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ISBN: 0521859921 9780521859929 9780511720192 9780521051040 0521051045 051172019X Year: 2006 Volume: 14 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
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If people claim to speak for God, what enables us to know when to credit or discredit the claim? This book analyses the criteria for discernment of prophetic authenticity in the Old Testament, and for discernment of apostolic authenticity in the New Testament; and also considers their validity and viability in a contemporary context. After explaining the biblical concept of prophetic and apostolic speech on God's behalf, Moberly offers close readings of the biblical text so as to bring to life the distinctive voices, especially those of Jeremiah and St Paul, which speak of critical discernment. He addresses contemporary difficulties with the whole idea that humans might speak for God and analyses the nature of authentic spirituality. Throughout the discussion the premise is that the biblical treatment of discernment illuminates the fundamental human issue of the need to know who may be trusted and why.
230*7 --- Recente, hedendaagse theologische discussies --- 230*7 Recente, hedendaagse theologische discussies --- Discernment (Christian theology) --- Prophecy --- Prophecy (Christianity) --- Christian life --- Christianity --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Biblia --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Christianity.
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ISBN: 1009269704 1009269690 1009269682 1009269712 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press,
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If God exists and is perfectly good, God tries to guide people. A twofold question then arises: How does God (try to) guide people, and to what end? Problems of divine guidance for humans, according to this volume, are real and serious, but they are manageable once we clarify the kind of God at issue. According to the volume's main thesis, if God has a perfect moral character accompanied by certain redemptive purposes for humans, the puzzling nature of divine guidance for them need not preclude the reality of such guidance. It is, this volume contends, a live option for God to guide or lead humans toward goodness, even if the leading is not fully explainable by humans. The voluntary moral attraction of cooperative humans by divine goodness is central to divine guidance, and it can illuminate the kind of evidence to be expected from God.
Discernment (Christian theology) --- God (Christianity) --- Cognitive dissonance --- Presence of God. --- Will. --- Religious aspects. --- God --- Schechinah --- Shechina --- Shechinah --- Shekhinah --- Shekina --- Shekinah --- Dissonance (Psychology) --- Change (Psychology) --- Cognition --- Motivation (Psychology) --- Selectivity (Psychology) --- Will --- Christian life --- Presence --- Omnipresence
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