of God's taking human form in Jesus Christ was to be found in these books. As in all the Old Testament they were quick to find types and intimations of Christ and his church ..."
11 Isaiah 40-66 (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture) by Mark W. Elliott, DrThomas C. Oden, Intervarsity Press Hardcover, 349 Pages, Published 2007 by IvpAcademic ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-1481-7, ISBN: 0-8308-1481-7
"No book of the Old Testament is more frequently quoted in the New than Isaiah, and no portion of Isaiah is more frequently quoted in the New than the typologically fertile soil of Isaiah 40-66. Still, as interpreted by the fathers, Isaiah presents a message that is far more soteriological than christological, leading readers to a deeper understanding of God's judgment and salvation. Isaiah 40-66 provides us with the closest thing the Ol ..."
"The Revelation to John--with its vivid images and portraits of conflict leading up to the marriage supper of the Lamb, the cosmic destruction of evil, and the formation of a new heaven and a new earth--was widely read, even as it was variously interpreted in the early church. Approaches to its interpretation ranged from the millenarian approach of Victorinus of Petovium to the more symbolic interpretation of Tyconius, who read Revelatio ..."
""And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, [the risen Jesus] interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself" (Lk 24:27). The church fathers mined the Old Testament throughout for prophetic utterances regarding the Messiah, but few books yielded as much messianic ore as the Twelve Prophets, sometimes known as the Minor Prophets, not because of their relative importance but because of the relative brevity ..."
Naming the Elephant(2nd Edition) Worldview as a Concept by James W. Sire Paperback, 201 Pages, Published 2015 by IvpAcademic ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-4073-1, ISBN: 0-8308-4073-7
The Message of Joshua (The Bible Speaks Today) by David G. Firth Paperback, 230 Pages, Published 2015 by IvpAcademic ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-2442-7, ISBN: 0-8308-2442-1