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Virtue and Voice: Habits of Mind for a Return to Civil Discourse
No full textMany Americans think public manners and behavior have deteriorated, especially in public discourse about polarized political, moral, and cultural issues. But democracy and cultural progress require a robust civility in public discourse if they are to be successful endeavors. Our sharply divided world is in great need of a civility that facilitates respect, honor, and kindness toward ideological opponents. The contributors to this edited volume represent philosophical, theological, psychological, historical, and sociological perspectives, providing analysis of intellectual virtue and vice as well as explorations of their application to specific problems in contemporary society. In acknowledging the current climate of contentious and ineffective civil discourse, Virtue & Voice highlights how the cultivation of intellectual virtue can renew our voices and heal the broken state of our public discourse.https://digitalcommons.biola.edu/faculty-books/1623/thumbnail.jp
God’s staff and Moses’ hand(s): The battle against the Amalekites as a turning point in the role of the divine warrior
No full textThe account of the battle against the Amalekites in Exodus 17.8-16 contains several contested portions, including the interpretation of the raising of Moses’ hands, the significance of the staff of God, and the number of hands Moses holds up. This article will argue that the ambiguity surrounding the presence/absence of the staff and the number of upraised hands functions to portray the episode as a transition in the narrative (a high-level Janus parallelism) in relation to the role of the divine warrior in Israelite combat. The presence of the staff of God in the one hand raised by Moses recalls the great works of God in the exodus and emphasizes divine initiative in battle, while the raising of two hands signifies prayer (as supported by parallels in the Zakkur stela and Egyptian reliefs) and looks forward to Israel fighting at its own initiative in future battles
Will/Heart/Spirit: Discipleship that Forms the Christian Character
No full textThis article seeks to provide some clarity on the role of human will in Christian formation through engaging Dallas Willard’s understanding of the human will/heart/spirit. The first part of the article examines the value of coming to have an accurate understanding of the role and formation of the will. Section two investigates the Gospel writers’ portrayal of Jesus’ will in his incarnate life on earth. And the third section draws off Willard’s views in order to further develop our understanding of the role of the human will in spiritual formation as well as the formation of the will itself
Spirit of the Incarnation
No full textExamine the ways that John characterizes the ministry of the Holy Spirit in and through Jesus. Participate in the spontaneity of the Spirit’s ministry as you embrace the Jesus of John’s gospel. Come to this session prepared to respond to the Spirit’s leading as Joshua Smith facilitates a session that your own open-heartedness will help shape
Mystery of Incarnation and the Miraculous Power it Holds : Romans 8:1-4
No full textJesus manifests Himself through us and by faith we are moved and empowered. We can explore the mystery and hold the tension of wonder as we stand firm, THROUGH FAITH, on the power that indwells within us
English Language Teaching: Locating Faith in the Context of Local and Global Dynamics
Get PDFThis article aims to contribute to an understanding of the presence and outworking of Christian faith in the teaching and learning of English in the context of interconnected local and global dynamics. The pursuit is informed by conceptualizations of space as social text along with links to agency and identity. This frames the examination of classroom interaction data gathered in a community-based, volunteer-run, church-sponsored English as a Second Language program for adult newcomers to Canada. Classroom discourse and interaction are also considered with reference to interview comments made by program providers to gain insight into the significance they attach to their actions. This gives rise to the proposal that faith-informed dimensions of identity and ideological space at broad levels have implications for constructions of space in the localized dynamics of teaching and learning. The results and discussion make a case for the simultaneity of local and global ways of being in the world and an understanding of the construction of space not only as social text but, in this case, also spiritual text informed and animated by sacred text. The article concludes by considering how matters raised in the study might be relevant to Christian English language educators and researchers in other contexts
THE LIFE OF DONALD MCGAVRAN: COMING OF AGE
No full textIn the mid-1970s, criticism of the Church Growth Movement graduallybegan to wane. Donald McGavran reduced his teaching load to half-time, although he continued to teach for another decade. McGavran andWin Arn continued teaming together on books and films, and even PeterWagner turned toward a focus on North American Church Growth. TheChurch Growth Movement came of age, and it would flourish throughoutthe remainder of the 1970s and into the 1980s
Paradigm Change in Pentateuchal Research
No full textThis volume collects papers originally presented at an international meeting held in March 2017. They compellingly demonstrate the necessity for a Paradigm Change in Pentateuchal Research from various angles. It is by now generally recognised that the old paradigm, classically formulated in Wellhausens Prolegomena zu einer Geschichte Israels , can no longer command a dominant position in the reconstruction of the genesis and structure of the Pentateuch. While the studies collected in this volume do not suggest that there is only one specific direction for the search of a new paradigm, they make clear that an important element for the furthering of the discussion is the use of empirical methods, in contradistinction to a dominance of subjective criteria and approaches developed in circumstances that are foreign to the cultural world of the ancient Near East. The authors of the studies represent diverse backgrounds not only in terms of geography, but especially in terms of professional specialization: Besides Biblical Studies, also the fields of Assyriology, Legal History, and Linguistics are represented. Some of the studies address methodological questions in an explicit and detailed way, while others are more focused on the analysis of specific texts. A majority of the studies convincingly demonstrate that most of the Pentateuch can be solidly rooted in the pre-exilic period.https://digitalcommons.biola.edu/faculty-books/1603/thumbnail.jp