Felix Culpa

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Publisher : Scribe Us
ISBN 13 : 9781947534674
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (346 download)

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Book Synopsis Felix Culpa by : Jeremy Gavron

Download or read book Felix Culpa written by Jeremy Gavron and published by Scribe Us. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work of extraordinary literary alchemy: a novel made out of lines taken from a hundred great works of literature.

Felix Culpa

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Publisher : Novum Testamentum, Supplements
ISBN 13 : 9789004460959
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis Felix Culpa by : Peter-Ben Smit

Download or read book Felix Culpa written by Peter-Ben Smit and published by Novum Testamentum, Supplements. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Felix culpa: Ritual Failure and Theological Innovation in Early Christianity, Peter-Ben Smit argues that ritual developments were key to the development of early Christianity. Focusing on rituals that go wrong, he shows precisely how ritual infelicities are a catalyst for reflection upon ritual and their development in terms of their performance as well as the meaning attributed to them. Smit discusses texts from the Pauline epistles and the Gospel of Mark, and provides a chapter on Philo of Alexandria by way of contextualization in the Greco-Roman world. By stressing the importance of ritual, the present book invites a reconsideration of all too doctrinally focused approaches to early Christian communities and identities. It also highlights the embodied and performative character of what being in Christ amounted to two millennia ago"--

The Positive Function of Evil

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023024226X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis The Positive Function of Evil by : P. Tabensky

Download or read book The Positive Function of Evil written by P. Tabensky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the controversial and perhaps even abject idea that evils, large and small, human and natural, may have a central positive function to play in our lives. For centuries a concern of religious thinkers from the Christian tradition, very little systematic work has been done to explore this idea from the secular point of view.

Moral Language

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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299086305
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Book Synopsis Moral Language by : Mary Gore Forrester

Download or read book Moral Language written by Mary Gore Forrester and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widespread disagreements about matters of right and wrong have led many philosophers and non-philosophers to conclude that moral knowledge is impossible. Nevertheless, we all make moral pronouncement every day. In this book, Mary Gore Forrester considers the nature of the language we use in ordinary life to make those moral evaluations, what that language indicates about the criteria we use for making such evaluations, and the conditions for determining the truth or falsity of moral evaluations. Specialists in ordinary language philosophy will enjoy Forrester's arguments to the effect that the descriptivist's position on moral language is correct and that non-descriptivist positions on the matter can be disproved.

A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature

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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802836342
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (363 download)

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Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature by : David Lyle Jeffrey

Download or read book A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature written by David Lyle Jeffrey and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 15 years in the making, an unprecedented one-volume reference work. Many of today's students and teachers of literature, lacking a familiarity with the Bible, are largely ignorant of how Biblical tradition has influenced and infused English literature through the centuries. An invaluable research tool. Contains nearly 800 encyclopedic articles written by a distinguished international roster of 190 contributors. Three detailed annotated bibliographies. Cross-references throughout.

The Greater-Good Defence

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349224901
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Book Synopsis The Greater-Good Defence by : Melville Y. Stewart

Download or read book The Greater-Good Defence written by Melville Y. Stewart and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-01-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Clowns

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Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802133755
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Book Synopsis On Clowns by : Norman Manea

Download or read book On Clowns written by Norman Manea and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survivor of the Nazi camps and Ceausescu's Romania, winner of the National Book Award, recipient of a MacArthur Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Norman Manea, an extraordinary man of letters, gives us a taste of something beyond the scope of even our twentieth-century imagination. . . . Manea is too profound a witness to place his gift for observation in the service of another sensualist account. . . . What matters for him is the phenomenon of an entire nation's life under this simultaneously grotesque and terrifying rule. -- The New Republic

Incarnation Anyway

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Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Incarnation Anyway by : Edwin Christian van Driel

Download or read book Incarnation Anyway written by Edwin Christian van Driel and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book raises in a new way a formerly central but recently neglected question in systematic theology: what is the divine motive for the incarnation? Throughout Christian history theologians have agreed that God's decision to become incarnate in the person of Jesus Christ was made necessary by humanity's fall from grace. If Adam and Eve had not sinned, the incarnation would not have happened. This position is known as "infralapsarian." In the 19th and 20th centuries, however, some major theological figures championed a "supralapsarian" Christology, arguing that God had always intended the incarnation, independent of "the Fall." Edwin van Driel offers the first scholarly monograph to map and analyze the full range of supralapsarian arguments. He gives a thick description of each argument and its theological consequences, and evaluates the theological gains and losses inherent in each approach. Van Driel shows that each of the three ways in which God is thought to relate to all that is not God DL in creation, in redemption, and in eschatological consummation DL can serve as the basis for a supralapsarian argument. He illustrates this thesis with detailed case studies of the Christologies of Schleiermacher, Dorner, and Barth. He concludes that the most fruitful supralapsarian strategy is rooted in the notion of eschatological consummation, taking interpersonal interaction with God to be the goal of the incarnation. He goes on to develop his own argument along these lines, concluding in an eschatological vision in which God is visually, audibly, and tangibly present in the midst of God's people.

