The Fellowship of the Secret: The key to understanding the context of the Church within divine providence - Couverture souple

Barker, Richard L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1523710209 ISBN 13 : 9781523710201

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

The title is derived from a little observed passage of St Paul (Eph3:8-11). That forms the focal point for what is effectively a reconstituted biblical schema. Radical as it appears, it demonstrably “works” by creating an unprecedented level of scriptural coherence: the teaching of Christ in the gospels is reconciled with the writers of the epistles who in turn accord with each other. As for the disparity between Old Testament prophecy and the outworking of the gospel/church age, that has also been resolved (or rather explained), not by hyper-allegorising or “spiritualising” as at present but by grasping what Paul actually meant by “the fellowship pertaining to the secret (plan) hidden in God through the ages”. When that statement is understood so is his typically glossed references in Romans chapter 11 concerning “salvation” being brought to the Gentiles “as a result of Jewish failure” (vv11,12 15) . Thus are Israel and the Church pereived in their contexts - as redeemed communities within a vastly broader Plan of loving goodness that God has in store for the beings He has made in His own image. That will be fulfilled when “the sons of God are revealed” and all redeemable creation is “delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God (cf. Rom8:21-23 Greek). The author indicates that his new understanding was arrived at as a result of a "spiritual encounter" and that the book also contains a prophetic message for the churches.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

I am a recently retired London bus driver, previously a civil servant, not a "serious theologian" or church historian, yet that is the genre of my book. It arose from a spiritual experience I encountered a few summers ago which I have to share with others. As the subtitle of the book suggests I believe it provides the key that unlocks the mystery of Israel and the Church's context within God's broader reconciliatory plans for the world and its people. Actually it was the apostle Paul who provided such a key in the mid-first century but no one has really grasped what he was saying in Eph3:8-11 and Romans 11:11,12 and 15 - myself included until that life changing experience

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1523710209
• ISBN 13: 9781523710201
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 306
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg