Book Description
Explores the persistence of 'blasphemy' in modern secular democracies and examines ways of talking and thinking about the Bible.
Author : Yvonne Sherwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 1107007860
Explores the persistence of 'blasphemy' in modern secular democracies and examines ways of talking and thinking about the Bible.
Author : Yvonne Sherwood
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : BIBLES
ISBN : 9781139549356
This book explores the strange persistence of 'blasphemy' in modern secular democracies by examining how accepted and prohibited ways of talking and thinking about the Bible and religion have changed over time. In a series of wide-ranging studies engaging disciplines such as politics, literature and visual theory, Yvonne Sherwood brings the Bible into dialogue with a host of interlocutors including John Locke, John Donne and the 9/11 hijackers, as well as artists such as Sarah Lucas and Rene Magritte. Questions addressed include: What is the origin of the common belief that the Bible, as opposed to the Qur'an, underpins liberal democratic values? What kind of artworks does the biblical God specialise in? If pre-modern Jewish, Christian and Islamic responses to scripture can be more 'critical' than contemporary speech about religion, how does this affect our understanding of secularity, modernity and critique?
Author : J. D. Greear
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433679183
“If there were a Guinness Book of World Records entry for ‘amount of times having prayed the sinner’s prayer,’ I’m pretty sure I’d be a top contender,” says pastor and author J. D. Greear. He struggled for many years to gain an assurance of salvation and eventually learned he was not alone. “Lack of assurance” is epidemic among evangelical Christians. In Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart, J. D. shows that faulty ways of present- ing the gospel are a leading source of the confusion. Our presentations may not be heretical, but they are sometimes misleading. The idea of “asking Jesus into your heart” or “giving your life to Jesus” often gives false assurance to those who are not saved—and keeps those who genuinely are saved from fully embracing that reality. Greear unpacks the doctrine of assurance, showing that salvation is a posture we take to the promise of God in Christ, a posture that begins at a certain point and is maintained for the rest of our lives. He also answers the tough questions about assurance: What exactly is faith? What is repentance? Why are there so many warnings that seem to imply we can lose our salvation? Such issues are handled with respect to the theological rigors they require, but Greear never loses his pastoral sensitivity or a communication technique that makes this message teachable to a wide audience from teens to adults.
Author : Yvonne Sherwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198797575
In an increasingly secular world, 'blasphemy' is surely a defunct concept. And yet blasphemy (life God and religion) seems to be on the rise. In this Very Short Introduction Yvonne Sherwood asks why this should be the case, looking at factors such as the increased visibility of religious and racial minorities, new media, and the legacies of colonial blasphemy laws. Throughout, she uncovers new histories, from the story of accidentally blasphemous cartoons to the close associations between blasphemy, sex, and birth control, and asks why some 'blasphemies' have become infamous, while others have disappeared.
Author : D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 1972-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 0310278708
In Preaching and Preachers, the author states unapologetically his attitudes about his role in the church and explains his methodology, all the while addressing various problems and questions that have been put to him.
Author : Walter A. Elwell
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441200304
Fifteen years after its original publication comes a thoroughly revised edition of the Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. Every article from the original edition has been revisited. With some articles being removed, others revised, and many new articles added, the result is a completely new dictionary covering systematic, historical, and philosophical theology as well as theological ethics.
Author : David Tollerton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567672336
Biblical Reception is rapidly becoming the go-to annual publication for all matters related to the reception of the bible. The annual addresses all kinds of use of the bible in art, music, literature, film and popular culture, as well as in the history of interpretation. For this fourth edition of the annual, guest editor David Tollerton has commissioned pieces specifically on the use of the bible in one film: Exodus: Gods and Kings and these chapters consider how the film uses the bible, and how the bible functions within the film.
Author : Andrew P. Wilson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 47,68 MB
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004424059
In Critical Entanglements: Postmodern Theory and Biblical Studies, Andrew P. Wilson tracks the various strands of postmodernism threaded through the discipline, drawing on a range of evocative biblical readings as well as key examples from the art world.
Author : Leonard Williams Levy
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807845158
What society considers blasphemy - a verbal assault against the sacred - is a litmus test of the standards it believes to be necessary to preserve unity, order, and morality. Society has always condemned as blasphemy what it regards as an abuse of liberty
Author : Marianne Bjelland Kartzow
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 311068604X