Disruptive Grace

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 0800697944
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disruptive Grace written by Walter Brueggemann and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Brueggemann has been one of the leading voices in Hebrew Bible interpretation for decades; his landmark works in Old Testament theology have inspired and informed a generation of students, scholars, and preachers. These chapters gather his recent addresses and essays on every part of the Hebrew Bible, many of them never published before, bringing his erudition to bear on those practices—prophecy, lament, prayer, faithful imagination, and a holy economics—that alone may usher in a humane and peaceful future for our cities.

Author : George Hunsinger
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802849403
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disruptive Grace written by George Hunsinger and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the studies of Karl Barth's thought, no other work covers, as this one does, the areas of political, doctrinal, and ecumenical theology in single compass. Written by a leading Barth scholar, Disruptive Grace is unique not only for its range of study, depth of insight, and accuracy of presentation, but also for the way it displays the heart as well as the mind of the great Swiss pastor and theologian. Each of the book's three main sections consists of five major essays. Part 1 relates Barth to contemporary issues of social justice, war, and peace. Part 2 covers christology, pneumatology, the Trinity, scriptural interpretation, and the question of universal salvation. Part 3 discusses the Reformed tradition as Barth understood it in relation to Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, modern liberalism, evangelical conservatism, and the postliberal theology of the contemporary Yale school. The book concludes with a meditation on the saving significance of Christ's death, a theme that runs throughout the book. The result of more than twenty-five years of intensive Barth research, this volume provides scholars, teachers, and students with a thorough discussion of the twentieth century's most significant Christian thinker.

Author : Christiane Alpers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567679861
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Politics of Grace written by Christiane Alpers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christiane Alpers discusses the contribution and role Christian theology plays in developing of the democratic life in post-Christendom societies. She discusses the three major approaches to this debate – public theology, Radical Orthodoxy, and post-liberal Protestantism – in order to illustrate the shared assumption that such an enhancement should be understood in terms of solving existing political problems. The volume builds on and combines public theology's aspiration to craft a non-triumphant political theology, fit for a post-Christendom context, Radical Orthodoxy's hesitancy to embrace secularism as neutral centre for present democracies; as well as post-liberalism's Christocentric outlook. Alpers engages with a wide variety of thinkers, such as John Milbank, Graham Ward, John Howard Yoder, Kathryn Tanner and Edward Schillebeeckx; to suggest that a political theology in the post-Christendom context could build on the faith that Christ alone has redeemed the whole world.

Author : Todd B. Pokrifka
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498271839
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redescribing God written by Todd B. Pokrifka and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the voluminous and ever-growing scholarly literature on Karl Barth, penetrating accounts of his theological method are lacking. In an attempt to fill this lacuna, Todd Pokrifka provides an analysis of Barth's theological method as it appears in his treatment of three divine perfections--unity, constancy, and eternity--in Church Dogmatics, II/1, chapter VI. In order to discern the method by which Barth reaches his doctrinal conclusions, Pokrifka examines the respective roles of Scripture, tradition, and reason--the "threefold cord"--in this portion of the Church Dogmatics. In doing so he finds that for Barth Scripture functions as the authoritative source and basis for theological critique and construction, and tradition and reason are functionally subordinate to Scripture. Yet Barth employs a predominantly indirect way of relating Scripture and theological proposals, a way in which tradition and reason play important "mediatory" roles. Barth's approach to theology involves the humble yet serious attempt to "redescribe God," that is, to say again on a human level what God has already said in the divine self-revelation attested in Scripture. Redescribing God features an original conceptual framework for the analysis of Barth's method and an extensive application of that framework in the context of close readings of portions of the Church Dogmatics. Through this process it draws from, critiques, and complements a wide variety of Barth scholarship on topics such as the role of Scripture and theological exegesis in Barth, the role of tradition in Barth, the meaning and role of "reason" in Barth, and the nature of Barth's doctrine of divine perfections. The book also provides a fruitful basis for those who wish to learn from Barth's distinctive way of constructing the Christian doctrine of God as an attempt to obey God's self-revelation.

