Facing Rejection : Responses in the New Testament Writings

William Loader

ISBN 13: 9798385227921

Verlag: Wipf & Stock Publishers Jun 2025, 2025

Beschreibung

Neuware - How do you deal with disappointment For instance, how do you feel when you offer something you cherish and you want others to cherish, and they reject your offer How do you cope with someone rejecting your view How do you cope with dissent.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798385227921

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Facing Rejection : Responses in the New Testament Writings
• Verlag: Wipf & Stock Publishers Jun 2025
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798385227921
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 216B x 140 H x 6 T Millimeter Breite: 216 mm, Höhe: 140 mm, Tiefe: 6 mm
• Gewicht: 159 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

How do you deal with disappointment? For instance, how do you feel when you offer something you cherish and you want others to cherish, and they reject your offer? How do you cope with someone rejecting your view? How do you cope with dissent? People's responses vary. They may range from "I hate you! Why don't you love me?!" to disparagement and denigration. At worst, you may embrace the hatred that generates violence and war. At best, you may engage with the other to understand and accept difference and embrace diversity with respect. New Testament authors reflect various ways of dealing with the disappointment which arose when the early members of the Jesus movement proclaimed good news only to be met with rejection. This book explores these reactions and also how they came to terms with the experience of rejection at the heart of their faith, Jesus' crucifixion. It then turns to the theme's upside and reflects on how acceptance and love, too, can be hard to take, and how from the beginning people found ways of keeping it at bay.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

William (Bill) Loader is Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, and a Minister of the Uniting Church in Australia. He is the author of major research monographs on the Christology of Hebrews and the Gospel according to John, Jesus's attitude towards the Law as portrayed in the Gospels, a series of volumes on attitudes towards sexuality in early Jewish and Christian literature, and extensive online resources accessible through his home page at Murdoch University.