Willingness To Die And The Gift Of Life

Author : Paul K.-K. Cho
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467465359

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Willingness to Die and the Gift of Life by Paul K.-K. Cho Pdf

One particularly challenging aspect of the Hebrew Bible is its treatment of various forms of voluntary death: suicide, suicide attack, martyrdom, and self-sacrifice. How can people of faith make sense of the ways biblical literature at times valorizes these sensitive and painful topics? Willingness to Die and the Gift of Life surveys a diverse selection of Hebrew Bible narratives that feature characters who express a willingness to die, including Moses, Judah, Samson, Esther, Job, Daniel, and the “suffering servant” of Isaiah 53. The challenging truth uncovered is that the Hebrew Bible, while taking seriously the darker aspects of voluntary death, nevertheless time and again valorizes the willingness to die—particularly when it is for the sake of the group or in faithful commitment to God. Many biblical authors go so far as to suggest that death willingly embraced can unlock immense power: endowing the willing with the charism necessary to lead, opening the possibility of salvation, and even paving the way for resurrection into a new, more glorious life. Paul K.-K. Cho’s unflinching analysis raises and wrestles with provocative questions about religious extremism, violent terrorism, and suicidal ideation —all of which carry significant implications for the biblically grounded life of faith today. Cho carefully situates the surveyed texts in their original cultural context, discussing relevant topics such the shame and honor culture of ancient Israel and the importance attached to the group over the individual. Closing with an epilogue that reflects on the surprising issue of whether biblical authors considered God to be capable of dying or being willing to die, Cho’s fascinating study showcases the multifaceted relationship between death and life in the Hebrew Bible.

Author : David Gibson
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433556302

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Living Life Backward by David Gibson Pdf

What if it is death that teaches us how to truly live? Keeping the end in mind shapes how we live our lives in the here and now. Living life backward means taking the one thing in our future that is certain—death—and letting that inform our journey before we get there. Looking to the book of Ecclesiastes for wisdom, Living Life Backward was written to shake up our expectations and priorities for what it means to live "the good life." Considering the reality of death helps us pay attention to our limitations as human beings and receive life as a wondrous gift from God—freeing us to live wisely, generously, and faithfully for God's glory and the good of his world.

Author : Sarah J. Robinson
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780593193532

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I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die by Sarah J. Robinson Pdf

A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.

Author : PAUL K. K. CHO
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802875416

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Willingness to Die and the Gift of Life: Suicide and Martyrdom in the Hebrew Bible by PAUL K. K. CHO Pdf

Author : Paula L. Taylor
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781465316844

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A Gift For Life by Paula L. Taylor Pdf

Imagine being told that your child is going to die, more than 2 years before it happens. You don’t know how much time you will have with the child, which child it will be, or even how the child will die... In a book called A Gift For Life, author Paula L. Taylor shares the heartbreaking pain of losing her son. But through a gift of love from her beloved aunt and godmother, and her never-ending faith, Paula was able to take these gifts and turn them into hope for herself and her family. With these gifts of love, faith, and hope, Paula finds a way to put them all together, uses them to move forward, and in the end, discovers a gift for life.

Author : Frank Hall,Lory Nurenberg,Craig D. B. Patton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1949122166

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In Death, the Gift of Life by Frank Hall,Lory Nurenberg,Craig D. B. Patton Pdf

In Death, the Gift of Life is a book meant to open an important conversation starting on the local level. Inspired by one son's experience with his father's end-of-life passage, this anthology contains the stories of ten individuals from the town of Westport, Connecticut. It asks readers to examine what end-of-life choices and options are available, as well as the challenges faced by those who have transformative and terminal illnesses. Each moving narrative explores men and women who have faced the modern medical establishment head-on, and then deliberately embraced courage and grace in the aftermath. These individuals have influenced an entire community with their unique views about living and dying well, and will continue to inspire through the power of their stories.

