The Executed God

Author : Mark Lewis Taylor
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506401454

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The Executed God by Mark Lewis Taylor Pdf

The new edition of Mark Lewis Taylor’s award-winning The Executed God is both a searing indictment of the structures of “Lockdown America” and a visionary statement of hope. It is also a call for action to Jesus followers to resist US imperial projects and power. Outlining a “theatrics of state terror,” Taylor identifies and analyzes its instruments—mass incarceration, militarized police tactics, surveillance, torture, immigrant repression, and capital punishment—through which a racist and corporatized Lockdown America enforces in the US a global neoliberal economic and political imperialism. Against this, The Executed God proposes a “counter-theatrics to state terror,” a declamation of the way of the cross for Jesus followers that unmasks the powers of US state domination and enacts an adversarial politics of resistance, artful dramatic actions, and the building of peoples’ movements. These are all intrinsic to a Christian politics of remembrance of the Jesus executed by empire. Heralded in its first edition, this new edition is thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded, offering a demanding rethinking and recreating of what being a Christian is and of how Christianity should dream, hope, mobilize, and act to bring about what Taylor terms “a liberating material spirituality” to unseat the state that kills.

Author : Troy J. Edwards
Publisher : Troy Edwards
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798633944495

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The Wrath of God by Troy J. Edwards Pdf

God has been misrepresented by both His “followers” and His enemies. Most of the misrepresentation centers around the Biblical phrase, “the wrath of God”. This misrepresentation is due to the failure of both “defenders” and “detractors” of God to thoroughly study Scripture’s teaching on this subject. In this book we show the reader that as we allow Scripture to interpret itself we will find that God’s wrath does not equate to the angry destructive being that He is often portrayed to be nor does His wrath eliminate His love. The reader will learn that Scripture presents a consistent picture of a loving God trying to save mankind from the destructive power of our own sins.

Author : Richard Leonard, Sj
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781616430856

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Where the Hell Is God? by Richard Leonard, Sj Pdf

Combines professional insights along with the author's own experience and insights to speculate on how believers can make sense of their Christian faith when confronted with tragedy and suffering.

Author : Rabbi Jack Abramowitz
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781524573485

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The God Book by Rabbi Jack Abramowitz Pdf

From angels and the afterlife to suffering and Divine providence, The God Book addresses all things spiritual through classic works of Jewish philosophy. Works summarized include the Rambams Moreh Nevuchim (Guide for the Perplexed), Ramchals Derech Hashem (Way of God), ibn Pakudas Chovos HaLevavos (Duties of the Heart) and Hilchos Deios from the Rambams Mishneh Torah.

Author : Tony Jones
Publisher : HarperOne
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0062297961

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Did God Kill Jesus? by Tony Jones Pdf

The popular Patheos blogger wants to restore the cross as primarily a symbol of God’s overwhelming love for us and to rescue Christians from the shame and guilt from seeing our situation as “sinners in the hands of an angry God,” which was an invention of the medieval church and became enshrined as orthodox Christianity. Many Christians believe that God the Father demanded his only Son die a cruel, gruesome death to appease His wrath, since humanity is so irredeemably sinful and therefore repugnant to God. Tony Jones, popular progressive Christian blogger, author, and scholar, argues that this understanding is actually a medieval invention and not what the Bible really teaches. He looks beyond medieval convictions and liberates how we see Jesus’s death on the cross from this restrictive paradigm. Christians today must transcend the shame and guilt that have shaped conceptions of the human soul and made us fearful of God, and replace them with love, grace, and joyfulness, which better expresses what the cross is really about. How we understand the cross reflects directly what kind of God we worship. By letting go of the wrathful God who cannot stand to be in our presence unless he pretends to see Jesus in our place, we discover the biblical God who reaches out to love and embrace us while “we were yet sinners.” Jones offers a positive, loving, inclusive interpretation of the faith that is both challenging and inspiring. Did God Kill Jesus? is essential reading for modern Christians.

