Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: theology as wisdom
- 1 Wisdom cries
- 2 A wisdom interpretation of scripture
- 3 Job!
- 4 Job and post-Holocaust wisdom
- 5 Jesus, the Spirit and desire: wisdom christology
- 6 Learning to live in the Spirit: tradition and worship
- 7 Loving the God of wisdom
- 8 An inter-faith wisdom: scriptural reasoning between Jews, Christians and Muslims
- 9 An interdisciplinary wisdom: knowledge, formation and collegiality in the negotiable university
- 10 An interpersonal wisdom: L'Arche, learning disability and the Gospel of John
- Conclusion: love's wisdom
- Index of citations
- Subject index
1 - Wisdom cries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: theology as wisdom
- 1 Wisdom cries
- 2 A wisdom interpretation of scripture
- 3 Job!
- 4 Job and post-Holocaust wisdom
- 5 Jesus, the Spirit and desire: wisdom christology
- 6 Learning to live in the Spirit: tradition and worship
- 7 Loving the God of wisdom
- 8 An inter-faith wisdom: scriptural reasoning between Jews, Christians and Muslims
- 9 An interdisciplinary wisdom: knowledge, formation and collegiality in the negotiable university
- 10 An interpersonal wisdom: L'Arche, learning disability and the Gospel of John
- Conclusion: love's wisdom
- Index of citations
- Subject index
Summary
Prophetic scriptural wisdom is inextricably involved with the discernment of cries. This chapter opens up themes and ideas that will be taken up repeatedly in later chapters, such as the wisdom of reserve and ramification, immersion in history with orientation to God's future, the loud cry of Jesus from the cross, what the resurrection opens up, and the ‘moods’ of faith. These are pursued through the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles in order to give an example of a wisdom interpretation of scripture of the sort that will be more reflectively described in the next chapter. Above all the chapter is concerned to explore the significance of cries for Christian wisdom.
Luke 7:18–35 18The disciples of John reported all these things to him. So John summoned two of his disciples 19and sent them to the Lord to ask, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?’ 20When the men had come to him, they said, ‘John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, “Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?” ’ 21Jesus had just then cured many people of diseases, plagues, and evil spirits, and had given sight to many who were blind. 22And he answered them, ‘Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news brought to them.
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- Christian WisdomDesiring God and Learning in Love, pp. 14 - 51Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007
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