Contents: Our knowledge of God -- The nature of God -- One God in Trinity -- The persons and the nature of God -- The primacy of the persons in God -- Constructing an evangelical theology today. Abstract What is theology? What is the nature of God? How should we think about the relationships among the persons of the Trinity? Gerald Bray distills the essence of these questions and introduces…
Contents: 1. The Christocentric focus of all Holy Scripture -- The need for the Christocentric focus in prophetic interpretations -- 2. The key to the Old Testament: Literalism or the New Testament? -- The key to the Old Testament: the New Testament -- Literalism in late Judaism -- The key to the Old Testament: Christ in the New Testament -- 3. The literal and allegorical interpretations -- Th…
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Part I: How to Live -- 1. Why? Why? Why? -- 2. The Choice is Yours -- 3. Triumph Out of Tragedy -- Part II: How to Die -- 4. Life After All -- 5. Am I Normal? -- 6. Broken Hearts Do Heal -- Part III: How to Help -- 7. How to Help a Grieving Friend -- 8. Helping A Friend Cope with a Terminal Illness -- 9. How to Explain Death to a child -- 10. Making the Funeral Arrangements -- 11. After the Fun…
Waiting for Jesus -- The man who saw an angel -- His name is John -- The Christmas gift -- The son of God becomes man -- The prayers taht were answered -- The seekers -- The boy Jesus -- Jesus shares our baptism -- The lamb of God -- Jesus finds his first disciples -- The dream -- Jesus resists Satan's temptation -- The house of God -- A visitor at night -- The great encounter -- Jesus goes to …
Contents: Introduction. Who needs the historical Jesus? -- 1. The historical Jesus and the search for God: on the quest for the historical Jesus -- 2. Jesus and the empire of God: on dirt, shame, and sin in the expendable company of Jesus -- 3. The empire in a word: on the radical wisdom of Jesus -- 4. The empire in story: on the parables of Jesus -- 5. The empire of God is now: on Jesus and th…
My Search for a Single Passion to Live By -- Breakthrough-the Beauty of Christ, My Joy -- Boasting Only in the Cross, The Blazing Center of the Glory of God -- Magnifying Christ Through Pain and Death -- Risk Is Right-Better to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It -- The Goal of Life-Gladly Making Others Glad in God -- Living to Prove He Is More Precious Than Life -- Making Much of Christ from 8 to …
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Contents: First words : be still and know -- The silence of God. Silence : the sound of infinity ; Distraction : when life outshouts God ; Contradiction : conflicting voices ; Mystery : a whisper of purpose ; Language : translating the transcendent -- The voice of God. Creation : a muffled voice ; Scripture : a sure & certain voice ; Christ : the Word became flesh ; Spirit : inside interpreter …
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Other Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"A translation of Kami no Itami no shingaku."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-216).