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Parables of Time and Eternity
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21,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Wipf And Stock Publishers |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 27.05.2021 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781725288454 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 156 |
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Beschreibungen
Most people agree that Jesus' parables are about the kingdom of God. But what is that? They seem to have a lot about hell and judgment, but how is that consistent with the Parable of the Prodigal Son and Jesus' search for "lost sheep"? They speak of the "Son of Man," but who or what is that? Some have thought they predict the end of the world, but could that be a failure to understand biblical language?
In a new survey of Jesus' parables, Keith Ward proposes that they imply a theology of the universal and unlimited love of God, a moral demand to care for the well-being of all living things, a compassion for the poor and rejected of the earth, an open door of repentance that even death cannot close, the offer of new life in the Spirit, and an ultimate goal of universal creative sharing in the life of the cosmic Christ.
In a new survey of Jesus' parables, Keith Ward proposes that they imply a theology of the universal and unlimited love of God, a moral demand to care for the well-being of all living things, a compassion for the poor and rejected of the earth, an open door of repentance that even death cannot close, the offer of new life in the Spirit, and an ultimate goal of universal creative sharing in the life of the cosmic Christ.
Keith Ward is Regius Professor Emeritus of Divinity, University of Oxford. He is the author of
<i>Sharing in the Divine Nature</i> (Cascade Books, 2020).
<i>Sharing in the Divine Nature</i> (Cascade Books, 2020).
“With his trademark theological learning, spiritual depth, and literary flair, Keith Ward has breathed new life into Jesus’ parables which have lost their sting for being too often turned into moral lessons for a bourgeois life. Focusing on their central theme, namely, the kingdom of God,
<i>Parables of Time and Eternity </i>unfolds the multifaceted meanings of all the parables for the Christian life. After this book it is impossible to miss their demand for our conversion of mind and heart.”
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<br> —Peter C. Phan, Georgetown University
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<br> “Keith Ward’s instructive account of the New Testament parables, and of the assumptions that underpin modern and revisionist interpretations of them, is both imaginative and enthralling. Critical of overly politicized and reductionist portrayals, Ward detects hidden spiritual meanings in the parables that disclose a self-understanding in Jesus consonant with the cosmic interpretation placed on his life in St. John’s Gospel. This is a detective story with a difference, one that envisages a final sharing of all in a universal union with Christ, whose call for self-renunciation movingly pervades the text.”
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<br> —John Hedley Brooke, University of Oxford
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<br> “Keith Ward’s open and relational personal idealism is an attractive account of reality for reasons independent of any faith tradition. In this book, however, Ward shows why the teachings and life of Jesus strengthen his account. As a cosmic spiritual reality embodied in human form, Jesus uniquely reveals God as loving and nonviolent.”
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<br> —Thomas Jay Oord, author of
<i>The Uncontrolling Love of God</i>
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<br> “Keith Ward is the world’s foremost theological defender of personal idealism. But does this view of God really describe the Jesus of Matthew, Mark, and Luke? This little volume takes readers on a fascinating journey through the parables. Rarely have I read such a compelling account of how the Jesus theologized in John can be one and the same with the Jesus remembered in the Synoptic Gospels.”
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<br> ―Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology at Willamette University
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<br> “Keith Ward offers a very different understanding of the teaching of Jesus from that which is current and puts forward a view of the Christian faith which will be highly attractive to those for whom so much traditional teaching is morally unacceptable.”
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<br> —Richard Harries, King’s College, London
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<i>Parables of Time and Eternity </i>unfolds the multifaceted meanings of all the parables for the Christian life. After this book it is impossible to miss their demand for our conversion of mind and heart.”
<br>
<br> —Peter C. Phan, Georgetown University
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br> “Keith Ward’s instructive account of the New Testament parables, and of the assumptions that underpin modern and revisionist interpretations of them, is both imaginative and enthralling. Critical of overly politicized and reductionist portrayals, Ward detects hidden spiritual meanings in the parables that disclose a self-understanding in Jesus consonant with the cosmic interpretation placed on his life in St. John’s Gospel. This is a detective story with a difference, one that envisages a final sharing of all in a universal union with Christ, whose call for self-renunciation movingly pervades the text.”
<br>
<br> —John Hedley Brooke, University of Oxford
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br> “Keith Ward’s open and relational personal idealism is an attractive account of reality for reasons independent of any faith tradition. In this book, however, Ward shows why the teachings and life of Jesus strengthen his account. As a cosmic spiritual reality embodied in human form, Jesus uniquely reveals God as loving and nonviolent.”
<br>
<br> —Thomas Jay Oord, author of
<i>The Uncontrolling Love of God</i>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br> “Keith Ward is the world’s foremost theological defender of personal idealism. But does this view of God really describe the Jesus of Matthew, Mark, and Luke? This little volume takes readers on a fascinating journey through the parables. Rarely have I read such a compelling account of how the Jesus theologized in John can be one and the same with the Jesus remembered in the Synoptic Gospels.”
<br>
<br> ―Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology at Willamette University
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br> “Keith Ward offers a very different understanding of the teaching of Jesus from that which is current and puts forward a view of the Christian faith which will be highly attractive to those for whom so much traditional teaching is morally unacceptable.”
<br>
<br> —Richard Harries, King’s College, London
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