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Christians can be adept at drawing lines, determining what it means
to be "a good Christian" and judging those who stray out of bounds.
Other times they erase all the lines in favor of a vague and
inoffensive faith. Both impulses can come from positive intentions,
but either can lead to stunted spiritual life and harmful
relationships. Is there another option? The late missionary
anthropologist Paul Hiebert famously drew on mathematical theory to
deploy the concepts of "bounded," "fuzzy," and "centered" sets to
shed light on the nature of Christian community. Now, with
Centered-Set Church, Mark D. Baker provides a unique manual for
understanding and applying Hiebert's vision. Drawing on his
extensive experience in church, mission, parachurch, and higher
education settings, along with interviews and stories gleaned from
scores of firsthand interviews, Baker delivers practical guidance
for any group that seeks to be truly centered on Jesus. Baker shows
how Scripture presents an alternative to either obsessing over
boundaries or simply erasing them. Centered churches are able to
affirm their beliefs and live out their values without such bitter
fruit as gracelessness, shame, and self-righteousness on the one
hand, or aimless "whateverism" on the other. While addressing
possible concerns and barriers to the centered approach, Baker
invites leaders to imagine centered alternatives in such practical
areas of ministry as discipleship, church membership, leadership
requirements, and evangelism. Centered-Set Church charts new paths
to grow in authentic freedom and dynamic movement toward the true
center: Jesus himself.
Many a Westerner has had a cross-cultural experience of honor and
shame. First there are those stuttering moments in the new social
landscape. Then after missed cues and social bruises comes the
revelation that this culture-indeed much of the world-runs on an
honor-shame operating system. When Western individualism and its
introspective conscience fails to engage cultural gears, how can we
shift and navigate this alternate code? And might we even learn to
see and speak the gospel differently if we did? In Ministering in
Honor-Shame Cultures Jayson Georges and Mark Baker help us decode
the cultural script of honor and shame. What's more, they assist us
in reading the Bible anew through the lens of honor and shame,
often with startling turns. And they offer thoughtful and practical
guidance in ministry within honor-shame contexts. Apt stories,
illuminating insights and ministry-tested wisdom complete this
well-rounded guide to Christian ministry in honor-shame cultures.
For the first-century Roman world the cross was first and foremost
an instrument of shameful and violent execution. But early
Christians, who had seen their world upended by the atoning power
of the cross of Christ, came to view it in an entirely different
light. Deeply scandalous, it was paradoxically glorious. For the
cross of Christ marked the epochal saving event in God's dealings
with Israel and the world. And its meaning could not be fathomed or
encircled by a single image or formulation. Since its publication
in 2000, Recovering the Scandal of the Cross has initiated among
evangelicals a new conversation about the nature of the atonement
and how it should be expressed in the varied and global contexts of
today. In this second edition Green and Baker have clarified and
enlarged their argument in a way that will continue to provoke
thought and conversation on this critical topic.
Because many modern Christians can offer a reasonable explanation
of the meaning of Jesus' death on the cross, they find it hard to
understand the confusion displayed by the disciples after the
events in the last pages of the Gospels. But if Paul were alive
today, he would find it inexplicable that we modern believers are
not scandalized by the cross.
"Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross "introduces pastors, church
leaders, students, and lay readers to the need for contextualized
atonement theology, offering creative examples of how the cross can
be proclaimed today in culturally relevant and transformative ways.
It makes helpful suggestions on how this vision for a culturally
relevant message might be developed. The impressive list of
contributors includes writings from C. S. Lewis, Rowan Williams,
Frederica Mathewes-Green, Brian McLaren, and many more who are
actively working out just how to make this life-transforming
proclamation.
Sodium channels confer excitability on neurons in nociceptive
pathways and exhibit neuronal tissue specific and injury regulated
expression. This volume provides recent insights into the control
of expression, functioning and membrane trafficking of nervous
system sodium channels and reviews why sodium channel sub-types are
potentially important drug targets in the treatment of pain. The
roles of sodium channels in dental and visceral pain are also
addressed. The emerging role of sodium channel Nav1.3 in
neuropathic states is another important theme.
Authors from the pharmaceutical industry discuss pharmacological
approaches to the drug targeting of sodium channels, and in
particular Nav1.8, exclusively expressed in nociceptive neurons.
The final chapter highlights the functional diversity of sodium
channels in part provided by post-transcriptional processing and
the insights into sodium channel function that are being provided
by tissue specific and inducible gene knock-out technology.
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