Singing The Ethos Of God

Read and Download Brian Brock book Singing the Ethos of God in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TSinging the Ethos of God. This book was released on 2007-04-02 with total page 409 pages. Book excerpt: Noting that academic biblical scholars and Christian ethicists have been methodologically estranged for some decades now, Brian Brock seeks to reframe the whole Bible-and-ethics discussion in terms of this question: What role does the Bible play in God's generation of a holy people -- and how do we participate in that regeneration? Brock first examines various major contemporary thinkers on the Bible and Christian ethics, including John Howard Yoder, Brevard Childs, John Webster, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He then undertakes major discussions of Augustine and Martin Luther, unpacking their interpretation of the Psalms. Finally, Brock articulates the processes of renewal in God's people. His close study of a few individual psalms shows how we enter the world of praise in which all human life is comprehended within God's work -- and is thus renewed. Immersion in the exegetical tradition of the Christian faith, Brock argues, must be the heart and soul of theology and ethics.

Read and Download Brian Brock book Captive to Christ, Open to the World in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TCaptive to Christ, Open to the World. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 160 pages. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging and engaging collection of interviews, Brian Brock discusses how Christian faith makes a difference for life in the modern world. Beginning with a discussion of teaching Christian ethics in the contemporary academy, Brock takes up environmental questions, political and medical ethics, the modern city and Christian responsibility to it, energy use, the information age, agriculture, political consensus and coercion, and many other issues. The reader is thus offered a broad and incisivediscussion of many contemporary topics in a brief, illuminating, but never superfcial manner. The book's unusual conversational style allows strikingly clear, creative, and concrete theological connections to emerge in the spaces between moral questions rarely thought of as linked. As the title suggests, the running theme of the interviews is being bound to Christ and placed into the contemporary world. Brock's theological readings of contemporary cultural trends are vigorous, unapologetic, and insightful, and they offer delightful surprises as well as fertile new ways through the sterile impasses of many issues currently being debated in the public square. This book provides an excellent starting point for those interested in fresh theological insights into contemporary ethical questions and an accessible introduction to Brock's previous works.

Read and Download Jeremy Kidwell book The Theology of Craft and the Craft of Work in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TThe Theology of Craft and the Craft of Work. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 253 pages. Book excerpt: An important reconceptualisation is taking place in the way people express creativity, work together, and engage in labour; particularly, suggests Kidwell, a surprising resurgence in recent years of manual and craft work. Noting the wide array of outlets that now market hand-made goods and the array of popular books which advocate ‘making’ as a basis for activism or personal improvement, this book seeks to understand how the micro-politics of craft work might offer insights for a broader theology of work. Why does it matter that we do work which is meaningful, excellent, and beautiful? Through a close reading of Christian scripture, The Theology of Craft and the Craft of Work examines the theology and ethics of work in light of original biblical exegesis. Kidwell presents a detailed exegetical study of temple construction accounts in the Hebrew bible and the New Testament. Illuminating a theological account of craft, and employing the ancient vision of ‘good work’ which is preserved in these biblical texts, Kidwell critically interrogates modern forms of industrial manufacture. This includes a variety of contemporary work problems particularly the instrumentalisation and exploitation of the non-human material world and the dehumanisation of workers. Primary themes taken up in the book include agency, aesthetics, sociality, skill, and the material culture of work, culminating with the conclusion that the church (or ‘new temple’) is both the product and the site of moral work. Arguing that Christian worship provides a moral context for work, this book also examines early Christian practices to suggest a theological reconceptualisation of work.

Read and Download Kenneth Mtata book Singing the Songs of the Lord in Foreign Lands in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TSinging the Songs of the Lord in Foreign Lands. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 272 pages. Book excerpt: Martin Luther once said, 'Many of the Fathers have loved and praised the Book of Psalms above all other books of the Bible. No books of moral tales and no legends of saints which have been written, or ever will be, are to my mind as noble as the Book of Psalms ...' Despite their richness, the Psalms also raise some interpretive challenges. How do we read such difficult passages as the one which advocates the violent destruction of one's enemies? Are we to ignore these and embrace only those that edify us? This collection of essays by renowned international scholars addresses such issues as the history and contemporary Lutheran and ecumenical interpretations of Psalms and provides valuable interpretive insights for theologians, biblical scholars, pastors, counselors and students. With contributions by Lubomir Batka, Andrea Bieler, Brian Brock, Hans-Peter Großhans, Elelwani B. Farisani, Jutta Hausmann, Anni Hentschel, Frank-Lothar Hossfeld, Craig R. Koester, Madipoane Masenya, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Urmas Nommik, Roger Wanke and Vitor Westhelle.

