Author: Richard Alan Ruof
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1410735834
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The poems in this book depict the conflict between the secular-commercial and inner-spiritual views of life. In many poems the spiritual world interrupts the daily round of life flowing into consciousness, bringing harmony and an awe of the divine. Other times the poems portray lawlessness and distortion that make human life grotesque. Rather than teaching lessons, the poems describe how modern society has lost touch with spiritual truths. As an obsession with the material and secular way grows, a beautiful harmony yields to conflict; the divine and profane vie for attention. Only a renewal of traditional faith restores the spiritual. Poetrys rhythms relay the inner sights. The reader hears the words in his or her own voice, suddenly glimpsing the spiritual world, which departs the scene having stirred the inner experience that often in modern life is fading. The spiritual is ageless. But the material quickly dissolves exacting a toll upon the age that surrenders the eternal dimension.
Songs of the Lesser Servants
Author: Richard Alan Ruof
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1410735834
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The poems in this book depict the conflict between the secular-commercial and inner-spiritual views of life. In many poems the spiritual world interrupts the daily round of life flowing into consciousness, bringing harmony and an awe of the divine. Other times the poems portray lawlessness and distortion that make human life grotesque. Rather than teaching lessons, the poems describe how modern society has lost touch with spiritual truths. As an obsession with the material and secular way grows, a beautiful harmony yields to conflict; the divine and profane vie for attention. Only a renewal of traditional faith restores the spiritual. Poetrys rhythms relay the inner sights. The reader hears the words in his or her own voice, suddenly glimpsing the spiritual world, which departs the scene having stirred the inner experience that often in modern life is fading. The spiritual is ageless. But the material quickly dissolves exacting a toll upon the age that surrenders the eternal dimension.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1410735834
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The poems in this book depict the conflict between the secular-commercial and inner-spiritual views of life. In many poems the spiritual world interrupts the daily round of life flowing into consciousness, bringing harmony and an awe of the divine. Other times the poems portray lawlessness and distortion that make human life grotesque. Rather than teaching lessons, the poems describe how modern society has lost touch with spiritual truths. As an obsession with the material and secular way grows, a beautiful harmony yields to conflict; the divine and profane vie for attention. Only a renewal of traditional faith restores the spiritual. Poetrys rhythms relay the inner sights. The reader hears the words in his or her own voice, suddenly glimpsing the spiritual world, which departs the scene having stirred the inner experience that often in modern life is fading. The spiritual is ageless. But the material quickly dissolves exacting a toll upon the age that surrenders the eternal dimension.
The Servant Songs
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Languages : en
Pages : 33
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Languages : en
Pages : 33
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The Servant Song
Author: Richard Gillard
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Category : Choirs (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Category : Choirs (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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A New Song on the Hiring of Servants
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Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Languages : en
Pages : 2
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The Suffering Servant in Deutero-Isaiah
Author: Christopher R. North
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1597520977
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1597520977
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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Songs of the Servant
Author: Henri Blocher
Publisher: IVP Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Prophet Isaiah brings messages of hope through the last of four biblical poems known as the 'Servant Songs'. Blocher explores the message delivered in these poems.
Publisher: IVP Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Prophet Isaiah brings messages of hope through the last of four biblical poems known as the 'Servant Songs'. Blocher explores the message delivered in these poems.
