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Author : Anthony Tyrrell Hanson
Publisher : Trinity Press International
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015001176695
Author : Ian Alexander McFarland
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451409869
Theologian Ian McFarland claims that Christians have mainly misappropriated the "image of God" language for 2000 years and thereby missed a rich resource for our knowledge of God. What, then, does it mean to say that we are made in God's image, or that Christ is the very image or prototype of God? Rather than referring to some germinal divine element in humans, such as reason, McFarland claims that the image of God in us tells us something about God and how we know God. It tells us that God, though not identical with us, communicates Godself to us in creative love, in a way that offers precious clues about God's transcendence, immanence, triune life, self-disclosure, incarnation, and intentions for human life. Too, we "learn from Jesus something new about God." Gathered as Christ's body, the church too images God and sets us on a quest to discern the image of God in Christ's incarnate body. McFarland's careful and exacting work builds from this kernel a powerful Christian vision of God's life and our own destiny in Christ.
Author : Travis R. Niles
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783161614736
Author : Gabriel Bunge
Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0881413100
Author : John Avery
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630471590
An insightful journey through all the biblical names of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Beginning in Babel and ending with a burning Babylon, "The Name Quest" explains the significance that the different names for God have for an everyday relationship with God and for spiritual growth. The names of God are like a rainbow--each name expresses part of the spectrum of the character and attributes of God. Along the way, the author tenderly answers tough questions: Which of the Hebrew names of God is His personal name--Yahweh or Jehovah? What does it mean to pray in Jesus’ name? How can we relate to the Holy God and the Judge? Why is a God of love called the “Jealous God”? What does it mean to call Jesus the Messiah? "The Name Quest" mentions all the names of God in the Bible while explaining their significance in ordinary language. The author weaves together fifteen years of Bible study research with plentiful illustrations and humorous anecdotes. These include lessons learned as a pastor on a Caribbean island. A visit to a Welsh hill farm introduces a chapter about the Good Shepherd. The story of a Hungarian political prisoner illustrates the meaning of Immanuel (or is it Emmanuel?) A rescue from the slopes of an active volcano helps explain salvation and the meaning of Jesus’ Hebrew name Yeshua. Even the clever advertisement on a packet of potato chips offers a lesson about how to grow in faith in God. Unlike chasing rainbows, the spiritual journey has an end. "The Name Quest" is a road map for every Christian’s spiritual journey and it points to the destination--being formed into the image of Jesus Christ.
Author : Michael Magill
Publisher : Reyma Publishing
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1937368033
If You Love God's Word You Will Love This New Testament! The Disciples' Literal New Testament sets you free from our artificial 460 year old chapter and verse structure, replacing it with paragraphing that reflects the flow of thought in the original Greek writings. Paragraph headings make that flow of thought explicit to you, speeding your understanding of the NT books. This translation retains the writing style of the apostles themselves, rather than transforming their Greek ways of writing into an elegant or contemporary English writing style, as has been beautifully done so many times. It is the same translation as the author's New Testament TransLine, first published by Zondervan in 2002. Now you can read the New Testament as the original writers intended it, and see it with a clarity formerly available only to those who could carefully study their Greek New Testament. You can even see the difference in writing style between Matthew, Mark and Luke! Used along with your standard Bible version, you will profit from both methods of translation. *Easily grasp the relationship of the whole and the parts of each book with the big-picture overview outlines that use the words of the original author. *Gain quick insight into the flow of thought from descriptive paragraph headings that summarize the main point of each paragraph in its context. *You can visually follow the apostles' thinking because the 'Intelligent Paragraphing' visually displays their main and subordinate thoughts. *The hindrance to your understanding caused by our artificial chapter and verse structure is eliminated by paragraphing based on the Greek writings. *You will more fully appreciate the minds and thinking patterns and intent of the original writers because the translation corresponds more closely to their words and their grammar and their sentence structure. *Deepen and expand your understanding of the New Testament by meditating on the notes containing alternative renderings, explanations of what is being said, and different views of the meaning.
