Jesus the Holy Fool - 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 Jesus the Holy Fool write by Elizabeth-Anne Stewart. This book was released on 1999. Jesus the Holy Fool available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richly written, Jesus the Holy Fool combines diverse images from religious traditions, world literature, Jungian archetype, and Scripture. Weaving the best theology and spirituality, Jesus the Holy Fool is a fresh and inviting Christology. The Scriptures tell us that religious leaders thought Jesus was "possessed," and his own family thought he was "crazy." In his open table fellowship, choice of followers, radical passion, and his death and resurrection, Jesus was willing to appear as a fool for the sake of God's reign. His teachings--especially the parables, paradoxes, and the beatitudes--advocate a way of life that is grounded in Holy Foolishness. Through an archetypal examination of the fool motif as it applies to Jesus in the Gospels, Jesus the Holy Fool develops the connections between holiness and folly. Offering new insights into Christology and exploring its practical pastoral ramifications, Jesus the Holy Fool presents Holy Foolishness as a paradigm for the Christian journey and as a new model of what it means for us to be church.
Jesus the Fool
Jesus the Fool - 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 Jesus the Fool write by Michael Frost. This book was released on 2010-05-01. Jesus the Fool available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "One who is strengthened by God professes himself to be an utter fool by human standards, because he despises the wisdom men strive for."--Thomas Aquinas "Go and do likewise. . . ."--Luke 10:37 Missiologist Michael Frost is looking for the real Jesus--the man who didn't care what people thought, worked on the Sabbath, touched the unclean, ate with sinners, and generally contradicted what was acceptable to the leadership of his day. He's searching for the Jesus who embodies all the characteristics of the ancient tradition of the holy foolish paradigm as described and commended by Paul, the church fathers, and the medieval saints. And he finds him. . . . Saintly fools prefer life out in the open in the secular world, intentionally make themselves conspicuous, and consistently defy rules set by society. Frost directs our minds and hearts to the greater story of Jesus. He reminds us that following the Savior is rarely safe--and that Christ will continue to redraw our blueprint of what's right and what's righteous; and will persist in calling us to take the alternative, dangerous, ridiculous road walked by wise fools down through the centuries of the church. A much-needed and longed-for challenge to emergent, contemporary, and traditional gatherings and churches alike.
The Fool and the Heretic
The Fool and the Heretic - 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 The Fool and the Heretic write by Todd Charles Wood. This book was released on 2019-02-05. The Fool and the Heretic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Fool and the Heretic is a deeply personal story told by two respected scientists who hold opposing views on the topic of origins, share a common faith in Jesus Christ, and began a sometimes-painful journey to explore how they can remain in Christian fellowship when each thinks the other is harming the church. To some in the church, anyone who accepts the theory of evolution has rejected biblical teaching and is therefore thought of as a heretic. To many outside the church as well as a growing number of evangelicals, anyone who accepts the view that God created the earth in six days a few thousand years ago must be poorly educated and ignorant--a fool. Todd Wood and Darrel Falk know what it's like to be thought of, respectively, as a fool and a heretic. This book shares their pain in wearing those labels, but more important, provides a model for how faithful Christians can hold opposing views on deeply divisive issues yet grow deeper in their relationship to each other and to God.
The Fool of God
The Fool 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 The Fool of God write by Louis Cochran. This book was released on 1959. The Fool of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Fool's Talk
Fool's Talk - 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 Fool's Talk write by Os Guinness. This book was released on 2015-06-04. Fool's Talk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our world is changing dramatically, yet many Christians still rely on cookie-cutter approaches to evangelism and apologetics. In his magnum opus, Os Guinness presents the art and power of creative persuasion—the ability to talk to people who are closed to what we are saying. Discover afresh the persuasive power of Christian witness.
