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A Hermeneutics of Contemplative Silence

Author : Michele Kueter Petersen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793640017
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book A Hermeneutics of Contemplative Silence written by Michele Kueter Petersen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hermeneutics of Contemplative Silence: Paul Ricoeur, Edith Stein, and the Heart of Meaning brings together the work of Paul Ricoeur and Edith Stein and locates the role of silence in the creation of meaning. Michele Kueter Petersen argues that human being is language and silence. Contemplative silence manifests a mode of capable human being whereby a shared world of meaning is constituted and created. The analysis culminates with the claim that a hermeneutics of contemplative silence manifests a deeper level of awareness as a poetics of presencing a shared humanity. The term “awareness” refers to five crucial levels of meaning-creating consciousness that are ingredients in the practice of contemplative silence. Contemplative awareness includes self-critique as integral to the experience and the understanding of the virtuous ordering of relational realities. The practice of contemplative silence is a spiritual and ethical activity that aims at transforming reflexive consciousness. Inasmuch as it leads to openness to new motivation and intention for acting in relation to others, contemplative awareness elicits movement through the ongoing exercise of rethinking those relational realities in and for the world. The texts of Ricoeur and Stein reveal a contemplative discourse of praise and beauty for capable human beings whose actions and suffering respond to word and silence.

Moral Powers, Fragile Beliefs

Author : Joseph Carlisle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441117598
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Moral Powers, Fragile Beliefs written by Joseph Carlisle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally renowned philosophers and up-and-coming researchers explore the intersection of philosophy of religion and moral philosophy.

Hermeneutics, Metacognition, and Writing

Author : Maryann P. DiEdwardo
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622739094
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Book Synopsis Hermeneutics, Metacognition, and Writing by : Maryann P. DiEdwardo

Download or read book Hermeneutics, Metacognition, and Writing written by Maryann P. DiEdwardo and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Hermeneutics, Metacognition, and Writing' investigates the social functionality of actions as an essential criterion of study. It focuses on hermeneutics: interpretation through the lens of philosophy of metacognition. Vital contributions to the book include several chapters by Dr. Maryann P. DiEdwardo herself, which explore various facets of the central topic, including the intersectionality of hermeneutics, metacognition, and semiotics, as well as social movements. Dr. Juliet Emmanuel writes on the subject of the connections between hermeneutics, metacognition, and writing, and Jill Kroeger Kinkade presents a chapter on D.H.Lawrence, Hilda Doolittle, and Virginia Woolf’s portrayals of consciousness. Patricia Pasda discusses what links Sr. Francis of Assisi, dogs, and hermeneutics; Dr. T. Madison Peschock presents a feminist paper concerning abuse of those not wielding power. Susan Stangeland offers her expertise and scholarship in the area of Biblical Hermeneutics. This collection of critiques and case studies examines the imagined cultural landscape of specific works and associated activities such as fine art, music, poetry, and digital humanities, which aim to initiate self-monitoring as metacognition, or meta-reflection, by creating interior interpersonal space to overcome adversity. This edited volume will be of particular interest to scholars and students of textual hermeneutics as it relates to prose writing and artistic works in non-verbal media.

Paul Ricœur, Philosophical Hermeneutics, and the Question of Revelation

Author : Christina M. Gschwandtner
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666937290
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Paul Ricœur, Philosophical Hermeneutics, and the Question of Revelation written by Christina M. Gschwandtner and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of revelation is fundamental to any account of religious experience, playing a special role in the Judeo-Christian tradition where the texts of Scripture are regarded as revealed. Yet, any reflection on the revealed status of a given message or text requires interpretation. Paul Ricœur, one of the most important hermeneutic philosophers of the twentieth century, provides crucial insights on how such interpretation might proceed and what it might mean for texts to be revealed. Edited by Christina M. Gschwandtner, Paul Ricoeur, Philosophical Hermeneutics, and the Question of Revelation brings together major scholars of Ricœur’s work on the topic of revelation, showing both the role it already plays in his work and how his thinking might be taken further. Several contributors trace the development of his thought in regard to the concept of revelation. Others discuss the revelatory dimensions of Ricœur’s hermeneutics of the self, especially for such issues as identity, trauma, and forgiveness. Several contributions also place his work in conversation with that of other seminal thinkers on the topic of revelation, such as Karl Barth and Paul Tillich.

