The Radical Jesus The Bible And The Great Transformation

Author : Douglas E. Oakman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725286665

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The Radical Jesus, the Bible, and the Great Transformation by Douglas E. Oakman Pdf

The Radical Jesus offers a companion to the author's previous article collection Jesus and the Peasants. Even more than in Jesus and the Peasants, these eleven chapters sharpen the focus on the political-economic meaning of Jesus then and the deeper values embodied in him that perhaps are still pertinent for now. Part One considers his activities and aims within the political economy of first-century Galilee. Part Two offers perspectives on the critical hermeneutical task of linking the values of Jesus and the Bible to a world that has undergone what Karl Polanyi called the Great Transformation. Polanyi argued suasively in his 1944 book that economy in the pre-industrial age was embedded in social relations and served necessary social purposes, while society after the Great Transformation became embedded within market capitalist economy to the detriment of social relations. This book finds in sustained critical dialog with the Radical Jesus another transforming force and a guiding light toward a more humane economy and society that will serve human need rather than selfish greed.

Author : Ryan LaMothe
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666758856

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The Coming Jesus and the Anthropocene by Ryan LaMothe Pdf

Melting glaciers and icecaps, massive forest fires, enormous storms, extensive and prolonged flooding, and desertification of large tracts of land are realities we currently face and will continue to struggle with as a result of climate change. Our climate crisis invites, if not demands, a critical evaluation of our political, religious, economic, and cultural narratives and rituals that give rise to our ways of relating to one another, to other species, and to planet Earth. This book argues that the climate emergency exposes deep problematic roots of Western religious and political paradigms and apparatuses that undergird ideas of and methods for human flourishing. In particular, Western religious and political philosophies have produced and maintained a radical rift between human beings and other species, as well as beliefs about human dominion over other species and the earth. These ideas and practices are responsible for the colonization of Nature and for climate change. Understanding these sources invites a radical reimaging of our religious ideas and practices. Specifically, this book proposes a coming Jesus—a form of life that traverses the rift, while denying human and divine dominion for the sake of recognizing and respecting the singularities and flourishing of all species.

Author : T. E. Goud,J.R.C. Cousland,John P. Harrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567706140

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Encountering the Parables in Contexts Old and New by T. E. Goud,J.R.C. Cousland,John P. Harrison Pdf

The contributors to this book pursue three important lines of inquiry into parable study, in order to illustrate how these lessons have been received throughout the millennia. The contributors consider not only the historical and material world of the parables' composition, and focusing on the social, political, economic, and material reality of that world, but also seek to connect how the parables may have been seen and heard in ancient contexts with how they have been, and continue to be, seen and heard. Intentionally allowing for a “bounded openness” of approach and interpretation, these essays explore numerous contexts, encounters and responses. Examining topics ranging from ancient harvest imagery and dependency relations to contemporary experience with the narratives and lessons of the parables, this volume seeks to link those very real ancient contexts with our own varied modern contexts.

Author : Jerome H. Neyrey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725293328

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By What Authority? by Jerome H. Neyrey Pdf

Adult males did not simply stand up and speak. They needed authorization to exercise public voice. Why should anyone listen to them? In his first four chapters, Luke achieves this for Jesus, a process we access in two ways. In part 1, we examine how Luke establishes this by employing social-science models, which inform our understanding beyond what typical commentaries can achieve. We begin this by considering Luke 1–4 in terms of the social-science communications model, which exposes how God, as Sender-of-Senders, repeatedly sends Messages about Jesus, which cumulatively establish him with a public role and status, and so with public voice. Jesus’ ethos can be described by considering him in terms of typical group-oriented personality and by means of rituals of status elevation and confirmation, which dramatize his worthiness to have public voice. Part 2 consists of rhetorical materials that inform us on how typical beginnings began. Ancient rhetoric also taught formal ways to construct a proper ethos, both for authors and those about whom they spoke. Finally, Luke himself needs a proper ethos to warrant our acceptance of him as a reliable narrator, which he achieves in his prologue. Jesus deserves public voice.

Author : Santiago Guijarro
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666734195

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The Gospel of Mark in Context by Santiago Guijarro Pdf

The short story that we now know as the Gospel according to Mark was written in Greek twenty centuries ago in the context of an agrarian society that had been developing its own characteristics in the circum-Mediterranean region. Mark's account presupposes the values, institutions, and relationships of the culture in which Jesus and his first followers lived. Modern readers of the Gospels, however, especially those born and raised in the North Atlantic postindustrial societies, have other values and institutions, and relate to each other according to other cultural codes. This temporal and cultural distance between the ancient texts and their present-day readers makes necessary an exegetical effort whose purpose is to recover, as far as possible, the reading scenarios presupposed by these texts. In order to reconstruct these scenarios, exegesis has turned in recent years to the social sciences, whose models permit us to imagine and describe the situations presupposed by these ancient texts. This book aims to show how the use of these scenarios elaborated with the help of the social sciences can contribute to a more considered and respectful reading of Mark's story.

