Revelation and Concealment of Christ
Author : Saeed Hamid-Khani
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-03-16
ISBN 10 : 9781725291577
Pages : 601 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (725 users)
Download or read book Revelation and Concealment of Christ PDF or another Format written by Saeed Hamid-Khani and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The elusive disposition of John's language has been noted by biblical scholars throughout the history of New Testament studies. The Fourth Gospel is seen as so simple to grasp and yet often pointing beyond itself and beckoning the reader to read deeper. Various socio-linguistic studies have explained this feature as the reflection of the sectarian tendencies in the Johannine Christianity. In his study Saeed Hamid-Khani questions these approaches as inadequate. In turn, he examines John's language within an exegetical and theological framework. He argues that the Sitz im Leben of Johannine language was an environment in which the Hebrew Scriptures were the dominant conceptual force for both the Jews and the Christians. In this context he argues that the essential function of John's enigmatic language is wedded to the Evangelist's purpose in writing the Gospel: namely a steadfast focus upon setting forth that Jesus is the Christ according to the witness of Israel's Scriptures. It is here in these echoes and thematic allusions to the Scriptures that we find the answer to the function and significance of John's unique language: i.e., Jesus is the Messiah, the Saviour of the world, and he is the visible image of the invisible God, the embodiment of the self-revelation of God according to the Scriptures. However, these truths are concealed from the undiscerning and are only revealed by the spirit of God to those who are born of God.
Histories of the Hidden God
Author : April D DeConick
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-08
ISBN 10 : 9781134935994
Pages : 368 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (134 users)
Download or read book Histories of the Hidden God PDF or another Format written by April D DeConick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Western religious traditions, God is conventionally conceived as a humanlike creator, lawgiver, and king, a being both accessible and actively present in history. Yet there is a concurrent and strong tradition of a God who actively hides. The two traditions have led to a tension between a God who is simultaneously accessible to humanity and yet inaccessible, a God who is both immanent and transcendent, present and absent. Western Gnostic, esoteric, and mystical thinking capitalizes on the hidden and hiding God. He becomes the hallmark of the mystics, Gnostics, sages, and artists who attempt to make accessible to humans the God who is secreted away. 'Histories of the Hidden God' explores this tradition from antiquity to today. The essays focus on three essential themes: the concealment of the hidden God; the human quest for the hidden God, and revelations of the hidden God.
Saving Beauty
Author : Veronica Donnelly
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : 3039107232
Pages : 280 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (17 users)
Download or read book Saving Beauty PDF or another Format written by Veronica Donnelly and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balthasar is one of the most influential of Catholic twentieth-century theologians, and his oeuvre is astonishing in its range and amplitude. This together with a style of writing that is cyclic rather than systematic makes his work difficult to assimilate. The author has overcome this obstacle by finding an integrating motif that makes coherent sense of the whole. That motif is the concept of 'form'. The first section of the book deals with that 'form': its genesis, its meaning as a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts, and as a revelation of the mystery of Being. Section two shows how, when the concept is applied christologically, it signifies the incarnate form of Jesus as expressing the glory of the triune God, the source of Being. Section three, which deals specifically with Balthasar's soteriology, demonstrates how because of his mission to save a sinful world the form of Jesus has to undergo suffering and death and become apparently 'formless'. While indicating that the main lines of Balthasar's theology are rooted in tradition, the book also illustrates the radicalness of his approach. His dialogue with theologians and philosophers, both ancient and modern, is discussed and evaluated throughout.
The Resurrection in Karl Barth
Author : R. Dale Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-15
ISBN 10 : 9781351882910
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (351 users)
Download or read book The Resurrection in Karl Barth PDF or another Format written by R. Dale Dawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Barth repeatedly spoke of the centrality and unparalleled significance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ for his theological understanding, yet a clear grasp of its nature and scope in Barth continues to find little expression in scholarly literature. This book seeks to draw out the theological substance and systematic implications of Barth's thinking on this theme. Barth's mature understanding of the resurrection concentrates upon the transition from the objective achievement of reconciliation culminating in the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ to its subjective appropriation in the life of the believer, all within a thoroughly christological context. The resurrection may be described as the way of the crucified Lord to others, and is, for Barth, the essential and efficient link between christology proper and the extension of Christ's saving work to others.
Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4, Part 2
Author : Karl Barth
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2004-01-30
ISBN 10 : 0567051390
Pages : 892 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (51 users)
Download or read book Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4, Part 2 PDF or another Format written by Karl Barth and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-01-30 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described by Pope Pius XII as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas, the Swiss pastor and theologian, Karl Barth, continues to be a major influence on students, scholars and preachers today. Barth's theology found its expression mainly through his closely reasoned fourteen-part magnum opus, Die Kirchliche Dogmatik. Having taken over 30 years to write, the Church Dogmatics is regarded as one of the most important theological works of all time, and represents the pinnacle of Barth's achievement as a theologian. T&T Clark International is now proud to be publishing the only complete English translation of the Church Dogmatics in paperback.
Church Dogmatics
Author : Karl Barth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 1958-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9780567091390
Pages : 884 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (567 users)
Download or read book Church Dogmatics PDF or another Format written by Karl Barth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1958-01-01 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described by Pope Pius XII as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas, the Swiss pastor and theologian, Karl Barth, continues to be a major influence on students, scholars and preachers today. Barth's theology found its expression mainly through his closely reasoned fourteen-part magnum opus, Die Kirchliche Dogmatik. Having taken over 30 years to write, the Church Dogmatics is regarded as one of the most important theological works of all time, and represents the pinnacle of Barth's achievement as a theologian.
A Prologue to Studies in the Fourth Gospel
Author : Riku P. Tuppurainen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-05-25
ISBN 10 : 9781725273115
Pages : 250 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (725 users)
Download or read book A Prologue to Studies in the Fourth Gospel PDF or another Format written by Riku P. Tuppurainen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourth Gospel both blesses and betrays. It blesses readers who engage with its message, but it may betray those who read it nonchalantly. The notion that the Fourth Gospel is easy to understand is an enduring myth. This volume takes readers on a heuristic journey to discover the Fourth Gospel's unique theological aspects, problematic historical matters, inimitable literary features, and various interpretive approaches using an accessible format and easy-to-read language. The purpose of this publication is to enable readers to appreciate the Fourth Gospel's wide horizon, so necessary to understand its narratives in their historical and narrative contexts. Like the prologue of the Fourth Gospel that introduces and gives perspective on how readers should approach the rest of the Gospel, similarly, this volume introduces and gives perspective to studies in the Fourth Gospel. The text is divided into three parts, which examine its independent theology and argumentation, various outstanding issues, and its interpretation respectively. This volume is suitable for a wide readership, from Bible study groups to pastors and from undergraduate to graduate students.
The Book of Revelation a Series of Outline Studies in the Apocalypse
Author : James H. McConkey
Publisher : Standard Publications Incorporated
Release Date : 2007-04
ISBN 10 : 1594626081
Pages : 104 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (626 users)
Download or read book The Book of Revelation a Series of Outline Studies in the Apocalypse PDF or another Format written by James H. McConkey and published by Standard Publications Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Note the title of the book. It is not "the concealment" but "the revelation" of Jesus Christ. It is well to mark this. For many say this book of Revelation is a mystery; it is a sealed book; God never meant nor expected His children to understand it. But the mere title of the book refutes such a view. For revelation means the "uncovering" or "unveiling" of that which has been hidden, not the concealing of it. Moreover, the next sentence declares that God gave it unto Jesus Christ "to show unto His servants." Hence we cannot defend our neglect and woeful ignorance of this wondrous book by asserting that it is not meant to be known. God says it is, and that it is given to be shown, not to be concealed. Neither does He tell us it is useless to read it...
