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Moving Beyond Symbol and Myth

Author : Anne Moore
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820486611
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Moving Beyond Symbol and Myth written by Anne Moore and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For hundreds of years, scholars have debated the meaning of Jesus' central theological term, the 'kingdom of God'. Most of the argument has focused on its assumed eschatological connotations and Jesus' adherence or deviation from these ideas. Within the North American context, the debate is dominated by the work of Norman Perrin, whose classification of the kingdom of God as a myth-evoking symbol remains one of the fundamental assumptions of scholarship. According to Perrin, Jesus' understanding of the kingdom of God is founded upon the myth of God acting as king on behalf of Israel as described in the Hebrew Bible. Moving Beyond Symbol and Myth challenges Perrin's classification, and advocates the reclassification of the kingdom of God as metaphor. Drawing upon insights from the cognitive theory of metaphor, this study examines all the occurrences of the 'God is king' metaphor within the literary context of the Hebrew Bible. Based on this review, it is proposed that the 'God is king' metaphor functions as a true metaphor with a range of expressions and meanings. It is employed within a variety of texts and conveys images of God as the covenantal sovereign of Israel; God as the eternal suzerain of the world, and God as the king of the disadvantaged. The interaction of the semantic fields of divinity and human kingship evoke a range of metaphoric expressions that are utilized throughout the history of the Hebrew Bible in response to differing socio-historical contexts and within a range of rhetorical strategies. It is this diversity inherent in the 'God is king' metaphor that is the foundation for the diversified expressions of the kingdom of God associated with the historical Jesus and early Christianity.

Moving Beyond the Christian Myth

Author : John W. Sloat
Publisher : CCB Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1927360102
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Moving Beyond the Christian Myth written by John W. Sloat and published by CCB Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving Beyond The Christian Myth takes the next step beyond Sloat's first book on spirituality, A Handbook For Heretics. He explores the roots of the Christian faith, tracing them back to their pagan origins in ancient religions. Then, one by one, he analyzes the essential beliefs of Christianity, showing how they cannot literally be true. The various chapters contend that: Christianity is a religious myth We don't need a savior The Bible is not the Word of God Jesus is not God The church is more political than spiritual The remainder of the book is filled with stories of mystical experiences which demonstrate how the spirit world is an integral part of our daily lives. These topics include: Out-of-Body Experiences, Visions, Past Life Recalls, After Death Communication, Angel Communication, Pre-Birth Experiences and Coincidence. Sloat argues that these stories reveal spiritual truths which are not part of the traditional teachings of religion. He asks the church to admit that its story is based on myth rather than literal truth, he urges the church to incorporate these experiences into its belief system, and he concludes by presenting a vision of a future in which people can worship God as the creator, not of a religion based on the fear of hell, but of a spiritual kingdom founded on love, light and hope. This book will be an inspiration to all those who are seeking something beyond the mythological teaching of the past. About the Author John W. Sloat, a former Presbyterian minister, served churches in Pennsylvania and Ohio for over 40 years. He holds a B.A. from Denison University, 1954; an M.Div. from Princeton Seminary, 1957; and a Th.M. from Pittsburgh Seminary, 1977. Previous books include Lord, Make Us One (non-fiction, 1986); The Other Half (fiction, 2001); Memories of My Misadventures (fiction, 2008); and A Handbook For Heretics (non-fiction, second edition, 2009). Several of his sermons have been included in Pulpit Digest, a national preaching journal. He has been married to Helen Burdick Sloat, a psychiatric nurse, for 56 years, and they have three children, eight grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. A pianist and organist, Sloat also plays the French horn, is a scratch model builder, and leads spirituality groups.

From Mythology to Reality: Moving Beyond Rastafari

Author : Seon M. Lewis
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300430680
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book From Mythology to Reality: Moving Beyond Rastafari written by Seon M. Lewis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main thesis of this book is based on the Rastafarian Movement. This book presents information about this movement, in one place, that is largely not know by the many adherents of the faith. Moreover, this book presents a unique view of the Movement; a view embedded in a Grenadian Caribbean experience. This view, however, is not narrowly placed, but is argued within a wider world context, and, thus, explains whether the Rastafarian movement can be a force for good, both within the black community and the world at large. Editor and author Norm R. Allen Jr. said that "This well-researched book expertly demolishes the ridiculous notion among Rastafarians that Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is God. Moreover, Lewis offers many excellent critiques of theism, the Bible, Rastafarianism, Afrocentric thought and religion in general." This book is informative to everyone.

Mapping Metaphorical Discourse in the Fourth Gospel

Author : Beth M. Stovell
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004223614
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Mapping Metaphorical Discourse in the Fourth Gospel written by Beth M. Stovell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mapping Metaphorical Discourse in the Fourth Gospel, Beth M. Stovell examines the metaphor of Jesus as king throughout the Fourth Gospel using an interdisciplinary metaphor theory incorporating cognitive and systemic functional linguistic approaches with literary approaches.

