Moses And God In Dialogue

Author : Karla R. Suomala
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 082046905X

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Moses and God in Dialogue by Karla R. Suomala Pdf

In Exodus 32-34, through a series of dialogues, Moses persuades God to spare the Israelites from destruction after they have made and worshipped a golden calf. The significance of this passage was not lost on ancient interpreters. At the heart of their concerns was the relationship between Moses and God, as well as the extent to which the Divine could be swayed by human reason and passion. For some, the idea that God could be moved by human efforts was welcome, providing hope in difficult times. For others, it was alarming; after all, God was not only supposed to be all-powerful, but immune to change. This book evaluates the ancient reworkings of these dialogues - translations, rewritten Bible, Midrash, and Targum - in light of the difference in power and position between Moses and God and its influences on the form of their communication.

Author : Jason A. Fout
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567659446

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Fully Alive by Jason A. Fout Pdf

Numerous contemporary theologians depict divine glory as overwhelming to or competitive with human agency. In effect, this makes humanity a threat to God's glory, and causes God's glory to remain opaque to human enquiry and foreign to human life. Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar have avoided this tendency, instead depicting God's glory as enabling people to participate in glorifying God. Nevertheless both accounts fall short of their initial promise by giving one-dimensional accounts of human obedience to God within largely conventional divine command accounts of ethics. The form of human obedience they present as compatible with divine glory does not actively overwhelm the human, but rather brackets out her agency as inappropriate in the face of divine revelation or command. And so, ironically, on these accounts God's glory remains opaque to human enquiry and foreign to human life. This study builds a case for seeing divine glory as intrinsically relational, creating a sociality which allows for a human agency transfigured by God's glory. Moving beyond Barth and von Balthasar, this work turns to theological exegesis of Scripture to construct an alternative account of divine glory. This glory is worked out in the act of glorifying: first in God, then in divine glorifying of humans, creating a responsive human glorifying of God; and finally in processes of honouring or glorifying among humans. Divine glory is shown to be consistent with a responsive and creative human obedience to God, and shown to constitute human agency which is creaturely and dependent yet not overwhelmed.

Author : Gili Kugler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110609509

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When God Wanted to Destroy the Chosen People by Gili Kugler Pdf

According to narratives in the Bible the threats of the people’s end come from various sources, but the most significant threat comes, as learned from the Pentateuch, from God himself. What is the theological meaning of this tradition? In what circumstances did it evolve? How did it stand alongside other theological and socio-political concepts known to the ancient authors and their diverse audience?The book employs a diachronic method that explores the stages of the tradition’s formation and development, revealing the authors’ exegetical purposes and ploys, and tracing the historical realities of their time.The book proposes that the motif of the threat of destruction existed in various forms prior to the creation of the stories recorded in the final text of the Pentateuch. The inclusion of the motif within specific literary contexts attenuated the concept of destruction by presenting it as a phenomenon of specific moments in the past. Nevertheless, the threat was resurrected repeatedly by various authors, for use as a precedent or a justification for present affliction.

Author : Mary Baker Eddy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Christian Science
ISBN : UOM:39015064368635

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Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Pdf

Author : Samuel E. Balentine
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161611032

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The Lure of Transcendence and the Audacity of Prayer by Samuel E. Balentine Pdf

The discourse of prayer responds to the abiding lure of transcendence. From Gilgamesh to the primordial human beings in Eden to Odysseus, the quest for ultimate truths has summoned forth all manner of human effort - courageous, desperate, pious, impious, successful, failed, invited, forbidden - and like all such lures, one can never be certain whether the glimmer of transcendence is that of a bright and shining star that illuminates the shadows or only a shiny object that seduces one into an inescapable darkness (a fishing lure, for example). In this study, Samuel E. Balentine demonstrates how prayer's invocation of God transgresses the limits of human beings. The author shows how inviting, let alone commanding God to speak may be the "acme of bardic pretention," but in the ancient world such transgression characterizes the audacity of prayer.

Author : R. W. L. Moberly
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493428380

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The God of the Old Testament by R. W. L. Moberly Pdf

Walter Moberly is a top Old Testament theologian known for his creative, accessible, and provocative writing. His Old Testament Theology has been well received. This book, written in a similar vein, combines biblical criticism with constructive theology and engages both Jewish and Christian interpretations. Moberly offers robust readings of eight pivotal Old Testament passages that unpack the nature of God in Christian Scripture, demonstrating a Christian approach to reading the Old Testament that holds together the priorities of both scholarship and faith.

Author : Michael Kibbe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110422597

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Godly Fear or Ungodly Failure? by Michael Kibbe Pdf

A cursory glance at Hebrews' critique of Israel's fear at Sinai in Heb 12:18-29 suggests that the author has misunderstood or manipulated his sources. In the Pentateuch, the appointment of Moses as Israel's mediator receives explicit approval (Exod 19:9; Deut 5:28), while Heb 12:25 labels their request for mediation a "refusal" to heed the word of God.This bookargues that Hebrews' use of the Sinai narratives resides on a complex trajectory established by four points: the Sinai covenant according to Exodus, the reenactment of that covenant according to Deuteronomy, the call for a NEW covenant according to Jeremiah, and the present reality of that covenant established by God and mediated by Jesus Christ. The basis for Hebrews' critique arises from its insight that while Israel's request established covenant-from-a-distance, Jesus demonstrates that true covenant mediation brings two parties into a single space. The purpose for Hebrews critique lies in its summons to Zion, the mountain on which Jesus sits at the right hand of God as the high priestly mediator of the new covenant.

