Faith as Participation
Title | Faith as Participation PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanette Hagen Pifer |
Publisher | Mohr Siebeck |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2019-05-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3161564766 |
In recent years, three particular debates have risen to the fore of Pauline Studies: the question of the centre of Pauline theology, how to interpret the mula, and the relationship between divine and human agency. In the present study, Jeanette Hagen Pifer contends that several of the apparent conundrums in recent Pauline scholarship turn out to derive from an inadequate understanding of what Paul means by faith. By first exploring the question of what Paul means by faith outside of the classic justification passages in Romans and Galatians, she reveals faith as an active and productive mode of human existence. Yet this existence is not a form of human self-achievement. On the contrary, faith is precisely the denial of self-effort and a dependence upon the prior gracious work of Christ. In this way, faith is self-negating and self-involving participation in the Christ-event.
Participation in God
Title | Participation in God PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Davison |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 437 |
Release | 2019-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1108483283 |
Offers a substantial discussion of a central theme in Christian theology - that everything comes from and depends upon God.
Pews, Prayers, and Participation
Title | Pews, Prayers, and Participation PDF eBook |
Author | Corwin E. Smidt |
Publisher | Georgetown University Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1589012186 |
"Pews, Prayers, and Participation: Religion and Civic Responsibility in America" offers a fresh approach to key questions about what role religion plays in fostering civic responsibility in contemporary American society. In the course of their study the authors examine whether an individual exhibits a diminished, a privatized, a public, or an integrated form of religious expression, based on the individual's level of participation in both the public (worship) or private (prayer) dimensions of religious life. They question whether the privatization of religious life is counterproductive to engagement in public life, and they show that religion does indeed play a significant role in fostering civic responsibility across each of its particular facets.--From publisher description.
Paul and Participation in Christ
Title | Paul and Participation in Christ PDF eBook |
Author | Mark J. Goodwin |
Publisher | Fortress Academic |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2020-11-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781978707177 |
In Paul's letters, the participatory experience of Pauline Christians is never clarified and so it remains enigmatic. In this book, this Pauline enigma is addressed through a patristic lens involving a look at several patristic texts that may shed potential new light on the mystery of Pauline participation.
Heavenly Participation
Title | Heavenly Participation PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Boersma |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2011-02-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1467434426 |
Surveying the barriers that contemporary thinking has erected between the natural and the supernatural, between earth and heaven, Hans Boersma issues a wake-up call for Western Christianity. Both Catholics and evangelicals, he says, have moved too far away from a sacramental mindset, focusing more on the "here-and-now" than on the "then-and-there." Yet, as Boersma points out, the teaching of Jesus, Paul, and St. Augustine -- indeed, of most of Scripture and the church fathers -- is profoundly otherworldly, much more concerned with heavenly participation than with earthly enjoyment. In Heavenly Participation Boersma draws on the wisdom of great Christian minds ancient and modern -- Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, C. S. Lewis, Henri de Lubac, John Milbank, and many others. He urges Catholics and evangelicals alike to retrieve a sacramental worldview, to cultivate a greater awareness of eternal mysteries, to partake eagerly of the divine life that transcends and transforms all earthly realities.
Theology of Participation
Title | Theology of Participation PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel G. Oprean |
Publisher | Langham Publishing |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2019-05-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1783686391 |
Baptists in Romania have developed a practice of suspicion when it comes to religious dialogue, especially with the Romanian Orthodox tradition, due to a history that is characterized by oppression. In this detailed study Dr Daniel Oprean paves the way for positive dialogue between the two traditions, highlighting that much can be gained and learned by acknowledging similarities and differences in key aspects of theology. Dr Oprean explores how existing theological resources can be used to enhance theological discourse between Baptist and Orthodox traditions in Romania through in-depth analysis of the thought of British Baptist theologian, Professor Paul Fiddes, and Romanian Orthodox theologian, Father Dumitru Stăniloae. Oprean in particular looks at their understanding of trinitarian and human participation through perichoresis, the Eucharist, Christian spirituality, and baptism and chrismation. Presented as a conversation between the two traditions this study is a model for how theological and religious dialogue can facilitate reconciliation, not just in the church but also in wider society.
Christian and Sikh
Title | Christian and Sikh PDF eBook |
Author | John Barnett |
Publisher | Sacristy Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2021-01-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1789591473 |
An unprecedented practical insight into the reality of multiple religious participation (in this case Christian and Sikh), balancing and challenging the more theoretical descriptions that are developing.