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Transformed Judgement: Toward a Trinitarian Account of the Moral Life

Jones, L. Gregory

Religion & Spirituality

Univ of Notre Dame Pr

This book is a collection of forty-four columns by L. Gregory Jones that originally appeared in The Christian Century. These writings focus on Christian journeying with God. Three or four questions follow each essay, which invite both conversation and further biblical / spiritual reflection and make the material useful for a group study. 
The book is divided into five parts that address: 
<li>Becoming Christians </li>
<li>Friends and Mentors </li>
<li>Life-Giving Virtues </li>
<li>Facing Challenges </li>
<li>A Hopeful Future</li>

Everyday Matters: Intersections of Life and Faith

Christian Books & Bibles

ABINGDON PRESS *

Providing an accessible and comprehensive treatment of grace, the essays in this volume honor Thomas A. Langford, Provost Emeritus of Duke University and retired William Kellon Quick Professor of Theology and Methodist Studies at Duke Divinity School. Biblical essays discuss grace from the Reformation through Wesley into today. Theological essays exemplify the importance of grace for several Christian doctrines. A concluding section engages several cultural issues from the viewpoint of grace. Contributors include: C. Clifton Black, Dennis M. Campbell, Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Stanley Hauerwas, Richard P. Heitzenrater, Willie James Jennings, L. Gregory Jones, Robert K. Johnston, Philip D. Kenneson, James C. Logan, Roland Murphy, O. Carm., Philip A. Rolinck, Jean Miller Schmidt, D. Moody Smith, David Steinmetz, and Jonathan R. Wilson.

Grace Upon Grace: Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Langford

Wilson, Jonathan

Johnston, Robert

Are you too busy for God? It sounds sacrilegious, but that’s how many of us feel. In this study, authors Susan Pendleton Jones and L. Gregory Jones help us examine our busy lives and learn how to be present with ourselves, with each other, and with God. Topics include: <ul>
<li>Listening to the Right Voices</li> <li>Keeping Time</li> <li>Self-Awareness</li> <li>Listening Alone, Listening Together</li>
</ul>
As part of the study, you will read from this study &amp; reflection guide, considering the ideas presented and recording your thoughts and responses. Then, in weekly group meetings, you will share your thoughts and hear the insights of others. Each meeting will include a video exploring the topic of attentiveness through interviews, mini-documentaries, personal testimonies, dramatic readings, and Scripture. For more information, go to www.livingthegoodlifetogether.com.

Living the Good Life Together - Attentiveness Study & Reflection Guide: Being Present

Jones, Susan Pendleton

Why is it so hard to forgive? Christians talk a lot about forgiveness, but our actions don’t always measure up to our words. In this study, authors Susan Pendleton Jones and L. Gregory Jones help us face that question honestly and, together, work toward embodying God’s gracious forgiveness of us. Topics include: <ul>
<li>The Heart of Christian Living</li> <li>Crafting Communities of Forgiveness</li> <li>The Dance of Forgiveness</li> <li>Challenges to Forgiveness</li>
</ul>
As part of the study, you will read from this study &amp; reflection guide, considering the ideas presented and recording your thoughts and responses. Then, in weekly group meetings, you will share your thoughts and hear the insights of others. Each meeting will include a video exploring the topic of forgiveness through interviews, mini-documentaries, personal testimonies, dramatic readings, and Scripture. For more information, go to www.livingthegoodlifetogether.com.

Living the Good Life Together - Forgiveness Study & Reflection Guide: Letting Go

What is the relevance of the Bible to contemporary ethical issues? The authors contend that the main vocation of Christians is to embody the Scriptures in their lives. Therefore, we need to develop the moral and theological judgment that enables us to discern biblical stands on modern questions of ethics. To do so, the authors show how this must be done in the context of vital relationships - a sense of Christian community - that impact society.

Reading in Communion: Scripture and Ethics in Christian Life

Fowl, Stephen E.

Eerdmans Pub.Co.

