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Author: Roberta Grimes Publisher: ISBN: 9781737410720 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 170
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Roberta Grimes spent decades studying nearly 200 years of afterlife evidence and forming a detailed picture of what happens at and after death. She then discovered that two thousand years ago Jesus told us things about God, reality, death, the afterlife, human nature, and the nature of reality that perfectly match the afterlife evidence in even small details. She outlines many of these correspondences in appendices to her books The Fun of Dying (2010, 2014) and The Fun of Staying in Touch (2014). In Liberating Jesus Roberta offers compelling evidence that the earliest Christians misunderstood the meaning and the message of Jesus. She demonstrates that all the correspondences between the Gospels and the afterlife evidence amount to nothing less than a new revelation from God. And she shows us that once we put aside the magic-thinking notion that the whole Christian Bible must be the Inspired Word of God just because the earliest Christians said it was, we at last free Jesus to bring to humankind the messages directly from God that long ago were His true life's purpose. His promise remains as fresh today as it was two thousand years ago, and now it is confirmed by the afterlife evidence: if we will live according to the teachings of Jesus, we can create the Kingdom of God on earth.
Author: Roberta Grimes Publisher: ISBN: 9781737410720 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 170
Book Description
Roberta Grimes spent decades studying nearly 200 years of afterlife evidence and forming a detailed picture of what happens at and after death. She then discovered that two thousand years ago Jesus told us things about God, reality, death, the afterlife, human nature, and the nature of reality that perfectly match the afterlife evidence in even small details. She outlines many of these correspondences in appendices to her books The Fun of Dying (2010, 2014) and The Fun of Staying in Touch (2014). In Liberating Jesus Roberta offers compelling evidence that the earliest Christians misunderstood the meaning and the message of Jesus. She demonstrates that all the correspondences between the Gospels and the afterlife evidence amount to nothing less than a new revelation from God. And she shows us that once we put aside the magic-thinking notion that the whole Christian Bible must be the Inspired Word of God just because the earliest Christians said it was, we at last free Jesus to bring to humankind the messages directly from God that long ago were His true life's purpose. His promise remains as fresh today as it was two thousand years ago, and now it is confirmed by the afterlife evidence: if we will live according to the teachings of Jesus, we can create the Kingdom of God on earth.
Author: Dario Andres Lopez Rodriguez Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1610975162 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 159
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The Liberating Mission of Jesus deals with the central message of the Gospel of Luke, provocatively arguing that the liberating mission of Jesus has two central themes: the universality of the love of God and the special love God has for the defenseless of society. Both of these pillars form the bedrock of Luke's theological vision, animate his Gospel throughout, and summarize the good news of the reign of God in subversive and radical form. This book shows how the liberating message announced by Jesus, as well as his liberating practice, is manifested throughout the Gospel and its implications for Christian life today. Through this thorough treatment, the full depth of Luke's vision of the liberating mission of Jesus is shown to be a paradigm for the personal and collective witness of believers, regardless of the social, political, cultural, or religious boundaries that try to inhibit them from giving witness to the God of life.
Author: John Shelby Spong Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061748420 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 502
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In this boldest book since Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, Bishop John Shelby Spong offers a compelling view of the Gospels as thoroughly Jewish tests.Spong powerfully argues that many of the key Gospel accounts of events in the life of Jesus—from the stories of his birth to his physical resurrection—are not literally true. He offers convincing evidence that the Gospels are a collection of Jewish midrashic stories written to convey the significance of Jesus. This remarkable discovery brings us closer to how Jesus was really understood in his day and should be in ours.
Author: Anthony B. Bradley Publisher: Crossway ISBN: 1433523558 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 210
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When the beliefs of Barack Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, assumed the spotlight during the 2008 presidential campaign, the influence of black liberation theology became hotly debated not just within theological circles but across cultural lines. How many of today's African-American congregations-and how many Americans in general-have been shaped by its view of blacks as perpetual victims of white oppression? In this interdisciplinary, biblical critique of the black experience in America, Anthony Bradley introduces audiences to black liberation theology and its spiritual and social impact. He starts with James Cone's proposition that the "victim" mind-set is inherent within black consciousness. Bradley then explores how such biblical misinterpretation has historically hindered black churches in addressing the diverse issues of their communities and prevented adherents from experiencing the freedoms of the gospel. Yet Liberating Black Theology does more than consider the ramifications of this belief system; it suggests an alternate approach to the black experience that can truly liberate all Christ-followers.