Isaiah 53 in the Light of Homecoming After Exile
Author: Fredrik Hägglund
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161497735
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In this study, Fredrik Hagglund presents an interpretation based on a hypothesis that conflicts emerged between the people in the land of Israel and those who returned from exile. He analyzes these conflicts with the help of contemporary refugee studies, other texts of the Old Testament, and also relevant passages in Isa 40-55. At the end of the exile, there was hope that the deported people would return to Israel, that it would be rebuilt, and that Jerusalem would again flourish. This hope is most clearly expressed in Isa 40:1-52:10. However, as time went by, there was a realization that the envisaged glorious return was in reality a rather limited return, and the joy of receiving those who returned had turned into conflicts, not least regarding the possession of land and the availability of places to live. In this situation, someone probably reflected on the message of Isa 40:1-52:10 and sought to understand what had gone wrong. Isa 53 was then inserted as an explanation of how the people in the land of Israel, i.e. the we, should have received those who returned, i.e. the servant. If this embrace had taken place, Mother Zion would have rejoiced, as described in Isa 54. Instead of these pictures painted for us in Isa 53 and 54, we encounter the reality of the conflicts described in Isa 56-66.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161497735
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In this study, Fredrik Hagglund presents an interpretation based on a hypothesis that conflicts emerged between the people in the land of Israel and those who returned from exile. He analyzes these conflicts with the help of contemporary refugee studies, other texts of the Old Testament, and also relevant passages in Isa 40-55. At the end of the exile, there was hope that the deported people would return to Israel, that it would be rebuilt, and that Jerusalem would again flourish. This hope is most clearly expressed in Isa 40:1-52:10. However, as time went by, there was a realization that the envisaged glorious return was in reality a rather limited return, and the joy of receiving those who returned had turned into conflicts, not least regarding the possession of land and the availability of places to live. In this situation, someone probably reflected on the message of Isa 40:1-52:10 and sought to understand what had gone wrong. Isa 53 was then inserted as an explanation of how the people in the land of Israel, i.e. the we, should have received those who returned, i.e. the servant. If this embrace had taken place, Mother Zion would have rejoiced, as described in Isa 54. Instead of these pictures painted for us in Isa 53 and 54, we encounter the reality of the conflicts described in Isa 56-66.
The Servant of God in Practice
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004397337
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Practice Interpretation takes the everyday social conditions of people as they are described in the Bible and looks at emerging issues that confront today’s interpreters in daily life.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004397337
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Practice Interpretation takes the everyday social conditions of people as they are described in the Bible and looks at emerging issues that confront today’s interpreters in daily life.
Conversations with a Suffering Servant
Author: David Wyn Williams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567676110
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
David Wyn Williams presents a literary reimagining of the Suffering Servant of Second Isaiah through the lens of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, offering insight into how the servant's prophetic characterisation dismantled an exiled nation's ideologies of suffering and called the people to understand their plight as part of a redemptive story on behalf of the nations. While Williams devotes the first half of this volume to a close examination of the scriptural servant, the second half is given wholly to the experiences and thoughts of a contemporary 'suffering servant' whom Williams interviewed throughout his final days, setting up a dialogue between the two in order to raise important questions around our corporate and individual responses to suffering. This book is a timely reflection on how an ancient people responded in faith to a national calamity, and how a prophetic figure who features in but a handful of poems inspired the nation to endure and rewrite its own narrative of suffering. The servant's example in the midst of today's uncertainties could not be more poignant.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567676110
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
David Wyn Williams presents a literary reimagining of the Suffering Servant of Second Isaiah through the lens of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, offering insight into how the servant's prophetic characterisation dismantled an exiled nation's ideologies of suffering and called the people to understand their plight as part of a redemptive story on behalf of the nations. While Williams devotes the first half of this volume to a close examination of the scriptural servant, the second half is given wholly to the experiences and thoughts of a contemporary 'suffering servant' whom Williams interviewed throughout his final days, setting up a dialogue between the two in order to raise important questions around our corporate and individual responses to suffering. This book is a timely reflection on how an ancient people responded in faith to a national calamity, and how a prophetic figure who features in but a handful of poems inspired the nation to endure and rewrite its own narrative of suffering. The servant's example in the midst of today's uncertainties could not be more poignant.
The Church of the Servant
Author: Anthony Tyrrell Hanson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498295746
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
"The theme of Jesus the Servant is a key to much Christian thought nowadays. We have had enough of antiquated myth and conventional jargon; this theme is clear. We have had enough of the Church being identified with snobbery in the West and colonialism in the East; Jesus the Servant is utterly humble. We have had enough of Christians patronizing the world; Jesus the Servant comes with a towel and a cross." --Publisher's Note
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498295746
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
"The theme of Jesus the Servant is a key to much Christian thought nowadays. We have had enough of antiquated myth and conventional jargon; this theme is clear. We have had enough of the Church being identified with snobbery in the West and colonialism in the East; Jesus the Servant is utterly humble. We have had enough of Christians patronizing the world; Jesus the Servant comes with a towel and a cross." --Publisher's Note