The Scandal of Jesus

2001-01-01 Religion

Author : Vinoth Ramachandra
Release : 2001-01-01
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book The Scandal of Jesus written by Vinoth Ramachandra. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is something about Jesus that from the beginning has been distasteful, even scandalous, says Vinoth Ramachandra. In this booklet you'll join Ramachandra in an exploration of this Jesus, exploring what made him so outrageous when he walked on earth, what makes him unique today and why his scandalous claims must be true.

The Scandal of the Gospel

2021-10-26 Religion

Author : Charles L. Campbell
Release : 2021-10-26
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 207/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Scandal of the Gospel written by Charles L. Campbell. This book was released on 2021-10-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through its shocking incongruities and transgressive forms, the grotesque offers an intriguing lens for exploring the scandal of the gospel and the challenges of Christian preaching. Drawing on diverse sources—from Swedish crime fiction and contemporary poetry to James Cone, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Pussy Riot—this book will examine the theological, homiletical, and social implications of a grotesque gospel for contemporary preachers. The book focuses on three aspects of preaching and the grotesque: (1) the ways in which a grotesque gospel unsettles the preacher and challenges the "false patterns" that often shape Christian preaching; (2) the importance and challenges of resisting the weaponized grotesque, which dehumanizes people and furthers the power of dominant groups; (3) the incarnate Word as the carnivalesque, grotesque body of Jesus, which calls the church to become the porous and inclusive body of Christ. The Scandal of the Gospel is the written adaptation of Yale Divinity School's Beecher Lectures, given by Charles Campbell in 2018. The last chapter, "Preaching and the Environmental Grotesque," is a new addition.

The Jesus Scandals

2012-04-23 Religion

Author : David Instone-Brewer
Release : 2012-04-23
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book The Jesus Scandals written by David Instone-Brewer. This book was released on 2012-04-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's aim is to help thinking lay persons and people preparing sermons to apply NT ethics within a modern culture, while still remaining faithful to the text - by taking into account the ancient culture. This is high quality scholarship at a very accessible level. Over the centuries Jesus's teaching on ethical matters has often become muted and distorted. This book sets the matter straight. Here are 30 areas of ethical debate: in each context Jesus offered insights which would have left his contemporaries agape. They range from singleness (rare: could Jesus be trusted?) to abortion (unwanted children were strangled, and the early church notably took a strong stance against this practice) to sexual immorality (the NT church had an unusually high number of people who had been sexually promiscuous) to boasting (Jesus taught his disciples to take lowly titles as he did for himself, but the church ignored him).

The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

2022-03-15 Religion

Author : Mark A. Noll
Release : 2022-03-15
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind written by Mark A. Noll. This book was released on 2022-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Christianity Today Book of the Year Award (1995) “The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.” So begins this award-winning intellectual history and critique of the evangelical movement by one of evangelicalism’s most respected historians. Unsparing in his indictment, Mark Noll asks why the largest single group of religious Americans—who enjoy increasing wealth, status, and political influence—have contributed so little to rigorous intellectual scholarship. While nourishing believers in the simple truths of the gospel, why have so many evangelicals failed to sustain a serious intellectual life and abandoned the universities, the arts, and other realms of “high” culture? Over twenty-five years since its original publication, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind has turned out to be prescient and perennially relevant. In a new preface, Noll lays out his ongoing personal frustrations with this situation, and in a new afterword he assesses the state of the scandal—showing how white evangelicals’ embrace of Trumpism, their deepening distrust of science, and their frequent forays into conspiratorial thinking have coexisted with surprisingly robust scholarship from many with strong evangelical connections.

The Misunderstood Jew

2009-10-13 Religion

Author : Amy-Jill Levine
Release : 2009-10-13
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book The Misunderstood Jew written by Amy-Jill Levine. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the The Misunderstood Jew, scholar Amy-Jill Levine helps Christians and Jews understand the "Jewishness" of Jesus so that their appreciation of him deepens and a greater interfaith dialogue can take place. Levine's humor and informed truth-telling provokes honest conversation and debate about how Christians and Jews should understand Jesus, the New Testament, and each other.

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