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The book of Hebrews has often been the Cinderella of the New
Testament, overlooked and marginalized; and yet it is one of the
most interesting and theologically significant books in the New
Testament. A Cloud of Witness examines the theology of the book in
the light of its ancient historical context. There are chapters
devoted to the structure of Hebrews, the person of Jesus Christ,
Hebrews within the context of Second Temple Judaism and the
Greco-Roman empire and the role of Hebrews in early Christian
thought.
In hope, Christian faith reconfigures the shape of what is familiar
in order to pattern the contours of God's promised future. In this
process, the present is continuously re-shaped by ventures of
hopeful and expectant living. In art, this same poetic interplay
between past, present and future takes specific concrete forms,
furnishing vital resources for sustaining an imaginative ecology of
hope. This volume attends to the contributions that architecture,
drama, literature, music and painting can make, as artists trace
patterns of promise, resisting the finality of modernity's
despairing visions and generating hopeful living in a present
which, although marked by sin and death, is grasped imaginatively
as already pregnant with future.
The central contention of Christian faith is that in the
incarnation the eternal Word or Logos of God himself has taken
flesh, so becoming for us the image of the invisible God. Our
humanity itself is lived out in a constant to-ing and fro-ing
between materiality and immateriality. Imagination, language and
literature each have a vital part to play in brokering this
hypostatic union of matter and meaning within the human creature.
Approaching different aspects of two distinct movements between the
image and the word, in the incarnation and in the dynamics of human
existence itself, Trevor Hart presents a clearer understanding of
each and explores the juxtapositions with the other. Hart concludes
that within the Trinitarian economy of creation and redemption
these two occasions of 'flesh-taking' are inseparable and
indivisible.
The central contention of Christian faith is that in the
incarnation the eternal Word or Logos of God himself has taken
flesh, so becoming for us the image of the invisible God. Our
humanity itself is lived out in a constant to-ing and fro-ing
between materiality and immateriality. Imagination, language and
literature each have a vital part to play in brokering this
hypostatic union of matter and meaning within the human creature.
Approaching different aspects of two distinct movements between the
image and the word, in the incarnation and in the dynamics of human
existence itself, Trevor Hart presents a clearer understanding of
each and explores the juxtapositions with the other. Hart concludes
that within the Trinitarian economy of creation and redemption
these two occasions of 'flesh-taking' are inseparable and
indivisible.
In hope, Christian faith reconfigures the shape of what is familiar
in order to pattern the contours of God's promised future. In this
process, the present is continuously re-shaped by ventures of
hopeful and expectant living. In art, this same poetic interplay
between past, present and future takes specific concrete forms,
furnishing vital resources for sustaining an imaginative ecology of
hope. This volume attends to the contributions that architecture,
drama, literature, music and painting can make, as artists trace
patterns of promise, resisting the finality of modernity's
despairing visions and generating hopeful living in a present
which, although marked by sin and death, is grasped imaginatively
as already pregnant with future.
Change is inevitable in all communities: they both grow and
decline. Planning is a means by which we have sought to manage this
change. It has not always succeeded in providing the types of
settlements and environments which many residents and others want,
either because it is operating with the wrong policies or because
it is failing to ensure that the right policies are effectively
implemented. These failings have opened planning to criticism by a
dominant neoliberal orthodoxy which shapes an increasingly
difficult environment in which planning has to operate. Planning
for Small Town Change builds on an underexploited selection of
international research and the authors' English case studies to
consider the efficacy of planning for change. Drawing on insightful
small town experiences, three themes emerge: understanding and
conceptualising change; appreciating the potential within place;
and the mechanisms for planning and delivery. The research draws on
many examples of how key actors have made a significant difference
to specific places and provides important insights into how the
planning process can be better matched to the long-term and complex
challenges faced. Whilst small town experiences are often
neglected, they are found to be particularly insightful in
understanding the potential roles of local communities and the
importance of place quality when planning for change.
Theology is inherently theatrical, rooted in God's performance on
the world stage and oriented toward faith seeking performative
understanding in the theatre of everyday life. Following Hans Urs
von Balthasar's magisterial, five-volume 'Theo-Drama', a growing
number of theologians and pastors have been engaging more widely
with theatre and drama, producing what has been recognized as a
"theatrical turn" in theology. This volume includes thirteen essays
from theologians and pastors who have contributed in distinct ways
to this theatrical turn and who desire to deepen interdisciplinary
dialogue between theology and theatre. The result is an
unprecedented collection of essays that embodies and advances
theatrical theology for the purpose of enriching theological
reflection and edifying the church.
Change is inevitable in all communities: they both grow and
decline. Planning is a means by which we have sought to manage this
change. It has not always succeeded in providing the types of
settlements and environments which many residents and others want,
either because it is operating with the wrong policies or because
it is failing to ensure that the right policies are effectively
implemented. These failings have opened planning to criticism by a
dominant neoliberal orthodoxy which shapes an increasingly
difficult environment in which planning has to operate. Planning
for Small Town Change builds on an underexploited selection of
international research and the authors' English case studies to
consider the efficacy of planning for change. Drawing on insightful
small town experiences, three themes emerge: understanding and
conceptualising change; appreciating the potential within place;
and the mechanisms for planning and delivery. The research draws on
many examples of how key actors have made a significant difference
to specific places and provides important insights into how the
planning process can be better matched to the long-term and complex
challenges faced. Whilst small town experiences are often
neglected, they are found to be particularly insightful in
understanding the potential roles of local communities and the
importance of place quality when planning for change.
