Author: Charles Reynolds BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Strange Ways of God
Author: Charles Reynolds BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Strangeness of Gods
Author: Sarah C. HumphreysPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199269238
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Gods are supernatural, and strange. Human attempts to understand them are entangled with the effort to understand all human experience. In contrast to the long-standing dismissal of religion as conservative and traditionalistic, S. C. Humphreys argues that ancient Athenians thought about their rites as well as celebrating them.
The strangeness of God's ways. A sermon preached before the churches of Gloversville, on Thanksgiving Day, November 24th, 1864, by the Rev. Homer N. Dunning
Author: Homer N. DunningThis Strange and Sacred Scripture
Author: Matthew Richard SchlimmPublisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 1441222871
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Old Testament can seem strange and disturbing to contemporary readers. What should Christians make of Genesis 1-3, seemingly at odds with modern scientific accounts? Why does the Old Testament contain so much violence? How should Christians handle texts that give women a second-class status? Does the Old Testament contradict itself? Why are so many Psalms filled with anger and sorrow? What should we make of texts that portray God as filled with wrath? Combining pastoral insight, biblical scholarship, and a healthy dose of humility, gifted teacher and communicator Matthew Schlimm explores perennial theological questions raised by the Old Testament. He provides strategies for reading and appropriating these sacred texts, showing how the Old Testament can shape the lives of Christians today and helping them appreciate the Old Testament as a friend in faith.
The Insanity of God
Author: Nik RipkenPublisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1433673088
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
An amazing story of a missionary couple's journey into the toughest places on earth is combined with stories about remarkable people of faith they encountered to challenge and inspire those curious about the sufficiency of God.
Baxter's Explore the Book
Author: J. Sidlow BaxterPublisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310871395
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1846
Book Description
Explore the Book is not a commentary with verse-by-verse annotations. Neither is it just a series of analyses and outlines. Rather, it is a complete Bible survey course. No one can finish this series of studies and remain unchanged. The reader will receive lifelong benefit and be enriched by these practical and understandable studies. Exposition, commentary, and practical application of the meaning and message of the Bible will be found throughout this giant volume. Bible students without any background in Bible study will find this book of immense help as will those who have spent much time studying the Scriptures, including pastors and teachers. Explore the Book is the result and culmination of a lifetime of dedicated Bible study and exposition on the part of Dr. Baxter. It shows throughout a deep awareness and appreciation of the grand themes of the gospel, as found from the opening book of the Bible through Revelation.
Where Is the God of Justice?
Author: Michael E. W. ThompsonPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1610972627
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
What does the Old Testament say about the problem of suffering? Though Christians believe themselves to be held in the care of the God of love and strength, they yet find that sufferings come their way. Moreover, whole communities, even whole nations, experience terrible sufferings--all of which frequently raises the question, "Where is the God of justice?" Those parts of the Old Testament that deal with this question are here considered and discussed, both those that understand suffering as due to human sinfulness and those that raise serious questions about that sort of understanding. Further, here are Jeremiah's questions about why he, as the Lord's prophet, must suffer; the gentler questions in Ecclesiastes; the perplexing life experiences of Joseph; the agonized prayer of Habakkuk; those most urgent questions in the book of Job; the outspoken words of psalmists; the radical talk about a "suffering servant"; and the confident hope expressed in Daniel. Thompson argues that while the Old Testament cannot always give us answers, it does point us to God for hope in the midst of suffering.
Speaking of God in Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart
Author: Assoc Prof Anastasia WendlinderPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409469182
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Medieval masters Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart considered problems inherent to speaking of God, exploring how religious language might compromise God's transcendence or God's immanence ultimately hindering believers in their journey of faith seeking understanding. Going beyond ordinary readings of Aquinas and building a foundation for further insights into the works of both theologians, this book draws out the implications of the thought of Eckhart and Aquinas for contemporary issues, including ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue, liturgy and prayer, and religious inclusivity. Reading Aquinas and Eckhart in light of each other reveals the profound depth and orthodoxy of both of these scholars and provides a novel approach to many theological and practical religious issues.
Transgressive Devotion
Author: Natalie Wigg-Stevenson Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 033405947X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Academic theology is in need of a new genre. In "Transgressive Devotion" Natalie Wigg-Stevenson articulates a theological vision of that genre as performance art. She argues that theology done as performance art stops trying to describe who God is, and starts trying to make God appear. Recognising that the act of studying theology or practicing ministry is always a performance, where the boundaries between what we see, feel, experience and learn are not just blurred but potentially invisible, Wigg-Stevenson brings together ethnographic theological fieldwork, historical and contemporary Christian theological traditions, and performance artworks themselves. A daring vision of theology which will energise anybody feeling ‘boxed in’ by the discipline, Transgressive Devotion blurs borders between orthodoxy, heterodoxy and heresy to reveal how the very act of doing theology makes God and humanity vulnerable to each other. This is theology which is a liturgy of Divine incantation. In other words: this is theology which is also prayer.
The Strange Ways of God; A Study in the Book of Job
Author: Charles Reynolds BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9780649746484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
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