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Bezig met laden... Endings: Invitations to Discipleship (2003)door Morna D. Hooker
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. In this slim volume, Morna D. Hooker examines the endings of the four Gospels and the Book of Acts as literary productions. She detects in them, as is often the case in well-told stories, correspondences between the beginnings and endings (the quotations from T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as superscripts and postscripts to each chapter are apposite). Nevertheless, these are not pat conclusions; the author characterizes them as suspended endings -- they leave loose threads, open questions. On one level this is no doubt due to each author's awareness that the story of the work Jesus initiated has not ended. On a deeper level, in the author's view, this openness is an invitation to the reader not only to fill in the continuation of the story but to be part of the continuation, hence the invitation of the book's title. Accessibly written, recommended. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Endings in literary works are critical, an author's conclusion -- to a story or an argument -- is intended to shape our understanding of the whole in one particular way or another. In this engaging and deceptively simple study, Morna D. Hooker explores the final pages of each of the four Gospels and the Book of Acts, and attempts to uncover the specific messages that the Evangelists hoped to convey to their readers. Almost all of the Old Testament books have conclusions that look forward to what is going to happen next -- what, then, is the significance of the way in which these New Testament documents end? A companion volume to her much-praised Beginnings, this new study began as a valedictory lecture given in the University of Cambridge to mark her retirement as Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, and was expanded to form the Chuen King Lectures given in the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2001. Book jacket. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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