Author: Russell Pregeant
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Pregeant offers a model for biblical interpretation based upon A. N. Whitehead's understanding of the nature of language. In focusing upon Christological issues, he attempts to move beyond descriptive exegesis, demythologizing, and the new hermeneutic. The author's approach is primarily through analyses of "universalistic" passages in the Gospel of Matthew which justify a metaphysical critique of the exclusivistic claims of the evangelist. The result is a Christological interpretation. -Publisher
Christology Beyond Dogma
Author: Russell Pregeant
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Pregeant offers a model for biblical interpretation based upon A. N. Whitehead's understanding of the nature of language. In focusing upon Christological issues, he attempts to move beyond descriptive exegesis, demythologizing, and the new hermeneutic. The author's approach is primarily through analyses of "universalistic" passages in the Gospel of Matthew which justify a metaphysical critique of the exclusivistic claims of the evangelist. The result is a Christological interpretation. -Publisher
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Pregeant offers a model for biblical interpretation based upon A. N. Whitehead's understanding of the nature of language. In focusing upon Christological issues, he attempts to move beyond descriptive exegesis, demythologizing, and the new hermeneutic. The author's approach is primarily through analyses of "universalistic" passages in the Gospel of Matthew which justify a metaphysical critique of the exclusivistic claims of the evangelist. The result is a Christological interpretation. -Publisher
Essentials of Christian Theology
Author: Stanley James Grenz
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664223953
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This splendid introductory textbook for Christian theology presents two essays by leading scholars on each of the major theological questions. William Placher provides an excellent discussion of the history and current state of each doctrine while the essays explore the key elements and contemporary issues relating to these important theological concepts.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664223953
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This splendid introductory textbook for Christian theology presents two essays by leading scholars on each of the major theological questions. William Placher provides an excellent discussion of the history and current state of each doctrine while the essays explore the key elements and contemporary issues relating to these important theological concepts.
Beyond the Impasse
Author: Ronald L. Farmer
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865545588
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Contemporary biblical scholarship has reached an impasse. The various programs for bridging the gap between the ancient texts and their contemporary theological and ethical appropriation are often unsatisfactory at best and at worst even suspect in their results. We need an effective way to cross the bridge ... or a new bridge. Ronald Farmer suggests that a "process hermeneutic" holds promise of moving biblical interpretation beyond the current impasse. This is the first comprehensive introduction to a process hermeneutic. It is not, however, merely theoretical discussion, but moves from the side of biblical scholarship to develop a solid methodology for bridging the gap between text and life. Farmer applies his process hermeneutic to a difficult textRevelation 4-5 - and demonstrates this promising method in a piece of solid, responsible, and instructive interpretation.
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865545588
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Contemporary biblical scholarship has reached an impasse. The various programs for bridging the gap between the ancient texts and their contemporary theological and ethical appropriation are often unsatisfactory at best and at worst even suspect in their results. We need an effective way to cross the bridge ... or a new bridge. Ronald Farmer suggests that a "process hermeneutic" holds promise of moving biblical interpretation beyond the current impasse. This is the first comprehensive introduction to a process hermeneutic. It is not, however, merely theoretical discussion, but moves from the side of biblical scholarship to develop a solid methodology for bridging the gap between text and life. Farmer applies his process hermeneutic to a difficult textRevelation 4-5 - and demonstrates this promising method in a piece of solid, responsible, and instructive interpretation.
The God We Never Knew
Author: Marcus J. Borg
Publisher: HarperOne
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Answering the many "spiritual" questions left unaddressed by such popular historical bestsellers as A History of God and God: A Biography, renowned author Marcus Borg reveals how to embrace an authentic contemporary faith that reconciles God with science, critical thinking and religious pluralism. How to have faith––how to even think about God––without having to stifle modern rationality is one of the most vital challenges facing contemporary religion. In providing a much–needed solution to the problem of how to have a fully authentic yet fully contemporary understanding of God, Borg––author of the bestselling Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time––traces his personal journey. He leads readers from the all–powerful and authoritarian God of his (and their) childhood and traditional faith to an equally powerful but dynamic image of God that is relevant to contemporary seekers and more biblical and spiritually authentic. Borg shows how the modern crisis of faith is itself rooted in delusion––misinterpretation of biblical texts and of God's true nature––and challenges readers to a new way of thinking about God. He opens a practical discussion about how to base a relationship with the divine both immanent and transcendant, here and now, always and everywhere. Arguing that the authentic Judeo–Christian tradition is that God's being includes the whole world, Borg persuasively shows how this understanding accounts for the whole variety of human religious experience. Ultimately, he introduces readers to a way of thinking about God who is "right here" all around them, rather than distant and remote. This understanding is more intellectually and spiritually satisfying and allows readers to reclaim a stronger sense of God's presence.