Author : Witness Lee
Publisher : Living Stream Ministry
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781536031997
In the book of Colossians, Christ is unveiled to a fuller extent than in any other book in the Bible. Christ is unveiled as the all-inclusive One, having the first place in all things as the mystery and embodiment of God, as the Head and constituent of the church, as the allotted portion, life, constituent, and hope of the saints, and as the body of all positive things. In addition to presenting such a Christ as the one person in God's economy, Colossians also presents the cross of Christ as the one way in God's government. By the cross, God puts to death all the substitutes for Christ, including culture, philosophy, and religion, so that Christ can be everything to the believers and in the church as the new man.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015064333316
Author : T.M. Luhrmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691234441
The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people—as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see supernatural agents everywhere, as the cognitive science of religion has shown. But it isn’t easy to maintain a sense that there are invisible spirits who care about you. In How God Becomes Real, acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion T. M. Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real and that this effort—by changing the people who do it and giving them the benefits they seek from invisible others—helps to explain the enduring power of faith. Drawing on ethnographic studies of evangelical Christians, pagans, magicians, Zoroastrians, Black Catholics, Santeria initiates, and newly orthodox Jews, Luhrmann notes that none of these people behave as if gods and spirits are simply there. Rather, these worshippers make strenuous efforts to create a world in which invisible others matter and can become intensely present and real. The faithful accomplish this through detailed stories, absorption, the cultivation of inner senses, belief in a porous mind, strong sensory experiences, prayer, and other practices. Along the way, Luhrmann shows why faith is harder than belief, why prayer is a metacognitive activity like therapy, why becoming religious is like getting engrossed in a book, and much more. A fascinating account of why religious practices are more powerful than religious beliefs, How God Becomes Real suggests that faith is resilient not because it provides intuitions about gods and spirits—but because it changes the faithful in profound ways.
Author : Gerald P. Boersma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190493509
What does it mean for Christ to be the "image of God"? And, if Christ is the "image of God," can the human person also unequivocally be understood to be the "image of God"? Augustine's Early Theology of Image examines Augustine's conception of the imago dei and makes the case that it represents a significant departure from the Latin pro-Nicene theologies of Hilary of Poitiers, Marius Victorinus, and Ambrose of Milan only a generation earlier. Augustine's predecessors understood the imago dei principally as a Christological term designating the unity of divine substance. But, Gerald P. Boersma argues, Augustine affirms that Christ is an image of equal likeness, while the human person is an image of unequal likeness. Boersma's careful study thus argues that a Platonic and participatory evaluation of the nature of "image" enables Augustine's early theology of the image of God to move beyond that of his Latin predecessors and affirm the imago dei both of Christ and of the human person.
Author : William S. Stob
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1549658948
Twelve centuries before Christ, Colossae was a large and important city; twelve centuries after Christ it had completely disappeared, save only for a few unexcavated ruins. At the time Paul wrote to the Colossians, the city was far into its decline, and considered the least important community to which the apostle had any correspondence. Nevertheless, the Epistle to the Colossians is the most important of all the apostle's letters in defense of the deity of Christ and the sufficiency of His life and death.The Colossian Church was only five or six years old at the time Paul addressed his letter to them, yet insidious heresies were already threatening the purity of this Body from within her own ranks. False teachers were beguiling the believers "with enticing words" (2:4) and "through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ" (2:8). Although the exact nature of the so-called "Colossian heresy" cannot be definitely determined, yet it seemed to be a three-pronged attack on Christ's relationship to God, creation, and the Church. In response Paul addressed these issues, respectively, by declaring Jesus to be "the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature" (1:15) and "the firstborn from the dead" (1:18).Like their close neighbors at Laodicea, who eventually "were neither cold nor hot" (Rev. 3:15) toward the things of Christ, the believers at Colossae apparently did not heed the apostle's advice and instruction. Sometime later Paul told Timothy, "This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me" (2 Tim. 1:15); a statement from which many Bible commentators conclude that there was large-scale departure from the faith in the Churches of Asia Minor. The Colossians had much in common with the Laodiceans, who within the span of a single generation, might still have been able to quote some scripture and explain the plan of salvation, but gave no evidence of its influence in their lives.The Epistle of Paul to the Colossians is especially relevant today, as many in our Churches, while still recognizing the prominence of Christ, yet fail to give Him preeminence in their lives.