The Ecumenical Edwards
Author : Kyle C. Strobel
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
ISBN 10 : 9781317034575
Pages : 270 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (317 users)
Download or read book The Ecumenical Edwards PDF or another Format written by Kyle C. Strobel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Edwards is considered by many to be America’s greatest theologian. Many have lauded him as one of the great theologians in church history. This book brings together major Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant theologians to assess Edwards’s theological acumen. Each chapter places Edwards in conversation with a thinker or a tradition over a specific theological issue.
Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics
Author : Daniel B. Wallace
Publisher : Harper Collins
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 10 : 0310218950
Pages : 868 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (218 users)
Download or read book Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics PDF or another Format written by Daniel B. Wallace and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1996 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depth, accuracy, relevancy and up-to-date presentation make this intermediate Greek grammar the finest available. Written by a world-class authority on textual criticism, it links grammar and exegesis to provide today's second-year Greek student with solid exegetical and linguistic foundations.
The Person of Christ
Author : Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 1954
ISBN 10 : 0802848168
Pages : 380 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (848 users)
Download or read book The Person of Christ PDF or another Format written by Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1954 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming a vampire saved Alyssa from death, but the price was high: the loss of everything and everyone attached to her mortal life. She's still learning to cope when a surprise confrontation with Santino Vitale, the Acta Sanctorum's most fearsome hunter, sends her fleeing back to the world she once knew, and Fallon, the friend she's missed more than anything. Alyssa breaks vampire law by revealing her new, true self to her old friend, a fact which causes strong division in the group that should support her most: her clan. Worse yet, her revelation entangles Fallon in the struggle between vampires and hunters and The Acta Sanctorum is ready to attack again, with a new army of hybrid creations: the Frenzy Soldiers. If Alyssa hopes to survive and keep her mortal friend safe, she'll have to be willing to make a deal with the enemy, and regain her clan's support. It will take everyone working together in a precarious truce to fight against the Acta Sanctorum's new threat.
Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
Author : Gerhard Kittel
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 1985-07-10
ISBN 10 : 0802824048
Pages : 1400 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (824 users)
Download or read book Theological Dictionary of the New Testament PDF or another Format written by Gerhard Kittel and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1985-07-10 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey W. Bromiley has abridged this monumental theological dictionary into a convenient, one-volume edition that is accessible to all readers.
The Word Has Been Abroad
Author : Aidan Nichols
Publisher : CUA Press
Release Date : 1998
ISBN 10 : 0813209250
Pages : 292 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (29 users)
Download or read book The Word Has Been Abroad PDF or another Format written by Aidan Nichols and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of Hans Urs von Balthasar's seven-volume The Glory of the Lord established von Balthasar as one of the greatest and most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth-century.
The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy
Author : Ian Balfour
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2002
ISBN 10 : 0804745064
Pages : 372 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (745 users)
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy PDF or another Format written by Ian Balfour and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romantic era in England and Germany saw a sudden renewal of prophetic modes of writing. Biblical prophecy and, to a lesser extent, classical oracle again became viable models for poetry and even for journalistic prose. Notably, this development arose out of the new-found freedom of biblical interpretation that began in the mid-eighteenth century, as the Bible was increasingly seen to be a literary and mythical text. Taking Walter Benjamin’s thinking about history as a point of departure, the author shows how the model for Romantic prophecy emerges less as a prediction of the future than as a call to change in the present, even as it quotes, at key turns, texts from the past. After surveying developments in eighteenth-century biblical hermeneutics, as well as the numerous instances of prophetic eruption in Romantic poetry, the book culminates in close readings of works by Blake, Hölderlin, and Coleridge. Each of these writers interpreted the Bible in strong, variously radical and conservative ways, and each reworked prophetic texts in often startling fashion. The author’s reading of Blake focuses on the complex temporal and rhetorical dynamics at work in a prophetic tradition, with attention paid to the key mediating figure of Milton. The chapter on Hölderlin investigates the truth-claim of poetry and the consequences of Hölderlin’s insight into the necessarily figural character of poetry. The analysis of Coleridge correlates his theory of allegory and symbol with his theory and practice of political writing, which often relies on mobilizing prophetic authority. Together, the readings force us to reexamine the claims and practices of Romantic poets and thinkers and their ideas and ideologies, not without engendering some allegorical resonance with issues in our own time.
