The Uncertain Certainty
Snapshots in a Journey from 'Either-Or' to 'Both-And' in Christian Ministry
Published on 26. March 2015
254 pages
978-0-7188-4384-7 (ISBN)
Description
Many people in Christian ministry are tired of simplistic certainties; what they need is permission to live with uncertainty, with mystery, ambiguity, and paradox. Because we live in a world that is far removed from the modernist version of reality, with its rational, clinical, and superficial presentation of life, we need the courage and wisdom to embrace the presence of uncertainties in the midst of certainty. In this book, the author offers snapshots of a number of central Christian topics-God, the gospel, the church, salvation, ministry-inviting us to treat them as features of a landscape to explore rather than a set of propositional statements to sign up to. Each chapter-short enough to provoke interest and curiosity-will be a catalyst for deeper reflection and enquiry, inviting us to discover a new freedom in ministry as we embrace a more generous
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
James Clarke & Co Ltd
Illustrations
1 table, 1 diagram
File size
1,57 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7188-4384-7 (9780718843847)
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Graham Buxton
The Uncertain Certainty
Snapshots in a Journey from 'Either-Or' to 'Both-And' in Christian Ministry
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03/2015
Lutterworth Press
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Person
Graham Buxton is Director of the Graeme Clark Research Institute at Tabor Adelaide. He is the author of 'Dancing in the Dark' (2001) and 'Celebrating Life' (2007).
Content
Foreword by John R. Franke
Acknowledgments
Introduction "We also know there are known unknowns"
Chapter 1 "Where is the Life we have lost in living?"
Chapter 2 "The unexamined life is not worth living"
Chapter 3 "Transcendent mystery and glorious immediacy"
Chapter 4 "We have to become People of the Story"
Chapter 5 "A hell of a problem"
Chapter 6 "The wayfaring people of God"
Chapter 7 "A communion corresponding to the Trinity"
Chapter 8 "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense"
Chapter 9 "I am a bishop for you, I am a Christian with you"
Chapter 10 "What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"
Chapter 11 "A wager on transcendence"
Chapter 12 "Earth's crammed with heaven"
Chapter 13 "For anything to be real it must be local"
Chapter 14 "Now I know in part, then I shall know fully"
Bibliography
Names Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction "We also know there are known unknowns"
Chapter 1 "Where is the Life we have lost in living?"
Chapter 2 "The unexamined life is not worth living"
Chapter 3 "Transcendent mystery and glorious immediacy"
Chapter 4 "We have to become People of the Story"
Chapter 5 "A hell of a problem"
Chapter 6 "The wayfaring people of God"
Chapter 7 "A communion corresponding to the Trinity"
Chapter 8 "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense"
Chapter 9 "I am a bishop for you, I am a Christian with you"
Chapter 10 "What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"
Chapter 11 "A wager on transcendence"
Chapter 12 "Earth's crammed with heaven"
Chapter 13 "For anything to be real it must be local"
Chapter 14 "Now I know in part, then I shall know fully"
Bibliography
Names Index
