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The Lord's Supper has been the central and characteristic action of
the church at worship. But there are still many ways of
understanding it and many questions surrounding this meal... Who
should participate in the Lord's Supper? How frequently should we
observe it? What does this meal mean? What happens when we eat the
bread and drink from the cup? What do Christians disagree about and
what do they hold in common? These and other questions are explored
in this volume of the fair-minded, informative Counterpoints
series. Contributors make a case for one of the following views:
Baptist view (memorialism) Reformed view (spiritual presence)
Lutheran view (consubstantiation) Roman Catholic view
(transubstantiation) All contributors use Scripture to present
their views, and each responds to the others' essays. Included are
resources for understanding the topic further, such as: A listing
of statements on the Lord's Supper from creeds and confessions
Quotations from noted Christians A resource listing of books on the
Lord's Supper Discussion questions for each chapter to facilitate
small group and classroom use The Counterpoints series presents a
comparison and critique of scholarly views on topics important to
Christians that are both fair-minded and respectful of the biblical
text. Each volume is a one-stop reference that allows readers to
evaluate the different positions on a specific issue and form their
own, educated opinion.
Gain an understanding of baptism from four main traditional
perspectives. Of all the sacraments, the practice of baptism is
often the most disputed. Christians hold different views of its
exact significance, who should receive baptism and how old they
need to be, the practice of rebaptism, and baptism as a requirement
for church membership. In Understanding Four Views on Baptism, four
historic views on baptism are considered in depth: Baptist view:
baptism of the professing regenerate by immersion (presented by
Thomas J. Nettles) Reformed view: infant baptism of children of the
covenant (presented by Richard Pratt Jr.) Lutheran view: infant
baptism by sprinkling as a regenerative act (presented by Robert
Kolb) Church of Christ view: believers' baptism on the occasion of
regeneration by immersion (presented by John Castelein) Each view
is presented by its proponent, then critiqued and defended in
dialogue with the book's other contributors. Here is an ideal
setting in which you can consider the strengths and weaknesses of
each stance and arrive at your own informed conclusion. The
Counterpoints series presents a comparison and critique of
scholarly views on topics important to Christians that are both
fair-minded and respectful of the biblical text. Each volume is a
one-stop reference that allows readers to evaluate the different
positions on a specific issue and form their own, educated opinion.
Description: The current popularity of contemplative prayer is not
accidental. A twenty-first-century understanding of the human
condition has made us suspicious of words and the understanding we
craft out of words. Theology generally offers us words that purport
to give us a more precise and certain understanding of God, but the
mystic has always known that our relationship to God transcends
words and the kind of understanding that words produce. The
theology of the mystic has always been about understanding our
communion with the mystery that is God in order to fall evermore
deeply in love with the Divine. That is the ultimate purpose of
contemplative prayer, and the purpose of this book is to offer a
philosophy and theology of contemplative prayer in the twenty-first
century. Endorsements: ""Again, James Danaher shows us that the use
of the mind and the search for God are not in competition, but in
fact enrich and feed one another at very deep levels. How much we
need this kind of integration in our culture--where so much
religious talk seems divisive and compromised. Contemplative Prayer
is not just about divine prayer but about the very quality of human
faith and love."" -Richard Rohr, OFM author of Everything Belongs
and The Naked Now ""There is often a wide gulf in academia between
the mind and the spirit. Many Christian academics start in the
spirit but lose something of their spirituality in the development
of their mind. Jim Danaher successfully bridges that gulf in this
book on contemplative prayer. Jim's insights into this marvelous
discipline nourish both the mind and the spirit, bringing them
together in Holy Communion with the Trinity."" -Ron Walborn Dean,
Alliance Theological Seminary About the Contributor(s): James P.
Danaher is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy
Department at Nyack College, Nyack, New York. He is the author of
Jesus after Modernity: A Twenty-First-Century Critique of Our
Modern Concept of Truth and the Truth of the Gospel (2011), Eyes
That See, Ears ThatHear: Perceiving Jesus in a Postmodern Context
(2006), Postmodern Christianity and the Reconstruction of the
Christian Mind (2001), and over sixty articles that have appeared
in a variety of philosophy and theology journals.
Open theists like to picture the God of classical Christian theism
as a distant, despotic, micromanaging sovereign. The god of Open
theism, on the other hand, is ready to enter into new experiences
and to become deeply involved in helping us cope as we, with him,
face things we simply did not know would happen. They insist that
God has knowledge, but not all knowledge, certainly not knowledge
of the future acts of free beings. Such Open theistic inferences
reveal a deep-seated devotion to Enlightenment categories and
narrow, unpoetic imaginations. Ideas have destinations, and one of
the consequences of our trying to read the Scriptures without any
poetry in our souls will be the eventual destruction of any
possibility of ministering to souls. Just imagine the hymn writer
trying to lift up the downcast - "I know not what the future holds,
but I know Who doesn't know much about it either."
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