Confessions of a Beginning Theologian
Title | Confessions of a Beginning Theologian PDF eBook |
Author | Elouise Renich Fraser |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1998-03-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780830815197 |
Elouise Renich Fraser describes her personal journey to become a theologian: confronting the past, befriending the Bible, developing theological imagination and finding an authentic voice.
Confessions of a Theologian
Title | Confessions of a Theologian PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry |
Publisher | Thomas Nelson Publishers |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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The Reed of God
Title | The Reed of God PDF eBook |
Author | Caryll Houselander |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 2023-11-26 |
Genre | Religion |
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The Reed of God is an inspirational classic written by a British Roman Catholic ecclesiastical artist, Caryll Houselander. This book contains a beautiful meditation on Mary, Mother of God and so much more. Reading this book will bring you closer to Our Blessed Mother, and hence, to Christ Himself. Filled with lyrical prose and touching analogies, the author shows how Mary was the "Reed of God" and that we are all vessels waiting to do God's work, and carrying Christ within us.
The Need for Creeds Today
Title | The Need for Creeds Today PDF eBook |
Author | J. V. Fesko |
Publisher | Baker Academic |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2020-11-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1493427016 |
This brief, accessible invitation to the historic creeds and confessions makes a biblical and historical case for their necessity and shows why they are essential for Christian faith and practice today. J. V. Fesko, a leading Reformed theologian with a broad readership in the academy and the church, demonstrates that creeds are not just any human documents but biblically commended resources for the well-being of the church, as long as they remain subordinate to biblical authority. He also explains how the current skepticism and even hostility toward creeds and confessions came about.
Confessions of a Recovering Fundamentalist
Title | Confessions of a Recovering Fundamentalist PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Ward |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 139 |
Release | 2019-11-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 153269671X |
Can theology be expounded almost entirely in jokes? This is an attempt to do so. But it is also a record of how one person recovered from fundamentalism, and found a different, more positive spirituality within Christian faith. It seeks to speak to those who only know an exclusive and dogmatic version of Christianity, and who feel the need for something more universally compassionate and friendly to informed scientific thought. Ward argues that we need to escape from the image of a vindictive, wrathful, judgmental God, who saves just a few people from endless torture for no obvious reason. He proposes instead a view of the universe as evolving towards a goal, guided by a supreme cosmic consciousness, which manifests its nature in this historical process. Jesus is the human image of this consciousness, an image of universal self-giving love and a foreshadowing of the transformation of human lives by their union with the divine. The jokes are there because Christian faith should be really joyful, hopeful, and positive good news for everyone—that there is a spiritual basis and goal of the universe which wills everyone without exception to share in its unlimited wisdom and love.
On Being a Theologian of the Cross
Title | On Being a Theologian of the Cross PDF eBook |
Author | Gerhard O. Forde |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780802843456 |
Gerhard Forde examines the nature of the "theology of the cross, noting what makes it different from other kinds of theology. His starting point is a thorough analysis of Luther's Heidelberg Disputation of 1518, the classic text of the theology of the cross.
Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan
Title | Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony T. Kronman |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 1174 |
Release | 2016-10-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0300224915 |
In this passionate and searching book, Anthony Kronman offers a third way—beyond atheism and religion—to the God of the modern world We live in an age of disenchantment. The number of self-professed “atheists” continues to grow. Yet many still feel an intense spiritual longing for a connection to what Aristotle called the “eternal and divine.” For those who do, but demand a God that is compatible with their modern ideals, a new theology is required. This is what Anthony Kronman offers here, in a book that leads its readers away from the inscrutable Creator of the Abrahamic religions toward a God whose inexhaustible and everlasting presence is that of the world itself. Kronman defends an ancient conception of God, deepened and transformed by Christian belief—the born-again paganism on which modern science, art, and politics all vitally depend. Brilliantly surveying centuries of Western thought—from Plato to Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant, from Spinoza to Nietzsche, Darwin, and Freud—Kronman recovers and reclaims the God we need today.