Persuade Us To Rejoice

Author : Robert McAfee Brown
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664253813
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persuade Us to Rejoice written by Robert McAfee Brown and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studying such literary figures as Frederick Buechner, Albert Camus, George Dennison, Ursula Le Guin, C. S. Lewis, Alan Paton, Ignazio Silone, Alice Walker, Elie Wiesel, and Charles Williams, Robert McAfee Brown illustrates "the liberating power of fiction" by enabling the reader to enter their worlds. Brown asserts that although there is no faith that offers ironclad guarantees against future struggles, the wisdom of these authors can help us toward praising and rejoicing.

Author : Fred B. Craddock
Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 9780827232822
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections on My Call to Preach written by Fred B. Craddock and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel with revered preacher and author Fred Craddock through his early years as he considers what made him take to the pulpit. ?For some reason, I felt I had to say ?Yes? or ?No? to the ministry so I could feel free again. My siblings and friends talked almost casually about options and preferences as to careers, but with no evident sense of urgency. Not so with me. I did not then nor do I now know whether the burden of choice was a trait of personality, a kind of super-conscientiousness, whether the calling to ministry itself carried a weight, a burden, peculiar to the task itself. Rightly or wrongly, when I thought of possibly becoming a journalist, that would be a choice, 100 percent mine. When I considered becoming a minister, that was not totally my decision; I was responding to God?s will for me. Of course, I had been told that journalists, lawyers, teachers, merchants, farmers?all could understand their lives as a vocation, a calling, but what I am telling you is that I perceived, I felt, I experienced the idea of being a preacher as different, and that difference was sobering, even burdensome. That?s why advice about not being in a hurry, taking my time, was not helpful even if wise. If it was my decision, why could I not make it now; if it was God?s decision, why did not God tell me, or at least tell my father or my mother? I prayed for the ache to leave me.? ?Excerpt from Reflections on My Call to Preach

Author : Ellen F. Davis
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664228590
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wondrous Depth written by Ellen F. Davis and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davis demonstrates that the activities of biblical interpretation and preaching are essentially related as arts and, in fact, as the arts most fundamental to the life of the church.

Author : Michael O'Neill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521883067
Total Pages : 1117 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of English Poetry written by Michael O'Neill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 1117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.

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Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
ISBN 13 : 0889977429
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Workbook for Lectors, Gospel Readers, and Proclaimers of the Word ® 2016 Canada written by and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eleazar S. Fernandez
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610974263
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burning Center, Porous Borders written by Eleazar S. Fernandez and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burning Center, Porous Borders articulates what the church is and is called to be about in the world, a world now globalized to the point that the local is lived globally and the global is lived locally. The church must respond creatively and prophetically to the challenges-economic disparity, war and terrorism, diaspora, ecological threat, health crisis, religious diversity, and so on-posed by our highly globalized world. It can do so only if the church's spiritual center burns mightily. Conversely, it can burn mightily in the spirit of Christ only if its borders are porous and allows the fresh air/spirit of change to blow in and out. While there is much rhetoric about change, the most common response to change is to continue doing business as usual. This is particularly the case in the face of perceived global threats. In spite of the hoopla and euphoria of the global village, walls of division and exclusion are rising, hearts are constricting, and moral imagination shrinking. In response to this context, Burning Center, Porous Borders proposes alternative ways or images of being a church: burning center and porous borders, wall-buster and bridge-builder, translocal (glocal), mending-healer, radical hospitality, community of the earth-spirit, household of life abundant, dialogians of life, and community of hope. In Burning Center, Porous Borders congregational vitality and progressive praxis kiss and embrace!

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199251131
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry, Poets, Readers written by Peter Robinson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through detailed considerations of poetry by Shakespeare, Keats, Edward Lear, Yeats, Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, and Paul Muldoon, along with sustained meditations on question-forms in poems, the role of fact in fictions, the nature of literary value, speech acts and performative utterances issued by poets, the book sets out a fresh model for relationships between poetry, poets, and readers - one which allows the historical fact of poems having made things happen to be itself happening."--Jacket.

Author : David Bromwich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191081965
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Words Make Things Happen written by David Bromwich and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended. How Words Make Things Happen suggests that the conventional idea of persuasive rhetoric (which assumes a speaker's control of calculated effects) and the modern idea of literary autonomy (which assumes that 'poetry makes nothing happen') together have produced a misleading account of the relations between words and human action. Words do make things happen. But they cannot be counted on to produce the result they intend. This volume studies examples from a range of speakers and writers and offers close readings of their words. Chapter 1 considers the theory of speech-acts propounded by J.L. Austin. 'Speakers Who Convince Themselves' is the subject of chapter 2, which interprets two soliloquies by Shakespeare's characters and two by Milton's Satan. The oratory of Burke and Lincoln come in for extended treatment in chapter 3, while chapter 4 looks at the rival tendencies of moral suasion and aestheticism in the poetry of Yeats and Auden. The final chapter, a cause of controversy when first published in the London Review of Books, supports a policy of unrestricted free speech against contemporary proposals of censorship. Since we cannot know what our own words are going to do, we have no standing to justify the banishment of one set of words in favour of another.

Author : Michael Cannon Loehrer
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490877835
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James: a Reader's Companion written by Michael Cannon Loehrer and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James the Just held a position of prominence in Jerusalem during the early days of the Christian era. The impact of his life guided critical decisions made in first-century churches, while the influence of his words continues to shape modern Christianity. This readers companion to Holy Scripture offers to bring to life the New Testament Epistle of James.

Author : William Radice
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788180280085
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry and Community written by William Radice and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On author's own works.