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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... never has been . The problems are not entirely new : Theology has often been divorced from the life of the church , and piety has frequently been uninformed by theology . But the problem of recasting spirituality for contem- porary ...
... never has been . The problems are not entirely new : Theology has often been divorced from the life of the church , and piety has frequently been uninformed by theology . But the problem of recasting spirituality for contem- porary ...
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... never directly seen but always implicitly present : God who is Spirit . God is not simply a name or a logical deduction . God is power , the most important actor in the drama whose smaller parts we find ourselves playing . The path to ...
... never directly seen but always implicitly present : God who is Spirit . God is not simply a name or a logical deduction . God is power , the most important actor in the drama whose smaller parts we find ourselves playing . The path to ...
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... never to be taken for granted coming into being . I encounter God when I engage the world because as the song so succinctly says , " He's got the whole world in his hands . " In this perception , the world is a perpetually renewed gift ...
... never to be taken for granted coming into being . I encounter God when I engage the world because as the song so succinctly says , " He's got the whole world in his hands . " In this perception , the world is a perpetually renewed gift ...
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... never be transmuted to a possession completely within our control , still less a basis from which to control God . What are we saved from ? Since all that exists comes by gift from God , we are not saved from the visible world or some ...
... never be transmuted to a possession completely within our control , still less a basis from which to control God . What are we saved from ? Since all that exists comes by gift from God , we are not saved from the visible world or some ...
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... never to be despised , so by the living out of one singular human story from beginning to end , does God render all human stories potential sources of divine revelation . The assertion of early Christian teachers that " what is not ...
... never to be despised , so by the living out of one singular human story from beginning to end , does God render all human stories potential sources of divine revelation . The assertion of early Christian teachers that " what is not ...
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 |
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...