Author : Jerome H. Neyrey SJ
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725293342

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By What Authority? by Jerome H. Neyrey SJ Pdf

Adult males did not simply stand up and speak. They needed authorization to exercise public voice. Why should anyone listen to them? In his first four chapters, Luke achieves this for Jesus, a process we access in two ways. In part 1, we examine how Luke establishes this by employing social-science models, which inform our understanding beyond what typical commentaries can achieve. We begin this by considering Luke 1-4 in terms of the social-science communications model, which exposes how God, as Sender-of-Senders, repeatedly sends Messages about Jesus, which cumulatively establish him with a public role and status, and so with public voice. Jesus' ethos can be described by considering him in terms of typical group-oriented personality and by means of rituals of status elevation and confirmation, which dramatize his worthiness to have public voice. Part 2 consists of rhetorical materials that inform us on how typical beginnings began. Ancient rhetoric also taught formal ways to construct a proper ethos, both for authors and those about whom they spoke. Finally, Luke himself needs a proper ethos to warrant our acceptance of him as a reliable narrator, which he achieves in his prologue. Jesus deserves public voice.

Author : Megan K. Westra
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781513806761

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Born Again and Again by Megan K. Westra Pdf

Got salvation? What if salvation is not one more thing to acquire but an invitation to radical transformation? Christians often turn life—and faith—into one big quest for the good life. We expect to “get” a good job, loving spouse, a life of comfort, personal satisfaction—oh, and salvation with a cherry on top. Our acquisitive impulses aren’t limited to lattes and designer jeans; Christians in power throughout history have focused on getting people saved, possessing the land, and gaining dominance in government. But what if Christianity isn’t about striving for something more, but about renouncing the power and privilege that prevent us from receiving God’s abundant life? What if we are called not to treat salvation as one more thing to pursue but as an invitation to conform to Christ? Born Again and Again is the story of how a religion birthed on the margins of the Roman Empire became functionally the official religion of today’s largest military superpower. Pastor and blogger Megan K. Westra takes on the self-serving form of Christianity that has birthed the doctrine of discovery, planet-killing lifestyles, and civil religion. She leads readers into an encounter with the Jesus who gave up everything to come to us and invites us to give up everything to come to him. Conforming to Christ radically reorients our lives, priorities, and faith away from the pursuit of our own interests and toward a pattern of discipleship, setting us free from fear-based consumption and creating new possibilities for connection and belonging within the community of God’s people.

Author : Alexander John Shaia,Michelle L. Gaugy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1743240619

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Heart and Mind by Alexander John Shaia,Michelle L. Gaugy Pdf

This important book recovers the ancient way of reading the four gospels as four steps in a transformative process. While being rooted in the history of the Early Church, it moves beyond focus on the historical Jesus, and recovers the practice of uniting heart and mind with a living, dynamic Christ. "It's a rare treat to have someone show you a previously undiscovered layer of meaning and import. Alexander Shaia has given us a tremendous resource." Brian D. McLaren, Speaker, activist, author of A New Kind of Christianity "The liveliest presentation of the gospels that I have seen in a very long time." Phyllis Tickle, Author of The Great Emergence "Eye-opening, intelligent and practical. This will transform the way you read scripture and reveal a path for a vibrant Christian way of life." Diana Butler Bass, Author of Christianity for The Rest of Us

Author : Rieuwerd Buitenwerf,Harm Hollander,Johannes Tromp
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047443469

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Jesus, Paul, and Early Christianity by Rieuwerd Buitenwerf,Harm Hollander,Johannes Tromp Pdf

This collection of essays by leading experts in New Testament scholarship addresses core themes in the study of early Christianity. It is dedicated to Henk Jan de Jonge (Emeritus Professor in the New Testament, Leiden University) in honour of his important contributions to the field of New Testament Studies.

