Conflict In The Miracle Stories

Author : Evert-Jan Vledder
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850756996

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Conflict in the Miracle Stories by Evert-Jan Vledder Pdf

Matthew's Gospel is a witness to conflicting interests. The leaders of Israel are part of the so-called 'retainer class', who pursue their own interests by promoting the interests of the Roman rulers. Jesus (and the Matthaean community), on the contrary, acts on behalf of the marginalized in society. Jesus challenges the underlying values of the leaders who, contrary to what is expected, do not forgive and act mercifully. The leaders try to resolve the conflict negatively by labelling Jesus as possessed by the devil. At the same time, the conflict spirals onward: the Matthaean community is called to act in the interests of the marginalized. It is Vledder's special contribution to Matthaean study that he brings to light the underlying dynamics of this conflict in a stimulating sociological study.

Author : Nicole Unice
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Conversation
ISBN : 9781496448552

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The Miracle Moment by Nicole Unice Pdf

"There's a moment in every conversation that can change the whole relationship. A moment when you can either move toward the other person or away from them. Choose to break a negative cycle or continue it. Understand and be understood or remain confused and frustrated. It's the "miracle moment." And once you learn how to recognize and respond to it, it holds the power to help transform the relationships you have-at home, in love, and at work-into the ones you really want. In The Miracle Moment, Nicole Unice helps you discover the practical tools to Learn to respect and respond to your emotions without letting them control you Speak words that help-rather than hurt-the likelihood of your getting what you need Identify and keep yourself safe from toxic people Become comfortable setting and holding boundaries Be your best self even when you're tempted to shut up, blow up, or give up Step into the space where miracles happen. Your miracle moments are waiting for you: moments of honesty; moments of healing; moments of renewal and lasting change. (Don't miss the companion Miracle Moment DVD Experience and Miracle Moment Participant's Guide, perfect for small groups or individuals wanting to go deeper!)"--

Author : Graham H. Twelftree
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830815961

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Jesus the Miracle Worker by Graham H. Twelftree Pdf

Graham Twelftree extensively examines the miracles of each Gospel narrative. He weighs their historical reliability and considers the question of miracles and the modern mind.

Author : Nicole Unice
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781496448620

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The Miracle Moment Participant’s Guide by Nicole Unice Pdf

The Miracle Moment Participant’s Guide is a six-session workbook designed for use with the companion DVD experience (sold separately). Based on the new book The Miracle Moment by popular speaker Nicole Unice, this is a great resource for anyone wanting to transform their relationships at home, in love, or at work! Designed for group or individual use, The Miracle Moment Participant's Guide is a six-week journey in discovering the practical tools to Learn to respect and respond to your emotions without letting them control you Speak words that help—rather than hurt—the likelihood of your getting what you need Identify and keep yourself safe from toxic people Become comfortable setting and holding boundaries Be your best self even when you’re tempted to shut up, blow up, or give up (Don’t miss the companion Miracle Moment DVD Experience!)

Author : Michael Labahn,L. J. Lietaert Peerbolte
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567080773

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Wonders Never Cease by Michael Labahn,L. J. Lietaert Peerbolte Pdf

The various contributions intend to demonstrate for what reason miracle stories were told in different religious, political and historical circumstances. All authors are experts in their field and position the narrating of miracle stories within a specific literary and religio-historical context.

Author : Jillian D. Engelhardt
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978712041

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Matthew, Disability, and Stress by Jillian D. Engelhardt Pdf

In Matthew, Disability, and Stress: Examining Impaired Characters in the Context of Empire, Jillian D. Engelhardt examines four Matthean healing narratives, focusing on the impaired characters in the scenes. Her reading is informed by both empire studies and social stress theory, a method that explores how the stress inherent in social location can affect psychosomatic health. By examining the Roman imperial context in which common folk lived and worked, she argues that attention to social and somatic circumstances, which may have accompanied or caused the described disabilities/impairments, destabilizes readings of these stories that suggest the encounter with Jesus was straightforwardly good and the healing was permanent. Instead, Engelhardt proposes various new contexts for and offers more nuanced characterizations of the disabled/impaired people in each discussed scene, resulting in ambiguous interpretations that de-center Jesus and challenge able-bodied assumptions about embodiment, disability, and healing.

Author : Foundation for Inner Peace
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 0670869759

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A Course in Miracles by Foundation for Inner Peace Pdf

"Inner voice" of Helen Schucman, recorded by William Thetford.

Author : Karl Ludwig Schmidt
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227178867

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The Framework of the Story of Jesus by Karl Ludwig Schmidt Pdf

Now available for the first time in English, Karl Ludwig Schmidt's The Framework of the Story of Jesus (Der Rahmen der Geschichte Jesu) has been a foundation of New Testament studies. Through meticulous analysis, Schmidt demonstrates that the Synoptic Gospels are collections of individual stories that circulated orally and independently in the earliest Christian communities. Schmidt shows persuasively how, in their oral forms, most of these traditions existed apart from any sequence or specific temporal or geographic location, and that the chronology and locations now evident in the Gospels were applied by the evangelists while collecting and recording the oral traditions. Across much of the twentieth century and even into the present day, Schmidt's thesis has undergirded Gospel interpretation. Yet as long as The Framework of the Story of Jesus remained untranslated, Schmidt's ideas have been open to neglect and misinterpretation among Anglophone scholars. Discussion of the Synoptic Gospels and broader New Testament study will be enriched by engagement with the evidence and argument as originally presented.

