Jesus Has Left the Building - Softcover

Keese, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1625649738 ISBN 13: 9781625649737

Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2014

Synopsis

Contrary to what many church people (particularly church "professionals") say, God does not dwell in church, and church doesn't have the franchise on good news. Instead, author Peter Keese proposes the optimistic view that good news is much larger and more all-encompassing than any church can contain or convey, and that good news is everywhere to be found and experienced. In this imaginary dialogue between a traditionalist and his protagonist for a god-in-the-world perspective, Keese's sermons illustrate his conviction that God is out there, inviting us to join in and enjoy the riches of God's life and work. Indeed, as Keese writes, "Jesus has left the building-with all its strictures-and beckons us to come along where life in all its chaotic glory is to be experienced-and enjoyed"

About this title

About the Authors

Peter Keese, ThM, is a retired Episcopal priest and an actively retired supervisor certified by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education. He served fifteen years at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, and fifteen years as Director of Clinical Pastoral Education at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, TN. He has also served as a Pastoral Counselor with the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. He and his wife live in Knoxville, TN.

Ward B. Ewing, an Episcopal priest, is the Dean and President of The General Theological Seminary in New York City. He is author of Job: A Vision of God and has published three programs in adult education through the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1625649738
• ISBN 13: 9781625649737
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88