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Every speaker, teacher, or preacher has on some occasion encountered an audience that was unreceptive to what he or she had to say. One response to such communication breakdowns given by both the Old Testament prophets and New Testament authors was to declare that the hearers "have hardened their hearts to the message" or that "God has hardened them." What is this hardness-of-heart phenomenon? Who became hardened and why? Was it a result of some "deficiency" in communication? What were the consequences of such a disposition? Is there any hope for a change of perspective for those hardened? In…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Every speaker, teacher, or preacher has on some occasion encountered an audience that was unreceptive to what he or she had to say. One response to such communication breakdowns given by both the Old Testament prophets and New Testament authors was to declare that the hearers "have hardened their hearts to the message" or that "God has hardened them." What is this hardness-of-heart phenomenon? Who became hardened and why? Was it a result of some "deficiency" in communication? What were the consequences of such a disposition? Is there any hope for a change of perspective for those hardened? In this concise and carefully argued volume, Charles Puskas considers all the key texts relating to human obstinacy towards God in pursuit of answers to these questions.
Autorenporträt
Charles Puskas has extensive experience in university and seminary teaching, academic publishing, and parish ministry. He is the author of Hebrews, the General Letters, and Revelation (Cascade, 2016), The Conclusion of Luke-Acts (Pickwick, 2009), An Introduction to the New Testament (second edition with C. Michael Robbins; Cascade, 2011), and The Letters of Paul (second edition with Mark Reasoner, 2013). C. Michael Robbins is adjunct professor emeritus of religion and philosophy in the Haggard School of Theology at Azusa Pacific University. He is the author of The Testing of Jesus in Q (2007) and with Steve Johnson has helped revise James Allen Hewett's New Testament Greek, with CD-ROM (2009).