Across the Threshold, Into the Questions

Ted Voorhees, Caren Goldman

Description

Offers reflections on how the words of a first-century Jew can offer meaning, hope, and wholeness to readers today.

Across the Threshold, into the Questions includes new encounters with Jesus and his parables and teachings from the Gospel stories in Mark, Matthew and Luke. This volume continues to build the strong foundation needed for another volume that uses Goldman and William Dols' method to explore the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Philosophie et théologie
• State
• Politics

Informations

• Publié par: Church Publishing Incorporated
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780819226716
• Langue: English

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Praise for
FINDING JESUS, DISCOVERING SELF
By Caren Goldman and William Dols
An invitation to self-exploration that integrates personal stories, psychological and spiritual insights, poetry and literature. A rich resource for individual readers and groups-for any who seek to understand their own life-journey more fully and deeply. -Marcus Borg, author of Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time and The Heart of Christianity
Goldman and Dols offer a courageous, poetic, and profound understanding of humanity s brokenness and isolation, and our potentials for healing and wholeness. -Amy-Jill Levine, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion
William Dols and Caren Goldman highlight key stories in the life of Jesus by drawing upon their own candid autobiographies, skillfully posed questions linked with imaginative exercises, and artfully chosen readings. -Robert Owens Scott, Director of Trinity Institute, and founding editor, Spirituality And Health magazine
Goldman and Dols are spiritual alchemists . . . Their message crosses all religious boundaries. In a world seething with fundamentalist hatred, nothing could be more important. -Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Beyond the Body, Reinventing Medicine , and Healing Words .
Powerful nourishment for lives of integrity, faith, and work in our own day. -Edwin M. Yoder Jr., author of Telling Others What to Think: Recollections of a Pundit
. . . allows me as a Jewish reader to learn from the life of a great spiritual leader who has been historically off-limits to Jews. -Rabbi Bruce Bromberg Seltzer, Chaplain, Smith College; Religious Advisor, Amherst College; and Director, Smith/Amherst Hillel
The authors give us the tools we need to explore the archetypal meanings of sacred scripture and to find and embrace the questions that can change our lives. -Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, author of Holy Hunger and Christ s Passion, Our Passions
A great study course for a group of open-minded people interested in making sense out of the life of Jesus and out of their own lives. -James Rowe Adams, author of From Literal to Literary: The Essential Reference Book for Biblical Metaphors
A stunning and perceptive book! -John Shelby Spong, author of The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible s Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love Its combining of the gospel narratives with fearless inquiry, strong confessional voices, and resonant amplifications from poetry, literature, and film speaks to the heart and demonstrates the breadth of the Holy Spirit. -E. H. Rick Jarow, Associate Professor of Religion, Vassar College
Not only worthwhile reading for our time, but an inspiration for those who choose to walk the path of spiritual awakening and risk living into the questions of Jesus. -Carolyn Craft, Executive Director of WISDOM Radio and host of WISDOM Radio s Inner WISDOM
An ideal companion: clear, compassionate, celebratory, and unique. -Nina Frost, President of The Vocare Group and author of Soul Mapping
An original approach to the quest for the figure of Jesus that invites its readers to enter the quest not only to seek Jesus but to discover themselves in a process that brings together the eternal and the experiential. -William R. Herzog II, Sallie Knowles Crozer Professor of New Testament Interpretation, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School
An autobiographical exegesis that is capable of transforming those who participate in it. I could scarcely put it down. -Dr. Walter Wink, Professor of Biblical Interpretation, Auburn Theological Seminary
This book offers a wealth of reflections and penetrating questions to last a lifetime. -Rev. D. Andrew Kille, PhD, Director of Interfaith Space and author of Psychological Biblical Criticism
A deep well of refreshing water for the seeker, the believer, the preacher and the person in the pew. -The Very Rev. Tracey Lind, Dean of Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, and author of Interrupted by God: Glimpses from the Edge
. . . gives the reader permission to stop longer than a moment, to imagine treasures buried around us and within us, to explore intriguing thoughts that once flew by, and to gain a breathless perspective for living a full life. -The Rt. Rev. William E. Swing, Episcopal Bishop of California
