Recovering Christian Character
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Author | : Robert C. Roberts |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2022-03-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1467464880 |
Discipleship guidance from the writings of Kierkegaard Genuine Christian character often runs counter to prevailing notions of Christianity—as much in today’s era of nationalistic religiosity as in the staid Christendom of Søren Kierkegaard’s time. Kierkegaard responded to the hypocrisy around him by becoming a missionary of sorts in the Western world. Through his writing he exposed the illusions of conventional wisdom while advancing a compelling vision of the true Christian life that would give rise to essential virtues like faith, hope, love, patience, gratitude, and humility. What might Kierkegaard say to us today about recovering a genuine Christian character amid manifold corruptions of the gospel? Robert C. Roberts guides the reader through Kierkegaard’s thought about character—clarifying while never unduly simplifying—to show how Kierkegaard’s prescient psychological insights can be applied in the lives of twenty-first-century Christians interested in personal formation. Taking on a Kierkegaardian voice of his own, Roberts powerfully illustrates how virtue arises not from the mastery of individual ethical principles but from the continuity of one’s soul with the heart of God.
Author | : Gary L. Colledge |
Publisher | : Baker Books |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2012-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 144123778X |
Charles Dickens's 200th birthday will be celebrated in 2012. Though his writings are now more than 100 years old, many remain in print and are avidly read and studied. Often overlooked--or unknown--are the considerable Christian convictions Dickens held and displayed in his work. This book fills that vacuum by examining Dickens the Christian and showing how Christian beliefs and practices permeate his work. This historical work is written for pastors, students, and laity alike. Chapters look at Dickens's life and work topically, arguing that Christian faith was front and center in some of what Dickens wrote (such as his children's work The Life of Our Lord) and saliently implicit throughout various other characters and plots. Since Dickens's Christian side is rarely considered, Gary Colledge illuminates a fresh angle of Dickens, and the 200th birthday makes it especially timely.
Author | : Chistine D. Pohl |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1999-08-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780802844316 |
For most of church history, hospitality was central to Christian identity. Yet our generation knows little about this rich, life-giving practice.
Author | : Rachel Reiland |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2009-07-30 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1592857779 |
With astonishing honesty, this memoir reveals what mental illness looks and feels like from the inside, and how healing from borderline personality disorder is possible through intensive therapy and the support of loved ones. With astonishing honesty, this memoir, Get Me Out of Here, reveals what mental illness looks and feels like from the inside, and how healing from borderline personality disorder is possible through intensive therapy and the support of loved ones. A mother, wife, and working professional, Reiland was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder at the age of 29--a diagnosis that finally explained her explosive anger, manipulative behaviors, and self-destructive episodes including bouts of anorexia, substance abuse, and promiscuity. A truly riveting read with a hopeful message. Excerpt: "My hidden secrets were not well-concealed. The psychological profile had been right as had the books on BPD. I was manipulative, desperately clinging and prone to tantrums, explosiveness, and frantic acts of desperation when I did not feel the intimacy connection was strong enough. The tough chick loner act of self-reliance was a complete facade."
Author | : Timothy Keller |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2008-10-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 144063789X |
The New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet uncovers the essential message of Jesus, locked inside his most familiar parable. Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller "a C.S. Lewis for the twenty-first century" in a feature on his first book, The Reason for God. In that book, he offered a rational explanation of why we should believe in God. Now, in The Prodigal God, Keller takes his trademark intellectual approach to understanding Christianity and uses the parable of the prodigal son to reveal an unexpected message of hope and salvation. Within that parable Jesus reveals God's prodigal grace toward both the irreligious and the moralistic. This book will challenge both the devout and skeptics to see Christianity in a whole new way.
Author | : John W. Loftus |
Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1616141689 |
In this anthology of recent criticisms aimed at the reasonableness of Christian belief, former evangelical minister and apologist Loftus has assembled fifteen outstanding articles by leading skeptics, expanding on themes introduced in Loftus' first book.
Author | : J.D. Greear |
Publisher | : B&H Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1433673940 |
Could the gospel be lost in evangelical churches? In this book, J.D. Greear shows how moralism and legalism have often eclipsed the gospel, even in conservative churches. Gospel cuts through the superficiality of religion and reacquaints you with the revolutionary truth of God's gracious acceptance of us in Christ. The gospel is the power of God, and the only true source of joy, freedom, radical generosity, and audacious faith. The gospel produces in us what religion never could: a heart that desires God. The book’s core is a “gospel prayer” by which you can saturate yourself in the gospel daily. Dwelling on the gospel will release in you new depths of passion for God and take you to new heights of obedience to Him. Gospel gives you an applicable, exciting vision of how God will use you to bring His healing to the world.
Author | : Dale Ryan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1990-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780830811526 |
Author | : George Winston |
Publisher | : Xulon Press |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2003-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1591601827 |
Author | : Terri S. Watson |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0830885285 |
Terri S. Watson equips you to excel in "the helping profession within a helping profession" as you provide clinical supervision for other mental health workers. Grounding our thinking in the historic and contemporary wisdom of virtue ethics, this resource aims to identify and strengthen supervision's important role for character formation in the classroom, in continuing education for practitioners, and in clinical settings.