Learning to Dream Again: Rediscovering the Heart of God

Name: Learning to Dream Again: Rediscovering the Heart of God
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ISBN: 9780802868718

ISBN-10: 0802868711

ISBN-13: 9780802868718

Edition: 2013

Authors: Samuel Wells

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"Meditations that beautifully articulate a contemporary Christian wisdom"Through a series of short, thoughtful meditations, "Learning to Dream Again" shows what true wisdom -- wisdom shaped by Jesus' earthy humility, shameful suffering, and effervescent joy -- might look like for Christians today. Through the lens of this Christian wisdom, Samuel Wells addresses a number of difficult personal and social issues, including taxes, abortion, torture, hunger, and Christian engagement with broader culture in the arts, sciences, athletics, and medicine.As he seeks to present a faithful rendering of the mind of Christ, Wells deftly ties abstract ideas to everyday Christian living. He groups his…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Form


Theme


Contents



Learning to Love Again


Love to the Loveless Shown That They May Lovely Be


Inseparable


Everything's Relative


Searched and Known


Put a Lid on It


Who Are You?



Learning to Live Again


There Are Two Ways We Can Do This


Entertaining Angels Unaware


Feeling God's Pleasure


Ref assorting the Clay


Turning All into Alleluia



learning to Think Again


Choosing Life…and Living with Choices


Our Tortured State


Ordinary Rendition


Facing Down Hunger


Food Is Politics


The Justice of God



Learning to Read Again


Reading the Bible and Letting the Bible Read You


I'm a Prophet, Get Me Out of Here


Two Questions


Dwelling in the Comma


Five Smooth Stones


The Healing of the Nations



Learning to Feel Again


The Godfather


Can These Dry Bones Live?


The Power of Saying Thank You


Like the Angels


I May Not Get There with You


Are You Tired?



Learning to Dream Again


Restoring the Years


The Word We Don't Mention


Starting from Zero


The Rolling Stones


Learning to Dream Again


Acknowledgments


Subject Index


Scripture Reference Index