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Future of Hope and Present Reality

Author : Andrew Chester
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161521966
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Future of Hope and Present Reality written by Andrew Chester and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2012 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first of a two-volume work with the overall title "Future Hope and Present Reality . These volumes had their origin in the Speaker s Lectures that Andrew Chester gave in Oxford; their main focus is central themes in biblical eschatology, and especially the apparent contradictions between what is hoped for in the future and what is experienced in the present: the stark discrepancy, that is, between the world as it is and the world as it should be. In this first volume, as the subtitle "Eschatology and Transformation in the Hebrew Bible indicates, the author is concerned with the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament; the second will be on the New Testament). He deals, successively, with central eschatological themes and the deep tensions they involve: divine threats of an absolute end (to human life and to the world itself), and divine promises of blessing and transformation, along with the theological questions inevitably raised by these - both in themselves and in relation to each other; the whole phenomenon of prophecy, and the problems it involves - not least, whether it can be taken seriously, in face of the contradictions and failures it manifests. He discusses the sheer discrepancy between ideal and reality in traditions relating to kingship, along with the tensions inherent in the emergence of messianic hope; death, as representing the end of any relationship with God, along with hope that goes beyond death - in relation both to the individual and also the nation; and, finally, visions of a transformed and paradisal world, and whether these can bear any relation to reality. It is argued that the Hebrew Bible can be seen to offer genuine grounds for hope, but that these can have any cogency only if the problems involved are really engaged with."

Reality, Grief, Hope

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802870724
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Reality, Grief, Hope written by Walter Brueggemann and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pointing out striking correlations between the catastrophe of 9/11 and the destruction of ancient Jerusalem, Brueggemann shows how the prophetic biblical response to that crisis was truth-telling in the face of ideology, grief in the face of denial, and hope in the face of despair. He argues that the same prophetic responses are urgently required from us now if we are to escape the deathliness of denial and despair. --from publisher description.

Know. Be. Live.®

Author : John D. Basie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1637630212
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Know. Be. Live.® written by John D. Basie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last few years, the literature on Generation Z has grown rapidly. However, there is little that directly addresses the destructive cultural challenges to proactive disciplemaking in this generation. Know. Be. Live.® offers a holistic 360-degree approach to discipleship in a post-Christian era. It combines expert thought on faith and culture to equip Christ-following parents of teenagers, college students, campus ministers, and pastors.

Hope in the Dark

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608465799
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Hope in the Dark written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] landmark book . . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes” (Vice). A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of our times in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book. “One of the best books of the 21st century.” —The Guardian “No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that’s marked this new millennium.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author of Falter “An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways.” —The New Yorker

Trading Futures

Author : Filipe Maia
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478023422
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Trading Futures written by Filipe Maia and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discourse of financialized capitalism tries to create a future predictable enough to manage risk for the wealthy, to shape the future into a profit-making site that constrains and privatizes the sense of what’s possible. Here, people’s hopes and meaning-making energies are policed through the burden of debt. In Trading Futures Filipe Maia offers a theological reflection on hope and the future, calling for escape routes from the debt economy. Drawing on Marxism, continental philosophy, and Latin American liberation theology, Maia provides a critical portrayal of financialization as a death-dealing mechanism that colonizes the future in its own image. Maia elaborates a Christian eschatology of liberation that offers a subversive mode of imagining future possibilities. He shows how the Christian vocabulary of hope can offer a way to critique the hegemony of financialized capitalism, propelling us in the direction of a just future that financial discourse cannot manage or control.

Future as God's Gift

Author : David Fergusson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567042510
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Future as God's Gift written by David Fergusson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of writings by an international group of theologians is focused on the importance of Christian eschatology, both to the life, authority and hope of the Church and to contemporary life and thought in general.

