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Author: Ernest J. Shepherd Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1411664981 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 183
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In Gods perfect timing we are blessed by people in our lives that ask the difficult questions, challenge our beliefs, and remind us of just how extraordinary this God is that we serve. If you find yourself holding this book today it certainly is not a coincidence or twist of fate. Whether you are just beginning to walk in faith or you have experienced God in His almighty power, this book is for you. Throughout Letters to the Vineyard the author, Ernest Shepherd shares with us both his passionate and revealing view of what it means to serve a loving God purposefully each day of our lives. He urges the reader to dig their feet in and not simply except the ordinary but in everything expect the extraordinary
Author: Ernest J. Shepherd Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1411664981 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 183
Book Description
In Gods perfect timing we are blessed by people in our lives that ask the difficult questions, challenge our beliefs, and remind us of just how extraordinary this God is that we serve. If you find yourself holding this book today it certainly is not a coincidence or twist of fate. Whether you are just beginning to walk in faith or you have experienced God in His almighty power, this book is for you. Throughout Letters to the Vineyard the author, Ernest Shepherd shares with us both his passionate and revealing view of what it means to serve a loving God purposefully each day of our lives. He urges the reader to dig their feet in and not simply except the ordinary but in everything expect the extraordinary
Author: John Rawls Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674033313 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 292
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John Rawls never published anything about his own religious beliefs, but after his death two texts were discovered which shed extraordinary light on the subject. A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith is Rawls’s undergraduate senior thesis, submitted in December 1942, just before he entered the army. At that time Rawls was deeply religious; the thesis is a significant work of theological ethics, of interest both in itself and because of its relation to his mature writings. “On My Religion,” a short statement drafted in 1997, describes the history of his religious beliefs and attitudes toward religion, including his abandonment of orthodoxy during World War II. The present volume includes these two texts, together with an Introduction by Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel, which discusses their relation to Rawls’s published work, and an essay by Robert Merrihew Adams, which places the thesis in its theological context. The texts display the profound engagement with religion that forms the background of Rawls’s later views on the importance of separating religion and politics. Moreover, the moral and social convictions that the thesis expresses in religious form are related in illuminating ways to the central ideas of Rawls’s later writings. His notions of sin, faith, and community are simultaneously moral and theological, and prefigure the moral outlook found in Theory of Justice.
Author: M. D. Hayden Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 222
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For centuries, Jesus' parables have been--and still are--extensively interpreted by those who impose Christian dogma and tradition on a parable told decades before Christianity per se even existed. There was no Christian tradition when Jesus was teaching his followers, and he was teaching regular people, not theologians. No wonder then that after two millennia, Jesus' parables, coated with a confusing overlay of Christian dogma, still puzzle readers of the New Testament. Opening the Parables is based on the premise that Jesus taught a singular spiritual truth which--once the clutter of others' words and interpretations is cleared away--appears consistently in all his teachings, even in his parables. In the best-possible way, Jesus was a one-subject teacher (one subject, using various teaching techniques, both deductive and inductive), a one-sermon preacher (one message, told in various ways). Everything he taught or preached was about love in the infinite, here-and-now Kingdom of God. All his parables, proverbs, aphorisms, and direct statements teach one lesson: in the highest realm we can imagine, compassionate love is all that matters.
Author: Sean W. Anthony Publisher: ISBN: 0520340418 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 303
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Introduction : the making of the historical Muḥammad -- The earliest evidence -- Muḥammad the Arabian merchant -- The Beginnings of the corpus -- The letters of 'Urwah ibn al-Zubayr -- The court impulse -- Prophecy and empires of faith -- Muḥammad and Cædmon -- Epilogue : The future of the historical Muḥammad.
Author: Matthew Bowman Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674244917 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 320
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A Publishers Weekly Best Religion Book of the Year A Choice Outstanding Academic Title For many Americans, being Christian is central to their political outlook. Political Christianity is most often associated with the Religious Right, but the Christian faith has actually been a source of deep disagreement about what American society and government should look like. While some identify Christianity with Western civilization and unfettered individualism, others have maintained that Christian principles call for racial equality, international cooperation, and social justice. At once incisive and timely, Christian delves into the intersection of faith and political identity and offers an essential reconsideration of what it means to be Christian in America today. “Bowman is fast establishing a reputation as a significant commentator on the culture and politics of the United States.” —Church Times “Bowman looks to tease out how religious groups in American history have defined, used, and even wielded the word Christian as a means of understanding themselves and pressing for their own idiosyncratic visions of genuine faith and healthy democracy.” —Christian Century “A fascinating examination of the twists and turns in American Christianity, showing that the current state of political/religious alignment was not necessarily inevitable, nor even probable.” —Deseret News
Author: Linda Ford Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1460390644 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 706
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Love Inspired Historical brings you four new titles for one great price, available now! This Love Inspired Historical box set includes Wagon Train Reunion by Linda Ford, An Unlikely Love by Dorothy Clark, From Boss to Bridegroom by Naomi Rawlings and The Doctor’s Undoing by Allie Pleiter. Look for 4 new inspirational suspense stories every month from Love Inspired Historical!
Author: Matthew Wickman Publisher: MDPI ISBN: 3039430122 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 130
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Recent decades have brought to light the staggering ubiquity of human activity upon Earth and the startling fragility of our planet and its life systems. This is so momentous that many scientists and scholars now argue that we have left the relative climactic stability of the Holocene and have entered a new geological epoch known as the Anthropocene. This emerging epoch may prompt us not only to reconsider our understanding of Earth systems, but also to reimagine ourselves and what it means to be human. How does the Earth’s precarious state reveal our own? How does this vulnerable condition prompt new ways of thinking and being? The essays that are part of this collection consider how the transformative thinking demanded by our vulnerability inspires us to reconceive our place in the cosmos, alongside each other and, potentially, before God. Who are we “after” (the concept of) the Anthropocene? What forms of thought and structures of feeling might attend us in this state? How might we determine our values and to what do we orient our hopes? Faith, a conceptual apparatus for engaging the unseen, helps us weigh the implications of this massive, but in some ways, mysterious, force on the lives we lead; faith helps us visualize what it means to exist in this new and still emergent reality.
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