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We affirm that God created each human being in His image with intrinsic and equal worth, dignity, and moral agency, distinct from all creation, and that humanity’s creativity is intended to reflect God’s creative pattern.
With insight and inspiration on every page, Rebecca McLaughlin shows us the real Jesus in all his tenderness, majesty, compassion, and defiance. Fur- 3 thermore, we reject the materialist and consequentialist worldview that understands medical applications of AI as a means of improving, changing, or completing human beings. We see him as the one who gathers up our broken hearts and bodies in his arms, and as the only who who has the power to make us whole. As you study the lives of Mary, Martha, Mary Magdalene and others you will learn from their faith and failures, and be reminded that Jesus cared for and valued the women he was surrounded by. McLaughlin has spent plenty of time considering the cynic’s vantage point, with books that include Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion in 2020 and The Secular Creed: Engaging 5 Contemporary Claims in 2021.We deny that death and disease—effects of the Fall—can ultimately be eradicated apart from Jesus Christ. When these systems are deployed, human agents bear full moral responsibility for any actions taken by the system. Rebecca's subsequent walk through the four canonical gospels' eyewitness accounts of women whom Jesus loved makes for an exhorting and encouraging read and portrays a beautiful picture of Jesus through the eyes of his women followers. The best thing he could give these siblings, whom he profoundly loved, was not immediate answer to their prayers, but revelation of himself. As we look through the eyes and lives of women in the Gospels, we can more clearly see Jesus in all of his resolute truth and radiant beauty.
If you are unfamiliar with Bailey's work, this book will introduce you to a very old yet entirely new way of understanding Jesus. Beginning with Jesus' birth, Ken Bailey leads you on a kaleidoscopic study of Jesus throughout the four Gospels.We affirm that the use of AI in warfare should be governed by love of neighbor and the principles of just war. So often in our modern life, we see service and freedom as opposites… We humans thrive when serving with a grateful heart, while endlessly self-realizing ‘freedom’ makes us miserable. Even if you’re not Catholic and don’t recognize the importance of the Blessed Virgin, you could at least be respectful. If you want further reading on women’s role in the church and an exegetical look at what specific verses mean, I would recommend Evangelical Feminism by Wayne Grudem or Men and Women in the Church by Kevin DeYoung.
She is fair and clear in demonstrating through the Gospels how Jesus valued women through His interactions and His Spirit’s inclusion of their testimonies as key. With a sure but gentle hand, Bailey lifts away the obscuring layers of modern Western interpretation to reveal Jesus in the light of his actual historical and cultural setting. That is just a glimpse into the impactful chapters of this little book spanning the gospels in topics like Prophecy, Discipleship, Nourishment, Healing, Forgiveness, and Life. I wish people who claim to be Christian were required to use this as a litmus test of their faith and follow through.Rebecca McLaughlin is excellent in telling the story of Christianity with useful references to other authors, scientists and her experience of living through the faith. Looking through their eyes, we see a man who valued women of all kinds--especially those vilified by others. But even if we limited our scope still further and only kept the parts of Jesus’s life that were witnessed by women named Mary, we’d lose very little! But when you look at the sexual climate during these ancient times, you will see that the laws God made around sex were to protect women and children, not harm them.
She compares the Bible to the Gospel of Mary, and gives other evidence for why we can believe these biblical accounts. She is the author of Confronting Christianity, named Christianity Today’s 2020 Beautiful Orthodoxy Book of the Year, and of multiple other books including The Secular Creed (2021) and Confronting Jesus (2022). Here any kind of ideological agenda stops and McLaughlin surveys the New Testament evidence and lets it speak for itself.With Christians, we (Muslims) agree that Jesus was born of a virgin, that he was the Messiah, and that he is the Word of God. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Abortion, governmental corruption, and several other issues, all serve to hit a nerve and get me fired up.
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