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Book Synopsis Christianity's Dangerous Memory by : Diarmuid O'Murchu
Download or read book Christianity's Dangerous Memory written by Diarmuid O'Murchu and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He did not fit into the conventional culture of his day. He questioned many of its core beliefs. He sought to empower the oppressed, and he paid the ultimate price for living this way. Yet 2000 years of tradition has replaced this revolutionary Jesus with an earthly prince - a ruler and hero - rather than the prophetic rebel who changed the course of history.
Book Synopsis Essays on Some of the Dangers to Christian Faith by : Richard Whately
Download or read book Essays on Some of the Dangers to Christian Faith written by Richard Whately and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anamnesis as Dangerous Memory by : Bruce T. Morrill
Download or read book Anamnesis as Dangerous Memory written by Bruce T. Morrill and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anamnesis as Dangerous Memory explores the political theology of Johann Baptist Metz to discover how Christian memory is prophetic both in its revelation of extraordinary circumstances of injustice and the challenge and hope it poses to those who join in solidarity with the oppressed. Liturgical theologian Alexander Schmemann then elaborates how the liturgy reveals the kingdom of God and empowers believers to witness to it. The meeting of these theologies results in a rich eschatology, a life shaped y the vision of a future that fulfills the promises of the past.
Book Synopsis Essays on Some of the Dangers to Christian Faith by : Richard Whately
Download or read book Essays on Some of the Dangers to Christian Faith written by Richard Whately and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays on Some of the Dangers to Christian Faith: Which May Arise From the Teaching or the Conduct of Its Professors; To Which Are Subjoined Three Discourses Delivered on Several Occasions If, in the choice of a subject, I had aimed at obtaining the largest possible share of public favour, I might have fixed on others more likely to be gene rally acceptable than those principally treated of in the following pages. For as the unbeliever is of course disposed to attribute to the intrinsic character of Christianity - to some valid objections which he supposes to lie against the religion itself - any disgust or hostility towards it that may prevail, so, Christians generally may be expected to be more inclined to look for the cause of this in the perversity of adversaries than in any injudicious conduct of its professors and again, the Christians who belong to each de nomination or religious party, are naturally more disposed to look to the faults of another party than of their own. But thinking, as I do, that parties the most op posed to each other have, in different ways, contributed to bring danger and discredit to the Faith, I should have felt it to be a sacrifice of duty if I had, for the sake of conciliating one class, confined my attention to the faults of another, and had thus left unnoticed some portion of the errors which appear to me to be, in the present day, the most prevalent and the most important. It is best that both Scylla and Charybdis should be laid down in the same chart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The End of Memory by : Miroslav Volf
Download or read book The End of Memory written by Miroslav Volf and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Christianity Today Book Award in Christianity and Culture How should we remember atrocities? Should we ever forgive abusers? Can we not hope for final reconciliation, even if it means redeemed victims and perpetrators spending eternity together? We live in an age that insists that past wrongs—genocides, terrorist attacks, bald personal injustices—should never be forgotten. But Miroslav Volf here proposes the radical idea that letting go of such memories—after a certain point and under certain conditions—may actually be a gift of grace we should embrace. Volf’s personal stories of persecution and interrogation frame his search for theological resources to make memories a wellspring of healing rather than a source of deepening pain and animosity. Controversial, thoughtful, and incisively reasoned, The End of Memory begins a conversation that we avoid to our great detriment. This second edition includes an appendix on the memories of perpetrators as well as victims, a response to critics, and a James K. A. Smith interview with Volf about the nature and function of memory in the Christian life.
Book Synopsis A Dangerous Parting by : Nathan L Shedd
Download or read book A Dangerous Parting written by Nathan L Shedd and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traces early Christian interpretations of the story of John the Baptist's death by means of memory theory and reception theory, arguing that early Christians used John's beheading to justify hostility toward Jews"--
Book Synopsis Christianity's Dangerous Idea by : Alister McGrath
Download or read book Christianity's Dangerous Idea written by Alister McGrath and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Interpretation of Protestantism and Its Impact on the World The radical idea that individuals could interpret the Bible for themselves spawned a revolution that is still being played out on the world stage today. This innovation lies at the heart of Protestantism's remarkable instability and adaptability. World-renowned scholar Alister McGrath sheds new light on the fascinating figures and movements that continue to inspire debate and division across the full spectrum of Protestant churches and communities worldwide.
