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'In a world where justice is too often about power, Isabelle Hamley
shows that God's justice brings transformation, healing and hope
for all.' JUSTIN WELBY What is justice? It's a question we
encounter everywhere in life and that over the last years has
increasingly demanded an answer. In Embracing Justice, Isabelle
Hamley invites us on an exhilarating journey through Scripture to
discover how we, as churches, communities and individual
Christians, can seek and practice justice even when enmeshed in
such a fractured world. Full of practical encouragement, the
Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book for 2022 brilliantly weaves
together biblical texts, diverse voices, contemporary stories, and
personal and group meditations to reveal liberating and imaginative
ways in which me may grow in discipleship - and more fully reflect
the justice, mercy and compassion of Christ in our lives. With six
chapters to take you from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, this Lent
devotional for 2022 is essential reading for anyone interested in
the issues of justice - from climate and economic justice to gender
and racial equality - that are increasingly at the forefront of
global consciousness, and the role that Christians and the Church
must play in them. Suitable for use both as a single study for
individuals and for small groups to prepare for Easter, Embracing
Justice will encourage, inform and motivate anyone looking for
Christian books about justice. It will help you understand justice
from a biblical perspective, and inspire you to seek it in every
aspect of your life. Although the world is broken, unequal and
violent, the call to reflect God's own justice and mercy continues
to sound like a steady drumbeat, impossible to ignore. Company with
Isabelle Hamley this Lent, and discover that we can all join God's
mission of transformation and embrace his justice.
'Remarkably beautiful and pastoral' JUSTIN WELBY, ARCHBISHOP OF
CANTERBURY 'Brimming with wisdom and humanity' DAME SARAH MULLALLY,
DBE, BISHOP OF LONDON Struggling with God gets right to the heart
of a great predicament for many Christians. When it feels as if our
struggles are overwhelming - and our capacity for faith and hope
and love is diminished - how is it possible to maintain, never mind
nourish, our relationship with God? The truth, as this deeply
compassionate volume reminds us, is that Jesus came alongside
people wrestling with mental health problems. Many familiar
conditions, such as anxiety and depression, and more severe ones,
including bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia, are
addressed by the authors here. Dispelling common myths and
misconceptions, they explore the impact such mental health
disorders can have on individual Christians, Church and society..
Each chapter includes biblical reflections relevant to its theme,
prayers, questions to facilitate individual/group study, and
pointers to further reading. In short, the book presents a
Christian vision of spiritual and mental wellbeing through
prayerful struggling with God.
Judges is one of the most misunderstood and underused books in the
Old Testament - it is a text people outside of the higher echelons
of Old Testament academia are afraid of. Too often it is dismissed
as too violent, outrageous, or simply too puzzling for practical
use - or full of tales which are only of any use as children's
stories or as simple moralising tales for adults. Focusing on core
theological themes across the book, this commentary is predicated
on the idea that far from being too awkward to touch, Judges in
fact holds up a mirror to today's world, with its stories of abuses
of power, war and violence, and the human tendency towards
individualism. Overall, the commentary argues that in Judges we are
given the story of a people who keep getting life and faith
increasingly wrong, and the story of God's response to their cry
for justice and mercy. Bridging the gap between accessibility and
scholarly rigour, this commentary offers an excellent tool for
ordinands, students, teachers in higher education and preachers to
engage with the theology of the book in its Old Testament context
as well as how its message is revealed in the New Testament and
continues to speak today.
Is it possible to develop such a thing as a biblical theology of
mental health? How might we develop a helpful and pastoral use of
scripture to explore questions of mental health within a Christian
framework? This timely and important book integrates the highest
levels of biblical scholarship with theological and pastoral
concerns to consider how we use scripture when dealing with mental
health issues. Chapters include: *Paula Gooder on Healing and
wholeness *Joanna Collicutt on Jesus and mental health *Isabelle
Hamley on Job *David Firth on Anxiety in Scripture *John Swinton on
The Bible in Pastoral Care *Walter Brueggemann on Psalms and lament
With a foreword from Archbishop Justin Welby
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