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Everyday Thoughts

A Collection of Devotional Readings for Thinking Christians

By: Phillip Michael Garner

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Everyday Thoughts

A Collection of Devotional Readings for Thinking Christians

By: Phillip Michael Garner

Everyday Thoughts is a devotional for thinking Christians, for those who seek to hear and know God in the present through contemplation on scripture and reality. Each essay is preceded by a poem or an inspirational piece. In relation to each essay’s subject matter, these poems set the mood for the reader as the simplicity of poetry is combined with insights born from the author’s years of study. The intent of the author is that the reader might enjoy the impact of each piece for a prolonged period of time after their initial reading. Everyday Thoughts is for people interested in both contemplation and living their faith in the real world of pain and suffering. The poems and essays reflect the personal struggles of the author to come to terms with the Christian faith in a world larger than the small town of his rearing. A theological education is not necessary for reading Everyday Thoughts. What is necessary is an open heart that is prepared to hear scripture’s message from a wounded soul who withstands death with all the resources of theology, imagination, and experience available to him. The conviction of an immovable faith is behind each essay.

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153261828X

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Interpretive Adventures

Subversive Readings in a Missional School

By: Phillip Michael Garner

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Interpretive Adventures

Subversive Readings in a Missional School

By: Phillip Michael Garner

Interpretive Adventures displays a written synthesis of the biblical scholar and the practicing missionary. The first chapters offer theological originality on the Exodus Story, deconstructs the story of Solomon's wisdom, challenges traditional readings of Ananias and Sapphira, and reads stories from Samuel as examples of the construction for a nation state. The chapter on a feminist reading of Judges stands out as a formidable challenge for improved gender relations. A careful study of the female characters reveals an important theological concern of God and makes a statement about humanity's treatment of women in relation to violence. From the vociferous Achsah to the final character, the silent concubine, the decline of the female voice coincides with the escalation of violence. The final theological statement uncovers male treatment of women as a precursor to genocide. It can be said that Judges teaches us that once the female voice is silenced in a given society, then that society is subject to committing acts of genocide. The author's experience as a teacher and missionary contribute to the final chapters that provide the reader with liberative missional practices for various communities of need in the Philippines. A few brief stories highlight the author's experiences.

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1532618271

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9781532618277

Theopoetics

Spiritual Poetry for Contemplative Theology and Daily Living

By: Phillip Michael Garner

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Theopoetics

Spiritual Poetry for Contemplative Theology and Daily Living

By: Phillip Michael Garner

Theopoetics is a collection of poetry filled with reflective inspiration from the heart and mind of a person filled with pathos over the plight of humanity. Each poem reflects his personal wrestling with theology and reality as he is determined to bring God into the world with a synthesis of pathos, intellect, experience, and words. The aesthetic of poetry provides the author with an expressive outlet to imagine life within a genre where limitations give way to possibilities, in a world where the concretization of society prevails. Theopoetics is an effort to communicate spirituality combined with theology into words; words that ignite the soul with hope and challenge. Each poem contains numerous theological insights born from years of teaching students both in the classroom and abroad. These efforts at educating have been in active pursuit of bringing tikkun olam, that is repairing the world, to oppressed persons and various communities of need. The author is committed to the idea that theology must be practical with ready application for participating in salvation as both personal and historical. As a practitioner of nonviolence his calls for peace resonate throughout the book. Theopoetics is for persons seeking a spiritually challenging devotional experience.

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1498243738

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Theological Adventures

Nonviolent Nonsacramental and Relational Theology--Interspersed with Personal Stories

By: Phillip Michael Garner

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Theological Adventures

Nonviolent Nonsacramental and Relational Theology--Interspersed with Personal Stories

By: Phillip Michael Garner

Theological Adventures began as a challenge to the teachers of The Institute for Global Outreach Developments International to provide me with those passages of Scripture they found the most difficult to produce an interpretive theology consistent with nonviolence and a nonviolent God. The allegorical method for dealing with OT violence has not led to a constructive theology capable of eradicating violence from the Christian tradition. However, genre identification of particular books enables a reader to discern the prejudicial nature of a book claiming to speak for God, e.g., Joshua as conquest narrative. Judges, as a reflection on violence and male-female relationships, qualifies as a “social critique” on Israelite society. This is wonderfully portrayed in the study of Samson as the archetypal strongman who represents Israel as a people. It is healthy to be honest enough about OT Scripture to require basic morality as a guide for reading its claims and stories. The gift of a moral conscience is a powerful voice for God’s image in us. I have found the OT to be consistent with the revelation of God in Christ Jesus when a person learns to read it correctly. The guiding interpretive lens is honesty about the intolerable violence sanctioned in the OT.

