Theology As Autobiography

Author : Colby Dickinson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532688843

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Theology as Autobiography by Colby Dickinson Pdf

Autobiographical writings on faith frequently come from the lives of ordinary persons whose struggles with faith are often lived at the margins of the church, academy, and society. Yet these voices have the potential to reshape the ways in which each of these fields function. To find out what it means to stand before God with all of one's humanity on display is to engage in not only the act of confession, but to demonstrate a bold theological reflection that needs to be more explicitly understood. By turning to spiritual autobiographies as theological source texts, we learn to place our emphasis where it matters most, on the people whose lives of faith move us deeply and cause us to re-examine our own lives in light of their witness. Moving through a range of ancient, early modern, and contemporary spiritual writers in order to demonstrate a profound connection that unites them all, this book portrays how a critical self-examination of one's most personal, internal fractures (our "poverty" as it were) is the only way to develop a life of faith--the dual meaning of the word "confession," which expresses both a revealing of one's sins, or brokenness, and the articulation of what one believes.

Author : Juergen Moltmann
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334048763

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A Broad Place by Juergen Moltmann Pdf

Among the most acclaimed and accomplished theologians of the last 100 years, Jurgen Moltmann is also one of the most popular. This autobiography will certainly be widely read in the churches and the academy and will shed light on the intellectual development of this enormously influential theologian. He has marked the history of theology after the Second World War in Europe and North America like no other. He is the most widely read, quoted, and translated theologian of our time. Now, after Jurgen Moltmann has celebrated his eightieth birthday, he looks back on a life engaged in and forging a Christian response to the tumult and opportunities of our time. In his autobiography Jurgen Moltmann tells his life story, from the Hamburg youth in the "alternative" parental home up to the present moment, and he reflects on the journey of his own theological development and creativity. A wide-ranging document alert to the deeper currents of his time and ours, A Broad Place is an entertaining reconsideration of a life full of intense experience and new beginnings.

Author : Colby Dickinson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532688829

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Theology as Autobiography by Colby Dickinson Pdf

Autobiographical writings on faith frequently come from the lives of ordinary persons whose struggles with faith are often lived at the margins of the church, academy, and society. Yet these voices have the potential to reshape the ways in which each of these fields function. To find out what it means to stand before God with all of one’s humanity on display is to engage in not only the act of confession, but to demonstrate a bold theological reflection that needs to be more explicitly understood. By turning to spiritual autobiographies as theological source texts, we learn to place our emphasis where it matters most, on the people whose lives of faith move us deeply and cause us to re-examine our own lives in light of their witness. Moving through a range of ancient, early modern, and contemporary spiritual writers in order to demonstrate a profound connection that unites them all, this book portrays how a critical self-examination of one’s most personal, internal fractures (our “poverty” as it were) is the only way to develop a life of faith—the dual meaning of the word “confession,” which expresses both a revealing of one’s sins, or brokenness, and the articulation of what one believes.

Author : Dean Ebner
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015005758704

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Autobiography in Seventeenth-century England by Dean Ebner Pdf

Author : Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Publishers
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89064875735

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Confessions of a Theologian by Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry Pdf

Author : Jung Young Lee
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814624642

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Journeys at the Margin by Jung Young Lee Pdf

Being an immigrant is both being "in-between" two cultures, that of the immigrant and that of the dominant group, and being "in-both" of these cultures. It ultimately means being "in-beyond" the two cultures together. In this book a group of prominent Asian-American Christian theologians reflect in an autobiographical form on how being an Asian and a North American has shaped the way they understand the Christian story. As the United States becomes increasingly multiethnic and multicultural, this book offers useful suggestions on how to meet the challenge of cultural diversity in both Church and society.

Author : John Polkinghorne
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556359101

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From Physicist to Priest by John Polkinghorne Pdf

'I am a scientist-theologian, someone who is both a physicist and a priest - a statement that sometimes arouses the kind of curiosity or suspicion that might follow the claim to be a vegetarian butcher.' Cambridge don, curate in a working-class area of a big city, vicar of a country parish in Kent, contributor to governmental committees, prize-winning author of more than thirty-five books, KBE and much more, John Polkinghorne tells his remarkable life story in a direct and modest yet profound narrative. He looks back on his journeys into both disciplines from a human angle, including the formative experiences and key relationships he experienced as a child, an undergraduate, graduate and beyond into university teaching, family life, priesthood and writing. He describes his developing thoughts and understanding of the value and interdependence of each of the major disciplines and, by so doing, brings a down-to-earth touch to the big questions that each approach raises.