Author : David Mathis
Publisher : The Good Book Company
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781784986889
Profound reflections on the cross that help you to meditate on and marvel at the sacrificial love of Jesus. This book can be used as a devotional, especially during Lent and Easter. These profound reflections on the cross from David Mathis, author of The Christmas We Didn’t Expect, will help you to meditate on and marvel at Jesus’ life, sacrificial death, and spectacular resurrection-enabling you to treasure anew who Jesus is and what he has done. Many of us are so familiar with the Easter story that it becomes easy to miss subtle details and difficult to really enjoy its meaning. This book will help you to pause and marvel at Jesus, whose now-glorified wounds are a sign of his unfailing love and the decisive victory that he has won: “He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5) This book can be used as a devotional. The chapters on Holy Week make it especially helpful during the Lent season and at Easter.
Author : Paul Corby Finney
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art, Early Christian
ISBN : 9780195113815
This revisionist study challenges the received opinion that in its earliest manifestations Christianity was a form of religiosity opposed both on principle and in fact to the use of pictures. Paul Corby Finney argues that the well-known absence of Christian pictures before A.D. 200 is due to a complex interplay of social, economic, and political factors, and is not, as is commonly assumed, a result of an anti-image ideology. The book documents the origins of Christian art based on some of the oldest surviving Christian archaeological evidence, and it seeks to show how the Christian products conformed to the already-existing pagan types and models. This study will interest scholars and students in the fields of church history, ancient history, archaeology, art history, classics, and historical theology.
Author : Philip Yancey
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310565949
Why does God feel so distant so often, and how do I bridge the gap? Does your hunger for God often seem more frustrating than satisfying? Have you sensed a disturbing disparity between God's promises and life's realities? Have you seen God's promises work, but you've stumbled and want to believe again? Award-winning author Philip Yancey articulates the fundamental questions that confront us all: "How do I relate to a God who is invisible when I'm never quite sure he's there?" Reaching for the Invisible God?offers deep, satisfying insights to the questions you’re sometimes afraid to ask. Honest and deeply personal, here is straight talk on Christian living for the reader who wants more than pat answers to life's imponderables. Ultimately, Yancey shifts the focus from your questions to the One who offers himself in answer. "A brilliant book. It is both profound and simple, the best blend, in my view. Simple is neither shallow, nor simplistic. The sections on doubt and God's 'absence' are classics." — Rick Warren, pastor and author,?The Purpose Driven Life
Author : Jacob Hawk
Publisher : Tate Pub & Enterprises Llc
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1627466789
I've known Jacob Hawk since he was a freshman Bible major at Harding University. He arrived on our campus with a passion to preach the gospel, and I have been blessed to watch him develop into a powerful young minister. His preaching goes hand-in-hand with his writing ministry, and I am delighted to see his first book, The Image of the Invisible God, come to publication. Jacob has begun his writing ministry at the center of our faith, at the core of the gospel. You will be taught, challenged, inspired, and, in the end, richly blessed by the work of this gifted young preacher and writer. Dr. Bruce McLarty President, Harding University I spent my early years in college taking pictures as a professional photographer. I always found it challenging to portray people in the best light possible. In this book, Jacob Hawk has painted a beautiful word portrait of Jesus Christ which very clearly reveals the image of the invisible God. Hawk challenges all of us to a deeper relationship with God so that we might reflect the true image of Christ to those we meet every day. Dr. David B. Burks Chancellor, Harding University Former President, 1987-2013 What does God look like? Can we know for sure? Look no further--Jesus, his Son, the Image of the Invisible God, is ready to change your life. Not only will he illustrate God in his fullness, but he will show you how to do the same. As people who have also been created in the image of God, we too step into the spotlight of his image. We are handed the torch to portray God correctly to a world that doesn't see his goodness. The Image of the Invisible God provides a concise, thoughtful look at who God is. Even though becoming the Image of the Invisible God is a daunting task, simple tips bring this goal to fruition. Jacob Hawk offers some practical advice on how God's people can be more like Jesus. These tips are directly from the Bible, supplied with unique and captivating illustrations and applications. If you want a deeper relationship with God, and a greater understanding of his nature without the grind of religious degrees, this book is the spiritual food your faith is craving. God might be invisible, but your life is an open book ready to be seen and cherished. Discover a greater understanding of who Jesus really is; what he represents, illustrates, and models; and how you can mold yourself to the Image of the Invisible God.