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Frances M. Young was Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology in the University of Birmingham, UK. She began teaching in 1971, and is the author of many books and articles. She is known particularly for Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture (1997), as well as Pace to Face (1990), an mostrar mais account of life with her profoundly disabled son, Arthur. In retirement she continues to write and to lead worship as a Methodist minister. mostrar menos
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Obras de Frances M. Young

The Making of the Creeds (1991) 164 cópias
Face to Face (1985) 31 cópias
Can these dry bones live? (1982) 18 cópias

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Nome de batismo
Young, Frances Margaret
Data de nascimento
1939
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
UK
Locais de residência
Birmingham, England, UK
Educação
University of Cambridge
Ocupação
Methodist minister
Professor

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Most comprehensive account in English about first three centuries of Christianity. Written from scientific point of view with plenty of references to the literature from the era. Best read with these sources at a hand for fuller experience.
 
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muurism | 1 outra resenha | Jan 1, 2024 |
Most comprehensive account in English about first three centuries of Christianity. Written from scientific point of view with plenty of references to the literature from the era. Best read with these sources at a hand for fuller experience.
 
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muurism | 1 outra resenha | Jan 1, 2024 |
This is a profoundly moving book. Now, in retirement, Frances Young is trying to bring together three major themes in her life. One is her career as a theologian and teacher specialising in patristic theology. Another is as mother and carer of Arthur, severely handicaped from birth. The third is as an Methodist minister, preaching to and interacting with modern congregations. As she considers important areas of doctrine, she tries to bring all three threads into a single yarn that works together.… (mais)
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MarthaJeanne | 1 outra resenha | Feb 9, 2019 |
Frances Young is a patristic scholar, a mother of an adult child who is profoundly disabled and a Methodist preacher. In this book she draws together these three different horizons as she locates her own experience of brokenness, locating it within the framework of the Biblical story in conversation with the Fathers of the early Church. I appreciate her honesty as she shares her own journey and her struggles with her own brokenness and the ways she draws on the wisdom of the Christian tradition (though not-uncritically). Well worth reading.… (mais)
 
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Jamichuk | 1 outra resenha | May 22, 2017 |

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