A Theology of the Ordinary
Author | : Julie Canlis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : 9780692840283 |
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Author | : Julie Canlis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : 9780692840283 |
Author | : Tish Harrison Warren |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830892206 |
Framed around one ordinary day, this book explores daily life through the lens of liturgy, small practices, and habits that form us. Each chapter looks at something author Tish Harrison Warren does in a day—making the bed, brushing her teeth, losing her keys—and relates it to spiritual practice as well as to our Sunday worship.
Author | : Michael Horton |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2014-10-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0310517389 |
Radical. Crazy. Transformative and restless. Every word we read these days seems to suggest there’s a “next-best-thing,” if only we would change our comfortable, compromising lives. In fact, the greatest fear most Christians have is boredom—the sense that they are missing out on the radical life Jesus promised. One thing is certain. No one wants to be “ordinary.” Yet pastor and author Michael Horton believes that our attempts to measure our spiritual growth by our experiences, constantly seeking after the next big breakthrough, have left many Christians disillusioned and disappointed. There’s nothing wrong with an energetic faith; the danger is that we can burn ourselves out on restless anxieties and unrealistic expectations. What’s needed is not another program or a fresh approach to spiritual growth; it’s a renewed appreciation for the commonplace. Far from a call to low expectations and passivity, Horton invites readers to recover their sense of joy in the ordinary. He provides a guide to a sustainable discipleship that happens over the long haul—not a quick fix that leaves readers empty with unfulfilled promises. Convicting and ultimately empowering, Ordinary is not a call to do less; it’s an invitation to experience the elusive joy of the ordinary Christian life.
Author | : Pierce Taylor Hibbs |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 77 |
Release | : 2018-09-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532657706 |
We tend to look for God in the grand and spectacular, but most of our lives are filled with ordinary moments and routines: drinking coffee, reading a book, driving to work. Can we find God in the banalities of everyday life? In Finding God in the Ordinary, the author shows that we can, and that we must. Our world is not an ordinary world. Because it was spoken into being and maintained by the word of God's power (Heb 1:3), everything around us is always revealing the nature and character of the triune God. Our world is extraordinarily ordinary, always calling our attention to the God of glory and his work in the commonplace.
Author | : Leslie J. Francis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2016-04-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317137221 |
'Ordinary theology' characterizes the reflective God-talk of the great majority of churchgoers, and others who remain largely untouched by the assumptions, concepts and arguments that academic theology takes for granted. Jeff Astley coined the phrase in his innovative study, Ordinary Theology: Looking, Listening and Learning in Theology, arguing that 'speaking statistically ordinary theology is the theology of God's Church'. A number of scholars have responded to this and related conceptualizations, exploring their theological implications. Other researchers have adopted the perspective in examining a range of Church practices and contexts of Christian discipleship, using the tools of empirical study. Ordinary theology research has proved to be key in uncovering people's everyday lay theology or ordinary dogmatics. Exploring Ordinary Theology presents fresh contributions from a wide range of authors, who address the theological, empirical and practical dimensions of this central feature of ordinary Christian existence and the life of the Church.
Author | : Jeff Astley |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1351913522 |
'Ordinary theology' is Jeff Astley's phrase for the theology and theologising of Christians who have received little or no theological education of a scholarly, academic or systematic kind. Astley argues that an in-depth study of ordinary theology, which should involve both empirical research and theological reflection, can help recover theology as a fundamental dimension of every Christian's vocation. Ordinary Theology analyses the problems and possibilities of research and reflection in this area. This book explores the philosophical, theological and educational dimensions of the concept of ordinary theology, its significance for the work of the theologian as well as for those engaged in the ministry of the church, and the criticisms that it faces. 'Ordinary theology' Astley writes, 'is the church's front line. Statistically speaking, it is the theology of God's church.'
Author | : Aimee Byrd |
Publisher | : P & R Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781596386655 |
Women who want God to be more than superficially in their lives can rise above the world's expectations by becoming housewife theologians finding true meaning and true worship everyday. Great for journaling and for group discussion.
Author | : D. A. Carson |
Publisher | : Crossway |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2008-02-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1433522101 |
D. A. Carson's father was a pioneering church-planter and pastor in Quebec. But still, an ordinary pastor-except that he ministered during the decades that brought French Canada from the brutal challenges of persecution and imprisonment for Baptist ministers to spectacular growth and revival in the 1970s. It is a story, and an era, that few in the English-speaking world know anything about. But through Tom Carson's journals and written prayers, and the narrative and historical background supplied by his son, readers will be given a firsthand account of not only this trying time in North American church history, but of one pastor's life and times, dreams and disappointments. With words that will ring true for every person who has devoted themselves to the Lord's work, this unique book serves to remind readers that though the sacrifices of serving God are great, the sweetness of living a faithful, obedient life is greater still.
Author | : William A. Barry |
Publisher | : Loyola Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780829450330 |
Experiencing God in the Ordinary will help you discover through prayer and meditation that God is always present and can be found in an ordinary day.
Author | : Bruce L. Shelley |
Publisher | : IVP Books |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1993-01-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780830813421 |
Theology is not just for theologians. In our everyday lives, says Bruce Shelley, theology is nothing more than the beliefs Christians use to describe truth. It's necessary, important and accessible to all of us. To prove his point, the popular author of Christian History in Plain Language lays out the basic beliefs of our faith in an appealing, conversational style. "Throughout these chapters," Shelley says, "I have tried to imagine a long walk with a friend, new Christian or non-Christian, who jas just asked me, 'What do you mean by the Christian faith?' " Here is the answer, including the Garden and the Fall, the cross, God the Trinity and the mystery of suffering in our world. At the end of this "walk," you will know for certain: This is an extraordinary book for ordinary people.