Reading The Bible With The Damned

Author : Bob Ekblad
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664235291
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Bible with the Damned written by Bob Ekblad and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2005-09-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the challenges that both the churched and the unchurched have faced regarding giving and receiving the word of God, Bob Ekblad encourages us all to learn to read the Bible together as a whole. In this compelling book, he reflects on how Christians have often found it difficult to proclaim God's good news to every realm of society, while those who have needed it most have frequently deemed themselves unworthy due to social circumstances or sinfulness. In Reading the Bible with the Damned, Ekblad offers concrete advice on how to bridge this gap through a variety of insights ultimately leading to spiritual transformation. This book is full of examples of how Scripture changes lives for those who attend Bible studies and for those who lead them, offering practical suggestions on many passages from the Old and New Testaments.

Author : Steve Ebling
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781508880523
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Bible - Best God Damned Version - Genesis written by Steve Ebling and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-03-14 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genesis. Every God damned chapter. Because you know it's nonsense, but were never sure why.

Author : Bob Ekblad
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 0664236626
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Christian Manifesto: Pledging Allegiance to the Kingdom of God written by Bob Ekblad and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amy Cottrill
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1646982185
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncovering Violence written by Amy Cottrill and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is no surprise that the Bible is filled with stories of violence, having come into being through the crucible of trauma, cultural conflict, and warfare. But the more obvious acts of physical or sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible often overshadow its subtler forms throughout Scripture and belie the variety of perspectives on violence embedded in biblical narratives. This hinders readers' ability to recognize the full spectrum of human engagement with violence, both in texts and in their lived experiences. Uncovering Violence: Reading Biblical Narratives as an Ethical Project seeks to provide a theoretical vocabulary for the various forms that violence can take—including textual violence, interpretive violence, moral injury, and slow violence—and to offer a fresh ethical reading of violence in the biblical text. Focusing on four narratives from the Hebrew Bible, Cottrill uses the approach of narrative ethics to lay out the many ways that stories can make moral claims on readers, not by delivering a discrete "lesson" or takeaway but by making transformative contact with readers and involving them in a more embodied dialogue with the text. Exploring the narratives of Jael’s killing of Sisera, the toxic masculinity of Samson, environmental devastation and failures of legal systems in Ruth, and Abigail’s mediation with King David, Uncovering Violence presents strategies for reading that allow for this close encounter. In doing so, it helps prepare readers to better recognize, interpret, and even respond to violence and its many effects within and beyond the text.

Author : Crystal L. Hall
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506402798
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insights from Reading the Bible with the Poor written by Crystal L. Hall and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insights from Reading the Bible with the Poor provides a spirited introduction to methodologies and strategies for reading the Bible "from below"--from the back of what used to be church sanctuaries, from basements, from sidewalks. Drawing on the lineage of various methods of reading the Bible with the poor, the book invites poverty and biblical study into dialogue with real-world organizing to seek justice for those most often treated as "Other." The reading process occurs among the intersections of the "hermeneutical triangle" of Reality, the Bible, and Community. This book is for anyone curious about how to use the Bible as a resource for liberation. It is for faith leaders and community organizers, as much as it is for biblical scholars, because it draws on experiences at the intersections of academia, the Church and communities of organized struggle. It is written with an eye toward praxis, as the author shares from her own experience with the hope that space will be created for others to reflect on their own contexts.

Author : Esa J. Autero
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004323201
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Bible across Contexts written by Esa J. Autero and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reading the Bible Across Contexts Esa Autero offers a fresh perspective on Luke’s poverty texts. This is done through a critical dialogue between an historical reading and empirical readings by two Latin American Bible reading groups.

Author : Ruth H. Perrin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498293433
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bible Reading of Young Evangelicals written by Ruth H. Perrin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young evangelicals in Britain often find themselves at odds with an increasingly secular society, and yet the tradition persists and in some places flourishes. Sociological studies into the faith of this demographic group are rare, yet there is much to be explored as to how their faith functions and how it compares to other groups globally. Similarly, given the privilege evangelicals afford the biblical text, how young believers engage with the ancient Scriptures they understand to be "the word of God" is particularly significant. This work addresses that core question. How do young evangelicals make sense of the Bible today? Based on qualitative data gathered from three diverse evangelical churches it compares the reading priorities, ordinary hermeneutics, and theological concerns of young adults. Presenting age-related focus groups with challenging biblical narratives, the study compares strategies for negotiating the texts based on age, gender, and churchmanship. It provides a unique insight into the realities of Bible reading and the faith of "Generation Y" and gives food for thought not only to those with scholarly interests, but also those with a pastoral concern to shape and sustain the Christian faith of young adults in Britain and beyond.

Author : Wm. Paul Young
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501101412
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lies We Believe About God written by Wm. Paul Young and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the bestselling novel The Shack and the New York Times bestsellers Cross Roads and Eve comes a compelling, conversational exploration of twenty-eight assumptions about God—assumptions that just might be keeping us from experiencing His unconditional, all-encompassing love. In his wildly popular novels, Wm. Paul Young portrayed the Triune God in ways that challenged our thinking—sometimes upending long-held beliefs, but always centered in the eternal, all-encompassing nature of God’s love. Now, in Wm. Paul Young’s first nonfiction book, he invites us to revisit our assumptions about God—this time using the Bible, theological discussion, and personal anecdotes. Paul encourages us to think through beliefs we’ve presumed to be true and consider whether some might actually be false. Expounding on the compassion fans felt from the “Papa” portrayed in The Shack—now a major film starring Sam Worthington and Octavia Spencer—Paul encourages you to think anew about important issues including sin, religion, hell, politics, identity, creation, human rights, and helping us discover God’s deep and abiding love.

Author : Shadrock Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736789834
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Word the Israelites and the Damned written by Shadrock Porter and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear reader, there are some things that we need to clarify, judging from the questions being asked by some of you after reading my first two books, "The Truth The Lie And The Bible" and 'The Forgotten Israelites." One of your main concerns deals with whether or not I am a racist, or if the teachings and lessons written in my books are only for black people. The answer is no. I am not a racist, and two; the lessons are not only for black people. We must remember what is said in Matthew 28:19-20 "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations " This knowledge that you are about to obtain in this book, would be about THE WORD, THE ISRAELITES, AND THE DAMNED. This will be the best book you have ever read, your history and religion wrapped in the pages of truth, written in simple language. You ought to find out and read it for yourself. The truth is a dangerous weapon and I challenge anyone to prove it wrong.

Author : Rebekah Eklund
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725272601
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practicing Lament written by Rebekah Eklund and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a faith focused on resurrection hope, patient endurance, and victory in Christ, is there any room for pain, doubt, and anger? In Scripture, lament is the prayer that makes that room. Not only is lament one of the most common forms of prayer in the Old Testament, it's also woven deeply into the fabric of the New Testament and the Christian way. Lament is the cry for all those who ache over the way things are but aren't content to let them stay that way. It's the prayer for all the ways that the kingdom has not yet come, in the hope that God's justice and peace will prevail--someday.