{"product_id":"retrieving-the-spiritual-teaching-of-jesus-9781531506049","title":"Retrieving the Spiritual Teaching of Jesus","description":"This volume directs attention to the teaching of Jesus; it introduces  the question of how the imagination has to work in order to retrieve the  teaching of Jesus and apply it to actual life in our day. Teachers and  preachers are engaged in this work all the time, but upon examination it  involves a process that bears reflection. We live in a world that is so  different from the world in which Jesus taught that many ask about its  practicability relative to our complex everyday lives. The volume turns  to three authors who work at this, have thought through present-day  theory of interpretation, and respond to basic questions that explain  the adjustments that allow us to apply Jesus’ teaching to our dilemmas  with interpretation that remain faithful to the content that he  proposed. Sandra Schneiders turns to modern hermeneutics, the theory of  interpretation, and explains what is going on in the human mind that  allows us to say that present-day interpretation, while different from  Jesus because our “worlds” are different, corresponds to what Jesus  communicated in the past relative to his world. William Spohn pushes the  same idea further to concrete examples of how analogy, sameness and  difference together, both binds the imagination to Jesus and frees us to  see new relevance for Jesus’ actual teaching. And Lisa Sowle Cahill  takes the spirit of the other two into the social order to show how  Jesus’ teaching has a real relevance for the highly complex societies in  which we live today. The logics of these three authors offer models for  what is going on in all of the Past Light on Present Life volumes as  they represent different historical periods and distinct themes in  Western Christian spirituality.","brand":"Roger Haight","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48282782597371,"sku":"9781531506049","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_6b2f522b-d5fc-47f7-b63c-707e291635cd.jpg?v=1777664679","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/retrieving-the-spiritual-teaching-of-jesus-9781531506049","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}