Author : James J. Hackett
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781647020583

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Precious Memories: God's Gift of Life by James J. Hackett Pdf

Precious Memories: God's Gift of Life By: James J. Hackett Monsignor Oscar Aquino commented that upon reading this book, he sensed the presence of God in each memory. Father Joseph Franco, a VA Chaplin, was moved to use excerpts in his ministry. Father Wilfred Dodo uses passages in his homilies. Another reader described the book as “inspirational” and it has encouraged an additional reader to begin to author his own.

Author : S. G. Mimlance
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1434390675

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The Gift from Life by S. G. Mimlance Pdf

While a serving of fruits and vegetables picked by the hands of migrant farm workers adds sustenance to the American diet, infants and children are exposed to harmful pesticides. Misery, suffering, violence illness, and death may be the worker's only harvest. This memoir details the lives of a subculture in our society, a population large enough to constitute a small nation. Peacocks of the Fields: Working Life of Migrant Farm Workers Depicts the lives of two migrant work crews composed of 50 workers, pulling sweet corn and picking red ripe tomatoes in the East Coast Migrant Stream over a migrant work season during the late 1970's. The name Kwan in this memoir is the alias for Emiel Owens, a 46-year old African American, and the Principal Investigator. Kwan shares his experience during the year as a member of the two migrant crews, highlighting how they travel, where they work, what income they earn, how they survive in deplorable work camps, and how competition for scare economic and human resources under constrained camp living conditions lead to human discards, violence and in some cases, death. As I start picking tomatoes to day, I wasn't aware that there were two separate work crews in the field. The female tomato checker with the black-and-white straw hat is with Humberto's crew; Rosa, her sister, and two brothers make up Sam's crew. Today, there is a territorial dominance intrusion between these two crews. As the two crews move toward each other, they find themselves competing for scarce fruit in a limited row space, tempers flare and a physical altercation almost takes place in the field between members of two crews. Suddenly, things become quiet and both crews leave the field. About 6:00 P.M., the two conflicting crews meet again at the Lee Brother Commissary in the labor camp. The conflict escalates to violence. Sam and his brother, Amulso, meet Humberto, his brother Francisco, and two other workers, Alexon and Jorge in a gun duel inside the bar at the commissary. When the smoke clears a few moments later, Rosa's brothers, Sam and Amulso, have mortally wounded Humberto and Francisco by shooting them almost at point-blank range in the neck with a sawed-off shotgun. Alexon is shot in the right side and paralyzed and Jorge is wounded, although less severely. In spite of their mortal wounds, Humberto and Francisco walk slowly through the front door of the bar into the night and disappear. They hold back the blood pouring from their neck wounds with their hands as blood runs down their arms onto their chests. Sam and Amulso walk out behind them and they too disappear in the night unharmed.

Author : Francis J. Moloney, S.D.B.
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781587684463

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Experiencing God in the Gospel of John by Francis J. Moloney, S.D.B. Pdf

A theological study on the Gospel of John that is strongly determined by contemporary biblical scholarship.

Author : John Hunt
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789048117

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Bringing God Up to Date by John Hunt Pdf

Religion is an essential part of our humanity. We all follow some form of religion, in the original meaning of the word. But organized religion establishes definitions, boundaries and hierarchies which the founders would be amazed by. This is perhaps more true of Christianity than most other religions, due to the short life of Jesus, his sudden death, the lack of any contemporary records. His teaching about the kingdom of God is great; it could see us through our time on earth. But his followers watered it down and soon lost it altogether. It became a kingdom in heaven for the few, rather than one here and now for everyone. The Church, or Churches, that resulted became increasingly irrelevant, even a hindrance, to seeing it realized. Many will always find security and truth in the traditions that developed, and good for them. But for those who can't, for those who have given up on religion or never thought it worth considering, the original teachings are worth another look. If we could recover them and live by them, we could change ourselves and the world for the better. We could bring God up to date.