Book Synopsis Communicating a Dangerous Memory by : Fred Lawrence
Download or read book Communicating a Dangerous Memory written by Fred Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reflections on the Evils of Christianity by : Jonathan Darien
Download or read book Reflections on the Evils of Christianity written by Jonathan Darien and published by Writers Club Press. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether or not you believe in God, Reflections on the Evils of Christianity is important, shocking, and perhaps true. The insights are acute, the humor is biting, and the philosophy is serious. You may disagree; you may even get angry at the ideas in this book, but there is no escaping that they are important. Drawing on ideas from the Bible to Aristotle to Hume, Jonathan Darien engages every angle: he challenges Christianity; he challenges atheism; he even challenges God himself. He tells us why Christianity is dangerous; why not knowing what you believe is dangerous; and how your beliefs make up your life. Written as a series of short, easy-to-read thoughts, Reflections on the Evils of Christianity is an absolute must for our generation.
Book Synopsis Redeeming Memories by : Flora A. Keshgegian
Download or read book Redeeming Memories written by Flora A. Keshgegian and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the church has often been complicit in regimes of domination that have perpetrated abuse, persecution, and violence, Keshgegian reminds us that the witness of the church is to remember for transformation. Such remembrance is shaped by the narrative of Jesus' life and ministry, death and resurrection--knit together in the promise of incarnation. The church as a community of remembrance honors and preserves memories of suffering, evokes and validates memories of resistance, and actively supports, embodies, and celebrates memories of connection and life affirmation. In particular, Keshgegian draws our attention to those who have suffered childhood sexual abuse, victims of the Armenian genocide and the Jewish Holocaust, and other historically disinherited peoples and groups. With such powerful memories of suffering in mind, she insists that redeeming memories is the purpose and mission of the church. Keshgegian challenges us to understand that the redemptive potential of the memory of Jesus Christ will be made known and realized by the capacity of that memory to hold and carry not only the story of Jesus, but of all those who suffer, struggle, live, and die. "In Redeeming Memories Keshgegian contributes a unique and well-developed amendment to the growing literature on theologies of memory. Too often, she notes, experiences of suffering and abuse are treated as though they are absolute. Yet these experiences characteristically encompass ambiguity and doubt. In order to 'face the past in new ways,' survivors must first enter back into their experiences, 'undigested and disconnected,' without certainty. Transformation occurs when it is not only the suffering that is remembered, but when 'instances of resistance and agency' are incorporated into the 'testimony and witness.' Keshgegian develops her understanding of how remembering is redemptive in two sections. The first considers contemporary movements of communities that have suffered childhood sexual abuse, the Armenian genocide and the Jewish holocaust, and historical marginalization. Keshgegian herself is Armenian, drawing from a wealth of examples from her family's stories in explaining her understanding of the dynamics of remembering. In part two, she turns to a theological reconstruction of memory, where we are called to understand witness as 'withness' that moves beyond solidarity with victims to 'active participation in redemption.' We are charged also to tell the story of Jesus Christ in complex ways that honor the fullness of life as well as the cross. Finally, we are invited to understand worship as a time when 'we remember God and God remembers us'--the church as a place where remembering past suffering walks hand-in-hand with responding to present need. Keshgegian's book is beautifully written and well argued, compelling us to enter into the ambiguous, redemptive work of memory it so well describes."--Cynthia Rigby, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Religious Studies Review, Volume 29 Number 3, July 2003.
Book Synopsis Surprise of Reconciliation in the Catholic Tradition, The by : Carney, J. J.
Download or read book Surprise of Reconciliation in the Catholic Tradition, The written by Carney, J. J. and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the contribution that could be made by the Catholic historical tradition to Christian social reconciliation. The authors hope that their work will result in fruitful Christian peacebuilding.
