The Irony Of The Cross
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The Irony Of The Cross
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Author : Paul D. Shirley
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-02-17
The Irony Of The Cross written by Paul D. Shirley and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-17 with categories.
The cross of Christ is the greatest irony in the history of the universe. It is far too easy to lose track of the paradoxical details of Christ's death. Familiarity replaces what should be shock as we read through the Passion narrative. The Irony of the Cross puts the shock back in the cross by highlighting the ironies of Christ's death. Examining Mark 15:21-29, this book identifies eleven ironies of the cross that will deepen your understanding of the death of Christ and the gospel of grace. Each of these presents Jesus eschewing the prerogatives of his power for the salvation of his people. There is no other point in time when Christ was more emptied and stripped of his divine dignity, and yet there is no other place where Christ's glory is more prominently displayed.
Scandalous
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Author : D. A. Carson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Scandalous written by D. A. Carson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
D.A. Carson, one of today's most notable Bible scholars, introduces the irony, scandal, and greatness of the work done on the cross. How are Christians to approach the central gospel teachings concerning the death and resurrection of Jesus? The Bible firmly establishes the historicity of these events and doesn't leave their meanings ambiguous or open to interpretation. Even so, there is an irony and surprising strangeness to the cross. Carson shows that this strange irony has deep implications for our lives as he examines the history and theology of Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection. Scand.
Scandalous
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Author : Don A Carson
language : en
Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press
Release Date : 2013-04-23
Scandalous written by Don A Carson and has been published by Inter-Varsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-23 with Religion categories.
Nothing is more central to the Bible than Jesus' death and resurrection, over one weekend in Jerusalem about two thousand years ago. Attempts to make sense of the Bible that do not integrate the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus are doomed to failure. Jesus' own followers did not expect him to be crucified; they certainly did not expect him to rise again. Yet after these events their thinking and attitudes were so transformed that they could see the sheer inevitability that Jesus would die on a cross and leave an empty tomb behind, and absolutely everything in their lives was changed. However much the Bible insists on the historicity of these events, it is as important to know what they mean as to know that they happened. With clarity and conviction, D. A. Carson unpacks what some of the earliest witnesses wrote, in five New Testament texts, to provide an introductory explanation of Jesus’ death and resurrection.
Laughter At The Foot Of The Cross
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Author : M.a. Screech
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-04-09
Laughter At The Foot Of The Cross written by M.a. Screech and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-09 with Social Science categories.
"Christian laughter is a maze: you could easily get snarled up within it." So says Michael A. Screech in his note to readers preceding this collection of fifty-three elegant and pithy essays. As Screech reveals, the question of whether laughter is acceptable to the god of the Old and New Testaments is a dangerous one. But we are fortunate in our gu
The Theological Vision Of Reinhold Niebuhr S The Irony Of American History
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Author : Scott R. Erwin
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-06-13
The Theological Vision Of Reinhold Niebuhr S The Irony Of American History written by Scott R. Erwin and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-13 with Religion categories.
Reinhold Niebuhr remains at the center of a national conversation about Americas role in the world, and commentators with divergent political and religious positions look to his 1952 work, The Irony of American History, in support of their views. In this study, Scott R. Erwin argues that an appreciation of Niebuhrs theological vision is necessary for understanding the full measure of Irony and his perspective on life more broadly. Such a study is important because many individuals reading Irony today fail to acknowledge the central role that his Christian beliefs played in his writings. Niebuhr described his theological vision as being in the battle and above it, and it was this perspective that led Niebuhr, in Irony, to assert that America must both take morally hazardous action in combating the aggression of the Soviet Union and engage in critical self-evaluation to prevent the country from assuming the most odious traits of its Cold War foe. Niebuhr developed his theological vision over the course of the 1930s and 1940s through engagement with Christian doctrine, as most readily seen in his academic works such as The Nature and Destiny of Man, and with current events, as seen in his many journalistic writings during this period. By focusing primarily on Niebuhrs writings between 1931 and 1952, Erwin traces the development of his Christian interpretation of human nature and history, establishes how it informed his theological vision, and reveals how that theological vision underlies his writings on current affairs.
