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Making Christ Real

The Peril and Promise of Kenosis

By: Samuel J. Youngs

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Making Christ Real

The Peril and Promise of Kenosis

By: Samuel J. Youngs

Kenosis, or self-emptying, poses a fundamental question to any theological discussion about Jesus Christ: “In becoming human, did God empty himself of any divine qualities?” Many variations on kenotic Christology have emerged over the past 200 years, most of them claiming to both preserve and highlight the true humanity and ecclesial significance of Jesus Christ. While there is much to commend in these efforts, Samuel Youngs contends that nearly all such kenotic attempts have, against their best intentions, fallen into an echo chamber of abstraction and metaphor, rendering their talk about Jesus Christ and analysis of the Gospels fundamentally “unreal” and lacking in material significance for today’s living church. Most fundamentally, many kenotic accounts pay inadequate attention to Christ’s lived accomplishment, his current presence, and the modes of praxis that he makes real in the world. In dialogue with the important movement known as Transformation Theology, Youngs unfolds a detailed critique of method and discourse in kenotic christologies. Turning then to the vibrant christological thought of Jürgen Moltmann, a different outlook on kenosis is articulated and defended, one that is relational, concrete, and praxiological.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725295059

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9781725295056

The Wesleys in Cornwall, 1743-1789

A Record of Their Activities Town by Town

By: Samuel J. Rogal

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The Wesleys in Cornwall, 1743-1789

A Record of Their Activities Town by Town

By: Samuel J. Rogal

In nearly a half-century of missionary work throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, brothers John and Charles Wesley found the southwestern county of Cornwall to be among their most serious theological and social challenges. Eighteenth-century Cornwall lacked population centers, and small towns and villages were isolated by inadequate roads. The adult population consisted mainly of miners, fisherman and smugglers--men more interested in the bulk of their pocketbooks than in the status of their souls. And the clergy of the Church of England overwhelmingly opposed the Wesleys and their itinerant preachers, encouraging Anglicans to disrupt the Wesleys' outdoor services and to attack and burn Methodist preaching houses. Although the Wesleys made some evangelical progress in Cornwall, the question remained upon John Wesley's death in 1791: did the mission to Cornwall succeed or fail? This book considers the mission with a close reading of the Wesleys writings, and covers the overall history of 18th-century British Methodism and its contribution to the religious and social history of the British Empire.

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251

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McFarland

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0786499710

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9780786499717

East Orange by Christmas

My Father's Love Letters from London, 1933

By: John L. Kessell,John Samuel Kessell,Dorothy Lottridge

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East Orange by Christmas

My Father's Love Letters from London, 1933

By: John L. Kessell,John Samuel Kessell,Dorothy Lottridge

Both mature professionals, they fell in love with childlike glee. John and Dorothy had met briefly in New Jersey. A medical doctor from Australia, he was en route to the British Isles to further his education. Friends of Dorothy, also a doctor, had fixed them up on a blind date neither looked forward to. Yet they had fun. When she decided on a summer vacation in England, her best friend and traveling companion Helen broke her leg at the last moment, as if by fate. John happily saw Dorothy around London but thought of her only as a lady doctor from America. Then, in the hospital matron's sitting room, something happened that changed both their lives. A rushed courtship, a simple wedding in Wesley's Chapel, and the briefest of honeymoons followed. She sailed home, and John, scarcely believing he was now a married man, stayed on at St. Paul's Hospital in London. For three months, the Atlantic separated them. John wrote to Dorothy every morning and every night, never once missing a day. A self-confessed very ordinary man, he revealed much about himself and about how he coped in London during their separation, devising a hundred different ways to express his love for Dorothy. His letters convey a refreshing earnestness and honesty. Although Dorothy's half of the correspondence has not survived, her mysterious cable, "Come at once!" assured John's arrival in East Orange by Christmas. This tenderhearted story, based on the love letters John wrote to Dorothy from London in 1933 and including numerous excerpts, is told by their son for those of us who have experienced or imagined the love of a lifetime. Born in New Jersey and raised in California, John Kessell did not set out to be a professional historian. His work in the 1960s, however, at Tumacacori National Monument in New Mexico, site of a Spanish colonial mission, alerted him to the possibility. Returning to graduate school with new purpose, he earned his doctorate at the University of New Mexico, survived a decade as historian-for-hire, and joined the UNM Department of History. His major historical editing project with colleagues Rick Hendricks, Meredith D. Dodge, and Larry D. Miller resulted in the six-volume "Journals of don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1691 - 1704." Kessell is also author of "Kiva, Cross and Crown: The Pecos Indians and New Mexico, 1540 - 1840"; "The Missions of New Mexico Since 1776"; and "Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico.

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112

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Sunstone Press

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0865347921

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9780865347922

Encyclopaedia Sinica

By: Samuel M.A. Couling

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Encyclopaedia Sinica

By: Samuel M.A. Couling

Following the tumultuous events in China in the first two decades of the twentieth century, there was an urgent need for a reliable reference work surveying all aspects of contemporary China, given that existing reference works and scholarly monographs became rapidly obsolete. Couling’s work, published in 1917, covered so much ground with such accuracy and consistency that it has become established as an essential tool for scholars wishing to understand how the new China was seen and interpreted at the time.

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648

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Global Oriental

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9004213465

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9789004213463

Whose Spain?

Negotiating Spanish Music in Paris, 1908-1929

By: Samuel Llano

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Whose Spain?

Negotiating Spanish Music in Paris, 1908-1929

By: Samuel Llano

English with excerpts in Spanish and French.

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Oxford University Press

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0199858462

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9780199858460

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Making Christ Real

Making Christ Real

The Wesleys in Cornwall, 1743-1789

The Wesleys in Cornwall, 1743-1789

East Orange by Christmas

East Orange by Christmas

Encyclopaedia Sinica

Encyclopaedia Sinica

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Whose Spain?

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