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    A Journey in Imagination: Stories We Want Our Grandchildren to Hear
    A Journey in Imagination: Stories We Want Our Grandchildren to Hear
    A Journey in Imagination: Stories We Want Our Grandchildren to Hear
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    A Journey in Imagination: Stories We Want Our Grandchildren to Hear

    By James E. Sargent and Walter Brueggemann

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    A Journey In Imagination offers the hope of an alternative to a world convulsed by hostility and violence. Through an imaginative journey into Bible stories, incidents, and verses, the possibility of reversing hostility in both personal and communal life is explored. Biblical hospitality is neither a head in the sand nor a pie in the sky pleasantry. Instead it is the daring and challenging work of reversing hostility through seeing the 'other' fully as a human being.

    We may be failing at relationships, but that does not mean that we are doomed forever to fail. Too many of the tensions between the haves and the have-nots, between races, and between different religious traditions seem to have only two alternatives: violence and more violence. Life and relationships do not have to be this way. By exploring incidents that demonstrate alternatives to hostility, the book addresses this failure of imagination.

    This book is also a response to the accusation that the God of the Old Testament is little more than a God of vengeance and violence. To the contrary, the God of the Old Testament is the same God to whom Jesus prayed. Throughout the Bible, God yearns for a reversal of hostility.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateSep 1, 2015
    ISBN9781498201964
    A Journey in Imagination: Stories We Want Our Grandchildren to Hear
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    James E. Sargent

    James E. Sargent has a wide background that offers him a unique perspective on hospitality. Originally from New England, he has spent his adult life in southwestern Ohio. Dr. Sargent holds a BA degree from The Defiance College, MDiv and DMin degrees from United Theological Seminary. Over the course of his career Dr. Sargent has taught social studies in both junior and senior high school, served in ordained ministry, worked as a hotel desk clerk, and authored several books on Bible study. He is currently a member of the faculty of the Good Samaritan College of Nursing in Cincinnati, Ohio, teaching health care ethics. Throughout his career, Dr. Sargent has worked with people of diverse backgrounds in a wide range of circumstances. This experience has led to his interest in hospitality and the writing of this book. Dr. Sargent lives in Cincinnati with his wife. They are active members of their church. They have eleven grandchildren, and it is for them, and all grandchildren, that this book is written.

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