Read and Download John Goldingay book Old Testament Theology in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TOld Testament Theology. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 917 pages. Book excerpt: In this third volume of his critically acclaimed Old Testament Theology John Goldingay explores the Old Testament vision of Israel's life before God. The first volume focused on the story of God's dealings with Israel, or Israel's gospel. The second volume investigated the beliefs of Israel, or Israel's faith. Now the spotlight falls on the Old Testament's perspective on the life that Israel should live in its present and future, including its worship, prayer and spirituality, as well as its practices, attitudes and ethics before God. Goldingay sees three spheres of life giving order to Israel's vision: its life in relation to God, its life in community and the life of the individual as a self. Within these frameworks he unfurls a tapestry that is as broad and colorful as all of life, and yet detailed in its intricate attention to the text. With this final volume John Goldingay has given us the third pillar of an Old Testament theology that is monumental in scope and yet invites us to enter through multiple doors to explore its riches. Students will profit from a semester in its courts, and ministers of the Word will find their preaching and teaching deeply enriched by wandering its halls and meditating in its chambers.

Read and Download Robert Kolb book Luther and the Stories of God in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TLuther and the Stories of God. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 209 pages. Book excerpt: A leading Lutheran scholar highlights Luther's use of biblical narrative in his preaching and teaching on Christian living.

Read and Download Daniel R. Patterson book Reforming a Theology of Gender in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TReforming a Theology of Gender. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 265 pages. Book excerpt: Judith Butler and conservative Christian theology are often perceived to be antithetical on questions of gender. In Reforming a Theology of Gender they are shown to be strange bedfellows. By engaging in dialogue with Butler on her terms—desire, violence, and life—this book absorbs the heart of Butler’s critique, revealing a righteous law and a seductive image in conservative theologies of gender. The law of Adam and Eve manifests in the unjust administration of guilt, grief, and death. By confronting this law, which in fact condemns all in their bodies, further reflection on Butler’s thought leads to thinking about where one finds life in one’s body of death. The seductive image of Adam and Eve is revealed to be a false hope and a site that induces slave morality or body-works-based righteousness. Butler’s voice is strangely prophetic because it calls the church to offer hope and life by reorienting its gaze from the beautiful yet lifeless bodies of Adam and Eve to the bloodied and scarred, risen body of Jesus Christ. Gender, in the end, is shown to be a vocation of becoming what one is not.

Read and Download Hans G. Ulrich book Transfigured not Conformed in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TTransfigured not Conformed. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 321 pages. Book excerpt: The moral theology of Hans G. Ulrich is presented here in English for the first time. These collected essays represent the culmination of a lifetime of reflection on Christian living from this German theologian in conversation with Luther, Bonhoeffer, and contemporary philosophers and theologians. Ulrich's ethics affirm the lively presence of the living work of God in orienting the daily life of Christians. This presence enables members of the Church to live as creatures trusting in God's promises, bearing witness in political and economic spheres, and trusting in life as a gift in response to bioethical issues. Ulrich's fresh take on living out of the promise of God yields further guidance on issues in international relations, economics, parenting, disability, and more.

Read and Download Matthew T. Prior book Confronting Technology in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TConfronting Technology. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 266 pages. Book excerpt: We are living through a digital revolution which already touches every area of life and will continue to shape the future in as yet unforeseen ways. Digital technologies are an ordinary part of daily life, and yet they also present an unprecedented challenge to Christians to articulate a biblical, theological framework to navigate times of rapid change. The work of the French theologian Jacques Ellul is a theological time-bomb primed for times like these. Accounts of Ellul's career often divide off his sociology and theology, but this book argues that Ellul conceived a single project of bringing technology into confrontation with the Word of God, tackling the phenomenon he named technique, the pursuit of maximal power and efficiency implicit in the technological enterprise, with a profound depth of biblical and ethical insight. Centering himself on the apocalypse or revelation of Jesus Christ in history, Ellul offers a monumental, timely (though far from flawless) contribution to contemporary ethical debates about the uses and abuses of technologies. His work blazes a trail that Christians and all concerned for the future would do well to follow, as we avoid both the naivety of "technological neutrality" and the dread of "technological determinism."

