Faith's Freedom: A Classic Spirituality for Contemporary ChristiansFortress Press, 23/07/1990 - 200 páginas Johnson believes Christian spirituality needs an intellectual recasting that takes seriously the life of ordinary people in a world shaped by modernity rather than the monastery by discerning the narrative of God's action in their midst. |
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Página 9
... encounter with this Other who is always ahead of us , always active . In the first part of this book , I will delineate more carefully what I think we can appropriately say or not say about God . It is essential to state from the ...
... encounter with this Other who is always ahead of us , always active . In the first part of this book , I will delineate more carefully what I think we can appropriately say or not say about God . It is essential to state from the ...
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... encounter others in the world , and not simply the Other , enables us to make sense of our life of faith in terms as real as potatoes . We live in complex sets of social structures and systems . We are born into , are imprinted by ...
... encounter others in the world , and not simply the Other , enables us to make sense of our life of faith in terms as real as potatoes . We live in complex sets of social structures and systems . We are born into , are imprinted by ...
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... encounters us . Only occasionally in this book will I enter into a close reading of specific Scripture texts . One cannot do everything at once . I must ask the reader to trust that my entire vision of how these things fit together ...
... encounters us . Only occasionally in this book will I enter into a close reading of specific Scripture texts . One cannot do everything at once . I must ask the reader to trust that my entire vision of how these things fit together ...
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... encounter when we engage God the world . It is of the greatest importance to state from the beginning that what Christians mean by " spirituality " is this en- counter with a power and freedom other than , and infinitely greater than ...
... encounter when we engage God the world . It is of the greatest importance to state from the beginning that what Christians mean by " spirituality " is this en- counter with a power and freedom other than , and infinitely greater than ...
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... encounter , I do not mean that God is an object among other objects ; that God is definable , locatable , controllable . By saying that God is most real , I do not mean to imply that God is most obviously real . By saying that God is ...
... encounter , I do not mean that God is an object among other objects ; that God is definable , locatable , controllable . By saying that God is most real , I do not mean to imply that God is most obviously real . By saying that God is ...
Índice
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31 | |
Setting the Stage Revelation as a Process of Interpretation | 47 |
The Basic Drama Idolatry Sin Grace Faith | 60 |
The Life of Faith | 78 |
The Prayer of Faith | 99 |
Faith Embodied Power and Possessuions | 114 |
Doing the Truth in Love Anger and Sexuality | 131 |
Christian Realism Evil and Suffering | 152 |
Where the Spirit of the Lord Is There Is Freedom | 174 |
Epilogue | 186 |
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Faith's Freedom: A Classic Spirituality for Contemporary Christians Luke Timothy Johnson Pré-visualização indisponível - 1990 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Abraham absolute acceptance agape anger assert become body challenge Christ Christian identity Christian maturity Christian perfection Christian Realism Christian spirituality claim cognitive dissonance compulsion conviction created creation Creator creed death defined demands depth psychology dimension of faith distortion emotional enables encounter eschatology evil and suffering existence fear Gabriel Marcel gnostic model God's gift God's project Gospels grace Hebrews human freedom human project human spirit idolatry knowledge and love language liberation model lives Lord means Messiah model of spirituality never obedience of faith obedient faith obvious Odo Casel ourselves pain pathein pattern Paul Paul's perception perfect person physical possessions prayer of silence precisely reality relativize religious experience response resurrection resurrection of Jesus revealed righteousness seek sense sexual simply social society soteriology speak story structures symbols theology things Thomas Merton Torah truly truth understanding will-lessness word
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Página 163 - Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
Página 106 - Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.
Página 91 - In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. * Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered...
Página 134 - Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment...
Página 19 - Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
Página 91 - For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are— yet was without sin.
Página 176 - But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
Página 163 - Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us...