John Henry Newman and the Development of Doctrine: Encountering Change, Looking for Continuity, Morgan Stephen

Автор: Hoffman Lawrence A. Rabbi
Название: Encountering God: El Rachum V`Chanun God Merciful and Gracious
ISBN: 1580238548 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781580238540
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It is time to recover rabbinic lessons of late antiquity: God is a God of grace and love; human beings can aspire to goodness and promise; on Yom Kippur the two of them meet--God's love energizes human potential and the world is reborn with hope restored.

The God of Jewish tradition is far from the strict God of justice commonly understood to be the God of the Hebrew Bible. God's self-introduction to Moses atop Mount Sinai does indeed conclude with the image of punishment throughout the generations but begins with God merciful and gracious, the imagery that finds its way into rabbinic liturgy and lore as solely the God of grace and compassion, pardon and love.

To arrive at this selective perception of biblical tradition, the Rabbis of the Talmud deliberately misread the biblical text, and then fashioned a myth of God who dresses up as a leader of prayer and promises pardon if Israel will only repeat these merciful attributes as part of its prayer ritual on that day. Ever since, the Thirteen Attributes--as the list comes to be known--becomes central to Jewish prayer, accompanying the liturgy for holidays generally, and framing the opening and closing services of the holiest day in the Jewish year, Yom Kippur, the "Day of Judgment" itself.

In this seventh volume in the Prayers of Awe Series, contributors--men and women, rabbis and laypeople, scholars and artists from across the spectrum of Jewish life, and representing the US, Israel, the UK, Germany, France, Canada, and Australia--chart the importance of these Thirteen Attributes of God. They explore the kind of God Jews meet in prayer and the consequent self-reflection about the human condition that Judaism recommends on the basis of its idealized image of God as, above all, merciful and gracious.

Автор: McKinlay Neil Cullan
Название: Jesus for the Layman: Encountering the Son of God
ISBN: 1908898836 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781908898838
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The question: 'Can you convince the reader Jesus is the

Son of God?' Neil Cullan McKinlay picks up the gauntlet thrown down by a friend seeking the definitive answer to a question which has tested theologians for centuries. One man claimed to be 'the way, the truth, and the life'. He was nailed to a cross and cried out in dying despair: 'My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?' Make no mistake: To understand precisely what happened here is to accept responsibility for your part in this. With this book, you will face a choice. Be careful what you wish for. The author - The answer: Neil Cullan McKinlay, is a Scots-Canadian who lives in Australia, where he is a chaplain in the Australian Defence Force. He is the author of 28 books, produced with his trademark touch of reducing elusive complexities to accessible simplicities. His path to Christ took him from his native Scotland to the harsh winters of Manitoba where he was given a book as a gift, the Bible. It was to be the gift of life. His ministry is characterised by the shipyard wit of his Scottish inheritance, and the robust thought conferred by the Reformation. Without ostentation and with Calvinist clarity, his work persists in turning everything to the service of Christ; yet he claims no credit for it. 'Can you convince the reader Jesus is the Son of God?' he is asked. His answer is simple: 'Let me be up front. I don't believe that I am able to do so. Only God can do that. However, God uses means to convince people of things.'

This book is such an instrument.

Автор: Rebecca Todd Peters, Grace Yia-Hei Kao
Название: Encountering the Sacred: Feminist Reflections on Women`s Lives
ISBN: 056768301X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780567683014
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Many women of faith are interested in having deep conversations with their friends and families about issues they face in their personal lives. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of feminist and theologically progressive materials for these women to turn to for counsel or advice. Simultaneously, there are a growing number of theologically trained biblical scholars, theologians, and ministers who are experiencing similar life challenges, but who are generally discouraged from writing about these experiences in ways that would be accessible to the general public. This book bridges the chasm between Christian laywomen and feminist theologians. For the last fifty years, feminist theologians have sought to reimagine Christian theology in ways that speak to the realities and complexities of women’s lives. They have also sought to use women’s experience as the starting point for theological reflection in the same way that men’s lives have shaped the history of Christian theology for the past 2000 years. In this book, feminist Christian scholars of theology and religion use the tools of their trade to examine powerful personal life experiences and to search for new and empowering ways of understanding the power of the sacred as they have experienced it.