Proverbs Of Ashes

Author : Rita Nakashima Brock,Rebecca Ann Parker
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807067888

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Proverbs of Ashes by Rita Nakashima Brock,Rebecca Ann Parker Pdf

Rebecca Parker was a young minister in Seattle when a woman walked into her church and asked if God really wanted her to accept her husband's beatings and bear them gladly, as Jesus bore the cross. Parker knew, at that moment, that if she were to answer the woman's question truthfully she would have to rethink her theology. And she would have to think hard about some of the choices she was making in her own life. When Rita Nakashima Brock was a young child growing up in Kansas, kids taunted her viciously, calling her names like "Chink" or "Jap." She learned to pretend that she did not feel the sting of scorn and the humiliation of contempt. The solitude and silence of her suffering-decreed by both her mother's Japanese culture and her father's Christian heritage-kept the wound alive. It was the gap between knowledge born of personal experience and traditional theology that led Rita Brock and Rebecca Parker to write this emotionally gripping and intellectually rich exploration of the doctrine of the atonement. Using an unusual combination of memoir and theology in the tradition of Augustine's Confessions, they lament the inadequacy of how Christian tradition has interpreted the violence that happened to Jesus. Ultimately, they argue, the idea that the death of Jesus on the cross saves us reveals a sanctioning of violence at the heart of Christianity. Brock and Parker draw on a wide array of intimate stories about family violence, the sexual abuse of children, racism, homophobia, and war to reveal how they came to understand the widespread damage being done by this theology. But the authors also undertake their own arduous and unexpected journeys to recover from violence and to assist others to do so. On these journeys they discover communities that begin to give them the strength to question the destructive ideas they have internalized, and the strength to seek out an alternative vision of Christianity, one based on healing and love. Proverbs of Ashes is both a condemnation of bad theology and a passionate search for what truly saves us. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Rita Nakashima Brock,Rebecca Ann Parker
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 0807067504

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Saving Paradise by Rita Nakashima Brock,Rebecca Ann Parker Pdf

"Saving Paradise" offers a fascinating new lens on the history of Christianity, asking how its early vision of beauty evolved into a vision of torture, and what changes in society and theology marked that evolution.

Author : T. E. Reynolds
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434370068

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From These Ashes Part I by T. E. Reynolds Pdf

Author : T. E. Reynolds
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781438946801

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From These Ashes Part II from These Ashes Part II by T. E. Reynolds Pdf

In 1859 South Carolina on the threshold of war. The end to an era bodly knocked on every SOuthern door until even the peacemakers had no recourse but to allow its entrance. Without mercy, the war changed SOuthern lives forever. No amount of blood sacrifice shed during those tragic four years would atone for errors of past generations or gain empathy for those who so bravely fought for southern independence.

Author : Rita Nakashima Brock
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725223332

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Journeys by Heart by Rita Nakashima Brock Pdf

Winner of the 1988 Crossroad Women's Studies Award

Author : Zac Poonen
Publisher : CFCINDIA Bangalore
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 9788190565806

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Beauty For Ashes by Zac Poonen Pdf

Author : Hanna Stenström
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9042919744

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Critique Scandinave de la Théologie Féministe Anglo-américaine by Hanna Stenström Pdf

Scandinavian Critique of Anglo-American Feminist Theology is a collection of articles by scholars in various theological disciplines from five Scandinavian or Nordic countries. The articles cover a wide range of topics, including feminist sexual ethics, ecofeminist theology, gender perspectives on European welfare systems, Birgitta of Sweden and a search for Mary beyond stereotypes. As the title implies, a critical dialogue with US feminist theology is a recurrent theme throughout the book, but the essays also include constructive work from different theological perspectives. The journal also includes a bibliography that shows the diversity of Scandinavian and Nordic feminist theological research.

Author : Paul G. Crowley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 074254964X

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Rahner Beyond Rahner by Paul G. Crowley Pdf

One hundred years after the birth of Karl Rahner, the contributors to this book ask whether and how Rahner's theology can address new religious and cultural realities in the twenty-first century, particularly those realities found on what has come to be called "the Pacific Rim." Stretching from California and Latin America, and across the Pacific Ocean to Asia, this geographic region manifests an incredible cultural and religious diversity, but also many points of intersection and interpenetration, resulting in new forms of religion and spirituality. The theological categories generated by Rahner, such as the anonymous Christian and even the notion of a world church, meet steep challenges when read in contexts very different from that of Germany and the theological currents of the "Atlantic." At the same time, the encounter between Rahner and the Pacific Rim results in fresh readings of Rahner not previously imagined, not only in places like China and Mexico, but even Los Angeles. Anchored by a seminal essay by Francis X. Clooney, S.J. (Harvard), contributors, include Thomas Sheehan (Stanford), Catherine Bell (Santa Clara), and George Griener, S.J. (Berkeley). Each essay examines the possibilities and limitations of Rahner's theology in this newly configured Pacific world.

Author : Edgar C. S. Gibson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725289024

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The Book of Job with Introduction and Notes by Edgar C. S. Gibson Pdf

The place which the Book of Job occupies in our English Bibles after the historical books and before the Psalms is that which it has always occupied in the Western Church, at least since the days of S. Jerome, in whose translation (the Vulgate) it is found in this position, in accordance with the arrangement of the books commonly (though not invariably) adopted in the Greek Bibles… From the Introduction

Author : Gregory Anderson Love
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621890782

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Love, Violence, and the Cross by Gregory Anderson Love Pdf

Does God use violence to redeem us? What is the relationship between divine love and violence in regard to the saving significance of the cross of Christ? In Love, Violence, and the Cross, Gregory Love dialogues with two responses to this question, while presenting a third alternative in which Jesus's death is simultaneously a crime and an element of God's saving actions. Through familiar stories in history, literature, and film, Love presents five constructive models that cumulatively affirm God's saving act in the person and work of Christ while letting go the myth of redemptive violence. They affirm redemption, but one with a different shape: Instead of exacting the absolute punishment, God redeems by "making good" God's promise to humanity to secure human life. Love argues that God is nonviolent, while retaining the core idea presented in the New Testament witnesses: that reconciliation occurs in the work of Christ, and that the cross plays a role in that divine work.

