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Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415900577
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Acts of Literature written by Jacques Derrida and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : David R. Bauer
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493429027
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)
Download or read book The Book of Acts as Story written by David R. Bauer and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A senior New Testament scholar and teacher helps students understand the historical, literary, and theological issues of the book of Acts and introduces key concepts in the field of narrative criticism. This volume captures the message of the book of Acts by taking seriously the book's essential character as a powerful story through which Luke communicates profound theological truth. While giving attention to historical background, its purpose is to lead readers through a close reading that yields fresh insights into passages throughout Acts.
Author : Barbara Ryan
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572331822
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Reading Acts written by Barbara Ryan and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researching documents left by "common" readers, contributors suggest that American literature was experienced in a way not previously revealed by examinations of literary criticism. Ryan (English, U. of Missouri in Kansas City) and Thomas (English, Montana State U.) present 11 essays that discuss the act of reading as related to women's agency, "ordinary" critics of the critics, class and consumption, and societal reaction to single-parenthood. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : P.D. James
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 0857861077
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)
Download or read book The Acts of the Apostles written by P.D. James and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James
Author : Henry J. Cadbury
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592449158
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)
Download or read book The Book of Acts in History written by Henry J. Cadbury and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book a foremost New Testament scholar makes a signal contribution to the literature about the times of the first apostles.This period, when the memory of Jesus was fresh yet no written literature about him existed, lends itself well to the descriptive treatment Dr. Cadbury employs. The purpose of these pages, he writes, is to establish not so much the accuracy of the book of Acts as the reality of the scenes and customs and mentality which it reflects.... We can walk where the Apostle Paul walked, see what he saw, and become increasingly at home in his world.Five chapters deal with each of the five cultural strands then existing: Roman, Greek, Jewish, Christian, and cosmopolitan. The sixth attempts to reconstruct the earliest history of the book of Acts.
Author : Winter
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802824332
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Book of Acts in Its Ancient Literary Setting written by Winter and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1993-11-18 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 5 in a series which strives to place the Book of Acts within its first-century setting, Irina Levinskaya employs impressive archaeological research to throw light on the relation of Jews to the societies in which they lived during the period of dispersion. She surveys commonly held views and challenges current views regarding the true nature of Jewish missionary activity.
Author : Joseph Hillis Miller
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804742162
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Speech Acts in Literature written by Joseph Hillis Miller and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary works. Though the founding text of speech act theory, J. L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words, repeatedly expels literature from the domain of felicitous speech acts, literature is an indispensable presence within Austin's book. It contains many literary references but also uses as essential tools literary devices of its own: imaginary stories that serve as examples and imaginary dialogues that forestall potential objections. How to Do Things with Words is not the triumphant establishment of a fully elaborated theory of speech acts, but the story of a failure to do that, the story of what Austin calls a "bogging down." After an introductory chapter that explores Austin's book in detail, the two following chapters show how Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man in different ways challenge Austin's speech act theory generally and his expulsion of literature specifically. Derrida shows that literature cannot be expelled from speech actsrather that what he calls "iterability" means that any speech act may be literature. De Man asserts that speech act theory involves a radical dissociation between the cognitive and positing dimensions of language, what Austin calls language's "constative" and "performative" aspects. Both Derrida and de Man elaborate new speech act theories that form the basis of new notions of responsible and effective politico-ethical decision and action. The fourth chapter explores the role of strong emotion in effective speech acts through a discussion of passages in Derrida, Wittgenstein, and Austin. The final chapter demonstrates, through close readings of three passages in Proust, the way speech act theory can be employed in an illuminating way in the accurate reading of literary works.
Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135773556
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Acts of Religion written by Jacques Derrida and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acts of Religion, compiled in close association with Jacques Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on religion and questions of faith and their relation to philosophy and political culture. The essays discuss religious texts from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions, as well as religious thinkers such as Kant, Levinas, and Gershom Scholem, and comprise pieces spanning Derrida's career. The collection includes two new essays by Derrida that appear here for the first time in any language, as well as a substantial introduction by Gil Anidjar that explores Derrida's return to his own "religious" origins and his attempts to bring to light hidden religious dimensions of the social, cultural, historical, and political.
