Download or read book Scriptures in Dialogue written by Michael Ipgrave and published by Church House Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records the meeting of a group of Christian and Muslim scholars in Qatar in 2003 to study passages from the Bible and the Qur'an together. Combining scholarship at the highest level with commitment to the practice of faith in the modern world, it addresses questions such as discernment of the Word of God and making space for the religious 'Other'.
Download or read book Jewish Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity written by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshalling previously untapped Christian materials, Bar-Asher Siegal offers radically new insights into Talmudic stories about Scriptural debates with Christian heretics.
Download or read book Four and a half Dialogues on Homosexuality and the Bible written by Donald J. Zeyl and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four (and a half) Dialogues on Homosexuality and the Bible explores four different interpretive approaches to biblical texts regarding homosexuality and same-sex marriage. Differences of interpretation are discussed openly, honestly, and charitably. The dialogues’ four characters maintain friendship with each other despite their disagreements, and so the book serves as a model of how difficult, potentially divisive conversations on a controversial topic might be conducted. Three of the four perspectives presented for examination are well represented in the existing literature; the fourth is not as familiar and is offered and developed as a proposal for bridging the divide that persists among theologically conservative Christians who honor the authority of Scripture over their thinking and their living. Ongoing conflict over this issue is destructive of the unity toward which the Bible summons all believers to strive, and so the book includes also a call to create space for one another—both individually and institutionally—for differences in theological conclusions and in community practices. Each of the dialogues begins with one of the characters telling their personal story regarding their sexuality, continues with that character’s case for their view, and concludes with a series of suggested discussion questions.
Download or read book Opening the Bible written by Thomas Merton and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is to consider some of the special ques-tions and problems which surround the Bible itself--a book for which all blurbs are impossible.
Download or read book People of the Book written by Dan Cohn-Sherbok and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of scripture in illuminating the lives of the faithful today? In this book, three experts in Judaism, Christianity and Islam respectively discuss and debate this question, by exploring the core messages of the Torah, Bible and Qu'ran. Taking a deeper look at the wide range of theological, political and social issues that divide (and sometimes unite) their religions, they reveal how inspiration and guidance can be drawn not only on life's big questions such as sin and the afterlife, but also on societal issues including war, suffering, marriage and justice.
Download or read book Sexual and Marital Metaphors in Hosea Jeremiah Isaiah and Ezekiel written by Sharon Moughtin-Mumby and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-06-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharon Moughtin-Mumby considers the often unrecognised impact of different approaches to metaphor on readings of the prophtic sexual and marital metaphorical language. She outlines a practical and consciously simplified approach to metaphor, placing strong emphasis on the influence of literary context on metaphorical meaning. Drawing on this approach, she read Hosea 4-14, Jeremiah 2:1-4:4, Isaiah, Ezekiel 16 and 23, and Hosea 1-3 with fresh eyes. Her lucid new readings reveal the way in which scholarship has repeatedly stifled the prophetic metaphorical language by reading it within the 'default contexts' of 'the marriage metaphor' and 'cultic prostitution', which for so many years have been simply assumed. Readers are encouraged instead to read these diverse metaphors and similes within their distinctive literary contexts in which they have the potential to rise vividly to life, provoking the question: how are we to respond to these disquieting, powerful texts in the midst of the Hebrew Bible?
Download or read book Scriptures in Dialogue written by Michael Ipgrave and published by Church Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 2003. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury convened a group of twenty-five leading Christian and Muslim scholars for three days of theological dialogue. The focus of this gathering was the intensive study of passages from the Qur'an and the Bible. Combining scholarship with commitment to the practice of their faiths, the participants addressed questions such as discernment of the Word of God, the place of women in their believing communities, and making space for the religious "Other."
Download or read book Dialogue With God written by Dr. Mark Virkler and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out how prayer—our link to God—is the most powerful and vital activity of our life. This book will lead you into a life-changing dimension of two-way communication with our loving GOD. Dialogue With God has dramatically changed my prayer life. I have found I can dialogue with Christ on a daily basis. I believe this inspired...
