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Hope Rediscovered: Biblical wisdom for an anxious world
Contributor(s): Atkinson, David (Author), Williams, Rowan (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0993294219     ISBN-13: 9780993294211
Publisher: Ekklesia
OUR PRICE:   $18.99  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
- Religion | Biblical Studies - New Testament - Jesus, The Gospels & Acts
- Business & Economics | Development - Sustainable Development
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6" W x 9" (0.75 lbs) 230 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Ecology
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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Among the many causes of anxiety in today's world are global concerns to do with social and economic inequality, the imperative of sustainable development, and the link between the damage we are causing the natural environment and climate change. These raise human - that is, moral and spiritual - questions about who we are, our destiny, how we can be helped to flourish, and what we hope for.

Hope Rediscovered is about being re-oriented in the face of such challenges. Bishop David Atkinson, who has an abiding interest in Christian ethics, pastoral theology and science, has put some key questions to the Gospel of John - a text which says much about human flourishing ('life in fullness'), and which draws heavily on Wisdom themes from the Hebrew Bible about understanding our human place in creation, and about practical living.

Like his followers, Jesus was beset with conflicts within 'the world'. The first-century Christian community, to which the Gospel was first addressed, discovered how to live hopefully in the way of Wisdom, energized by God's Spirit. The focus of this timely book is deep, practical wisdom for a troubled world.


Contributor Bio(s): Atkinson, David: - Bishop David Atkinson undertook research in organic chemistry before being ordained into the Church of England and serving as Fellow and Chaplain of Corpus Christi, College, Oxford. He was a Canon Residentiary at Southwark Cathedral and Archdeacon of Lewisham, becoming Bishop of Thetford in 2001. He retired in 2009.