Author : Anna Fisk
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625640680

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Sex, Sin, and Our Selves by Anna Fisk Pdf

Sex, Sin, and Our Selves brings together readings in feminist theological thought and the literature of the acclaimed contemporary writers Michele Roberts and Sara Maitland. Through placing theology in conversation with Roberts's and Maitland's literary engagement with issues of religion and gender, this book explores themes of selfhood, connection, sex, sin, and self-sacrifice. In doing so, it challenges a tendency of feminist theology to seek simple and idealized answers, rather than honor complexity and the need to continue to ask questions. In the encounters in feminist theology and contemporary women's writing, Anna Fisk employs autobiographical narrative, critically understood as "reading these stories beside my own."

Author : Peter Laughlin
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227904374

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Jesus and the Cross by Peter Laughlin Pdf

According to the Nicene Creed, Christ died for us and for our salvation. But while all Christians agree that Christ's death and resurrection has saving significance, there is little unanimity in how and why that is the case. In fact, Christian history islittered with accounts of the redemptive value of Christ's death, and new models and motifs are constantly being proposed, many of which now stand in stark contrast to earlier thought. How then should contemporary articulations of the importance of the death of Christ be judged? At the heart of this book is the contention that Christian reflection on the atonement is faithful inasmuch as it incorporates the intention that Jesus himself had for his death. In a wide-reaching study, the author draws from both classical scholarship and recent work on the historical Jesus to argue that not only did Jesus imbue his death with redemptive meaning but that such meaning should impact expressions of the saving significance of the cross.

Author : Karen A. McClintock
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506434261

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When Trauma Wounds by Karen A. McClintock Pdf

How to heal from trauma and restore laughter, love, and faith When trauma wounds, victims are thrown into unexpected darkness and experience unfamiliar symptoms. Some trauma survivors draw upon a lifelong faith in God; others find themselves in a wilderness devoid of spiritual grounding. The recovery stories in this book offer diverse pathways to faith and hope. In When Trauma Wounds, psychologist Karen A. McClintock combines psychological approaches with faith resources to improve trauma recovery. Whether you are a trauma survivor, a caregiving pastor or church member, or friend to a survivor, this book will familiarize you with trauma symptoms and healing strategies. Secure and trusting relationships heal many wounds. If you care for a trauma survivor, McClintock will help you create a sanctuary to shelter this wounded soul, to help them bear their pain and hold out hope for recovery--to offer victims of trauma the compassion they so badly need. Each trauma victim has a story to tell. If you are a trauma survivor, healing from that trauma or working through repeated traumatic experiences may take days or years. But no matter how long your healing journey might take, it can begin right now.

Author : Asle Eikrem
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567678652

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God as Sacrificial Love by Asle Eikrem Pdf

In dialogue with a range of post-enlightenment critiques of Christian theologies regarding sacrificial love, Asle Eikrem presents an unconventional systematic approach to this multi-layered and complex theological topic. From Hegel to prominent 20th century theologians, from feminist theologies to postmodern philosophers, this volume engages in a critical conversation with a host of different voices on all the classical topics in theology (creation, trinity, incarnation, atonement, sin, faith, sacraments, and eschatology), also providing a moral and socio-historical vision for Christian living. The result is a unique appraisal of the significance that the life and death of Jesus holds for the world today.

Author : Julia Feder
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781531504731

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Incarnating Grace by Julia Feder Pdf

Prioritizes survivors of abuse by reexamining Christian ideals about suffering and salvation More than half of women and almost one in three of men in the United States have experienced sexual violence at some time in their lives. Yet our Christian tradition has failed survivors of sexual violence, who have been taught to believe that traumatic suffering brings us closer to God. Incarnating Grace attempts to save our broken ways of talking about God’s grace by unearthing liberating resources buried in the Christian tradition. Christian ideas about salvation have historically contributed to sexual violence in our communities by reinforcing the idea that suffering is salvific. But a God worth worshiping does not want human beings to suffer. Drawing on the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila as well as contemporary political and feminist theologians, philosophers, and legal scholars, author and Associate Professor of theology Julia Feder offers an account of Christian salvation as mystical-political. Feder begins by describing the breadth of traumatic wounding and the shape of traumatic recovery, as articulated by psychologists. Since the fullness of post-traumatic healing requires reserves deeper than those which can be articulated by the secular field of psychology alone, the book then introduces the Spanish Carmelite Saint Teresa of Avila and her theological insights, which are most helpful for constructing a post-traumatic theology of healing. Arguing that God stands against violence and suffering, the book also examines the notion of “senseless suffering,” a technical term that comes from Edward Schillebeeckx, a Catholic twentieth-century Flemish priest and theologian. The suffering of sexual violence serves no higher purpose or greater human value and pushes against all ways of making sense of the world as good and orderly. In the following chapters, Feder turns to two Christian virtues that animate post-traumatic recovery, courage and hope, and explores how Christian hope can provide a language to empower courageous activity undertaken toward healing. Incarnating Grace opens a new dialogue about salvation and violence that does not allow evil to have the last word.