Author : Robert K. Elder
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780226202693

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Last Words of the Executed by Robert K. Elder Pdf

Some beg for forgiveness. Others claim innocence. At least three cheer for their favorite football teams. Death waits for us all, but only those sentenced to death know the day and the hour—and only they can be sure that their last words will be recorded for posterity. Last Words of the Executed presents an oral history of American capital punishment, as heard from the gallows, the chair, and the gurney. The product of seven years of extensive research by journalist Robert K. Elder, the book explores the cultural value of these final statements and asks what we can learn from them. We hear from both the famous—such as Nathan Hale, Joe Hill, Ted Bundy, and John Brown—and the forgotten, and their words give us unprecedented glimpses into their lives, their crimes, and the world they inhabited. Organized by era and method of execution, these final statements range from heartfelt to horrific. Some are calls for peace or cries against injustice; others are accepting, confessional, or consoling; still others are venomous, rage-fueled diatribes. Even the chills evoked by some of these last words are brought on in part by the shared humanity we can’t ignore, their reminder that we all come to the same end, regardless of how we arrive there. Last Words of the Executed is not a political book. Rather, Elder simply asks readers to listen closely to these voices that echo history. The result is a riveting, moving testament from the darkest corners of society.

Author : David Johnson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750965521

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Executed at Dawn by David Johnson Pdf

‘A volley rings out - a nervous volley it is true, yet a volley. Before the fatal shots are fired I had called the battalion to attention. There is a pause, I wait. I see the medical officer examining the victim. He makes a sign, the subaltern strides forward, a single shot rings out. Life is now extinct ... We march back to breakfast ... This is war.’ Brigadier-General Crozier describes an execution he has ordered of a man who fell asleep on sentry duty. Much has been written about the 346 men who were executed in WW1 but there is usually only a passing reference to those who took part – the members of the firing squad, the officer in charge, the medical officer and the padre. What are their stories? Through extensive research, David Johnson explores how they were selected and how they were treated before, during, and after the executions, and why there were so many procedural variations in the way that the executions were conducted.

Author : Augustus Hopkins Strong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Baptists
ISBN : UOM:39015039678134

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Systematic Theology by Augustus Hopkins Strong Pdf

Author : Matthew LEE (Felon.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1802
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022674399

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Some Account of the Life and Death of Matthew Lee, executed at Tyburn, etc by Matthew LEE (Felon.) Pdf

Author : Etan Boritzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 173418003X

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What Is God? by Etan Boritzer Pdf

Author : Lee Strobel
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781458759207

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The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel Pdf

The book consists primarily of interviews between Strobel (a former legal editor at the Chicago Tribune) and biblical scholars such as Bruce Metzger. Each interview is based on a simple question, concerning historical evidence (for example, "Can the Biographies of Jesus Be Trusted?"), scientific evidence, ("Does Archaeology Confirm or Contradict Jesus' Biographies?"), and "psychiatric evidence" ("Was Jesus Crazy When He Claimed to Be the Son of God?"). Together, these interviews compose a case brief defending Jesus' divinity, and urging readers to reach a verdict of their own.

Author : Gordon Russell Lewis,Bruce A. Demarest
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 1541 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Theology
ISBN : 9780310209157

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Integrative Theology by Gordon Russell Lewis,Bruce A. Demarest Pdf

A one-volume edition of the three-volume 'Integrative Theology', this text deals with the definition and application of this new and distinctive approach to religious study.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : HARVARD:HXMUP6

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The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Francis Aloysius Cunningham
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465562203

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An Account of the Death of Philip Jolin who was Executed for the Murder of his Father in the Island of Jersey, October 3, 1829 by Francis Aloysius Cunningham Pdf

Author : Ben Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316517055

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Apocalypse without God by Ben Jones Pdf

Explains why apocalyptic thought, despite often being dismissed as bizarre, has persistent appeal in political life.