Bøger af Albert Peter Krueger

Albert Peter Krueger was born in the border town of McAllen Texas, on May 2, 1948.Elementary school years were experienced in Jackson, Michigan, and in 1958, the family movedto Flagstaff, Arizona when Harold, his father, was transferred to manage a new store opening.When the old company was purchased by a new company, the old managers were let go. At thattime, Mr. and Mrs. Krueger took their savings and purchased a franchise 60 miles down the roadto the east in Winslow, Arizona. And so it was the Albert graduated from Winslow High Schoolin 1966. 50 years later he published the first version of The Great Intermission, under the titleFrom the Fords of the Jordan to the Plain of Shinar. Discontinuities are the hallmark of Albert's journey through his 3/4 century pilgrimage. Hebegan his undergraduate years at the University of Arizona as an astronomy major, changing toMathematics after two years. The 60s had a profound effect on him, and he left college in 1971to learn the retail trade in the family business in Winslow. When the parent company of thefranchise began to disintegrate, he and his father parted ways, with Albert returning to Tucson tocomplete a degree in Philosophy. Albert married his first wife, Katherine, in Tucson just before heading to seminary inBerkeley, California. They have two grown children, Sam and Anaiah, who are happily pursuingtheir chosen professions. The marriage ended in 2012. Albert received the Master of Divinity degree from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, an Episcopal Church seminary, in 1980. He was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church inWalla Walla, Washington on December 2, 1981. After serving congregations in EasternWashington and in west central Oregon and the greater Portland area, Father Albert retired in2013. He is now married to his lovely wife Diana and lives in Phoenix, Arizona. He and his wifeattend Dream City Church in north Phoenix.

The threat of apocalypse is meat for the postmodern world. The possibility that it will happen is a hook for book buyers and moviegoers throughout the Western world. But what is it that happens in "e;the apocalypse?"e; The Rev. Albert Krueger challenges the standard view of apocalypse in From the Fords of the Jordan to the Plain of Shinar by seeing the Bible through a different frame of reference, the notion that apocalypse is the leaven, which gives rise to the canon of the Old Testament and the conclusive testimony of the New. He brings the fruit of a lifetime of preaching the Gospel, studying the scriptures, and the practicing the art of philosophical reflection to this radical new approach. Giving credence to both the valid discoveries of modern research and the consistency of the biblical message as a whole, Krueger demonstrates that apocalypse is an idea and an experience as well as an expectation. It is the governing principle of a way of life. Krueger's style of writing is part anecdote, part historical narrative, and part Bible study. During his journey from Ezekiel to Paul, he encourages the reader to ask new and biblically informed questions regarding contemporary Christian assumptions, expectations, and hopes in the world today. These questions emerge through a reformatting of the text, which reveals a fourfold overlay of biblical worlds rather than the standard linear progression from the moment of creation to the advent of doom. While From the Fords of the Jordan to the Plain of Shinar is a stand-alone work, a follow-up work is in the hopper. In this sequel, Krueger intends to consider the apocalyptic idea to be the hidden organizing principle of Western civilization. Just as the question of what "e;happens"e; in apocalypse needs to be addressed, so does the question of what "e;ends"e; when a world ends.