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 22
... heart of this critical theological concept is that God is the discerner of the heart . By declaring that God is judge the Christian means first that God is our Judge here and now . All we think and say and do lies bare before the all ...
... heart of this critical theological concept is that God is the discerner of the heart . By declaring that God is judge the Christian means first that God is our Judge here and now . All we think and say and do lies bare before the all ...
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... heart is significant only if the intentions of the heart are being judged . What follows when we deny the confession that God judges the world ? First , we must assume the entire responsibility for justice being done in the world . If ...
... heart is significant only if the intentions of the heart are being judged . What follows when we deny the confession that God judges the world ? First , we must assume the entire responsibility for justice being done in the world . If ...
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... heart . Distinctive to Christian spirituality is the conviction that the Spirit has been made available , indeed powerfully present in the world , through the resurrection of Jesus , Jesus was , Paul tells us , " designated Son of God ...
... heart . Distinctive to Christian spirituality is the conviction that the Spirit has been made available , indeed powerfully present in the world , through the resurrection of Jesus , Jesus was , Paul tells us , " designated Son of God ...
Página 30
... heart in faith and love . The actual deeds of Jesus are mostly unrepeatable ; the direction of his freedom , which generated those actions , is , however , renewable in the hearts of others . Transformation begins with the " renewal of ...
... heart in faith and love . The actual deeds of Jesus are mostly unrepeatable ; the direction of his freedom , which generated those actions , is , however , renewable in the hearts of others . Transformation begins with the " renewal of ...
Página 33
... heart , a sense of complete contingency paralyzes action . We seem to be so constructed as to require something to ... hearts even when physically absent . We can , by spirit , get inside . By spirit , we engage the world as a project ...
... heart , a sense of complete contingency paralyzes action . We seem to be so constructed as to require something to ... hearts even when physically absent . We can , by spirit , get inside . By spirit , we engage the world as a project ...
Índice
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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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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...