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Isaiah for everyone - An Invitation to Imagination and Hope
Isaiah for everyone - An Invitation to Imagination and Hope
by SPCK - John Goldingay
An Invitation to Imagination and Hope I was exchanging messages with a Pentecostal friend yesterday, the Feast of Pentecost, and was amused when he observed that oddly “we don’t really celebrate Pentecost in the Assemblies of God.” I don’t know whether his Pentecostal church has …
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 1 Grappling with the Gospels
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 1 Grappling with the Gospels
by SPCK - Edward Adams
Grappling with the Gospels The four Gospels look very alike.1 All four are narratives of the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure of the Christian faith. All four concentrate on a particular phase of his life: the period of his public ministry culminating i…
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 1b Distinguishing Features of the Synoptic Gospels
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 1b Distinguishing Features of the Synoptic Gospels
by SPCK - Edward Adams
Distinguishing Features of the Synoptic Gospels Despite their close similarity, the Synoptic Gospels are by no means identical. Although the basic narrative pattern is the same, there are obvious differences between them, especially at the beginning and end of the Gospels… Taken …
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 4c The Characterization of Jesus
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 4c The Characterization of Jesus
by SPCK - Edward Adams
The Characterization of Jesus Following the pattern of the previous chapter (on Mark), we will look first at Matthew’s christological titles and then at his characterization of Jesus… Taken from Parallel Lives of Jesus by Edward Adams
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 5 The Gospel according to Luke
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 5 The Gospel according to Luke
by SPCK - Edward Adams
The Gospel according to Luke Like Matthew, Luke has used Mark’s Gospel in composing his narrative, but whereas Matthew reproduces almost all of Mark, Luke reprocesses only about half of it.1 Like Matthew, Luke augments the core story of Jesus with a birth and infancy narrative an…
Jeremiah for everyone - More a Summons than a Vocation
Jeremiah for everyone - More a Summons than a Vocation
by SPCK - John Goldingay
More a Summons than a Vocation Last week I took part in a conference on God, the church, and disability. One participant was a woman who has been ordained a priest, but she has a speech impediment that makes it hard to understand what she says, and she has had difficulty finding …
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 2d Destruction of destructive powers
CHRISTIANITY AND THE RENEWAL OF NATURE - 2d Destruction of destructive powers
by SPCK - Sebastian C.H. Kim and Jonathan Draper
Destruction of destructive powers I am now going to turn back from chapters 8 and 9 to chapter 3, because I want to ask where the Church stands in all of this. I turn especially to the warning to the church in Laodicea:…
The Monastery Of The Heart - Introduction
The Monastery Of The Heart - Introduction
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Introduction To the Many Seekers, After more than fifty years of life in a monastery, I have begun to sift and sort the effects of it all, asking myself, what—if anything—of monastic life is worth passing on to others in this day and age? What of this life has any impact or impor…
The Monastery Of The Heart - 4 Prayer
The Monastery Of The Heart - 4 Prayer
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Prayer “[Let us] lay our petitions before the God of all with the utmost humility and sincere devotion.” Benedictine spirituality is rooted in the timelessness of scripture. It is the story of God’s way with the world… Taken from The Monastery Of The Heart by Joan Chittister
The Monastery Of The Heart - 8 Mutuality
The Monastery Of The Heart - 8 Mutuality
by SPCK - Joan Chittister
Mutuality “We intend to establish a school for God’s service. We hope to set down nothing harsh, nothing burdensome.” Community is a matter of the heart and the mind. It cannot be created by place alone, and it cannot be destroyed by distance alone… Taken from The Monastery Of Th…
Great Christian Thinkers - Publisher's Foreword
Great Christian Thinkers - Publisher's Foreword
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD It is a matter of particular pride at Fortress Press that we offer this compilation of brief portraits composed and presented by Pope Benedict XVI on key figures from Christian history… Taken from Great Christian Thinkers by Pope Benedict XVI
Great Christian Thinkers - 34 St. Maximus The Confessor
Great Christian Thinkers - 34 St. Maximus The Confessor
by SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
St. Maximus The Confessor One of the great Fathers of the Eastern Church in later times w s a monk, St. Maximus. His fearless courage in witnessing to— “confessing”— even while suffering, the integrity of his faith in Jesus Christ, true God and true man, saviour of the world, ear…
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 2 Four Narratives, One Story
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 2 Four Narratives, One Story
by SPCK - Edward Adams
Four Gospels – One Story A frequently invoked analogy to the Fourfold Gospel is that of four different pictures or portraits of the same individual.1 Richard Burridge uses the illustration of four selected pictures of Winston Churchill, hanging on the walls of Chartwell, Churchil…
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 3c The Characterization of Jesus
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 3c The Characterization of Jesus
by SPCK - Edward Adams
The Characterization of Jesus More so in Mark than in any of the other Gospels, there is mystery surrounding the figure of Jesus. People wonder who he is (4:41; 6:3; 8:27, 29; 11:28; 14:61; 15:2), and Jesus often tells those who have knowledge of his identity to keep quiet about …
Parallel Lives of Jesus - 3b Narrative Technique