Dismissing Jesus

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What is the way of the cross? Why does it create resistance? How do we answer objections to it? The revival of interest in Christ's kingdom and radical discipleship has produced a wave of discussions, but sometimes those discussions are scattered. This book aims to pull together in one place the core claims of the way of the cross. It aims to examine the deeply cherished assumptions that hinder us from hearing Jesus's call. When we do that, we'll see that the gospel of Christ is not primarily about getting into heaven or about living a comfortable, individually pious, middle-class life. It is about being free from the ancient, pervasive, and delightful oppression of Mammon in order to create a very different community, the church, an alternative city-kingdom here and now on earth by means of living and celebrating the way of the cross--the reign of joyful weakness, renunciation, self-denial, sharing, foolishness, community, and love overcoming evil.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Douglas M. Jones
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release : 2013-05-07
File : 301 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781620325353


Nietzsche S Ecce Homo

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Friedrich Nietzsche’s intellectual autobiography Ecce Homo has always been a controversial book. Nietzsche prepared it for publication just before he became incurably insane in early 1889, but it was held back until after his death, and finally appeared only in 1908. For much of the first century of its reception, Ecce Homo met with a sceptical response and was viewed as merely a testament to its author’s incipient madness. This was hardly surprising, since he is deliberately outrageous with the ‘megalomaniacal’ self-advertisement of his chapter titles, and brazenly claims ‘I am not a man, I am dynamite’ as he attempts to explode one preconception after another in the Western philosophical tradition. In recent decades there has been increased interest in the work, especially in the English-speaking world, but the present volume is the first collection of essays in any language devoted to the work. Most of the essays are selected from the proceedings of an international conference held in London to mark the centenary of the first publication of Ecce Homo in 2008. They are supplemented by a number of specially commissioned essays. Contributors include established and emerging Nietzsche scholars from the UK and USA, Germany and France, Portugal, Sweden and the Netherlands.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Nicholas Martin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release : 2020-12-16
File : 457 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783110246551


Contemplations On The Historical Passages Of The Old And New Testaments

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Genre : Bible
Author : Joseph Hall (successively Bishop of Exeter and of Norwich.)
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Release : 1872
File : 648 Pages
ISBN-13 : NLS:V000588860


Christianity And The Culture Machine

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Christianity and the Culture Machine is a precedent-shattering approach to combining theories of media and culture with theology. In this intensive examination of Christianity's role in the cultural marketplace, the author argues that Christianity's inability to effectively contest the ideology of secular humanism is not a theological shortcoming, but rather a communications problem: the institutional church is too wedded to an outmoded aesthetic of Christianity to communicate effectively. Privileging authority and obedience over the egalitarian and transformative goal of Christianity, the church fails to recognize how it undermines the vitality of the Christian narrative and message. In the absence of a more compelling vision offered by the official church, a new aesthetic can be found forming within the margins of popular culture texts. Despite its past failures in representing the Bible in mainstream film and television, the culture industry now offers more compelling versions of core Christian theology without even realizing it--within the margins of the main storylines. This book analyzes the aesthetic principles employed by these appropriations and articulations of Christian discourse as a means of theorizing what a new aesthetic of Christianity might look like.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Vincent F. Rocchio
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release : 2016-08-05
File : 283 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781498209809


Bad Faith

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Jesus was murdered by the Jewish religious leaders whose power base was the temple of Jerusalem. Saul of Tarsus—later the Paul of Christianity—was one of these, and his brand of faith theology mirrored their theology of covenantal entitlement. Thus, Christianity’s basic theological principles derive from those who killed Jesus. This is just one of many challenging propositions backed with strong evidence that appear in this book. Jesus, like most Jews, was attuned to faithfulness rather than pure faith, to ethical behavior based on human empathy rather than metaphysical beliefs and rituals. The central focus of Jesus was hesed, the heart of the Jewish covenant with God which linked God’s mercy to human compassion and forgiveness, making both mutually interactive. This hesed forgiveness was anathema to the temple’s faux forgiveness and threatened its very existence. Therefore, Jesus came not to save us, but to show us how to save ourselves. Reinterpreting a key parable of Jesus in this light, the Parable of the Tares, Jesus can be most plausibly understood as an incarnation of Adam, the original prototype human who God, in Genesis, appointed to oversee his creation and guide our spiritual evolution. His mission was not about any sacrificial death, but about establishing the spiritual humanism of Judaic hesed as the central purpose of human existence.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Tom Drake-Brockman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release : 2019-01-18
File : 185 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781532673498


 Select Notes On The International Sunday School Lessons

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Genre : International Sunday School Lessons
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Release : 1887
File : 356 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015069246042


John Vaughan And His Friends Or More Echoes From The Welsh Hills

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Genre : Wales
Author : David Davies
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Release : 1897
File : 360 Pages
ISBN-13 : OXFORD:590287239


A Study Of Jesus Own Religion

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Genre : Christian sociology
Author : George Walter Fiske
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Release : 1932
File : 392 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015009050348


Justice In Love

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Genre : Family & Relationships
Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release : 2015-05-15
File : 303 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780802872944


The Truth About Jesus Of Nazareth As Derived From A Study Of The Gospel Narratives

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Genre : Christianity
Author : Philip Sidney
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Release : 1904
File : 234 Pages
ISBN-13 : COLUMBIA:CU53289021