Author: Louis Cochran
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1592440797
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 427

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Author: Julien Green
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060634642
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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This warm, richly detailed biography brings the beloved saint alive in all his human and profoundly spiritual dimensions.

Author: Maarten Maartens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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Author: Elizabeth-Anne Stewart
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781580510615
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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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.

Author: Hamlin Hill
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226336476
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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After laughing their way through his classic and beloved depictions of nineteenth-century American life, few readers would suspect that Mark Twain’s last years were anything but happy and joyful. They would be wrong. Contrary to the myth perpetrated by his literary executors Twain ended his life as a frustrated writer plagued by paranoia. He suffered personal tragedies, got involved in questionable business ventures, and was a demanding and controlling father and husband. As Mark Twain: God’s Fool demonstrates, the difficult circumstances of Twain’s personal life make his humorous output all the more surprising and admirable. “Ham[lin] Hill remains among the smartest, most honest, and most humane of Twain scholars—and . . . God’s Fool parades those qualities on every page.” Jeff Steinbrink, Franklin & Marshall College “Fills a great, long-standing need for a thoroughly researched book about Mark Twain’s twilight years. . . . Splendidly, grippingly written and excellently documented. . . . Likely to be a standard work for as long as anyone can foresee.” Choice

Author: Todd Charles Wood
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
ISBN: 0310595444
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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The Fool and the Heretic is a deeply personal story told by two respected scientists who hold opposing views on the topic of origins, share a common faith in Jesus Christ, and began a sometimes-painful journey to explore how they can remain in Christian fellowship when each thinks the other is harming the church. To some in the church, anyone who accepts the theory of evolution has rejected biblical teaching and is therefore thought of as a heretic. To many outside the church as well as a growing number of evangelicals, anyone who accepts the view that God created the earth in six days a few thousand years ago must be poorly educated and ignorant--a fool. Todd Wood and Darrel Falk know what it's like to be thought of, respectively, as a fool and a heretic. This book shares their pain in wearing those labels, but more important, provides a model for how faithful Christians can hold opposing views on deeply divisive issues yet grow deeper in their relationship to each other and to God.

Author: Louis Cochran
Publisher: College PressPub Company
ISBN: 9780899002750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Author: Lois A. Cheney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780825305955
Category : Meditations
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The short musings in the book are funny, earnest, loving, probing and full of joy. You will embark on a journey whose ultimate destination is a better understanding of faith, people and the world around you.

Author: Michael Frost
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 144123280X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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"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.

Author: Brother William A. Swinton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781477286746
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book has been written for people of all walks of life. It's message is plain and simple. There is a God, the creator of all things and He has given His Word to all mankind. His Word, or the Bible, was given to mankind by God through the Holy Spirit. God choose to speak to the hearts and minds of many men and woman over a period of hundreds of years to make known to us His Wisdom, Knowledge and Understandings. He also gave us the instructions, or a blueprint, for establishing an everlasting relationship with Him based on His Principles. Believe it or not, God is still speaking to men and woman today! The message of this book is truly a message from God. As you read this book it is recommended that you also have your Bible handy. Use this book as a focal point to identify the differences between the practices of man and the Word of God. Also, please be advised that what God has said is the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Finally, from the Book of Revelations we find these words recorded; Revelation: 22: 18 to 20 says; 18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. 20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.