Download or read book Jesus Centre Stage written by Tony Jasper and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus is alive and well in theatre. An examination of our rich English tradition of dramatic portrayals of Jesus. Ranges widely from medieval Mystery Plays to Berkoff and from stage to broadcast media.

Download or read book Keeping Christ Center Stage written by Angela Lynnette Bryant and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Periodically, everyone needs a good challenge. Keeping Christ Center Stage offers every person in ministry just that! Though written from a Christian artist perspective, Keeping Christ Center Stage, is for anyone involved in ministry. Regardless if you sing, rap, preach, teach, write, dance, usher-you get the point, if Christ is not the Master of the mission or the Treasurer of the talent, it is all in vain! As you journey through these pages, you will find yourself faced with ministry checks and challenges compelling you to keep your ministry in tune with God's will. Use the provided "sacred space" to record your inspirational epiphanies, prayers, and convictions. Ultimately, the goal is for you to take root in Christ so that the fruit of your ministry is of Christ.Ready for the challenge? Here's to Keeping Christ Center Stage!

Download or read book Center Stage written by Aaron O'Harra and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonder. Anger. Hope. Despair. Love. Violence. The Psalms contain a continuum of passion. They are songs that hope for a savior amidst the agonies and joys of everyday life. They are songs that anticipate a righteous reign in a world full of tyranny. They are songs that move the reader to an immovable God. The Psalms were central to Israel's life, Jesus' life, and the church's life. The Holy Spirit commands the church through the Apostle Paul to address one another with the Psalms. (Ephesians 5:19) Yet modern Christianity has silenced large portions of the Psalter because their despair, violence, and lament seem to be hopeless-an aesthetic the church wants to avoid. In Center Stage, Aaron O'Harra walks the reader through the Psalms, encouraging the church to implement the entirety of this heavenly hymnbook into their private and corporate worship. Along the way, he addresses a variety of questions: How does Jesus' command to "bless those who curse you..." fit with the curses of the Psalms? Is lamenting with "bottled tears" really an act of faith? And most importantly, where is Jesus in the Psalms? In God's cathedral the cries of his King are heard from center stage in every note of the Psalter-in every rhythm of his divine composition.

Download or read book Jesus Fulfilment of the Torah and Prophets written by Steven James Stiles and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Christ the Center written by Tomas Bokedal and published by Lexham Academic. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scripture is a beautiful mosaic of Christ. The earliest Christians expressed their faith with creativity through symbols and summaries. In Christ the Center, Tomas Bokedal explores the relationship of the rule of faith, nomina sacra, and numerical patterns with Scripture. The nomina sacra—scribal reverence for divine names within Scripture—display remarkable intentionality and theological reflection. The nomina sacra in turn directed the emerging rule of faith. These scribal practices reveal early devotional and theological preoccupation and guided the text's shape and interpretation in the early centuries after Christ. Christ the Center showcases early Christian reverence for Scripture—and especially for the One of whom Scripture speaks.

Download or read book A Jesuit Off Broadway written by James Martin and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us have questions about the Bible: Can we believe the Bible? What was Jesus’ mission? What is sin? Does hell exist? Is anyone beyond God’s forgiveness? In A Jesuit Off-Brodway, James Martin, SJ, answers these questions about the Bible, and other big questions about life, as he serves as a theological advisor to the cast of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. Grab a front-row seat to Fr. Martin's six months with the LAByrinth Theater Company and see first-hand what it's like to share the faith with a largely secular group of people . . . and discover, along with Martin, that the sacred and the secular aren't always that far apart.

