Download or read book Portraits of God written by Allan Coppedge and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-09-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is God like? Answering this is the great quest of human existence. Because God is so different from us, we struggle to describe him. While doctrinal statements about God certainly have their place in Christian understanding, the Bible more often uses God's actions and roles to help us know him better. Indeed, some of the most helpful insights in Scripture arise when God is compared to something else: a rock, an eagle or a tower. And many "human" metaphors--metaphors taken from the world of actions and relationships--bring us even closer to understanding of God. In Portraits of God, Allan Coppedge suggests we look carefully at God as our Father, Redeemer, King, Judge, Priest and Creator. These portraits taken together give us an understaning of the Holy One for which no single category is adequate. These images work their way through the whole of Scripture. They are the doorway allowing us into the mysteries of God's very being. In Portraits of God, Coppedge offers a comprehensive survey, picturing a God who wants to be known personally and who has profoundly communicated himself. Coppedge finds the inexhaustible nature of God to be one of holiness reflected in and best described by the language of diverse roles. Approaching God in this way transforms us, as churches and individuals, to reflect God's own holy character. This is a book for students, pastors and churchgoers alike. Anyone desiring to know more deeply and wholly the Christian God revealed in the Bible will find in Portraits of God a treasure of scholarship and truth.
Download or read book Portraits of a Mature God written by Mark McEntire and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What difference would it make for Old Testament theology if we turned our attention from the more dramatic, forceful "mighty acts of God" to the more subdued, but more realistic themes of later writings in the Hebrew Bible? The result, Mark McEntire argues, would be a more mature theology that would enable us to respond more realistically and creatively to the unprecedented challenges of the present age.
Download or read book Messengers of God written by Elie Wiesel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1985-03-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Random House, Ã1976.
Download or read book Family Portraits written by Randy McCracken and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastor and Bible teacher Randy McCracken offers an intimate look at lesser-known members of 1 and 2 Samuel's four main families--those of Samuel, Eli, Saul, and David. Examining characters unfamiliar to many Bible readers, he reveals important lessons for today.
Download or read book A Portrait of God written by Daniel Chamberlin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The puritan pastor Stephen Charnock (1628-1680) wrote what is considered to be the fullest treatment of the attributes of God. However, today's reader may find the 1100 pages a bit daunting. Pastor Daniel Chamberlin has summarized the treatise in a reader-friendly format that maintains the theological depth and practical application of the original. No serious student of Holy Scripture can afford to be ignorant of the contents of this book.
Download or read book Portraits of Bible Women written by George Matheson and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly updated, this series now contains helpful study questions at the end of each chapter. "Matheson was blind, but with the eyes of his heart he could see farther than most of us." --Warren W. Wiersbe
Download or read book Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God written by Stephen Charnock and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God Behind the Screen written by Janko Andrijasevic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary study of literary characters sheds light on the relatively under-studied phenomenon of religious psychopathy. God Behind the Screen: Literary Portrais of Religious Psychopathy identifies and rigorously examines protagonists in works from a variety of genres, written by authors such as Aldous Huxley, Jane Austin, Sinclair Lewis, and Steven King, who are both fervently religous and suffer from a range of disorders underneath the umbrella of psychopathy.
Download or read book Images of God written by Dale Larsen and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2006-01-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ten session LifeGuide® Bible Study Dale and Sandy Larsen lead you to examine different biblical pictures of God: rock, warrior, peacemaker, builder, father, husband, potter, etc.