Though the Fig Tree Does Not Blossom

Author : Ellen Ott Marshall
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725236001
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Though the Fig Tree Does Not Blossom written by Ellen Ott Marshall and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts a course through the equally inadequate options of despair and optimism to a responsible understanding and practice of Christian hope.

The Lost Kingdom of Moyon (Bujuur)

Author : Rev Dr Koningthung Ngoru Moyon
Publisher : Shashwat Publication
ISBN 13 : 8119517318
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Kingdom of Moyon (Bujuur) written by Rev Dr Koningthung Ngoru Moyon and published by Shashwat Publication. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book The Lost Kingdom of Moyon (Bujuur): Iruwng (King) Kuurkam Ngoruw Moyon & The People of Manipur is not to produce a new history of Moyon, Who were earlier known as Bujuur, but rather to tell the true and authentical historical account of the Moyon people through the ages and centuries how their creator led them during their past lives. It also deals concerning kingship, and introduce the kingdom of God.

For the Nation

Author : Nicholas R. Brown
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 149827904X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book For the Nation written by Nicholas R. Brown and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of the kingdom Jesus proclaims in the Gospels has long been a subject of intense theological debate. More recently the lines of this debate have dramatically shifted as several leading historical Jesus scholars and Christian social ethicists have argued that Jesus' kingdom proclamation most likely expresses a first century Jewish hope for Israel's restoration. Yet while several are now sanguine that Jesus' kingdom vision constitutes nothing less than a full-throated restoration of Israel's nationality, they are just as certain it rejects a restoration of Israel's land. As such it has become increasingly fashionable to say that an authentic practice of the "kingdom" ethic that Jesus enunciates must necessarily be a-territorial. The purpose of this work is to respond to these arguments and show why this can and indeed should not be the case. Through a careful and detailed process of historical investigation, biblical exegesis, theological exploration, and ethical analysis we will come to see that not only is the kingdom that Jesus proclaims inextricably landed, but also why such a kingdom is integral to articulating a Christian ethic of territorial governance.

Is the Gospel Good News?

Author : Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532611323
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Is the Gospel Good News? written by Stanley E. Porter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the Gospel Good News? was the theme of the 2015 H. H. Bingham Colloquium at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, held on June 4–5. The fourteen participants in this colloquium presented their own individual perspectives on the theme from three broad vantage points—Bible, theology, and crucial topics. The “good news” that Jesus proclaimed concerning the kingdom of God became the “gospel” proclaimed by his followers throughout church history. This gospel is about the coming of Jesus Christ in fulfillment of God’s will for humanity. This volume presents some accounts of how this good news has been understood through the ages and continues to be understood in relation to some of the major topics and issues of our contemporary world. The papers in the Bible section discuss this good news from both Old and New Testament passages and themes. The papers in the Theology section address theological topics in light of the question of what constitutes the good news. Finally, the papers in the Crucial Topics section explore new and different perspectives on ways in which the gospel is good news. This volume highlights diverse perspectives and proposals by scholars from various locations in different stages of their academic careers, resulting in a stimulating discussion of the topic of the gospel as good news.

The Concept of Divine Sovereignty in Micah

Author : Colin Semwayo
Publisher : Langham Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178368769X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Divine Sovereignty in Micah written by Colin Semwayo and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world gone awry. Social injustice pervades our societies, the poor are disdained, despotic leaders and nations seem to control world events, and racism and hatred abound. Yet, while it might appear that evil reigns, the sovereign God is in control. Such is the message of the book of Micah, a text that underscores God’s presence in the world, righting wrongs, delivering the marginalized, and restoring the intended order of creation. In this careful explication of the minor prophet, Dr Semwayo challenges those who would question the text’s unity, revealing Micah as a powerful theological reflection on the reestablishment of Yahweh’s sovereignty on earth. Connecting the Zion/Davidic traditions to the Abrahamic covenant, Semwayo articulates a vision of hope that is as relevant for us in the twenty-first century as it was for Micah’s original audience.

God and Nature

Author : Curtis L. Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441156089
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book God and Nature written by Curtis L. Thompson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current religion and science dialogue begs for greater clarity on the relation of God to nature. In God and Nature two scholars who embrace contemporary insights from science and religion explore the complexities of this debate. As the narrative unfolds, classical and contemporary thinkers are engaged as discussion partners in articulating a philosophical theology of nature. Conceptual pairs, in which two concepts play off of each other, provide the structure for each of the seven chapters, with usually the first concept being more scientific in character and the second more religious in tone. These pairs of concepts-from chronology and creation to creativity and creator-help to thematize and structure the progressing narrative. Within each chapter the two concepts are first investigated independently, then interdependently, and finally in relation to the divine. At the story's completion nature has emerged as alive with possibility that is as alluring as the actuality it evokes. Envisioned is a divine Creator who works in and through the possibility of creation to lure it into fuller manifestations via creative transformation.

YHWH is King

Author : Shawn W. Flynn
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004263047
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book YHWH is King written by Shawn W. Flynn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst various methodologies for the comparative study of the Hebrew Bible, at times the opportunity arises to improve on a method recently introduced into the field. In YHWH is King, Flynn uses the anthropological method of cultural translation to study diachronic change in YHWH’s kingship. Here, such change is compared to a similar Babylonian development to Marduk’s kingship. Based on that comparison and informed by cultural translation, Flynn discovers that Judahite scribes suppressed the earlier YHWH warrior king and promoted a creator/universal king in order to combat the increasing threat of Neo-Assyrian imperialism. Flynn thus opens the possibility, that Judahite scribes engaged in a cultural translation of Marduk to YHWH, in order to respond to the mounting Neo-Assyrian presence.

Translating Cain

Author : Samantha Joo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1978709854
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book Translating Cain written by Samantha Joo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unless we recognize the cultural context embedded in the Genesis story of Cain and Abel, the significance of Cain’s rejection and consequent violence is often lost in translation. While many interpreters highlight the theme of sibling rivalry to explain Cain’s murderous violence, Samantha Joo relates Cain’s anger and shame to the social marginalization of Kenites in ancient Israel, for whom Cain functions narratively as an ancestor. To better understand and experience Cain’s emotions in the narrative, Joo provides a method for re-contextualizing an ancient story in modern contexts. Drawing from post-colonial theories of Latin America translators, Joo focuses on analogies which simulate the “moveable event” of a story. She shows that novels like Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Richard Wright’s Native Son, in which protagonists kill to escape their invisibility, capture the “event” of Cain and Abel. Consequently, readers can empathize with the anger and shame resulting from the social marginalization of Cain through the alienation of a poor, ex-university student, Raskolnikov, and the oppression of a young black man, Bigger Thomas.

Food, Glorious Food

Author : Nadine Jacobs
Publisher : Aeon Books
ISBN 13 : 1801520607
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Food, Glorious Food written by Nadine Jacobs and published by Aeon Books. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last century food has become a multibillion-dollar industry, resulting in the world's population becoming fatter and fatter. This has resulted in rapidly growing cases of obesity, and its accompanying health conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and heart problems. Food, Glorious Food will explore the origins of the importance of food in our society, and through a Jungian lens, what it is about food that drives us, as a society, beyond the point of satiety. The book also explores the culture symbols of the unconscious narrative around food, using Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland as a text to further illustrate this.

The Kingdom according to Luke and Acts

Author : Karl Allen Kuhn
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1441222456
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book The Kingdom according to Luke and Acts written by Karl Allen Kuhn and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This substantial, reliable introduction examines the character and purpose of Luke and Acts and provides a thorough yet economical treatment of Luke's social, historical, and literary context. Karl Allen Kuhn presents Luke's narrative as a "kingdom story" that both announces the arrival of God's reign in Jesus and describes the ministry of the early church, revealing the character of the kingdom as dramatically at odds with the kingdom of Rome. Kuhn explores the background, literary features, plotting, and themes of Luke and Acts but also offers significant, fresh insights into the persuasive force of Luke's impressively crafted and rhetorically charged narrative.

The Archetypal Process

Author : David Griffin
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 081010816X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Archetypal Process written by David Griffin and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archetypal Process is a pioneering study linking the ideas of process philosophy, as developed by Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, with the archetypal psychology of C. G. Jung and James Hillman. This is the first work to examine the interconnections of these two modes of thought. Archetypal Process examines the importance of cosmological thinking and the need to ground archetypal psychology in a metaphysical, philosophical framework. It treats the necessity for symbol and myth, the nature of the spirit, and language as a metaphorical vehicle of thought, and finally, it adds a much-needed feminist perspective to the debate.

Mythohistorical Interventions

Author : Lee Bebout
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816670862
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Mythohistorical Interventions written by Lee Bebout and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of myth, symbol, and image in the Chicano movement and beyond.

American Studies in a Moment of Danger

Author : George Lipsitz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816639489
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book American Studies in a Moment of Danger written by George Lipsitz and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The America that seems to be disappearing before our very eyes is, George Lipsitz argues, actually the cumulative creation of yesterday's struggles over identity, culture, and power. At a critical moment, this book offers a richly textured historical perspective on where our notions of national knowledge have come from and where they may lead. Showing how American studies has been shaped by the social movements of the 1930s, 1960s, and 1980s, Lipsitz identifies the ways in which the globalization of commerce and culture are producing radically new understandings of politics, performance, consumption, knowledge, and nostalgia. Book jacket.