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"Can a person be gay and a Christian?" This is a question that countless thousands of people have asked themselves in the course of their lives. Whether they are struggling with this issue themselves or if they know loved ones who are wrestling with their sexual orientation, there's now hope! The Rainbow Kingdom: Christianity & the Homosexual Reconciled, a new book by David W. Shelton, answers that question and many others that we deal with as GLBT and GLBT-affirming Christians. In the first half, The Rainbow Kingdom addresses the "clobber" verses that are used to condemn gay and lesbian people throughout the world. Then, the message shifts from instruction to ministry, meeting many of today's issues head-on..
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First Be Reconciled seeks to recover the church as a unique reconciled body in a world of enmity, particularly via civil litigation It traces the church s historic reticense to litigate within the body and with non-believers through key biblical texts, a historical survey, with a particular focus on the Anabaptist witness, and a constructive theological defense of the necessity of eschewing certain forms of civil litigation contrary to the church's witness of reconciliation.
Church retraces the history of Christians in the courts: Apostle Paul, Augustine, Luther, Calvin and the Anabaptists. A constructive theological argument is made for the continuing relevance of a radical stance within the church toward litigation both among believers and with non-Christians. The book argues that the gospel s claim that reconciliation is a product of Christ s life, death and resurrection and the maintenance of the church as an alternative politics is at stake when the church fails to live as a reconciling body through its participation in certain forms of civil litigation..
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Using a method of critical correlation, the author recommends an interaction between clinical psychology and liberal theology which preserves their unique sources, methodologies, and content, while engaging in a mutually enriching dialogue. This work illustrates a constructive interaction between these disciplines by applying the concept of reconciliation derived from the Judeo-Christian tradition as a foundation for a normative and empirical theory of psychotherapy. Linguistic and phenomenological analyses of the cognitive, affective, behavioral, and conative dimensions provide an understanding of the experience of reconciliation compatible with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth..
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Being Reconciled is a radical and entirely fresh theological treatment of the classic theory of the Gift in the context of divine reconciliation. It reconsiders notions of freedom and exchange in relation to a Christian doctrine which understands Creation, grace and incarnation as heavenly gifts, but the Fall, evil and violence as refusal of those gifts. In a sustained and rigorous response to the works of Derrida, Levinas, Marion, Zizek, Hauerwas and the 'Radical Evil' school, John Milbank posits the daring view that only transmission of the forgiveness offered by the Divine Humanity makes reconciliation possible on earth. Any philosophical understanding of forgiveness and redemption therefore requires theological completion.
Both a critique of post-Kantian modernity, and a new theology that engages with issues of language, culture, time, politics and historicity, Being Reconciled insists on the dependency of all human production and understanding on a God who is infinite in both utterance and capacity. Intended as the first in a trilogy of books centered on the gift, it is an original and vivid new application of a classic theory by a leading international theologian.
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The message of reconciliation that the Church must declare is simple yet profound: "God is not holding your sins against you!" This is the belief of Joseph L. Garlington, Sr., pastor of a large multiracial congregation in Pittsburgh. Whether you are concerned about racial, gender, or denominational reconciliation, this book is for you. You will never see reconciliation in the same light again!.
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