All are alive to God: Paul Fiddes and the ministry of the departed saints
Paul Fiddes has offered a revisionary retrieval of the intercession of the saints, proposing that the prayers of the dead retain their efficacy via the memory of God. But this essay argues that the traditional belief in the persisting subjectivity and agency of the departed is more faithful to the b...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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Perspectives in religious studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Pages: 53-68 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Fiddes, Paul S. 1947-
/ Baptists
/ Communion of saints
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| IxTheo Classification: | KCD Hagiography; saints KDG Free church |
| Summary: | Paul Fiddes has offered a revisionary retrieval of the intercession of the saints, proposing that the prayers of the dead retain their efficacy via the memory of God. But this essay argues that the traditional belief in the persisting subjectivity and agency of the departed is more faithful to the biblical witness, is implicated by the widespread phenomenon of spontaneous sensory experiences of the deceased, and coheres more fully with Fiddes’s rich vision of human participation in the Trinity. Like Fiddes, the author invites Baptists to consider praying with the saints who, though absent from the body, are at home with the Lord |
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| ISSN: | 0093-531X |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Covenant and Participation (2017)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Perspectives in religious studies
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