Cultural Poetics and Social Movements Initiated by Literature

Author : Maryann P. DiEdwardo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527578828
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Poetics and Social Movements Initiated by Literature written by Maryann P. DiEdwardo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents critiques about African American authors and poets, as well as a composer, who have contributed towards social change, namely Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Terence Blanchard, Ann Petry, and Rita Dove. It also discusses Viet Thanh Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American writer, and his novel The Sympathizer.

A Taste of Silence

Author : Carl J. Arico
Publisher : Lantern Books
ISBN 13 : 1590565266
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book A Taste of Silence written by Carl J. Arico and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like John Wesley or Jean Pierre de Caussade before him, Catholic priest Arico provides the devout with a model and method for the attainment of a deeper spirituality; unlike them, he feels free to draw wisdom not only from Christian and ancient models but also from Sufism and Thomas Merton to show us how 'God is calling us from our tombs' to the experience of 'divine union.' Arico's spirituality and warmth are profound, and his guide shall be well received by most Christian readers.—Library Journal

Desire and Mental Health in Christianity and the Arts

Author : David Torevell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000930769
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Desire and Mental Health in Christianity and the Arts written by David Torevell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the connection between the world of mental health in the twenty-first century and the traditional concept of desire in Christianity and the Arts. It draws parallels between the desire for rest from anxiety among mental health sufferers with the longing for peace and happiness in Religion and the Arts. The author presents Biblical, philosophical and theological insights alongside artistic ones, arguing that desire for rest remains at the heart of spiritual living as well as mental health recovery. The chapters draw from historical and contemporary voices, including Plato, Augustine of Hippo, Julian of Norwich, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Simone Weil, Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Jean-Louis Chrétien, Eric Varden and others. The study demonstrates why longing continues to fascinate and grip individuals, creative endeavour and society at large, not least in the development of the understanding of mental health. It is valuable for scholars and advanced students of Christian theology and those interested in spirituality and the arts in particular.

Paul Ricoeur’s Renewal of Philosophical Anthropology

Author : Marc de Leeuw
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498595596
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis Paul Ricoeur’s Renewal of Philosophical Anthropology by : Marc de Leeuw

Download or read book Paul Ricoeur’s Renewal of Philosophical Anthropology written by Marc de Leeuw and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-12-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Paul Ricoeur's Renewal of Philosophical Anthropology: Vulnerability, Capability, Justice, Marc de Leeuw argues that Ricoeur’s philosophical project integrates the anthropological tradition while renewing its importance as a hermeneutic anthropology of human capability. Ricoeur posits that our cogito is neither its own absolute master, nor fully transparent to itself, inflicting a “wound” (brisé) and fracturing the center of Cartesian self-certainty. But the Nietzschean disillusionment that ensues does not simply amount to a victorious anti-cogito; it opens another path towards self-understanding. In place of the direct route of intuition is found a more complex way forward, one guided by interpretation. The task of philosophical anthropology is to understand the human through its interpretative, critical, and imaginative ability as well as its capacity to act towards, with, and for others; the interpretation of the world in front of us, the interpretation of “who we are,” and the interpretation of what it means to be among others (as "other selves") coalesces in an anthropology that binds the question of the self to a moral, ethical, and political project, one aiming to reflect our existence-in-common. For Ricoeur, the basic question of our subjective and normative “standing” demands a fundamental response—a response toward our own otherness and to responsibilities triggered by the appeal of Others. In both cases, our vulnerability is inescapable: we can never have an absolute self-knowledge nor an absolute knowledge of Others. Ricoeur turns this fundamental aporia into an affirmative philosophical anthropology of human action, attestation, and justice.

