Domesticated Jesus

Author : Harry Lee Kraus
Publisher : P & R Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781596381858
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domesticated Jesus written by Harry Lee Kraus and published by P & R Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's incredible, but the modern church has largely suceeded in domesticating Jesus . We have swapped a God-glorifying gospel for a lesser gospel where I is the central character. Harry's honest, fresh, and involving journey of self-discovery helps you understand how his, and your, compromises have led to a down-grading of Jesus role in our lives. --from publisher description

Author : Harry L. Kraus.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781596386068
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Author : Gale Heide
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606085379
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domesticated Glory written by Gale Heide and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domesticated Glory critically examines the marriage between Evangelicalism and American politics. The study begins by engaging popular political pundits who wish to transform Christianity into an arm of the state. It then moves to examine some of the theological foundations proposed as support for the church's propping up of American political ideology. Finally, the study provides a more robust politics of the church by outlining how the church might act as a politics in itself. Thus, the church may gain a political voice as church in such a way as to make the world know it stands in need of redemption. This is a far cry from the liberal attempt of the Social Gospel and many modern evangelicals to transform the world into a pseudo-church by cultural or social control. Unlike attempts to engage culture on its own terms in the political arena or to escape politics by avoiding any public testimony to the Gospel, this study lays out a way for the church to act as church in the public square, witnessing to a Gospel concerned primarily about the universe's King and His future Kingdom.

Author : Andrew Christopher Uttaro
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666799505
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Catch Feelings for Jesus written by Andrew Christopher Uttaro and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus Christ is a character not unlike Elvis to many of us born into places that have historically been bathed in Christianity. Sure, maybe he's a decent guy, but I don't want to put on the shiny blazers. The whole idea of a relationship with Jesus may be quite off-putting on the face of it for those of us not keen on throwing our hands up in the air in praise concerts or kneeling and reciting centuries-old creeds on a weekly day off. The way to a relationship with Jesus that often gets lost in all the preaching is that it's caught, not taught. As someone who began his relationship with Jesus with a simple "I'll give this Jesus thing a try," Uttaro still struggles with the awkwardness of it all. Sometimes the only way we can get past all the deafening noise of the faith as it exists in our culture is to give ourselves the opportunity to catch feelings instead of endure being taught the same tired anachronisms that orbit that name Jesus. In How to Catch Feelings for Jesus, we will go about a personal step-by-step journey to such a relationship with Jesus.

Author : Tim Boniface
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1978701276
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus, Transcendence, and Generosity written by Tim Boniface and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary scholars aiming to articulate a ‘middle way’ between fundamentalism and liberalism regularly draw upon HansFrei and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, yet they are rarely brought together on this question, if at all. Here, Tim Boniface highlights the promise of reading them together, proposing especially that a discussion of Jesus’ transcendence derived from their responses to modernity is an effective locus for considering their combined contribution to a ‘middle way’ discussion. Having outlined a rationale for a theology of Christological transcendence, this work describes in detail how both Frei and Bonhoeffer point towards a nuanced approach to the transcendence of Jesus—especially in terms of the importance of articulating that transcendence at the level of the ‘unsubstitutable historical particularity’ of Christ in the cultural-linguistic setting of the Christian community (Frei) and the impact of a theologia crucis and a participatory cosmic Christology on such thinking (Bonhoeffer). Offering a unique summary of the key ways in which the two theologians’ works mutually critique and strengthen one another, Boniface then articulates a pneumatological emphasis lacking in both Frei and Bonhoeffer, stressing the supreme generosity of God at the heart of what it means to say that Jesus transcends.

Author : Nigel Pimlott
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334053110
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embracing the Passion written by Nigel Pimlott and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Convention suggests it is best not to talk about faith and politics: this book talks about both! It argues that Jesus was a political figure who championed the rights of the marginalised, the oppressed and voiceless. In this challenging and accessible book, Nigel Pimlott argues young people are often marginalised, oppressed and rarely heard in a world favouring the rich and powerful. Young people are opinionated, passionate about what they think is right and wrong, and are concerned about the world they live in. Yet research indicates young people are disengaged from mainstream political processes where they can express their views - young adults have stopped voting in elections in unprecedented numbers. This is something of a paradox. Nigel contends that by more effectively equipping Christian youth workers and ministers to do politicking, they will be able to better equip and disciple young people to be more politically engaged in their own contexts. This unique research-based book provides a concise overview of how youth workers might best help young people flourish and realise the common good. It engages those interested in politics – and more importantly – encourages those not interested to get interested and make a difference in the world!

Author : J.T. English
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1535993537
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Discipleship written by J.T. English and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone is being discipled. The question is: what is discipling us? The majority of Christians today are being discipled by popular media, flashy events, and folk theology because churches have neglected their responsibility to make disciples. But the church is not a secondary platform in the mission of God; it is the primary platform God uses to grow people into the image of Jesus. Therefore, as church leaders, it is our primary responsibility to establish environments and relationships where people can be trained, grow, and be sent as disciples. There are three indispensable elements of discipleship: Learning to participate in the biblical story (the Bible) Growing in our confession of who God is and who we are (theology) Regularly participating in private and corporate intentional action (spiritual disciplines) Deep Discipleship equips churches to reclaim the responsibility of discipling people at any point on their journey.

Author : David J. Neville
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620324806
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vehement Jesus written by David J. Neville and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vehement Jesus composes a fresh examination and interpretation of several perplexing passages in the Gospels that, at face value, challenge the conviction that the mission and message of Jesus were peaceful. Using narrative analysis and various forms of intratextual critique in the service of a hermeneutic of shalom, the author makes the case that Gospel portrayals of the vehement Jesus are compatible with, perhaps even indispensable to, the composite canonical portrait of Jesus as the Messiah of Peace. As a result, this exploration in New Testament theology and ethics makes an invaluable contribution to the crucial conversation about the role of Jesus’ life and teaching in Christian reflection on the morality of violence today.

Author : Bryan Hurlbutt
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620329158
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tasty Jesus written by Bryan Hurlbutt and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tasty Jesus deals with key cultural, philosophical, and theological representations of Christ that find expression in the North American church. Each of these respective cameos of Christ has colored the Christological understanding of many believers in the local assembly. We live in a society deeply embedded in a mindless individualism that is more concerned with a malleable Christ that suits their present taste than the Jesus of both the Bible and historic Christian orthodoxy. This book is at once a critique, a call, and a consideration. It is a critique of particular visions of Jesus that are embraced by specific subcultures, philosophical camps, and theological perspectives. It is a call to the local church, both its attendees and leadership, intended to awaken them to the problems with these various portraits in hope of stirring them to respond appropriately. It is a consideration of the primary ideological counterpoints to each view of Jesus, and a postulation of the best manner in which to equip believers in the local assembly to respond to each distortion of Jesus and live under the lordship of the real Christ. It is time to get Jesus out from under the tyranny of our personal tastes!"

Author : Matthew J. Ramage
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813229081
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus, Interpreted written by Matthew J. Ramage and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel volume to his Dark Passages of the Bible (CUA Press, 2013), author Matthew Ramage turns his attention from the Old to the New Testament, now tackling truth claims bearing directly on the heart of the Christian faith cast into doubt by contemporary New Testament scholarship: Did God become man in Jesus, or did the first Christians make Jesus into God? Was Jesus' resurrection a historical event, or rather a myth fabricated by the early Church? Will Jesus indeed return to earth on the last day, or was this merely the naïve expectation of ancient believers that reasonable people today ought to abandon?