Fabricating Faith

Author : Richard Hagenston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1598151460

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Fabricating Faith by Richard Hagenston Pdf

According to Hagenston, Jesus had such a hard edge when it came to Gentiles that he coined his own unflattering term for them-dogs. He limited what he was offering strictly to Jews. Yet the religion that began in his name quickly transformed into a predominantly Gentile movement centered on human sacrifice, a practice rejected by Judaism long before Jesus came on the scene. How did this happen? Hagenston exposes the roots of brutal justice underpinning traditional Christianity, but finds hope in a Jewish movement toward grace that preceded and influenced the historical Jesus.

Author : Daniel Strange
Publisher : The Good Book Company
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781784986513

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Making Faith Magnetic by Daniel Strange Pdf

How to talk about Jesus in a way that connects with modern culture. As followers of Jesus, we know that the good news is deeply attractive. But we often fear that to those on the outside, it comes across as irrelevant or even repellent. Sometimes the Christian worldview feels so out of step with everything else going on that we don't know how to share our faith. However, author Daniel Strange wants to show you that the connections are there—in fact, the longings that our culture cannot help but express are the very ones that Jesus fulfils. Building on the work of theologian J.H. Bavinck, Dan reveals five recurring themes that our culture can’t stop talking about, or, as he puts it, the "five permanent ‘itches’ that in our work, rest, and play, we have to vigorously scratch." From TV to books to social media, these are the questions we can't stop asking and the tensions we can't stop wrestling with—and Jesus speaks powerfully into each one. This book will help you to spot these connections in our culture, excite you about how Jesus makes sense of humankind’s deepest questions and longings, apply them to your own life first and then equip you to speak of him to others in a way that is truly magnetic. "Dan Strange has written another terrific, down-to-earth book to help believers engage in fruitful conversations with friends about faith." Dr. Timothy Keller, who has also written the foreword to this book.

Author : Robert L. Kinast
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814625134

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Making Faith-sense by Robert L. Kinast Pdf

Making faith-sense is a new term for an ancient practice. It is what the early Christians called mystical or wisdom theology: understanding life in the light of God's participation recorded in the Gospels, recognizing the signs of God's presence in everyday events and shaping one's life accordingly. In Making Faith-Sense, Robert Kinast shows all who seek to unify their life experience around their belief in God how to follow that ancient practice. Drawing upon the award-winning process he has used with students for the ministry, Father Kinast explains how to make sense of family, work, and cultural experience from the perspective of Christian faith. Each chapter contains numerous real-life examples and practical guidelines that can be used privately or with a group.

Author : Russell T. McCutcheon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110559507

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Fabricating Religion by Russell T. McCutcheon Pdf

The revised essays collected here, four of which are published for the first time, continue a longstanding argument made by McCutcheon and others: that the study of religion would benefit from self-conscious scrutiny of its tools, the interests that may drive them, and the effects that might follow their use. The chapters examine a variety of contemporary sites in the modern field where this thesis can be argued, whether involving the anachronistic use of of the category religion when studying the ancient world to current interest in so-called critical religion or critical realist approaches. Moreover – contrary to some past characterizations of such critiques – a constructive way forward for the field is once again recommended and, at several sites, exemplified in detail: redescribing not only religion as something ordinary but also our tendency to create the impression of exceptional and thus set-apart things, places, and people. Aimed at scholars and students alike, the book is an invitation to examine our own scholarly practices and thereby take a more active role in shaping the field in which we carry out our work as scholars of this thing we call religion.

Author : Dr. Anne Richards
Publisher : Canterbury Press Norwich
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Experience (Religion)
ISBN : 0851693474

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Sense Making Faith by Dr. Anne Richards Pdf

Author : Jesse Duplantis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 1606839861

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For by It...Faith by Jesse Duplantis Pdf

On the title page and cover, the letters "it" in the word "faith" are printed in a different color than the letters "fa--h," making them stand out so that the title also reads "For by it"

Author : Teresa Vining
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830823263

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Making Your Faith Your Own by Teresa Vining Pdf

Teresa Turner Vining has compiled many of the questions believers struggle with along with the answers she found. The result is an interactive guidebook designed to help you decide for sure what you truly believe.

Author : Makoto Fujimura
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300255935

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Art and Faith by Makoto Fujimura Pdf

From a world-renowned painter, an exploration of creativity’s quintessential—and often overlooked—role in the spiritual life “Makoto Fujimura’s art and writings have been a true inspiration to me. In this luminous book, he addresses the question of art and faith and their reconciliation with a quiet and moving eloquence.”—Martin Scorsese “[An] elegant treatise . . . Fujimura’s sensitive, evocative theology will appeal to believers interested in the role religion can play in the creation of art.”—Publishers Weekly Conceived over thirty years of painting and creating in his studio, this book is Makoto Fujimura’s broad and deep exploration of creativity and the spiritual aspects of “making.” What he does in the studio is theological work as much as it is aesthetic work. In between pouring precious, pulverized minerals onto handmade paper to create the prismatic, refractive surfaces of his art, he comes into the quiet space in the studio, in a discipline of awareness, waiting, prayer, and praise. Ranging from the Bible to T. S. Eliot, and from Mark Rothko to Japanese Kintsugi technique, he shows how unless we are making something, we cannot know the depth of God’s being and God’s grace permeating our lives. This poignant and beautiful book offers the perspective of, in Christian Wiman’s words, “an accidental theologian,” one who comes to spiritual questions always through the prism of art.