Reading Ricoeur through Law

Author : Marc de Leeuw
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793600929
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Reading Ricoeur through Law written by Marc de Leeuw and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Ricoeur through Law, edited by Marc de Leeuw, George H. Taylor, and Eileen Brennan, is the first collection of essays solely focused on Ricoeur’s thinking about law, bringing together both established and emerging scholars to offer a systematic and critical examination of Ricoeur’s legal thinking. The chapters not only explore the specific contribution Ricoeur makes to the field of jurisprudence but also examine how Ricoeur’s work on law fits, complements, or changes his overall anthropology, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. The book provides a complex insight into how law, ethics, and politics intertwine both from within law as normative rule setting, as well as through the wider social-political and historical context in which law and legal institutions affect our inter-subjective and communal life as lived “with and for others in just institutions.” The collection also makes available in English “The Just between the Legal and the Good,” a key text in Ricoeur’s reflections about law and justice. The core topics of this collection are rights, justice, responsibility, judging, interpretation, argumentation, punishment, and authority, but contributors also offer original insights in how Ricoeur’s philosophical reconceptualization of symbolism, action, ideology, narrative, selfhood, testimony, history, trauma, reconciliation, justice, and forgiveness can be made productive for our understanding of law and legal institutions.

A Doorway to Silence

Author : Robert Llewelyn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780809129003
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book A Doorway to Silence written by Robert Llewelyn and published by . This book was released on 1987-03-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation

Author : D. Z. Phillips
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521008464
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation by : D. Z. Phillips

Download or read book Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation written by D. Z. Phillips and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-26 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading philosopher of religion D. Z. Phillips examines the conceptual assumptions of atheistic thought.

Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics

Author : Craig G. Bartholomew
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 144122775X
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Book Synopsis Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics by : Craig G. Bartholomew

Download or read book Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics written by Craig G. Bartholomew and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 Word Guild Award - Academic category Honorable mention, Grace Irwin Prize Renowned scholar Craig Bartholomew, coauthor of the bestselling textbook The Drama of Scripture, writes in his main area of expertise--hermeneutics--to help seminarians pursue a lifetime of biblical interpretation. Integrating the latest research in theology, philosophy, and biblical studies, this substantive hermeneutics textbook is robustly theological in its approach, takes philosophical hermeneutics seriously, keeps the focus throughout on the actual process of interpreting Scripture, and argues that biblical interpretation should be centered in the context and service of the church--an approach that helps us hear God's address today.

Mindful Silence

Author : Phileena Heuertz
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083087223X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Mindful Silence written by Phileena Heuertz and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our fast-paced lives are filled with distractions, frequently leaving us disillusioned and dissatisfied—with ourselves, with others, and even with God. Spiritual practices that used to sustain us fall short when life circumstances bring us to the limits of our self. After many years leading an international humanitarian organization, Phileena Heuertz experienced the deconstruction of her identity, worldview, and faith. Centering prayer, a Christian expression of mindfulness, was a crucial remedy for her fragmented condition, offering a more peace-filled and purposeful life. The hallmarks of contemplative spirituality—solitude, silence, and stillness—have never been more important for our society: In solitude, we develop the capacity to be present. In silence, we cultivate the ability to listen. In stillness, we acquire the skill of self-control. Contemplative prayer helps us discern the voice of God, uncover our true self, and live a life of meaning and purpose. Filled with insights and wisdom from personal experiences, Phileena introduces us to themes and teachers of contemplative spirituality, as well as several prayer practices, and invites us to greater healing and wholeness by learning to practice faith through prayer. This is an opportunity to go deeper with God—to experience the Divine and be transformed.

