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A Word Fulfilled
FREDERICK J. GAISER
(see full text of essay under “Editorial”)
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Theologically,
Jonah’s book and message stand: God’s mercy extends even to “that great
city.” The issue will not be to choose a God: one of justice or one of mercy;
there is only one God, who is both merciful and just. Still, an insistence
that God must be bound to a literal fulfillment of divine prophecy will never
understand God’s prior commitment to God’s own self-definition in which
judgment, though real, is always subservient to mercy.
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Articles
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The Exaggerated God of Jonah
TERENCE E.
FRETHEIM
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Given the many exaggerations in the book of Jonah, might
not the actions of God be seen as deliberately exaggerated as well? If so,
the God of Jonah is not the all-controlling deity that readers have often
assumed..
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Five Scholars in the Underbelly of the Dag Gadol: An Aqua-Fantasy
BARBARA BAKKE
KAISER
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In this fantasy, five recent scholars sit in the belly
of a fish and do what scholars would do there: debate the meaning of the book
of Jonah!
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Beyond Messages: How Meaning Emerges from Our Reading of Jonah
BARBARA GREEN
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While it is possible to distill a message from the book
of Jonah, it will be more rewarding to allow meaning to emerge as we allow
ourselves to be invited into the story through our reading.
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Echoes of Jonah in the New Testament
MARK ALLAN
POWELL
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Several verbal similarities to Jonah may be found in
the New Testament, but the most prominent connection by far is the Gospels’
references to the “sign of Jonah” and the repentance of the Ninevites.
Different emphases demonstrate how the Gospel writers related that theme to
the people of their own day.
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Converting God’s Friends: From Jonah to Jesus
TELFORD WORK
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Jonah is not for the faint of heart. It is a wonderful and disturbing,
chilling and hopeful story that takes us close to the heart of God, Jesus,
and ourselves.
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Marc Chagall’s Jonah Drawings: The Bible as
Picture Book
JAMES W. LIMBURG
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Marc Chagall makes the Bible a picture book. His Jonah drawings draw us
deep into the biblical text.
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Jonah’s Mission:
Intercultural and Interreligious Perspectives
FRIEDER LUDWIG
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The book of Jonah, variously read and interpreted, can give rise to
different approaches to interreligious dialogue. Western readers can be
enlightened by paying attention to interpreters from other cultures.
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Resources
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“I Sing to You and Praise You” (Psalm 30): Paul
Gerhardt and the Psalms
FREDERICK J. GAISER
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For a hymn writer like Paul Gerhardt, the biblical psalms provided an
invaluable source of material, already bringing together God’s word, human
response, and theological reflection in poetic form. Here Word & World offers a new
translation of another Gerhardt hymn (based on Ps 30) to commemorate the
400th anniversary of his birth.
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Face to Face:
The ELCA at Twenty: Where To from Here?
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How to Be Lutheran in a New Century
HERBERT W. CHILSTROM
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Converting Our
Culture: External and Internal
RICHARD
BLIESE
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Texts in Context: “And also many animals”:
Biblical Resources for Preaching about Creation
KATHRYN
SCHIFFERDECKER
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The Bible offers the
preacher a multitude of texts for preaching about creation and the
environment. Preachers can and should use these resources to call hearers to join
in the creative and redemptive work of God, in the name of Christ and for the
sake of the world.
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Reviews
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Narrative Criticism of the New Testament: An
Introduction, by James L.
Resseguie
MATTHEW
L. SKINNER
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Reading the Bible with the Damned, by Bob Ekblad
KRISTIN J. WENDLAND
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After the Spirit: A
Constructive Pneumatology from Resources outside the Modern West, by
Eugene F. Rogers Jr.
CLINT SCHNEKLOTH
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Anxious Souls Will Ask: The Christ-Centered
Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
by John W. Matthews
CAROL A. SOLOVITZ
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Awakened to a
Calling: Reflections on the Vocation of Ministry, ed. by Ann M.
Svennungsen and Melissa Wiginton
MARC KOLDEN
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Preacher, Can You
Hear Us Listening? by Roger E. Van Harn
MICHAEL ROGNESS
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