The Theology Of Suffering And Death

Author : Natalie Kertes Weaver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136163159

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The Theology of Suffering and Death by Natalie Kertes Weaver Pdf

This book offers a theological foundation for engaging with the realities of suffering and dying. Designed particularly for practical theology students and trainee caregivers, it introduces the spiritual and theological issues raised by suffering and dying. The chapters consider: how Christian theology deals with the problem of suffering and how the Bible treats these difficult issues post-biblical interpretations of Jesus’ suffering and the Cross modern instances including ecology, poverty, discrimination and war comparative religious approaches and the depiction in popular culture. Natalie Weaver relates theology to practical issues of caregiving and provides a ‘toolbox’ for thinking about suffering and death in a creative and supportive way.

Author : Natalie Kertes Weaver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780415781084

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The Theology of Suffering and Death by Natalie Kertes Weaver Pdf

This book introduces the spiritual and theological issues raised by suffering and dying. It relates theology to practical issues of caregiving and provides a 'toolbox' for thinking about suffering and death in a creative and supportive way.

Author : Ronald E. Osborn
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830895373

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Death Before the Fall by Ronald E. Osborn Pdf

ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award Did animals have predatory natures before the fall? Did God punish innocent animals with a curse because of human sin? Is it possible for theistic evolution to be compatible with the Bible, even though animal death before the fall would contradict the teaching that death began after the first sin? In this eloquent and provocative "open letter" to evangelicals, Ronald Osborn wrestles with these pointed questions and with the problem of biblical literalism and animal suffering within an evolutionary understanding of the world. Considering the topic of animal suffering and predation as a theodicy dilemma, Osborn offers an open-minded exploration of the subject, specifically coming against the fundamentalist and literalist view of the book of Genesis and the creation account. He challenges one-dimensional reading of Scripture and shines a sobering light on the evangelical dogma responsible for advancing viewpoints long ago dismantled by science. Always acknowledging the traditionalist viewpoint, Osborn demonstrates with a wealth of exegetical and theological insight how orthodox Christianity can embrace evolutionary concepts without contradiction. Osborn forces us to ask hard questions, not only of the Bible and church tradition, but also and especially of ourselves.

Author : R. C. Sproul,Rc Sproul
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0842366245

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Surprised by Suffering by R. C. Sproul,Rc Sproul Pdf

With honesty, sensitivity, and concern for biblical truth, Sproul addresses the afterlife and the role of suffering in human experience.

Author : J. Todd Billings
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441222909

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Rejoicing in Lament by J. Todd Billings Pdf

At the age of thirty-nine, Christian theologian Todd Billings was diagnosed with a rare form of incurable cancer. In the wake of that diagnosis, he began grappling with the hard theological questions we face in the midst of crisis: Why me? Why now? Where is God in all of this? This eloquently written book shares Billings's journey, struggle, and reflections on providence, lament, and life in Christ in light of his illness, moving beyond pat answers toward hope in God's promises. Theologically robust yet eminently practical, it engages the open questions, areas of mystery, and times of disorientation in the Christian life. Billings offers concrete examples through autobiography, cultural commentary, and stories from others, showing how our human stories of joy and grief can be incorporated into the larger biblical story of God's saving work in Christ.

Author : John Piper,Justin Taylor
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433519024

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Suffering and the Sovereignty of God by John Piper,Justin Taylor Pdf

In the last few years, 9/11, a tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and many other tragedies have shown us that the vision of God in today's churches in relation to evil and suffering is often frivolous. Against the overwhelming weight and seriousness of the Bible, many Christians are choosing to become more shallow, more entertainment-oriented, and therefore irrelevant in the face of massive suffering. In Suffering and the Sovereignty of God, contributors John Piper, Joni Eareckson Tada, Steve Saint, Carl Ellis, David Powlison, Dustin Shramek, and Mark Talbot explore the many categories of God's sovereignty as evidenced in his Word. They urge readers to look to Christ, even in suffering, to find the greatest confidence, deepest comfort, and sweetest fellowship they have ever known.

Author : Michael J. Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0818902639

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The Mystery of Suffering and Death by Michael J. Taylor Pdf

Author : Timothy Keller
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780143135371

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On Death by Timothy Keller Pdf

From New York Times bestselling author and pastor Timothy Keller, a book about facing the death of loved ones, as well as our own inevitable death Significant events such as birth, marriage, and death are milestones in our lives in which we experience our greatest happiness and our deepest grief. And so it is profoundly important to understand how to approach and experience these occasions with grace, endurance, and joy. In a culture that does its best to deny death, Timothy Keller--theologian and bestselling author--teaches us about facing death with the resources of faith from the Bible. With wisdom and compassion, Keller finds in the Bible an alternative to both despair or denial. A short, powerful book, On Death gives us the tools to understand the meaning of death within God's vision of life.

