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Slices of Life
eBook - The Drama of God's Grace in Poem and Portrait
ISBN/EAN: 9781630879860
Umbreit-Nr.: 221960
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 96 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 17.02.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- The poems in this collection are offered along two related lines. In the first part of the book the poems and etchings coalesce to form what the author calls a family portrait of grace and faith, representing the fruit of a process of biblical study and reflection, which will be of interest to both the lay person and pastor in his or her preparations for teaching and preaching. In the second section of the book the author provides a variety of poems disclosing the dynamics of life in its multiplicity of patterns and expressions. Together the two sections seek to express the grace of God in the commonalities of life.
- Kurztext
- In this work, Houghtby-Haddon takes a new look at an old text, using a theory of the Social Imagination as an exegetical guide. In her exploration of the Bent-Over Woman story in Luke 13:10-17, Houghtby-Haddon uncovers clues suggesting that this story is a key interpretive text for seeing Luke's social vision for his community at work. Exploring mythic, social, communal, and cultural elements beneath the surface of the story, Houghtby-Haddon suggests that the Bent-Over Woman is the embodiment of Jesus' claim in the synagogue in Nazareth that &quote;today, these Scriptures are fulfilled in your hearing&quote; (Luke 4:16-21), and that the woman prefigures the post-Pentecost community that will gather in Jesus' name. The author concludes by taking the theory from the Gospel of Luke to the streets to see how a contemporary neighborhood group might use the Social Imagination model--and the new reading of the story of the Bent-Over Woman--to imagine a twenty-first-century social vision for its own community: a vision that more fully embodies the just community Jesus proclaims in Nazareth.
- Autorenportrait
- Albert J.D. Walsh is pastor of Heidelberg United Church of Christ in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. He is the author of<i>Reflections on Death</i> and<i>Grief and United and Uniting</i>.<br><br> Patrick Lee Walsh is a freelance artist specializing in both landscapes and abstract forms. Patrick studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and has exhibited his abstract paintings with the prestigious National Academy of Design Museum in New York City.