Samuel Wells
Autor/a de Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics
Sobre l'autor
Samuel Wells (PhD, University of Durham) is vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Anglican Church at Trafalgar Square in London and visiting professor of Christian ethics at King's College. He has written numerous books, including Be Not Afraid.
Obres de Samuel Wells
Living Without Enemies: Being Present in the Midst of Violence (Resources for Reconciliation) (2011) 52 exemplars
Finding Abundance in Scarcity: Steps Towards Church Transformation A HeartEdge Handbook (2021) 3 exemplars
Mediterranean Days 1 exemplars
The Character of Virtue: Letters to a Godson 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Faithfulness and Fortitude: In Conversation With the Theological Ethics of Stanley Hauerwas (2000) — Editor, algunes edicions; Editor — 23 exemplars
Living Out Loud: Conversations about Virtue, Ethics, and Evangelicalism (2010) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Wells, Samuel
- Altres noms
- 塞繆爾.韋爾斯
Wells, Sam - Data de naixement
- 1965
- Gènere
- male
Membres
Ressenyes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 46
- També de
- 3
- Membres
- 1,322
- Popularitat
- #19,443
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 13
- ISBN
- 129
- Llengües
- 2
- Preferit
- 5
Samuel Wells, rector of St Martins-in-the-Field, London, takes a narrative view of Esther. Some commentaries concentrate on the leaves of a tree, Wells focuses on the forest. This is no atomistic approach. In his opening chapter he uses the terms farce, burlesques-style, a study in improvisation to describe it. This is no dry and dusty tome. He brilliantly opens up Esther and shows the book to be both far fetched and existentially urgent.
Wells is author of Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics and he also sees elements of improvisation within Esther. Intriguingly, he sees the key question of Esther as "How to navigate the dangerous waters of exile, between the two extremes of spineless assimilation and fruitless resistance?"
George Sumner is professor of World Mission at Wycliffe College, Toronto, and so inevitably and intriguingly the missional elements of Daniel are highlighted. As he writes in the introduction: "There is no missiology without Christology (and vice versa), even as there is no Christology without staurology." He, as does Wells, provides a Christological perspective on the text. He sees Daniel as a single coherent work - despite its redactional history. He takes a "circulatory system" approach, where a major artery runs directly from Daniel to Revelation and he rightly interprets the two books in relation.
Sumner does not suffer from chronological snobbery and he freely uses Calvin, Jerome, Melanchthon and others to help make sense of the text.
There is a subject index and a useful scripture index.
Of the making of commentaries there seems so end. So what fresh insights does this volume offer? The strength is that Wells provides a drama-tic setting to Esther and Sumner brings missional insights to the understanding of dabble. Both authors take seriously the Christological and canonical settings of the books. The weakness is that there is no common format. But then, perhaps that is a strength - each author is free to do what they would like and thus play to their strengths.… (més)