Author : Martin Dibelius
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451414189
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (141 download)
Download or read book The Book of Acts written by Martin Dibelius and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Provides a fresh perspective on the Book of Acts - Editor's foreword highlights the importance of Dibelius's work - Includes updated notes and bibliographies - Indexes of ancient sources and authors
Author : James Boyd White
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022605635X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Acts of Hope written by James Boyd White and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-08-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To which institutions or social practices should we grant authority? When should we instead assert our own sense of what is right or good or necessary? In this book, James Boyd White shows how texts by some of our most important thinkers and writers—including Plato, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Mandela, and Lincoln—answer these questions, not in the abstract, but in the way they wrestle with the claims of the world and self in particular historical and cultural contexts. As they define afresh the institutions or practices for which they claim (or resist) authority, they create authorities of their own, in the very modes of thought and expression they employ. They imagine their world anew and transform the languages that give it meaning. In so doing, White maintains, these works teach us about how to read and judge claims of authority made by others upon us; how to decide to which institutions and practices we should grant authority; and how to create authorities of our own through our thoughts and arguments. Elegant and accessible, this book will appeal to anyone wanting to better understand one of the primary processes of our social and political lives.
Author : Anthony B. Robinson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802860651
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Called to Be Church written by Anthony B. Robinson and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2006-02-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblical scholar Robert Wall and pastoral leader Anthony Robinson here join forces to bring the Acts of the Apostles forward to our time as a resource for congregational renewal and transformation.Featuring both careful exegetical study and exciting contemporary exposition, the fifteen chapters of Called to Be Church each first interpret the text of Acts as Scripture and then engage Acts for today's church. The book dives into many of the most vexing issues faced by the church then and now -- such issues as conflict resolution, pluralism and multiculturalism, sexuality, money, church and state, the role of the Holy Spirit, and more.Enhanced by study questions at the end of each chapter, Called to Be Church will lend itself especially well to small-group study within congregations. Pastors, lay readers, students, and ordinary believers alike will find the book helpful and inspiring.
Author : Patricia Harkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780130429384
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (293 download)
Download or read book Acts of Reading written by Patricia Harkin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soundly based on principles of recent reading theory and cultural studies, this introduction to reading and writing about literature features explanations, readings, and exercises that focus on the process of how one reads various texts including: poems, plays, stories, film, TV, music, etc. Structures each chapter to include: a short introduction to a reading concept (or moment in the reading process); a selection of canonical and non-canonical works that illustrate the concept; Constructing a Reading exercises -- sequenced prewriting activities that focus on readers' perceptions, feelings, and associations and are designed to increase their awareness of their reading processes. Incorporates popular culture and cultural studies.
Author : Bryan Litfin
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0802492061
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)
Download or read book After Acts written by Bryan Litfin and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really happened after Acts? If you’ve ever wondered what happened to the biblical characters after Acts—from the well-known Matthew to the lesser-known Bartholomew—then this book is for you. Join Dr. Bryan Litfin as he guides you through Scripture and other ancient literature to sift fact from fiction, real-life from legend. Skillfully researched and clearly written, After Acts is as accurate as it is engaging. Gain a window into the religious milieu of the ancient and medieval church. Unearth artifacts and burial sites. Learn what really happened to your favorite characters and what you should truly remember them for. Did Paul ever make it to Spain? Was he beheaded in Rome? Is it true that Peter was crucified upside down? Was the Virgin Mary really bodily assumed into heaven? The book of Acts ends at chapter 28. But its characters lived on.
Author : Sandy Petrey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134983735
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Speech Acts and Literary Theory written by Sandy Petrey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1990, combines an introduction to speech-act theory as developed by J. L. Austin with a survey of critical essays that have adapted Austin's thought for literary analysis. Speech-act theory emphasizes the social reality created when speakers agree that their language is performative - Austin's term for utterances like: "we hereby declare" or "I promise" that produce rather than describe what they name. In contrast to formal linguistics, speech-act theory insists on language's active prominence in the organization of collective life. The first section of the text concentrates on Austin's determination to situate language in society by demonstrating the social conventions manifest in language. The second and third parts of the book discuss literary critics' responses to speech-act theory's socialisation of language, which have both opened new understandings of textuality in general and stimulated new interpretations of individual works. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics and literary theory.
Author : I. Howard Marshall
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802844354
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Witness to the Gospel written by I. Howard Marshall and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished group of scholars here provides a comprehensive survey of the theology of the early church as it is presented by the author of Acts. The twenty-five articles show the current state of scholarship and the main themes of theology in Acts.
Author : David W. J. Gill
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802848475
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (484 download)
Download or read book The Book of Acts in Its Graeco-Roman Setting written by David W. J. Gill and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1994-05 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Acts in Its Graeco-Roman Setting locates the Book of Acts within various regional and cultural settings in the eastern Mediterranean. These studies draw on recent archaeological fieldwork and epigraphic discoveries to describe the key cities and provinces within the Roman Empire. The relevant societal aspects of these regions, such as the Roman legal system, Roman religion, and the problem of transport and travel, all help contextualize the book of Acts.
Author : Luke Timothy Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Literary Function of Possessions in Luke-Acts written by Luke Timothy Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
