Ichabod Toward Home

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597524346

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Ichabod Toward Home by Walter Brueggemann Pdf

In today's confused and confusing world, it is good to be shown once more that God is never absent. That is the heartening message of 'Ichabod toward Home'. In this volume one of today's most respected biblical scholars explores the nature of God's glory, using the engaging story of the ark of the covenant to illuminate the meaning of God's presence - not only for the ancient Israelites but for the whole world. Offering a unique entry into Old Testament theology, Walter Brueggemann examines 1 Samuel 4-6, the biblical text in which the ark of God is captured by the Philistines, seen to be a dangerous threat, and finally returned to Israel. In looking anew at what this story reveals about God's glory - or kabod, from which the name Ichabod derives - Brueggemann builds a powerful new theology of God's sovereignty. Additionally, Brueggemann demonstrates that this ancient story of the ark has profound relevance today. The three-day story of the ark's capture, detention, and return is transposed, first, into the three-day Christian story of Easter and, second, into the three days of the modern consumer weekend. In a provocative contemporary application of Old Testament theology, Brueggemann shows that the Ark narrative, in its rendering of God's glory, strongly contradicts the dominant narrative of our own culture, with its strident emphasis on self-indulgence, narcissism, and self-sufficiency.

Author : Robert D. Miller II, OFS
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498284721

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Many Roads Lead Eastward by Robert D. Miller II, OFS Pdf

Is there a gap between the academic study of the Bible and the work of theologians? What lies behind this gap? And most important, how have biblical scholars tried to bridge the gap with hermeneutical methods? This book addresses the exegesis vs. theology impasse and categorizes the most important attempts to bridge it over the past century, especially those of the last decades. These attempts are assessed and evaluated so that readers can see the philosophies undergirding each and the potential each has for a true "theological interpretation" of the Bible.

Author : Keith Bodner
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567442628

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The Artistic Dimension by Keith Bodner Pdf

This volume presents a collection of essays aimed at further integration of literary analysis in the study of the Hebrew Bible. In three sections, Bodner studies a range of texts in order to illustrate that literary analysis has value for exploring numerous issues in the discipline, including text-critical problems, the Deuteronomistic History, and Chronicles. Beginning with a discussion of how literary analysis is a vital, yet neglected, component of textual criticism, Bodner then offers a sustained engagement with one particular section of the Hebrew Bible, the so-called "ark narrative" of 1 Samuel 4-6. Other areas of the Hebrew Bible are subsequently explored, including a sample of the historiographic material in the Deuteronomistic History and a lengthy text from the book of Proverbs. Part four turns to the often neglected books of 1 & 2 Chronicles, illustrating how the Chronicler's work is a congenial site for literary study. The assembled essays petition for a heightened awareness of the artistic achievement of the Hebrew Bible and illustrate that literary thinking is a necessary component for biblical interpretation.

Author : Bin Kang
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781839737770

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Honor and Shame in 1 Samuel 1–7 by Bin Kang Pdf

For many cultures throughout history, honor and shame have been foundational concepts for understanding and evaluating reality. In this study of the first seven chapters of 1 Samuel, Dr. Bin Kang establishes that ancient Israel was such a culture. Utilizing social-scientific criticism and careful linguistic analysis, Kang explores the honor/shame framework as an interpretive lens for reading the Old Testament, specifically the Eli/Samuel and Saul/David episodes, and the rich thematic threads that such a reading brings to light. He demonstrates the narrator’s intentional juxtaposition of honor and shame at the beginning of Samuel’s narrative, and its role in establishing a system of judgement for evaluating Israel’s leaders throughout the rest of 1 and 2 Samuel. Ultimately, it is the choice to render right honor to God – or to claim it for oneself – that determines the rise and fall, election or rejection, of both priests and kings. While making an important contribution to Old Testament scholarship, Kang also includes practical implications for the church in contemporary honor/shame cultures, especially in Asia.

Author : Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467458795

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The Road to Kingship by Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos Pdf

Ancient stories invoking contemporary questions and providing insight for an uncertain future The Road to Kingship is the second volume in the A People and a Land trilogy and presents a chapter-by-chapter interpretation of 1–2 Samuel, based on the author’s translation. Johanna van Wijk-Bos reacquaints readers with familiar stories like David and Goliath while also introducing them to lesser-known biblical personalities like Doeg the Edomite and the wily servant Ziba. She offers guidance along the path taken by the Israelites during the rise of the united monarchy. The books of Samuel unfold before us with multiple voices. One voice endorses a spontaneous charismatic form of leadership, alongside another that argues for hereditary kingship. In listening to the different voices, we will prefer some rather than others; we may turn our backs on texts that sing a melody we are no longer able to join. As readers, we enter into the text with our questions and in our very questioning tentatively find a way forward and draw closer to the presence of the Most Holy.

Author : Xiaoli Yang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004363113

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A Dialogue between Haizi’s Poetry and the Gospel of Luke by Xiaoli Yang Pdf

In A Dialogue between Haizi’s Poetry and the Gospel of Luke Xiaoli Yang offers a conversation between the Chinese soul-searching found in Haizi’s (1964–1989) poetry and the gospel of Jesus Christ through Luke’s testimony.

Author : Christopher Southgate
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107153691

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Theology in a Suffering World by Christopher Southgate Pdf

The book proposes a new way of understanding the glory of God in Christian theology, based on glory as sign.

