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Author: Catherine L. Muldoon Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1666787183 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 200
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This revised doctoral dissertation, a study of the message of the Book of Jonah, consists of five main chapters: an exploration of the problems association with the interpretation of Jonah and the prmises that underlie various approaches to understanding the book's message; an attempt ot date the composition of Johan; and exploration of thematic parallels between Malachi and Jonah; a comparison of the character Jonah with 2 Kgs 14:25; an examination of the prophet's question ing of divine justice.
Author: Catherine L. Muldoon Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1666787183 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 200
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This revised doctoral dissertation, a study of the message of the Book of Jonah, consists of five main chapters: an exploration of the problems association with the interpretation of Jonah and the prmises that underlie various approaches to understanding the book's message; an attempt ot date the composition of Johan; and exploration of thematic parallels between Malachi and Jonah; a comparison of the character Jonah with 2 Kgs 14:25; an examination of the prophet's question ing of divine justice.
Author: Soong-Chan Rah Publisher: InterVarsity Press ISBN: 0830897615 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 230
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The American church avoids lament. But lament is a missing, essential component of Christian faith. Soong-Chan Rah's prophetic exposition of the book of Lamentations provides a biblical and theological lens for examining the church's relationship with a suffering world. Hear the prophet's lament as the necessary corrective for Christianity's future.
Author: Eric Nelson Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674242955 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 233
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One of our most important political theorists pulls the philosophical rug out from under modern liberalism, then tries to place it on a more secure footing. We think of modern liberalism as the novel product of a world reinvented on a secular basis after 1945. In The Theology of Liberalism, one of the country’s most important political theorists argues that we could hardly be more wrong. Eric Nelson contends that the tradition of liberal political philosophy founded by John Rawls is, however unwittingly, the product of ancient theological debates about justice and evil. Once we understand this, he suggests, we can recognize the deep incoherence of various forms of liberal political philosophy that have emerged in Rawls’s wake. Nelson starts by noting that today’s liberal political philosophers treat the unequal distribution of social and natural advantages as morally arbitrary. This arbitrariness, they claim, diminishes our moral responsibility for our actions. Some even argue that we are not morally responsible when our own choices and efforts produce inequalities. In defending such views, Nelson writes, modern liberals have implicitly taken up positions in an age-old debate about whether the nature of the created world is consistent with the justice of God. Strikingly, their commitments diverge sharply from those of their proto-liberal predecessors, who rejected the notion of moral arbitrariness in favor of what was called Pelagianism—the view that beings created and judged by a just God must be capable of freedom and merit. Nelson reconstructs this earlier “liberal” position and shows that Rawls’s philosophy derived from his self-conscious repudiation of Pelagianism. In closing, Nelson sketches a way out of the argumentative maze for liberals who wish to emerge with commitments to freedom and equality intact.
Author: Douglas Brown, Kelly Publisher: Orbis Books ISBN: 1608335402 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 306
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"The 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, an African-American teenager in Florida, and the subsequent acquittal of his killer, brought public attention to controversial "Stand Your Ground" laws. The verdict, as much as the killing, sent shock waves through the African-American community, recalling a history of similar deaths, and the long struggle for justice. On the Sunday morning following the verdict, black preachers around the country addressed the question, "Where is the justice of God? What are we to hope for?" This book is an attempt to take seriously social and theological questions raised by this and similar stories, and to answer black church people's questions of justice and faith in response to the call of God. But Kelly Brown Douglas also brings another significant interpretative lens to this text: that of a mother. "There has been no story in the news that has troubled me more than that of Trayvon Martin's slaying. President Obama said that if he had a son his son would look like Trayvon. I do have a son and he does look like Trayvon." Her book will also affirm the "truth" of a black mother's faith in these times of stand your ground."--
Author: Adonis Vidu Publisher: Baker Academic ISBN: 1441245324 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 456
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Adonis Vidu tackles an issue of great current debate in evangelical circles and of perennial interest in the Christian academy. He provides a critical reading of the history of major atonement theories, offering an in-depth analysis of the legal and political contexts within which they arose. The book engages the latest work in atonement theory and serves as a helpful resource for contemporary discussions. This is the only book that explores the impact of theories of law and justice on major historical atonement theories. Understanding this relationship yields a better understanding of atonement thinkers by situating them in their intellectual contexts. The book also explores the relevance of the doctrine of divine simplicity for atonement theory.
