Easter God

by Taylor, John V.

• ISBN13: 9780826466303
• ISBN10: 0826466303
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

One constant theme runs through the writing of John V. Taylor: that of passing through darkness to light, from winter to spring, from death to life. The moving force is the spirit of the God who raised Jesus from the dead and who even now animates and renews his people.Following broadly the rhythm of the Christian year, from Advent to Pentecost, The Easter God draws on John V. Taylor's unpublished sermons from his time as Bishop of Winchester and beyond. It demonstrates in his incomparably graceful and poetic style what God has done for us and what it means to live in the light of this as God's Easter people.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
PART ONE: THE GOD WHO GIVES LIFE
In the End Is the Beginning	3	(4)
In the Beginning Was the Word	7	(4)
The Moment in Time	11	(4)
The Shining Appearance	15	(4)
From Revelation to Revolution	19	(4)
The Wine Poured Forth	23	(4)
God Was in Christ	27	(6)
And God Raised Him Up	33	(4)
The Easter God	37	(4)
The Self-Giving God	41	(4)
The Nature of God	45	(4)
The Forgiveness of God	49	(4)
Being Transformed	53	(4)
The Coming of the Kingdom	57	(8)
PART TWO: LIVING IN HIS KINGDOM
An Open Door	65	(4)
When You Can't Believe, Make-Believe	69	(4)
From Evening to Morning	73	(4)
Responding to the Divine Love	77	(4)
The Greater Reality	81	(4)
What Do These Things Mean?	85	(4)
Seeing Visions and Dreaming Dreams	89	(6)
The True Kingdom	95	(6)
Better Together	101	(6)
The Ordinary Becoming Extraordinary	107	(4)
Fellow Citizens with the Saints	111	(4)
The New People	115	(4)
All This - And Heaven Too	119	(4)
An Easter People	123	(4)
The Winds of the Spirit	127	(4)
Being Alive	131	(4)
The Fruit of the Spirit	135	(4)
Doing and Being	139	(4)
Sources	143	(4)
Index	147