Bøger af Raymond Pickett

In early years of life, I felt a emptiness I could feel within depths of my soul. I felt the hurt which laid within and no where to turn to ease the pain. We see situations yet can't understand how life could be as it is, but everyone has a journey - even I, and if I can just discover the ending, I'm convinced that I've accomplished the purpose for which God has chosen for me. Finding love - (true love), has always been my passion and first love. Mother once said, "Son, there is levels to life's experiences, there are layers to those levels and steps to those layers. If you skip and skim through the natural course is equivalent to being in a maze of nothing but dead-ends." So I knew immediately the emptiness I felt had been love. That what I shall learn, no doubt, will affect me from this day forward. She then said, "Stay on your path to discovery - to learn what has been weighed upon your heavy heart." Love is about being with the one who makes you happy. However, I learned one cannot obtain such happiness through someone unwilling to acknowledge and accept "what makes you happy." I found the source of happiness has no unfamiliar face between the heart and soul exchanging happiness for happiness in return. "Uncaged Love: ..." speaks of my discovery - of a love for someone who is so phenomenally beautiful

Pickett explores how Paul appealed to the death of Jesus in the Corinthian correspondence in order to promote a community ethos and ethic consistent with the ideals and values it symbolized. In so doing, Paul was responding to interpersonal conflicts within the community and criticisms of his ministry-criticisms he saw as founded on Graeco-Roman cultural values of the cultivated elite. His consistent emphasis on the weakness of the cross served to critique social expressions of power in Corinth. More constructively, Paul attempted to secure conduct befitting the gospel by invoking the death of Jesus as a symbol of other-regarding behaviour.

The social context of Paul's mission and congregations has been the study of intense investigation for decades, but only in recent years have questions of economic realities and the relationship between rich and poor come to the forefront. In Paul and Economics, leading scholars address a variety of topics in contemporary discussion, including an overview of the Roman economy; the economic profile of Paul and of his communities, and stratification within them; architectural considerations regarding where they met; food and drink, idol meat, and the Lord's Supper; material conditions of urban poverty; patronage; slavery; travel; gender and status; the collection for Jerusalem; and the role of Marxist theory and the question of political economy in Paul scholarship--