Download or read book The Birth of the Lukan Narrative written by Mark Coleridge and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a narrative critical study of the Lukan Infancy Narrative, this is a work which puts new questions to an old and (some would claim) over interpreted text. The work traces through the Infancy narrative two trajectories - one theological, the other epistemological. At the point of theology, Luke focuses upon God and the strange shape of the divine visitation; at the point of epistemology, Luke focuses upon the human being and what is needed to recognise the divine visitation, given its strangeness. The study then shows how the two trajectories converge in the Infancy Narrative's last episode, the Finding of the Child in the Temple. Though often accorded scant attention, this is an episode which, Coleridge argues, is the true climax of the Infancy Narrative, since it is only then that Jesus is born in the narrative as the protagonist he will prove consistently to be and only then that the Lukan Narrative itself is born. It is this rather than any physical birth which most absorbs Luke in the first two chapters of the Gospel. Though a study of the Infancy narrative, this is a work with far-reaching implications for the whole of Luke-Acts

Download or read book Four Gospels One Jesus written by Richard A. Burridge and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This second edition incorporates the latest scholarship on the historical Jesus, a new section on how the Gospels have been read throughout history, and an expanded discussion of how to teach and preach the Gospels through the lectionary. Burridge also tackles the question of how these ancient writings bear on today's hot-button issues of unity and diversity. Four Gospels, One Jesus? will be appreciated by teachers, pastors, students, and other readers wanting to understand Jesus more fully."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book In Spirit and Truth written by Benny Thettayil and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of his conversation with the Samaritan woman the Johannine Jesus says "the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth" (4:23). In this monograph Benny Thettayil undertakes a detailed exegetical study of the fourth evangelist's understanding of 'worship in Spirit and truth'. Part One is devoted to a detailed exegetical analysis of John 4:19-26 focusing on the relationship between Jews and Samaritans, the meaning of pneuma and aletheia as well as the question whether Jesus reveals himself as the Messiah to the Samaritan woman. In Part Two Thettayil offers an extensive study of the replacement theme in the Fourth Gospel. He studies this issue in connection with the Johannine community and with the presentation of Jesus as the fulfilment of the temple. In his final chapter Thettayil enters into the difficult field of "Johannine Replacement Theology", taking up the challenge of confronting the theological implications of the way the fourth evangelist presents judaism.

Download or read book SCM Core Text Christian Doctrine written by Mike Higton and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SCM Core Text: Christian Doctrine offers an up-to-date, accessible introduction to one of the core subjects of theology. Written for second and third-year university students, it shows that Christian Doctrine is not a series of impossible claims to be clung to with blind faith. Mike Higton argues that it is, rather, a set of claims that emerge in the midst of Christian life, as Christian communities try to make enough sense of their lives and of their world to allow them to carry on. Christian communities have made sense of their own life, and the life of the wider world in which they are set, as life created by God to share in God's own life. They have seen themselves and their world as laid hold of God's life in Jesus of Nazareth, and as having the Spirit of God's own life actively at work within them. This book explores these and other central Christian doctrines, and in each case, shows how the doctrine makes sense, and how it is woven into Christian life. It will help readers to see what sense it might make to say the things that Christian doctrine says, and how that doctrine might affect the way that one looks at everything: the natural world, gossip, culture, speaking in tongues, politics, dieting, human freedom, love, High Noon, justice, computers, racism, the novels of Jane Austin, parenthood, death and fashion.

Download or read book Seeds of Hope written by Margaret C. Mullings and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeds of Hope Vol 2 is a collection of inspirational writing to encourage hope and healing. These inspirational writings are a demonstration of the love of your Heavenly Father who has plans of hope and a future for you. This book will awaken you spiritually. It will encourage you to begin if you have not already begun to walk in your purpose and destiny. In spite of the many road blocks and setbacks, experience heartaches, sorrows and woes, not to mention sickness and affliction, you will be inspired to pray daily and praise God always, staying in the word which will bring you into the very presence of God. You will also discover that your purpose and your destiny rides on the wings of prayer. Margaret C. Mullings is a unique woman with a passion for the presence of God. She also has a passion for hurting and lost souls. She is an encourager to the body of Christ, a prayer warrior, songwriter, and playwright, with new found love and appreciation for the performing arts. Margaret is the wife of Pastor Paul G. Mullings and the mother of four children.

