Known by God

A Biblical Theology of Personal Identity

AvBrian S. Rosner,Jonathan Lunde

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

What does the Bible say about your sense of self? In the past, an individual's identity was more predictable than it is now. Today, personal identity is a do-it-yourself project. Constructing a stable and satisfying sense of self is hard amidst relationship breakdowns, the pace and rhetoric of modern life, the rise of social media, social mobility, and so on. Ours is a day of identity angst.Who are you? What defines you? What makes you you?In Known by God, Rosner argues that rather than knowing ourselves, being known by God is the key to personal identity. He explores three biblical angles on the question of personal identity:Being made in the image of God.Being known by God.Being in Christ. At the center of a biblical understanding of personal identity is sonship: God gives us our identity as a parent who knows his child. Being known by him as his child gives our fleeting lives significance, provokes in us needed humility, supplies cheering comfort when things go wrong, and offers clear moral direction for living.____________Part of the Biblical Theology for Life series, this practical and insightful book will help you ground your longing to be known and the security of your identity on the solid foundation of biblical understanding and reflection.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-09-07
Mått:187 x 231 x 17 mm
Vikt:471 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Biblical Theology for Life
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Zondervan
ISBN:9780310499824

Utforska kategorier

Biblar inom Filosofi och religion
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Brian S. Rosner is Principal of Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia https://www.ridley.edu.au/. Previously he taught at the University of Aberdeen and Moore Theological College. He holds degrees from Sydney University and Dallas Theological Seminary and has a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Brian is the author or editor of over a dozen books, including the New Dictionary of Biblical Theology, the Pillar commentary on 1 Corinthians (with Roy E. Ciampa), The Consolations of Theology, Greed as Idolatry, Paul and the Law, and How to Find Yourself: Why Looking Inward is Not the Answer. He is married to Natalie and has four children, a son-in-law and two grandchildren.Jonathan Lunde (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is associate professor of biblical and theological studies at Talbot School of Theology of Biola University. He is coeditor (with Kenneth Berding) of Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament and has contributed articles to The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels and the New Dictionary of Biblical Theology. Jon and his wife, Pamela, have three children and reside in Brea, California.

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“Every last page of Brian Rosner’s Known by God is filled with careful, convincing exegesis of both testaments of the Christian Bible. But even more striking is how this exegesis is interwoven with the author’s disarming self-disclosure, keen pastoral insight, charitable engagement with contemporary literature and culture, and infectious zeal for gospel proclamation. It is that combination that marks this book as a wonderful example of the best of distinctively evangelical biblical theology.”

Innehållsförteckning

Section One: Queuing the Questionsi.Personal Questionsii.Postmodernism – authenticity, mobility, etc iii.Unsatisfying Answers – career, relationships, possessions, finding yourself, etcSection Two: Arriving at Answers1.Anthropological terms – spirit, soul, mind, inner person, old and new humanity, etc2.Known by God – Jewish background, terminology, relationship to image of God, adoption, etc3.Kindred Ideas – the book of God, naming and not naming, remembered by God, seen by God, etc4.Memory – Passover, Lord’s Supper, collective memory in forming identity, etc5.Destiny – my life is hidden with Christ in God, the time is short, etc6.Christology – Christ is known by God at his baptism, transfiguration, in the FG, etc7.The Cross – as forging my identitySection Three: Reflecting on Relevance8.Personal: Significance, Humility, Comfort, Moral Direction9.Community: Bioethics and the Disabled, Children, the Church (liturgy and leading services)