"For years I had been looking for a way to heal the split between the academic study of the Scriptures and the issues of life.  For it was the Bible's way of addressing me that had led me into biblical scholarship in the first place.  The sharing of those life-shaking truths was the very vocation to which I had felt so unmistakably called.  For a time my generation of scholars was able to light our lamps at the fading flames of what Barth and Bultmann had achieved.  When we were on our own, however, it was back to academic scholarship-as-usual.  Even our concern for 'biblical theology' was largely academic; we assumed that pastors and laity could make the connections to their own lives.  More disastrously, we assumed that the ideas were all that counted, all that had to be applied.  So we were a little hurt, and considerably mystified, when a growing chorus of voices outside academia insisted that what we were doing was not addressing human existence." "It was not until I became a parish minister in southeast Texas, however, that I recognized how profound this split had become.  There, faced with the need to speak meaningfully twice a week from the biblical tradition, I discovered how isolated scholars had become from the pressures of living, how little of what they found fit to say had any applicability to preaching, to counseling, to the human struggles of those who regarded the Bible as somehow the key to life." "This was the pattern: scholars to the one side--like musicians so enamored of technique that they only practice scales; clergy and laity to the other--like people who love music but are too busy to learn to play." (excerpts from Chapter 1: Transformed by the Renewal of Our Minds)  

Transforming Bible Study

Religion & Spirituality

WALTER WINK

Christian Books & Bibles

Continuum International Publis

SCM-Canterbury Press Ltd

<p>A thorny historical issue handled with artistry and imagination The epithet "the son of the man" (or "the Human Being") in the Gospels has been a highly debated topic. Wink uses this phrase to explore not only early Christology but the anthropology articulated in the Gospels. Jesus apparently avoided designations such as Messiah, Son of God, or God, though these titles were given by his disciples after his death and resurrection. But Jesus is repeatedly depicted as using the obscure expression "the Human Being" as virtually his only form of self- reference. Wink explores how Jesus' self-referential phrase came to be universalized as the "Human Being" or "Truly Human One." The Human Being is a catalytic agent for transformation, providing the form and lure and hunger to become who we were meant to be, or more properly perhaps, to become who we truly are.</p>

The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man

History

World

Fortress Press

Homosexuality and the Bible

Ramapo Graphics

A Short Introduction to World Religions

<p>What happens to faith when the creeds and confessions can no longer be squared with historical and empirical evidence? Most critical scholars have wrestled with this question. Some have found ways to reconcile their personal religious belief with the scholarship they practice. Others have chosen to reconstruct their view of religious meaning in light of what they have learned. But most have tended not to share those views in a public forum. And that brings up a second question: at what point does the discrepancy between what I know, or think I know, and what I am willing to say publicly become so acute that my personal integrity is at stake? Being honest about what one thinks has always mattered in critical scholarship. In the pages of When Faith Meets Reason, thirteen scholars take up the challenge to speak candidly about how they negotiate the conflicting claims of faith and reason, in hopes that their journeys will inspire others to engage in their own search for meaning.</p>

When Faith Meets Reason: Religion Scholars Reflect on Their Spiritual Journeys

Biographies & Memoirs

Robert M. Price

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Paul Alan Laughlin

Glenna S. Jackson

James M. Robinson

Nigel Leaves

Mahlon H. Smith

Theodore J. Weeden

Leaders & Notable People

Polebridge Press

Healing a Nation's Wounds: Reconciliation on the Road to Democracy

Life and Peace Institute

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