Download or read book Jewish Christian Dialogue written by David Novak and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the first studies to examine the Jewish-Christian relationship from a philosophical and theological viewpoint.
Download or read book Give Me an Answer written by Cliffe Knechtle and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 1986-03-31 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cliffe Knechtle offers clear, reasoned and compassionate responses to the tough questions skeptics ask.
Download or read book Transformative Readings of Sacred Scriptures written by Simone Sinn and published by Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interpretation of sacred scriptures engenders vivid debates in religious communities, both at the scholarly and grass-roots levels. Issues of debate are the hermeneutical assumptions, the methods of interpretation, and the constructive and harmful implications of certain readings. For Christian and Muslim communities, themes related to God's grace, violence, gender relations and ecology, are topical. As scholars from different contexts and faith backgrounds together interpret sacred texts they gain fresh insights into their meaning and their transformative dynamics. Essays by authors with expertise in scriptural interpretation, religious studies, pastoral care, philosophical theology, gender studies and pedagogy explore Christian and Muslim perspectives on scriptural interpretation, and discuss how to understand how God communicates with the world today. [Heilige Schriften heute verstehen. Christen und Muslime im Dialog] Die Interpretation heiliger Schriften löst lebhafte Debatten innerhalb der Religionsgemeinschaften aus, sowohl unter Gelehrten wie an der Basis. Diskutiert werden die hermeneutischen Grundannahmen, die Methoden der Interpretation und die konstruktiven und destruktiven Wirkungen bestimmter Lesarten. Für Christen und Muslime sind Themen wie Gottes Gnade, Gewalt, Geschlechterverhältnisse und Ökologie aktuell geworden. Indem die Gelehrten aus verschiedenen Kontexten und mit unterschiedlicher Religionszugehörigkeit gemeinsam die Interpretation heiliger Texte diskutieren, gewinnen sie neue Einsichten in ihre Bedeutung und ihre transformative Dynamik. Die Autorinnen und Autoren mit ihrem jeweiligen Fachwissen in Exegese, Religionswissenschaft, Seelsorge, philosophischer Theologie, Gender Studies und Pädagogik erforschen christliche und muslimische Perspektiven auf Schriftinterpretation und erörtern, wie Gottes Kommunikation mit der Welt heute verstanden werden kann.
Download or read book Creation Stories in Dialogue The Bible Science and Folk Traditions written by Jan G. van der Watt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about creation stories in dialogue, not only between different religious views, but also between current day scientific perspectives. International specialists, like Alan Culpepper, David Christian, John Haught, Randall Zachman, Ellen van Wolde from various disciplines are reflecting on the interface between science and religion relating questions of creation and origin. This multi-disciplinary discussion by some of the leading exponents in this field makes the book unique, not only in its depth of discussion, but also in it wide ranging interdisciplinary discussion. The point of departure of all the contributions is the prestige lecture by Alan Culpepper where he argues for bringing Biblical material into discussion with modern scientific insights relating to creation and origin.