Author: James S. Spiegel Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1532640951 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 149
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Within the Christian theological tradition there has always been a variety of perspectives on hell, usually distinguished according to their views about the duration of hell’s torments for the damned. Traditionalists maintain that the suffering of the damned is everlasting. Universalists claim that eventually every person is redeemed and arrives in heaven. And conditional immortalists, also known as “conditionalists” or “annihilationists,” reject both the concept of eternal torment as well as universal salvation, instead claiming that after a finite period of suffering the damned are annihilated. Conditionalism has enjoyed somewhat of a revival in scholarly circles in recent years, buoyed by the influential biblical defense of the view by Edward Fudge. However, there has yet to appear a book-length philosophical defense of conditionalism . . . until now. In Hell and Divine Goodness, James Spiegel assesses the three major alternative theories of hell, arriving at the conclusion that the conditionalist view is, all things considered, the most defensible position on the issue.
Author: Ashok Sharda Publisher: Notion Press ISBN: 164429768X Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 271
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In Divine Justice, the author has ventured to ‘see’ and evaluate justice system in the frame work of the ‘laws’ beyond space and time. His ‘seeing’ transcends all written laws- scribered or statute, applicable to various regions in different times and presents a scene in which human looks absolutely hapless defending a trial initiated against him with a predetermined judgment. The hero, arrested and detained, struggles to find his way out of the process of law, in his endeavour to find acquittal. He can sense the long tentacles of the law reaching for him. His interactions with various jail inmates, followed by a counsellor show him no ‘way’ that will enlighten his path for a permanent acquittal. Eventually, he finds a possibility of a ‘way’ to jump the invisible high walls of the infinite jail from a mysterious character known as ‘invisible man’. But it’s too late by now because his day of judgment has arrived. He is fated to die like a dog, a fate no different than K’s, the hero of Kafka’s Trial. ‘A’, the ill-fated hero questions the very invincibility of the law, the choice-less-ness in each happening or unhappening that affects his life. Desperate, he cries out at one point: ‘how can I break a law when the laws allows me no cushioning to break any law, when law determines where I am and what I am doing at any given point of time, when desires, commanded by laws, rises from the pit of my core and commands me…when my hands are not my hands, my legs are not my legs….Why should I be punished for a happening when I had no conscious choice in this happening?’ At some other place he argues: ‘it’s hard to accept the laws of the jail once you become aware of the horror of your situation in the wake of the realization you are in jail.’ Authors is conscious of individualistic approach to issues confronting the mankind, He speaks out in no uncertain words through the mouth of yet another co-accused: ‘I know I spoke profanity. In the kind of turmoil, I am do you think I really care. Two hoots for this creation.
Author: Jože Krašovec Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN: 1467464848 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 610
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A semantic study of God’s righteousness and justice in the Hebrew Bible that draws exegetical, theological, and philosophical conclusions about the character of God and God’s relationship with humanity. God’s work of creation and salvation for the good of Israel, humanity, and the world manifests the nature of God’s being. Thus, if we can understand God’s characteristics of righteousness and justice, we can better understand God. In the Hebrew Bible, these aspects of God are not expressed by abstract concepts but by semantic elements within literary structures. From this premise, Jože Krašovec undertakes the present study to put semantics into dialogue with exegesis and theology to illuminate exactly how God’s righteousness and justice in the Old Testament should be understood. In the first part of the book, Krašovec analyzes occurrences of the Hebrew root ṣdq (meaning righteous) and other synonyms, working systematically through the entire Old Testament canon. In the second part, he builds off this lexical study with a more broadly exegetical, theological, and philosophical exploration of guilt, punishment, mercy, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Krašovec concludes, among other things, that the biblical writers use “righteousness” as an expression of God’s affection for faithful people, especially those in distress because of persecution. God’s righteousness therefore exists in the Hebrew Bible in relation to the righteousness of human individuals and communities. Justice—whether in the form of forgiveness for the penitent or punishment for those who have hardened their hearts against God—is always carried out with the goal of building better community among God’s people.
Author: Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine Publisher: Regnery Publishing ISBN: 9780895267047 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 388
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Here in one concise volume is St. Augustine's brilliant analysis of where faith and politics meet - casting a penetrating light on Roman civilization, the coming Middle Ages, ecclesiastical politics, and some of the most powerful ideas in the Western tradition, including Augustine's famous "just war theory" and his timeless ideas of how men should live in society.
Author: Catherine L. Muldoon
Author: Catherine L. Muldoon
Author: Soong-Chan Rah
Author: Eric Nelson
Author: Douglas Brown, Kelly 
Author: Timothy Keller
Author: Adonis Vidu
Author: James S. Spiegel
Author: Ashok Sharda
Author: Jože Krašovec
Author: Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine