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| Resource: |
Book (248.4-3945) Closer to God: Loving Jesus in a Complicated World
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| Author: |
Powell, Mark Allan |
| Publisher: |
Augsburg Fortress Publishing, 2004 |
| Vendor: |
Donation: Steve Blair |
| Length: |
200 Pages |
| Subjects: |
Christianity - Christian Life - General; Christianity - Discipleship ; Love / Religious aspects / Christianity; Spirituality - General; Spirituality / Biblical teaching |
| Location: |
BS680.S7 P68 2004 |
| # Copies: |
1 |
| ISBN/ISSN: |
9780800636760
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| Description: |
FROM THE PUBLISHER: The essence of spirituality is loving God, says Mark Allan Powell. The Bible, the Talmud, and the Qu'ran all direct their followers not merely to believe in God, to trust God, to obey God, or to serve God…but to love God. But how does one do that? Can we learn to love God?In this biblical spirituality for today, Powell's earnest plea is for Christians to revisit their faith, not blazing in evangelical enthusiasm but harboring a steadier flame and deeper commitment. Cultivating a mature spirituality means living in a different religious space than most people do today. Living at the poetic heart of faith, he argues, entails seeing the coordinates of religious life—love, understanding, truth, hope, and especially devotion—in a new way. Powell espouses the old-fashioned idea of piety. Drawing on his wide knowledge of the bible and Christian tradition, as well as insights from his own journey, he shows how simple religious practices like Bible reading and meditation and devotions move us
beyond the old certitudes of a naïve and youthful faith into the less certain but more bracing terrain of a second naïveté, a closer walk with Jesus. Author: Mark Allan Powell is the Leatherman Professor of New Testament Studies at Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio. His many publications include Jesus as a Figure in History (1998), Fortress Introduction to the Gospels (1997), and God with Us (1995). 1 ENOCH: A NEW TRANSLATION |
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None specified.
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