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1 online resource (314 pages) |
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Intro; Title Page; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Nature of the Universe; 1 The Biblical View of the Universe; 2 Is the Universe Just?; 3 Where Does Evil Come From?56; 4 Forces at Work in the Garden of the Lord; 5 How to Cast Out the Devil; 6 Halloween: Do the Dead Walk?64; 7 Natural Disasters, Acts of God, and the Bible; 8 Chance, Luck, Randomness, and the Being of God; 9 Does Anything Happen by Chance?; 10 Honey in the Rock, Water in the Stone, Better Wine in Stone Jars; 11 Will the Earth Abide?; Chapter 2: Reason and Faith |
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12 Are Religion and Science Incompatible?13 The Interface of Reason and Faith; 14 We Live by Fictions as Much as by Truths; 15 Pondering Confessions and Questions; 16 Faith Critically Examined; 17 The Nature of Religious Truth; 18 Does God Control the Wind?; 19 Does Mother Nature Control the Wind?; 20 Does the Wind Make Its Own Decisions?; Chapter 3: On Being Human in the Contemporary World; 21 On Being Human; 22 From the Jesus Tradition: On Becoming and Being Human; 23 Why Am I Here?; 24 Intimations of Mortality; 25 The God Question; 26 What Does God Expect of Me? |
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27 An Uncommonly Modern Question28 A Reason for Living; 29 Is Freedom an Illusion?; 30 Waiting for God/Waiting for Godot; 31 Human Suffering and Religious Faith; 32 What Is the Value of Religious Gestures?; 33 Living in the Old Country; 34 The Religious Experience; 35 Is God the Distant Creator-or Your Intimate Soul Mate?; 36 My Lonely Brain and the Bible; Chapter 4: The Bible; 37 What Does the term "Word of God" Signify When Applied to the Bible?144; 38 When Did the Bible Become the Word of God?150; 39 What about the Bible Gives It the Status Word of God?153 |
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40 What Distinguishes the Bible from Other Collections of Holy Writ?15841 Be There Dragons in the Bible?161; 42 Legends in the Bible; 43 Living by the Bible Is Not Possible; 44 Should One Love God or Fear God?; 45 Dissenting Voices in a Text; 46 Does a Text Mean What the Author Intended?; 47 Satyrs or Wild Goats?The Politics of Translating the Bible178; 48 Paul's Cross Gospel and 1 Thessalonians; 49 Jesus and Paul: A Lack of Continuity189; 50 Did Jesus and Paul Believe in the Christian Heaven?; 51 Putting Paul in His Place203; 52 Sex and Death:Paul's Arguments from Mythology |
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53 An Allusion in Search of a Narrative: Betraying Jesus54 Narrative Realism in the Gospels; 55 Did John Baptize Jesus?214; 56 History, Historical Narrative, and Mark's Gospel; 57 The Problem of History in Mark; 58 Two Odd Locutions in the Gospel of Mark; 59 The Sibyl's Wish: A Mythical Encounter232; 60 The Gospel of Mark Is Wrong-and other Quibbles!; 61 A Question of Identity; 62 The Gospel of John: A Revisionist Gospel; 63 Is John's Gospel History or Fiction?; 64 Memory in John and the Reshaping of Early Christian Tradition; 65 Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel |
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66 Is the Gospel of John Historical Narrative? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-321) and indexes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Bible -- Influence.
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Bible. |
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Bible. |
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Faith and reason.
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Faith and reason. |
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Religion and culture -- United States.
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Religion and culture. |
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United States. |
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Popular culture. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hedrick, Charles W. Unmasking Biblical Faiths : The Marginal Relevance of the Bible for Contemporary Religious Faith. La Vergne : Wipf and Stock Publishers, ©2019 |
| ISBN |
9781532613036 |
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1532613032 |
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1532613040 |
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9781532613043 |
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9781532613029 |
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1532613024 |
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