Author: Sharon H. Ringe Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1592447139 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 143
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Sharon H. Ringe, beginning with this Lukan text, addresses the Jubilee images and traditions in the Synoptic Gospels, especially in Jesus' proclamation of the reign of God. She illuminates how the Jubilee traditions served as a source for early Christian ethics and Christology: to confess Jesus as the Christ - herald of the Jubilee, messenger, and enactor of liberation - is to participate in acts of liberation. Ringe concludes that the agenda of liberation constitutes the very core of both the gospel message and biblical faith: the word of God fulfilled in the presence of Jesus of Nazareth is alive with images of liberation. In the final chapter, In Christ We Are Set Free, she explores further the implications of her findings for contemporary ethical and christological reflection.
Author: Danielle Strickland Publisher: Monarch Books ISBN: 0857211064 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 160
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Danielle Strickland contends that women everywhere remain subjugated by cultural norms that tell them to conform, hold back, and turn aside from God's call upon their lives. Consequently many women fail to play a full part in the healing and restoration of society. The church should take the lead. In this prophetic book Danielle observes: -We should be the ones who model an alternative approach to leadership. We are the ones with the Bible and the witness of the Holy Spirit who through Scripture, reason, tradition and experience has shown, over and over again His heart for the release of women to exercise their gifts.-The book covers: The current situation (exploitation or subjugation); the historical situation (feminism and the Christian tradition); key biblical material; justice (the feminization of poverty); what does the future offer, and what should the church do?
Author: Sylvester Ng'ong'a Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781977531551 Category : Languages : en Pages : 40
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The liberating Gospel of Jesus seeks to refocus attention to the poor and the wretched of the earth by destigmatizing and redefining the central place of liberation theology in the church's mission. This simplified and well articulated reflection, lays a brief history and paradigm foundations of approaching theology through the lenses of the poor and the oppressed as opposed to the traditional non reflective non responsive methodologies. It argues convincingly for the urgent need for the church mission to embrace a proposed socio-economic paradigm model that is realistic, wholesome and holistic. For the author, it is not enough to dismiss theology of liberation on the account that it is seemingly Marxist, reactionist and lays emphasis on the material or physical. On the contrary, he stresses its authentic spiritual dimension by arguing that faith is not limited to the affirmation of God's existence but demands a loving response-action. This is a missiological action that goes beyond Marxism and unmasks oppressive ideas and attitudes in both the Christian, the Christian congregation and the community. This book strongly vauches for the reembracing of the theology of liberation for the simple reason that it places considerable interest in the powerful current of historical consciousness, along with an openness to personal and social change and therefore opposes a static or fixed world-view or social order. Its bold and coherent call is that the church must take an analysis of its own historical context with an awareness of its situation of dependacy on God and seek out, with a determination to break out of destructive shackles and bonds. Accordingly herein, the Christian and the Christian community are called by their belief to a praxis that involves real charity, action and commitment to the service of the poor and the wretched of the earth. This book is not only a must read for students of religious studies but also a hand tool for ministers and missionaries in the mission enterprise.
Author: Frederick Herzog Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1620329255 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 289
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Liberation Theology is the first serious acknowledgment by a white theologian of the challenge of Black Theology. It invites American theology to reconsider radically its foundations and to reorder its priorities.At a time when theology is often presented piecemeal, Frederick Herzog undertakes to ground Liberation Theology in the originating events of the Christian faith as a whole - in this instance, in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ as given in the Fourth Gospel. The systematic readings in the Gospel which he makes and from which emerge the principles of Liberation Theology are the heart of this book. Throughout, the author asks: How do we understand Christ as Liberator? The answer to this question, he maintains, determines whether or not we are still able to contemplate the Word as power and action.Written with contemporary directness and free of vague abstractions, the book casts theology into a new form to meet today's needs. The method of this new theology is confrontation, not correlation; its goal is liberation, not reformation; and it strives for a new space of freedom among people captive to the dehumanizing structures of modern theology.
Author: Michael Prior Publisher: Burns & Oates ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 244
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The rise of Liberation Theology has coincided with an increase in interest in Luke's concern for the poor. This has been the subject of a number of special studies, and this new one argues for an application of the spirit of the text to contemporary society, uniting a respect for the methods of New Testament study with a commitment to social change enlivened by its values. This book is the first monograph which deals with this major New Testament text. While it engages with the most recent New Testament scholarship, it is written with a wide readership in mind. Prior examines the efforts to situate the traditions about Jesus and the evangelization of the poor in the life of Luke's community. He does not stop there, but insists that enquiry into the Gospel of Luke must concern itself with the place of the text in contemporary society. Sensitive to the concerns of biblical scholarship, this challenging exegesis respects the faith perspective that the Word of God is alive and active, and calls for a response in every generation.
Author: Roberta Grimes
Author: Roberta Grimes
Author: Dario Andres Lopez Rodriguez
Author: John Shelby Spong
Author: Anthony B. Bradley
Author: Sharon H. Ringe
Author: Danielle Strickland
Author: James H. Cone
Author: Sylvester Ng'ong'a
Author: Frederick Herzog
Author: Michael Prior