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Days and Times

Poems from the Liturgy of Living

By: Paul K. Hooker

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Days and Times

Poems from the Liturgy of Living

By: Paul K. Hooker

These poems seek to be playful with faith. Their aim is to expose the underlying sacredness of events that form the liturgy of living and to do so with sensitivity toward mystery, wonder, and occasionally suspicion. Some of them seek to tell stories left untold by the narratives of faith; others prod the narratives of ordinary life to see where faith may be hiding. These poems do not understand faith as an intellectual choice but rather as an involuntary trust in something beyond us, something always unclear, ill-lit, and inadequately characterized by the language religious people use to describe ultimate realities. They seek not so much to dismantle that language as to subvert its self-assuredness, to find words that surprise and compel different ways of seeing.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532650132

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9781532650130

First and Second Chronicles

By: Paul K. Hooker

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First and Second Chronicles

By: Paul K. Hooker

Presents the first and second Chronicles as a theological reflection on the story of Israel's faith, using the narrative of Samuel and Kings, reaffirming Israel's position as the chosen people of God, and tracing the role of worship in Israel's history as a nation. Original.

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326

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664255914

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9780664255916

The Longing

Poems

By: Paul K. Hooker

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The Longing

Poems

By: Paul K. Hooker

Beneath the noise and errands of everyday life, there is a longing, a yearning. What precisely we long for is not always clear; indeed, perhaps it is many things. Or perhaps it is finally one thing, the One that is behind and beneath all things. Paul Hooker probes this longing in the poem cycle of this book, exploring poetically the yearning that underlies life, love, work, worship, and faith itself. In the collections “Traditions” and “Transitions,” he explores that longing in both biblical and experiential contexts. And in the concluding essay, “Sightings of the Holy,” he meditates on four poems and the glimpses they provide of the Holy, a reality accessible only out of the corners of one’s eyes.

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123

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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ISBN 13

9798385211784

The Hole in the Heart of God

Stories of Creation and Redemption

By: Paul K. Hooker

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The Hole in the Heart of God

Stories of Creation and Redemption

By: Paul K. Hooker

This book is a rendering in poetry of the ancient Christian practice of the Easter Vigil, held over the night between Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday. Readings from the vigil become the point of departure for poems that reflect on the reading, and then short prose “ruminations” that reflect on themes in the poems. The poems and ruminations are deeply informed by both the Christian story of the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus and the great tradition of Jewish and Christian mysticism about the creation and redemption of the world.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725299720

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9781725299726

A New Chronology for the Kings of Israel and Judah and Its Implications for Biblical History and Literature

By: John H. Hayes,Paul K. Hooker

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A New Chronology for the Kings of Israel and Judah and Its Implications for Biblical History and Literature

By: John H. Hayes,Paul K. Hooker

For generations, scholars have attempted to solve the chronological problems associated with "the mysterious numbers of the Hebrew kings." In this volume, the authors provide a coherent, sensible, and believable chronology for the Israelite and Judean kings. In their reconstruction, Hayes and Hooker take into consideration not only all of the biblical data but also all relevant ancient Near Eastern sources. Utilizing all available and reliable evidence, they establish not only regnal years for all the rulers but also specific dates for numerous events in Israelite and Judean history. In their opening chapters, the authors explain the scheme of chronological reckoning found in the books of 1-2 Kings. Their calculations are then computed without recourse to shifting understandings of the methods of reckoning or to a theory of co-regencies. The value of this work is not limited to purely chronological matters. Its implications extend to the dating of biblical sources such as the Book of the Covenant, D, P, and the Deuteronomistic History. The volume also provides insights into the socio-cultic life of biblical times.

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1725220075

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Book's by Paul K. Hooker

Days and Times

Days and Times

First and Second Chronicles

First and Second Chronicles

The Longing

The Longing

The Hole in the Heart of God

The Hole in the Heart of God

A New Chronology for the Kings of Israel and Judah and Its Implications for Biblical History and Literature

A New Chronology for the Kings of Israel and Judah and Its Implications for Biblical History and Literature

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