Download or read book Discovering Luke DBT written by Joel B. Green and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interpretation of Luke encourages in-depth study of the text and genuine grappling with the theological and sociohistorical questions it raises. It draws on a range of methodological interests (author-, text-, and reader-centered) as complementary rather than mutually exclusive ways of understanding the text. It also recognizes the importance of the reception history of biblical texts, increasingly viewed as a vital aspect of interpretation rather than an optional extra. Throughout Discovering Luke, Joel Green gives readers strategies for reading the Gospel of Luke and guides them through Luke’s world in its historical, ideological, political, and economic contexts. Green reviews key issues raised by the Gospel and connects these issues to questions of how Luke should be interpreted today.

Download or read book Her Testimony is True written by Robert Gordon Maccini and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Het beeld van de figuren Maria, Maria Magdalena, Martha en andere vrouwen in het evangelie van Johannes, waarin zij worden voorgesteld als toeschouwers en ooggetuigen.

Download or read book Excavating John s Gospel written by Cornelis Bennema and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among people who read the Bible, some barely scratch the surface; others want to delve deeper and gain a better understanding of its original meaning and significance for today. This commentary will aid the latter category of people. Cornelis Bennema presents the study of John's Gospel as an archeological expedition at the site of John's Gospel where one digs up its meaning and applies it to today's context. If you are ready for some mental effort, perspiration, and dirty hands, you will soon realize that beneath the surface of John's Gospel there is a treasure to be discovered. Written in everyday language, this commentary will help one to get a deeper understanding and appreciation of God's message for today.

Download or read book Missionary of Reconciliation written by Alfred Olwa and published by Langham Monographs. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missionary of Reconciliation: The Role of the Doctrine of Reconciliation in the Preaching of Festo Kivengere of Uganda, 1971–1988 Alfred Olwa (Sydney, Australia) In the period 1971–1988, the Christian doctrine of reconciliation was central to Festo Kivengere’s preaching in Uganda and beyond. This doctrine so gripped Kivengere that it shaped his attitude to life, to others, and even to his enemies. He exhorted his audiences to be reconciled with God and then with their fellow human beings, as part of God’s remedy for a broken world. In his preaching, Kivengere depicts Jesus as a missionary of reconciliation who brings a fresh and alternative life, characterized by the reconciling love and peace from God. He preached the Christian doctrine of reconciliation into a Uganda where Christians lived under the horrors of Amin’s rule and its aftermath. According to Kivengere, the world changes through the preaching of the reconciliation centered in Jesus Christ.

Download or read book The Early Christian World written by Philip F. Esler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 1473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Christian World presents an exhaustive, erudite and lavishly illustrated treatment of how the small movement which formed around Jesus in Galilee became the pre-eminent religion of the ancient world. The work begins by firmly situating early Christianity within its Mediterranean social, political and religious contexts, before charting the history of the first Christian centuries. The creation and perpetuation of Christian communities through various means, including mission and monasticism, is explored, as is the everyday experience of early Christians, through discussion of gender and sexuality, religious practice, communication and social structures. The intellectual (particularly theological) and artistic heritage of the period is fully considered, and a vivid picture painted of the internal and external challenges faced by early Christianity. The book concludes with profiles of the most notable figures of the age. Comprehensive and accessible, Early Christian World provides up-to-date coverage of the most important topics in the study of early Christianity, together with an invaluable collection of visual material. It will be an indispensable resource for anyone studying this period

Download or read book Contemporary Creed written by John Morris and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike Richard Dawkins, the Revised Edition, Contemporary Creed sees no conflict between evolution and God, faith and modern science. But what sort of God creates a violent universe with a Big Bang almost 14 billion years ago and appears to do little or nothing to prevent built-in suffering and natural disasters like earthquakes, famines, disabled children and cancers? The Christian God leaves a lot unexplained! Some writers give superficial answers whereas Morris — who helps care for his own handicapped grandson — gets to the root of difficulties and succeeds in finding credible pathways through sixty problems of Christian beliefs and ethics. He writes for believers and unbelievers: for Christians like himself who admit their doubts, and for atheists and agnostics interested in life’s big questions. His unusual format of 90% prose and 10% original poetry is entertaining, and the style straightforward everyday language, offering conclusions that are often open-ended, undogmatic. His systematic theology becomes a brief A-Z that may be read in any order for individual Bible study, or by house groups that want a provocative structure for lively discussion.