Freedom For Obedience

Author : Jacob Phillips
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509549351

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Obedience is Freedom by Jacob Phillips Pdf

The virtue of obedience is seen as outdated today, if not downright toxic – and yet, are we any freer than our forebears? In this provocative work, Jacob Phillips argues not. Many feel unable to speak freely, their opinions policed by the implicit or explicit threat of coercion. Impending ecological disaster is the ultimate threat to our freedoms and wellbeing, and living in a disenchanted cosmos leaves people enslaved to nihilistic whim. Phillips shows that the antiquated notion of obedience to the moral law contains forgotten dimensions, which can be a source of freedom from these contemporary fetters. These dimensions of obedience – such as loyalty, discipline and order – protect people from falling prey to the subtle forms of coercion, control and domination of twenty-first-century life. Fusing literary insight with philosophical discussion and cultural critique, Phillips demonstrates that in obedience lies the path to true freedom.

Author : Martha Thatcher
Publisher : NavPress Publishing Group
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0891091939

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The Freedom of Obedience by Martha Thatcher Pdf

Author : Donald G. Bloesch
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579109325

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Freedom for Obedience by Donald G. Bloesch Pdf

The Christian ethic...is an ethic that cannot be assimilated into the moral consensus of the wider community.... The way of the cross cannot be reconciled with the way of the world, just as the gospel cannot be conjoined with the laws that gave stability to social order... The thesis of this book is that human justice can never be a substitute for divine justification...but it can be a sign and witness to the justifying grace of God in Jesus Christ. Humanitarian works can never reach the heights of deeds of sacrificial love and mercy, but they can point to this higher righteousness and awaken a thirst for it... We must always be on guard against two perils: the Scylla of legalism and rigorism and Charybdis of antinomianism. An ethics of the divine commandment, by uniting law and grace, the imperative and the indicative, shows how we can live the authentic Christian life in obedience to the highest, which is not a law but a person, not an ideal but the reality of the New Being, the power of crucified love, as we see this in Jesus Christ.Ó - (from Freedom for Obedience)

Author : Daughters of St. Paul Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0819801062

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Obedience by Daughters of St. Paul Staff Pdf

Author : Edmund Fong
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532683046

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Obedience from First to Last by Edmund Fong Pdf

Obedience from First to Last explores the theological significance of the obedience of Jesus Christ in Karl Barth's theology. It does this via a threefold consideration of, first, the nature of Jesus' incarnate obedience; second, the relation of that obedience to the obedience of the second triune person of the eternal Son; and third, the effects Jesus' obedience has on our own obedience. Barth not only affirms the pivotal role Jesus' obedience has within the economy of salvation, but by equating that obedience with that of the eternal Son's, Barth gives Jesus' obedience a pre-eminent place within the immanent being of Godself. The obedience of Jesus Christ is seen to have a co-participatory role in God's determination of his own divine being that arises from the primordial act of divine election. This notion bears on our understanding of freedom and obedience: as divine freedom is expressed in divine obedience, so it is with human freedom and human obedience.

Author : Carthusian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Obedience
ISBN : 0232522782

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The Freedom of Obedience by Carthusian Pdf

Author : G. Philips
Publisher : Christian Focus
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Obedience
ISBN : 0906731909

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Freedom Through Obedience by G. Philips Pdf

Author : William Stringfellow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597529525

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Free in Obedience by William Stringfellow Pdf

An astute, outspoken lay theologian talks to Christians about how they can today find freedom in obedience to Christ's gospel and about the urgent necessity of trying to live this kind of freedom now. He insists that his readers look realistically and relentlessly at their own condition, at the condition of the church -- and that they see how these relate and compare to Christ's gospel. His book, based on certain passages from Hebrews, thus becomes a call to freedom and a call to revolutionary Christianity. William Stringfellow begins by spelling out, in impressive and telling detail, how the church has become mired in secular idolatries and ideologies, both economic and political. Then, in constrast to this situation, he examines Christ's resistance to the temptations of worldly power. Stringfellow ends his book by emphasizing the meaning of the resurrection as the exercise of the freedom of God and sets forth the victory over death and bondage given in Christ. Only in that gift is the Christian free to offer his own life to the world. Only thus is he free in obedience.

