Jesus Laughed The Redemptive Power of Humor

Name: Jesus Laughed The Redemptive Power of Humor
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ISBN: 9780687644544

ISBN-10: 0687644542

ISBN-13: 9780687644544

Edition: 2008

Authors: Robert Darden, Robert F. Darden

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"Agony and hilarity," said Norman MacLean, "are both necessary for salvation." We Christians seem to know a lot about the agony part, but what about hilarity? Why do we have to remind ourselves so often that the Bible is full of funny and ridiculous stories and situations? Why do so few of the pictures we've drawn of Jesus show him laughing? Because we've forgotten the redemptive power of humor, that's why. In Jesus Laughed , Robert Darden-senior editor of The Wittenburg Door , the world's oldest, largest, and pretty much only religious satire magazine-draws on his years of experience deflating religious pomposity and making the faithful laugh to show why humor is so central to the faith,…

Book details

List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 8/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 138
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 4.37" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



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Introduction



What Humor Is and How to Recognize It, Day or Night



For the Bible Tells Me So



New Testament Humor



How the Church Lost the Ability to Laugh



"The redeemed ought to look more like it!"



Carbonated Holiness



It's Time for the Party to Begin


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