Download or read book The Crucifixion of the Warrior God written by Gregory A. Boyd and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 1487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic tension confronts every Christian believer and interpreter of Scripture: on the one hand, we encounter images of God commanding and engaging in horrendous violence: one the other hand, we encounter the non-violent teachings and example of Jesus, whose loving, self-sacrificial death and resurrection is held up as the supreme revelation of God’s character in the New Testament. How do we reconcile the tension between these seemingly disparate depictions? Are they even capable of reconciliation? Throughout Christian history, many different answers have been proposed, ranging from the long-rejected explanation that these contrasting depictions are of two entirely different ‘gods’ to recent social and cultural theories of metaphor and narrative representation. The Crucifixion of the Warrior God takes up this dramatic tension and the range of proposed answers in an epic constructive investigation. Over two volumes, renowned theologian and biblical scholar Gregory A. Boyd argues that we must take seriously the full range of Scripture as inspired, including its violent depictions of God. At the same time, we must take just as seriously the absolute centrality of the crucified and risen Christ as the supreme revelation of God. Developing a theological interpretation of Scripture that he labels a “cruciform hermeneutic,” Boyd demonstrates how Scripture’s violent images of God are completely reframed and their violence subverted when they are interpreted through the lens of the cross and resurrection. Indeed, when read through this lens, Boyd argues that these violent depictions can be shown to bear witness to the same self-sacrificial character of God that was supremely revealed on the cross.
Download or read book Jesus Our Lord written by John Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Four Portraits One Jesus 2nd Edition written by Mark L. Strauss and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Christians worldwide, the man Jesus of Nazareth is the centerpiece of history, the object of faith, hope, and worship. Even those who do not follow him admit the vast influence of his life. For anyone interested in knowing more about Jesus, study of the four biblical Gospels is essential. The second edition of Four Portraits, One Jesus has been updated throughout to meet the needs to today's students. It is a thorough yet accessible introduction to the four biblical Gospels and their subject, the life and person of Jesus. Like different artists rendering the same subject using different styles and points of view, the Gospels paint four highly distinctive portraits of the same remarkable Jesus. With clarity and insight, Mark Strauss illuminates these four books addressing the following important areas: First he addresses the nature, origin, methods for study, and historical, religious, and cultural backgrounds of the Gospels. He then moves on to closer study of each narrative and its contribution to our understanding of Jesus, investigating things such as plot, characters, and theme. Finally, he pulls it all together with a detailed examination of what the Gospels teach about Jesus' ministry, message, death, and resurrection, with excursions into the quest for the historical Jesus and the historical reliability of the Gospels. This textbook together with its workbook, video lectures, and laminated sheet gives students everything they need for a thorough and enriching study of Jesus and the Gospels.
Download or read book Recovery from Distorted Images of God written by Dale Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1990-07 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Portraits of Christ written by Gordon J. Keddie and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Character of God in the Book of Genesis written by and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By using recent developments in literary theory, W. Lee Humphreys uses Genesis to show how God functions as a character in the Genesis narrative. Very creatively, Humphreys explores the coherence and consistency of God as a character, the way in which God's character changes and develops throughout the narrative, and how giving attention to the character of God enriches our experience of reading Genesis.
Download or read book God the Trinity written by Malcolm B. Yarnell and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the Trinity biblical? Is it necessary to affirm God as three persons in one being? Despite a renewed interest in the Trinity in recent years, many Christians, including most evangelicals, either relegate the Son of God to creaturely status or repudiate the personhood of the Holy Spirit. In addition, numerous scholars affirm that the doctrine of the Trinity is not clearly revealed in Scripture. Is the Trinity merely a philosophical construction, or is it essential to orthodox Christianity? Drawing on hermeneutics and biblical and historical theology, Malcolm Yarnell crafts a careful and clear response to these issues through exegesis of pivotal texts from both testaments. He meticulously examines the foundational Hebrew confession known as the Shema, Matthew's great commission, the divine relations in the Gospel of John, Paul's Corinthian benediction, the opening hymn of Ephesians, and the throne room vision of the Apocalypse. Also considered are the relationships of language to revelation and history to metaphysics, along with recent appeals to recover patristic exegesis and the Christian imagination. He also challenges the reader to discern the implications of the Trinity for personal salvation as well as corporate worship.
Download or read book 100 Portraits of Christ written by Henry Gariepy and published by Chariot Victor Publishing. This book was released on 1993-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... A biography of the person and ministry of Christ, as revealed by 100 names and titles ascribed to Him in Scripture."--Preface.
