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John: the Gospel of Wisdom Free FREE JOHN: THE GOSPEL OF WISDOM PDF Michael Card | 234 pages | 17 Oct 2014 | InterVarsity Press | 9780830844135 | English | Illinois, United States John: The Gospel of Wisdom - InterVarsity Press Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. Home 1 Books 2. Add to Wishlist. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Members save with free shipping everyday! See details. Overview "When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth. His testimony is true, and he knows he is telling the truth. John, the longest-surviving of the apostles, recorded in his Gospel a portrait of Jesus that displays the depth of years of reflection on who Jesus is and what he means to the world. Writing in light of the philosophies of his day, John describes Jesus as the incarnate Word, the divine Logos, the embodiment of all truth and wisdom. He shows how John stands alongside the other Gospel writers to fill out the picture of Jesus' divine identity, with stories and sayings of Jesus not recorded by the others. This Jesus reorients our understanding of ourselves and the world around us, offering us nothing less than the way, the truth and the life. Like John before him, Card has written these words so that we may better believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing we have life in his name. About the John: The Gospel of Wisdom Michael Card is an award-winning musician and performing artist. He earned a master's degree in biblical studies from Western Kentucky University under Dr. William Lane. Card and his family live in Tennessee. Material Unique John: The Gospel of Wisdom John B. The Motif of Misunderstanding C. Occurrences of John's 'Whispering' D. Show More. Related Searches. Commentary on the Gospel of John. Theodore of Mopsuestia, born in Antioch c. Committed to literal, linguistic, grammatical and historical interpretation, he eschewed allegorical View Product. For most Bible readers Ezekiel is almost a closed book, writes John Taylor. Their knowledge Their knowledge of him extends little further than his mysterious vision of God's chariot-throne, with its wheels within wheels, and the vision of the valley of the From the patristic period until today, John's Gospel has served as John: The Gospel of Wisdom major source for From the patristic period until today, John's Gospel has served as a major source for the church's knowledge, doctrine and worship of the triune God. Among all New Testament documents the Fourth Gospel provides not only the most raw material The Resonate series recovers the ancient John: The Gospel of Wisdom of Scripture and helps us understand how it The Resonate series recovers the ancient wisdom of Scripture and helps us understand how it resonates with our complex world. The stories and insights of each book of the Bible are brought into conversation with contemporary voices of hope and The Holy Spirit. Sinclair Ferguson believes we should rephrase this common assertion: While his work has been recognized, the John: The Gospel of Wisdom himself remains to many Christians an anonymous, faceless aspect Inexpressible: Hesed and the Mystery of God's Lovingkindness. God's identity is beyond what we could ever fully express in human words. But Scripture But Scripture uses one particular word to describe the distinctiveness of God's character: the Hebrew word hesed. Hesed is a concept so rich in meaning that it Jesus for Sceptics. Evangelist and teacher Michael Green says, I have written this book because I am tired Evangelist and teacher Michael Green says, I have written this book because I am tired of meeting people who dismiss Jesus Christ with a wave of the hand but John: The Gospel of Wisdom never looked into the evidence for themselves. There are many Mark: The Gospel of Passion. Follow Me, Jesus told them, and I will make you into fishers of men! Immediately they left their nets and followed Him. Events happen one after another, InterVarsity Press. The Biblical Imagination Series. John: The Gospel of Wisdom Michael Card is an award-winning musician and performing artist. He earned a master's degree in biblical studies from Western Kentucky University under Dr. William Lane. Card and his family live John: The Gospel of Wisdom Tennessee. John: The Gospel of Wisdom. Michael Card. His testimony is true, and he knows he is telling the truth. John, the longest-surviving of the apostles, recorded in his Gospel a portrait John: The Gospel of Wisdom Jesus that displays the depth of years of reflection on who Jesus is and what he means to the world. Writing in light of the philosophies of his John: The Gospel of Wisdom, John describes Jesus as the incarnate Word, the divine Logos, the embodiment of all truth and wisdom. He shows how John stands alongside the other Gospel writers to fill out the picture of Jesus' divine identity, with stories and sayings of Jesus not recorded by the others. This Jesus reorients our understanding of ourselves and the world around us, offering us nothing less than the way, the truth and the life. Like John before him, Card has written these words so that we may better believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing we have life in his name. Who Is John? Learning to Listen to John. Major Themes. John John 5. About the Author. About the Biblical Imagination Series. Also Available from InterVarsity Press. John 1. John 2. John 3. John 4. John 6. John 7. John 8. John 9. John: The Gospel of Wisdom - Michael Card - Google книги Having grown up in traditional Black churches, I have learned that being Reformed is more than simply assenting to a number of important doctrines e. By sitting under Reformed preaching and probing the mind of godly men, I have come to discover that the mode of Christian spirituality as expressed within the Reformed tradition is quite different than my own upbringing. Calvin's greatest appreciation of biblical wisdom theology is discovered in his commentaries on the Johannine literature--in which Old Testament wisdom concepts are put into Christian form and developed into the Logos theology of the early church. According to Calvin's commentary on the Gospel of John, the Apostle calls the Son "the Word" because "He is the eternal wisdom and will of God, and secondly because He is the express image of His purpose. This is a crucial insight because as Calvin understands it when the apostle John was speaking about the Word, he had in mind the divine Wisdom. In the first book of the Institutes where Calvin is developing his doctrine of the incarnation, Calvin calls attention to the logos theology of the prologue to the Gospel of John. Calvin states:. For, as Peter testifies, the ancient prophets spoke by the Spirit of Christ just as must as the apostles did [1 Peter ; 2 Peter ], and all who thereafter ministered the heavenly doctrine And Moses clearly teaches this in the creation of the universe, setting forth this Word as intermediary. John: The Gospel of Wisdom why does he expressly tell us that God John: The Gospel of Wisdom his individual acts of creation spoke, Let this or that be done [Genesis 1] unless so that the unsearchable glory of God may shine forth in his image? And indeed, sane and modest men do not find obscure Solomon's statement, where he introduces wisdom as having been begotten of God before time [Ecclesiasticus ], and presiding over the creation of things and all God's works [Proverbs ] But John spoke most clearly of all when He declared that that Word, God from the beginning with God, was at the same time the cause of all things, together with God the Father [John ]. For John at once attributes to the Word a solid and abiding essence, and ascribes something uniquely His own, and clearly shows how God, by speaking, was Creator of the universe. Therefore, inasmuch as all divinely uttered revelations are correctly designated by the term 'Word of God,' so this substantial Word is properly placed at the highest level, as John: The Gospel of Wisdom wellspring of all oracles. Unchangeable, the Word abides everlastingly one and the same with God, and is God himself. In this excerpt, Calvin explicitly states that "Word" basically means Wisdom. What is even more interesting is that he draws this idea out of two very important passages of the wisdom literature - Proverbs 8 and Ecclesiasticus At this point in the Institutesthe wisdom theology is primarily of interest to Calvin because it helps him understand John's Christology. According to Calvin, understanding Christ as the Wisdom of God aids in understanding how the Father has a priority to the Son while simultaneously being co-eternal with the Son since there was never a time when God was without wisdom. However, the chief point that Calvin emphasizes in his exposition of the prologue of John is that the Word of God is the source of life and light. It is the Word - the divine Wisdom of Proverbs 8 - who was with God from the beginning, whom the Gospel of John proclaims to be incarnate in the flesh of Jesus. This Jesus, as the only begotten Son of the Father, is Savior of the world.
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