Author : Michael J. Gorman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532615450

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Abide and Go by Michael J. Gorman Pdf

The Gospel of John would seem to be both the “spiritual Gospel” and a Gospel that promotes Christian mission. Some interpreters, however, have found John to be the product of a sectarian community that promotes a very narrow view of Christian mission and advocates neither love of neighbor nor love of enemy. In this book for both the academy and the church, Michael Gorman argues that John has a profound spirituality that is robustly missional, and that it can be summarized in the paradoxical phrase “Abide and go,” from John 15. Disciples participate in the divine love and life, and therefore in the life-giving mission of God manifested in the ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus. As God’s children, disciples become more and more like this missional God as they become like his Son by the work of the Spirit. This spirituality, argues Gorman, can be called missional theosis.

Author : William Robert West
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781449715045

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A Resurrection to Immortality by William Robert West Pdf

Life is the most important possession we have. Without it, there is nothing. Only by the resurrection at the second coming of Christ will anyone have life after death. After the resurrection, the fate of those who are in Christ: [1] Eternal life [Romans 6:23] [2]"Shall inherit eternal life" [Matthew 19:29] [3] After the judgment they "shall go away into eternal life" [Matthew 25:46] [4] Will "have eternal life" [John 3:5] [5] Christ will raise them up on the last day [John 6:40] [6] Will be immortal after the resurrection [1 Corinthians 15:5156] [7] Will have incorruption [1 Corinthians 15:42] [8] Will have glory [1 Corinthians 15:43] [9] Will be like Christ "We shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is" [1 John 3:2] [10] Are "heirs according to the hope of eternal life" [Titus 3:7] [11] Will have a spiritual body [1 Corinthians 15:44] [12] "And as we have borne the image of the earthly (The earthly flesh and blood body of Adam was made to live on this earth but it "cannot inherit the kingdom of God" 1 Corinthians 15:50), we shall also bear the image of the heavenly" (Shall be like the spiritual body of Christ for life in Heaven) [1 Corinthians 15:4756] [13] "Will never perish" [John 10:28] [14] Forever with the Lord [1 Thessalonians 4:17] [15] Many mansions in my father's house: "In my Father's house (Who is in Heaven, Matthew 5:16; 5:45; 5:48; 6:1; 6:9; 7:21; 10:3233) are many mansions...I go to prepare a place for you."

Author : B. G. Patterson
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781449751074

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The King Is Coming by B. G. Patterson Pdf

Jesus the Christ is the only person in the history of the world whose life was completely foretold from conception to his death on the cross and resurrection. This book was compiled and illustrated for parents, grandparents and foster parents to teach the children, for Sunday schools, jail mimistries and home Bible studies. It was written for both the believer and non-believer.

Author : W.D. Lewis
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781664242753

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Life God's Gracious Gift by W.D. Lewis Pdf

God is looking for people who will commit their lives for the sake of his Kingdom. God is looking for people who will move from the conversion experience to live as Christ lives. God is looking for people who will become Christ like. That kind of life takes more than courage. It takes more than insight. It takes the very Spirit of Christ, living within us and empowering our lives every day! If you will commit your life to Jesus Christ, you will begin to think just as he thinks. The Savior will enable you to lay your life on the line as he did! You must spend your life on something, why not make it something eternal?

Author : Emma Tumilty,Michele Battle-Fisher
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031143281

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Transhumanism: Entering an Era of Bodyhacking and Radical Human Modification by Emma Tumilty,Michele Battle-Fisher Pdf

This book surveys the distinctions that underlie the unbound potential and existential risks of life expansion and radical modifications posed by a transhuman world. Humanness is in flux as human bodies are being hacked and altered in their quest for super wellness, super intelligence and super longevity. Now is the time to discuss how best to think about dealing with bodies that have been hacked to exceed natural physical limits or more technically, species typical functioning. Enter the advent of transhumanism to take uncertainty by the horns. According to transhumanists, death is unnecessary and medical conventions undermine the possibility to radically evolve. To biohackers, there is no need to wait to explore the risks that conventional medicine dares not. This book is of interest to anyone interested in tapping into this growing movement of modifying the human body as it is right now.