The Kindness of God
1st Edition
Published on 19. April 2013
176 pages
978-1-84474-912-6 (ISBN)
Description
Let's be honest: there are gaps everywhere in life - the gap between who we are and who we would like to be; the gap between the Christianity we profess and the Christianity we practise; the gap between us and those we love; the gap between the world as it is and the world as it should be. We feel disconnected from God, from one another and from ourselves. How do we close those gaps? How is God working to make us whole? This book brings the gospel to bear on the gaps in our lives. Drawing on a highly unusual lifetime's experience living out the Christian faith in more than twenty countries, Graham Hooper shows how we can be made whole in the struggles and joys of everyday life - work and relationships, success and failure, service and weakness.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Nottingham
United Kingdom
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-84474-912-6 (9781844749126)
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Person
Graham is a senior executive with a global infrastructure company. Born in the UK, he began his career living in a tent in the Selous Game reserve in East Africa. He has gone on to work in some twenty countries, living for extended periods in Tanzania, Mauritius, Papua New Guinea, UAE, the UK and Australia. Midway through his career he studied theology at Trinity College, Bristol. He has served in a lay capacity in churches wherever his work has taken him. Graham is married with three children and eight grandchildren, but doesn't feel that old. He's currently working in the Middle East.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- PART 1: MISSION IN A TROUBLED WORLD
- 1 From Edinburgh, 1910, to Jos, 2012
- Mission and Western civilization
- The end of Christendom...but not of Christ!
- 2 Critical issues concerning the gospel and culture
- Civilization, mission and syncretism
- The source of knowledge
- 3 Mission, violence and suffering
- Mission and the cross
- Mission, conversion and culture
- The pathway to the other side
- 4 Translating the gospel for the globalized world of the twenty-first century
- Translating the message of the gospel
- Contextualization, Islam and the free market
- Reading the Bible in a globalized world
- PART 2: RELEASING THE MESSAGE OF THE BIBLE FOR A DIVIDED CHURCH AND A TROUBLED WORLD
- 5 The Bible and globalization: critical reflections on biblical hermeneutics
- Reading the Bible from the perspective of the victims
- Reading the Bible in the age of globalization
- Keeping to the script
- 6 The letter to the Romans and mission in a troubled, urban world
- The interpretation of Paul's letter to the Romans in Christian history
- Paradigm change in Pauline studies
- New light on ancient Rome
- Paul's gospel in the imperial city
- Not ashamed of the gospel
- Reading Romans in a globalized, urban world
- Reading Romans in a troubled world
- Conclusion: witness to - and in - the kindness of God
- Renouncing the idols, confessing the faith
- The cries of the oppressed
- What of the evangelicals?
- Return to Belhar
- On the fault line between Christianity and Islam
