Gadfly : reading church through reading Jesus / John George Arthur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arthur, John George, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (506 p.)

Place of Publication:

Alresford, Hants, England : Circle Books, an imprint of John Hunt Publishing Limited, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Faith in Jesus is only alive when it's hanging on the precipice of now and released as reckless intimate risk.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Jesus; Chapter 2: God Wants Our First, Not Our Best; Chapter 3: Authentic Friendship; Summing Up the First Three Chapters; A Reading of Jesus 1: Introducing the Half-told Kingdom; Chapter 4: Singing Songs of Exclusion; Chapter 5: Jesus Conceived the Church as a Place of Sustenance, Not of Counsel; Chapter 6: God Meets Us at Our Edge, Not at Our Center; Summing up Chapters 4 to 6; A Reading of Jesus 2: Great Ideas of the Half-told Kingdom

Chapter 7: Rediscovering Joy in Reading Jesus (Part 1)Chapter 8: Rediscovering the Joy in Reading Jesus (Part 2); Prologue to the Final Two Chapters; A Reading of Jesus 3: The King of the Half-told Kingdom; Chapter 9: An Intimate Reading of Church; Chapter 10: Reading Church Through Reading Jesus; A Gadfly Farewell?; Acknowledgement

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 01, 2016).

ISBN:

1-78279-324-0