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Zusatztext Praise for Timothy Keller and The Prodigal God "Thrilling . . . Brilliant. Keller elegantly explains the goodness of God! redefining sin! lostness! grace! and salvation." —HeartsandMinds.com "An amazing! thought-provoking! illuminating work." —Examiner.com "The insights Tim Keller has about the two individuals in the story! and about the heart of God who loves them both! wrecked me afresh. Tim's thoughts deserve a hearing worldwide." —Bill Hybels! founding and senior pastor! Willow Creek Community Church "Explain! explode! expose! explore—all of these Jesus did by telling the parable of the prodigal son. In this book! Timothy Keller shows us something of how this story actually reveals the heart of God! and! if we read it carefully! our own hearts. This brief exposition is unsettling and surprisingly satisfying. Like seeing something as your own home! or your own self! with new eyes. Enjoy and profit." —Mark Dever! senior pastor! Capitol Hill Baptist Church! Washington! D.C. "When it comes to the gospel of Jesus Christ! Timothy Keller is simply brilliant." —Mark Driscoll! pastor! Mars Hill Church and president! Acts 29 Church Planting Network "Keller will be remembered as a pioneer of the new urban Christians." — Christianity Today magazine "I thank God for him." —Billy Graham Informationen zum Autor Timothy Keller Klappentext The New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet uncovers the essential message of Jesus, locked inside his most familiar parable. Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller "a C.S. Lewis for the twenty-first century" in a feature on his first book, The Reason for God . In that book, he offered a rational explanation of why we should believe in God. Now, in The Prodigal God , Keller takes his trademark intellectual approach to understanding Christianity and uses the parable of the prodigal son to reveal an unexpected message of hope and salvation. Within that parable Jesus reveals God's prodigal grace toward both the irreligious and the moralistic. This book will challenge both the devout and skeptics to see Christianity in a whole new way. Introduction This short book is meant to lay out the essentials of the Christian message, the gospel. It can, therefore, serve as an introduction to the Christian faith for those who are unfamiliar with its teachings or who may have been away from them for some time. This volume is not just for seekers, however. Many lifelong Christian believers feel they understand the basics of the Christian faith quite well and don't think they need a primer. Nevertheless, one of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do. Sometimes longtime church members find themselves so struck and turned around by a fresh apprehension of the Christian message that they feel themselves to have been essentially "re-converted." This book, then, is written to both curious outsiders and established insiders of the faith, both to those Jesus calls "younger brothers" and those he calls "elder brothers" in the famous Parable of the Prodigal Son. I am turning to this familiar story, found in the fifteenth chapter of the gospel of St. Luke, in order to get to the heart of the Christian faith. The parable's plot and dramatis personae are very simple. There was a father who had two sons. The younger asked for his share of the inheritance, received it, and promptly left for a far country, where he squandered it all on sensual and frivolous pleasure. He returned home penitently and, to his surprise, was received with open arms by his father. This reception alienated and angered the elder brother greatly. The story closes with the father appealing to his firstborn son to join in the welcome and forgiveness of his ...
