Who Will Bring Me Home? Biblical Philosophical Reflections on Power and Love, Trust and Hope for Those Who No Longer Know What to Do with Love
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This book is a profound meditation on power and love and in its wake on trust and hope. The author offers a new approach of these ancient biblical values.
If human love is fascinated by power, what is power's attraction and charm? Love is fascinated by a promise of rootedness in a real future life. This promise is experienced as a revelation of our true home. It means that human love is expecting something from the one who possesses power. Is he or she able to make the promise true?
Power should be cute, otherwise it will be experienced as a repulsive force. However, without the possibility to become a repulsive force power is unable to unveil its executing force. But the promise needs to be unconditional. Love is a movement of one's free will. Therefore, love can become disappointed. How were love, trust, and hope at work in relation to Gods revelation in the Torah and at work in the consciousness and live of Jesus Christ? What does that mean for us?
“The most basic aspiration we all yearn for is to discover peace, or stillness, in our life. To navigate through our age of existential crises with a sense of well-being. In this deeply meaningful and important book, Jan Willem Kirpestein explores the origins of our inner nature and our soul and why this spiritual process is absolutely essential for us all. A process that questions what is at the heart of modern leadership.”
—Alan McSmith, wilderness guide, Alan McSmith Safaris
“Who Will Bring Me Home? is a whirlwind journey of spiritual homecoming driven by love and its relationship with the transcendental. Love is the compass which trust and hope need, leading to the way home through Jesus and the wonderful text in 1 Corinthians 13: Love is patient, Love is kind.”
—David Christie, IT architect and director, Bank Julius Baer
- Title: Who Will Bring Me Home? Biblical Philosophical Reflections on Power and Love, Trust and Hope for Those Who No Longer Know What to Do with Love
- Authors: Jan Willem Kirpestein, Joost Röselaers
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666785791, 9781666785784, 1666785784, 9781666785777, 1666785776, 1666785792
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666785791
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-10-18T00:09:07Z
Jan Willem Kirpestein is executive coach, boardroom advisor, and theologian. He qualified himself in the logotherapy of Viktor Frankl. Jan Willem is married with Jeanine and lives in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He worked as a pastor in dereformed churches of the Netherlands and founded in 2004 his consultancy Spirit, Heart & Mind Corpus. He wrote a thesis at the Free University of Amsterdam on belief in church and state after the French Revolution.