Author : Christopher Date,Gregory Stump,Joshua Anderson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630871604

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Rethinking Hell by Christopher Date,Gregory Stump,Joshua Anderson Pdf

Most evangelical Christians believe that those people who are not saved before they die will be punished in hell forever. But is this what the Bible truly teaches? Do Christians need to rethink their understanding of hell? In the late twentieth century, a growing number of evangelical theologians, biblical scholars, and philosophers began to reject the traditional doctrine of eternal conscious torment in hell in favor of a minority theological perspective called conditional immortality. This view contends that the unsaved are resurrected to face divine judgment, just as Christians have always believed, but due to the fact that immortality is only given to those who are in Christ, the unsaved do not exist forever in hell. Instead, they face the punishment of the "second death"--an end to their conscious existence. This volume brings together excerpts from a variety of well-respected evangelical thinkers, including John Stott, John Wenham, and E. Earl Ellis, as they articulate the biblical, theological, and philosophical arguments for conditionalism. These readings will give thoughtful Christians strong evidence that there are indeed compelling reasons for rethinking hell.

Author : Henry L. Novello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317154488

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Death as Transformation by Henry L. Novello Pdf

A key tenet of Christian faith is that the crucifixion of Jesus Christ is a unique death by which the powers of death in the world have been conquered, so that Christian life in the Spirit is marked by the promise and hope of 'new life' already anticipated in the community of baptized believers. Notwithstanding this basic tenet regarding the Christian life as a participation in the redemptive death of Jesus Christ, theology in the past, as well as much contemporary theology, tends to assign no salvific significance to the event of our own death, focusing instead on death in negative terms as the wages of sin. This work is a significant retort to theological neglect, both Catholic and Protestant, of the positive and transformative aspect of our death when conceived as a dying into the redemptive death of Jesus Christ. The development of Henry L. Novello's proposed theology of death takes place in conversation with the pre-eminent contemporary contributors to this field of theological inquiry. By offering comprehensive critiques of Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Barth, Eberhard Jüngel and Jürgen Moltmann, Novello painstakingly pieces together a positive construal of death as salvific and transformative. What is especially distinctive about Novello's work is that he develops the idea of death as a sharing in the 'admirable exchange of natures' in the person of Jesus Christ, from which emerges his theory of resurrection at death for all. The reach of the work is extended by exploring some pastoral and liturgical implications of a theology of death conceived as the privileged moment for the actualization of God's grace in Jesus Christ, and thus being created anew in the power of the Spirit.

Author : Janie Gustafson
Publisher : Harcourt Religious Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Death
ISBN : 0159505755

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The Mystery of Suffering and Death by Janie Gustafson Pdf

This book deals with the universal experience of suffering and death, considering the specific viewpoint of the Roman Catholic Church. Each chapter explores interesting life-and-death topics, as well as excerpts from the Bible, various Church documents, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Basic to this book are the Christian beliefs that suffering can be redemptive and that death is the beginning of new life with the resurrected Christ.

Author : Kate Bowler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190876739

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Blessed by Kate Bowler Pdf

'Blessed' offers a comprehensive history of the rise of the American prosperity gospel. What began as diverse metaphysical, pentecostal, and self-help conceptions about the power of the mind became one of the most influential popular religious movements of the last century. The book follows how the movement took shape after World War II in pentecostal healing revivals and exploded onto the national scene through televangelists with big hair and bigger promises. It survived the scandals of the late 1980s and remade its image as a therapeutic and effective theology of modern living. Now thriving in the 21st century megachurch movement, the prosperity gospel reigns as a full-fledged cultural phenomenon.

Author : Karl Rahner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Death
ISBN : 0816425639

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On the Theology of Death by Karl Rahner Pdf

Author : Copeland, Shawn M.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608337644

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Knowing Christ Crucified by Copeland, Shawn M. Pdf

A timely and challenging collection of essays on Jesus Christ through the perspective of the slaves and the struggles of African Americans today.

Author : Douglas John Hall
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451407173

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God and Human Suffering by Douglas John Hall Pdf

Professor Hall has written a major work on an agonizing subject, at once brilliant, comprehensive, and thought provoking.In contrast to many writers who gloss over one or the other, Dr. Hall is true both to the reality of suffering and to the affirmation that God creates, sustains, and redeems.Creative is his view that certain aspects of what we call suffering -- loneliness, experience of limits, temptation, anxiety -- are necessary parts of God's good creation. These he distinguishes from suffering after the fall, the tragic dimension of life.Unique is his structure: creation-suffering as becomingthe fall--suffering as a burdenredemption--conquest from within.Professor Hall succeeds in moving the reader beyond the customary way of stating the problem: "How can undeserved suffering coexist with a just and almighty God?" He also evaluates five popular, leading thinkers on suffering: Harold Kushner, C.S. Lewis, Diogenes Allen, George Buttrick, and Leslie Weatherhead.