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    Do You Now Believe?: Reasonable Faith in Mark and John
    Do You Now Believe?: Reasonable Faith in Mark and John
    Do You Now Believe?: Reasonable Faith in Mark and John
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    Do You Now Believe?: Reasonable Faith in Mark and John

    By Pamela E. Hedrick

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    "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" Questions by their very nature are provocative: they provoke answers. Questions emerge from the desires of the human spirit. Questions lead to insight into the new, but those insights can be blocked by preconceptions that obscure present experience, including experience of the divine presence. At the same time, human beings cannot make progress in understanding without some amount of belief, which liberates understanding. Jesus faced these concerns in the people around him, and we face them in ourselves today. By examining the role of questions in the Gospels of Mark and John, we see Jesus's capacity to orient his listeners in their search for meaning, and thus cultivate in ourselves a willingness to believe what we have inherited as well as an openness to new experience, its call to reinterpret beliefs and, if necessary, to change.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPickwick Publications
    Release dateJun 14, 2017
    ISBN9781498246095
    Do You Now Believe?: Reasonable Faith in Mark and John
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    Pamela E. Hedrick

    Pamela Hedrick is a member of the faculty in online theology programs at Saint Joseph's College in Standish, Maine.

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