Download or read book A Dialogue of Suffering Between the Crucifixion and the Holocaust written by Rick Wienecke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised, B&W version of the previous full colour book. A Dialogue of Suffering Between the Crucifixion and the Holocaust is a curriculum designed to be used for personal use or small study groups. This book also contains many pictures of the Fountain of Tears. Not meant to be an intellectual exercise, this study tool delves deeper in the connection and similarities that exist between the Crucifixion and the Holocaust. The material is based on the 'The Fountain of Tears', a sculptured dialogue of suffering between the Crucifixion and the Holocaust. Don't expect to find clear-cut answers, but allow God the Father to share His tears one layer at a time, in the questions.

Download or read book Seeds in the Wind written by Rick Wienecke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeds in the Wind tells about Rick Wienecke's journey into the suffering of the Jewish people in the Holocaust and the crucifixion of Jesus. In the mid 1970's, Rick's life style leads him into a place of desperation where he begins searching for God. Rick becomes fascinated with the birthing of Israel as a nation only three years after the Holocaust. While working on a Kibbutz for six months, the Lord attaches Rick to the Jewish people, the Land of Israel and to the Jewish Messiah Jesus. Rick's God-given language through sculpting grows and develops alongside these other points of relationship. After their marriage, Rick and Dafna learn to step out in faith and eventually obey the 'Heavenly Commission' of creating the "Fountain of Tears". This 'dialogue of suffering' between the Holocaust and the Crucifixion is in Arad and soon will be also in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Seeds in the Wind is the story of how God uses a talented artist to share the message of the Father's heart to His people.

Download or read book The Resurrection of Jesus written by Pinchas Lapide and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-03-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I accept the resurrection of Jesus not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as an historical event.Ó When a leading orthodox Jew makes such a declaration, its significance can hardly be overstated. Pinchas Lapide is a rabbi and theologian who has specialized in the study of the New Testament. In this book he convincingly shows that an irreducible minimum of experience underlies the New Testament account of the resurrection, however much of the details of the narrative may be open to objection. He maintains that life after death is part of the Jewish faith experience, and that it is Jesus' messiahship, not his resurrection, which marks the division between Christianity and Judaism. Dr. Lapide quotes Moses Maimonides, the greatest Jewish thinker, in his support: All these matters which refer to Jesus of Nazareth...only served to make the way free for the King Messiah and to prepare the whole world for the worship of God with a united heart.Ó

Download or read book Face to Face written by Geoff Barnard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fountain of Tears was created by my friend Rick Wienecke and we now believe that more than 20,000 people have visited the Fountain which is situated in Rick's "backyard" in Arad in the south of Israel. This involves many 1000's of Israelis including Holocaust Survivors and even some Rabbis. The communication of God's love through art touches their hearts. This book is my theological contribution to Rick's inspiring creativity. My prayer is that it will encourage a greater dialogue between Christian and Jewish theologians. For example, it has been said by an orthodox Jewish friend that the Fountain is probably one of the greatest arguments against the deception known as "Replacement Theology" which pervades much of the evangelical church in the western world. This book also lays the biblical groundwork to help us understand that our faithful God will fulfill every promise that he has made to the Jewish people and to the Land of Israel.

Download or read book Bride of Christ written by Jodi Gay and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bride of Christ is an inspirational 40 Day Journey. Through the extensive travels, experiences and faithful obedience of Jodi Gay you are uplifted and encouraged to embark upon your own journey of truth and discovery. When you're not feeling favored or worthy, as if overcoming the challenge is impossible, this book will serve as a reminder, while every step may not be easy, to be grateful. We all have purpose. If you are open to receive, you will be blessed with an abundance of courage and faith. Jodi is proof of how one can be transformed. While His hand has been upon her from a young age, to know Him intimately was a journey of forgiveness, mercy & compassion. She overcame a life changing event in 2007 - one that was thought to be a test of leadership was instead a test of faith. Seeing a glimpse of how much He grieves and loves, she determined to seek Him first & foremost. Originally from Michigan, Jodi currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri. In 2005, she started 2 Serve Ministries with her husband, Bob. They travel internationally but primarily to Central America. Their hearts are to feed the children and to minister to the afflicted. The picture below was taken while planting an olive tree in Israel. Shortly thereafter, the long awaited rain poured over the desert. For more information, you are invited to visit their website at 2ServeHimMinistries.org.

Download or read book After the Deportation written by Philip Nord and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the change in memory regime in postwar France, from one centered on the concentration camps to one centered on the Holocaust.

