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Wesley J Wildman
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Cascade Books
Published
February 2019
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Your God is too small--way too small! What if God is not a human-like personal being but the God Beyond God of the Christian mystical traditions? What if God is the ultimate reality beyond all beings, including beyond all divine beings, indeed beyond all Being? It's a mind-bending idea. Speaking of God as a human-like personal being is much easier but people who care about the deepest mystical understandings of God within our traditions need to make the effort to speak about the God Beyond God, despite the difficulties. This book makes the attempt to speak of the God Beyond God in the language of the sermon, using metaphor and potent imagery tuned to the existential intensities of human life. The God Beyond God is closer to us than our jugular veins, vividly present in every moment of our lives. These sermons are practical and moving, and they also resonate with the most rigorous theological understandings of ultimate reality. Their deconstruction of our convenient fantasies about a divine being make these sermons emotionally intense and perhaps not suitable for beginners in the journey of faith. But veteran believers can breathe deeply in the air of these meditations, relaxing into the bliss of engaging ultimate reality without delusions, without deflections, and without controlling the object of our worship. ""God Is... is a gift. Not all sermon collections read well, because sermons are an interactive event between a pastor, a people, Scripture, and the Lord. Dr. Wildman's sermon volume is that rare exception where the written word maintains the power and eloquence of what was first preached. There is a wonderfully poetic quality to his theology and biblical interpretation that encourages both reading and re-reading these messages."" --Stephen Chaplin Garner, Senior Pastor of The Congregational Church of New Canaan, CT; author, Getting in Character: The Art of First-Person Narrative Preaching ""When I heard Wildman give the first sermon of this book, in 1993, I was so moved by its fierce courage to say what most people only fear is true about God that I wept. Its original title was 'God the Destroyer.' The second sermon, then called 'God the Friend,' was just as shaking: who would imagine friendship so weirdly deep? Wildman is a naturalist, which is explained in these sermons, though not in so many words. But he is also a biblical preacher and a rhetorical genius, a Christian preacher in the great tradition. His fervent piety inspires as it breaks common symbols and symbolizes what most Christians barely grasp. These sermons are dangerous and oh so loving."" --Robert Cummings Neville, Dean emeritus of Marsh Chapel; author, Nurture in Time and Eternity and Seasons of the Christian Life Wesley J. Wildman is Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics in Boston University's School of Theology, an ordained minister in the Uniting Church of Australia, and occasional teacher of preaching. He has written numerous books presenting a radical mystical theological understanding of ultimate reality, including most recently In Our Own Image: Anthropomorphism, Apophaticism, and Ultimacy (2017) and Effing the Ineffable: Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language (2018).
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Author
Wesley J Wildman
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cascade Books
Published
February 2019
Weight
323g
Dimensions
153 x 229 x 10 mm
ISBN
9781532659201
ISBN-10
1532659202
Eden Code
4979426
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Author/Creator: Wesley J Wildman
ISBN: 9781532659201
Publisher: Cascade Books
Release Date: February 2019
Weight: 323g
Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 10 mm
Eden Code: 4979426
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