West Of Jesus

Author : Steven Kotler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781596918351

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West of Jesus by Steven Kotler Pdf

After spending two years in bed with Lyme disease, Steven Kotler had lost everything: his health, his job, his girl, and, he was beginning to suspect, his mind. Kotler, not a religious man, suddenly found himself drawn to the sport of surfing as if it were the cornerstone of a new faith. Why, he wondered, when there was nothing left to believe in, could he begin to believe in something as unlikely as surfing? What was belief anyway? How did it work in the body, the brain, our culture, and human history? With the help of everyone from rebel surfers to rocket scientists, Kotler undertakes a three-year globetrotting quest. The results are a startling mix of big waves and bigger ideas: a surfer's journey into the biological underpinnings of belief itself.

Author : Thomas H. West
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451419074

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Jesus and the Quest for Meaning by Thomas H. West Pdf

A new approach to introducing theology As God's self-communication to humans, Jesus is the key to the human search for meaning, argues Thomas West. He therefore introduces the practice of theology through Christology. From the question of personal meaning and self-constitution and their relationship to transcendent meaning and value, he proceeds to discuss the figure and import of Jesus and then the ethical imperative engendered through encounter with him. Fresh and clear, West's book is an invitation to grapple with one's religious commitments, especially in light of recent insights in biblical studies and Continental, feminist, and liberation theologies. This new text will prove an engaging and effective introduction to theological thinking for both undergraduates and Christian adults.

Author : James W. Douglass
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597526104

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Lightning East to West by James W. Douglass Pdf

We live in that final time which offers humans the clearest choice in history: the kingdom or the holocaust, Jim Douglass writes. Either end is a lightning east to west: the nuclear holocaust a lightning fire, the kingdom of Reality a lightning spirit. We will choose lightning east to west today as either nuclear fire or the kingdom of God, as either despair and annihilation or transformation through nonviolence. If we look to Jesus and Gandhi, and what they point to, we can hope to choose the lightning fire of nonviolence.

Author : Ravi Zacharias,Abdu Murray
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310531296

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Seeing Jesus from the East by Ravi Zacharias,Abdu Murray Pdf

Encounter Jesus Like Never Before through Eastern Eyes Throughout these pages, Ravi Zacharias and Abdu Murray invite readers to rediscover the cultural insights we often miss when we ignore the Eastern context of the Bible. They offer a refreshing picture of Jesus, one that appeals to Eastern readers and can penetrate the hearts and imaginations of postmodern Westerners. In Seeing Jesus from the East, Ravi Zacharias and Abdu Murray show us why a broader view of Jesus is needed - one that recognizes the uniquely Eastern ways of thinking and communicating found in the pages of the Bible. Zacharias and Murray capture a revitalized gospel message, presenting it through this Eastern lens and revealing its power afresh to Western hearts and minds. Incorporating story, vivid imagery, and the concepts of honor and shame, sacrifice, and rewards, Seeing Jesus from the East calls believers and skeptics, both Eastern and Western, to a fresh encounter with the living and boundless Jesus.

Author : West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1749
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00059347

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Observations on the History and Evidences of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ by West Pdf

Author : Thomas Cahill
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307807588

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Jesus' Little Instruction Book by Thomas Cahill Pdf

Jesus' teachings have reached across two millenia, inspiring, informing, and uplifting people from all walks of life. In this elegant little volume, a noted religious publisher and biblical student has collected Jesus' key messenges, culled from the Gospels. Organized thematically, Jesus' words speak directly to contemporary lives and convey a man unlike any other man whose life contains a message for all. Engaging and nondoctrinal commentary throughout places the sayings in their historical context and drawn to this simple and beautiful rendering of Jesus' unique--an, even today, unconventional--message for the heart.

Author : Jonny Rashid
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781513810454

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Jesus Takes a Side by Jonny Rashid Pdf

Jesus sides with the oppressed. Will you? In a world divided by left and right, red and blue, many Christians have upheld a “third way” approach in pursuit of moderation, harmony, and unity. But if Christians are more concerned with divisiveness than with faithfulness, we have failed to grasp the gospel’s political demands. We do not see Jesus taking a “third way” between oppressor and oppressed. And as followers of Jesus, neither should we. For the sake of our faith, for the sake of the least of these among us, and for Christ’s sake, Christians need to stand firmly for truth, peace, and justice. In Jesus Takes a Side, author Jonny Rashid lays out the political demands of following Jesus and offers strategies for how to engage politics practically and prophetically—even if it means taking a side.

