![]() Whether you are Native or not, you will experience the Scriptures in a fresh and new way.įrom technical advice (“check that your verbs aren’t burdened by unnecessary hads and woulds”) to setting the bar (“I expect the fiction I read to carry with it the conviction that it is written with no other incentive than that it must be written”), from the demands of readers (“they’d been given a story with a baby in it, and they damn well wanted that baby accounted for”) to the foibles of public life (“I’ve never subscribed to the notion that a film adaptation is the final imprimatur for a work of fiction, despite how often I’ve been told by encouraging friends and strangers, ‘Maybe they’ll make a movie of your novel,’ as if I’d been aiming for a screenplay all along but somehow missed the mark and wrote a novel by mistake”), McDermott muses trenchantly and delightfully about the craft of fiction. The FNV is a dynamic equivalence translation that captures the simplicity, clarity, and beauty of Native storytellers in English, while remaining faithful to the original language of the New Testament. This way of speaking, with its simple yet profound beauty and rich cultural idioms, still resonates in the hearts of First Nations people. The First Nations Version (FNV) recounts the Creator's Story-the Christian Scriptures-following the tradition of Native storytellers' oral cultures. Many First Nations tribes communicate with the cultural and linguistic thought patterns found in their original tongues. The road of love has no end." 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Love keeps trusting, never loses hope, and stands firm in hard times. Love keeps walking even when carrying a heavy load. Love is not happy with lies and injustice, but truth makes its heart glad. It is not hot-headed, nor does it keep track of wrongs done to it. Love does not act in shameful ways, nor does it care only about itself. Creator did not send his Son to decide against the people of this world, but to set them free from the worthless ways of the world." John 3:16-17 "The Great Spirit loves this world of human beings so deeply he gave us his Son-the only Son who fully represents him. All who trust in him and his way will not come to a bad end, but will have the life of the world to come that never fades-full of beauty and harmony. Throughout he demonstrates how it has helped British and American Protestants frame and shape their identity.Ī Short History of Christian Zionism seeks to bring clarity and context to often-heated discussions. He explores Christian Zionism's interaction with other movements, forces, and discourses, especially in eschatological and political thought, and why it is now flourishing beyond the English-speaking world. Lewis seeks to provide a fair-minded, longitudinal study of this dynamic yet controversial movement as he traces its lineage from biblical sources through the Reformation to various movements of today. foreign policy, and has deeply affected Jewish–Christian and Muslim–Christian relations.ĭonald M. ![]() Christian Zionism continues to influence global politics, especially U.S. ![]() This book is about an idea-namely, that Scripture mandates a Jewish return to the historical region of Palestine-which in turn morphed into a political movement, rallied around a popular slogan ("A country without a nation for a nation without a country"), and eventually contributed to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.
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