Signs of Change: The Bible's Evolution of Divine Nonviolence - Couverture souple

Bartlett, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1666703729 ISBN 13 : 9781666703726

Editeur : Cascade Books, 2022

Synopsis

The Bible has many stories, but really there are only two. There is a story of violent humanity, and there is the story of a self-giving, nonviolent God. The question has been how to distinguish the two without creating a toxic dualism. Bartlett shows that the narratives in tension are not two opposed Testaments, even less two metaphysical principles, but the slow separating out of nonviolent revelation from the frame of violent meaning by which human beings have always signified themselves and their gods. In his prior, ground-laying book, Theology Beyond Metaphysics, Bartlett demonstrated the concept of semiotic change and how it emerges as the most appropriate way of understanding and affirming a relational shift in human and theological meaning. In this present work, he supplies a rich seam of biblical evidence with gripping essays on Old Testament books and their evolution of transformative signs and new meaning. Accounts of the life of Jesus and the teaching of Paul make the change exponential, bringing to definitive expression the inbreaking of the nonviolent divine. Signs of Change creates a theological masterstroke, showing step-by-step how semiotic evolution leads human existence to the truly saving knowledge of a nonviolent God.

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À propos de l'auteur

Born in 1946 and brought up in Portsmouth, England, Anthony Bartlett studied at Heythrop College, Oxford and London, and then in Rome. After resigning the Catholic priesthood, he ran a homeless shelter in London's East End. In 1993 he emigrated to the U.S. with his family, gaining his Ph.D. at Syracuse University in 1999. He has three children and four grandchildren, and with his wife, Linda, leads the Bethany Center for Nonviolent Theology and Spirituality.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cascade Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1666703729
• ISBN 13: 9781666703726
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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