Mission and the Coming of God

Author : Tim Chester
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597529184
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Mission and the Coming of God written by Tim Chester and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the eschatological future impinge on the present? Is the kingdom of God present outside the confession of Christ in movements towards social justice? Is Christian hope a stimulus to social involvement or an alternative? And how does the present impinge on the eschatological future? What is the relationship between our actions now and the new creation? Is there eschatological continuity between the two? J. rgen Moltmann, one of our most influential contemporary theologians, has had much to say both on eschatology and its relationship to mission. This book explores his thought along with evangelical responses to it. Eschatology has been central to evangelical debates about social involvement ever since the Laussanne Congress in 1974. The book examines how evangelicals themselves have related hope and mission. The book highlights the important contribution Moltmann has made while offering a critique of his thought from an evangelical perspective. In so doing, it touches on pertinent issues for evangelical missiology. The conclusion takes John Calvin as a starting point, proposing ean eschatology of the crossi which offers a critique of the over-realized eschatologies in liberation theology and triumphalistic forms of evangelicalism. iThis is a work of major importance, engaging with crucial themes and leading Christian thinkers. A must read for all reaective evangelicals. Tim Chesteris work is always good, but this is the best yet.i- Martyn Atkins Principal, Cliff College, Calver, UK Despite the attention of Moltmann and despite intra-evangelical debate on the nature of mission over the last three decades, the task of bringing Moltmann and evangelicalism into dialogue has remained on the table for some time. Tim Chester takes up the agenda. His combination of practical experience in mission and theological ability, equip him well for this task and the result is a study which brings academic reasoning to bear on Christian thought about eschatology and its vital connection with the missionary responsibility of the church. It rewards our careful attention.- Stephen Williams Professor of Systemic Theology at Union Theological College, Belfast iEschatology in relation to mission is often reduced to plans for Ohishingi the Great Commission as soon as possible, or to lurid end-time scenarios that feed our fantasy more than they fuel biblical mission. So it is refreshing to have this wide-ranging, in depth study of the theme that engages with one of the most well-known theologians of biblical hope, J, rgen Moltmann, alongside a number of renowned evangelical scholars, yet stays rooted in the text and vision of the Bible itself. This is searching theology in the service of biblical missiono as all theology ultimately should be.- Chris Wright International Director, Langham Partnership International

Galatians

Author : Christopher M. Tuckett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567716406
Total Pages : 827 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Galatians written by Christopher M. Tuckett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over one hundred years the International Critical Commentary has had a special place amongst works on the Bible. This new volume on Galatians brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary and theological - to enable the scholar to have a complete knowledge and understanding of this New Testament book. Tuckett incorporates new evidence available in the field and applies new methods of studies. No uniform theological or critical approach to the text is taken.

Eschatology and Hope

Author : Anthony Kelly
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608334082
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Eschatology and Hope written by Anthony Kelly and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hope Revealed

Author : Robert P. Vande Kappelle
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621898458
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Hope Revealed written by Robert P. Vande Kappelle and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope Revealed sets the record straight. Revelation is not as bizarre and vindictive as many have imagined. Its message is hopeful, not pessimistic, world-affirming, not world-denying, and thoroughly congruent with the biblical emphasis on love, reconciliation, and forgiveness. Revelation invites us to drink deeply from its metaphors of promise and warning, vision and blessing. While Revelation's method and theological conceptuality are relatively different from the rest of the New Testament, once they are appreciated in their own right, they contribute to make this book not only one of the finest literary works in the Christian canon, but also one of the greatest theological achievements of early Christianity.

Reasons to Hope

Author : Werner G. Jeanrond
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567668967
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Reasons to Hope written by Werner G. Jeanrond and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Werner G. Jeanrond approaches hope from the perspective of a theology of love. He distinguishes human hopes from the hope which God has given to humanity. Jeanrond discusses the challenges of a Christian praxis of hope in today's world and invites both a new conversation on a future with God and a reassessment of the potential of hope for Christian discipleship. Jeanrond argues that memory is important for hope, and that nobody can hope for herself or himself alone. Hope thus invites personal, communal, political and global participation and transformation. Moreover, it gives rise to a powerful constellation of symbolic expressions, including judgement, heaven, hell, and purgatory, that call for ongoing interpretation. Ranging from radical hope and the hope for salvation, to the power of judgment and contemporary fears about the future of nations, humankind and the world, Jeanrond's latest work offers a theological contribution to the multireligious conversation on hope, death and the human future in our universe.

Tell Us Our Names

Author : C.S. Song
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597523038
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Tell Us Our Names written by C.S. Song and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Tell Us Our Names' is a timely book, beautifully written and understandable by all. Its particular challenge lies in the folk and fairy tales that provide the text. Here are the roots of both faith and reason -- and the direct way to dump excess baggage and discover new and better questions. Scripture, Oriental wisdom, ecumenical theology: all receive calm and imaginative treatment in Song's hands."" --Joseph McLelland, McGill University, Montreal In this volume Dr. Song offers us 'golden keys to open the stonegates of religion.' Gathering together intercultural insights from the experience of people in many countries, these parables and stories usher us into the presence of Mystery. The easy flow of storytelling, smoothly mixed with sensitive interpretation, makes this volume very readable. To those who believe that theology has to do only with ideas and concepts, this volume may come as a surprise and a joyful discovery."" --S. J. Samartha, former Director, Dialogue Programme, World Council of Churches, Geneva C. S. Song explores the folk tales of the world and depicts God's answer to the thrust for the redemption of the people with 'one stroke of an Asian brush.' Here, the culture, religion, history, and suffering of the Asian people is the medium of God's redemptive revelation. Certainly, by this work he has contributed another 'transposition' of the biblical message to Asia, a monumental accomplishment in the formation of Asian theology. Reading this Theology of Folk Tales is exciting and illuminative."" --Nam-Dong Suh, Director, Institute for Mission Education, Seoul, Korea C. S. Song is Professor of Theology and Asian Cultures at Pacific School of Religion. His recent publications include 'The Believing Heart'.

Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence

Author : Jaco J. Hamman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793640467
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence written by Jaco J. Hamman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence (AI) acknowledges that human destiny is intimately tied to artificial intelligence. AI already outperforms a person on most tasks. Our ever-deepening relationship with an AI that is increasingly autonomous mirrors our relationship to what is perceived as Sacred or Divine. Like God, AI awakens hope and fear in people, while giving life to some and taking livelihood, especially in the form of jobs, from others. AI, built around values of convenience, productivity, speed, efficiency, and cost reduction, serve humanity poorly, especially in moments that demand care and wisdom. This book explores the pastoral virtues of hope, patience, play, wisdom, and compassion as foundational to personal flourishing, communal thriving, and building a robust AI. Biases of determinism, speed, objectivity, ignorance, and apathy within AI's algorithms are identified. These biases can be minimized through the incorporation of pastoral virtues as values guiding AI.

Theology as Hope

Author : Ryan A. Neal
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630878227
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Theology as Hope written by Ryan A. Neal and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope is the leitmotiv of Jurgen Moltmann's theology. Not merely one aspect of his project, hope is the whole of it, the supreme doctrine interpenetrating all others. Indeed, hope is his method. The present study is both historical and developmental while also being analytical and interrogative. This chronological exploration seeks to show the nature, composition, and development of Moltmann's doctrine of hope, as the distinctive doctrine of his theology, implicating all others. Part I establishes Moltmann's doctrine of hope as grounded in God's faithfulness in the cross and resurrection. Part II investigates major doctrines in his project in light of this ground. This design seeks to take advantage of the chronological approach while also integrating the best elements of a topical approach.

A Hope-Filled Life

Author : James R. Wilkes
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725292815
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book A Hope-Filled Life written by James R. Wilkes and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope is part of the spiritual vocabulary of the believer in Jesus Christ. The word is found abundantly in the Scriptures. We speak of it in our testimonies and fellowship. We sing about it in our corporate worship. Yet, it would seem at times that our concept of hope is understood in merely some vague way. Hope seems like an abstraction (something we consider only theoretically) not something that really matters or makes a difference. However, biblical hope is a gospel grace that provides joy and endurance for our lives right now. A Hope-Filled Life seeks to define biblical hope and provide a practical theology for understanding and applying it to our lives. Hope is, indeed, not an optional add-on but a vital necessity. Embracing the many truths about hope in the Scriptures strengthens our hearts. As we run the race set before us, we must grow in our understanding that Jesus Christ is truly our great Savior and our sure and steadfast hope!

Moses in Corinth

Author : Paul B. Duff
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004289453
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Moses in Corinth written by Paul B. Duff and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long puzzled over the imagery focused on Moses in 2 Corinthians 3; it is unclear how that imagery fits into the larger context of the letter. Many have explained the imagery as the apostle’s reaction to the “super-apostles,” Jewish missionaries mentioned later in the letter. These preachers, it has been argued, promoted either a θεῖος ἀνήρ or a Judaizing agenda. In Moses in Corinth, Paul B. Duff contends that the Moses imagery has nothing to do with the super-apostles but functions instead as an integral part of Paul’s first apologia sent to Corinth. This apologia, found in 2 Cor 2:14-7:4, represents an independent letter sent to dispel suspicions about the apostle’s honesty, integrity, and poor physical appearance.

Hosea, Amos, Micah

Author : Gary V. Smith
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
ISBN 13 : 0310872677
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Hosea, Amos, Micah written by Gary V. Smith and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context. To bring the ancient messages of the Bible into today's world, each passage is treated in three sections: Original Meaning. Concise exegesis to help readers understand the original meaning of the biblical text in its historical, literary, and cultural context. Bridging Contexts. A bridge between the world of the Bible and the world of today, built by discerning what is timeless in the timely pages of the Bible. Contemporary Significance. This section identifies comparable situations to those faced in the Bible and explores relevant application of the biblical messages. The author alerts the readers of problems they may encounter when seeking to apply the passage and helps them think through the issues involved. This unique, award-winning commentary is the ideal resource for today's preachers, teachers, and serious students of the Bible, giving them the tools, ideas, and insights they need to communicate God's Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written.