Divine Irony
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Author : Glenn Stanfield Holland
language : en
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Release Date : 2000
Divine Irony written by Glenn Stanfield Holland and has been published by Susquehanna University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
Ultimately, irony appears to be a term with no definitive meaning, the product of a critical enterprise that over time identified particular literary devices and perspectives a irony."--BOOK JACKET.
The Cross And The Lynching Tree
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Author : James H. Cone
language : en
Publisher: Orbis Books
Release Date : 2011
The Cross And The Lynching Tree written by James H. Cone and has been published by Orbis Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Religion categories.
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.
Ironic Cross
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-09-10
Ironic Cross written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-10 with Australian fiction categories.
1868: War is looming in Europe. Successful businessman, Wilhelm Müller has a painful decision to make. His only son, 14 year old Martin, must flee Germany before Napoleon declares war. Martin is distraught: how can he leave his beloved younger sister, Elizabetha? Half a century later, war has broken out again in Europe. It is no surprise that Elizabetha's son, Kurt Schneidder, is conscripted into the German army as a sniper - he has always been a crack shot. Meanwhile, Martin's sons enlist in the New Zealand Tunnellers and find themselves digging beneath German lines in Northern France. In the aftermath of the "war to end all wars" inflicted wounds are not always physical, nor are they short lived. Amidst irony and futility can unknown and concealed wounds ever be healed?
The Cross In Corinth
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Author : Raymond Pickett
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 1997-06-01
The Cross In Corinth written by Raymond Pickett and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-01 with Religion categories.
Pickett explores how Paul appealed to the death of Jesus in the Corinthian correspondence in order to promote a community ethos and ethic consistent with the ideals and values it symbolized. In so doing, Paul was responding to interpersonal conflicts within the community and criticisms of his ministry-criticisms he saw as founded on Graeco-Roman cultural values of the cultivated elite. His consistent emphasis on the weakness of the cross served to critique social expressions of power in Corinth. More constructively, Paul attempted to secure conduct befitting the gospel by invoking the death of Jesus as a symbol of other-regarding behaviour.
Ironic Authority
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Author : Kevin W. Sarlow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Ironic Authority written by Kevin W. Sarlow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Bible categories.
This thesis offers a new analysis of the nature and function of irony in the Fourth Gospel's Passion Narrative (John 18-20). It utilises a new way of analysing the text in order to discern the irony and rhetoric in the Fourth Gospel narrative. This new methodology is adapted from George Kennedy's method of rhetorical analysis. In addition, by revisiting the analytical categories of stable and unstable irony the research demonstrates that, despite the preponderance of stable ironies in the Fourth Gospel, some ironies remain unstable (twice in 18:35b; 19:15; 20:23), and others are temporarily unstable (18:2-11; 19:1-16; 20:8, 24-25, 26-28). The thesis introduces a new category for this temporary ironic instability: 'perplexing irony' and provides some examples of perplexing irony from various sources. -- In this thesis, Ironic Authority, the analysis of irony in the Fourth Gospel passion narrative reveals, highlights and demonstrates Johannine theology. Some of the various aspects of Johannine theology examined in the light of irony include: Christology, intertextuality, a theology of the cross, and a theology of power and authority. These theological aspects are interwoven with irony and reveal new insights for this research. -- It is widely recognised that the evangelist uses a wide variety of different types of irony, that can be specifically identified and categorised. By using an adapted rhetorical analytical methodology, the thesis examines the Gospel's passion narrative and demonstrates the Gospel's prolific use of irony. The abundance of it indicates that Johannine irony is intentional. -- This study identifies a fivefold purpose in the evangelist's use of irony which reveals aspects of his Christology. Irony provides a connection between the evangelist and the reader; helps readers 'believe into Jesus'; awakens the reader to a double layer in the narrative; sometimes connects other Scriptures intertextually; and expresses the Gospel's theology, mystery and revelation. -- This research adds to irony theory and defines irony (and its various categories) in a relatively simple way. It demonstrates the purposes of irony in the Fourth Gospel; how to identify and categorise it; and it argues the case for temporary unstable (perplexing) irony. By extension, irony encourages faith and provides interest in the Gospel, and in addition, perplexing irony offers hope for those who face adversity.--Abstract page vii.
