Jesus the Holy Fool
Title | Jesus the Holy Fool PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth-Anne Stewart |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781580510615 |
Richly written, Jesus the Holy Fool combines diverse images from religious traditions, world literature, Jungian archetype, and Scripture. Weaving the best theology and spirituality, Jesus the Holy Fool is a fresh and inviting Christology. The Scriptures tell us that religious leaders thought Jesus was "possessed," and his own family thought he was "crazy." In his open table fellowship, choice of followers, radical passion, and his death and resurrection, Jesus was willing to appear as a fool for the sake of God's reign. His teachings--especially the parables, paradoxes, and the beatitudes--advocate a way of life that is grounded in Holy Foolishness. Through an archetypal examination of the fool motif as it applies to Jesus in the Gospels, Jesus the Holy Fool develops the connections between holiness and folly. Offering new insights into Christology and exploring its practical pastoral ramifications, Jesus the Holy Fool presents Holy Foolishness as a paradigm for the Christian journey and as a new model of what it means for us to be church.
Holy Fools
Title | Holy Fools PDF eBook |
Author | Mathew Woodley |
Publisher | Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2008-05-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1414316305 |
Pastor Woodley offers a fresh view of "holy folly," an ancient spiritual approach that combines humor, irony, spiritual discipline, surprise, radical compassion, and passionate faith--many qualities that the postmodern world hungers for. (Practical Life)
Jesus the Fool
Title | Jesus the Fool PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Frost |
Publisher | Baker Books |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2010-05-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 144123280X |
"One who is strengthened by God professes himself to be an utter fool by human standards, because he despises the wisdom men strive for."--Thomas Aquinas "Go and do likewise. . . ."--Luke 10:37 Missiologist Michael Frost is looking for the real Jesus--the man who didn't care what people thought, worked on the Sabbath, touched the unclean, ate with sinners, and generally contradicted what was acceptable to the leadership of his day. He's searching for the Jesus who embodies all the characteristics of the ancient tradition of the holy foolish paradigm as described and commended by Paul, the church fathers, and the medieval saints. And he finds him. . . . Saintly fools prefer life out in the open in the secular world, intentionally make themselves conspicuous, and consistently defy rules set by society. Frost directs our minds and hearts to the greater story of Jesus. He reminds us that following the Savior is rarely safe--and that Christ will continue to redraw our blueprint of what's right and what's righteous; and will persist in calling us to take the alternative, dangerous, ridiculous road walked by wise fools down through the centuries of the church. A much-needed and longed-for challenge to emergent, contemporary, and traditional gatherings and churches alike.
The Holy Fool
Title | The Holy Fool PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Fickett |
Publisher | Shaw |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780877883500 |
Perfect Fools
Title | Perfect Fools PDF eBook |
Author | John Saward |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780192132307 |
This title, by John Saward, explores foolishness and fools in Catholic and Orthodox spirituality.
Symeon the Holy Fool
Title | Symeon the Holy Fool PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Krueger |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2024-07-19 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0520415329 |
Godric
Title | Godric PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Buechner |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1983-11-02 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0060611626 |
Frederick Buechner's Godric "retells the life of Godric of Finchale, a twelfth-century English holy man whose projects late in life included that of purifying his moral ambition of pride...Sin, spiritual yearning, rebirth, fierce asceticism--these hagiographic staples aren't easy to revitalize but Frederick Buechner goes at the task with intelligent intensity and a fine readiness to invent what history doesn't supply. He contrives a style of speech for his narrator--Godric himself--that's brisk and tough-sinewed...He avoids metaphysical fiddle, embedding his narrative in domestic reality--familiar affection, responsibilities, disasters...All on his own, Mr. Buechner has managed to reinvent projects of self-purification and of faith as piquant matter for contemporary fiction [in a book] notable for literary finish...Frederick Buechner is a very good writer indeed." -- Benjamin DeMott, The New York Times Book Review "From the book's opening sentence...and sensible reader will be caught in Godric's grip...Godric glimmers brightly." -- Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek "Godric is a memorable book...a marvelous gem of a book...destined to become a classic of its kind." -- Michael Heskett, Houston Chronicle "In the extraordinary figure of Godric, both stubborn outsider and true child of God, both worldly and unworldly, Frederick Buechner has found an ideal means of exploring the nature of spirituality. Godric is a living battleground where God fights it out with the world, the Flesh, and the Devil." -- London Times Literary Supplement "Wityh a poet's sensibly and a high reverent fancy, Frederick Buechner paints a memorable portrait." -- Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal