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Glimpsing Resurrection

Cancer, Trauma, and Ministry

By: Deanna Thompson

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Glimpsing Resurrection

Cancer, Trauma, and Ministry

By: Deanna Thompson

In Glimpsing Resurrection, Deanna A. Thompson combines recent trauma research with compelling first-person narrative to provide insight into the traumatic dimensions of living with a serious illness. Her aim is to help those who are ill and those who care for and minister to them deepen their understanding of how best to offer support. “The tendency for Christians to move almost immediately from death to proclamations of new life risks alienating those for whom healing and new life seem out of reach,â€ says Thompson. Glimpsing Resurrection focuses less on the “whyâ€ to help readers instead come to terms with the “howâ€ of living with a serious disease. In particular, Thompson provides a framework and concrete suggestions for how to be a church where those who are undone by illness can be undone, as well as a place that can love and support them to hope.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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1611648823

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9781611648829

The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World

By: Deanna A. Thompson

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The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World

By: Deanna A. Thompson

We live in a wired world where 24/7 digital connectivity is increasingly the norm. Christian megachurch communities often embrace this reality wholeheartedly while more traditional churches often seem hesitant and overwhelmed by the need for an interactive website, a Facebook page and a twitter feed. This book accepts digital connectivity as our reality, but presents a vision of how faith communities can utilize technology to better be the body of Christ to those who are hurting while also helping followers of Christ think critically about the limits of our digital attachments. This book begins with a conversion story of a non-cell phone owning, non-Facebook using religion professor judgmental of the ability of digital tools to enhance relationships. A stage IV cancer diagnosis later, in the midst of being held up by virtual communities of support, a conversion occurs: this religion professor benefits in embodied ways from virtual sources and wants to convert others to the reality that the body of Christ can and does exist virtually and makes embodied difference in the lives of those who are hurting. The book neither uncritically embraces nor rejects the constant digital connectivity present in our lives. Rather it calls on the church to a) recognize ways in which digital social networks already enact the virtual body of Christ; b) tap into and expand how Christ is being experienced virtually; c) embrace thoughtfully the material effects of our new augmented reality, and c) influence utilization of technology that minimizes distraction and maximizes attentiveness toward God and the world God loves.

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Abingdon Press

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1501815199

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9781501815195

Deuteronomy

A Theological Commentary on the Bible

By: Deanna A. Thompson

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Deuteronomy

A Theological Commentary on the Bible

By: Deanna A. Thompson

In this fresh commentary, Deanna A. Thompson makes this important Old Testament book come to life. Recounting God's foundational relationship with Israel, Deuteronomy is set in the form of Moses' speeches to Israel just before entry into the promised land. Its instructions in the form of God's law provide the structure of the life that God wants for the people of Israel. Although this key Old Testament book is occasionally overlooked by Christians, Deuteronomy serves as an essential passing down to the next generations the fundamentals of faith as well as the parameters of life lived in accord with God's promises. Thompson provides theological perspectives on these vital themes and shows how they have lasting significance for Christians living in today's world. Thompson's sensitivity to the Jewish context and heritage and her insights into Deuteronomy's importance for Christian communities make this commentary an especially valuable resource for today's preacher and teacher.

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Presbyterian Publishing Corp

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1611643813

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Hoping for More

Having Cancer, Talking Faith, and Accepting Grace

By: Deanna Thompson

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Hoping for More

Having Cancer, Talking Faith, and Accepting Grace

By: Deanna Thompson

We tend to use words like miracle and mystery in the context of serendipity. In this frank and eloquent account of life transformed by cancer, Deanna Thompson explores these articles of faith as they are also wont to appear--on the hard edges of hope and the dark side of joy. --Krista Tippett, from the ForewordHoping for More is a story of a young religion professor with a stage IV cancer diagnosis and a lousy prognosis for the future. Amid the grief and the grace of her fractured life, this theologian--who is also a wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend--searches for words adequate to express her faltering faith. More Anne Lamott meets Harold Kushner than the teller of a pious, God-saved-me-from-cancer tale, Thompson unpacks the messy realities that arise when faith and suffering collide. Told in shimmering prose, Hoping for More takes readers on an unsentimental journey through the valley of the shadow of cancer--beyond the predictable parameters of prayer, the church, even belief in life after death. What emerges is a novel approach to talking faith and accepting grace when hope is all you've got.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1610979818

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Glimpsing Resurrection

Cancer, Trauma, and Ministry

By: Deanna Thompson

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Cancer, Trauma, and Ministry

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Crossing the Divide

Luther, Feminism, and the Cross

By: Deanna A. Thompson

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Crossing the Divide

Luther, Feminism, and the Cross

By: Deanna A. Thompson

Over the last two decades, traditional formulations of the idea of atonement have come under heavy attack from feminist theologians and others. They argue that the traditional view valorizes suffering and encourages people to acquiesce in needless self-sacrificing, that it is unseemly to think of God as demanding suffering of his son, and that the theology of the cross needs to be rethought in light of the whole life, ministry, and resurrection of Jesus. Equally committed to the insights of the theology of the cross and feminist theology, Deanna Thompson takes up these contentious issues here in a creative and nuanced way. Her work emerges from direct engagement with Martin Luther and the Heidelberg Disputation as well as with the architects of reformist feminism. She finds surprising common ground on issues of suffering, abuse, atonement, reform, ethics, and the import of Jesus, and her book culminates in a constructive and promising feminist theology of the cross.

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Fortress Press

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1451406290

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Hoping for More

Having Cancer, Talking Faith, and Accepting Grace

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Having Cancer, Talking Faith, and Accepting Grace

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The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World

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Deuteronomy

A Theological Commentary on the Bible

By: Deanna A. Thompson

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Deuteronomy

A Theological Commentary on the Bible

By: Deanna A. Thompson

In this fresh commentary, Deanna A. Thompson makes this important Old Testament book come to life. Recounting God’s foundational relationship with Israel, Deuteronomy is set in the form of Moses’ speeches to Israel just before entry into the promised land. Its instructions in the form of God’s law provide the structure of the life that God wants for the people of Israel. Although this key Old Testament book is occasionally overlooked by Christians, Deuteronomy serves as an essential passing down to the next generations the fundamentals of faith as well as the parameters of life lived in accord with God’s promises. Thompson provides theological perspectives on these vital themes and shows how they have lasting significance for Christians living in today’s world. Thompson’s sensitivity to the Jewish context and heritage and her insights into Deuteronomy’s importance for Christian communities make this commentary an especially valuable resource for today’s preacher and teacher.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664233430

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Deuteronomy

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Functional Analysis, Holomorphy and Approximation Theory II

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0664260357

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Glimpsing Resurrection

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The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World

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Crossing the Divide

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The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World

The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World

Deuteronomy

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