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1532618301

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Theological Adventures

Nonviolent Nonsacramental and Relational Theology--Interspersed with Personal Stories

By: Phillip Michael Garner

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Nonviolent Nonsacramental and Relational Theology--Interspersed with Personal Stories

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Interpretive Adventures

Subversive Readings in a Missional School

By: Phillip Michael Garner

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Subversive Readings in a Missional School

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Theopoetics

Spiritual Poetry for Contemplative Theology and Daily Living

By: Phillip Michael Garner

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Spiritual Poetry for Contemplative Theology and Daily Living

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1532618298

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Reflections

Seven Categories of Thought for Today's Christians

By: Phillip Michael Garner

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Reflections

Seven Categories of Thought for Today's Christians

By: Phillip Michael Garner

Reflections is a theological guide for today’s Christians seeking a fuller appreciation of religious faith than is represented in populist religion. The seven categories and their chapters are designed to provide the reader with an intensive study on neglected, but imperative concepts for faith. Subjects of vital importance to both theology and humanity are explored with a flowing continuity of understanding God and the world. Reflections begins with the concept of revelation and its relation to monotheism and conviction. The chapters that follow are titled “Religion Is,” “Christianity Is,” and “Intelligent Spirituality”; these set the foundation for the rest of the book. The sense of moderns is that they are immune to the primitive concept of idolatry. Under the category of “Perennial Idols,” Garner dismantles the idolatry that plagues humanity in every generation. Reality and its creation is a category of theological thought that is essential for Christian development and sorrowfully neglected in church education. The other categories are “Sex and Romantic Love,” “Popular Myths,” “Being Human / Being Poor,” and “Forgiveness.” Garner’s conviction is that the root of humanity’s dysfunction is our failure to learn how to live together as male and female.

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Everyday Thoughts

A Collection of Devotional Readings for Thinking Christians

By: Phillip Michael Garner

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A Collection of Devotional Readings for Thinking Christians

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Reflections

Seven Categories of Thought for Today’s Christians

By: Phillip Michael Garner

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Reflections

Seven Categories of Thought for Today’s Christians

By: Phillip Michael Garner

Reflections is a theological guide for today's Christians seeking a fuller appreciation of religious faith than is represented in populist religion. The seven categories and their chapters are designed to provide the reader with an intensive study on neglected, but imperative concepts for faith. Subjects of vital importance to both theology and humanity are explored with a flowing continuity of understanding God and the world. Reflections begins with the concept of revelation and its relation to monotheism and conviction. The chapters that follow are titled "Religion Is," "Christianity Is," and "Intelligent Spirituality"; these set the foundation for the rest of the book. The sense of moderns is that they are immune to the primitive concept of idolatry. Under the category of "Perennial Idols," Garner dismantles the idolatry that plagues humanity in every generation. Reality and its creation is a category of theological thought that is essential for Christian development and sorrowfully neglected in church education. The other categories are "Sex and Romantic Love," "Popular Myths," "Being Human / Being Poor," and "Forgiveness." Garner's conviction is that the root of humanity's dysfunction is our failure to learn how to live together as male and female.

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1532694946

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Public Relations

Strategies and Tactics

By: Dennis L. Wilcox,Phillip H. Ault,Warren Kendall Agee

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Public Relations

Strategies and Tactics

By: Dennis L. Wilcox,Phillip H. Ault,Warren Kendall Agee

Describes the principles of public relations practice. Explains the techniques used to carry out the principles. Defines the ethical standards professionals should adopt.

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Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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0321015479

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