Mindfulness and Educating Citizens for Everyday Life

Author : Malgorzata Powietrzynska
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9463005706
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Mindfulness and Educating Citizens for Everyday Life written by Malgorzata Powietrzynska and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindfulness and Educating Citizens for Everyday Life invites readers to explore the role mindfulness can play in mediating how we enact social life in today’s increasingly challenging and challenged world. The educators and researchers who have contributed to this book use mindfulness as a lens to address and untangle what is becoming a profoundly complicated way of being within the reality of global capitalism. Education is framed broadly – the research transcends the walls of classrooms and includes museums, nursing homes, hospitals, AA meetings, and homes. Hence, the chapters feature participants occupying varied social positions and spaces that may be situated in different parts of the globe. The authors address two overarching and dialectically related themes of mindfulness and wellness and collectively the chapters expand possibilities for readers to act mindfully in a world in which wellness and wellbeing are pervasive concerns as a fragile Earth adapts to a dynamic flux of human-led changes that threaten the future of lifeworlds that support humanity and myriad species that face extinction. The authors do not offer oversimplified solutions to dramatically switch direction and preserve life, as we have known it. Instead, the ideas that emerge from the research presented in this volume expand possibilities for informed conduct, self-help, and educating citizens with a goal of individuals and collectives transforming lifeworlds by embracing mindfulness-saturated ontologies.

Women Choosing Silence

Author : Alison Woolley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351273582
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Women Choosing Silence written by Alison Woolley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silence is long-established as a spiritual discipline amongst people of faith. However, its examination tends to focus on depictions within texts emerging from religious life and the development of its practices. Latterly, feminist theologians have also highlighted the silencing of women within Christian history. Consequently, silence is often portrayed as a solitary discipline based in norms of male monastic experience or a tool of women’s subjugation. In contrast, this book investigates chosen practices of silence in the lives of Christian women today, evidencing its potential for enabling profound relationality and empowerment within their spiritual journeys. Opening with an exploration of Christianity’s reclamation of practices of silence in the twentieth century, this contemporary ethnographic study engages with wider academic conversations about silence. Its substantive theological and empirical exploration of women’s practices of silence demonstrates that, for some, silence-based prayer is a valued space for encounter and transformation in relationships with God, with themselves and with others. Utilising a methodology that proposes focusing on silence throughout the qualitative research process, this study also illustrates a new model for depicting relational change. Finally, the book urges practical and feminist theologians to re-examine silence’s potential for facilitating the development of more authentic and responsible relationality within people’s lives. This is a unique study that provides new perspectives on practices of silence within Christianity, particularly amongst women. It will, therefore, be of significant interest to academics, practitioners and students in theology and religious studies with a focus on contemporary religion, spirituality, feminism, gender and research methods.

Silent Compassion

Author : Richard Rohr
Publisher : Franciscan Media
ISBN 13 : 1632534142
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Silent Compassion written by Richard Rohr and published by Franciscan Media. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “At the heart of this offering is an invitation to be still. Such stillness, however, is not a barren field, devoid of substance. It is a silence replete with beauty. It is what Buddhism refers to as sunyata, the boundlessness that characterizes the truth of existence.” —Mirabai Starr, from the foreword In Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation, Richard Rohr focuses on finding God in the depths of silence. Divine silence is more than the absence of noise; it has a life of its own. We are invited into its living presence to find the wholeness of being and peace it brings. This book will inspire you and show that the peace of contemplation is not something just for monks, mystics, and those divorced from the worries of the world, but rather for all people who can quiet their own mind to listen in the silence. What’s more, this silence can absorb paradoxes, contradictions, and the challenges of life, ultimately connecting us with the great chain of being. While different faiths use different languages and different words, silence can become a common place for all to experience God. In May 2013, the Festival of Faiths conference in Louisville, Kentucky, featured His Holiness the Dalai Lama in an event called “Sacred Silence: Pathway to Compassion.” Richard Rohr was selected as the Christian presence among a small group of “world renowned experts on contemplative practice and compassion.” Others represented Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism. Silent Compassion curates the Franciscan friar’s talks from that event as well as interviews that place his thoughts in the context of his larger work as founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation. This is an updated and expanded edition of Rohr’s original presentation on the subject.

The Insurgency of the Spirit

Author : Robert E. Shore-Goss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793623198
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Insurgency of the Spirit written by Robert E. Shore-Goss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Insurgency of the Spirit taps mutli-disciplinary methodologies of post-colonial biblical scholarship and anthropology, liberation theologies, indigenous studies, grief/trauma research, and nature-meditation writings to shape a constructive retrieval of the animist Jesus. The vision that emerges is one that sets forward an Earth-loving Jesus who challenges Christians in particular to mobilize against the destructive relationship that exists between imperial religion and political systems.