Theology
epub |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Nicholas Perrin [Perrin, Nicholas]

Healing of the Paralytic In another story, Jesus is teaching in a crowded home when four men, hoping to find healing for their paralyzed friend, discover that they are unable ...
( Category: Christology March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stenmark, Lisa L.

As I argued in the last chapter, authority is paradoxical. It is the necessary foundation for public life and political experiences, providing the stability necessary for the political experiences of ...
( Category: Theology March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sara Maitland

3 Artful theology When I originally gave the lectures on which this book is based, I placed this chapter on ‘culture’ – or ideology, or art – before the one ...
( Category: Theology March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:N. T. Wright

The immediate result is of course the resurrection of Jesus. It would be possible to understand this statement in an utterly trivial and superficial way, simply as a reward for ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-03 | Author:Luke Timothy Johnson

Power and Possessions To a disconcerting extent, contemporary Christian discourse about the kingdom involves issues of sexuality. Language about oppression and liberation, forgiveness of sins, judgment and mercy is much ...
( Category: Christology March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-14 | Author:Peter Rollins

Toward a religionless Christianity The problem that Nietzsche was pointing out was that once the truths of a religion such as Christianity are viewed as referring to certain facts, then ...
( Category: Philosophy March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Brueggemann, Walter

YHWH and the Superpowers The nations, in their dealings with YHWH, are not always presented as having to deal with Israel at the same time. It is thinkable in Israel’s ...
( Category: Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-07 | Author:Anthony C. Thiselton

2 Subjective and utilitarian views of the good: Hobbes, Hume and Bentham In the early modern era, Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) tended to define good merely as what was pleasant, expedient ...
( Category: Philosophy March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jacob Needleman

I immediately closed the book. I almost wept. I sat there trembling, so touched that I was unable to read further. I felt not so much that I had found ...
( Category: Comparative Religion March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Braaten, Carl

6 The Return to Baptism If baptized life is return to baptism, it must be itself sacramental. Rites of the return to baptism grant the Spirit, since this is baptism’s ...
( Category: Theology March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Jonathan Grant [Grant, Jonathan]

Concluding Thoughts: Mapping the Modern Social Imaginary As we have seen, the atomistic worldview powerfully shapes personal identity and relationships. Although belief in God still persists, we are becoming a ...
( Category: Family & Relationships March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-02 | Author:Hent de Vries

ECHOING KLEIN, DONALD WINNICOTT, the British child analyst who greatly contributed to our understanding of the importance of aggression for the development of a love that is not narcissistic but ...
( Category: Theology March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-27 | Author:Ken Stiles [Stiles, Ken]

Chapter four: Spirit baptisms In the present chapter it will be necessary, in keeping with the overall methodology of this thesis, to begin with the narrative of the first Spirit ...
( Category: Theology March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Pickstone

6 Painted Flesh Sex and the Fine Art Tradition Art and sex have always been bedfellows. From the earliest fertility goddesses through to the most luxuriant Victorian oil painting, from ...
( Category: Theology March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Bruce Marchiano

There’s another Jesus story I love that has to do with this same theme. It takes place during a peak in His ministry. He’s just finished feeding the five thousand, ...
( Category: Christology March 22,2020 )