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Re-enchanting the Text

Discovering the Bible as Sacred, Dangerous, and Mysterious

By: Cheryl Bridges Johns

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Re-enchanting the Text

Discovering the Bible as Sacred, Dangerous, and Mysterious

By: Cheryl Bridges Johns

In an age where the Bible has been stripped of its sacredness and functional biblical illiteracy reigns, this book makes the case that we must work to re-enchant the text in order to return the Bible to its rightful place in the lives of Christians. The author shows how the Enlightenment misshapes our interpretations of the Bible and explains that both "liberal" and "fundamentalist" interpretation are failed forms of disenchanted readings. We must rediscover the Bible as sacred, dangerous, and mysterious to counteract biblical illiteracy in an increasingly post-Christian landscape.

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Baker Academic

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1540965139

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Seven Transforming Gifts of Menopause

An Unexpected Spiritual Journey

By: Cheryl Bridges Johns

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Seven Transforming Gifts of Menopause

An Unexpected Spiritual Journey

By: Cheryl Bridges Johns

Menopause is a dramatic but largely overlooked developmental window to the second half of life. Although today's women are more aware of and actively involved in mapping their menopausal journey than generations before, many still do not see menopause as a time of important psychological and spiritual transformation. This book goes far beyond hot flashes and gets to the very heart of the midlife journey, helping women find their unique voice and speak their truth in an era of #MeToo and #ChurchToo. Coming alongside readers as a wise spiritual guide, pastor and theologian Cheryl Bridges Johns identifies seven key developmental "tasks" of menopause and gives practical ways women can embrace each one. She encourages women to view these tasks as gifts as they experience the remarkable physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation that occurs in this stage of life. Written in a warm and conversational tone, this book helps women chart a course for the future, leading them to a renewed sense of identity, a more focused vision for life, and a deeper spirituality. Each chapter includes guided questions for personal reflection and study questions for group discussion.

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Brazos Press

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1493422286

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Seven Transforming Gifts of Menopause

An Unexpected Spiritual Journey

By: Cheryl Bridges Johns

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An Unexpected Spiritual Journey

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Pentecostal Formation

A Pedagogy among the Oppressed

By: Cheryl Bridges Johns

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Pentecostal Formation

A Pedagogy among the Oppressed

By: Cheryl Bridges Johns

The Pentecostal movement has been subject to some negative external assumptions. In this enlightening and challenging book, Cheryl Bridges Johns argues that, in fact, Pentecostals employ a powerful process of formation of catechesis, which has enabled millions of believers to own and articulate the Christian story. She engages dialectically with the work of Paulo Freire, a specialist in education among the marginalized. As well as looking more broadly at the nature of all catechesis, there is also an attempt to move beyond the rationalism found in a praxis epistemology.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725228823

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Re-enchanting the Text

Discovering the Bible as Sacred, Dangerous, and Mysterious

By: Cheryl Bridges Johns

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Discovering the Bible as Sacred, Dangerous, and Mysterious

By: Cheryl Bridges Johns

In an age when the Bible has been stripped of its sacredness and functional biblical illiteracy reigns, this book makes the case that we must work to re-enchant the text in order to return the Bible to its rightful place in the lives of Christians. Cheryl Bridges Johns explains how the Enlightenment's turn to the rational human subject made it possible to objectify the Bible and has distorted our interpretations of Scripture. This move generated a belief that studying the Bible was primarily a means of supporting facts and providing evidence of competing visions of reality. This "modern" version of the Bible does not trouble our nights with apocalyptic images. It has been stripped of its power. She also shows that both "liberal" and "fundamentalist" interpretation are failed forms of disenchanted readings. Johns argues that we must rediscover the Bible as a sacred, dangerous, mysterious, and presence-filled wonderland to counteract biblical illiteracy in an increasingly post-Christian landscape.

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205

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Baker Books

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1493436678

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Saints in Exile

The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture

By: Cheryl J. Sanders

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Saints in Exile

The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture

By: Cheryl J. Sanders

Saints in Exile studies, from an insider's perspective, the worship practices and social ethics of the African American family of Holiness, Pentecostal, and Apostolic churches known collectively as the Sanctified Church. Cheryl Sanders identifies the theme of exile, both as an idea and an experience, as the key to understanding the dialectical nature of African American religious and intellectual life, that W.E.B. Du Bois called "double-conscious." Sanders's saints in exile are a people who see themselves as "in the world but not of it"; their marginalized status is both self-imposed and involuntary, a consequence of racism, sexism and other forms of elitism. When joined with the biblical tropes of homecoming and reconciliation, the concept of exile serves as a vital vantage point from which to identify, critique, and remedy the continued alienation of blacks, women, and the poor in the United States. Sanders's interpretive approach clarifies many paradoxical features of black existence, especially the peculiar interplay of the sacred and the secular in African American song, speech, and dance. She particularly scrutinizes gospel music, a product of the Sanctified worship tradition that has had a significant influence on popular culture. Saints in Exile goes further than any previous study in illuminating the African American experience; it will be welcomed by scholars and students of American religion, African American studies, and American History.

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200

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Oxford University Press

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0190284919

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9780190284916

The Holy Spirit in the Christian Life

The Spirit's Work for, in, and through Us

By: Cheryl M. Peterson

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The Holy Spirit in the Christian Life

The Spirit's Work for, in, and through Us

By: Cheryl M. Peterson

The Holy Spirit in the Christian Life offers a brief account of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, focusing specifically on the question of the person and work of the Spirit in the Christian life. Lutheran theologian Cheryl Peterson identifies three key movements of the Christian life, showing the Spirit's role in each: justification (God the Holy Spirit working for us), sanctification (God the Holy Spirit working in us), and mission (God the Holy Spirit working through us). Peterson explores scriptural and doctrinal perspectives on the person and work of the Holy Spirit--especially from churches with Reformation roots--in view of contemporary spiritual movements, including the spiritual-but-not-religious and the Pentecostal and charismatic movements. In addition, she explores the means of the Spirit's work through Word, sacrament, and spiritual gifts. This book offers a fresh look at the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the church today. It is ideal for seminarians and working pastors.

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Baker Books

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1493444557

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Book's by Cheryl Bridges Johns

Re-enchanting the Text

Re-enchanting the Text

Seven Transforming Gifts of Menopause

Seven Transforming Gifts of Menopause

Seven Transforming Gifts of Menopause

Seven Transforming Gifts of Menopause

Pentecostal Formation

Pentecostal Formation

Re-enchanting the Text

Re-enchanting the Text

Saints in Exile

Saints in Exile

The Holy Spirit in the Christian Life

The Holy Spirit in the Christian Life

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