Author : Michelle L. Gaugy,Alexander J. Shaia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0692951865

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Heart and Mind by Michelle L. Gaugy,Alexander J. Shaia Pdf

Now in a Revised Second Edition (2019) From the Foreword by +Marc Handley Andrus, Episcopal Bishop, Diocese of California: "In 'Heart and Mind, ' Dr. Shaia gives us back our central sacred text - the four gospels - not as conflicted and faulty historical records, but as a vibrant, luminous path of transformation. He reveals "The Four-Gospel Journey" as a living guide (for Christians and seekers alike), re-centering human life on wisdom, compassion and service, rooted in a mystical relationship with Christ. And the potential for this living guide is already becoming manifest, as individuals, groups and entire communities are using it all over the world, and the word is spreading." ****In this fresh lens, each gospel account is more than a telling of Jesus' life and words. Each is the story of a practice in response to a core life question: Gospel of Matthew: How do we face change? Gospel of Mark: How do we move through trials and suffering? Gospel of John: How do we receive joy and know union? Gospel of Luke: How do we mature in service? And these four gospels are more than the sum of their parts. The four in the sequence of their fourth-century reading cycle are one of the world's great maps of the universal journey- one of growth, transformation, and love. As Alexander's describes, The Four-Gospel Journey is the pattern of the living, here and now Christ - a pattern within the Cosmos, in everything and across all time. To make this universal journey with another or a small community - see the "Heart and Mind Community Guides" in the Store on the Quadratos website. The Guides follow the book. There is one guide for each of the four paths, as well as one to prepare for the journey, and another on the eight core practices of Quadratos. ****From Rob Bell - NYT bestselling author: "This is a stunning book. You won't read the gospels the same way ever again. You won't think about your life the same way again. Anthropology, psychology, the heroes journey, the Bible, fear, struggle, hope, bravery, anticipation, euphoria, return - its all here in this masterful work, by one of my favorite teachers-guides-gurus-leader-village elder - Alexander John Shaia." -- Rob Bell, author of "What We Talk About When We Talk About God" and " What is the Bible?"

Author : James Comper Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:HWRSGK

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The Biblical Museum by James Comper Gray Pdf

Author : B. Dyck
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137315861

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Management and the Gospel by B. Dyck Pdf

The goals of Management and the Gospel: Luke's Radical Message for the First and Twenty-First Centuries may appear to be simple: it describes what management theory and practice looked like in the first century, uses this as a lens to examine what the Gospel of Luke says about management, and draws out implications for today. However, the book is quite profound in finding that management is a dominant theme in the Gospel, that its message is consistently counter-cultural, and that Luke contains a four-phase 'how to' process model to help readers to implement change. Readers will acquire a new way to understand the Gospel as well as the moral foundations of modern management.

Author : Paul Buhle
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780836199314

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Radical Jesus by Paul Buhle Pdf

A compelling, graphical rendition, Radical Jesus tells the story of Jesus and his social message, not just in his own time, but also through the Radical Reformation, recent centuries, and our own time. Featuring illustration by industry standouts Sabrina Jones, Gary Dumm, and Nick Thorkelson, Radical Jesus offers a fresh and inspiring look at basic Christian concepts and social justice themes from the life of Jesus onward. Readers will be drawn into stories from scripture, the Radical Reformation, and peacemaking efforts today in Iraq and Colombia, among others. Free downloadable study guide available here.

Author : Derek John Morris
Publisher : Autumn House Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812704983

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The Radical Teachings of Jesus by Derek John Morris Pdf

Jesus ignored human traditions and presented His listeners with God`s truth. Discover some of the radical ideas He taught that defied conventional wisdom and customs then - and that continue to do so today.

Author : Wade A. Hartzell
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781638741725

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Radical Change by Wade A. Hartzell Pdf

According to Jesus, discipleship isn't an option. It's a commission that all are to invest in. A disciple is defined as someone who not only accepts the teachings of Jesus Christ but also helps spread these teachings into all corners of the world. Many accept the teachings of Jesus Christ as truth, but few are willing to share these teachings with others. The truth is, most Christians don't feel that they are equipped well enough to spread the Gospel. Radical Change is a tool for churches and individuals to equip them to be trained up to observe all that Jesus commanded. The church today does a great job of celebrating when someone gives their life to Christ--and rightfully so, as even Jesus says there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner that repents than ninety-nine righteous people that don't need to repent. However, I feel that church fails and leaves them at the altar wondering what to do from there. We celebrate and then send them back into the wilderness to fend for themselves, hoping they will return next week. The great commission is to make disciples, and I don't believe this is done through midweek Bible studies. Jesus called twelve individuals who would eventually turn the world upside down. He was more interested in the investment instead of the size of the congregation. The generation coming to the altar today doesn't have the support group at home to help them along this transformation journey. If we are going to make disciples to go into all nations, then the church has to take ownership of making the disciples. I wrote this book to help churches invest in the sinner at the altar with the goal to get them to the cross over.