In Becoming Friends of Time, John Swinton crafts a theology of time that draws us toward a perspective wherein time is a gift and a calling. Time is not a commodity nor is time to be mastered. Time is a gift of God to humans, but is also a gift given back to God by humans.
Swinton wrestles with critical questions that emerge from theological reflection on time and disability: rethinking doctrine for those who can never grasp Jesus with their intellects; reimagining discipleship and vocation for those who have forgotten who Jesus is; reconsidering salvation for those who, due to neurological damage, can be one person at one time and then be someone else in an instant.
In the end, Swinton invites the reader to spend time with the experiences of people with profound neurological disability, people who can change our perceptions of time, enable us to grasp the fruitful rhythms of God’s time, and help us learn to live in ways that are unimaginable within the boundaries of the time of the clock.
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Part 1: Time and Disability
1. Thinking about Time
2. Time and Progress
Part 2: Learning to Live in God's Time
3. Time and Christ
4. Becoming Friends of Time
Part 3: From Inclusion to Discipleship
5. Time and Discipleship
6. Time and Vocation
Part 4: Reclaiming the Heart
7. Time and Memory
8. Time and Heart
Part 5: The Horror of Time
9. The Horror of Time
10. The Time Before and the Time After
11. Time and Ritual
Conlusion: Being in Christ, Being in Time
Appendix.: Redeeming Time
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"How Swinton brings together God, time, and disability transforms the understanding not only of disability but also of church, society and ordinary life. This is a profound and moving book, both pastoral and prophetic. It takes further the insights of Jean Vanier, and above all invites us into the truth that ‘time is for God, God is love, time is for love.’"
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780334055570
Publisert
2017-01-31
Utgiver
Vendor
SCM Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256
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