Sacrifice unveiled: the true meaning of Christian sacrifice
This book offers a new understanding of sacrifice as a response to love and an entering into the self-giving life of God.Most ideas of sacrifice, even specifically Christian ideas, as we saw in the Reformation controversies, have something to do with deprivation or destruction. But this is not authe...
| Riepilogo: | This book offers a new understanding of sacrifice as a response to love and an entering into the self-giving life of God.Most ideas of sacrifice, even specifically Christian ideas, as we saw in the Reformation controversies, have something to do with deprivation or destruction. But this is not authentic Christian sacrifice. Authentic Christian sacrifice, and ultimately all true sacrifice (whether one is conscious of it or not) begins with the self-offering of the Father in the gift-sending of the Son, continues with the loving 'response' of the Son, in his humanity, and in the Spirit, to the Father and for us, and finally, begins to become real in our world when human beings, in the power of the same Spirit that was in Jesus, respond to love with love, and thus begin to enter into that perfectly loving, totally self-giving relationship that is the life of the triune God.The origins of this are in the Hebrew Bible, its revelatory high-points in Jesus and Paul, and its working out in the life of the C |
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| Descrizione del documento: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes T & T Clark is a Continuum imprint, www.continuumbooks.com |
| Descrizione fisica: | XV, 260 S., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-0-567-03420-5 0-567-03420-8 978-0-567-03421-2 0-567-03421-6 |
