Frederica harris thompsett biography of mahatma

Contact Us. Publisher: Cowley Publications. ISBN: Be the first to rate this. Ebooks are designed for reading and have few connections to your library. See Inside. Add to cart. Praise for Living With History Fredrica Harris Thompsett offers a lively, engaging introduction to Anglican history and demonstrates its significance for the contemporary church.

About Fredrica Harris Thompsett. Fredrica Harris Thompsett 12 books 5 followers. Write a Review. Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book! Community Reviews. Search review text. Displaying 1 - 15 of 15 reviews. I re-read the book to refresh my memory as I'm working on a project about ministry of the baptized. Helpful quotes of noted Anglican theologians and always love Fredrica's down-to-earth "tell it like it is" voice.

Margie Dorn. It's based on aspects of Christianity that are not enough considered or enacted, for example, the impossibility of living the Christian life exclusively based on an individual, heaven-focused, spirituality. She points out that early Anglicans were insistent as any modernists on a theology that arose and developed organically in community based on Biblical interpretation, reason, and personal experience.

As she says, "those who search for theological wisdom must be open to both continuity and change. A book assigned for this year's Education for Ministry classes. Aldon Hynes. Author 2 books 30 followers. I read this book for a theology class in seminary. She wanted to create a vision of God, a framework. The dream is actually something Thurman talks about quite a bit.

There was a conference at the College of Preachers in Washington, D. She sent most of the clergy off to write the bible story in a paragraph and they struggled with it. There was blood, sweat, and tears. They went off to their rooms and tried to figure it out. And she said I think I can do that in 5 or 6 words: created, chosen, trusted though not perfectforgiven, and pursued.

And she would trace that through the Hebrew scriptures and the New Testament and work at it a little in the epistles and other documents. She had a chart that mapped that out.

Frederica harris thompsett biography of mahatma

She was appalled because a lot of the participants showed up to the preaching event and very few of them mentioned the Old Testament. She was just floored that that had happened. Her talk about God resided in a universe about God. She had a vision and she wanted to teach it. Her reference was biblical, period. She really wanted to tie back to the story, the big story.

You have mentioned a couple of times just how intensive her requirements for religious life were. She saw the work of the laity as not just knowing your own profession, but, like you are saying, to also know the Bible. She sets a very high bar, a rigorous vision for Christian life. Is that a feasible vision for people then or today? How can we hold the ordinary aspects of life with her prophetic call?

I think part of that high bar came out of her experience in Church of the Savior. The requirements that Gordon Cosby put forward were not only tithing, it was a prayer rhythm, almost monastic. But there was a learning dimension of that, what we call today exegesis. She was active in the Church of the Savior while she was also learning in college.

She wanted to make sure the laity were learning alongside everyone else. And they were learning about their own life. She was very pragmatic. It is interesting how Verna Dozier talked about the authority and responsibility of the student very similarly to how she talks about the authority of the laity, because of her background as a public school educator.

She wanted to treat her students as if they and their views mattered. Some of her former students were back for her funeral and I talked to a couple of them. In this volume, the two talk about a wide range of topics—their families and the strong women who shaped them, the vocation of the priesthood and the episcopacy, and social justice, among others—in a conversation facilitated and edited by Fredrica Harris Thompsett.

This is an easy and engaging read for members of the Episcopal Church, church leaders, and those caught by the vision of the Philadelphia Eleven. Fredrica Harris Thompsett is the Mary Wolfe professor of historical theology at the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA, where she has also served as academic dean for fourteen years. She is the author or editor of several Church Publishing and Morehouse titles, including the most recent Encouraging Conversation and the highly regarded We Are Theologians.

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