Author : Joseph T. Culliton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0882703528

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Obedience by Joseph T. Culliton Pdf

Author : Jeannie Scott Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1941069789

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If You Love Me Obey Me by Jeannie Scott Smith Pdf

Is your life marked by obedience to God and His Word? Can He count on you to respond to His will. The author unleashes how to take a step in faith, overcome fear, and become fully obedient to God. Get ready to journey to your Promised Land! Even the wind and sea obey Him will you?

Author : Fred D'aguiar
Publisher : Random House
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446496343

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The Longest Memory by Fred D'aguiar Pdf

Written in taut, poetic language, THE LONGEST MEMORY is set on a Virginian plantation in the 19th century, and tells the tragic story of a rebellious, fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules: in learning to read and write, in falling in love with a white girl, the daughter of his owner, and, finally, in trying to escape and join her in the free North. For his attempt to flee, he is whipped to death in front of his family, and this brutal event is the pivot around which the story evolves.

Author : Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442662582

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Stealing Obedience by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe Pdf

Narratives of monastic life in Anglo-Saxon England depict individuals as responsible agents in the assumption and performance of religious identities. To modern eyes, however, many of the ‘choices’ they make would actually appear to be compulsory. Stealing Obedience explores how a Christian notion of agent action – where freedom incurs responsibility – was a component of identity in the last hundred years of Anglo-Saxon England, and investigates where agency (in the modern sense) might be sought in these narratives. Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe looks at Benedictine monasticism through the writings of Ælfric, Anselm, Osbern of Canterbury, and Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, as well as liturgy, canon and civil law, chronicle, dialogue, and hagiography, to analyse the practice of obedience in the monastic context. Stealing Obedience brings a highly original approach to the study of Anglo-Saxon narratives of obedience in the adoption of religious identity.

Author : Christopher Jamison
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780297856870

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Finding Sanctuary by Christopher Jamison Pdf

Abbot Christopher Jamison, from BBC2's THE MONASTERY and new show THE SILENCE, suggests ways in which the teachings of St Benedict can be helpful in everyday life. Have you ever wondered why everybody these days seems so busy? In FINDING SANCTUARY, Father Christopher Jamison offers practical wisdom from the monastic tradition on how to build sanctuary into your life. No matter how hard you work, being too busy is not inevitable. Silence and contemplation are not just for monks and nuns, they are natural parts of life. Yet to keep hold of this truth in the rush of modern living you need the support of other people and sensible advice from wise guides. By learning to listen in new ways, people's lives can change and the abbot offers some monastic steps that help this transition to a more spiritual life. In the face of many easy assumptions about the irrelevance of religion today, Father Christopher makes religion accessible for those in search of life's meaning and offers a vision of the world's religions working together as a unique source of hope for the 21st century.

Author : Elisabeth Elliot
Publisher : Regal Books
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 0830734562

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The Liberty of Obedience by Elisabeth Elliot Pdf

When, on the first night of our arrival in the "savage" Aucas village, they gave us houses to live in, food and water and wood and fire, things were not so simple for me. My categories began to crumble. I had thought I knew what a savage was like. I had thought I knew exactly how the Gospel would change him. As weeks passed, I began to realize that not only had I been mistaken about these things, but very likely I was just as mistaken about some other categories which had seemed clear before. How readily I had seen Christian virtues in those I called Christians in my own country, and the "works of the flesh" in those who did not bear the Christian label. What was I now to do with the apparent manifestation of virtue -- peace, longsuffering, kindness -- in those who had never heard of Christ? Things were not as I had thought.

Author : Jason A. Myers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567705846

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Paul, The Apostle of Obedience by Jason A. Myers Pdf

Jason A. Myers reconsiders the meaning and context of the phrase “the obedience of faith” in Rom 1:5 and how it contributes to the theme of obedience in Romans. In contrast to previous studies that have nearly exclusively focused on the obedience language in light of the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple literature, Myers instead investigates how this language functioned within the Greco-Roman world, particularly in the discourse of the Roman Empire. By studying both the Greco-Roman contexts and the use of obedience language during the Empire, Myers sheds fresh light on the meaning of “the obedience of faith,” and concludes that such examination helps contemporary readers understand how Gentiles in Paul's audience would have heard and received the terms and images relating to obedience. In addition, he argues that Paul's use of obedience language, both at the beginning and end of Romans (1:5; 15:18), serves as rhetorical bookends, and signals a theme that is central to Paul's purpose in Romans and integral to his calling as an apostle to the Gentiles.