Publisher: HarperOne
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Answering the many "spiritual" questions left unaddressed by such popular historical bestsellers as A History of God and God: A Biography, renowned author Marcus Borg reveals how to embrace an authentic contemporary faith that reconciles God with science, critical thinking and religious pluralism. How to have faith––how to even think about God––without having to stifle modern rationality is one of the most vital challenges facing contemporary religion. In providing a much–needed solution to the problem of how to have a fully authentic yet fully contemporary understanding of God, Borg––author of the bestselling Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time––traces his personal journey. He leads readers from the all–powerful and authoritarian God of his (and their) childhood and traditional faith to an equally powerful but dynamic image of God that is relevant to contemporary seekers and more biblical and spiritually authentic. Borg shows how the modern crisis of faith is itself rooted in delusion––misinterpretation of biblical texts and of God's true nature––and challenges readers to a new way of thinking about God. He opens a practical discussion about how to base a relationship with the divine both immanent and transcendant, here and now, always and everywhere. Arguing that the authentic Judeo–Christian tradition is that God's being includes the whole world, Borg persuasively shows how this understanding accounts for the whole variety of human religious experience. Ultimately, he introduces readers to a way of thinking about God who is "right here" all around them, rather than distant and remote. This understanding is more intellectually and spiritually satisfying and allows readers to reclaim a stronger sense of God's presence.
Postcolonial Theology of Religions
Author: Jenny Daggers
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135038996
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This original and ambitious book considers the terms of engagement between Christian theology and other religious traditions, beginning with criticism of Christian theology of religions as entangled with European colonial modernity. Jenny Daggers covers recent efforts to disentangle Eurocentrism from the meeting of the religions, and investigates new constructive possibilities arising in the postcolonial context. In dialogue with Asian and feminist theologies, she reflects on ways forward for relations between the religions and offers a particularist model for theology of religions, standing within a classical Trinitarian framework.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135038996
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This original and ambitious book considers the terms of engagement between Christian theology and other religious traditions, beginning with criticism of Christian theology of religions as entangled with European colonial modernity. Jenny Daggers covers recent efforts to disentangle Eurocentrism from the meeting of the religions, and investigates new constructive possibilities arising in the postcolonial context. In dialogue with Asian and feminist theologies, she reflects on ways forward for relations between the religions and offers a particularist model for theology of religions, standing within a classical Trinitarian framework.
Finding God Beyond Religion
Author: Tom Stella
Publisher: SkyLight Paths Publishing
ISBN: 1594734852
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Do you describe yourself as spiritual but not religious? Whether young or old, church connected or not, are you spiritually restless for an authentic faith life but do not find conventional religious teachings pertinent to you? This accessible guide to a meaningful spiritual life is a salve for your soul. It reinterprets traditional religious teachings central to the Christian faith - God, Jesus, faith, prayer, morality and more - in ways that connect with people who have outgrown the beliefs and devotional practices that once made sense to them.
Publisher: SkyLight Paths Publishing
ISBN: 1594734852
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Do you describe yourself as spiritual but not religious? Whether young or old, church connected or not, are you spiritually restless for an authentic faith life but do not find conventional religious teachings pertinent to you? This accessible guide to a meaningful spiritual life is a salve for your soul. It reinterprets traditional religious teachings central to the Christian faith - God, Jesus, faith, prayer, morality and more - in ways that connect with people who have outgrown the beliefs and devotional practices that once made sense to them.
Christ and the Other
Author: Reverend Dr Graham Adams
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351951882
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
How should we relate to 'others' - those within a particular tradition, those of different traditions, and those who are oppressed? In the light of these anxieties, and building on the work of Andrew Shanks, this book offers a vision of Christ as 'the Shaken One', rooted in community with others. Shaped through dialogue with the theologies of John Hick and Lesslie Newbigin, Adams urges Christian communities to attend more deeply to the demands of ecumenical, dialogical and political theologies, to embody an ever greater 'solidarity of others' - a quality of community better demonstrating Christlike 'other-regard'.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351951882
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
How should we relate to 'others' - those within a particular tradition, those of different traditions, and those who are oppressed? In the light of these anxieties, and building on the work of Andrew Shanks, this book offers a vision of Christ as 'the Shaken One', rooted in community with others. Shaped through dialogue with the theologies of John Hick and Lesslie Newbigin, Adams urges Christian communities to attend more deeply to the demands of ecumenical, dialogical and political theologies, to embody an ever greater 'solidarity of others' - a quality of community better demonstrating Christlike 'other-regard'.
Christian Dogmatics
Author: Carl E. Braaten
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1451402929
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Volume 1 discusses dogmatics, the Trinity, the identity of God, creation, sin, and Christology.
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1451402929
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Volume 1 discusses dogmatics, the Trinity, the identity of God, creation, sin, and Christology.
Matthew Matters
Author: Michael Lodahl
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725261146
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Gospel of Matthew says some things about Jesus, and attributes words to Jesus, that are unique to this Gospel. If we pay careful attention to these passages, we may find Matthew both challenging some of our most treasured assumptions and providing new, exciting possibilities for the life of the church. Jesus as the teacher and embodiment of Divine Wisdom, calling to us to learn gentleness and humility from him, leads us into a path of discipleship that has profound implications for Christians’ relationship with the world—but especially with Jews and Muslims.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725261146
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Gospel of Matthew says some things about Jesus, and attributes words to Jesus, that are unique to this Gospel. If we pay careful attention to these passages, we may find Matthew both challenging some of our most treasured assumptions and providing new, exciting possibilities for the life of the church. Jesus as the teacher and embodiment of Divine Wisdom, calling to us to learn gentleness and humility from him, leads us into a path of discipleship that has profound implications for Christians’ relationship with the world—but especially with Jews and Muslims.
Studies in Matthew and Early Christianity
Author: Graham Stanton
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161525438
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Collection of texts published previously.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161525438
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Collection of texts published previously.