What's So Funny About God?

What's So Funny About God?

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  • Author: Steve Wilkens
  • Publisher: InterVarsity Press
  • ISBN: 0830855459
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 205

If you don't believe God has a sense of humor, just look in the mirror. Humor is a truly human phenomenon—crossing history, culture, and every stage of life. Jokes often touch on the biggest topics of our existence. And although it may seem simple on the surface, humor depends on the use of our highest faculties: language, intelligence, sympathy, sociability. To the philosopher Steve Wilkens, these facts about humor are evidence that God just has to be in there somewhere. Yet many Christians, scholars and laypeople alike, haven't taken humor seriously. In What’s So Funny About God? Wilkens launches an exploration of the connections between humor and many of the central topics of Christian theology. He argues that viewing Scripture and theology through the lens of humor brings fresh insight to our understanding of the gospel, helps us avoid the pitfalls of both naturalism and gnosticism, and facilitates a humble, honest, and appealing approach to faith. Wilkens turns this lens on the paradoxes of human nature, the Christian calendar, church life, and new readings of well-known biblical texts, including the book of Esther, the nativity narratives, and Jesus' own teachings. Taking into account the problems of suffering and the need for timely lament, he portrays the Christian story as one that ultimately ends in cosmic comedy. Full of wit and thoughtful jokes throughout, it's enough fun that you may not realize you're reading theology.


God Can Be So Funny

God Can Be So Funny

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  • Author: Anthony Nwachukwu
  • Publisher: iUniverse
  • ISBN: 1475953224
  • Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 89

God sent his beloved son, not for the healthy, rich, wealthy but the sick and the nobody's of society. The book is a powerful demonstration of God's foolishness in caring for sinful people, things or favors which they cannot do for one another. Consequently, the author sees all the miracles that happened in the course of his ministry and the spiritual encounters he made as God's design to approve his ministry of healing and joy. You cannot stop reading till the end.


What's So Funny?

What's So Funny?

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  • Author: Nancy A. Walker
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • ISBN: 1461621763
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 298

Critical studies attempting to define and dissect American humor have been published steadily for nearly one hundred years. However, until now, key documents from that history have never been brought together in a single volume for students and scholars. What's So Funny? Humor in American Culture, a collection of 15 essays, examines the meaning of humor and attempts to pinpoint its impact on American culture and society, while providing a historical overview of its progres-sion. Essays from Nancy Walker and Zita Dresner, Joseph Boskin and Joseph Dorinson, William Keough, Roy Blount, Jr., and others trace the development of American humor from the colonial period to the present, focusing on its relationship with ethnicity, gender, violence, and geography. An excellent reader for courses in American studies and American social and cultural history, What's So Funny? explores the traits of the American experience that have given rise to its humor.


Wrestling With God

Wrestling With God

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  • Author: Don Hanley
  • Publisher: Top Reads Publishing, LLC
  • ISBN: 0998683892
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 306

While working within the penal system to advocate prison reform, Jerry Haloran discovers through an inmate that a priest who is about to be elevated in the ranks of the diocese has a disturbing past. Jerry and his journalist wife Rebecca must act swiftly and decisively before more harm can be inflicted upon those least able to defend themselves: the children.


From Faith to Fun

From Faith to Fun

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  • Author: Russell Heddendorf
  • Publisher: Lutterworth Press
  • ISBN: 0718842871
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 209

Abraham and Sarah were presented with a paradox when God told them they would have a son in their old age. Paradox in the Old Testament plays an important part in the dialogue between God and the Jews. In the New Testament, paradox is prominent in Jesus' teaching and helps to explain the Christian understanding of salvation.


Live Long & Die Laughing

Live Long & Die Laughing

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  • Author:
  • Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
  • ISBN: 1418562092
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 159


What's So Funny about Being Catholic?

What's So Funny about Being Catholic?

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  • Author: Karen Warner
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • ISBN: 9780060950231
  • Category : Humor
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 194

From Lent to parochial school to Notre Dame (the cathedral and the football team), Warner lampoons 2,000 years of Catholic tradition, poking fun at holiday rituals and religious customs, and teasing the church's familiar cast of characters--from parish priests to popes and saints. Illustrations.


The Younger Gods

The Younger Gods

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  • Author: David Eddings
  • Publisher: Hachette UK
  • ISBN: 0759567972
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 267

In the thrilling conclusion to The Dreamers, the Vlagh prepares for one merciless attack that will pit her forces against the might of both the Elder Gods and the Younger Gods. All may be for naught, however, if the allies fail to respond to the fact that one within their ranks is losing her mind. The end of twenty-five eons has arrived: now the four Elder Gods will be replaced by the Younger Gods. During this transition, the greatest danger comes not from the Vlagh, who breeds her largest and deadliest insectoid army for a final war on Dhrall, but from Aracia, an Elder God. Aracia has grown addicted to the worship of mortals and believes a young deity wants to usurp her glory. Eager to stay in power forever, the Elder God plans the unthinkable: to murder one of the Younger Gods. But in her madness, Aracia forgets that the Elder Gods are forbidden to take life-as a principle of existence. If she kills the child deity, it will cause the absolute unmaking of all creation...


It's God

It's God

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  • Author: Autum Augusta
  • Publisher: Trafford Publishing
  • ISBN: 1698715412
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 148

Testimonies and the thing that happened at the school.


Ghost Worlds

Ghost Worlds

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  • Author: Duane L. Martin
  • Publisher: Duane L. Martin
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 558

Four different Earths in four different dimensions were left as nothing but lifeless balls of rock and sand after their moons were destroyed. Massive hunks of debris slammed into the planets, ripping away their atmospheres, and extinguishing every last bit of life. With a near infinite number of dimensions, was it beyond the realm of possibility that these four ghost worlds were nothing more than a coincidence, or was it perhaps a coordinated attack, the goal of which was to destroy whoever, or whatever inhabited those worlds? Suspicions and theories abound, but they'll never find the answers they're looking for unless they put boots on the ground. In order for them to do that however, they're going to need some new gear, including space suits, metal detectors and ground penetrating radar. If, as they suspect, these dead worlds truly were inhabited by the race they called the creators, then they not only need to find evidence of their presence on those worlds, but they also need to find out just who it was that attacked them, and more importantly, the reason why. Also, in an effort to repair a relationship that had grown somewhat distant over the years, Jarrod, Derek, Tina, and Sarah invite Patricia to come down to the cabin with them for a little vacation, so they can get things back to the way they were in the early days. While there, they head out to explore an as of yet unexplored dimension. In the process, they find a world that's beautiful beyond anything they could have possibly imagined, but they also find a large supply of an incredibly rare mineral that could just be the key to producing limitless energy. Ghost Worlds is the 8th book in the Unseen Things series.