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The Practice of Story: Suffering and the Possibilities of Redemption
Mindy Makant
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Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HRCG; HRCM; HRCX4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 151 x 27. Weight in Grams: 482.
The grammar of Christian redemption cannot live solely in the future tense. Despite confidence about the effects of Jesus' resurrection in the present, Christians are tempted to depict salvation as a future accomplishment, rather than a present reality. No doubt this failing is well founded, for most Christians know all too well that the power of the past - particularly past suffering - shapes the present.
But as Mindy Makant argues in The Practice of Story: Suffering and the Possibilities of Redemption, such reserve may cede too much to suffering and grant too little to redemption. Makant admits ... Read more
The grammar of Christian redemption cannot live solely in the future tense. Despite confidence about the effects of Jesus' resurrection in the present, Christians are tempted to depict salvation as a future accomplishment, rather than a present reality. No doubt this failing is well founded, for most Christians know all too well that the power of the past - particularly past suffering - shapes the present.
But as Mindy Makant argues in The Practice of Story: Suffering and the Possibilities of Redemption, such reserve may cede too much to suffering and grant too little to redemption. Makant admits ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
479 g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Waco, United States
ISBN
9781481300704
SKU
V9781481300704
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