God's Foolishness

God's Foolishness
Author: William Wenthe
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2016-04-11
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0807162469

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St. Paul writes "the foolishness of God is wiser than men." The poems in William Wenthe's God's Foolishness mine the feelings of human uncertainty in matters of love and desire, time and death, and uncover difficult truths with transformative insights. These are poems of crisis. Wenthe examines our conflicting urges to see nature as sustenance and to foolishly destroy it. His poems shift from close observation to panorama with cinematic fluidity, from a tea mug to an ancient monument, from a warbler on an elm branch to the specter of imminent natural disaster. Offering passion and intellect balanced with a careful concern for poetic craft, Wenthe's God's Foolishness gives us fine poems to savor and admire.

God's Foolishness

God's Foolishness
Author: William Wenthe
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2016-05-02
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0807162477

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St. Paul writes "the foolishness of God is wiser than men." The poems in William Wenthe's God's Foolishness mine the feelings of human uncertainty in matters of love and desire, time and death, and uncover difficult truths with transformative insights. These are poems of crisis. Wenthe examines our conflicting urges to see nature as sustenance and to foolishly destroy it. His poems shift from close observation to panorama with cinematic fluidity, from a tea mug to an ancient monument, from a warbler on an elm branch to the specter of imminent natural disaster. Offering passion and intellect balanced with a careful concern for poetic craft, Wenthe's God's Foolishness gives us fine poems to savor and admire.

The Foolishness of God

The Foolishness of God
Author: J. Brandon Meeks
Publisher: North American Anglican Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-07-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578712406

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An examination of what it means to "preach the Word" in the context of Anglican ministry.

The Wisdom and Foolishness of God

The Wisdom and Foolishness of God
Author: Christophe Chalamet
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1506401511

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The first two chapters of Paul’s first epistle to the Christians of Corinth, written in the fifth decade of the first century, have played a significant role in the history of Christian theology. Interpreting the central event in Christianity, namely the crucifixion of Jesus, Paul reflects on the wisdom and foolishness of God, which he opposes to the world’s wisdom. According to Paul, the “word of the cross,” which is “foolishness” to some and “scandal” to others, leads to an upheaval in one’s way of thinking. For two millenia, theology has often turned to these passages in order to sustain its reflection. Many central questions emerge from Paul’s text on the meaning of a crucified Messiah, on God’s omnipotence, weakness, and suffering. This volume hopes to achieve two things by seeking to place exegetes, historians, philosophers, and theologians in conversation: to better understand Paul’s text and its reception and also to examine the ways in which it can nourish our theological reflection today.

Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God

Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God
Author: Kirk Essary
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2017-05-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1487514158

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What did Paul mean when he wrote that the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom? Through close analysis of the sixteenth-century reception of Paul's discourses of folly, this book examines the role of the New Testament in the development of what Erasmus and John Calvin refer to as the “Christian philosophy.” Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God reveals the importance of Pauline rhetoric in the development of humanist critiques of scholasticism while charting the formation of a specifically affective approach to religious epistemology and theological method. As the first book-length examination of Calvin's indebtedness to Erasmus, which also considers the participation of Bullinger, Pellikan, and Melanchthon in an Erasmian exegetical milieu, it is a case study in the complicated cross-confessional exchange of ideas in the sixteenth century. Kirk Essary examines assumptions about the very nature of theology in the sixteenth century, how it was understood by leading humanist reformers, and how ideas about philosophy and rhetoric were received, appropriated, and shared in a complex intellectual and religious context.

God, Jesus, and Other Foolishness

God, Jesus, and Other Foolishness
Author: Jeffrey A. Kramer
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2022-09-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1666741108

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In our post-Christian society many skeptics, atheists, and agnostics assume that the Christian faith involves belief in spite of a lack of evidence and that Christianity encourages its adherents to be satisfied with not understanding the world. This is untrue. Christianity has a legacy of thought and logic, and a convincing case can be made that modern science and Western culture could only have sprung from the Judeo-Christian worldview. Although questions of origins, purpose, and meaning are not easily proved true in a "scientific" or empirical sense, things can be true without empirical proof. It does not follow that religion is untrue or that religious belief is for the credulous and the gullible. Many of the presuppositions underlying any worldview cannot be proven empirically, and acceptance of many of the truth claims of atheism and postmodernism requires just as much faith as acceptance of the fundamentals of Christianity. This book is an attempt to demonstrate that biblical Christianity is true, in the sense that it is a logical interpretation of reality and our lived experience, and that the implications of Christian faith make more rational sense than a rejection of that faith.

St Francis and the Foolishness of God

St Francis and the Foolishness of God
Author: Marie Dennis, Joseph Nangle, OFM, Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Stuart Taylor
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608333515

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Jesus Christ and Him Crucified

Jesus Christ and Him Crucified
Author: Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Publisher: Banner of Truth
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780851517803

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A persuasive presentation of the unchanging gospel.