Read and Download Bharat Ranganathan book Scripture, Tradition, and Reason in Christian Ethics in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TScripture, Tradition, and Reason in Christian Ethics. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 259 pages. Book excerpt: How should we understand the relationship between Christian ethics and religious ethics? Among comparative, ethnographic, and normative methodologies? Between confessional and non-confessional orientations, or between theology and philosophy? This volume brings together emerging religious ethicists to engage the normative dimensions of Christian ethics. Focusing on scripture, tradition, and reason, the contributors to this volume argue for a vision of Christian ethics as religious ethics. Toward this end, they engage with scripture, interpretation, and religious practice; examine the putative divide between reason and tradition, autonomy and heteronomy; and offer proposals about the normative characterization of conceptual and practical issues in contemporary religious ethics. Collectively, the volume engages Christian thought to make an argument for the continuing relevance of normative methodologies in contemporary religious and theological ethics.

Read and Download book Sola Scriptura in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TSola Scriptura. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 384 pages. Book excerpt: Sola Scriptura offers a multi-disciplinary reflection on the theme of the priority and importance of Scripture in theology, from historical, biblical-theological and systematic-theological perspectives, aiming at the interaction between exegesis and dogmatics.

Read and Download Brian Brock book The Therapy of the Christian Body in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TThe Therapy of the Christian Body. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Book excerpt: The troubles and ills of the church today can only be understood and healed when Christians begin to face up to their hidden alliances with the Corinthians of the first century and embrace both the Apostle's diagnosis and therapy offered in the epistle. This is the challenge of The Malady and Therapy of the Christian Body, a two-volume commentary by two leading theologians that presents the fruits of a reading strategy that deliberately reflects ecclesial commitment by ""reading the Apostle over against ourselves."" Sharing their discoveries about the way Paul deals with questions of factionalism, sexuality, legal conflict, idolatry, dress codes, and eating habits, Brock and Wannenwetsch demonstrate how neither the malady nor the therapy that Paul describes conforms to dominant analyses of the malaise of the contemporary church, which tend to be as ""organ centered"" as modern medicine. The authors describe the way the Apostle engages in ""feeling-into"" the organic whole of the body in order to detect blockages to the healthy flow of powers by redirecting their vision to how God is working among them toward the ""building up"" of the Christian body. The book breaks new ground in crossing the traditional disciplinary boundaries between biblical studies, systematic theology, and theological ethics. ""This commentary demonstrates--with surprising philological insights--a really consistent theological reading of Paul's absolute innovative guidance to the 'therapy' of the Christian community. It shows how Paul's teaching in its essential focus on God's history of salvation and covenant with his people applies directly to the very critical items of present Christian church life and worship."" --Hans G. Ulrich, Professor of Theological Ethics, Theological Faculty, University Erlangen-Nuremberg ""We are, all of us, afflicted by sin, and we inflict our sin upon others; the body is indeed sickened by this malady. But Paul does not allow us to despair of the church or to exist as 'disembodied' Christians . . . This commentary takes that truth seriously and gives it the place it should have in our hermeneutics."" --Grant Macaskill, Chair of New Testament Exegesis, University of Aberdeen ""Brock and Wannenwetsch have written remarkable books. Their learning is vast, their writing brisk, and their interpretative proposals rich in wisdom. Perhaps most impressive of all is the fact that all of what they know and want to say is put to use in the explication of the words of 1 Corinthians."" --C. Kavin Rowe, Professor of New Testament, Duke University Brian Brock is Professor of Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen. He has published on the role of Scripture in Christian ethics (Singing the Ethos of God, 2007), the ethics of technological development (Christian Ethics in a Technological Age, 2010), the theology of disability (Disability in the Christian Tradition, 2012), and most recently, Captive to Christ, Open to the World: On Doing Christian Ethics in Public (2014). Bernd Wannenwetsch was Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at the University of Oxford, Chair in Theological Ethics at the University of Aberdeen and the president of the Society for Study of Christian Ethics. He is now Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at the Freie Theologische Hochschule Giessen. His publications include Political Worship, Guter schneller Tod?, and Verlangen.

Read and Download Michael Pasquarello book The Beauty of Preaching in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TThe Beauty of Preaching. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 305 pages. Book excerpt: What does beauty have to do with healing the fragmentation within our churches? According to Michael Pasquarello, everything. Amid the cacophony of ugly political invective that dominates nearly every space today—including church—only God has the power to unify and heal through his truth and goodness, revealed in his beauty. And every Sunday, those in the pulpit have the opportunity and responsibility to share this beauty with their parishioners. Tapping into a long tradition that can be traced back to Augustine, Michael Pasquarello explores a theological definition of beauty that has tremendous revelatory power in a post-Christendom world. A church manifesting this beauty is not merely a gathering of people, but a place where God’s new creation appears in the midst of the old creation, ushered in by a pastor willing to make God the primary actor within the doxological craft of preaching.

