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Book Synopsis Domesticated Jesus by : Harry Lee Kraus
Download or read book Domesticated Jesus written by Harry Lee Kraus and published by P & R Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's incredible, but the modern church has largely suceeded in domesticating Jesus . We have swapped a God-glorifying gospel for a lesser gospel where I is the central character. Harry's honest, fresh, and involving journey of self-discovery helps you understand how his, and your, compromises have led to a down-grading of Jesus role in our lives. --from publisher description
Book Synopsis Domesticated Jesus by : Harry L. Kraus.
Download or read book Domesticated Jesus written by Harry L. Kraus. and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Domesticated Glory written by Gale Heide and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domesticated Glory critically examines the marriage between Evangelicalism and American politics. The study begins by engaging popular political pundits who wish to transform Christianity into an arm of the state. It then moves to examine some of the theological foundations proposed as support for the church's propping up of American political ideology. Finally, the study provides a more robust politics of the church by outlining how the church might act as a politics in itself. Thus, the church may gain a political voice as church in such a way as to make the world know it stands in need of redemption. This is a far cry from the liberal attempt of the Social Gospel and many modern evangelicals to transform the world into a pseudo-church by cultural or social control. Unlike attempts to engage culture on its own terms in the political arena or to escape politics by avoiding any public testimony to the Gospel, this study lays out a way for the church to act as church in the public square, witnessing to a Gospel concerned primarily about the universe's King and His future Kingdom.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Jesus by : Markus Bockmuehl
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Jesus written by Markus Bockmuehl and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-08 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion takes as its starting point the realization that Jesus of Nazareth cannot be studied purely as a subject of ancient history, 'a man like any other man'. History, literature, theology and the dynamic of a living, worldwide religious reality, all appropriately impinge on the study of Jesus. The two parts of the book roughly correspond to the interdependent tasks of historical description and critical and theological reflection. It incorporates the most up-to-date historical work on Jesus the Jew with the 'bigger issues' of critical method, the story of Christian faith and study, and Jesus in a global church and in the encounter with Judaism and Islam. Written by seventeen leading international scholars, the book encourages students of the historical Jesus to discover the vital contribution of theology, and students of doctrine to engage the Christ of faith as Jesus the first-century Jew.
Book Synopsis The Vehement Jesus by : David J. Neville
Download or read book The Vehement Jesus written by David J. Neville and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vehement Jesus composes a fresh examination and interpretation of several perplexing passages in the Gospels that, at face value, challenge the conviction that the mission and message of Jesus were peaceful. Using narrative analysis and various forms of intratextual critique in the service of a hermeneutic of shalom, the author makes the case that Gospel portrayals of the vehement Jesus are compatible with, perhaps even indispensable to, the composite canonical portrait of Jesus as the Messiah of Peace. As a result, this exploration in New Testament theology and ethics makes an invaluable contribution to the crucial conversation about the role of Jesus' life and teaching in Christian reflection on the morality of violence today.
Book Synopsis How to Catch Feelings for Jesus by : Andrew Christopher Uttaro
Download or read book How to Catch Feelings for Jesus written by Andrew Christopher Uttaro and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus Christ is a character not unlike Elvis to many of us born into places that have historically been bathed in Christianity. Sure, maybe he's a decent guy, but I don't want to put on the shiny blazers. The whole idea of a relationship with Jesus may be quite off-putting on the face of it for those of us not keen on throwing our hands up in the air in praise concerts or kneeling and reciting centuries-old creeds on a weekly day off. The way to a relationship with Jesus that often gets lost in all the preaching is that it's caught, not taught. As someone who began his relationship with Jesus with a simple "I'll give this Jesus thing a try," Uttaro still struggles with the awkwardness of it all. Sometimes the only way we can get past all the deafening noise of the faith as it exists in our culture is to give ourselves the opportunity to catch feelings instead of endure being taught the same tired anachronisms that orbit that name Jesus. In How to Catch Feelings for Jesus, we will go about a personal step-by-step journey to such a relationship with Jesus.
Download or read book Food for the Journey written by and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the best teaching from the most-well known speakers from over the years at the Keswick Convention. These readings will teach, inspire and encourage from across the whole canon of scripture. The books and speakers include:- Michael Baughan – 2 Timothy Alec Motyer – 1 Thessalonians Simon Manchester – John 14-17 Stuart Briscoe – James Alistair Begg – Ruth Liam Goligher – Ezekiel Charles Price - Hebrews Paul Mallard – Revelation Jonathan Lamb – Habukkuk John Stott – Romans 5-8 Chris Wright - Numbers Steve Brady - Colossians
Book Synopsis Reviving Evangelical Ethics by : Wyndy Corbin Reuschling
Download or read book Reviving Evangelical Ethics written by Wyndy Corbin Reuschling and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic theories of Aristotle, Kant, and Mill have influenced Christian thought in morality and ethics for centuries. But they can go only so far, Wyndy Corbin Reuschling writes in Reviving Evangelical Ethics. While the philosophers' approach to three key elements--virtue, duty, and utility--have been used widely in forming ethical and moral practices, Corbin Reuschling sees spiritual danger in their limitations. She probes deeply to deconstruct each philosophy, then reconstructs a broader, biblically based framework for personal and group ethics. This introductory text provides helpful biblical and theological reflection for students of Christian ethics.
