A Biblical Theology of Exile
Title | A Biblical Theology of Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel L. Smith-Christopher |
Publisher | Fortress Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781451405798 |
The Christian church continues to seek ethical and spiritual models from the period of Israel's monarchy and has avoided the gravity of the Babylonian exile. Against this tradition, the author argues that the period of focus for the canonical construction of biblical thought is precisely the exile. Here the voices of dissent arose and articulated words of truth in the context of failed power.
Rebels and Exiles
Title | Rebels and Exiles PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew S. Harmon |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 185 |
Release | 2020-10-27 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830843825 |
We all share an experience of exile—of longing for our true home. In this ESBT volume, Matthew S. Harmon explores how the theme of sin and exile is developed throughout Scripture, tracing a common pattern of human rebellion, God's judgment, and the hope of restored relationship, beginning with the first humans and concluding with the end of exile in a new creation.
The Church in Exile
Title | The Church in Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Lee Beach |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2015-01-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 083089702X |
The church in North America today lives in a post-Christian society. Lee Beach helps the people of God today to develop a hopeful and prophetic imagination, a theology responsive to its context, and an exilic identity marked by faithfulness to God?s mission in the world.
Israel in Exile, a Theological Interpretation
Title | Israel in Exile, a Theological Interpretation PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph W. Klein |
Publisher | Augsburg Fortress Publishing |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
Exile: A Conversation with N. T. Wright
Title | Exile: A Conversation with N. T. Wright PDF eBook |
Author | James M. Scott |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2017-07-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830890009 |
N. T. Wright is well known for his view that the majority of Second Temple Jews saw themselves as living within an ongoing exile. This book engages a lively conversation with this idea, beginning with a lengthy thesis from Wright, responses from eleven New Testament scholars, and a concluding essay from Wright responding to his interlocutors.
Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions
Title | Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce D. Chilton |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 397 |
Release | 2021-12-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004497714 |
The exiles of Israel and Judah cast a long shadow over the biblical text and the whole subsequent history of Judaism. Scholars have long recognized the importance of the theme of exile for the Hebrew Bible. Indeed, critical study of the Old Testament has, at least since Wellhausen, been dominated by the Babylonian exile of Judah. In 586 BC, several factors, including the destruction of Jerusalem, the cessation of the sacrificial cult and of the monarchy, and the experience of the exile, began to cause a transformation of Israelite religion which supplied the contours of the larger Judaic framework within which the various forms of Judaism, including the early Christian movement, developed. Given the importance of the exile to the development of Judaism and Christianity even to the present day, this volume delves into the conceptions of exile which contributed to that development during the formative period.
Hopeful Imagination
Title | Hopeful Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Brueggemann |
Publisher | Fortress Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1986-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781451419627 |
Professor Brueggemann here examines the literature and experience of an era in which Israel's prophets faced the pastoral responsibility of helping people to enter into exile, to be in exile, and to depart out of exile. He addresses three major prophetic traditions: Jeremiah (the pathos of God), Ezekiel (the holiness of God), and 2 Isaiah (the newness of God). This literature is seen to contain the theological resources for handling both brokenness and surprise with freedom, courage, and imagination. Throughout, Brueggemann demonstrates how these resources offer vitality for ministry today.