Book Synopsis Essays on Some of the Dangers to Christian Faith by : Richard Whately
Download or read book Essays on Some of the Dangers to Christian Faith written by Richard Whately and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki by : Gwyn McClelland
Download or read book Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki written by Gwyn McClelland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 9th August 1945, the US dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Of the dead, approximately 8500 were Catholic Christians, representing over sixty percent of the community. In this collective biography, nine Catholic survivors share personal and compelling stories about the aftermath of the bomb and their lives since that day. Examining the Catholic community’s interpretation of the A-bomb, this book not only uses memory to provide a greater understanding of the destruction of the bombing, but also links it to the past experiences of religious persecution, drawing comparisons with the ‘Secret Christian’ groups which survived in the Japanese countryside after the banning of Christianity. Through in-depth interviews, it emerges that the memory of the atomic bomb is viewed through the lens of a community which had experienced suffering and marginalisation for more than 400 years. Furthermore, it argues that their dangerous memory confronts Euro-American-centric narratives of the atomic bombings, whilst also challenging assumptions around a providential bomb. Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki presents the voices of Catholics, many of whom have not spoken of their losses within the framework of their faith before. As such, it will be invaluable to students and scholars of Japanese history, religion and war history.
Book Synopsis Faith in History and Society by : Johann Baptist Metz
Download or read book Faith in History and Society written by Johann Baptist Metz and published by Herder & Herder. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first appearance in 1977, this book continues to be the single most important text for understanding the theology of Johann Baptist Metz, one of the founders of the "new political theology." Metz's thesis is that the crisis that Christianity faces "is not primarily a crisis of its message, but rather a crisis of its subjects and institutions, which have pulled back all too far from the inevitable practical meaning of its message and in so doing have undercut its intelligible power." In response to this problem he offers a definition of a practical fundamental theology and, in the second part of the book, tests it against a number of issues in Christology, ecclesiology, and fundamental theology. In the third and concluding section the book devotes a chapter each to the three basic categories of the new political theology: memory, narrative, and solidarity. It is in recalling the dangerous memory of Jesus' passion, death, and resurrection, telling and retelling the dangerous stories of Jesus and those who follow him, and exercising a mystical-political discipleship of solidarity with those who don't count in our progressive, technological societies (including a solidarity of memory with the dead) that Christianity can recover its political voice without becoming simply a religious paraphrase of political and social processes. Book jacket.
Download or read book Come Follow Me written by Aidan Donaldson and published by Columba Press (IE). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing theology in the context of real social experience, and matters of HIV/AIDS, poverty, and oppression, the author brings to life Gospel passages of enormous relevance today.
Download or read book Abusing Memory written by Jane Gumprecht and published by Canon Press & Book Service. This book was released on 1997 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agnes Sanford has long been hailed as the mother of the Inner Healing/Healing of Memories movement. Though her methods are popular in various segments of the Church, they are anything but Christian. Dr. Gumprecht explores the beginnings of this religious arm of the New Age movement, focusing on Agnes Sanford's rebellion against the orthodox church, her understanding of God's will in connection with suffering, her involvement with New Age leader Emmet Fox, and more.
Book Synopsis A Dangerous Parting by : NATHAN L. SHEDD
Download or read book A Dangerous Parting written by NATHAN L. SHEDD and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Execution by beheading is a highly symbolic act. The grisly image of the severed head evokes a particular social and cultural location, functioning as a channel of figurative discourse specific to a place and time--dissuading nonideal behavior as well as expressing and reinforcing group boundary demarcations and ideological assumptions. In short, a bodiless head serves as a discursive vehicle of communication: though silenced, it speaks. Employing social memory theory and insights from a thorough analysis of ancient ideology concerning beheading, A Dangerous Parting explores the communicative impact of the tradition of John the Baptist's decapitation in the first three centuries of the Common Era. Nathan Shedd argues that the early memory of the Immerser's death is characterized by a dangerous synchroneity. On the one hand, John's beheading, associated as it was with Jesus' crucifixion, served as the locus of destabilizing and redistributing the degradation of a victim who undergoes bodily violence; both John and Jesus were mutually vindicated as victims of somatic violence. On the other hand, as John's head was remembered in the second and third century, localized expressions of the Parting of the Ways were inscribed onto that parted head with dangerous anti-Jewish implications. Justin Martyr and Origen represent an attempt to align John's beheading and Jesus' crucifixion along a cultural schematic that asserted the destitution of non-Christ-following Jews and, simultaneously, alleged Christians' ethical, ideological, and spiritual supremacy. A Dangerous Parting uncovers interpretive possibilities of John's beheading, especially regarding the deep-rooted patterns of thinking that have animated indifference to acts of physical violence against Jews throughout history. With this work, Shedd not only pushes John the Baptist research forward to consider the impact of this figure in early expressions of Jewish and Christian distinction, but also urges scholars and students alike to contemplate the ethics of reading ancient texts.