The Aesthetic Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Author : Jason Paul Bourgeois
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : 143310069X
Pages : 164 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (1 users)
Download or read book The Aesthetic Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Hans Urs Von Balthasar PDF or another Format written by Jason Paul Bourgeois and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a comparison of their aesthetics and hermeneutics, this book reveals that both Gadamer and Balthasar reject an autonomous, neutral, distanced starting point for interpretation. Instead, they advocate a dialogical model in which interpreters allow themselves to be engaged by the truth of the text or artwork at hand. Both thinkers use aesthetic categories to describe this model of interpretation (such as the neo-Platonic category of radiance) and both reflect a disclosure-concealment theory of truth. In recognizing that interpreters are part of an unfolding history and that the examination of historical texts cannot be done from a neutral standpoint, they both acknowledge that textual interpretation must contain the dimension of dialogue with the past truths. Significantly, Balthasar incorporates these aesthetic and hermeneutical categories into an explicitly Trinitarian salvation-history framework, which is absent in Gadamer's thought. This book concludes with the implications of an aesthetic hermeneutics for contemporary Roman Catholic theology and its dialogue with various schools of thought (philosophical and religious), arguing that the concrete, particular forms of Christianity as expressed in Roman Catholicism cannot be bracketed or evacuated by Catholic theologians in the interest of achieving consensus in religious matters. To the contrary, it is precisely in these forms that we believe that God's revelation takes place.
The Word of Christ and the World of Culture
Author : Paul Louis Metzger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2005-10-01
ISBN 10 : 9781597524070
Pages : 276 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (597 users)
Download or read book The Word of Christ and the World of Culture PDF or another Format written by Paul Louis Metzger and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theological revolution that Karl Barth inspired was by no means a dismissive reaction to modern culture but, rather, was a dynamic and carefully nuanced encounter with the concerns of his day. This excellent new work by Paul Lewis Metzger provides an exposition and extension of Barth's engagement of culture in view of his doctrine of the Word. Metzger demonstrates that Barth endeavored to relate Christ to culture in inseparable terms while maintaining a distinction between them. Working from an intimate knowledge of all of Barth's writings, Metzger shows how Barth's doctrine of the Word provides a sound basis on which to build a theological model of culture that guards against the two extremes of either the divinization or the secularization of culture, while at the same time nurturing a healthy appreciation for the secular domain. The first part of the book analyzes Barth's formative theological period, which is characterized by his engagement with culture and what is termed "Culture Protestantism." The second part of the book focuses on how Barth's answer -- a dialectical model of the Word -- enabled him to offer a constructive synthesis of Christ and culture. The final section of the book traces the way Barth was able to frame culture within his theological model and yet continue to champion the secular domain. "The Word of Christ and the World of Culture is a superb volume that will benefit anyone studying Barth, modern theology, or the relation of Christianity and culture.
From Jesus to Christ
Author : Paula Fredriksen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01
ISBN 10 : 9780300164107
Pages : 286 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (3 users)
Download or read book From Jesus to Christ PDF or another Format written by Paula Fredriksen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."—Géza Vermès, Times Literary Supplement In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. This edition includes an introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology. "Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights."—Reginald H. Fuller, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "This is a first-rate work of a first-rate historian."—James D. Tabor, Journal of Religion "Fredriksen confronts her documents—principally the writings of the New Testament—as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."—Thomas D’Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor
