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From the Mists of Eden
eBook - Stories from My Family from Long Ago
ISBN/EAN: 9781621893011
Umbreit-Nr.: 193293
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 172 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 03.05.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- When we read old family letters or hear stories about our great-grandparents, they hold our attention in a particular way. Events from long before we were born are about us: they tell us something important about who we are. If there's a story about great-aunt Mildred on the Oregon Trail as a young child, we want to know that story, because it affects who we are today. Commonly we read the Bible as a historical text, making it a source of facts or doctrines: useful information, but perhaps not very personal. Yet the narratives in early chapters of the Bible need to be understood not as ancient history, but as part of the story of our family. Again and again, for example, the people of Israel of later generations were reminded, "Remember that you were slaves in Egypt"--they must understand that the story of the deliverance is not distant history, but their own reality.<i>From the Mists of Eden</i> retells eleven key stories, from Genesis through Joshua, as family stories: Aunt Hagar and Aunt Sarai, Uncle Joshua, and Uncle Red and Uncle Jacob and Uncle Joe.
- Kurztext
- Groans of the Spirit constitutes a rousing challenge to mainline churches and their practice of preaching. In this inventive work, Timothy Slemmons calls preachers beyond the formalism of the New Homiletic, and beyond the ethical proposals that have arisen in the frustrated struggle to transcend it, and toward what the author calls a &quote;penitential&quote; (reformed) homiletic. This new homiletical proposal is distinctive in that it faithfully adheres to the Christological content of preaching, finds its inspiration in the promise of the real presence of Christ, and trusts in the ministry of the Holy Spirit, from whom alone the power for the renewal of the mainline church shall come. This book includes a thorough reconsideration of the &quote;infinite qualitative difference&quote; between God and humanity in Barth's thought, an important critique of Gadamer's reception of Kierkegaard's concept of contemporaneity, an undelivered lecture on the content of preaching, and two sermons that illustrate Slemmons's important proposals. Groans of the Spirit is a long-considered, calculated, and overdue break with conventional hermeneutics that proposes a vital homiletical pneumatology, which draws the art of the sermon out of the ghetto of mere rhetoric and presents it as it truly is: as theological reflection of the first order, the church's primary language of faith.
- Autorenportrait
- James Ayers (PhD, Boston College) is a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He is the author of<i>Finding the Story: Hard Texts, Homiletical Narratives, and Hearing God's Voice</i>, and of more than two hundred journal and magazine articles.