Proverbs Of Ashes
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Author | : Rita Nakashima Brock |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2015-06-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0807067881 |
Rebecca Parker was a young minister in Seattle when a woman walked into her church and asked if God really wanted her to accept her husband's beatings and bear them gladly, as Jesus bore the cross. Parker knew, at that moment, that if she were to answer the woman's question truthfully she would have to rethink her theology. And she would have to think hard about some of the choices she was making in her own life. When Rita Nakashima Brock was a young child growing up in Kansas, kids taunted her viciously, calling her names like "Chink" or "Jap." She learned to pretend that she did not feel the sting of scorn and the humiliation of contempt. The solitude and silence of her suffering-decreed by both her mother's Japanese culture and her father's Christian heritage-kept the wound alive. It was the gap between knowledge born of personal experience and traditional theology that led Rita Brock and Rebecca Parker to write this emotionally gripping and intellectually rich exploration of the doctrine of the atonement. Using an unusual combination of memoir and theology in the tradition of Augustine's Confessions, they lament the inadequacy of how Christian tradition has interpreted the violence that happened to Jesus. Ultimately, they argue, the idea that the death of Jesus on the cross saves us reveals a sanctioning of violence at the heart of Christianity. Brock and Parker draw on a wide array of intimate stories about family violence, the sexual abuse of children, racism, homophobia, and war to reveal how they came to understand the widespread damage being done by this theology. But the authors also undertake their own arduous and unexpected journeys to recover from violence and to assist others to do so. On these journeys they discover communities that begin to give them the strength to question the destructive ideas they have internalized, and the strength to seek out an alternative vision of Christianity, one based on healing and love. Proverbs of Ashes is both a condemnation of bad theology and a passionate search for what truly saves us.
Author | : T. E. Reynolds |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2009-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1434370062 |
Author | : Rita Nakashima Brock |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780807067505 |
"Saving Paradise" offers a fascinating new lens on the history of Christianity, asking how its early vision of beauty evolved into a vision of torture, and what changes in society and theology marked that evolution.
Author | : Zac Poonen |
Publisher | : CFCINDIA Bangalore |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : 819056580X |
Author | : J. K. Burr |
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Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : Walter Lock |
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Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson |
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Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : Gregory Anderson Love |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2010-08-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1621890783 |
Does God use violence to redeem us? What is the relationship between divine love and violence in regard to the saving significance of the cross of Christ? In Love, Violence, and the Cross, Gregory Love dialogues with two responses to this question, while presenting a third alternative in which Jesus's death is simultaneously a crime and an element of God's saving actions. Through familiar stories in history, literature, and film, Love presents five constructive models that cumulatively affirm God's saving act in the person and work of Christ while letting go the myth of redemptive violence. They affirm redemption, but one with a different shape: Instead of exacting the absolute punishment, God redeems by "making good" God's promise to humanity to secure human life. Love argues that God is nonviolent, while retaining the core idea presented in the New Testament witnesses: that reconciliation occurs in the work of Christ, and that the cross plays a role in that divine work.
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Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1914 |
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Author | : T. E. Reynolds |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2009-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1438946805 |
In 1859 South Carolina on the threshold of war. The end to an era bodly knocked on every SOuthern door until even the peacemakers had no recourse but to allow its entrance. Without mercy, the war changed SOuthern lives forever. No amount of blood sacrifice shed during those tragic four years would atone for errors of past generations or gain empathy for those who so bravely fought for southern independence.