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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... fear , compulsion and sin from the inside ; that's my metier . But I have also been touched by the Other and by gift , and I am trying to figure out what to do about that , and what to think about that . Anyone who wants to do this kind ...
... fear , compulsion and sin from the inside ; that's my metier . But I have also been touched by the Other and by gift , and I am trying to figure out what to do about that , and what to think about that . Anyone who wants to do this kind ...
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... fear and desire , but the deliverance of whole populations from their condition of social marginality . In the liberation model , a Christian reaches maturity in passionate engagement with social change . The living God is a God in ...
... fear and desire , but the deliverance of whole populations from their condition of social marginality . In the liberation model , a Christian reaches maturity in passionate engagement with social change . The living God is a God in ...
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... fear and desire onto a cosmic screen . Christians do not consider the term God simply a remnant concept , as though God were what was left over when everything else in the world was taken into account . The opposite is true : God is ...
... fear and desire onto a cosmic screen . Christians do not consider the term God simply a remnant concept , as though God were what was left over when everything else in the world was taken into account . The opposite is true : God is ...
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... fear of death . This brings us to the more profound sense of salvation in the Christian tradition . Salvation is not only a liberation from but a freedom for . The Creator abounds in life and wishes to share it fully with creatures ...
... fear of death . This brings us to the more profound sense of salvation in the Christian tradition . Salvation is not only a liberation from but a freedom for . The Creator abounds in life and wishes to share it fully with creatures ...
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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 |
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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...