Book Synopsis Theology is for Proclamation by : Gerhard O. Forde
Download or read book Theology is for Proclamation written by Gerhard O. Forde and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book drags systematic theology out of the study, sticks it into the pulpit, onto the altar, and under the waters of baptism so that it proclaims the gospel. It sets limits within which discussions of ministry and ecumenism must occur, if we are to remain proclaimers of the gospel. Forde's work ought to be the centerpiece for years to come, simply because-in his inimitably impatient way-he has it right.' James M. Kittelson, Professor of History, University of Ohio
Book Synopsis Inventing Christic Jesuses: Rules and Warrants for Theology by : Charles A. Wilson
Download or read book Inventing Christic Jesuses: Rules and Warrants for Theology written by Charles A. Wilson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first comprehensive proposal for revisionist theology's deployment of historical Jesus research, Inventing Christic Jesuses rejects positions that insulate theology from Jesus research. By setting out theological methods, warrants, and rules, in dialogue with an analysis of the Jesus historians of the Third Quest (c. 1980-2010), the study charts a path toward a quested christology positioned between categorical rejection and uncritical acceptance of historical results on Jesus. Volume 1, Method, analyzes the methods and values of historical research on Jesus and identifies the retrojective activity of value production when historians, in conversation with historical sources, invent images of Jesus. Volume 2, Christological Recommendations, gathers potential contributions of Jesus research for revisionist theology according to the cataphatic, apophatic, and eminent pattern of classical theology. By attending to the limits and opportunities afforded by historical research, both negative and positive, the argument retrieves for theology the complex way that historians shape same and different, association and dissociation in the production of their Jesuses. Then it analyzes how values shape Jesuses in a pervasive Narcissus project to invent a self (and a community) through imaging Jesus. Proposing that the disciplined invention of Jesuses is highly useful for theology, the book ends with recommendations for a quested christology.
Download or read book Colossians written by Steve Brady and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Putting Jesus in his place. This was the issue with which the church at Colossae wrestled. There was a plethora of other gods and spiritual beings to worship. The city was rife with syncretism, the belief that you can worship Jesus but need to supplement your faith by turning to other powers and authorities. If you got sick or wanted your business to flourish, surely it was expedient to pay allegiance to these other powers and not just Jesus? In Colossae Jesus was eminent. He had status. The fundamental question was: Is he pre-eminent? Jesus was important, just not all-important; adequate but not totally sufficient for every need. Writing from a prison cell in Rome, Paul warns these new believers of the danger of turning to another Jesus. If they failed to heed his warning, their faith would unravel. This letter has much to say to Christians today. It will provide challenge, inspiration and a renewed focus to keep on living for Christ in our generation.
Book Synopsis The Best of Will Willimon by : William H. Willimon
Download or read book The Best of Will Willimon written by William H. Willimon and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of the best from one of the most effective preachers in the English-speaking world
Book Synopsis God Turned Toward Us by : Bishop William H. Willimon
Download or read book God Turned Toward Us written by Bishop William H. Willimon and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talk the talk and walk the walk. The challenge of the Christian life is learning to talk Christian. Somebody has got to tell us, give us the words that open the door to the faith called Christian. Each of us is due the delight of discovery that in submitting to God’s talk to us. God Turned Toward Us: The ABCs of Christian Faith is organized by the words the church teaches us to use to talk about ordinary life apprehended by a God who is Jesus Christ–short, meditative reflections upon key concepts that guide Christians, new or longstanding. Praise for God Turned Towards Us “Reading God Turned Towards Us is like walking through a diamond mine. The opening segment on “Abortion” is itself worth the price of the book! Consider these gems: On the Cross: “The cross is a mirror that reflects who we really are as well as a window where we are given a privileged look into the heart of who God is.” On Sanctification: “The Gospels depict the disciples on a continual road trip. They journey, not only step-by-step closer to Jerusalem but also day-by day closer to Christ, that is, sanctification.” --Mike Lowry, Resident Bishop of the Central Texas Conference of The United Methodist Church God Turned Toward Us: The ABCs of Christian Faith is no ordinary book about Christian beliefs and practices. Rather, it is a sometimes jarring, always interesting, consistently insightful, and persistently provocative invitation to “talk the talk and walk the walk” of Christian discipleship. Addressing topics from A (Abortion) to Z (Zaccheus), Bishop Willimon prods us to listen more attentively to the God who continues to speak amid the confusion and turmoil of our times. This is a valuable resource for individuals and groups who genuinely want to hear a word from the Lord. --Kenneth Carder, Retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church
Book Synopsis Church, State and Civil Society by : David Fergusson
Download or read book Church, State and Civil Society written by David Fergusson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when secular liberalism is in crisis and when the civic contribution of religion is being re-assessed, the rich tradition of Christian political theology demands renewed attention. This book, based on the 2001 Bampton Lectures, explores the relationship of the church both to the state and civil institutions. Arguing that theological approaches to the state were often situated within the context of Christendom and are therefore outmoded, the author claims that a more differentiated approach can be developed by attention to the concept of civil society. The book offers a critical assessment of the effect of the First Amendment in the USA and, in a concluding chapter, it defends the case for continuing disestablishment in England and Scotland.
