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Signs of Life

By: Gerd Theissen
Signs of Life
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ISBN: 9780334027577
Format: Hardcover
Published: January 1998

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Preface
Anger as a Sign of Life: or Abraham's intercessions for Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 18.16-33)p. 1
God's Terrible Experiment: Abraham on Mount Moriah (Genesis 22.1-18)p. 6
The Father's Longing for Sons: Isaac's blessing for shepherds and hunters (Genesis 25.19-34; 27.1-45)p. 16
I Am Who I Am: Signs of life in God between the burning bush and dogmas (Exodus 3.1-15)p. 27
The Nightmare of Mobbing: And the descendants of the perpetrators (Psalm 17)p. 38
The Open Heaven: And the poetry of the holy (Psalm 85)p. 44
'Before the Mountains Came into Being ...': Farewell to a great scientist (Psalm 90.1-6)p. 48
Poems as Signs of Life: Mourning for a life between sickness and poetry (Psalm 139)p. 55
Signs of Life from God: The testimony of Israel in the face of the Holocaust (Isaiah 44.6-8)p. 64
The World as Absurd Theatre: Suffering as a school of resistance (Isaiah 50.4-9)p. 74
Signs of Life for the Church: Protestantism between the Feast of the Reformation and Thoughts on Kristallnacht (Isaiah 62.6-7, 10-12)p. 82
Making Reality a Parable: And God's new righteousness (Matthew 20.1-16)p. 92
The Vicarious Death of Jesus: Interpreted for evangelical and modern Christians (Mark 10.42-45)p. 105
'Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews': A Good Friday meditation on Christianity and Judaism (Mark 15.24-27)p. 110
Waiting for God in the Wilderness of Life: An Advent sermon (Luke 3.1-14)p. 114
An Invitation to the Feast of Life: Or the decision between two kinds of happiness (Luke 14.16-24)p. 124
Mustardseed Faith: A sermon for good people who have stopped believing (Luke 17.5-6/Mark 11.22-24)p. 129
Honest Zacchaeus: A plea for the rehabilitation of a senior tax collector (Luke 19.1-10)p. 137
I Am Who I Am: A sign of life in life (John 1.19-23)p. 146
Is Christian Faith Necessarily Intolerant?: A sermon on the first article of the Theological Declaration of Barmen (John 14.6)p. 154
The Weaker Members as the Strength of the Body of Christ: A sign of life from the Holy Spirit (I Corinthians 12.12-31)p. 162
'My Strength is Made Perfect in Weakness': A sermon for a child and for church elders (II Corinthians 12.1-10)p. 172
Love as a Sign of Life: On the imperfection of the perfect bond (Colossians 3.12-15)p. 179
Level-headedness as a Sign of Love: On the courage to marry (II Timothy 1.7)p. 186
The Need to Grow in Faith: Why the Letter to the Hebrews rejects a second repentance (Hebrews 6.9-12)p. 193
Trust: The hidden presence of God in our life (Hebrews 10.35)p. 198
Heaven Perplexed: And the key to the Book of Life (Revelation 5.1-10)p. 204
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