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What is your opinion? - The intended readership of Hebrews.
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It was The Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith by John of Damascus...which God confronted me about my pursuit of trying to figure out how He thinks and ended up putting me in the mental hospital....now I'm just super curious...
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It would be interesting to hear the process and what you learnt along the way, people understand that there is some convergence between mental health and theology, but I think lived experiences can shed so much light. Because it may not be what we think, my sister was diagnosed with bi-polar and had a few visits, now imagine what it was like for her with our Pentecostal background
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If you're really interested, I could PM you.It would be interesting to hear the process and what you learnt along the way, people understand that there is some convergence between mental health and theology, but I think lived experiences can shed so much light. Because it may not be what we think, my sister was diagnosed with bi-polar and had a few visits, now imagine what it was like for her with our Pentecostal background
And I can only imagine, as my background is about the polar opposite of Pentecostalism...cold, austere, doctrinal, Baptist.
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Rowan Williams is also excellent to read, if you like patristic theology and eastern spirituality, but want somebody more conversant in western critical scholarship and culture. He's a very profound, integrative Christian theologian and scholar, in that way.
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