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    The Year of the Lord's Favor: Proclaiming Grace in the Year of Luke
    The Year of the Lord's Favor: Proclaiming Grace in the Year of Luke
    The Year of the Lord's Favor: Proclaiming Grace in the Year of Luke
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    The Year of the Lord's Favor: Proclaiming Grace in the Year of Luke

    By Tom Arthur

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    The Year of the Lord’s Favor is commentary on the texts of the Revised Common Lectionary that is contextualized, politically engaged and unflinchingly honest. Comfort is cruel if it is based on an illusion. These reflections connect honestly and realistically with the ordinary circumstances of experience. They encourage the twenty-first century Christian to live in a way that transcends sentimentality and fear and live a faith that makes things happen.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Hunt Publishing
    Release dateDec 7, 2012
    ISBN9781780997544
    The Year of the Lord's Favor: Proclaiming Grace in the Year of Luke

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      Ha! How can so serious a topic be so entertaining? Not that the book is funny, per se, but that the writing kept a smile on my face all the while Arthur was indoctrinating me. Tom, please come back to the States and set up church in my neighborhood!This book is a not-so-subtle call to redirect our aim toward the original flavor of Christianity. The Lord’s Supper, and the year of the Jubilee, become sort of the uprights of our goal posts. Arthur notes that the Year of the Lord’s favor, its concern for the poor and its celebration of the joyful experience of reversed fortunes, establishes the framework for the entire Lukan narrative. While nothing should be taken away from Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount, when Luke moves it down to the Plain–to the level of the people–its flavor changes, and it becomes more direct. The poor are the focus.Did you know that today, the average American consumes 50 times that of the average citizen of Bangladesh?Arthur proceeds to trek through the Gospel of Luke (and a few stray passages from other books) presenting opinionated discussion. Its three or four page reflections make for an excellent bathroom reader. (That’s a compliment! Really!)By the final quarter of the book, however, the tone turns more somber. Perhaps Constantine managed to twist the cross into a swastika, but we’ve never managed to untwist it. The horrors of war are only one example of how Jesus’ ministry has undergone a stark reversal. Is the Age of the Lord’s Favor merely a pipe dream?

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