Author: Walter Brueggemann
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666715190
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Biblical utterance, in contrast to the sounds of power and certitude, offers imaginative probes into the mystery of God’s creation and into the hidden complexities of human hurt and human hope. Thus the dialect of the Bible is offered in relational terms, so that the key ingredients to lived reality characteristically concern justice and righteousness, steadfast love, faithfulness, and compassion. Insofar as the church relies upon and attests to this dialect, we may expect that in church we will speak in a different rhetoric, and consequently we will speak about different subject matter. To be sure, the church is sometimes seduced away from this relational dialect to speak in cadences that are elementally alien to the Bible and to the claims of the gospel. Such seduction of the church takes place, for example, when our nation is at war and the church is tempted to reflect and reiterate the force of that social reality. Or such seduction occurs when the church is captured by any ism, notably in our time, racism or nationalism. Or alternatively, ideological conservatism that craves the language of certitude or ideological liberalism that is easily bewitched by the rhetoric of psychology or the market. When the church is domesticated to such alien claims, it loses its distinctiveness, and consequently loses its nerve and its courage for serious mission. Thus attentiveness to our peculiar dialect is an important investment. —from the Preface
The Peculiar Dialect of Faith
Author: Walter Brueggemann
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666715190
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Biblical utterance, in contrast to the sounds of power and certitude, offers imaginative probes into the mystery of God’s creation and into the hidden complexities of human hurt and human hope. Thus the dialect of the Bible is offered in relational terms, so that the key ingredients to lived reality characteristically concern justice and righteousness, steadfast love, faithfulness, and compassion. Insofar as the church relies upon and attests to this dialect, we may expect that in church we will speak in a different rhetoric, and consequently we will speak about different subject matter. To be sure, the church is sometimes seduced away from this relational dialect to speak in cadences that are elementally alien to the Bible and to the claims of the gospel. Such seduction of the church takes place, for example, when our nation is at war and the church is tempted to reflect and reiterate the force of that social reality. Or such seduction occurs when the church is captured by any ism, notably in our time, racism or nationalism. Or alternatively, ideological conservatism that craves the language of certitude or ideological liberalism that is easily bewitched by the rhetoric of psychology or the market. When the church is domesticated to such alien claims, it loses its distinctiveness, and consequently loses its nerve and its courage for serious mission. Thus attentiveness to our peculiar dialect is an important investment. —from the Preface
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666715190
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Biblical utterance, in contrast to the sounds of power and certitude, offers imaginative probes into the mystery of God’s creation and into the hidden complexities of human hurt and human hope. Thus the dialect of the Bible is offered in relational terms, so that the key ingredients to lived reality characteristically concern justice and righteousness, steadfast love, faithfulness, and compassion. Insofar as the church relies upon and attests to this dialect, we may expect that in church we will speak in a different rhetoric, and consequently we will speak about different subject matter. To be sure, the church is sometimes seduced away from this relational dialect to speak in cadences that are elementally alien to the Bible and to the claims of the gospel. Such seduction of the church takes place, for example, when our nation is at war and the church is tempted to reflect and reiterate the force of that social reality. Or such seduction occurs when the church is captured by any ism, notably in our time, racism or nationalism. Or alternatively, ideological conservatism that craves the language of certitude or ideological liberalism that is easily bewitched by the rhetoric of psychology or the market. When the church is domesticated to such alien claims, it loses its distinctiveness, and consequently loses its nerve and its courage for serious mission. Thus attentiveness to our peculiar dialect is an important investment. —from the Preface
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The Faith Once Delivered to the Saints
From Traditional to Rational Faith
Author: Richard Andrew Griffin
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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The Logic of Hegel, Translated from the Encyclopædia of the Philosophical Sciences
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Pages : 560
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The Nature of Religious Language
Author: Stanley E. Porter
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1850757836
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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The papers in this volume were presented at a conference held at the Roehampton Institute, London, in February 1995, and are concerned with either theological or literary issues related to the nature of religious language. The papers suggest further issues that are still unresolved about the nature of religious language, from its early usage in the biblical texts to its recent use in contemporary writing and religious discourse.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1850757836
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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The papers in this volume were presented at a conference held at the Roehampton Institute, London, in February 1995, and are concerned with either theological or literary issues related to the nature of religious language. The papers suggest further issues that are still unresolved about the nature of religious language, from its early usage in the biblical texts to its recent use in contemporary writing and religious discourse.
English Style in Public Discourse with Special Reference to the Usages of the Pulpit
Author: Austin Phelps
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Correspondences of Faith
Author: Henry Theodore Cheever
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Category : Faith
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Category : Faith
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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The History of Philosophy, in Eight Parts
Author: Thomas Stanley
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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The History of Philosophy
Author: Thomas Stanley
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Category : Philosophy, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Category : Philosophy, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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