Disruptive Grace

Disruptive Grace
Author: Walter Brueggemann
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2011
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0800697944

Walter Brueggemann has been one of the leading voices in Hebrew Bible interpretation for decades; his landmark works in Old Testament theology have inspired and informed a generation of students, scholars, and preachers. These chapters gather his recent addresses and essays on every part of the Hebrew Bible, many of them never published before, bringing his erudition to bear on those practices—prophecy, lament, prayer, faithful imagination, and a holy economics—that alone may usher in a humane and peaceful future for our cities.

Disruptive Grace

Disruptive Grace
Author: George Hunsinger
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2000
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802849403

Among the studies of Karl Barth's thought, no other work covers, as this one does, the areas of political, doctrinal, and ecumenical theology in single compass. Written by a leading Barth scholar, Disruptive Grace is unique not only for its range of study, depth of insight, and accuracy of presentation, but also for the way it displays the heart as well as the mind of the great Swiss pastor and theologian. Each of the book's three main sections consists of five major essays. Part 1 relates Barth to contemporary issues of social justice, war, and peace. Part 2 covers christology, pneumatology, the Trinity, scriptural interpretation, and the question of universal salvation. Part 3 discusses the Reformed tradition as Barth understood it in relation to Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, modern liberalism, evangelical conservatism, and the postliberal theology of the contemporary Yale school. The book concludes with a meditation on the saving significance of Christ's death, a theme that runs throughout the book. The result of more than twenty-five years of intensive Barth research, this volume provides scholars, teachers, and students with a thorough discussion of the twentieth century's most significant Christian thinker.

Disruptive Grace - God's Grace for the Good Life

Disruptive Grace - God's Grace for the Good Life
Author: James Wood
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781502382535

1 John 4:17 says, “As Jesus is so are we in this world.” If you were to stop and ponder what Jesus is like right now, how would you stack up against the results? Jesus is not broke, depressed, sick, or living in any sort of want. When you became a Christian (a believer) you not only took on the faith of the Son of God, but you also became a joint heir and a son. The benefits of salvation go far beyond eternal life spent in Heaven. The benefits of salvation stretch throughout all areas of our lives. So why is it that not all Christians are living in victory?The answer to the question is found within the pages of what you are about to read among many additional answers as well as methods and advice that will allow you to walk in victory like you have never known before. God has a disruptive plan for your life so turn the page and open the door to a future that is better than anything you could have ever made happen on your own!

Speechless

Speechless
Author: Steven Curtis Chapman
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2000-08-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780310235828

Steven Curtis Chapman, one of America's best-known contemporary Christian performing artists, and his pastor, Scotty Smith, call believers to join them in the invigorating adventure of grace-based living. Chapman and Smith reveal how God exposed and dismantled legalism in their lives and replaced it with something far greater and more exciting: God's disruptive grace.

Disruptive Witness

Disruptive Witness
Author: Alan Noble
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830881093

What should Christian witness look like in our contemporary society? In this timely book, Alan Noble looks at our cultural moment, characterized by technological distraction and the growth of secularism, laying out individual, ecclesial, and cultural practices that disrupt our society's deep-rooted assumptions and point beyond them to the transcendent grace and beauty of Jesus.

The Disruptive Power Grace

The Disruptive Power Grace
Author: Bola Crown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2019-08-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781944652906

GRACE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE! You most likely always associate grace with beauty, tenderness and harmony, but in this enthralling memoir grace takes on a whole new, disruptive dimension.Written with the unmistakable conviction of a firsthand witness and beneficiary, The Disruptive Power of Grace chronicles the profound ways in which grace interrupted, reconfigured, and rewrote the narrative of the author's life in her education, health, career and relationships.This book is gripping from the very start. It is an instant read-through that will not only keep you engrossed, but also enlightened, encouraged, empowered and, most importantly, expectant of the disruptive interventions of grace in every area of your life!