Author : Lyman Abbott
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1528047222

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What Christianity Means to Me by Lyman Abbott Pdf

Excerpt from What Christianity Means to Me: A Spiritual Autobiography Theology; reformers have been trying to apply the principles inculcated by Jesus Christ to the varying and often complex conditions of society and so have developed a Christian social ethics men and women have been trying to express their experiences in methods adapted to their various temperaments and so have developed Christian rituals; pagans coming into the Christian life have brought their paganism with them, so that While their paganism has been Christianized at the same time and by the same process Christianity has been paganized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Lyman Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0649020316

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What Christianity Means to Me by Lyman Abbott Pdf

Author : David J. Leigh
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823219957

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Circuitous Journeys by David J. Leigh Pdf

Circuitous Journeys: Modern Spiritual Autobiography provides a close reading and analysis of ten major life stories by twentieth-century leaders and thinkers from a variety of religious and cultural traditions: Mohandas Gandhi, Black Elk, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, C. S. Lewis, Malcolm X, Paul Cowan, Rigoberta Menchu, Dan Wakefield, and Nelson Mandela. The book uses approaches from literary criticism, developmental psychology (influenced by Erik Erikson, James Fowler, and Carol Gilligan), and spirituality (influenced by John S. Donne, Emile Griffin, Walter Conn, and Bernard Lonergan). Each text is read in the light of the autobiographical tradition begun by St. Augustine’s Confessions, but with a focus on distinctively modern and post-modern transformations of the self-writing genre. The twentieth-century context of religious alienation, social autonomy, identity crises and politics, and the search for social justice is examined in each text.

Author : Jerry Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996725318

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God by Jerry Martin Pdf

The voice announced, "I am God." For Jerry Martin, that encounter began a personal, intellectual, and spiritual adventure. He had not believed in God. He was a philosopher, trained to be skeptical-- to doubt everything. So his first question was: Is this really God talking? There were other urgent questions: What will my wife think? Why would God want to talk to me? Does God want me to do something? He began asking all the questions about life and death and ultimate things to which he--and all of us--have sought answers: Love and loss. Happiness and suffering. Good and evil. Death and the afterlife. The world's religions. The ways God communicates with us. How to live in harmony with God. God: An Autobiography tells the story of these mind-opening conversations with God.Jerry L. Martin was raised in a Christian home. By the time he left college, he was not a believer. But he was interested in the big questions and so he studied the great thinkers. He became a philosophy professor and served as head of the philosophy department at the University of Colorado at Boulder and of the National Endowment for the Humanities. In addition to scholarly articles on epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and public policy, he wrote reports on education that received national attention and was invited to testify before Congress. He stepped down from that career to write this book.

Author : Eberhard Busch
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597521697

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Karl Barth by Eberhard Busch Pdf

'Karl Barth' is an unparalleled accomplishment. An authentic church father of the Post-Reformation era, the Basel professor's contributions to theology, the life of the church, and the world of culture and politics have been frequently noted. This work, however, presents extraordinary new information and insight based on his own correspondence and notes. What one finds in this work is Barth's own running commentary on events and people - from 1886 to 1968. Everything is depicted from his perspective and chiefly in his own words, and this is precisely what makes the volume so fascinating and valuable. The brilliance, wit, and humanity of Barth shine through everywhere as he is seen as son, brother, student, editor, friend, pastor, husband, father, soldier, teacher, theologian, church leader, political critic, polemicist, ecumenist, author, preacher, music lover, senior citizen. The gigantic theologian is here, but - even more - the man shines through. An abundance of pictures accompanies the text - most of them to be seen for the first time. The contents of this book are new and of utmost interest and importance. Readers not familiar with the accomplishment of Karl Barth will learn to know both the man and his thought. Specialists will for the first time discern the figure behind the intellect. All who propose to understand the story of the twentieth century will be illumined by this book.

Author : John Leadley Dagg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Baptists
ISBN : HARVARD:AH45U7

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Manual of Theology by John Leadley Dagg Pdf

Author : Jürgen Moltmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Theologians
ISBN : OCLC:1288313105

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A Broad Place by Jürgen Moltmann Pdf

Jürgen Moltmann's life and work have marked the history of theology after the Second World War in Europe and North America like no other. He is the most widely read, quoted, and translated theologian of our time. Now, after celebrating his eightieth birthday, he looks back on a life engaged in and forging a Christian response to the tumult and opportunities of our age. In his autobiography Moltmann tells his engaging and searching life story, from his Hamburg youth in an unconventional parental home up to the "incompleteness" of the present moment. Yet his narrative also sheds light on the creative arc of Moltmann's work, on the journey of his own theological development from its beginnings after World War II through the beginnings of political theology and, most phenomenally, the advent of the theology of hope.

Author : Azzan Yadin-Israel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0692718516

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The Grace of God and the Grace of Man by Azzan Yadin-Israel Pdf

The first comprehensive analysis of the biblical and theological themes in Bruce Springsteen's music.