Author : Amy Viets
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Christian education
ISBN : 0879463031

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Making Faith Fun by Amy Viets Pdf

We all know that we need to find or make time for family spiritual development. But ?knowing? and ?doing? are two completely different things. In Making Faith Fun, Amy Viets points out that perhaps trying to carve out a block of time for family spirituality is a mistake. Instead we can weave our faith into the mesh of our lives, creating a living faith as we go about our daily activities. After all, God is everywhere. Making Faith Fun is divided into chapters that reflect the everyday routines of our families. In chapters such as ?On the Road? and ?At the Store? you?ll recognize the same challenges and opportunities we all face, and you?ll find simple, practical suggestions for turning busy moments into a living faith. In the car, for example, the author offers such ideas as singing along to popular Christian music, or using the countless billboards passed along the road to spark discussion on important issues to help instill positive values in children.

Author : Robert E. Webber
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801091605

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Ancient-Future Evangelism by Robert E. Webber Pdf

Feel like the church is a mile wide but only an inch deep? Robert Webber offers the remedy by translating evangelism wisdom from the past into the future.

Author : Michael Todd
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780593239216

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Crazy Faith by Michael Todd Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Relationship Goals . . . Will you be remembered as a person who claimed to follow God but liked to play it safe? Or as a person who lived your life out on the limb and trusted God enough to live in crazy faith? Noah looked crazy when he started building the ark . . . until it started raining. It was crazy for Moses to lead a nation of people into the desert away from Egypt . . . until the Red Sea parted. It was crazy to believe that a fourteen-year-old virgin would give birth to the Son of God . . . until Mary held Jesus in her arms. There are many things that seem normal or average today that at one point in time seemed absolutely crazy. Smartphones, Wi-Fi, and even the electric light bulb were all groundbreaking, history-making inventions that started out as crazy ideas. Our see-it-to-believe-it generation tends to have a hard time exercising true faith—one that steps out, takes action, and sees mountain-moving results. Many of us would rather play it safe and stand on the sidelines, but it’s crazy faith that helps us see God move and reveals His promises. In Crazy Faith, Pastor Michael Todd shows us how to step out in faith and dive into the purposeful life of trusting God for the impossible. Even if you have to start with baby faith or maybe faith, you can become empowered to let go of your lazy faith, trust God through your hazy faith, and learn to live a lifestyle of crazy faith. With powerful stories of modern-day faith warriors who take their cues from biblical heroes, Michael Todd equips you to • believe for the impossible • choose hope over fear • be alert to the voice of God • cope with loss and doubt • develop a deeper level of trust in God • speak faith-filled declarations • inspire crazy faith in others God’s not looking for somebody to give Him all the reasons why His plans can’t happen. He’s looking for somebody to believe they will happen. In fact, He has so much He wants to do through you. The question is, Are you crazy enough to believe it?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Thomas More Association
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 088347428X

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100 Prayers for Making Faith Connections by Anonim Pdf

Relationships are the thread that makes up the fabric of our spiritual lives. Prayer is the bond that links all of the relationships together. How do we relate to God, Jesus, creation, and others? 100 Prayers for Making Faith Connections delves into these life-changing relationships and helps deepen them. The engaging combination of prayer and reflection helps us to slow down the fast pace of life.

Author : Steve Donaldson
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718844479

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Dimensions of Faith by Steve Donaldson Pdf

In Dimensions of Faith, cognitive scientist Steve Donaldson takes readers on a journey from the world of assumptions, set minds, widely varying beliefs, and popular misconceptions to an understanding of the true essence and role of faith as the natural and inevitable product of brains. Using numerous illustrations and examples, Donaldson shows how faith is necessitated by a variety of unavoidable limitations, exposes the myth of a divide between faith and critical thinking, provides practical advice for crafting coherent beliefs, and explains why there can never be such a place as Factland. Along the way he takes a special look at religious faith - evaluating its attributes, exploring its relation to other manifestations of faith, investigating whether God has done his job well enough to warrant the faith placed in him, and pondering how truth seekers can sometimes end up in very different places.

Author : Sean Anthony
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520340411

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Muhammad and the Empires of Faith by Sean Anthony Pdf

"This work offers a fresh assessment of the sources for the prophet Muhammad's life, integrating the earliest non-Muslim and documentary sources with the earliest prophetic biographies written in Arabic during the eighth-ninth centuries C.E. By placing these sources within the intellectual and cultural world of Late Antiquity, the author carves out a methodological approach to studying the historical Muhammad that, though reliant on the methods of critical historical scholarship, strikes a balance between revisionist historical skepticism and naïve historical realism"--

Author : Ryan Shook,Josh Shook
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781601427229

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Firsthand by Ryan Shook,Josh Shook Pdf

Stop copying someone else's religion. Start living out a faith that's all your own. A “firsthand” faith is never what somebody tells you it should be, even if that person is a parent, friend, or pastor. “Firsthand” means you went after it for yourself and now it’s all yours. That kind of faith is changes everything, but most people only find it by facing tough questions. Like: • If God is real, why does he feel far away? • Can I ever get past the dos and don’ts of church? • Why should I even try to follow God when I fail so often? • How do I experience a relationship with Christ that’s more than surface level? • Is it possible to have authentic faith when I have so many doubts? • How can I connect with others who take firsthand faith seriously? In these pages, Ryan and Josh Shook talk candidly about growing up in church only to realize that “how things are supposed to be” had stopped working for them. They set out to find what makes a young person’s faith stick—or not. Each chapter is designed to spark a discussion, and comes complete with personal inventories, Bible teaching, small-group discussion questions, and links to original video. Now includes bonus “Looking Back from Here” Q&A with the authors