Reading The Bible With The Damned

Author : Bob Ekblad
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664235298

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Reading the Bible with the Damned by Bob Ekblad Pdf

Exploring the challenges that both the churched and the unchurched have faced regarding giving and receiving the word of God, Bob Ekblad encourages us all to learn to read the Bible together as a whole. In this compelling book, he reflects on how Christians have often found it difficult to proclaim God's good news to every realm of society, while those who have needed it most have frequently deemed themselves unworthy due to social circumstances or sinfulness. In Reading the Bible with the Damned, Ekblad offers concrete advice on how to bridge this gap through a variety of insights ultimately leading to spiritual transformation. This book is full of examples of how Scripture changes lives for those who attend Bible studies and for those who lead them, offering practical suggestions on many passages from the Old and New Testaments.

Author : Steve Ebling
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1508880522

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Holy Bible - Best God Damned Version - Genesis by Steve Ebling Pdf

Genesis. Every God damned chapter. Because you know it's nonsense, but were never sure why.

Author : Crystal L. Hall
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506402796

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Insights from Reading the Bible with the Poor by Crystal L. Hall Pdf

Insights from Reading the Bible with the Poor provides a spirited introduction to methodologies and strategies for reading the Bible "from below"--from the back of what used to be church sanctuaries, from basements, from sidewalks. Drawing on the lineage of various methods of reading the Bible with the poor, the book invites poverty and biblical study into dialogue with real-world organizing to seek justice for those most often treated as "Other." The reading process occurs among the intersections of the "hermeneutical triangle" of Reality, the Bible, and Community. This book is for anyone curious about how to use the Bible as a resource for liberation. It is for faith leaders and community organizers, as much as it is for biblical scholars, because it draws on experiences at the intersections of academia, the Church and communities of organized struggle. It is written with an eye toward praxis, as the author shares from her own experience with the hope that space will be created for others to reflect on their own contexts.

Author : Esa J. Autero
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004323209

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Reading the Bible across Contexts by Esa J. Autero Pdf

In Reading the Bible Across Contexts Esa Autero offers a fresh perspective on Luke’s poverty texts. This is done through a critical dialogue between an historical reading and empirical readings by two Latin American Bible reading groups.

Author : Chris Hedges
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743284462

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American Fascists by Chris Hedges Pdf

From the celebrated author of "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" comes a startling expos of the political ambitions of the Christian Right--a clarion call for everyone who cares about freedom.

Author : James L. Kugel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451689099

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How to Read the Bible by James L. Kugel Pdf

James Kugel’s essential introduction and companion to the Bible combines modern scholarship with the wisdom of ancient interpreters for the entire Hebrew Bible. As soon as it appeared, How to Read the Bible was recognized as a masterwork, “awesome, thrilling” (The New York Times), “wonderfully interesting, extremely well presented” (The Washington Post), and “a tour de force...a stunning narrative” (Publishers Weekly). Now, this classic remains the clearest, most inviting and readable guide to the Hebrew Bible around—and a profound meditation on the effect that modern biblical scholarship has had on traditional belief. Moving chapter by chapter, Harvard professor James Kugel covers the Bible’s most significant stories—the Creation of the world, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood, Abraham and Sarah, Jacob and his wives, Moses and the exodus, David’s mighty kingdom, plus the writings of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the other prophets, and on to the Babylonian conquest and the eventual return to Zion. Throughout, Kugel contrasts the way modern scholars understand these events with the way Christians and Jews have traditionally understood them. The latter is not, Kugel shows, a naïve reading; rather, it is the product of a school of sophisticated interpreters who flourished toward the end of the biblical period. These highly ideological readers sought to put their own spin on texts that had been around for centuries, utterly transforming them in the process. Their interpretations became what the Bible meant for centuries and centuries—until modern scholarship came along. The question that this book ultimately asks is: What now? As one reviewer wrote, Kugel’s answer provides “a contemporary model of how to read Sacred Scripture amidst the oppositional pulls of modern scholarship and tradition.”

Author : Amy Cottrill
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781646982189

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Uncovering Violence by Amy Cottrill Pdf

It is no surprise that the Bible is filled with stories of violence, having come into being through the crucible of trauma, cultural conflict, and warfare. But the more obvious acts of physical or sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible often overshadow its subtler forms throughout Scripture and belie the variety of perspectives on violence embedded in biblical narratives. This hinders readers' ability to recognize the full spectrum of human engagement with violence, both in texts and in their lived experiences. Uncovering Violence: Reading Biblical Narratives as an Ethical Project seeks to provide a theoretical vocabulary for the various forms that violence can take—including textual violence, interpretive violence, moral injury, and slow violence—and to offer a fresh ethical reading of violence in the biblical text. Focusing on four narratives from the Hebrew Bible, Cottrill uses the approach of narrative ethics to lay out the many ways that stories can make moral claims on readers, not by delivering a discrete "lesson" or takeaway but by making transformative contact with readers and involving them in a more embodied dialogue with the text. Exploring the narratives of Jael’s killing of Sisera, the toxic masculinity of Samson, environmental devastation and failures of legal systems in Ruth, and Abigail’s mediation with King David, Uncovering Violence presents strategies for reading that allow for this close encounter. In doing so, it helps prepare readers to better recognize, interpret, and even respond to violence and its many effects within and beyond the text.