This work examines the theological relationship between creation
and creativity in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. It does so by
bringing together a synthesis of various disciplines and
perspectives to the creativity of J.R.R. Tolkien. Hart and Khovacs
provide a fresh reading of these important themes in Tolkien, and
the result captures the multi-faceted nature of Tolkien's own vivid
theology and literary imagination.
A look at life through the eyes of a cat named Oliver following the
form of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, this little book will charm you as
well as make you think.
The hopes by which the modern West has lived are widely understood
to have failed. At the outset of the third millennium, we see the
ideology of historical progress for what it is -- a myth that can
no longer provide humanity with grounds for true hope. In "Hope
against Hope" Richard Bauckham and Trevor Hart present a way
forward -- through a radical faith in a global future that is in
God's hands. Using the present failure of secular hope as the
context for a renewal of the Christian vision for the future,
Bauckham and Hart seek to re-source Christian hope from its rich
heritage of biblical promises and their interpretation in the
Christian tradition. In a fresh and skillful way they explore the
major images of eschatology -- the Antichrist, the millennium, the
last judgment, the kingdom of God, and others -- proposing the
category of imagination as the key to understanding their
significance today. The authors insist throughout on the cosmic
scope of Christian eschatology, writing of God's future not just
for human individuals but for the whole creation, and they explore
the relevance of such an eschatology for Christian living in the
present. A thoroughly interdisciplinary work that integrates
biblical study, systematic theology, and astute analysis of
contemporary Western culture, "Hope against Hope" is unique in
offering a heartening look at the future from the perspective of
life today.
This work examines the theological relationship between creation
and creativity in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. It does so by
bringing together a synthesis of various disciplines and
perspectives to the creativity of J.R.R. Tolkien. Hart and Khovacs
provide a fresh reading of these important themes in Tolkien, and
the result captures the multi-faceted nature of Tolkien's own vivid
theology and literary imagination.
The second annual St. Andrews Conference on Scripture and Theology
brought leading biblical scholars and systematic theologians
together in conversation, seeking to bridge the growing gap between
these disciplines. Reflecting the convergence of the Old Testaments
cultic theology, Hellenistic ideas, and early Christian thinking,
the epistle to the Hebrews provides a perfect foundation for this
fruitful dialogue. / The contributors examine a number of key
theological themes in the letter to the Hebrews: the person and
nature of the Son, his high-priestly work, cosmology, the epistles
theology of Scripture, supersessionism, the call to faith, and
more. Unlike many modern treatments, this substantial volume
considers Hebrews in both its ancient context and against our
modern backdrop. / Edward Adams, Loveday Alexander, Harold W.
Attridge, Richard Bauckham, Markus Bockmuehl, Daniel Driver,
Douglas Farrow, Trevor Hart, Richard B. Hays, Stephen R. Holmes,
Morna D. Hooker, Edison M. Kalengyo, Mariam J. Kamell, Bruce L.
McCormack, Nathan MacDonald, I. Howard Marshall, R. Walter L.
Moberly, Carl Mosser, Mark D. Nanos, Nehemia Polen, John
Polkinghorne, Ken Schenck, Oskar Skarsaune, Daniel J. Treier, John
Webster, Ben Witherington III, Terry J. Wright.
The consideration of the person of Christ is often disentangled
from his 'work.' But this doctrinal tidying can be misleading
andtheologically dangerous. Christians contend that humans need to
be rescued from an inescapable and uncontrollable plight that
distorts and threatens to destroy their creaturely well-being under
God. But how can a God who became flesh, taking on the form of one
of God's own creatures and dwelling among us humanly, also be the
salvation of humankind? The history of Christian doctrine reveals a
remarkable variety and diversity of answers to this question.First,
the biblical text itself offers a striking kaleidoscope of
metaphors in its attempts to make sense of and develop the gospel
message that salvation is at hand. Second, these images have, in
turn, been taken up, interpreted, and developed within a vast range
of different social and historical contexts, each bringing its
distinctive questions, concerns, and expectations to bear upon the
text.Finally, the christological identification of Jesus as God
incarnate has been permitted varying degrees of purchase on the
ways in which these images are unfolded and their entailments
explored. In Him Was Life: The Person and Work of Christ is
concerned with a series of core questions that arise when
Christology and soteriology are deliberately brought together. How
should we imagine and speak of what the intrinsically negative
image "salvation"finally means in positive terms ifin Jesus God
has, as various theologians over the centuries have dared to
suggest, effected a marvelous exchange in which God has become what
we are so that we in turn might share in God's own life? What does
all this mean for our understanding of who God is, of our own
creaturely nature and capacities, and of God's ways of relating to
us and realizing God's own creative purposes? Andwhat might
Christology itself have to say about the nature, possibilities, and
constraints of theologyitself? Trevor Hart addresses these current
and contemporary questions through a series of incisive engagements
with Christian theologians spanning both centuries and ecclesial
traditions, including Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Athanasius,
Anselm, John Calvin, P. T. Forsyth, Karl Barth, J. A. T. Robinson,
and T. F. Torrance.
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