Author : Steven Curtis Chapman
Publisher : Zondervan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780310235828
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speechless written by Steven Curtis Chapman and published by Zondervan Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000-08-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Curtis Chapman, one of America's best-known contemporary Christian performing artists, and his pastor, Scotty Smith, call believers to join them in the invigorating adventure of grace-based living. Chapman and Smith reveal how God exposed and dismantled legalism in their lives and replaced it with something far greater and more exciting: God's disruptive grace.

Author : Susannah Ticciati
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567481034
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Job and the Disruption of Identity written by Susannah Ticciati and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction Part I The Problem of Obedience: Barth on Job Chapter 1 Barth's Job as Both Right and Wrong Chapter 2 Obedience as Self-Examination: Barth on the Story of the Rich Man Part II Does Job Fear God for Naught? A Rereading of Job Chapter 3 The Prose Narrative: Transforming Piety Chapter 4 The Poem 4.1. The Dialogue: Testing Integrity 4.2. The Whirlwind Speeches: Encountering Creation Part III God, Job and Justice Chapter 5 Calling God to Account Chapter 6 An Integrity Beyond the Law Part IV The Disruption and Transformation of the Self Chapter 7 The Problem of Obedience Revisited Chapter 8 Epilogue: Self, Society and World Bibliography

Author : Alan Noble
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830881093
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disruptive Witness written by Alan Noble and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 WORLD Magazine Book of the Year - Accessible Theology 2018 ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award ★ Publishers Weekly starred review We live in a distracted, secular age. These two trends define life in Western society today. We are increasingly addicted to habits—and devices—that distract and "buffer" us from substantive reflection and deep engagement with the world. And we live in what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor calls "a secular age"—an age in which all beliefs are equally viable and real transcendence is less and less plausible. Drawing on Taylor's work, Alan Noble describes how these realities shape our thinking and affect our daily lives. Too often Christians have acquiesced to these trends, and the result has been a church that struggles to disrupt the ingrained patterns of people's lives. But the gospel of Jesus is inherently disruptive: like a plow, it breaks up the hardened surface to expose the fertile earth below. In this book Noble lays out individual, ecclesial, and cultural practices that disrupt our society's deep-rooted assumptions and point beyond them to the transcendent grace and beauty of Jesus. Disruptive Witness casts a new vision for the evangelical imagination, calling us away from abstraction and cliché to a more faithful embodiment of the gospel for our day.

Author : Bola Crown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944652906
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Disruptive Power Grace written by Bola Crown and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GRACE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE! You most likely always associate grace with beauty, tenderness and harmony, but in this enthralling memoir grace takes on a whole new, disruptive dimension.Written with the unmistakable conviction of a firsthand witness and beneficiary, The Disruptive Power of Grace chronicles the profound ways in which grace interrupted, reconfigured, and rewrote the narrative of the author's life in her education, health, career and relationships.This book is gripping from the very start. It is an instant read-through that will not only keep you engrossed, but also enlightened, encouraged, empowered and, most importantly, expectant of the disruptive interventions of grace in every area of your life!

Author : Stanley Hauerwas
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592449395
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disrupting Time written by Stanley Hauerwas and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-08-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are told time after time September 11, 2001 has forever changed our lives. Disrupting Time, however, is not about September 11, 2001. Disrupting Time is about the disruption of time by a time named Jesus. Thus my contention that Christians do not believe that September 11, 2001 changed the world because the world was changed in 33 A.D. We, that is, Christians believe we can only know what happened on September 11, 2001 because God acted decisively on behalf of the world in 33 A.D. --From the Introduction

Author : James Wood
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781502382535
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disruptive Grace - God's Grace for the Good Life written by James Wood and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1 John 4:17 says, “As Jesus is so are we in this world.” If you were to stop and ponder what Jesus is like right now, how would you stack up against the results? Jesus is not broke, depressed, sick, or living in any sort of want. When you became a Christian (a believer) you not only took on the faith of the Son of God, but you also became a joint heir and a son. The benefits of salvation go far beyond eternal life spent in Heaven. The benefits of salvation stretch throughout all areas of our lives. So why is it that not all Christians are living in victory?The answer to the question is found within the pages of what you are about to read among many additional answers as well as methods and advice that will allow you to walk in victory like you have never known before. God has a disruptive plan for your life so turn the page and open the door to a future that is better than anything you could have ever made happen on your own!