Tag: Jesus

December 27, 2024

Desire in René Girard and Jesus

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Free Download William L. Newell, "Desire in René Girard and Jesus"
English | ISBN: 0739171097 | 2012 | 254 pages | EPUB | 574 KB
William L. Newell presents a comprehensive analysis of René Girard’s work on the origins of culture and the depths of human desire. Girard makes no claim toward a theory of religion, but he lays the groundwork for a postmodern theory of it. Girard’s desire concerns fallen humanity, those insanely imitating what they lacked, and his use of the Bible brings back into play the idea of the holy in secular academia. Newell challenges Girard’s interpretation of Jesus’s Passion as non-sacrificial and he offers a close reading of Girard’s works on mimetic desire, scape-goating, and sacrifice, and Newell creates breakthrough theology on Jesus in the Excursus. Girard makes no claim to having a theory of religion, but he lays the groundwork for a postmodern theory of it, and in this book, Newell seeks to begin a theory of "the end of the sacred" and what will be in its place: the holy.

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December 16, 2024

Invisible Jesus A Book about Leaving the Church and Looking for Christ

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Free Download Scot McKnight, "Invisible Jesus: A Book about Leaving the Church and Looking for Christ"
English | ISBN: 0310162319 | 2024 | 240 pages | EPUB | 450 KB
In recent years, we’ve seen an increase in the number of Christians who are "deconstructing" their faith, critically analyzing Christianity and finding that it falls short. Many end up leaving behind the beliefs and commitments they formerly held. While many have written on how to reverse this trend, Scot McKnight and Tommy Preson Phillips believe that rather than dismissing these concerns we need to listen more carefully.

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December 15, 2024

Hey, Jesus, It’s Me I Have Questions, Comments, and Concerns

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Free Download Hey, Jesus, It’s Me: I Have Questions, Comments, and Concerns by Ellen Skrmetti
English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 1546007040 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 1.3 MB
Instagram star and comedian Ellen Skrmetti shares stories behind her wildly popular "Hey Jesus, It’s Me" sketches of a middle-aged, southern-woman’s opinions on mamas, menopause, and menus-and on giving the Lord a bit of advice about those unspoken prayer requests.

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December 9, 2024

Johannine Portrayal of Jesus Mapping I Am in the Gospel of John

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Free Download Yan Ma, "Johannine Portrayal of Jesus: Mapping "I Am" in the Gospel of John "
English | ISBN: 9004715029 | 2024 | 292 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book introduces a new methodological framework based on the theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics which can examine the linguistic features of the New Testament text. By applying a two-step discourse analysis model that includes a functional-semantic analysis and a rhetorical-relational analysis, this book argues that the twenty-eight occurrences of "I am" in Jesus’s utterances throughout the Gospel of John reinforce John’s portrayal of Jesus’s divinity. In the light of John’s construing of Jesus’s divinity, this new analysis of the Johannine "I am" phrases demonstrates how Johannine Christology is expressed through the narrative of John’s Gospel with various textual characteristics.

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December 9, 2024

Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520

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Free Download Luke Clossey, "Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520"
English | ISBN: 1800648189 | 2024 | 802 pages | PDF | 33 MB
For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving breath, and Christopher ("Christ-bearing") Columbus brought the symbol of his cross to the Americas. Beyond the European periphery, this global study follows Jesus across – and sometimes between – religious boundaries, from Greenland to Kongo to China.

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