Read and Download book Liturgy and Ethics in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TLiturgy and Ethics. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 350 pages. Book excerpt: Departing from the Reformed tradition and its potential to contribute to the discussion about the connection between liturgy and ethics, this volume offers in-depth studies in how to understand God’s acting in worship, the centrality of justice, and the formative meaning of the liturgy.

Read and Download Jeff Voth book Jesus Is the Thesis in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TJesus Is the Thesis. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 147 pages. Book excerpt: From story and Scripture to sex and politics, Jesus is at the center. That is the conviction of Voth and Beck in Jesus is the Thesis, who aim to help you more clearly see the truth and beauty of Jesus Christ--and through that clearer picture, see the joy of a life lived following him. It is in the recognition of Jesus as the main idea, the one who holds everything together, that we find the story beneath all stories, the through-line of the Bible, the hope for our lives, and the just and flourishing life we seek. Jesus is the Thesis is a unique and varied work of Christ-centered apologetics--for the student, for the skeptic, and for the seasoned follower of Christ.

Read and Download Brian Brock book The Malady of the Christian Body in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TThe Malady of the Christian Body. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 280 pages. Book excerpt: The ailments of the contemporary church are remarkably similar to those suffered by the fractious Corinthian church in the first century. This is the challenge presented in The Malady of the Christian Body, a two-volume commentary by Brian Brock and Bernd Wannenwetsch. The manner in which Paul engages questions of factionalism, sexuality, legal conflict, idolatry, dress codes, and eating habits reveals that neither the malady he diagnoses nor the therapy he offers track the dominant accounts currently on offer of the malaise suffered by today's church. This volume depicts the Apostle as carefully examining the organic whole that is the body of Christ in order to detectobstacles to the healthy flow of powers that sustain its life. The therapy that is then offered comes by way of a redirection of the Corinthian believers' attention to the ways in which they can embrace God's active working among them to heal their broken unity. This book breaks new ground in crossing and reconfiguring the traditional disciplinary boundaries between biblical studies, systematic theology, and theological ethics. ""Thick--that is the word that comes to mind for characterizing this extraordinary commentary. 'Thick' is sometimes associated with 'slow, ' but I am using the term to indicate the richness of the theological readings of Paul offered in this book. I think they touch on every theological issue we confront today. As a result I cannot imagine another resource taking its place for many years."" --Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Emeritus Professor of Divinity and Law, Duke University ""While theological readings of Scripture often glide over the text, this one plunges into it. The authors' interpretations are sometimes controversial, often highly original, and always theologically rich and insightful. Most importantly, they invite the reader to participate in their own act and practice of reading 1 Corinthians from and for the church. It is an invitation any theologian or Christian ethicist--indeed, any Christian--would do well to accept."" --Gerald McKenny, Walter Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame; author of The Analogy of Grace: Karl Barth's Moral Theology ""How are we to learn to hear Paul in such a way that we also may be convicted by his writings to the Corinthians? All too often our hermeneutical preliminaries, historical contextualizations, and efforts to find coherence serve as unconscious stratagems for evading the apostle's message. By helping us to learn to read Paul over against ourselves, Brian Brock and Bernd Wannenwetsch's immensely rewarding and illuminating commentary on 1 Corinthians points us the way to the Christ who is profoundly and truly for us."" --Robert Song, Durham University Brian Brock is Reader in Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of Singing the Ethos of God, Christian Ethics in aTechnological Age, and most recently, Captive to Christ, Open to the World. Bernd Wannenwetsch was Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at the University of Oxford, Chair in Theological Ethics at the University of Aberdeen and the presidentof the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics. His publications includePolitical Worship, Guter schneller Tod?, andVerlangen."

Read and Download Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli book Real Sadhus Sing to God in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TReal Sadhus Sing to God. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 352 pages. Book excerpt: Drawing on ethnographic research spanning ten years, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli offers a new perspective on the practice of asceticism in India today. Her work brings to light the little known and often marginalized lives of female Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the North Indian state of Rajasthan. Examining the everyday religious worlds and practices of the mostly unlettered female sadhus, who come from a number of castes, Real Sadhus Sing to God illustrates that these women experience asceticism in relational and celebratory ways. They construct their lives as paths of singing to God, which, the author suggests, serves as the female way of being an ascetic. Examining the relationship between asceticism (sannyas) and devotion (bhakti) in contemporary contexts, the book brings together two disparate fields of study-yoga/asceticism and bhakti-using the singing of bhajans (devotional songs) as an orienting metaphor. This is the first book-length study to explore the ways in which female sadhus perform and thus create gendered views of asceticism through their singing, storytelling, and sacred text practices, which DeNapoli characterizes as their "rhetoric of renunciation."