Quest For Faith
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Author | : Robert De Moor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781592554317 |
Help teens and young adults answer basic questions about the Christian faith and our Reformed heritage. Explore 65 "quests" in seven chapters. This study is great for helping people speak clearly and knowledgeably about what they believe. Use in youth groups, preprofession classes, young adult groups, and new believer classes.
Author | : Terryl Givens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2014-09-08 |
Genre | : Faith |
ISBN | : 9781609079420 |
This insightful book offers a careful, intelligent look at doubt--at some of its common sources, the challenges it presents, and the opportunities it may open up in a person's quest for faith.
Author | : Brian D. McLaren |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2000-06-27 |
Genre | : Apologetics |
ISBN | : 0310238382 |
Is there a God? - What might God be like? - What is the relationship between faith and certainty? - Can intelligent people believe in spiritual realities? - Why are there so many religions? - Is it possible to experience a relationship with God--and if so, how? If you've asked questions like these, you're in good company. From songwriters such as Bob Dylan and Jewel Kilcher to TV shows such as The X Files and Touched by an Angel, the media and the arts reflect postmodern men and women's search for a living faith and a spiritually oriented life. Real faith isn't blind believism. It is a process that engages your intellect as well as your emotions. If you think faith requires turning your back on truth and intellectual honesty, then Finding Faith is one book you really ought to read. With logic, passion, and even-handedness that the thinking person will appreciate, this book helps you face your obstacles to faith by focusing not on what to believe, but on how to believe. Whether you want to strengthen the faith you have, renew the faith you lost, or discover faith for the first time, Finding Faith can coach, inspire, encourage, and guide you, and help you discover more in life than you'd ever imagined or hoped for.
Author | : Richard Flory |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2008-02-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0813544262 |
Despite the masses still lining up to enter mega-churches with warehouse-like architecture, casually dressed clergy, and pop Christian music, the “Post-Boomer” generation—those ranging in age from twenty to forty—is having second thoughts. In this perceptive look at the evolving face of Christianity in contemporary culture, sociologists Richard Flory and Donald E. Miller argue that we are on the verge of another potential revolution in how Christians worship and associate with one another. Just as the formative experiences of Baby Boomers were colored by such things as the war in Vietnam, the 1960s, and a dramatic increase in their opportunities for individual expression, so Post-Boomers have grown up in less structured households with working (often divorced) parents. These childhood experiences leave them craving authentic spiritual experience, rather than entertainment, and also cause them to question institutions. Flory and Miller develop a typology that captures four current approaches to the Christian faith and argue that this generation represents a new religious orientation of “expressive communalism,” in which they seek spiritual experience and fulfillment in community and through various expressive forms of spirituality, both private and public.
Author | : Archie J. Spencer |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2015-09-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830840680 |
If God is transcendent, how can human beings speak meaningfully about him? The answer lies in analogy, which recognizes both similarity and dissimilarity between God and our God-talk. In his erudite study, Archie Spencer argues for a christological account of analogy as the answer to the problem of God's speakability.
Author | : Joseph Loconte |
Publisher | : Thomas Nelson |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2012-06-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1595554475 |
Never before had they known such hope. In a world drenched in violence and oppression, here was a man armed with a message of peace and freedom. Into lives nearly overwhelmed by grief and sorrow, he brought compassion and healing and the deepest joy. To people who felt like outcasts and aliens, he showed the way home. And then, in one devastating night, all their hopes collapsed. This is where our story begins—in the valley of despair. It is a tale of two friends, a stranger, and a search for truth in a world gone mad with doubt. Historian Joseph Loconte unlocks the meaning of their exchange, set in the chaotic days following the execution of Jesus of Nazareth. Drawing from literature, film, philosophy, history, and politics, Loconte shows how this biblical drama is an integral part of our own story. Sooner or later, we will find ourselves among the searchers.
Author | : Tom Beaudoin |
Publisher | : Jossey-Bass |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000-07-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780787955274 |
Reveals the deep and pervasive search for meaning that haunts Generation X. This book is must reading for anyone who would understand the spirituality of young people at the turn of a new millennium.--Robert A. Ludwig, author of Reconstructing Catholicism for a New Generation In Virtual Faith, Beaudoin explores fashion, music videos, and cyberspace concluding that his generation has fashioned a theology radically different from, but no less potent or valid than, that of their elders. Beaudoin's investigation of popular culture uncovers four themes that underpin his generation?s theology. First, all institutions are suspect -- especially organized religion. Second, personal experience is everything, and every form of intense personal experience is potentially spiritual. Third, suffering is also spiritual. Finally, this generation sees ambiguity as a central element of faith. This book opens a long overdue conversation about where and how we find meaning, and how we all can encourage each other in this central human searching. Tom Beaudoin earned his Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University School of Divinity in 1996 and is currently working toward a Ph.D. in Religion and Education at Boston College.
Author | : Wessel Stoker |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : God |
ISBN | : 9789042000407 |
Author | : Annette U. Flynn |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2009-08-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1847060536 |
The first book to highlight the spiritual element in Borges' work - this work offers an insightful and scholarly interpretation of a fundamental facet of his writing.
Author | : Lyman C.D. Kulathungam |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2019-12-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532647565 |
Why bother with God when he is viewed as a sacred superstition, a discarded non-entity, or a pretext for religious wars? Jews and Christians have doubted and discarded God at many times throughout the ages, and have also justified countless conflicts in his name. Their history, however, tells a different story. Here we observe the historical reality of God's relentless quest to relate with people, whether Jew or gentile. Despite significant differences between these communities, this is the DNA that binds them and places them in a paradigm different from the one articulated in The Quest: Christ Amidst the Quest, where people are seeking to be freed from their predicament. The Judeo-Christian narrative shows God's incessant quest orchestrated through various channels, such as scriptural revelation, miraculous interventions, covenantal commitments, divine presence in the tabernacle or the temple, God's sacrificial incarnation in Christ, and the advent of the anticipated Jewish Messiah. The narrative climaxes in a grand finale when humans and their habitat will be ushered into an age of peace and harmony. Journeying through such a narrative will provide assurance that God is walking with you amidst life's turmoil, and that the best is yet to be.