Author : Pradyumna Karan
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813126531

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The Indian Ocean Tsunami by Pradyumna Karan Pdf

On December 26, 2004, a massive tsunami triggered by an underwater earthquake pummeled the coasts of Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and other countries along the Indian Ocean. With casualties as far away as Africa, the aftermath was overwhelming: ships could be spotted miles inland; cars floated in the ocean; legions of the unidentified dead—an estimated 225,000—were buried in mass graves; relief organizations struggled to reach rural areas and provide adequate aid for survivors. Shortly after this disaster, researchers from around the world traveled to the region’s most devastated areas, observing and documenting the tsunami’s impact. The Indian Ocean Tsunami: The Global Response to a Natural Disaster offers the first analysis of the response and recovery effort. Editors Pradyumna P. Karan and S. Subbiah, employing an interdisciplinary approach, have assembled an international team of top geographers, geologists, anthropologists, and political scientists to study the environmental, economic, and political effects of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The volume includes chapters that address the tsunami’s geo-environmental impact on coastal ecosystems and groundwater systems. Other chapters offer sociocultural perspectives on religious power relations in South India and suggest ways to improve government agencies’ response systems for natural disasters. A clear and definitive analysis of the second deadliest natural disaster on record, The Indian Ocean Tsunami will be of interest to environmentalists and political scientists alike, as well as to planners and administrators of disaster-preparedness programs.

Author : Dennis C. Duling
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606080856

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A Marginal Scribe by Dennis C. Duling Pdf

A Marginal Scribe collects eight studies written over a period of two decades, all of which use social-scientific criticism to interpret the Gospel of Matthew. It prefaces them, first, with a new chapter on the struggle between historians and social scientists since the Enlightenment and its parallel in New Testament studies, which culminated in the emergence of social-scientific criticism; and, second, with a new chapter on recent social-scientific interpretation of the Gospel of Matthew. The eight, more specialized studies cover a variety of themes and use a variety of models but concentrate and are held together by those that illumine social ranking and marginality. The book closes with a chapter that ties together these studies.

Author : Natasha Hodgson,Amy Fuller,John McCallum,Nicholas Morton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429836008

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Religion and Conflict in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds by Natasha Hodgson,Amy Fuller,John McCallum,Nicholas Morton Pdf

This volume seeks to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact, and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods. The chapters examine ideas about religion and conflict in the context of text and identity, church and state, civic environments, marriage, the parish, heresy, gender, dialogues, war and finance, and Holy War. The volume covers a wide chronological period, and the contributors investigate relationships between religion and conflict from the seventh to eighteenth centuries ranging from Byzantium to post-conquest Mexico. Religious expressions of conflict at a localised level are explored, including the use of language in legal and clerical contexts to influence social behaviours and the use of religion to legitimise the spiritual value of violence, rationalising the enforcement of social rules. The collection also examines spatial expressions of religious conflict both within urban environments and through travel and pilgrimage. With both written and visual sources being explored, this volume is the ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers of religion and military, political, social, legal, cultural, or intellectual conflict in medieval and early modern worlds.

Author : Adam Z. Wright
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725257245

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Of Conflict and Concealment by Adam Z. Wright Pdf

Scholars have long debated the genre of the Gospels and many opinions have been put forward, such as biography, history, epic, or comedy. However, do the Gospels actually reflect these ancient genres? This book addresses this question and arrives at the conclusion that the Gospel of Mark was written as an ancient form of tragedy. Why would this matter to ancient or modern readers? Tragedy addresses the fundamental question of humanity's suffering and offers a philosophical perspective that orients the reader towards personal and societal growth. The Gospel of Mark fits within the tradition of tragic writings and speaks to the same challenges that all humanity faces: life is full of trouble and suffering, so how are we supposed to think about these things? The answer is to be found in Jesus, who is both divine and human, and who suffers as a result of engaging in conflict with the religious and political traditions of his time.

Author : Edwin K. Broadhead
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850753667

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Teaching with Authority by Edwin K. Broadhead Pdf

"The Gospels of the NT are strategic narratives of proclamation. The primary focus of these narratives is christological. Miracle stories play a central role in this narrative process and in its resulting christological portrait. Strategies of interpretation must be consciously shaped to highlight this narrative strategy and its christological focus. The first three statements now seem self-evident, yet these conclusions were reached relatively late in the history of research. The fourth contention lies at the center of recent methodological debate in Gospel studies. This analysis will re-evaluate the miracle traditions through a methodology designed to highlight the narrative identity and the christological focus of the Gospel of Mark. The primary goal of this analysis is reconsideration of the role played by miracles stories in the characterization of Jesus. As a secondary goal this analysis will address the ongoing question of which methodological approaches best contribute to the aims of NT studies."--

Author : Harold Remus
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Philadelphia Patristic Foundation
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X000746883

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Pagan-Christian Conflict Over Miracle in the Second Century by Harold Remus Pdf

Author : Carl E. Roemer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798385201778

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Invading the Realm of Demons, Disease, and Death by Carl E. Roemer Pdf

This study of the miracles attributed to Jesus in the Gospels begins with a survey of the sciences, because in our present cultural context, materialism is the dominant approach to and understanding of our world, of history, and of our very selves. If the materialist's understanding is true, then there is no such thing as miracles, because every event must occur as the result of some previous material events. Contemporary biblical scholarship mostly approaches the miracle stories from a materialist point of view. It questions their historicity because they violate what has now become the entrenched modus operandi in our culture and society, operating with the idea that the universe is a closed nexus of cause and effect. The miracles are understood, then, as products of the community and not historical reports, although, according to this line of scholarship, they may be based on some vague recollection of Jesus's activity that somehow had healing effects. Modern science, however, as one scientist has put it, in climbing the mountain of knowledge, has reached its peak and found a theologian at the top. The sciences, in other words, have led to the implication that our universe has a creator and that the universe and the human genome have been designed.