Stephen W. Hiemstra

Broschiertes Buch

Image of God in the Person of Jesus

Beschreibung

Our image of God reveals not only God's character, but our own. Who is Jesus? Is Jesus more immanent (human) or transcendent (divine)? Because we are created in the image of God and Jesus is divine, the church struggles to define Jesus. This impulse can be a genuine attempt to know God better or it can be an insidious attempt to create God in our own image. This struggle is often tinged with a bit of both. The Letter to the Church at Thessalonica was likely the first book written in the New Testament. In a literary sense, the implication is that the Apostle Paul is the father of the New Testament. Paul only knew the Risen Christ and, for him, the divinity of Christ was obvious. By contrast, the Gospels that record the humanity of Christ were written almost a generation later. Thus, the transcendence problem facing postmodern people that fixates on the humanity of Christ is relatively new. My recent book, Image and Illumination (2023), asked the question-What does it mean to be created in the image of God?- focused on Christian anthropology. Embedded in this question is the metaphysical question: Who is God? The New Testament addresses this question with three pictures of God: The person of Jesus, Jesus' teaching about God the Father in the parables, and the founding of the church on Pentecost by the Holy Spirit. In this book, I focus on the Image of God in the Person of Jesus. Hear the Words; Walk the Steps; Experience the Joy!

Autor

Author Stephen W. Hiemstra lives in Centreville, Virginia with Maryam, his wife of more than forty years. They have three grown children.Stephen worked as an economist for twenty-seven years in more than five federal agencies, where he published numerous government studies, magazine articles, and book reviews. Check WorldCat.org for a complete listing.Stephen has published a six-book, Christian spirituality series. He wrote his first book, A Christian Guide to Spirituality in 2014. In 2016, he wrote a second book, Life in Tension. In 2017, he published a memoir, Called Along the Way. In 2019, he published Simple Faith. In 2020, he published Living in Christ. His sixth book-Image and Illumination-was published in 2023.In 2023, he began his Image of God series with the publication of Image of God in the Parables (2023) and Image of the Holy Spirit and the Church (2023). Image of God in the Person of Jesus (2024) completes this series.Two books from his Christian spirituality series are available in Spanish: Una Guía Cristiana a la Espiritualidad (2015) and Vida en Tensión (2021). One book from his Image of God series, Imagen de Dios en las Parábolas, is available in Spanish. He also published his first book in German: Ein Christlicher Leitfaden zur Spiritualität (2022).In 2021, he published his debut novella, Masquerade, and rewrote it as a screenplay under the title: Brandishing the Blue. In 2023, he published a sequel, The Detour, and adapted it as a screenplay. In 2024, he published another sequel, Christmas in Havana, which has also been adapted as a screenplay.Stephen published his first hardcover book, Everyday Prayers for Everyday People (2018). He also published an ebook compilation book, Spiritual Trilogy, that year.Stephen has a Masters of Divinity (MDiv, 2013) from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina. His doctorate (Ph.D., 1985) is in agricultural economics from Michigan State University. He studied in Puerto Rico and in Germany and speaks Spanish and German.Correspond with Stephen at [e-mail] or follow his blog at http://www.T2Pneuma.net.If you enjoyed Jeez and the Gentile, please post a review online.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: T2Pneuma Publishers LLC
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781942199618
• ISBN-10: 1942199619
• Artikelnr.: 71727076