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Adventures of the Spirit

A Guide to Worship from the Perspective of Process Theology

By: Clark M. Williamson,Ronald J. Allen

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Adventures of the Spirit

A Guide to Worship from the Perspective of Process Theology

By: Clark M. Williamson,Ronald J. Allen

This book offers an introduction to worship from the standpoint of process theology. It helps worship planners develop services of worship that are characterized by an intense vision of community with God, where depth of feeling surmounts verbal language and touch the believer in the most life-shaping ways. Process conceptuality allows the church to move toward genuinely contemporary worship while drawing from the past, explaining how worship is understood in this Christian tradition and moving to practical approaches such as conceiving the service, preparing the prayers, the liturgy, and the sermon; the sacraments, the wedding and the funeral, and the arts' role in worship. The ultimate goal is not only to show how process theology can inform each aspect of the service of worship, but to help the Christian community deepen its apprehension of God through services of worship.

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University Press of America

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0761808167

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9780761808169

A Guest in the House of Israel

Post-Holocaust Church Theology

By: Clark M. Williamson

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A Guest in the House of Israel

Post-Holocaust Church Theology

By: Clark M. Williamson

Williamson challenges churches and theologians to become aware of the inherited ideology of anti-Judaism that has distorted their teaching, even on such key matters as Jesus, the Scriptures, the church, and God, and suggests a radical, constructive alternative to the "teaching of contempt".

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664254543

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9780664254544

Preaching the Old Testament

A Lectionary Commentary

By: Ronald James Allen,Clark M. Williamson

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Preaching the Old Testament

A Lectionary Commentary

By: Ronald James Allen,Clark M. Williamson

In this third and concluding volume of their lectionary commentary collection (Preaching the Gospels without Blaming the JewsandPreaching the Letters without Dismissing the Law), Ronald Allen and Clark Williamson encourage the church and its preachers to rediscover the Old Testament as a vibrant wellspring of Christian faith and life. Preachers often neglect the Old Testament, misrepresent it, or regard its theological content as superseded by Jesus and the New Testament, Allen and Williamson claim. The authors help preachers avoid these traps by explaining how a text was understood before the Common Era without any reference to Jesus or Christian doctrine, mentioning representative New Testament passages or themes that are informed by the older material, and commenting briefly on the relationship between the lections in those cases when readings from the Old Testament are paired with readings from the New Testament.

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Presbyterian Publishing Corp

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0664230687

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9780664230685

Preaching the Gospels Without Blaming the Jews

A Lectionary Commentary

By: Ronald James Allen,Clark M. Williamson

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Preaching the Gospels Without Blaming the Jews

A Lectionary Commentary

By: Ronald James Allen,Clark M. Williamson

In this commentary on the Gospel readings in the Revised Common Lectionary, Allen and Williamson call attention to ways in which the lections are continuous with the theology, values, and practices of Judaism and reflect critically on the caricatures in the readings. They explain the polemics in their first-century setting but criticize them historically and theologically. They also suggest ways that preachers can help their congregations move beyond these contentious themes to a greater sense of kinship and shared mission with Judaism."--BOOK JACKET.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664227635

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9780664227630

Has God Rejected His People?

Anti-Judaism in the Christian Church

By: Clark M. Williamson

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Has God Rejected His People?

Anti-Judaism in the Christian Church

By: Clark M. Williamson

The point of this book is simple: to make Christians aware of a story that they have not been told--the story of relations between Christians and Jews. This involves tracing the church's anti-Judaism to its source in the gospels and the Book of Acts and describing the development of the church's displacement-replacement theology according to which we new Gentiles, spiritual, universal, inclusive Christians replace the old, carnal, ethnocentric legalist and works-righteous Jews in the favor of God. The story also details the actions of the churches, specifically a long chain of canons (laws) governing relations between Jews and Christians, all the way from banning Christians for socializing or dining with Jews, marrying Jews, and asking rabbis for blessings, to requiring all Jews to live in ghettos. This history of actions comes down to the present and its consequences in the Holocaust in which all the killers were Christians and in the Nazi laws governing Jewish behavior. Each such law took its precedent from a canon law passed by a council of the church. The recent rash of bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers and synagogues reminds us of how deeply this bigotry is embedded in people. The point of making people aware of anti-Judaism is to prompt them not to shrug if off when scripture readings regularly teach contempt for Jews with the rhetoric of vilification. Words are important. Teaching contempt should be called out and rejected. This can be done pastorally and gently, but it should be done. Otherwise the church's language reinforces a deeply embedded bigotry. Most Christian pastors are unaware of this reality and prone to thinking that anti-Judaism is not a serious problem for the church. Hence most anti-Judaism in Christian preaching is unintentional. Awareness of the story of Christian anti-Judaism prods us to move from unintentional anti-Judaism to intentional teaching of respect for Jews and Judaism.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725238535

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9781725238534

The Shape of Thought

How Mental Adaptations Evolve

By: H. Clark Barrett

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The Shape of Thought

How Mental Adaptations Evolve

By: H. Clark Barrett

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It shows how the brain can be both a complexly specialized organ and a dynamic and flexible self-organizing system, shaped by learning and culture.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199348316

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9780199348312

American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

By: Margaret C. Conrads,Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

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American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

By: Margaret C. Conrads,Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

68 treasures of Massachusetts museum: Homer, Sargent, Cassatt, Inness, Remington in depth.

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Hudson Hills

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1555950507

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9781555950507

When Jews and Christians Meet

A Guide for Christian Preaching and Teaching

By: Clark M. Williamson

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When Jews and Christians Meet

A Guide for Christian Preaching and Teaching

By: Clark M. Williamson

Examines the deep roots of Christianity in the Hebrew Scriptures and attempts to resolve anti-Judaic interpretations of the New Testament. Discusses the impact on Christian-Jewish relations of the Holocaust, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the growing recognition among Christians that the covenant between God and the Jewish people is eternal. Calls for recognition of the long history of Christian persecution of Jews and the need to repent in order to avoid its repetition.

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Chalice Press

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0827242247

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9780827242241

Preaching the Old Testament

A Lectionary Commentary

By: Ronald James Allen,Clark M. Williamson

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A Lectionary Commentary

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A Guest in the House of Israel

Post-Holocaust Church Theology

By: Clark M. Williamson

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Post-Holocaust Church Theology

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Westminster John Knox Press

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Preaching the Gospels Without Blaming the Jews

A Lectionary Commentary

By: Ronald James Allen,Clark M. Williamson

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A Lectionary Commentary

By: Ronald James Allen,Clark M. Williamson

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Has God Rejected His People?

Anti-Judaism in the Christian Church

By: Clark M. Williamson

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Anti-Judaism in the Christian Church

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Book's by Clark M. Williamson

Adventures of the Spirit

Adventures of the Spirit

A Guest in the House of Israel

A Guest in the House of Israel

Preaching the Old Testament

Preaching the Old Testament

Preaching the Gospels Without Blaming the Jews

Preaching the Gospels Without Blaming the Jews

Has God Rejected His People?

Has God Rejected His People?

The Shape of Thought

The Shape of Thought

American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

When Jews and Christians Meet

When Jews and Christians Meet

Preaching the Old Testament

Preaching the Old Testament

A Guest in the House of Israel

A Guest in the House of Israel

Preaching the Gospels Without Blaming the Jews

Preaching the Gospels Without Blaming the Jews

Has God Rejected His People?

Has God Rejected His People?

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