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.

Blessed Excess

Blessed Excess
Author: Stephen H. Webb
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780791413579

The Ethics of Disruption in Business

The Ethics of Disruption in Business
Author: Stephanie Ann Puen
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2024-11-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 166678558X

"Disruption" is a buzzword for many economists and businesses, but how do we ethically disrupt the way we do business and economics in order to lift people up? This book offers resources from a conversation between Catholic social thought and design thinking in response to the question. Drawing from the understanding of structures of sin and structures of grace in Catholic social thought and the concepts of design thinking, this book offers principles to consider in trying to disrupt our business and economic systems toward becoming more like structures of grace.

Disruptive Discipleship

Disruptive Discipleship
Author: Sam Van Eman
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2017-08-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830890815

What can we do when we feel stuck? Sam Van Eman has found that our spiritual lives need disruptive experiences to jolt and reorient us. Filled with concrete examples of how ordinary people are shaped by pursuing these out-of-the-ordinary experiences, this book provides a path to deeper faith on purpose.

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 Presence of Grace and Other Book Reviews by Flannery O'Connor

The Presence of Grace and Other Book Reviews by Flannery O'Connor
Author: Flannery O'Connor
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2008-03-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0820331392

During the 1950s and early 1960s Flannery O'Connor wrote more than a hundred book reviews for two Catholic diocesan newspapers in Georgia. This full collection of these reviews nearly doubles the number that have appeared in print elsewhere and represents a significant body of primary materials from the O'Connor canon. We find in the reviews the same personality so vividly apparent in her fiction and her lectures--the unique voice of the artist that is one clear sign of genius. Her spare precision, her humor, her extraordinary ability to permit readers to see deeply into complex and obscure truths-all are present in these reviews and letters.

The Arts of Disruption

The Arts of Disruption
Author: Nicolette Zeeman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2020
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198860242

This volume offers original readings of Piers Plowman and rethinks the genre of allegorical narrative in the Middle Ages. It presents five studies of allegorical narratives with implications for different aspects of medieval culture.

Iconoclastic Sex

Iconoclastic Sex
Author: Henry Walter Spaulding III
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2024-03-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725287226

Christian sexual ethics operates from a place of privilege when it does not consider those impacted by its moral prescriptions. A large majority of publications on Christian sexual ethics consider choices and images abstracted from lived conditions of the people called to make these decisions. As such, it leaves out many for whom sex is neither welcome nor a choice. As such, these same texts present images of sexual subjects that marginalize those that do not fit. As the book presents, sexuality, both Christian and otherwise, prioritizes a language of purity that strangles the life of those imaged impure. The present book remedies this emphasis through the language of iconoclasm that blasphemes these images and opens theological reflection beyond the boundary of image-based approaches. Utilizing a qualitative study of survivors of trafficking and those who grew up under evangelical purity teachings, Spaulding narrates sexual ethics in light of their testimonies and the theological resources of iconoclasm to articulate a more just and loving sexuality. The new emphasis on sexual ethics not only resists the prescriptions that create the conditions of sex trafficking but the creation of new communities capable of solidarity and mutuality with those caught in the web of trafficking.

Intrusive God, Disruptive Gospel

Intrusive God, Disruptive Gospel
Author: Matthew L. Skinner
Publisher: Brazos Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2015-09-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441248609

This engaging book guides readers through one of the most colorful books of the Bible, illuminating passages from Acts that show the Christian gospel expressing itself through the lives, speech, struggles, and adventures of Jesus's followers. The book emphasizes the disruptive character of the Christian gospel and shows how Acts repeatedly describes God as upsetting the status quo by changing people's lives, society's conventions, and our basic expectations of what's possible. Suited for individual and group study, this book by a New Testament scholar with a gift for popular communication asks serious questions and eschews pat answers, bringing Acts alive for contemporary reflection on the character of God, the challenges of faith, and the church.