
Embracing Prodigals
Overcoming Authoritative Religion by Embodying Jesus' Nurturing Grace
John Sanders(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 31. July 2020
154 pages
978-1-7252-6408-3 (ISBN)
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Do you wonder why some people you know hold theological and political views that blow your mind but they find quite reasonable? Today, Christians are at odds over how to understand the Bible, atonement, and salvation of non-Christians. They are also polarized over issues such as same-gender marriage, income inequality, and health care. Two social science models, Nurturant and Authoritative, explain this divide. Values are at the heart of our disagreements. Nurturants prize empathy and cooperation while Authoritatives cherish obedience to law and order. Each group has distinct core values and these lead them to embrace different theological, moral, and political views. This book explains the divide and makes the case that Jesus embodied the Nurturant way of life. He modeled empathy, grace, forgiveness, and care for those beyond his own tribe. The Nurturant and Authoritative approaches have competed for thousands of years but contemporary research shows that the Nurturant way of life produces better mental and spiritual health as well as superior communities in which to live.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
ISBN-13
978-1-7252-6408-3 (9781725264083)
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Overcoming Authoritative Religion by Embodying Jesus' Nurturing Grace
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Overcoming Authoritative Religion by Embodying Jesus' Nurturing Grace
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John Sanders is Professor of Religious Studies at Hendrix College. He is the author of several books including Theology in the Flesh (2016) and The God Who Risks (2007).
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Meet the Parents
- Chapter 2: The Nurturing Jesus
- Chapter 3: God is Love
- Chapter 4: Different Gods Create Us in Their Image
- Chapter 5: Grace and Why Some Just Don't Get It
- Chapter 6: For The Bible Tells Me So
- Chapter 7: Styles of Relating
- Chapter 8: In His Steps
- Chapter 9: Religious Politics
- Chapter 10: Homecoming
- Bibliography
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