Hospitality as Holiness
Title | Hospitality as Holiness PDF eBook |
Author | Luke Bretherton |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781409403494 |
Hospitality as Holiness will appeal to those interested in the broad question of the relationship between reason, tradition, natural law and revelation in theology, and more specifically to those engaged with questions about plurality, tolerance and ethical conflict in Christian ethics and medical ethics.
Hospitality as Holiness
Title | Hospitality as Holiness PDF eBook |
Author | Luke Bretherton |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2017-03-02 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1351930400 |
We live amid increasing ethical plurality and fragmentation while at the same time more and more questions of moral gravity confront us. Some of these questions are new, such as those around human cloning and genetics. Other questions that were previously settled have re-emerged, such as those around the place of religion in politics. Responses to such questions are diverse, numerous and often vehemently contested. Hospitality as Holiness seeks to address the underlying question facing the church within contemporary moral debates: how should Christians relate to their neighbours when ethical disputes arise? The problems the book examines centre on what the nature and basis of Christian moral thought and action is, and in the contemporary context, whether moral disputes may be resolved with those who do not share the same framework as Christians. Bretherton establishes a model - that of hospitality - for how Christians and non-Christians can relate to each other amid moral diversity. This book will appeal to those interested in the broad question of the relationship between reason, tradition, natural law and revelation in theology, and more specifically to those engaged with questions about plurality, tolerance and ethical conflict in Christian ethics and medical ethics.
Unclean
Title | Unclean PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Beck |
Publisher | Lutterworth Press |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2012-05-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 071884047X |
I desire mercy, not sacrifice. Echoing Hosea, Jesus defends his embrace of the unclean in the Gospel of Matthew, seeming to privilege the prophetic call to justice over the Levitical pursuit of purity. And yet, as missional faith communities arewell aware, the tensions and conflicts between holiness and mercy are not so easily resolved. In an unprecedented fusion of psychological science and theological scholarship, Richard Beck describes the pernicious (and largely unnoticed) effects of the psychology of purity upon the life and mission of the church.
The Gospel Comes with a House Key
Title | The Gospel Comes with a House Key PDF eBook |
Author | Rosaria Butterfield |
Publisher | Crossway |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2018-04-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1433557894 |
What did God use to draw a radical, committed unbeliever to himself? Did God take her to an evangelistic rally? Or, since she had her doctorate in literature, did he use something in print? No, God used an invitation to dinner in a modest home, from a humble couple who lived out the gospel daily, simply, and authentically. With this story of her conversion as a backdrop, Rosaria Butterfield invites us into her home to show us how God can use this same "radical, ordinary hospitality" to bring the gospel to our lost friends and neighbors. Such hospitality sees our homes as not our own, but as God's tools for the furtherance of his kingdom as we welcome those who look, think, believe, and act differently from us into our everyday, sometimes messy lives—helping them see what true Christian faith really looks like.
Saved by Faith and Hospitality
Title | Saved by Faith and Hospitality PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua W. Jipp |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2017-08-21 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1467448737 |
Too few Christians today, says Joshua Jipp, understand hospitality to strangers and the marginalized as an essential part of the church's identity. In this book Jipp argues that God's relationship to his people is fundamentally an act of hospitality to strangers, and that divine and human hospitality together are thus at the very heart of Christian faith. Jipp first provides a thorough interpretation of the major biblical texts related to the practice of hospitality to strangers, considering especially how these texts portray Christ as the divine host who extends God's welcome to all people. Jipp then invites readers to consider how God's hospitality sets the pattern for human hospitality, offering suggestions on how the practice of welcoming strangers can guide the church in its engagement with current social challenges—immigration, incarceration, racism, and more.
Understanding The Doctrines of Strategic Holiness Volume 1: The Doctrine of Strategic Components of Holiness
Title | Understanding The Doctrines of Strategic Holiness Volume 1: The Doctrine of Strategic Components of Holiness PDF eBook |
Author | Nkemzi Theodore A |
Publisher | Outskirts Press |
Pages | 726 |
Release | 2018-01-20 |
Genre | Bibles |
ISBN | 1478752238 |
Holiness Revival Study Texts are designed to teach and revive the doctrine of holiness in these last days in the Church of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ worldwide. The goal is to prepare the reader and the Church for the imminent coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to take His spotless Church home (John 14:3; Ephesians 5:27). Volume 1 of the series explains: • Misconceptions concerning holiness • The doctrine of strategic components of holiness • Satan’s deadly strategic doctrines against holiness • The doctrine of strategic components of inner holiness • 20 strategic components of inner holiness • The doctrine of strategic components of outer holiness • 40 strategic components of outer holiness • 60 holiness tests Understanding the Doctrines of Strategic Holiness will help you repent and forsake unrighteousness and begin to serve our Lord wholeheartedly, in holiness, “without which no man shall see the Lord” (Hebrews 12:14b).
I was a Stranger
Title | I was a Stranger PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Sutherland |
Publisher | Abingdon Press |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0687063248 |
A compelling and passionate theology that calls us to a practice that is "the" virtue by which the church stands or falls.