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Author | : Brent Sandy |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2014-01-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830896805 |
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What are we to make of Isaiah's image of Mount Zion as the highest of the mountains, or Zechariah's picture of the Mount of Olives split in two, or Daniel's "beast rising out of the sea" or Revelation's "great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns"? How can Peter claim that on the day of Pentecost the prophecy of Joel was being fulfilled, with signs in heaven and wonders on earth, the sun turned to darkness and the moon to blood? The language and imagery of biblical prophecy has been the source of puzzlement for many Christians and a point of dispute for some. How ironic that is! For the prophets and seers were the wordsmiths of their time. They took pains to speak God's word clearly and effectively to their contemporaries. How should we, as citizens of the twenty-first century, understand the imagery of this ancient biblical literature? Are there any clues in the texts themselves, any principles we can apply as we read these important but puzzling biblical texts? D. Brent Sandy carefully considers the language and imagery of prophecy and apocalyptic, how it is used, how it is fulfilled within Scripture, and how we should read it against the horizon of our future. Clearly and engagingly written, Plowshares and Pruning Hooks is the kind of book that gives its readers a new vantage point from which to view the landscape of prophetic and apocalyptic language and imagery.
Author | : Brent Sandy |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2002-10-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780830826537 |
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D. Brent Sandy carefully considers the language and imagery of prophecy and apocalyptic, how it is used, how it is fulfilled within Scripture, and how we should read it against the horizon of our future.
Author | : Brent Sandy |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002-10-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 083082653X |
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D. Brent Sandy carefully considers the language and imagery of prophecy and apocalyptic, how it is used, how it is fulfilled within Scripture, and how we should read it against the horizon of our future.
Author | : Kristen Tobey |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2016-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0271078286 |
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In September 1980, eight Catholic activists made their way into a Pennsylvania General Electric plant housing parts for nuclear missiles. Evading security guards, these activists pounded on missile nose cones with hammers and then covered the cones in their own blood. This act of nonviolent resistance was their answer to calls for prophetic witness in the Old Testament: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not take up sword against nation; they shall never again know war.” Plowshares explores the closely interwoven religious and social significance of the group’s use of performance to achieve its goals. It looks at the group’s acts of civil disobedience, such as that undertaken at the GE plant in 1980, and the Plowshares’ behavior at the legal trials that result from these protests. Interpreting the Bible as a mandate to enact God’s kingdom through political resistance, the Plowshares work toward “symbolic disarmament,” with the aim of eradicating nuclear weapons. Plowshares activists continue to carry out such “divine obediences” against facilities where equipment used in the production or deployment of nuclear weapons is manufactured or stored. Whether one agrees or disagrees with their actions, this volume helps us better understand their motivations, logic, identity, and ultimate goal.
Author | : Orpheus Lanphear Woodbury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Coinage, International |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : D. Brent Sandy |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2007-11 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0801026016 |
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A current and accessible guide to the literature on Old Testament prophecy.
Author | : John H. Walton |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 083084032X |
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Walton and Sandy summarize what we know of orality and oral tradition as well as the composition and transmission of texts in the ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world, and how this shapes our understanding of the Old and New Testaments. The authors then translate these insights into a helpful model for understanding the reliability of Scripture.
Author | : Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh |
Publisher | : GalEinai Publication Society |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2005-06 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9657146038 |
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And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation. Neither shall they learn war anymore... This is the prophesy of Isaiah, promising the world what it yearns for--a perfect future, a future without war, without hunger, without strife. That such a future awaits us, Isaiah says, is a promise from G-d. When it will dawn is up to us.In Awakening the Spark Within, Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh explains how every Jew?man, woman, and child?can live up to this awesome responsibility by cultivating in everyday personal life his or her own innate sparks of leadership. He shows how seemingly insignificant individual efforts can have world-changing consequences and bring the prophetic vision of the future to its ultimate fulfillment.Includes glossary, footnotes, and index.
Author | : Brian Zahnd |
Publisher | : David C Cook |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2014-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 143470792X |
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We know Jesus the Savior, but have we met Jesus, Prince of Peace? When did we accept vengeance as an acceptable part of the Christian life? How did violence and power seep into our understanding of faith and grace? For those troubled by this trend toward the sword, perhaps there is a better way. What if the message of Jesus differs radically differs from the drumbeats of war we hear all around us? Using his own journey from war crier to peacemaker and his in-depth study of peace in the scriptures, author and pastor Brian Zahnd reintroduces us to the gospel of Peace.
Author | : Methodist Church (U.S.). Council of Bishops |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Peace |
ISBN | : |
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