Bøger af Gerald Kennedy

How can you look at the worst and see the best? How can you at the same time judge and forgive? How can you face weakness and find strength, possess humility and be self-assured?These are but a few of the obligations Christianity demands. And to every Christian there must come the means of understanding these paradoxes, of applying them in everyday life and thought. With acute insight, psychological knowledge, and deep religions discernment, this book explains some of the most difficult paradoxes of the Christian faith."The courage to proclaim saving paradoxes," says Bishop Kennedy, "is Christianity's saving strength." In twenty-one chapters he takes up the paradoxical truths of the gospel - humility and assurance, sin and grace, tension and peace, death and life, and others. To explain these essential paradoxes - the essence of the Christian message - is the purpose of this book.The Lion and the Lamb is a very real contribution to the understanding of the nature and meaning of the Christian faith - the book includes vital messages enforced by vivid illustrations, offering fresh approaches to the richest texts of Scripture, bringing a practical, inspiring Christian philosophy for our time.(This description taken for the 1950 edition book cover)

This important contribution to American ecumenism is an impassioned plea for an encounter between the mainline denominational churches and the vital new ""third force"" of the evangelical and ""free"" churches. It strives to bridge the gulf between the most uncritical supporters of organic church union and those most suspicious of its organizational purpose and theology. It suggests that the common elements of the New Testament church life in all local churches provide a basis for understandings out of which a new spirit and a broad new alignment can evolve. It urges the mainline groups to achieve an understanding with these free churches--whose doctrine of authority posits a direct, personal rule of Christ over each local ""gathered"" congregation without the meditation of bishops, priests, synods or councils--in seeking a new basis for achieving the reality of the ""great church coming"" which is the ecumenical hope.The author's conviction is that the future of the church in America and of any vital ecumenical witness rests with these ""left out"" churches and their creative rapprochement with other life of all churches together in an exciting and meaningful mission in which American churches of all traditions can share completely, yet without compromise.