If you read this book once, as you should, it will find a permanent place on your bookshelf . . . a religious treasure trove, filled with memorable quotations that go deep . . . -The Rev. Earl K. Holt III, Minister, King s Chapel, Boston
Whether you re trying to find your voice, licking your wounds, or just trying to make the next decision about how to live your life, this is the book to help you live into that likeness. -Ana Hernandez, author of The Sacred Art of Chant
An invaluable resource to those of us working in multi-faith contexts. -Jennifer L. Walters, Dean of Religious Life, Smith College
Blend together the Wisdom of Jesus, the psychological insights of Carl Jung, the integration of Elizabeth Boyden Howes, and the lively experience of the authors and the results are the book in your hands. -John Beverley Butcher, author of The Tao of Jesus and Telling the Untold Stories
CAREN GOLDMAN and TED VOORHEES
Across the Threshold, Into the Questions
Discovering Jesus, Finding self
Copyright 2008 by Caren Goldman and Ted Voorhees
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher.
Unless otherwise noted, the Scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright (c) 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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Cover art by Jane E. Voorhees
Cover design by Corey Kent
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Goldman, Caren.
Across the threshold, into the questions : discovering Jesus, finding self / Caren Goldman and Ted Voorhees.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 978-0-8192-2255-8 (pbk.)
1. Bible. N.T. Gospels-Meditations. I. Voorhees, Ted. II. Title.
BS2555.54.G65 2008
232-dc22
2008024178
Printed in the United States of America
08 09 10 11 12 13 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
CONTENTS
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Suggestions for Using This Book
1. Searching Self
2. Living Questions
3. Facing Fear
4. Paying Attention
5. Discerning Intentions
6. Becoming Well
7. Resisting Not Evil
8. Reconciling the Past
9. Needing Help
10. Being Poor
11. Seeing Everything
12. Crossing Thresholds
13. Knowing One s Will
14. Denying Truth
15. Unpacking Words
16. Epilogue: Bringing Forth
Notes
Resources
Permissions
Index
To Bill Dals for Blessing our Journeys, spirits, and Questions and
For all that has been and will be in ways that words cannot express
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Caren Goldman, a Jewish author and award-winning journalist, specializes in writing about spirituality, psychology, health, religion, and the arts and humanities. She is the author of Healing Words for the Body, Mind, and Spirit: 101 Words to Inspire and Affirm (Marlowe Co.), the co-author of Finding Jesus, Discovering Self: Passages to Healing and Wholeness (Morehouse Publishing), and the writer of Vitality and Wellness: An Omega Institute Mind, Body, Spirit Book (Dell), a regular contributor and former senior editor of The Bible Workbench , and a former assistant editor of the Cleveland Jewish News . For over thirty years, hundreds of her freelance articles about the intersections of spirituality, health, and religion have appeared in national magazines as well as major metropolitan daily and weekly newspapers. Caren began her writing career as a news and features reporter at the Cleveland Plain Dealer . She also leads seminars and retreats throughout the country and works as a Bridgebuilder conflict resolution consultant to congregations and nonprofit organizations. Caren also plays an accordion to amaze and amuse-mostly herself. She and her husband, Ted Voorhees, live in Florida and North Carolina. Caren can be contacted by e-mail at [e-mail] or via her website: www.carengoldman.com .
Edwin Ted Voorhees is an Episcopal priest who has served congregations in North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, and Massachusetts. He has written for Forward Day-By-Day and is an associate editor of and regular contributor to The Bible Workbench . Ted is also a popular retreat, seminar, and workshop leader. As a Bridgebuilder conflict resolution consultant and a Healthy Congregations facilitator, he works with congregations in many denominations as well as with non-profit organizations. Presently living in the St. Augustine area of northern Florida and Asheville, North Carolina, he enjoys playing golf with his wife, Caren Goldman, and listening to her accordion concerts. Ted can be reached by e-mail at [e-mail] .
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The word acknowledgments fails to express the gratitude we have for the contributions the people below made to Across the Threshold, Into the Questions: Discovering Jesus, Finding Self . As we set out to write this book, our plate overflowed with all the things that happen, as the clich reminds us, when you are making other plans. This included many of the events and losses that became snapshots of our lives in the Reflections section in each chapter. Among them, a transition toward retirement from a life-long career, a journey to live in another state, and the adventure o