Download or read book Dialogue of the Heart written by David A Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each Sunday in the liturgy of the Word of the Eucharist, Catholics listen to three readings from the Bible following a three-year cycle. The reflections for each year A to C of the cycle should be read after or alongside reading the Bible passages to which they refer. The reflections take the Bible as the record, in various forms, of a loving dialogue between God and humanity. The practice and experience of dialogue in the Catholic Church, since the time of the Second Vatican Council (1963-5), both internally amongst its members and externally in terms of relations with other Christians, members of other religions and of humankind in general, has led to a richer, broader definition of what 'dialogue' can mean. This broader meaning is in turn enriched as a result of applying it to a reading of the Bible. The light cast by reading it through the 'lens' of dialogue brings into sharper focus, what Christians understand by 'inspiration' and 'revelation' as the self-revelation of God which also 'reveals' our own identity. It may make an understanding of 'covenant' in both the Old and New Testaments, more accessible. It may help to provide a different slant on and definition of what is meant by speaking about 'God' and 'creation', about being human, the articles of the Christian Creed and the mission of the Church in today's world. Above all perhaps, 'dialogue' brings us to the notion of the Trinity as the everlasting dialogue-dance of mutual self-giving of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Humanity and the whole of creation shadows or mirrors this dance here and now, and we are invited to claim our place in it now and hereafter. Christians often bring to the reading of Scripture a pre-packed set of a priori determined definitions of God, the Trinity, Jesus Christ and the whole story of creation and the 're-creation' called redemption. Reading the Bible, a posteriori, with fewer prior ideas, but using the lens of dialogue, aligns us with the experiences of its authors which led them into the mysteries of the divine which are beyond all human powers to describe fully. This is 'experiential' as opposed to purely intellectual knowledge. We 'experience' the truth of something in the heart, the head then attempts to record and make sense of the conversation! Christians read the Bible as partners already immersed in the loving dialogue, deep within them, of the presence of the Holy Spirit, of God the Father and of the Son. 'Heart speaks to heart' from the first instance of every human existence. They will find that their own personal love story of a dialogue with God, with all the ups and downs of life, finds deep echoes, reverberations and congruences in the story of the people of God recorded in the Bible. They also bring to the Bible, an experience, an inescapable, of belonging and being part of the whole human family and of being an integral part of the whole created universe. Dialogue with this exterior environment and with their 'invironment' is already an intertwined encounter with the Divine, which is drawing them on to a fuller friendship and the continuing dialogue of love. The Bible provides a mirror where they find a reflection of their own face and their own world. What follows here are reflections and not academic commentaries based on the results of biblical scholarship. It is hoped that the work of scholars informs and supports them and does not contradict them. Thanks are due to those teachers, preachers and scholars who, over the last 80 years, have broken the Word of God for this otherwise unqualified and still non-academic, author. These reflections are offered as a further contribution to the "Year of the Word" (2020) announced by the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales to stimulate reading of the Bible.
Download or read book Purify My Heart A Dialogue with Jesus written by Isabelle Joye and published by AuthorLoyalty. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her own devotional prayer journal, Isabelle Joye records not only Scripture and her prayers to the Lord, but also what she senses Jesus is saying to her in response. The result is a beautiful dialogue, as she allows the words of the Lord, rooted in the Word, to minister to the deepest recesses of her heart, soul, and mind, and purify her to become increasingly holy before him. Isabelle Joye shares examples of her personal dialogue with Jesus to inspire her readers to establish their own dynamic and interactive relationship with the Lord. At the end of each chapter readers will discover questions and lined pages where they can journal their personal response.
Download or read book Irresistible written by Andy Stanley and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the earliest Christian movement reveals what made the new faith so compelling...and what we need to change today to make it so again. Once upon a time there was a version of the Christian faith that was practically irresistible. After all, what could be more so than the gospel that Jesus ushered in? Why, then, isn't it the same with Christianity today? Author and pastor Andy Stanley is deeply concerned with the present-day church and its future. He believes that many of the solutions to our issues can be found by investigating our roots. In Irresistible, Andy chronicles what made the early Jesus Movement so compelling, resilient, and irresistible by answering these questions: What did first-century Christians know that we don't—about God's Word, about their lives, about love? What did they do that we're not doing? What makes Christianity so resistible in today's culture? What needs to change in order to repeat the growth our faith had at its beginning? Many people who leave or disparage the faith cite reasons that have less to do with Jesus than with the conduct of his followers. It's time to hit pause and consider the faith modeled by our first-century brothers and sisters who had no official Bible, no status, and little chance of survival. It's time to embrace the version of faith that initiated—against all human odds—a chain of events resulting in the most significant and extensive cultural transformation the world has ever seen. This is a version of Christianity we must remember and re-embrace if we want to be salt and light in an increasingly savorless and dark world.
Download or read book African and European Readers of the Bible in Dialogue written by J. Hans de Wit and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-06-25 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing an urgent and deeply felt need for more dialogue between interpreters of the Bible from radically different contexts, this book reflects in a comprehensive and existential manner on how to establish new alliances, how to learn from each other, and how to read Scripture in a manner accountable to ‘the dignity of difference.’
Download or read book Qur an and Bible written by Morris S. Seale and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1978 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
