Human Responses to Divine Retribution in the Old Testament - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Responses to Divine Retribution in the Old Testament write by Jane E. Miller. This book was released on 1987. Human Responses to Divine Retribution in the Old Testament available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Wrestling with the Violence of God
Wrestling with the Violence of God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wrestling with the Violence of God write by M. Daniel Carroll R.. This book was released on 2015-10-09. Wrestling with the Violence of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The prevalence of evil and violence in the world is a growing focus of scholarly attention, especially violence done in the name of religion and violence found within the pages of the Old Testament. Many atheists consider this reason enough to reject the notion of a supreme deity. Some Christians attempt to exonerate God by reinterpreting problematic passages or by prioritizing portrayals of God’s nonviolence. Other Christians have begun to respond to violence in the Old Testament by questioning the nature of the text itself, though not rejecting belief in a good God. Wrestling with the Violence of God: Soundings in the Old Testament is a response to these challenging issues. The chapters in this volume present empathetic, holistic, and methodologically responsible readings of the Old Testament as Christian Scripture. Contributors from different nationalities, religious traditions, and educational institutions come together to address representative biblical material that depicts violence. Chapters address explicit portrayals of divine violence, human responses to violence of God and violence in the world, alternative understandings of supposedly violent texts, and a hopeful future in which violence is no more. Rather than attempt to offer a conclusive answer to the issue, this volume constructively contributes to the ongoing discussion.
Beyond Justice
Beyond Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Justice write by Varunaj Churnai. This book was released on 2018-07-31. Beyond Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent decades, scholars have tended to interpret what Job says about death in one of two ways. They interpret it either as part of the broader reading of death in the Old Testament, or by imposing Ancient Near Eastern mythological concepts upon the text disregarding its nature as part of the Old Testament’s wisdom tradition. Varunaj Churnai attempts to redress the latter interpretation and treats the book of Job, and its development and understanding of death, contextually. Churnai specifically looks at how Job presents the two faces of God: God’s wrathful face and God’s gracious face. Beyond Justice demonstrates that the retribution principle allows humans to know the hidden God as it illuminates the relationship between individual and Creator. Through Job’s experiences and heartfelt outpouring of his soul before both God’s wrathful face and God’s gracious face we can know God more fully. Churnai shows how these faces of God are reconciled in the two divine speeches of YHWH, which invite both Job and the reader to move beyond retribution theology to trust in the graciousness of God.
Divine Providence in the Bible: Old Testament
Divine Providence in the Bible: Old Testament - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Divine Providence in the Bible: Old Testament write by John H. Wright. This book was released on 2009. Divine Providence in the Bible: Old Testament available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gives a complete and accurate account of the teaching of the Old Testament on God¿s Providence, contrasting it with the over-reaction of St. Augustine to the errors of the Pelagians.
Post-mortem Divine Retribution
Post-mortem Divine Retribution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-mortem Divine Retribution write by Angukali Rotokha. This book was released on 2023-05-31. Post-mortem Divine Retribution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While a Christian understanding of divine judgement tends to focus on the afterlife, the Hebrew Bible is far more concerned with divine retribution as something experienced in this life. Yet if the same God enacts both, should there not be significant continuity between biblical accounts of divine retribution, whether experienced in this world or the hereafter? In this study, Dr. Angukali Rotokha provides an overview of Old Testament and Second Temple sources that express conceptions of post-mortem judgement. Alongside these passages, she examines the perspective on judgement presented in Deuteronomy, with its orientation towards divine retribution as experienced on this side of death. She explores Deuteronomy’s varying emphases on the impersonal, anthropocentric, theocentric, and limited aspects of divine retribution, as well as the relevance of these conceptions to the descriptions of post-mortem judgement found in Isaiah, Daniel, 1 Enoch, and 2 Maccabees. In clarifying points of continuity and discontinuity between earthly and post-mortem divine retribution, she provides a foundation for deeper insight into the Judeo-Christian understanding of both God’s judgement and God’s grace.
