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This book offers help for dealing with the practical issues of life
most people struggle with daily. The approach of the author is to
make perceptive insights, and to offer control steps and redeeming
responses, most of which are based on sound biblical teaching. No
matter what is your status in life, whether from the perspectives
of financial strength or weakness or official position or authority
rank and power, or otherwise, you cannot escape life's struggles.
Therefore, this book is for you. Here are some of the issues
analyzed for your benefit: Honor Marriage Create your Future Pursue
God's Goals Let God take Charge Take Eight Great Steps Understand
Happiness Rise above Peer Pressure Have a Positive Mind-set
Perceive God's Objectives Face death with Confidence The author
challenges cuttingly and comprehensively -- everyone. He writes so
that whatever might be the nature of your 'tough times' there are
strategies, he shows, based on sound principles of spirituality and
integrity, for succeeding in struggling victoriously.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
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The human heart is a wonderful mystery of rhythmic life and beauty,
like music and poetry. Listening to the beat of another's heart
requires being up close, personal and intimate. Trust is essential.
In Heaven's Heartbeat, author Micah Smith presents a ninety-day
devotional dedicated to helping you hear God's heartbeat. Using
anecdotes from his personal life, Micah offers messages to
encourage you to hang in there and not give up when times are tough
and uncertain. He presents an invitation to hear God's voice with
renewed hope, growing trust, and calm confidence during the foggy
seasons of chaos and confusion. Heaven's Heartbeat is not a book of
devotional theories. In the next ninety-days you will discover the
reality of God's presence in your life, the help of his Word to
guide you, and the healing power of a Father's heart.
In addition to three scrolls containing the Book of Joshua, the
Qumran caves brought to light five previously unknown texts
rewriting this book. These scrolls (4Q123, 4Q378, 4Q379, 4Q522,
5Q9), as well as a scroll from Masada (Mas 1039-211), are commonly
referred to as the Apocryphon of Joshua. While each of these
manuscripts has received some scholarly attention, no attempt has
yet been made to offer a detailed study of all these texts. The
present monograph fills this gap by providing improved editions of
the six scrolls, an up-to-date commentary and a detailed discussion
of the biblical exegesis embedded in each scroll. The analysis of
the texts is followed by a reassessment of the widely accepted view
considering 4Q123, 4Q378, 4Q379, 4Q522, 5Q9 and Mas 1039-211 as
copies of a single composition. Finally, the monograph attempts to
place the Qumran scrolls rewriting the Book of Joshua within the
wider context of Second Temple Jewish writings concerned with the
figure of Joshua.
The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer understood Western
civilization to be "approaching a completely religionless age" to
which Christians must respond and adapt. This book explores
Bonhoeffer's own response to this challenge-his concept of a
religionless Christianity-and its place in his broader theology. It
does this, first, by situating the concept in a present-day Western
socio-historical context. It then considers Bonhoeffer's
understanding and critique of religion, before examining the
religionless Christianity of his final months in the light of his
earlier Christ-centred theology. The place of mystery, paradox, and
wholeness in Bonhoeffer's thinking is also given careful attention,
and non-religious interpretation is taken seriously as an ongoing
task. The book aspires to present religionless Christianity as a
lucid and persuasive contemporary theology; and does this always in
the presence of the question which inspired Bonhoeffer's
theological journey from its academic beginnings to its very
deliberately lived end-the question "Who is Jesus Christ?"
In this work, Jobling argues that religious sensibility in the
Western world is in a process of transformation, but that we see
here change, not decline, and that the production and consumption
of the fantastic in popular culture offers an illuminating window
onto spiritual trends and conditions. She examines four major
examples of the fantastic genre: the "Harry Potter" series
(Rowling), "His Dark Materials" (Pullman), "Buffy the Vampire
Slayer" (Whedon) and the "Earthsea cycle" (Le Guin), demonstrating
that the spiritual universes of these four iconic examples of the
fantastic are actually marked by profoundly modernistic
assumptions, raising the question of just how contemporary
spiritualities (often deemed postmodern) navigate philosophically
the waters of truth, morality, authority, selfhood and the divine.
Jobling tackles what she sees as a misplaced disregard for the
significance of the fantasy genre as a worthy object for academic
investigation by offering a full-length, thematic, comparative and
cross-disciplinary study of the four case-studies proposed, chosen
because of their significance to the field and because these books
have all been posited as exemplars of a 'postmodern' religious
sensibility. This work shows how attentiveness to spiritual themes
in cultural icons can offer the student of theology and religions
insight into the framing of the moral and religious imagination in
the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries and how this can
prompt traditional religions to reflect on whether their own
narratives are culturally framed in a way resonating with the
'signs of the times'.
Perpetua, a 19 year old girl from South London, says that she is
God. She gathers a motley collection of followers and begins her
travels, performing miracles and spreading her gospel of
unconditional love along the way.
Her message provokes a strong and ultimately lethal reaction
from Christianity's warring factions, politicians and journalists
bent on profit instead of the truth. Her story is told by four
people: Jack, a tabloid journalist; Claire, a social worker; Beth,
a media student; and Damian, a theology graduate and Church House
intern.
Perpetua is the first of three novels in The Third Testament for
the Third Millennium, a bold re-telling of the New Testament in a
21st Century context, asking Christians to question what they
believe and why.
Incorporating a dazzling array of artistic styles,
convention-breaking use of language and sharply drawn characters,
the series draws on its author's experience of journalism,
broadcasting and politics, and on his work as a lay minister in the
Church of England. It is profound and funny, moving and edgy,
setting out how we might better live together with more
self-restraint and less regulation.