A topic unjustly neglected in contemporary theology, forgiveness is often taken to be either too easy or too difficult. On the one hand is the conception of forgiveness that views it mainly as a move made for the well-being of the forgiver. On the other hand, forgiveness is sometimes made too difficult by suggestions that violence is the only effective force for responding to injustice. In this exciting and innovative book, L. Gregory Jones argues that neither of these extreme views is appropriate and shows how practices of Christian forgiveness are richer and more comprehensive than often thought. Forgiveness, says Jones, is a way of life that carries with it distinctive concepts of love, community, confession, power, repentance, justice, punishment, remembrance, and forgetfulness. In Part 1 of Embodying Forgiveness Jones first recounts Dietrich Bonhoeffer's own struggle against the temptation to make forgiveness either too easy or too difficult in his thought and, even more, in his life and death at the hands of the Nazis. Jones then considers each of these temptations, focusing on the problem of "therapeutic" forgiveness and then forgiveness's "eclipse" by violence. Part 2 shows why a trinitarian identification of God is crucial for an adequate account of forgiveness. In Part 3 Jones describes forgiveness as a craft and analyzes the difficulty of loving enemies. He deals particularly with problems of disparities in power, impenitent offenders, and the relations between forgiveness, accountability, and punishment. The book concludes with a discussion of the possibility of certain "unforgiveable" situations. Developing a strong theological perspective on forgiveness throughout, Jones draws on films and a wide variety of literature as well as on Scripture and theological texts. In so doing, he develops a rich and comprehensive exploration of what it truly means to embody Christian forgiveness.

Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Christians are of two minds about excellence. We commend excellent teaching, seek out excellent health care, and celebrate excellence in the arts. When a Christian life or congregation is described as excellent, however, we suspect that ambition or success may be getting the better of us. Resurrecting Excellence aims to rekindle and encourage among Christian leaders an unselfish ambition for the gospel that shuns both competition and mediocrity and rightly focuses on the beauty, power, and excellence of living as faithful disciples of the crucified and risen Christ. Drawing on ancient traditions and on contemporary voices, L. Gregory Jones and Kevin R. Armstrong offer both a theology of excellence and compelling portraits of pastors, lay leaders, and congregations that embody "a more excellent way."

Resurrecting Excellence: Shaping Faithful Christian Ministry (Pulpit & Pew (P&P))

Armstrong, Kevin R.

The practice of forgiveness is often taken to be either too easy or too difficult. On the one hand, forgiveness is sometimes made too easy by today's therapeutic culture, which views forgiveness mainly as a means for making ourselves and others feel better. On the other hand, forgiveness is sometimes taken to be too difficult by those who believe that violence is the only effective force for responding to injustice. This engaging volume by L. Gregory Jones argues that neither of these extreme views is appropriate and offers, to society as a whole, an effective and biblically centered exploration of what it truly means to embody Christian forgiveness.

Christians are supposed to forgive others as we've been forgiven. But hearing the call to forgive is different from knowing how to practice forgiveness at home and in the world. Forgiveness is about more than the isolated acts and words of individuals. To forgive and be forgiven, we need communal practices and disciplines for a way of life that makes for peace. Greg Jones and Célestin Musekura describe how churches and communities can cultivate the habits that make forgiveness possible on a daily basis. Following the Rwandan genocide, Musekura lost his father and other family members to revenge killings. But then he heard God tell him to forgive the killers. The healing power of forgiveness in his own life inspired him to work for forgiveness and reconciliation across Africa. Jones, author of Embodying Forgiveness, interacts with Musekura's story to show how people can practice forgiveness not only in dramatic situations like genocide but also in everyday circumstances of marriage, family and congregational life. Together they demonstrate that forgiving and being forgiven are mutually reciprocating practices that lead to transformation and healing.

Forgiving As We've Been Forgiven: Community Practices for Making Peace (Resources for Reconciliation)

Musekura, Célestin

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Transformed Judgement: Toward a Trinitarian Account of the Moral Life

Everyday Matters: Intersections of Life and Faith

Grace Upon Grace: Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Langford

Living the Good Life Together - Attentiveness Study & Reflection Guide: Being Present

Living the Good Life Together - Forgiveness Study & Reflection Guide: Letting Go

Reading in Communion: Scripture and Ethics in Christian Life

Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis

Resurrecting Excellence: Shaping Faithful Christian Ministry (Pulpit & Pew (P&P))

Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis

Forgiving As We've Been Forgiven: Community Practices for Making Peace (Resources for Reconciliation)