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Beschreibung
What we fear most has ironically come upon us as Western individualists. We are being controlled by the invisible forces of culture and they have come between God and us. Silent but in the background of all we do and think, its influence cannot be overlooked. We condone and even encourage and champion the very things that create distance between our needs and God's goodness, between our plans and his destiny for us, between our weakness and his strength. We have been deceived. Not only have we created distance between us, but we seldom free God from these cultural and personal expectations and let him speak for himself. We have locked God into our system and, in the end, distracted by our needs for social and personal survival. We must turn our eyes toward him, open our ears to his voice, and let him speak.
What we fear most has ironically come upon us as Western individualists. We are being controlled by the invisible forces of culture and they have come between God and us. Silent but in the background of all we do and think, its influence cannot be overlooked. We condone and even encourage and champion the very things that create distance between our needs and God's goodness, between our plans and his destiny for us, between our weakness and his strength. We have been deceived. Not only have we created distance between us, but we seldom free God from these cultural and personal expectations and let him speak for himself. We have locked God into our system and, in the end, distracted by our needs for social and personal survival. We must turn our eyes toward him, open our ears to his voice, and let him speak.
Über den Autor
Thomas M. Stallter is Professor of Intercultural Studies at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana, where he has been teaching for twenty-eight years. Before that, he and his wife were missionaries in African countries for eighteen years. He is the author of The Gap Between God and Christianity: The Turbulence of Western Culture (Resource, 2022) and Finding Freedom and Grace: A Journey in the Purposes and Providence of God (Wipf & Stock, 2024).
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Religion & Theologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781666712407
ISBN-10: 166671240X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Stallter, Thomas M.
Hersteller: Resource Publications
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Thomas M. Stallter
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.02.2022
Gewicht: 0,452 kg
Artikel-ID: 121300716