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Speak Thus (Hardcover)
Craig R. Hovey
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In its various forms, speech is integral to Christian mission. The
gospel is a message, news that must be passed on if it is to be
known by others. Nevertheless, the reality of God cannot be
exhausted by Christian knowledge, and Christian knowledge cannot be
exhausted by our words. All the while, the philosophy of modernity
has left Christianity an impoverished inheritance within which to
think these things. In 'Speak Thus', Craig Hovey explores the
possibilities and limits of Christian speaking. At times ethical,
epistemological, and metaphysical, these essays go to the heart of
what it means to be the church today. In practice, the Christian
life often has a linguistic shape that surprisingly implicates and
reveals the commitments of people like those who care for the sick
or those who respond as peacemakers in the face of violence.
Because learning to speak in one way as opposed to another is a
skill that must be learned, Christian speakers are also guides who
bear witness to the importance of churches for passing on a
felicity with Christian ways of speaking. Through engagements with
interlocutors like Ludwig Wittgenstein, George Lindbeck, Jeffrey
Stout, Stanley Hauerwas, John Howard Yoder, Thomas Aquinas, and the
theology of Radical Orthodoxy, Hovey offers a challenging vision of
the church able to speak with confidence that comes from deep
attentiveness to its own limitations, while also able to speak
prophetically in a world weary of words. Craig Hovey offers us a
book of Christian manners. Just as manners are the skills and
practices we require to be at home in social contexts, so Hovey
shows how the gospel equips us to be at home wherever God s mission
takes us, because we are always at home with the Lord. Hovey
maintains Christians have not been told what to say, but have
instead been shown how to speak. In this book he continues his
emergence as a profound and penetrating scrutiniser of what it
means to speak, witness, and confess the Christian faith. This book
is a masterclass in learning to speak simple truth amid a cacophony
of contemporary cleverness. Canon Sam Wells, Dean of Chapel, Duke
University; Research Professor of Christian Ethics Hovey s finely
crafted collection of essays both persuasive and contentious
combines great clarity with nuance. Apparently opposed positions
are shown to share common presuppositions, with Hovey frequently
providing an alternative positive conception or perspective. In an
un-showy but impressive way, Hovey s writing is richly informed by
the tradition and practices to which he is committed. The voice
that emerges is passionate, urgent, and wry. Christopher Insole,
Department of Theology, Durham University CRAIG R. HOVEY (PhD,
Cambridge) teaches religion and ethics at the University of
Redlands and Fuller Theological Seminary Extension in Southern
California.
How can Christians live with a surprising God? How can we know and
trust God without taming God or reducing God to an idol? Is knowing
God the same thing as being open to God? Is God's freedom to act
independently of our knowing him actually how we know him most
genuinely and deeply? In Unexpected Jesus, Craig Hovey explores in
depth the idea that the Christian gospel is a surprising encounter
that calls for people to risk living with a God who shows up in
unexpected ways. The Gospels often portray Jesus Christ as elusive
and difficult to grasp. Hovey helps the reader to "un-expect"
Jesus--to preserve Jesus's reality as a surprise rooted in the
resurrection. As living and free, the joyous presence of Christ in
the world is also unfathomable and uncontainable. Jesus's being
free and surprising--unexpected--strengthens Christians' trust in
God and helps them to live in God's world.
Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD is an adult and child neurologist who has
made "disease" (brain tumor, multiple sclerosis, etc.) vs. "no
disease" (emotional, psychiatric) diagnoses daily and has
discovered and described real diseases. Herein he describes the
difference between psychiatry/psychology, on the one hand, and
neurology and all organic medicine, on the other, and why ADHD and
all of psychiatry's "chemical imbalances" are not diseases at
all--but fraud. Referring to psychiatry, he states: "They made a
list of the most common symptoms of emotional discomfiture of
children and in a stroke that could not be more devoid of science
or Hippocratic motive-termed them" diseases"/ "chemical imbalances"
each needing/requiring a "chemical balancer"- a pill." In 1970,
when "hyperactivity"/"minimal brain damage" (forerunners of ADHD)
was first represented to Congress to be a brain disease, only
150,000 had it. Today, not by science or truth, but the "big lie"
-saying it is a disease often enough, 6 million have it! Nor is
ADHD the only "chemical imbalance." They give us conduct disorder
(CD), oppositional-defiant disorder (ODD), major depressive
disorder (MDD), OCD, PTSD, GAD, SAD, etc., a total of 374
psychiatric disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
(DSM-IV-TR) of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), said to
be "chemical imbalances" needing "chemical balancers" --pills! In
2003 Congressional hearings it was said that 17% of the nation's
school children, 8.8 million, were labeled and drugged by
psychiatry. Today it is 20%; one in five; over 10 million! How
better to sew the seeds of our own destruction? As if this were not
enough, the President's New Freedom Commission onMental Health is
set to foist compulsory, government-mandated, mental health
screening on all 52 million US schoolchildren. When normal people
are lied to, told they have a "disease" to make "patients" of them,
their right to informed consent has been abrogated and they no
longer live in a democracy. When, pursuant to that lie, they are
drugged, what we have is not "treatment" but poisoning. This is the
greatest health care fraud in modern medical history.
An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology gathers some
of the most significant and influential writings in political
theology from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Given that
the locus of Christianity is undeniably shifting to the global
South, this volume uniquely integrates key voices from Africa,
Asia, and Latin America with central texts from Europe and North
America on such major subjects as church and state, gender and
race, and Christendom and postcolonialism. Carefully selected,
thematically arranged, and expertly introduced, these forty-nine
essential readings constitute an ideal primary-source introduction
to contemporary political theology -- a profoundly relevant
resource for globally engaged citizens, students, and scholars.
CONTRIBUTORS: Nicholas Adams Rafael Avila Karl Barth Richard
Bauckham Dietrich Bonhoeffer Walter Brueggemann Ernesto Cardenal J.
Kameron Carter James H. Cone Dorothy Day Musa W. Dube Jean Bethke
Elshtain Eric Gregory Gustavo Guti rrez Stanley Hauerwas George
Hunsinger Ada Mar a Isasi-Diaz Emmanuel M. Katongole Rafiq Khoury
Kosuke Koyama Brian McDonald Johann Baptist Metzv Virgil Michel N
stor O. Miguez John Milbank John Courtney Murray Ched Myers H.
Richard Niebuhr Reinhold Niebuhr Arvind P. Nirmal Oliver O'Donovan
Catherine Pickstock Kwok Pui-lan A. Maria Arul Raja Walter
Rauschenbusch Joerg Rieger Christopher Rowland Rosemary Radford
Ruether Alexander Schmemann Carl Schmitt Peter Manley Scott Jon
Sobrino Dorothee Solle R. S. Sugirtharajah Elsa Tamez Mark Lewis
Taylor Emilie M. Townes Desmond Tutu Bernd Wannenwetsch Graham Ward
George Weigel Delores S. Williams Rowan Williams Walter Wink John
Howard Yoder Kim Yong-Bock
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