Book Synopsis The Bible in History by : David W. Kling
Download or read book The Bible in History written by David W. Kling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-12 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one can doubt that the Bible has exerted a tremendous influence on Western civilization since the dawn of Christianity. But few of us have considered the precise nature of that influence in particular historical contexts. In this book, David Kling traces the fascinating story of how specific biblical texts have at different times emerged to be the inspiration of movements that have changed the course of history. By examining eight such pivotal texts, Kling elucidates the ways in which sacred texts continue to shape our lives as well as our history. Among the passages he discusses are: * "Upon this rock I will build my church" (Matthew 16:18), which inspired the formation of the papacy and has served as its foundation for centuries * "The righteous will live by faith" (Romans 1:17), which caught the imagination of Martin Luther and sparked the Protestant Reformation * "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord: Let my people go, so that they may worship me'" (Exodus 8:1), which has played an important and diverse role in African American history from early slave spirituals through the modern civil rights movement and beyond * "There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:28), which has been adopted by feminists as a rallying cry in the battle for women's ordination Each of the historical episodes he explores--from the beginning of Christian monasticism to the emergence of Pentecostalism--is evidence of the dynamic interplay between Scripture and the social and cultural context in which it is interpreted. Kling's innovative study of this process shows how sacred texts can give life to social movements, and how powerful social forces can give new meaning to Scripture.
Book Synopsis T&T Clark Companion to the Bible and Film by : Richard Walsh
Download or read book T&T Clark Companion to the Bible and Film written by Richard Walsh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first decades of the twenty-first century saw a resurgence of the biblical epic film, such as Noah and Exodus: Gods and Kings, which was in turn accompanied by a growth of biblical film criticism. This companion surveys that field of study by framing it in light of significant and recent biblical films as well as the voices of key biblical film critics. Non-Hollywood and seemingly “non-biblical” films also come under investigation. The contributors concentrate on three points: “context”, focusing on the 'Bible in' specific film genres and cultural situations; “theory”, applying theory from both religion and film studies, with an eye to their possible intersections; and “recent and significant texts”, reflecting on which texts and themes have been most important in 'biblical film' and which are currently at the fore. Exploring cinema across the globe, and accompanied by extended introductory essays for each of the three sections, this companion is an important resource for scholars in both film and biblical reception.
Book Synopsis Pharaohs on Both Sides of the Blood-Red Waters by : Allan Aubrey Boesak
Download or read book Pharaohs on Both Sides of the Blood-Red Waters written by Allan Aubrey Boesak and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the civil rights and anti-apartheid struggles, are we truly living in post-racial, post-apartheid societies where the word struggle is now out of place? Do we now truly realize that, as President Obama said, the situation for the Palestinian people is "intolerable"? This book argues that this is not so, and asks, "What has Soweto to do with Ferguson, New York with Cape Town, Baltimore with Ramallah?" With South Africa, the United States, and Palestine as the most immediate points of reference, it seeks to explore the global wave of renewed struggles and nonviolent revolutions led largely by young people and the challenges these pose to prophetic theology and the church. It invites the reader to engage in a trans-Atlantic conversation on freedom, justice, peace, and dignity. These struggles for justice reflect the proposal the book discusses: there are pharaohs on both sides of the blood-red waters. Central to this conversation are the issues of faith and struggles for justice; the call for reconciliation--its possibilities and risks; the challenges of and from youth leadership; prophetic resistance; and the resilient, audacious hope without which no struggle has a future. The book argues that these revolutions will only succeed if they are claimed, embraced, and driven by the people.
