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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... human perfection or maturity as a goal still to be reached , we imply that something is lacking that needs to be supplied , something green that desires growth . A spirituality is the ... humanity . What is the human person , Introduction 5.
... human perfection or maturity as a goal still to be reached , we imply that something is lacking that needs to be supplied , something green that desires growth . A spirituality is the ... humanity . What is the human person , Introduction 5.
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A Classic Spirituality for Contemporary Christians Luke Timothy Johnson. understanding of humanity . What is the human person , and how composed ? What is the meaning of terms like soul and body ? Is one better than the other ? Does one ...
A Classic Spirituality for Contemporary Christians Luke Timothy Johnson. understanding of humanity . What is the human person , and how composed ? What is the meaning of terms like soul and body ? Is one better than the other ? Does one ...
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... humanity . The human problem is less entanglement in the body with its passions , than enslavement by oppressive social systems . Salvation is not the liberation of the individual person's soul from the suffering caused by fear and ...
... humanity . The human problem is less entanglement in the body with its passions , than enslavement by oppressive social systems . Salvation is not the liberation of the individual person's soul from the suffering caused by fear and ...
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... Humans are essentially rather than optionally social . So , we have been led to believe , is God . The fact of human society is critical for the understanding of Christian life I am describing in this book . That we encounter others in ...
... Humans are essentially rather than optionally social . So , we have been led to believe , is God . The fact of human society is critical for the understanding of Christian life I am describing in this book . That we encounter others in ...
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... human beings ? In the first two chapters I will develop more fully some of the ideas I have sketched in this introduction . I will consider in turn critical concepts about God and about human existence . These chapters provide the basis ...
... human beings ? In the first two chapters I will develop more fully some of the ideas I have sketched in this introduction . I will consider in turn critical concepts about God and about human existence . These chapters provide the basis ...
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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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...