The Heart Set Free: Sin and Redemption in the Gospels, Augustine, Dante, and Flannery O'Connor - Softcover

Paffenroth, Kim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826416136 ISBN 13: 9780826416131

Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2005

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"Kim Paffenroths little gem of a book sparkles with insight into nearly everything that matters, whether for ill or for good*lust and love, ambition, and humility, self-deceit and self-surrender, revenge, and reconciliation. For Christians and others wanting to deepen their spiritual life, it provides a fine introductory guide to the parables of Jesus, St. Augustines Confessions, Dantes Divine Comedy, and Flannery OConnors fiction." -Ralph C. Wood, University Professor of Theology and Literature, Baylor University "Kim Paffenroth s little gem of a book sparkles with insight into nearly everything that matters, whether for ill or for good*lust and love, ambition, and humility, self-deceit and self-surrender, revenge, and reconciliation. For Christians and others wanting to deepen their spiritual life, it provides a fine introductory guide to the parables of Jesus, St. Augustine s Confessions, Dante s Divine Comedy, and Flannery O Connor s fiction." -Ralph C. Wood, University Professor of Theology and Literature, Baylor University "The Heart Set Free is a splendid book, a fine companion volume to Kim Paffenroth's recent In Praise of Wisdom. With loving attentiveness and scholarly collegiality, he gleans wisdom from four Christian 'classics': the Gospels, Augustine's Confessions, Dante's Commedia, and the stories of Flannery O'Connor. Each chapter deepened my appreciation and understanding of these works. Most importantly, this book will help its reader to find ways to liive out forgiveness, humility, love, and radical grace celebrated in each of these classics." Paul J. Contino, Associate Professor of Great Books, Pepperdine University--Sanford Lakoff 'Each chapter of The Heart Set Free aims at producing such wisdom in its readers, and in this aim, Paffenroth may number himself in the company of the evangelists, Augustine, Dante, and O'Connor.' Scott Huelin, Valparaiso University, Christianity and Literature, Vol 55, No. 4, 2006

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This work examines four of the greatest theological and literary minds of the Christian tradition - Jesus, Augustine, Dante, and Flannery O'Connor - in a way that makes their prophetic and poetic challenge to our sinfulness accessible and relevant to the modern Christian. These thinkers offer timeless criticisms of four of the greatest and most flawed societies of all time - Israel, Rome, Medieval Europe, and America - and they do so in a way that raises their critiques out of the particular historical context and render them relevant today. To show this current relevance, the reader is given a twofold analysis of each figure. The author first focuses on two sins that they believe pervade and degrade society and the individuals in it, and then the two actions that they offer as the shocking, redemptive alternatives. The second half of each chapter guides readers through serious study, reflection, and prayer on three specific texts.. This unique approach demonstrates how these sins are still a part of our lives today, and how their alternatives can become a part of our lives through analysis, introspection, and prayer. All of these thinkers connect social and political ills with much deeper theological and anthropological analysis, so that their conclusions cannot be discounted as 'signs of the times', or the way people thought 'back then' about a particular problem (e.g. war, racism, corruption, etc.) that is now supposedly past: if their descriptions of the sickness in human nature were ever accurate, then they are always accurate and relevant, and demand our attention as the profound calls for personal and societal introspection and change that they really are. By offering the reader serious analysis as well as practical application, these calls for personal devotion and change are accessible to the modern Christian, so that intellectually as well as spiritually, the redemptive truth of these writings can begin to set them free, as well as encouraging them to pursue further texts on the subject.

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• Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0826416136
• ISBN 13: 9780826416131
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192