Download or read book Brother Jesus written by Schalom Ben-Chorin and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students of American history know of the law's critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America. Robert J. Cottrol takes the reader on a journey from the origins of New World slavery in colonial Latin America to current debates and litigation over affirmative action in Brazil and the United States, as well as contemporary struggles against racial discrimination and Afro-Latin invisibility in the Spanish-speaking nations of the hemisphere. Ranging across such topics as slavery, emancipation, scientific racism, immigration policies, racial classifications, and legal processes, Cottrol unravels a complex odyssey. By the eve of the Civil War, the U.S. slave system was rooted in a legal and cultural foundation of racial exclusion unmatched in the Western Hemisphere. That system's legacy was later echoed in Jim Crow, the practice of legally mandated segregation. Jim Crow in turn caused leading Latin Americans to regard their nations as models of racial equality because their laws did not mandate racial discrimination-- a belief that masked very real patterns of racism throughout the Americas. And yet, Cottrol says, if the United States has had a history of more-rigid racial exclusion, since the Second World War it has also had a more thorough civil rights revolution, with significant legal victories over racial discrimination. Cottrol explores this remarkable transformation and shows how it is now inspiring civil rights activists throughout the Americas.

Download or read book Misquoting Jesus written by Bart D. Ehrman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When world-class biblical scholar Bart Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the mistakes and changes that ancient scribes made to the New Testament and shows the great impact they had upon the Bible we use today. He frames his account with personal reflections on how his study of the Greek manuscripts made him abandon his once ultraconservative views of the Bible. Since the advent of the printing press and the accurate reproduction of texts, most people have assumed that when they read the New Testament they are reading an exact copy of Jesus's words or Saint Paul's writings. And yet, for almost fifteen hundred years these manuscripts were hand copied by scribes who were deeply influenced by the cultural, theological, and political disputes of their day. Both mistakes and intentional changes abound in the surviving manuscripts, making the original words difficult to reconstruct. For the first time, Ehrman reveals where and why these changes were made and how scholars go about reconstructing the original words of the New Testament as closely as possible. Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our cherished biblical stories and widely held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself stem from both intentional and accidental alterations by scribes -- alterations that dramatically affected all subsequent versions of the Bible.

Download or read book Jacob s Younger Brother written by Karma Ben-Johanan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing account of contemporary tensions between Jews and Christians, playing out beneath the surface of conciliatory interfaith dialogue. A new chapter in Jewish-Christian relations opened in the second half of the twentieth century when the Second Vatican Council exonerated Jews from the accusation of deicide and declared that the Jewish people had never been rejected by God. In a few carefully phrased statements, two millennia of deep hostility were swept into the trash heap of history. But old animosities die hard. While Catholic and Jewish leaders publicly promoted interfaith dialogue, doubts remained behind closed doors. Catholic officials and theologians soon found that changing their attitude toward Jews could threaten the foundations of Christian tradition. For their part, many Jews perceived the new Catholic line as a Church effort to shore up support amid atheist and secular advances. Drawing on extensive research in contemporary rabbinical literature, Karma Ben-Johanan shows that Jewish leaders welcomed the Catholic condemnation of antisemitism but were less enthusiastic about the Church's sudden urge to claim their friendship. Catholic theologians hoped Vatican II would turn the page on an embarrassing history, hence the assertion that the Church had not reformed but rather had always loved Jews, or at least should have. Orthodox rabbis, in contrast, believed they were finally free to say what they thought of Christianity. Jacob's Younger Brother pulls back the veil of interfaith dialogue to reveal how Orthodox rabbis and Catholic leaders spoke about each other when outsiders were not in the room. There Ben-Johanan finds Jews reluctant to accept the latest whims of a Church that had unilaterally dictated the terms of Jewish-Christian relations for centuries.

Download or read book A Conversation between a Muslim and a Christian written by Peter Barnes and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many books which set out the case for Islam or for Christianity and point out what they regard as defects in the other religion. This book does that, but it seeks to do so in the form of a workbook which groups of Christians or Muslims might use, and it is conducted in a spirit where truth is paramount but so too is kindness and civility. The two authors have become friends and hope that this can be detected in the exchanges. As the major doctrines of each religion are dealt with, we are conscious that these doctrines are important and need to be examined rigorously and charitably. We hope we have succeeded to some degree at least.

Download or read book Constantine s Sword written by James Carroll and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare book that combines searing passion with a subject that has affected all of our lives. "Chicago Tribune" Novelist, cultural critic, and former priest James Carroll marries history with memoir as he maps the two-thousand-year course of the Church s battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has sparked in his own life. Fascinating, brave, and sometimes infuriating ("Time"), this dark history is more than a chronicle of religion. It is the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines reaching deep into our culture to create a deeply felt work ("San Francisco Chronicle") as Carroll wrangles with centuries of strife and tragedy to reach a courageous and affecting reckoning with difficult truths."

