Human Achievement and Divine Vocation in the Message of Paul
Human Achievement and Divine Vocation in the Message of Paul

Author: William A. Beardslee

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2009-10-01

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1608990249

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William A. Beardslee was born in 1916 at Holland, Michigan. He was educated at Harvard, New Brunswick Theological Seminary, where he obtained a BD in 1941, and at Union Theological Seminary, where he studied on a part-time basis while he was in the ministry. He became a PhD of the University of Chicago in 1951. Dr. Beardslee was a minister of the Reformed Church in America. He was Assistant Professor of Bible (1947-1952) and Associate Professor of Bible (1956-1956) at Emory University. He has written a number of articles and reviews and served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Bible and Religion. He authored (with E. H. Rece) of Reading the Bible: A Guide.

Doing God's Business
Doing God's Business

Author: R. Paul Stevens

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2006-08-10

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0802833985

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Stevens explores the potential of business as both a location for practicing everyday spiritual disciplines and a source of creativity and deeper relationship with God. This volume should encourage and challenge businesspersons in all segments of the marketplace to more faithfully integrate their faith and work lives.

Transforming Daily Work into a Divine Vocation
Transforming Daily Work into a Divine Vocation

Author: Robert Banks

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-12-12

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1666723401

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During the last few decades there has been an increasing interest in the connection between our faith and our work, along with the growth of resources and organizations to bring the two into dialogue. Despite this, most Christians continue to feel that their daily work is less valuable than that of pastors, missionaries, or full-time workers in a religious organization. In a fresh and practical way, this book sets out the biblical, historical, and theological grounds for challenging this commonly felt view. It includes a range of engaging personal case studies that demonstrate the profound effect integrating one's work up into one's faith can have--relationally, institutionally, and societally as well as evangelistically, pastorally, and missionally. Attention is also given to the increasingly addictive, fragmented, and precarious nature of work today, and to how we can spiritually find our way to discerning and expressing our unique God-given vocation. The final section of the book considers whether any of our work has eternal value, and retells a compelling parable of what this might look like.

The Bible and the Business of Life
The Bible and the Business of Life

Author: Simon Carey Holt

Publisher: ATF Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9781920691240

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The Bible and the Business of Life is an anthology of essays by a variety of authors celebrating the 65th birthday of Robert Banks Robert. Banks was an Baptist who worked and taught in the USA, in Pasadena and in Melbourne.

Paul's Eschatological Anthropology
Paul's Eschatological Anthropology

Author: Sarah Harding

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2016-02-01

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 1506406068

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In this study, Sarah Harding examines Paul’s anthropology from the perspective of eschatology, concluding that the apostle’s view of humans is a function of his belief that the cosmos evolves through distinct aeons in progress toward its telos. Although scholars have frequently assumed that Paul’s anthropological utterances are arbitrary, inconsistent, or dependent upon parallel views extant in the first-century world, Harding shows that these assumptions only arise when Paul’s anthropology is considered apart from its eschatological context. That context includes the temporal distinction of the old aeon, the new aeon, and the significant overlap of aeons in which those “in Christ” dwell, as well as a spatial dimension that comprises the cosmos and the powers that dominate it (especially sin and the Holy Spirit). These eschatological dimensions determine the value Paul attaches to any particular anthropological “aspect.” Harding examines the cosmological power dominant in each aeon and the structures through which, in Paul’s view, these influence human beings, examining texts in which Paul discusses nous, kardia, and sōma in each aeon.