This volume addresses the complex topic of the preeminent status of
the divine feminine power, to be referred also as Female, within
the theosophical structures of many important Kabbalists, Sabbatean
believers, and Hasidic masters. This privileged status is part of a
much broader vision of the Female as stemming from a very high root
within the divine world, then She was emanated and constitutes the
tenth, lower divine power, and even in this lower state She is
sometime conceived of governing this world and as equal to the
divine Male. Finally, She is conceived of as returning to Her
original place in special moments, the days of Sabbath, the Jewish
Holidays or in the eschatological era. Her special dignity is
sometime related to Her being the telos of creation, and as the
first entity that emerged in the divine thought, which has been
later on generated. In some cases, an uroboric theosophy links the
Female Malkhut, directly to the first divine power, Keter. The
author points to the possible impact of some of the Kabbalistic
discussions on conceptualizations of the feminine in the
Renaissance period.
The Christian Humanist ideas of six Catholic scholars who were
based in Munich during the first half of the 20th century are
profiled in this volume. They were all interested in presenting and
defending a Christian humanism in the aftermath of German Idealism
and the anti-Christian humanism of Friedrich Nietzsche. They were
seeking to offer hope to Christians during the darkest years of the
Nazi regime and the post-Second World War era of shame, guilt and
reconstruction.
Norgate assesses the way in which the Christian doctrine of the
Trinity is the foundation for all other Christian doctrines,
especially the Christian understanding of salvation. He
investigates in detail the approach of the German Lutheran
theologian, Isaac A. Dorner (1809-1884) to this question. Analysis
of his arguments concerning the priority of the doctrine of God for
Christian belief and dogmatics is given. It examines the form of
his doctrine of God's triunity, and gives an extensive study of how
Dorner's particular account of God's triune identity informs the
Christian conception of God's relation to the world, first, as
Creator and, second, as Saviour. In this process, it seeks to
refocus attention on Dorner as a major figure in the development of
modern theology. The relationship between Dorner's doctrines of the
triune God and salvation is assessed. Dorner's positive
reconstruction of the Christian idea of God as Trinity provides
helpful resources in delineating a non-competitive account of God's
relation to the world. This means that God is not confused with nor
distant from the world. The eternal vitality of God's immanent
personality is the basis of His vital economic activity, which
culminates in the incarnation of the Son. We follow the main
tributaries of Dorner's arguments in System of Christian Faith,
beginning with an analysis of his doctrine of God, via his
development of the doctrines of creation, humanity, and the
incarnation of the God-man. An assessment is given of those
doctrines which pertain to the way in which God brings salvation
through Jesus Christ: sin, Jesus, and atonement. Norgate concludes
by comparing Dorner's achievements with those found in more recent
theologies of atonement. "T&T Clark Studies in Systematic
Theology" is a series of monographs in the field of Christian
doctrine, with a particular focus on constructive engagement with
major topics through historical analysis or contemporary
restatement.
What if modern reason empowers us only at the cost of impoverishing
thought? What if an ancient practice of philosophy could be
rediscovered as a way of living? In a rural retreat in northern
England, nine philosophers held regular meetings to discuss the
nature of philosophy as a way of life. Posing a formidable
challenge to the dominance of objective reasoning, they sought to
build together a conception and practice of reasoning that is
deeply engaged with the meaning of life, with dialogue, and with
self-transformation. Here, as spokesman for this group, Philip
Goodchild offers his readers insight into these symposium.
Eschewing convention, these essays offer profound meditations on
the meaning of life, reason, inwardness, virtue, love, and God.
Echoing Plato, Kierkegaard, and Weil, this bold yet imperfect
struggle for authenticity performs philosophy as a spiritual
exercise, effects a new critique of pure reason, and changes what
it means to think today. Like Socrates himself, this book offers a
challenge to all.
This volume presents Theodore Abu Qurrah's apologetic Christian
theology in dialogue with Islam. It explores the question of
whether, in his attempt to convey orthodoxy in Arabic to the Muslim
reader, Abu Qurrah diverged from creedal, doctrinal Christian
theology and compromised its core content. A comprehensive study of
the theology of Abu Qurrah and its relation to Islamic and
pre-Islamic orthodox Melkite thought has not yet been pursued in
modern scholarship. Awad addresses this gap in scholarship by
offering a thorough analytic hermeneutics of Abu Qurrah's
apologetic thought, with specific attention to his theological
thought on the Trinity and Christology. This study takes
scholarship beyond attempts at editing and translating Abu Qurrah's
texts and offers scholars, students, and lay readers in the fields
of Arabic Christianity, Byzantine theology, Christian-Muslim
dialogues, and historical theology an unprecedented scientific
study of Abu Qurrah's theological mind.
The first part of the book is grounded in biblical issues and in
historical and philosophical theology. It seeks to establish
several schemes of death theology related, for example, to early
Christianity's Jewish cultural milieu, to belief in Christ's
resurrection and to Christology, to issues of millennial belief and
to an emergent liturgical practice. The rise of notions of the soul
in relation to medieval thought and practice and the place of death
in Reformation theology are both covered, as is the role of the
nineteenth century and twentieth century. Finally the rise of
biblical theology is considered, especially in the twentieth
century. The second part of the book takes up several contemporary
models of the theology of death. The first pursues a traditional
acceptance of an other-worldly afterlife, the second explores
worldly analysis of eternal life as a quality of contemporary
existence devoid of any future state. The third develops the
worldly model and considers a wider sense of self as a part of an
ecological view of the world as a divine creation and explores the
meaning of birth, life and death amidst a divine environment. "The
Theology of Death" aims to offer some sharply defined schemes to
focus thought in a Christian environment in which death, hell and
heaven have almost lost their place. The topic of hope is a key
element and the book explores the birth and fostering of hope
within Christian traditions.
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