Raising 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 Raising Jesus write by E.J. Sweeney. This book was released on 2018-10-31. Raising Jesus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Life is hard . . . then you die. It’s as simple as that. Dead bodies stay dead. So in this modern, scientific age, how can any reasonable person possibly believe that Jesus actually rose from the dead? Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy turned out to be myths. How is Jesus’s Resurrection any different? How can there possibly be any credible evidence for an event that happened two thousand years ago? The resurrection of Jesus is the most important event in the history of the world—if it’s true. If Jesus did rise, then he is God, the ultimate reality itself. In him, you can find the meaning of life, the secret of happiness, and the way to eternal life. Raising Jesus provides the evidence to show that it really is true. In this era of “alternative facts,” Raising Jesus relies on the most balanced and up-to-date scholarship to shed trustworthy new insights into the evidence. It does this in an easy-to-follow, systematic way using engaging illustrations to reveal the logic of complex arguments. Most importantly, it deals head on with the biggest problem most people in our modern, scientific age have with the resurrection: the philosophical objection that dead people simply don’t come back from the dead. Raising Jesus ultimately shows how believing Jesus rose from the dead is, in fact, the most reasonable conclusion you can make.
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The Cross and the Lynching Tree - 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 Cross and the Lynching Tree write by James H. Cone. This book was released on 2011. The Cross and the Lynching Tree available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A landmark in the conversation about race and religion in America. "They put him to death by hanging him on a tree." Acts 10:39 The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful new work, theologian James H. Cone explores these symbols and their interconnection in the history and souls of black folk. Both the cross and the lynching tree represent the worst in human beings and at the same time a thirst for life that refuses to let the worst determine our final meaning. While the lynching tree symbolized white power and "black death," the cross symbolizes divine power and "black life" God overcoming the power of sin and death. For African Americans, the image of Jesus, hung on a tree to die, powerfully grounded their faith that God was with them, even in the suffering of the lynching era. In a work that spans social history, theology, and cultural studies, Cone explores the message of the spirituals and the power of the blues; the passion and of Emmet Till and the engaged vision of Martin Luther King, Jr.; he invokes the spirits of Billie Holliday and Langston Hughes, Fannie Lou Hamer and Ida B. Well, and the witness of black artists, writers, preachers, and fighters for justice. And he remembers the victims, especially the 5,000 who perished during the lynching period. Through their witness he contemplates the greatest challenge of any Christian theology to explain how life can be made meaningful in the face of death and injustice.
Why the Cross?
Why the Cross? - 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 Why the Cross? write by Donald Senior. This book was released on 2014-11-18. Why the Cross? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The meaning of Jesus's execution on a Roman cross is one of the most divisive issues in contemporary theological discourse because issues related to the goodness of God and the place of suffering in the Christian life are at stake. Although it is important to locate that discussion in the context of the range of New Testament perspectives on the soteriological significance of the cross, it is also important that we recover the meaning of the cross as a metaphor for discipleship. In the end, the event of Jesus’s death cannot be understood apart from the character of his life. This book will contribute to New Testament studies but also serve related discussions in theology and Christian formation. Reframing New Testament Theology is a series that fulfills the need for brief, substantive, yet highly accessible introductions to central questions and themes raised by study of the New Testament. A significant defining question will serve as the point of departure and will frame the discussion. Students will be drawn into an active, theological engagement with the New Testament and related materials by the subsequent analysis.
Why Is There a Cross?
Why Is There a Cross? - 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 Why Is There a Cross? write by Kathleen Long Bostrom. This book was released on 2012-02. Why Is There a Cross? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rhyming text consisting of questions about the meaning of the cross that is seen in churches and about how Jesus must have felt explains how it fit into God's plan, what happened to Jesus, and what part it has in the life of Christians.
Jacob
Jacob - 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 Jacob write by Deidre Nicole Green. This book was released on 2020-02. Jacob available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In one of the Book of Mormon's most magisterial passages, the lord of a vineyard looks over his beloved olive trees with great sorrow and strives to redeem them. This parable symbolizes Jesus Christ's labors to save not only individual souls, but an entire world. Perhaps more than any other Book of Mormon prophet, Jacob manifests the same divine anxiety, having been born in a 'wild wilderness' and inheriting the task of uniting a divided people."--Inside front cover.