Author : Zondervan,
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310830924

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God Under Fire by Zondervan, Pdf

God Never ChangesOr does he? God has been getting a makeover of late, a "reinvention" that has incited debate and troubled scholars and laypeople alike. Modern theological sectors as diverse as radical feminism and the new “open theism” movement are attacking the classical Christian view of God and vigorously promoting their own images of Divinity.God Under Fire refutes the claim that major attributes of the God of historic Christianity are false and outdated. This book responds to some increasingly popular alternate theologies and the ways in which they cast classical Christian theism in a negative light. Featuring an impressive cast of world-class biblical scholars, philosophers, and apologists, God Under Fire begins by addressing the question, “Should the God of Historic Christianity Be Replaced?” From there, it explores issues as old as time and as new as the inquest into the “openness of God.” How, for instance, does God risk, relate, emote, and change? Does he do these things, and if so, why? These and other questions are investigated with clarity, bringing serious scholarship into popular reach.Above all, this collection of essays focuses on the nature of God as presented in the Scriptures and as Christians have believed for centuries. God Under Fire builds a solid and appealing case for the God of classical Christian theism, who in recent years—as through the centuries—has been the God under fire.

Author : Scott W. Gustafson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798385213184

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The Freedom to Choose Life by Scott W. Gustafson Pdf

In The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky proposes ministry as the way to resist and overcome the world’s evil. He employs two plotlines to do so. The action plot concerns the events surrounding the murder of Fyodor Karamazov. All evidence points to Dmitri Karamazov. Rational, circumstantial evidence convicts him; yet the reader knows he is innocent. The ministry plot occurs in this dark context where “small acts of love” are performed by The Elder Zosima, Alyosha Karamazov, and many others. These acts of love all answer this unspoken question, “What can be said and done in Jesus’ name that opens the future to new possibilities in contexts heretofore deemed closed and without hope?” Asking and answering this question is the essence of ministry, and since the question can be asked in any context, ministry is possible anywhere. Dostoevsky’s unabashed antisemitism, however, undermines his brilliant analysis. The concluding chapters document how unconfessed sins like antisemitism exert a death-dealing power that undermines our cultures, our communities, and our ministries. The Freedom to Choose Life shows how ministry resists and overcomes evil by these small acts of love and by the global effects of repenting of humanity’s unconfessed sins.

Author : Mustansir Mir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317342731

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Understanding the Islamic Scripture by Mustansir Mir Pdf

This book makes the Qur'an accessible to the English-speaking student who lacks the linguistic background to read it in the original Arabic by offering accessible translations of, and commentary on, a series of selected passages that are representative of the Islamic scripture. Mustanstir Mir, Director of the Center for Islamic Studies at Youngstown State University, offers clear translations and analysis of 35 selected passages of the Qur'an that will help students understand what kind of book the Qur'an is, what the scripture says, and how it says it.

Author : Michael Widmer
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 3161484231

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Moses, God, and the Dynamics of Intercessory Prayer by Michael Widmer Pdf

Revised thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Durham, 2003.

Author : Terence E. Fretheim
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611641455

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Exodus by Terence E. Fretheim Pdf

One of the best commentaries on Exodus ever to appear in English, now in paperback!

Author : Ole Jakob Filtvedt,Jens Schröter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783111084022

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Know Yourself by Ole Jakob Filtvedt,Jens Schröter Pdf

The book explores ancient interpretations and usages of the famous Delphic maxim “know yourself”. The primary emphasis is on Jewish, Christian and Greco-Roman sources from the first four centuries CE. The individual contributions examine both direct quotations of the maxim as well as more distant echoes. Most of the sources included in the book have never previously been studied in any detail with a view to their use and interpretation of the Delphic maxim. Thus, the book contributes significantly to the origin and different interpretations of the maxim in antiquity as well as to its reception history in ancient philosophical and theological discourses. The chapters of the book are linked to each other by numerous cross-references which makes it possible to compare the different views of the maxim with each other. It also helps readers to notice relationships and trajectories within the material. The explorations of the relevant sources are also set in the context of ongoing debates about the shape and nature of ancient conceptions of self and self-knowledge. The book thus demonstrates the wide variety of philosophical and theological approaches in that the injunction to know oneself could be viewed and how these interpretations provide windows into ancient discourses about self and self-knowledge.

Author : Walter L. Reed
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Bible as literature
ISBN : 9780195079975

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Dialogues of the Word by Walter L. Reed Pdf

Following Bakhtin's theory of language as dialogue, Reed shows how the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament dramatize a set of verbal encounters between God and his people. His analysis of dialogic patterns frames discussion of prophecy, wisdom and gospel as models of divine communication.

Author : Tallal Alie Turfe
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532009051

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Remember Me, and I Will Remember You by Tallal Alie Turfe Pdf

When we think about something we need, we usually cannot overcome that thought until the perceived need is satisfied. For example, if we need food or water, our minds constantly think about how hungry or thirsty we are until we have something to eat or quench our thirst. Similarly, one who understands how much he or she is in need of God will constantly think about God. When we have faith and the desire to receive Gods grace and mercy, we will turn to the remembrance of Him. In Remember Me, and I Will Remember You, Dhikr: The Soul of Islam, author Tallal Alie Turfe, a champion for religious tolerance, underscores the importance of remembrance and how we can better use it to improve our health and lifestyle. He sheds light on the concept of remembrance and its importance as a reminder of our gratitude to the Creator. The Arabic term for remembrance is dhikr, which inspires us to do good, but it also heals, energizes, and transforms our lives. When engaging in dhikr, we feel more forgiving and enthusiastic. Dhikr is the adhesive that binds the mind and heart together. It serves as a key link in the dynamic between praising God and receiving blessings from Him. Remember Me, and I Will Remember You, Dhikr: The Soul of Islam will help you understand and use dhikr to achieve a better relationship with God and the world around us.