Author : Lee Griffith
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780802865021

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God is Subversive by Lee Griffith Pdf

To Lee Griffith, being a peacemaker means much more than sporting PEACE T-shirts or voting for left-wing political candidates. Peacemaking is for him a daily practice of community formation, lifestyle decisions, and prayer ordinary living that is faithful to the gospel and happily out of sync with most of the world most of the time and it is a vital part of following Jesus Christ. In these challenging talks, Griffith a veteran anti-war activist who has been arrested many times for his pro-peace demonstrations sets forth a solidly biblical argument for uncompromising nonviolence. Along the way, he describes encounters with dumpster divers and prostitutes, with bag ladies and judges, with people who hear voices and see ghosts and he shares how, through these encounters and more, he has come to know better the subversive God of the gospel.

Author : Tim Conder
Publisher : HarperCollins Christian Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310265719

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The Church in Transition by Tim Conder Pdf

The Journey of Existing Churches into the Emerging Culture In our fast-growing post-Christian, postmodern culture, the church often finds itself marginalized and ineffective in mission. The new emerging church is both hopeful and frightening compared to more traditional forms of Christianity. However, these "two churches" need each other. The Church in Transition presents honest stories of the failures and successes of a variety of transitioning fellowships.

Author : Steven Bouma-Prediger,Brain J. Walsh
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-03
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780802846921

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Beyond Homelessness by Steven Bouma-Prediger,Brain J. Walsh Pdf

This book is a brilliant use of metaphor that makes clear why the world leaves us feeling so uneasy!

Author : Paul Borgman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-16
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780199887125

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David, Saul, and God by Paul Borgman Pdf

The biblical story of King David and his conflict with King Saul (1 and 2 Samuel) is one of the most colorful and perennially popular in the Hebrew Bible. In recent years, this story has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, much of it devoted to showing that David was a far less heroic character than appears on the surface. Indeed, more than one has painted David as a despicable tyrant. Paul Borgman provides a counter-reading to these studies, through an attentive reading of the narrative patterns of the text. He focuses on one of the key features of ancient Hebrew narrative poetics -- repeated patterns -- taking special note of even the small variations each time a pattern recurs. He argues that such "hearing cues" would have alerted an ancient audience to the answers to such questions as "Who is David?" and "What is so wrong with Saul?" The narrative insists on such questions, says Borgman, slowly disclosing answers through patterns of repeated scenarios and dominant motifs that yield, finally, the supreme work of storytelling in ancient literature. Borgman concludes with a comparison with Homer's storytelling technique, demontrating that the David story is indeed a masterpiece and David (as Baruch Halpern has said) "the first truly modern human."

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611642490

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Living Countertestimony by Walter Brueggemann Pdf

This volume invites readers to get up close and personal with one of the most respected and beloved writers of the last four decades. Carolyn J. Sharp has transcribed numerous table conversations between Walter Brueggemann and his colleagues and former students, in addition to several of his addresses and sermons from both academic and congregational settings. The result is the essential Brueggemann: readers will learn about his views on scholarship, faith, and the church; get insights into his "contagious charisma," grace, and charity; and appreciate the candid reflections on the fears, uncertainties, and difficulties he faced over the course of his career. Anyone interested in Brueggemann's work and thoughts will be gifted with thought-provoking, inspirational reading from within these pages.

Author : John Clark Donahue,Linda Walsh Jenkins
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1975-05-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780816657483

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Five Plays from the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis by John Clark Donahue,Linda Walsh Jenkins Pdf

Five Plays from the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis was first published in 1975. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Among the notable productions of the Children's Theatre Company of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, a leading exponent of children's theater in this country, have been plays that are adaptations of classics in children's literature. This volume makes available the scripts of five of these adaptations, along with illuminating information about the productions and the company itself. The plays include two adaptations by Frederick Gaines, two by Timothy Mason, and one by Richard Shaw. Mr. Gaines's plays are based on Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.One of Mr. Mason's plays, Kidnapped in London, is an adaptation of part of Master Skylark by John Bennett, and the other, Robin Hood: A Story of the Forest, is based on part of the Robin Hood legend. Mr. Shaw's play is an adaptation in Kabuki form of the Grimms' fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. Linda Walsh Jenkins writes a general introduction and commentary. Background information about each play includes excerpts from discussions among directors, composers, designers, and playwrights about the plays themselves and about various phases of the development of the productions. Highlights of the history of the Children's Theatre Company and of the aims and accomplishments of its director, John Clark Donahue, are given, and these will be of particular interest to anyone in the children's theater field. The photographic illustrations, which include a number in color, show various aspects of Children's Theatre Company productions. There are also musical examples from the original scores for the plays.

Author : Judith Kay,Kay Gelshenen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0521703905

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Discovering Fiction, An Introduction Student's Book with Audio CD by Judith Kay,Kay Gelshenen Pdf

North American short stories enhance pre-intermediate students' reading skills, language learning, and enjoyment of literature. Discovering Fiction, An Introduction, has the same unit and chapter structure as the two higher level books, Discovering Fiction Level 1 and Level 2. There are four units, each containing three stories that are related in terms of their theme; extensive prereading and post-reading tasks accompany each story. Unlike the other two books, however, an audio CD containing a reading of each story is packaged into each Student's Book.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89012032405

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The University Magazine by Anonim Pdf