God And History: The Dialectical Tension Of Faith And History In Modern Thought

Religion & Spirituality

Wood, Laurence W.

Religious Studies

Emeth Pub

Theology As History And Hermeneutics A Postcritical Evangelical Conversation With Contemporary Theology

This book offers a contemporary interpretation of John Wesley's theology. Here are a few of the themes: the relation of prayer and the task of theology, war and peace, the controversy over the homosexual lifestye, abortion, the right of private judgment and religious toleration, the commands of love, the implications of deconstructionism and postmodernism, Wesley as a serious theologian, divine sovereignty and human freedom, the preconditions for living well and dying well. These issues, among others, are discussed with ease and grace as the reader is invited to consider the significance of Wesley's thinking for today. "This book reflects the veteran insights of a Wesley Scholar whose mind and heart have been shaped by the best of the Wesleyan tradition. Contemporary theology, biblical studies, and social/moral/political issues are interpreted from the perspective of the theology of John Wesley and his relevance for today. The author has served the Church as pastor, college and seminary professor, and seminary president. He combines a pastoral and academic approach that integrates the practical and theoretical disciplines in fresh and relevant ways. His conversational, and even poetic style, informed by seasoned familiarity with his sources, will engage both the theological student and the general reader, and will challenge both to a life-changing encounter with John Wesley's witness to vital Christianity." -- J. Steven O'Malley Asbury Theological Seminary "Leon Hynson brings together the theology of John Wesley and the best of today's Christian thinking in these essays. As well, the author offers a clear explanation of Wesley's thought in the context of his 18th century sources. Hynson shows how Wesley both synthesized and critiqued such thinkers as the Early Church Fathers, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Thomas Cranmer, Richard Hooker, Jeremy Taylor, John Locke, Puritanism, Pietism, and Anglicanism. In a remarkably instructive fashion and with compelling prose, the author brings Wesley's thought into conversation with contemporary theologians and ethicists, including Karl Barth, H. Richard Niebuhr, Albert Outler, Robert Jenson, Martin Hengel, Theodore Runyon, Gerald R. Cragg, and Alasdair MacIntyre. This noteworthy volume brims with the mature wisdom of an experienced pastor and theological scholar." -- Kenneth Cain Kinghorn Asbury Theological Seminary

Through Faith to Understanding

Hynson, Leon O.

Christian Books & Bibles

<p>This book argues for an integrative dialectic of faith and history. It is a fresh examination of the problem of faith and history. Instead of being a mere liability, it is argued here that the strength of the Christian faith is its historicity. Although modern thought was not always friendly to Christian faith because of its deeply embedded dualism, it raised the critical intellectual issues that Christian theology needed to address. Advancing a more critical understanding of the nature of history than modern thought was generally able to achieve because of its dualistic thinking, this work argues for an integrative dialectic of historical probability and the certainty of faith. "This book gives a comprehensive and fascinating account of the development of the idea of history in correspondence to changing conceptions of the divine reality, from its origin in Ancient Israel and in Greece all the way to the contemporary discussion. It focuses on the rise of critical historical investigation in modern times and on the struggle of modern theology to come to terms with it. It is an important contribution to this discussion. The split between fact and meaning is persuasively identified as a main obstacle and it is shown to be overcome in the reconstruction of history in the light of the eschatological future. Also very helpful is the final chapter on time (space-time) and eternity with its emphasis on Boethius and with its critical remarks on nontrinitarian theistic notions of a personal God." --Wolfhart Pannenberg, University of Munich</p>

God And History

An Undivided Life, Being Christian in the World

The materials contained in this collection are offered toward daily devotions for Advent and Lent, seventy in all. Advent and Lenten homilies are given at the end of each section. The essays deal with varying topics, some sacramental matters, and some the insights derived from hymns or subjects like the holy life and consecration, and in the acts of God, often mysterious, as providence and what theologians call theodicy, i.e., explaining the love of God in a world of terror, pain, and death. War may require the most exacting interpretation of theodicy when we look at it.

All Along This Pilgrim Journey: Advent and Lenten Devotions and Reflections for the Way

There is a lack of attention to the biblical theme of punishment in contemporary theology and preaching. Many contemporary Christians are ignoring this teaching in the Bible, especially in their understanding of sin, guilt and punishment. Some church growth conferences or seminars recommend that churches stay away from the subjects of sin, judgment and punishment if they want people to attend or at least to attend their services in significant numbers. It is this challenge that has provided the impetus for this book. This book is not a sensational conversation about punishment, but a responsible examination of this theme in the Bible and Christian history.

The Punishing God

Stuart, Streeter S.

Frank Lake was a psychiatrist for the Church of England, whose understanding of the person led him to develop theories and training couses in Clinical Theology that has had a profound influence upon many people, especially Christian care-givers, between 1962 and his death in 1982, and even to this very day. His early focus was upon the relationship between human distress and the earliest years of life (Object-Relations Theory), but his later work led him to focus upon the earliest experiences of life in the womb. Geoffrey Whitfield was deeply involved in Clinical Theology while Lake was alive and now, 20 years later, offers a penetrating assessment of Lake's work. Whitfield is fully conversant with the ongoing conversation,particularly regarding the Maternal Foetal Distress Syndrome. His conclusion, based largely upon research published since Lake's death, is that while there is now empirical evidence to support Lake's theories regarding the second and third trimesters, that applicable to the first trimester is not proved. While Whitfield is sympathetic to Lake's work, this is not an uncritical acceptance of all his views, rather a scholarly investigation of empirical evidence not available to Lake.The author pays particular attention to the relevance of psychological and theological categories (and their inter-relationship) in reflecting upon the data and is aware of the signficance of the issues in relation to current debates in pastoral and practical theology. This work is clearly written and certainly an original contribution in the fields of theology and psychology.

The Prenatal Psychology of Frank Lake and the Origins of Sin and Human Dysfunction: Its Relevance for the Pastor and the Psychotherapist

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Whitfield, Geoffrey Victor

Mental Health

Jews, Christians and Moslems have histories of excellence in terms of their religion, culture and the creativity they have brought to the world through the centuries. It is not always so. Sometimes they have also brought shame. When the different histories of Palestine and Israel are one day written they will be followed by countless others, showing different perspectives for different reasons. Doubtless there will be multitudes of conclusions, each with their own truth. What will matter will be the perception of values that were held, ignored or perverted and in what ways they contributed to the well being of people. Motives and deeds will be analysed with the benefit of hindsight. There will be no place to hide. The follies, mistakes, intentions, wickedness will be brought into the light of understanding. Readers will marvel at the courage of some, be appalled at the atrocities of others, sympathetic to the endeavours of many more. Generations to come will look at their forebears in admiration, shame, and sorrow. This book is an attempt to contribute to that understanding. There has been conflict in the Middle East for decades which is connected to the intractable problem of the Israel-Palestine conflict. At the core of the problem are the uses and abuses of the Abrahamic Covenant. This book attempts to show how the (mis)understanding of the Abrahamic Covenant is a major difficulty in resolving this problem today.

The Roots of Terrorism in Israel and Palestine: The Uses and Abuses of the Abrahamic Covenant

History

Middle East

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Israeli and Palestinian Terrorism: The 'Unintentional' Agents

Whitfield, Geoffrey

World

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