God Neighbor Empire

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334055644
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God, Neighbour, Empire written by Walter Brueggemann and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book renowned scholar Walter Brueggemann brings us a characteristically penetrating and provocative account of the ways in which the Old Testament is offered as an alternative to the imperial narrative that can dominate ordinary imagination.

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481305426
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God, Neighbor, Empire written by Walter Brueggemann and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature and mission of God, irreducibly, inscrutably relational -- Justice, from Zion back to Sinai -- Grace, the inexplicable reach beyond -- Law, the summons to keep listening

Author : RAHEB
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608334333
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith in the Face of Empire written by RAHEB and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Palestinian Christian theologian shows how the reality of empire shapes the context of the biblical story, and the ongoing experience of Middle East conflict.

Author : Charles Halton
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1646982215
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Human-Shaped God written by Charles Halton and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Human-Shaped God approaches the humanlike accounts of God in the Old Testament as the starting places for theology and uses them to build a picture of the divine. This understanding of God is then brought into conversation with traditional conceptions that depict God as a being who knows everything that happens, is at every place at the same time, is constant and unchanging, and does not ultimately have material form. But instead of pitting the Old Testament's humanlike view of God against traditional theology and assuming that only one of these understandings is correct, A Human-Shaped God posits that theologians should embrace both of these constructions simultaneously. This is a new way of theological inquiry that embraces both the humanlike characteristics of God and the transcendence of God in traditional theology. By seeing and understanding the humanlike depictions of God in the Old Testament and by using the rich language of traditional theology together in tandem, the reader acquires a much deeper and meaningful understanding of God.

Author : Munther Isaac
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830832203
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Side of the Wall written by Munther Isaac and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians have lived in Palestine since the earliest days of the Jesus movement. The Palestinian church predates Islam. Yet Palestinian Christians find themselves marginalized and ostracized. In the heated tensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the voices of Palestinian Christians are often unheard and ignored. This book provides an opportunity to hear the realities of life on the ground from a leading Palestinian pastor and theologian. Munther Isaac gives the perspective of Palestinian Christians on the other side of the separation wall surrounding most Palestinian West Bank cities today. Isaac laments the injustices suffered by the Palestinian people but holds out hope for a just peace and ways to befriend and love his Jewish and Muslim neighbors. In contrast to the dominant religious and nationalistic ideologies and agendas for the region, he offers a theology of the land and a vision for a shared land that belongs to God, where there are no second-class citizens of any kind. "This book is my invitation to you," Isaac writes, "to step into the other side of the wall and listen to our stories and perspective. It is my humble request to you to allow me to share how Palestinians experience God, read the Bible, and have been touched and liberated by Jesus—a fellow Bethlehemite who has challenged us to see others as neighbors and love them as ourselves. . . . This book paints a picture of our story of faith, lament, and hope. And I invite you to join and listen, on our side of the wall."

Author : C. Wess Daniels
Publisher : Barclay Press
ISBN 13 : 9781594980633
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resisting Empire: The Book of Revelation as Resistance written by C. Wess Daniels and published by Barclay Press. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revelation speaks to the reality that we are caught in the fray of cosmic conflict. We are guilty. We've already been contaminated. But it's not too late for us to exit empire and enter the kingdom. We are yet both victim and victimizer. We have healing work to do, and we must take responsibility for the ways in which we have benefited from and been complicit with the religion of empire. This is the truth of Revelation. God wants to liberate us in body, heart, soul, and mind.Revelation reveals how scapegoating functions within empire to define its own boundaries and contours as being over and against wicked others.Revelation critiques wealth and shows that even in the first century there was prophetic critique against an economic system that was based on abundance for some, while exploiting the rest.Revelation demonstrates the importance of liturgy as something that forms people into the likeness of either empire or the lamb.Revelation reveals an alternative social order which becomes the center of resistance rooted in a vision of what the book describes as "the multitude."

Author : Kevin Miller
Publisher : Millstone Press
ISBN 13 : 1979198640
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hellrazed? written by Kevin Miller and published by Millstone Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 2012, the feature-length documentary Hellbound? was released in theaters across North America. Joining a growing chorus of voices that were questioning the traditional view of hell as a place of eternal conscious torment, the film asked a handful of “burning” questions. Does hell exist? If so, who goes there, and why? More importantly, what do our views about hell say about us and our understanding of God? And how do our beliefs about these issues affect the kind of world we create, the kind of people we become? Five years later, the debate over hell is far from settled, but the landscape in which such questions are being asked has changed radically. Hence, filmmaker Kevin Miller decided it was time to go back to some of the people who appear in Hellbound? and others he met along the way to get their input on how the debate has shifted and how it’s remained the same. The result is a plethora of voices offering all sorts of perspectives, some highly academic, some polemic, some intensely personal, and all bound to impact how readers think and feel about this issue.

Author : Graham McFarlane
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493422367
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Model for Evangelical Theology written by Graham McFarlane and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a skilled theologian with over two decades of classroom experience, this introduction to evangelical theology explains how connecting to five sources of Christian theology--Scripture, tradition, reason, experience, and community--leads to a richer and deeper understanding of the faith. Graham McFarlane calls this the "evangelical quintilateral," which he recommends as a helpful rubric for teaching theology. This integrative model introduces students to the sources, themes, tasks, and goals of evangelical theology, making the book ideal for introductory theology courses.

Author : Mark Read
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666715832
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surfanthood written by Mark Read and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surfanthood explores a simple analogy expanding the experiences of early ministry. The analogy goes like this: The waves are God’s activity in the world. The surfer is us. The board is our activity/ministry/service. At best our activities, and boards, join with God’s activity, the waves, to create something joyful, wondrous, and exciting. We submit to the wave and experience something beautiful. At worst we can wrestle and struggle, becoming increasingly tired, frustrated, and pained by what is happening until eventually the inevitable occurs; we get really hurt or we get out. A new possibility centers on five postures that servants adopt: They are non-professional, non-commercial, non-prescriptive, non-evangelical, and non-authoritative. Each chapter begins with a reality of surfing that finds a parallel in ministry. This reality gives a lens to explore an episode within Luke’s Gospel which, as a complete Gospel, explores the question “How do I mature in service?” and then reflects on where we see the postures of surfanthood.

Author : Susan J. Dunlap
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1506471552
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shelter Theology written by Susan J. Dunlap and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shelter Theology offers insight into the worlds of the invisible: individuals experiencing homelessness and those living in extreme poverty. Based on over ten years of chaplaincy in a homeless shelter, Dunlap shares the nuanced theology of people in harsh circumstances and outlines how their beliefs and practices enable survival and resistance.