Disruptive Compassion

Disruptive Compassion
Author: Hal Donaldson
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2019-07-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310355311

Your invitation to move beyond pity, helplessness, and outrage, and your playbook for making a difference right where you are. As the daily newsfeed full of suffering and injustice scrolls by, it's all too easy to question what one person can really do to enact the profound change the world needs. Like moviegoers, we often watch and witness with care, but assume the script has already been written. Disruptive Compassion dares to make a bold counter: you possess the power to provoke real and meaningful change. Why? Because God has empowered you to rewrite the story of tomorrow. Over 2,000 years ago, Jesus created a model for revolutionaries that has been followed ever since. These principles are just as powerful to guide our journey today. With raw and inspiring stories from the world's most desperate places and his own journey to find meaning, Convoy of Hope founder and CEO Hal Donaldson will take you on a tour along the frontlines of courage and compassion. Let this book be your crash course in what it means to become a revolutionary, as you learn how to: Evaluate the resources you already have Navigate real concerns and risks Check your motives And ultimately become equipped as an agitator with purpose With principles and insights gleaned from two decades of relief work, Hal reveals what he's learned from the journey and what we can take with us as we join the revolution.

Redescribing God

Redescribing God
Author: Todd B. Pokrifka
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2010-09-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498271839

Despite the voluminous and ever-growing scholarly literature on Karl Barth, penetrating accounts of his theological method are lacking. In an attempt to fill this lacuna, Todd Pokrifka provides an analysis of Barth's theological method as it appears in his treatment of three divine perfections--unity, constancy, and eternity--in Church Dogmatics, II/1, chapter VI. In order to discern the method by which Barth reaches his doctrinal conclusions, Pokrifka examines the respective roles of Scripture, tradition, and reason--the "threefold cord"--in this portion of the Church Dogmatics. In doing so he finds that for Barth Scripture functions as the authoritative source and basis for theological critique and construction, and tradition and reason are functionally subordinate to Scripture. Yet Barth employs a predominantly indirect way of relating Scripture and theological proposals, a way in which tradition and reason play important "mediatory" roles. Barth's approach to theology involves the humble yet serious attempt to "redescribe God," that is, to say again on a human level what God has already said in the divine self-revelation attested in Scripture. Redescribing God features an original conceptual framework for the analysis of Barth's method and an extensive application of that framework in the context of close readings of portions of the Church Dogmatics. Through this process it draws from, critiques, and complements a wide variety of Barth scholarship on topics such as the role of Scripture and theological exegesis in Barth, the role of tradition in Barth, the meaning and role of "reason" in Barth, and the nature of Barth's doctrine of divine perfections. The book also provides a fruitful basis for those who wish to learn from Barth's distinctive way of constructing the Christian doctrine of God as an attempt to obey God's self-revelation.

A Politics of Grace

A Politics of Grace
Author: Christiane Alpers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567679861

Christiane Alpers discusses the contribution and role Christian theology plays in developing of the democratic life in post-Christendom societies. She discusses the three major approaches to this debate – public theology, Radical Orthodoxy, and post-liberal Protestantism – in order to illustrate the shared assumption that such an enhancement should be understood in terms of solving existing political problems. The volume builds on and combines public theology's aspiration to craft a non-triumphant political theology, fit for a post-Christendom context, Radical Orthodoxy's hesitancy to embrace secularism as neutral centre for present democracies; as well as post-liberalism's Christocentric outlook. Alpers engages with a wide variety of thinkers, such as John Milbank, Graham Ward, John Howard Yoder, Kathryn Tanner and Edward Schillebeeckx; to suggest that a political theology in the post-Christendom context could build on the faith that Christ alone has redeemed the whole world.

Introducing Evangelical Theology

Introducing Evangelical Theology
Author: Daniel J. Treier
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2019-07-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493416774

2020 Christian Book Award® Winner (Bible Reference Works) This textbook offers students a biblically rich, creedally structured, ecumenically evangelical, and ethically engaged introduction to Christian theology. Daniel Treier, coeditor of the popular Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, discusses key Scripture passages, explains Christian theology within the structure of the Nicene Creed, explores the range of evangelical approaches to contested doctrines, acquaints evangelicals with other views (including Orthodox and Catholic), and integrates theological ethics with chapters on the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer. The result is a meaty but manageable introduction to the convictions and arguments shaping contemporary evangelical theology.