God Jesus And Other Foolishness

Author : Jeffrey A. Kramer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666741086
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God, Jesus, and Other Foolishness written by Jeffrey A. Kramer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our post-Christian society many skeptics, atheists, and agnostics assume that the Christian faith involves belief in spite of a lack of evidence and that Christianity encourages its adherents to be satisfied with not understanding the world. This is untrue. Christianity has a legacy of thought and logic, and a convincing case can be made that modern science and Western culture could only have sprung from the Judeo-Christian worldview. Although questions of origins, purpose, and meaning are not easily proved true in a “scientific” or empirical sense, things can be true without empirical proof. It does not follow that religion is untrue or that religious belief is for the credulous and the gullible. Many of the presuppositions underlying any worldview cannot be proven empirically, and acceptance of many of the truth claims of atheism and postmodernism requires just as much faith as acceptance of the fundamentals of Christianity. This book is an attempt to demonstrate that biblical Christianity is true, in the sense that it is a logical interpretation of reality and our lived experience, and that the implications of Christian faith make more rational sense than a rejection of that faith.

Author : Elizabeth-Anne Stewart
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9781580510615
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus the Holy Fool written by Elizabeth-Anne Stewart and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly written, Jesus the Holy Fool combines diverse images from religious traditions, world literature, Jungian archetype, and Scripture. Weaving the best theology and spirituality, Jesus the Holy Fool is a fresh and inviting Christology. The Scriptures tell us that religious leaders thought Jesus was "possessed," and his own family thought he was "crazy." In his open table fellowship, choice of followers, radical passion, and his death and resurrection, Jesus was willing to appear as a fool for the sake of God's reign. His teachings--especially the parables, paradoxes, and the beatitudes--advocate a way of life that is grounded in Holy Foolishness. Through an archetypal examination of the fool motif as it applies to Jesus in the Gospels, Jesus the Holy Fool develops the connections between holiness and folly. Offering new insights into Christology and exploring its practical pastoral ramifications, Jesus the Holy Fool presents Holy Foolishness as a paradigm for the Christian journey and as a new model of what it means for us to be church.

Author : Victor J. Stenger
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616145994
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God and the Folly of Faith written by Victor J. Stenger and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at both historical and contemporary contexts, the author argues that religion has played a major role in suppressing scientific pursuit.

Author : Christian Smith
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441241515
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bible Made Impossible written by Christian Smith and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblicism, an approach to the Bible common among some American evangelicals, emphasizes together the Bible's exclusive authority, infallibility, clarity, self-sufficiency, internal consistency, self-evident meaning, and universal applicability. Acclaimed sociologist Christian Smith argues that this approach is misguided and unable to live up to its own claims. If evangelical biblicism worked as its proponents say it should, there would not be the vast variety of interpretive differences that biblicists themselves reach when they actually read and interpret the Bible. Far from challenging the inspiration and authority of Scripture, Smith critiques a particular rendering of it, encouraging evangelicals to seek a more responsible, coherent, and defensible approach to biblical authority. This important book has generated lively discussion and debate. The paperback edition adds a new chapter responding to the conversation that the cloth edition has sparked.

Author : John Austin Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foolishness of God written by John Austin Baker and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marie Dennis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781626981089
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St. Francis and the Foolishness of God written by Marie Dennis and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For everyone who has been touched by the story of St. Francis, this book will deepen that understanding and provide a new perspective on his enduring legacy. Retelling his story, along with social and theological reflections for today, the authors--both Catholic and Protestant--present a new picture of the ever-popular saint. Francis' way speaks loudly to those who long to do something about inequality and poverty, about consumerism and spiritual emptiness. For this revised edition, the authors have taken special inspiration from the example and witness of Pope Francis, who has demonstrated the enduring challenge of St. Francis--especially in responding to poverty, the cause of peace, interreligious dialogue, and the urgent challenge of ecology. (Back cover).

Author : Nik Ripken
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433673088
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Insanity of God written by Nik Ripken and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amazing story of a missionary couple's journey into the toughest places on earth is combined with stories about remarkable people of faith they encountered to challenge and inspire those curious about the sufficiency of God.

Author : J. Brandon Meeks
Publisher : North American Anglican Press
ISBN 13 : 9780578712406
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foolishness of God written by J. Brandon Meeks and published by North American Anglican Press. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of what it means to "preach the Word" in the context of Anglican ministry.

Author : Siegbert W. Becker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foolishness of God written by Siegbert W. Becker and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David H. Wenkel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331948270X
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus' Crucifixion Beatings and the Book of Proverbs written by David H. Wenkel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study takes a Christian perspective on the entire Bible, rather than simply the New Testament. David Wenkel asks: Why did Jesus have to be beaten before his death on the cross? Christian theology has largely focused on Jesus’ death but has given relatively little attention to his sufferings. Wenkel’s answer contextualizes Jesus’ crucifixion sufferings as informed by the language of Proverbs. He explains that Jesus’ sufferings demonstrate the wisdom of God’s plan to provide a substitute for foolish sinners. Jesus was beaten as a fool – even though he was no fool, in order to fulfill God’s loving plan of salvation. This analysis is then placed within the larger storyline of the whole bible – from the Garden of Eden to the story of Israel and beyond.