Author : Kurt Mahlburg
Publisher : Australian Heart Ministries
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1922480096

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Cross and Culture by Kurt Mahlburg Pdf

Author : John Carroll
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781582434650

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The Existential Jesus by John Carroll Pdf

Upending Christianity's popular notion of Jesus the comforter, the good shepherd, the Lord, and the Savior, this completely new exploration of Mark's Life of Jesus reexamines the image presented in this earliest of the New Testament gospels—the mysterious stranger, the singular, abandoned, and solitary figure—and rethinks the current role of Western culture through a radically altered view of Christianity. The existential Jesus has no interest in sin, and his focus is not on an afterlife. He is anti–church, anti–establishment, anti–family, and anti–community; a teacher, with himself his only student, he gestures enigmatically from within his own torturous experience, inviting the reader to walk in his shoes and ask the question, Who am I? This book argues that Jesus is the West's great teacher on the nature of being. Incorporating a new translation of the Gospel of Mark from its original Greek, this radical reinterpretation identifies the philosophical and cultural significance of Jesus in the modern world, based on his life, actions, and reflections.

Author : Anthony
Publisher : Regina Orthodox Press,Csi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1928653286

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West of Jesus by Anthony Pdf

A condensed journey through Church history that establishes the Orthodox Church as the Body of Christ, as the Church founded by the Lord Jesus in the first century as evidenced by the New Testament.

Author : Larry West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1545670544

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Forty Years with Jesus In The Backseat by Larry West Pdf

Forty years: that is how many years author Larry West can attest to placing Jesus in the driver's seat of his life while navigating on his own. His new autobiography, Forty Years with Jesus in the Back Seat, presents several stories from Larry's life where God told him to go one way and he went a different way. He accepted Jesus at a young age, but began to drift away from the Lord while working in the family business and pursuing a career as a car salesman. Larry also shares how the Lord took a back seat during his past three marriages; all actions corresponding to his rejection of Christ's call to ministry. However, something changed in Larry and he journeyed back to the Lord of his youth, realizing his need to repent, need for Jesus, and need to encourage other lukewarm Christians to get Jesus in the driver's seat.

Author : R. S. Sugirtharajah
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674051133

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Jesus in Asia by R. S. Sugirtharajah Pdf

Jesus in the sutras, stele, and suras -- The heavenly elder brother -- A Judean jnana-guru -- The non-existent Jesus -- A Jaffna man's Jesus -- Jesus as a Jain tirthankara -- An Upanishadic mystic -- A minjung messiah -- Jesus in a kimono -- Conclusion: Our Jesus, their Jesus

Author : Donald Q. Cannon,Lyndon W. Cook
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : WISC:89067401570

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Far West Record by Donald Q. Cannon,Lyndon W. Cook Pdf

"...Minutes of various kinds of Church-related meetings (general conferences, high council and priesthood quorum meetings, and special councils) for the period 1830-1844 ... held in New York, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and Nauvoo, Illinois...Nevertheless, a full 80 percent of the total entries are from the Missouri period"--Introd., p. xi-xii.

Author : Tom Holland
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465093526

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Dominion by Tom Holland Pdf

A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for slaves. How astonishing it was, then, that people should have come to believe that one particular victim of crucifixion-an obscure provincial by the name of Jesus-was to be worshipped as a god. Dominion explores the implications of this shocking conviction as they have reverberated throughout history. Today, the West remains utterly saturated by Christian assumptions. As Tom Holland demonstrates, our morals and ethics are not universal but are instead the fruits of a very distinctive civilization. Concepts such as secularism, liberalism, science, and homosexuality are deeply rooted in a Christian seedbed. From Babylon to the Beatles, Saint Michael to #MeToo, Dominion tells the story of how Christianity transformed the modern world.

Author : Phuc Luu
Publisher : Herald Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1513806718

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Jesus of the East by Phuc Luu Pdf

Why does our theology of salvation focus on forgiving sinners, but not on healing those wounded by sin? Much of Western Christianity has subdued the narrative of Jesus as a Palestinian Jewish healer and liberator who served the sick and oppressed. But the Jesus of the Gospels is a revolutionary who stands with the sinned against, the wounded, and the marginalized. In Jesus of the East, author Phuc Luu re-narrates the life of Jesus to show how he made it his work to topple systems that privileged the few and disregarded the many, especially the poor and lowest. In this provocative book, Luu offers a counter-narrative to Western Christianity, which for centuries has legitimized colonization and violence to prop up the powerful at the expense of the masses. Pulling from the tradition of the early Eastern church, the present work of theologians of the oppressed, and Luu’s own experiences as a Vietnamese immigrant, Jesus of the East offers a transformative vision of healing for the world. For those living in the land between pain and hope, Luu’s prophetic words will renew our imaginations and draw us closer to the heart of God.