Freedom & Imagination: Trusting Christ in an Age of Bad Faith - Couverture souple

Giere, S. D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 150648235X ISBN 13 : 9781506482354

Editeur : Fortress Press,U.S., 2023

Synopsis

We suffer today from a crisis not of confidence, but of trust. With the constant barrage of lies, untruths, and alternative facts, all words are dubious, all deeds are debatable, and all motives are suspect. To tell the truth in such a world requires fortitude. To believe the truth demands even more. In Freedom and Imagination, S. D. Giere recovers the idea of faith as trust and of faith in Christ as trusting what God has done through him. Tending to faith is like tending to the heart and, thereby, the health of the whole. By trusting Christ, one is free to live without the fear of sin and death, free to live in love toward the friend, the neighbor, and even the enemy. Faith reveals the cosmos as it is: a world reconciled to the Triune God. Yet, that freedom frequently conflicts with experience. Only faith can bend the imagination towards seeing the world in and through Christ. Freedom and Imagination recovers faith as the theological heart of the human being's participation in the life of God, and imagination as faith's interpretive lens. Three areas of ministry and life are explored through the imagination of faith: biblical interpretation, proclamation, and Christian freedom.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

S. D. Giere is professor of biblical interpretation at Wartburg Theological Seminary. An Old Testament scholar by training, he is the author of A New Glimpse of Day One: Intertextuality, History of Interpretation, and Genesis 1.1-5 (2009).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fortress Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 150648235X
• ISBN 13: 9781506482354
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 149
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