TY - BOOK AU - Keller,Timothy AU - Xi wang zhi sheng bian yi xiao zu TI - The prodigal God : recovering the heart of the Christian faith T2 - Sheng ming zao jiu cong shu SN - 9789868682528 AV - BT378.X6.T447 2011 PY - 2011///., Minguo 101 CY - Taibei Shi PB - Xiwang zhi sheng wen hua you xian gong si KW - Prodigal son (Parable) KW - Christianity N1 - Translation of: The prodigal God : recovering the heart of the Christian faith; 1; English contents : Introduction --; The parable --; The people around Jesus : "all gathering around to hear Him" --; Two kinds of people --; Why people like Jesus but not the church --; The two lost sons : "there was a man who had two sons" --; The lost younger brother --; The younger brother's plan --; The lost elder brother --; Redefining sin : "all these years I've been slaving for you" --; Two ways to find happiness --; Two lost sons --; A deeper understanding of sin --; Both wrong, both loved --; Redefining lostness : "the older brother became angry and refused to go in" --; Anger and superiority --; Slavishness and emptiness --; Who needs to know this? --; The true elder brother : "my son, everything I have is yours" --; What we need --; Who we need --; Redefining hope : "He set off for a far country" --; Our longing for home --; The difficulty of return --; The feast at the end of history --; The feast of the father : "he heard music and dancing" --; Salvation is experiential --; Salvation is material --; Salvation is individual --; Salvation is communal --; Babette's feast; 2 N2 - Uses the biblical tale of the prodigal son to provide both an introduction to Christianity and a clarifying primer on the nature of the gospel for believers, in a resource that reveals how Jesus's essential message is revealed by the story in ways that can enable greater understandings of the Christian faith UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0822/2008028397.html ER -