What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (The Church and Postmodern Culture) - 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 What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (The Church and Postmodern Culture) write by John D. Caputo. This book was released on 2007-11-01. What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (The Church and Postmodern Culture) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This provocative addition to The Church and Postmodern Culture series offers a lively rereading of Charles Sheldon's In His Steps as a constructive way forward. John D. Caputo introduces the notion of why the church needs deconstruction, positively defines deconstruction's role in renewal, deconstructs idols of the church, and imagines the future of the church in addressing the practical implications of this for the church's life through liturgy, worship, preaching, and teaching. Students of philosophy, theology, religion, and ministry, as well as others interested in engaging postmodernism and the emerging church phenomenon, will welcome this provocative, non-technical work.
What Would Jesus Deconstruct?
What Would Jesus Deconstruct? - 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 What Would Jesus Deconstruct? write by John D. Caputo. This book was released on 2014-05-14. What Would Jesus Deconstruct? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Uses the postmodern theme of deconstruction to suggest a constructive and provocative way forward for the church.
Deconstructing Jesus
Deconstructing Jesus - 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 Deconstructing Jesus write by Robert M. Price. This book was released on 2009-09-25. Deconstructing Jesus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After more than a century of New Testament scholarship, it has become clear that the Jesus of the gospels is a fictive amalgam, reflecting the hopes and beliefs of the early Christian community and revealing very little about the historical Jesus. Over the millennia since the beginning of Christianity various congregations, from fundamentalist to liberal, have tended to produce a Jesus figurehead that functions as a symbolic cloak for their specific theological agendas. Through extensive research and fresh textual insights Robert M. Price paves the way for a new reconstruction of Christian origins. Moving beyond the work of Burton L. Mack and John Dominic Crossan on Jesus movements and Christ cults, which shows how the various Jesus figures may have amalgamated into the patchwork savior of Christian faith, Price takes an innovative approach. He links the work of F.C. Baur, Walter Bauer, Helmut Koester, and James M. Robinson with that of early Christ-myth theorists-two camps of biblical analysis that have never communicated. Arguing that perhaps Jesus never existed as a historical figure, Price maintains an agnostic stance, while putting many puzzles and scholarly debates in a new light. He also incorporates neglected parallels from Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and Buddhism. Deconstructing Jesus provides a valuable bridge between New Testament scholarship and early freethinkers in a refreshing cross-fertilization of perspectives.
Ideas Have Consequences
Ideas Have Consequences - 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 Ideas Have Consequences write by Richard M. Weaver. This book was released on 2013-11-04. Ideas Have Consequences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A foundational text of the modern conservative movement, this 1948 philosophical treatise argues the decline of Western civilization and offers a remedy. Originally published in 1948, at the height of post–World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses “words hard as cannonballs” to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read and debated at the time of its first publication, the book is now seen as one of the foundational texts of the modern conservative movement. In its pages, Richard M. Weaver argues that the decline of Western civilization resulted from the rising acceptance of relativism over absolute reality. In spite of increased knowledge, this retreat from the realist intellectual tradition has weakened the Western capacity to reason, with catastrophic consequences for social order and individual rights. But Weaver also offers a realistic remedy. These difficulties are the product not of necessity, but of intelligent choice. And, today, as decades ago, the remedy lies in the renewed acceptance of absolute reality and the recognition that ideas—like actions—have consequences. This expanded edition of the classic work contains a foreword by New Criterion editor Roger Kimball that offers insight into the rich intellectual and historical contexts of Weaver and his work and an afterword by Ted J. Smith III that relates the remarkable story of the book’s writing and publication. Praise for Ideas Have Consequences “A profound diagnosis of the sickness of our culture.” —Reinhold Niebuhr “Brilliantly written, daring, and radical. . . . It will shock, and philosophical shock is the beginning of wisdom.” —Paul Tillich “This deeply prophetic book not only launched the renaissance of philosophical conservatism in this country, but in the process gave us an armory of insights into the diseases besetting the national community that is as timely today as when it first appeared. [This] is one of the few authentic classics in the American political tradition.” —Robert Nisbet
Reclaiming the Center
Reclaiming the Center - 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 Reclaiming the Center write by Millard J. Erickson. This book was released on 2004-11-09. Reclaiming the Center available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reclaiming the Center is a valuable contribution to the study of contemporary evangelicalism. It is a guide for how evangelicals can move forward with wisdom and discernment without succumbing to the spirit of this age.