Author : Ruth H. Perrin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498293433

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The Bible Reading of Young Evangelicals by Ruth H. Perrin Pdf

Young evangelicals in Britain often find themselves at odds with an increasingly secular society, and yet the tradition persists and in some places flourishes. Sociological studies into the faith of this demographic group are rare, yet there is much to be explored as to how their faith functions and how it compares to other groups globally. Similarly, given the privilege evangelicals afford the biblical text, how young believers engage with the ancient Scriptures they understand to be "the word of God" is particularly significant. This work addresses that core question. How do young evangelicals make sense of the Bible today? Based on qualitative data gathered from three diverse evangelical churches it compares the reading priorities, ordinary hermeneutics, and theological concerns of young adults. Presenting age-related focus groups with challenging biblical narratives, the study compares strategies for negotiating the texts based on age, gender, and churchmanship. It provides a unique insight into the realities of Bible reading and the faith of "Generation Y" and gives food for thought not only to those with scholarly interests, but also those with a pastoral concern to shape and sustain the Christian faith of young adults in Britain and beyond.

Author : Rebekah Eklund
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725272606

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Practicing Lament by Rebekah Eklund Pdf

In a faith focused on resurrection hope, patient endurance, and victory in Christ, is there any room for pain, doubt, and anger? In Scripture, lament is the prayer that makes that room. Not only is lament one of the most common forms of prayer in the Old Testament, it's also woven deeply into the fabric of the New Testament and the Christian way. Lament is the cry for all those who ache over the way things are but aren't content to let them stay that way. It's the prayer for all the ways that the kingdom has not yet come, in the hope that God's justice and peace will prevail--someday.

Author : Bob Ekblad
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Church renewal
ISBN : 9780664236625

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A New Christian Manifesto: Pledging Allegiance to the Kingdom of God by Bob Ekblad Pdf

Author : J. Hans de Wit,Hans De Wit,Gerald West
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004166561

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African and European Readers of the Bible in Dialogue by J. Hans de Wit,Hans De Wit,Gerald West Pdf

Addressing an urgent and deeply felt need for more dialogue between interpreters of the Bible from radically different contexts, this book reflects in a comprehensive and existential manner on how to establish new alliances, how to learn from each other, and how to read Scripture in a manner accountable to ‘the dignity of difference.’

Author : Angus Paddison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567464965

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Theologians on Scripture by Angus Paddison Pdf

The movement that is known as 'theological interpretation of Scripture' reminds us that the reading and exegesis of Scripture is an indispensable part of the theologian's work, not to be reserved to biblical scholars alone. This insight that the reading of Scripture is a theological responsibility is always at risk of being eclipsed by the modern disciplinary divisions between biblical studies, historical theology, and systematic theology. Intended as a contribution to the theological re-engagement with Scripture, this book invites a range of high-profile systematic and constructive theologians to reflect on the role that the reading and interpretation of Scripture plays in their theological work, both professionally and more personally. Spanning a cross-section of theological perspectives contributors reflect on the role of tradition in their reading of Scripture, the company they view as indispensable in their engagement with the text, the place of historical critical study and biblical studies, and the significance of their context. The book will be valued by all those who care for the place of Scripture in theology and the life of the church, as well as those who want an insight into the state of contemporary theology.

Author : Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780195182507

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Lost Scriptures by Bart D. Ehrman Pdf

A companion volume to Lost Christianities, this remarkable anthology of long-lost Christian writings that were never included in the New Testaments includes fifteen additional gospels, thirteen epistles, five non-canonical Acts of the Apostles, Apocalypes and Secret Books, and brief introductions to each. History Dual Main. (Scripture)

Author : Melissa Mohr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199742677

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Holy Sh*t by Melissa Mohr Pdf

A humorous, trenchant and fascinating examination of how Western culture's taboo words have evolved over the millennia

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664222315

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Reverberations of Faith by Walter Brueggemann Pdf

Explores more than 100 Old Testament themes. Each entry states the consensus reading, identifies what is at issue in the interpretive question, and discusses the practical significance of the issue for the church today, in part by suggesting contemporary connections to the ancient texts.--