Download or read book The Emptying God written by John B. Cobb and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masao Abe is widely acknowledged as a leader in the worldwide dialogue on Buddhism. A profound scholar of Buddhism and of Christian theology, his critical and constructive reflections culminate in the seminal essay that is the cornerstone of this volume. Seven eminent scholars respond to the challenge of Abe's construal of Kenotic God and Dynamic Sunyata.Ó Abe demonstrates powerfully the dynamism of the Buddhist appreciation of the divine Emptiness at the heart of Being. His essay suggests how the doctrine of sunyata can provide a needed corrective to the reified understanding of God prominent in Jewish and Christian traditions. Abe opens the way for new and deeper engagement of these traditions with the wisdom of Buddhism. Leading Christian and Jewish theologians--Thomas J. J. Altizer, Eugene Borowitz, John B. Cobb, Jr., Catherine Keller, Schubert M. Ogden, Jÿrgen Moltmann, and David Tracy--respond to Abe's challenge. From perspectives as diverse as American feminism, post-Holocaust Judaism, process thought, and hermeneutics, they reply to Abe's proposals for considering God to be intrinsically self-emptying. Abe responds to these essays in a conclusion. Provocative and illuminating, The Emptying God shows how interfaith dialogue, at its very best, provides materials for the mutual transformation of all traditions.

Download or read book The Suffering Servant written by Bernd Janowski and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Servant Song of Isaiah 53 has been highly significant in both Jewish and Christian thought. Rarely, however, has it been explored from the broad range of perspectives represented in this long-awaited volume. In The Suffering Servant ten talented biblical interpreters trace the influence of the Servant Song text through the centuries, unpacking the theological meanings of this rich passage of scripture and its uses in various religious contexts. Chapters examine in depth Isaiah 52:13-53:12 in the Hebrew original and in later writings, including pre-Christian Jewish literature, the New Testament, the Isaiah Targum, the early church fathers, and a sixteenth-century rabbinic document informed by Jewish-Christian dialogue. Contributors Jostein Ådna Daniel P. Bailey Gerlinde Feine Martin Hengel Hans-Jürgen Hermisson Otfried Hofius Wolfgang Hüllstrung Bernd Janowski Christoph Markschies Stefan Schreiner Hermann Spieckermann Peter Stuhlmacher

Download or read book The Crucified God written by Jurgen Moltmann and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work on the significance of the crucifixion takes death, despair and dreadfulness with total seriousness and relates these to a liberating hope of redemption through divine agony and suffering.

Download or read book Disability and Isaiah s Suffering Servant written by Jeremy Schipper and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although disability imagery is ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible, characters with disabilities are not. The presence of the former does not guarantee the presence of the later. While interpreters explain away disabilities in specific characters, they celebrate the rhetorical contributions that disability imagery makes to the literary artistry of biblical prose and poetry, often as a trope to describe the suffering or struggles of a presumably nondisabled person or community. This situation contributes to the appearance (or illusion) of a Hebrew Bible that uses disability as a rich literary trope while disavowing the presence of figures or characters with disabilities. Isaiah 53 provides a wonderful example of this dynamic at work. The "Suffering Servant" figure in Isaiah 53 has captured the imagination of readers since very early in the history of biblical interpretation. Most interpreters understand the servant as an otherwise able bodied person who suffers. By contrast, Jeremy Schipper's study shows that Isaiah 53 describes the servant with language and imagery typically associated with disability in the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Near Eastern literature. Informed by recent work in disability studies from across the humanities, it traces both the disappearance of the servant's disability from the interpretative history of Isaiah 53 and the scholarly creation of the able bodied suffering servant.

Download or read book The Crucified God written by Jürgen Moltmann and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its English publication in 1973, Jrgen Moltmanns The Crucified God garnered much attention, and it has become one of the seminal texts of twentieth-century theology. Following up on his groundbreaking Theology of Hope, The Crucified God established the cross as the foundation for Christian hope. Moltmanns dramatic innovation was to see the cross not as a problem of theodicy but instead as an act of ultimate solidarity between God and humanity. In this, he drew on liberation theology, and he was among the first to bring third-world theologies into a first-world context. Moltmann proposes that suffering is not a problem to be solved but instead that suffering is an aspect of Gods very being: God is love, and love invariably involves suffering. In this view, the crucifixion of Jesus is an event that affects the entirety of the Trinity, showing that The Crucified God is more than an arresting titleit is a theological breakthrough.

Download or read book Greek Theatre between Antiquity and Independence written by Walter Puchner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first general history of Greek theatre from Hellenistic times to the foundation of the Modern Greek state in 1830 marks a radical departure from traditional methods of historiography. We like to think of history unfolding continuously, in an evolutionary form, but the story of Greek theatre is rather different. After traditional theatre ended in the sixth and seventh centuries, no traditional drama was written or performed on stage throughout the Greek-speaking world for centuries due to the Orthodox Church's hostile attitude toward spectacles. With the reinvention of theatre in Renaissance Italy, however, Greek theatre was revived in Crete under Venetian rule in the late sixteenth century. The following centuries saw the restoration of Greek theatre at various locations, albeit characterized by numerous ruptures and discontinuities in terms of geography, stylistics, thematic approaches and ideologies. These diverse developments were only 'normalized' with the establishment of the Greek nation state.