The Problem of Evil

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Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268100357
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Book Synopsis The Problem of Evil by : Michael L. Peterson

Download or read book The Problem of Evil written by Michael L. Peterson and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the issues in the philosophy of religion, the problem of reconciling belief in God with evil in the world arguably commands more attention than any other. For over two decades, Michael L. Peterson’s The Problem of Evil: Selected Readings has been the most widely recognized and used anthology on the subject. Peterson's expanded and updated second edition retains the key features of the original and presents the main positions and strategies in the latest philosophical literature on the subject. It will remain the most complete introduction to the subject as well as a resource for advanced study. Peterson organizes his selection of classical and contemporary sources into four parts: important statements addressing the problem of evil from great literature and classical philosophy; debates based on the logical, evidential, and existential versions of the problem; major attempts to square God's justice with the presence of evil, such as Augustinian, Irenaean, process, openness, and felix culpa theodicies; and debates on the problem of evil covering such concepts as a best possible world, natural evil and natural laws, gratuitous evil, the skeptical theist defense, and the bearing of biological evolution on the problem. The second edition includes classical excerpts from the book of Job, Voltaire, Dostoevsky, Augustine, Aquinas, Leibniz, and Hume, and twenty-five essays that have shaped the contemporary discussion, by J. L. Mackie, Alvin Plantinga, William Rowe, Marilyn Adams, John Hick, William Hasker, Paul Draper, Michael Bergmann, Eleonore Stump, Peter van Inwagen, and numerous others. Whether a professional philosopher, student, or interested layperson, the reader will be able to work through a number of issues related to how evil in the world affects belief in God.

The Redeemed Good Defense

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666709840
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Book Synopsis The Redeemed Good Defense by : Anthony MacPherson

Download or read book The Redeemed Good Defense written by Anthony MacPherson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why God?" Everyday this question is uttered in sorrow, bewilderment, or anger. This cry is the problem of suffering. It is also known as the problem of evil. It asks why a good, all-powerful God allows evil and pain. Theodicy is the name of the theological responses that seek to defend God against charges of unfairness. Traditional theodicies have been accused of intensifying the problem by claiming that God is justified in allowing evil because he uses it to bring about a greater good. This greater-good approach has been criticized in more recent times. It seems to uncomfortably align God and evil too closely together. Does God need evil in order to bring good? This study explores an alternative stream of theodicy found in the idea of cosmic warfare. In this theodicy God fights evil in its moral, physical, spiritual, and supernatural forms. This book explores the world of theodicy and its cosmic warfare forms. It navigates the theological and ethical minefields involved. Building on the idea that God is in the midst of a great cosmic controversy, it seeks to further the conversation and articulates a new alternative "redeemed good defense."

The Image of God

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192663666
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Book Synopsis The Image of God by : Eleonore Stump

Download or read book The Image of God written by Eleonore Stump and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of evil has generated varying attempts at theodicy. To show that suffering is defeated for a sufferer, a theodicy argues that there is an outweighing benefit which could not have been gotten without the suffering. Typically, this condition has the tacit presupposition given that this is a post-Fall world. Consequently, there is a sense in which human suffering would not be shown to be defeated even if there were a successful theodicy because a theodicy typically implies that the benefit in question could have been gotten without the suffering if there had not been a Fall. There is a part of the problem of evil that would remain, then, even if there were a successful theodicy. This is the problem of mourning: even defeated suffering in the post-Fall world merits mourning. How is this warranted mourning compatible with the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent, perfectly good God? The traditional response to this problem is the felix culpa view, which maintains that the original sin was fortunate because there is an outweighing benefit to sufferers that could not be gotten in a world without suffering. The felix culpa view presupposes an object of evaluation, namely, the true self of a human being, and a standard of evaluation for human lives. This book explores these and a variety of other topics in philosophical theology in order to explain and evaluate the role of suffering in human lives.

The Reformation in Rhyme

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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754663263
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Book Synopsis The Reformation in Rhyme by : Beth Quitslund

Download or read book The Reformation in Rhyme written by Beth Quitslund and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Whole Booke of Psalmes was one of the most published and widely read books of early modern England, running to over 800 editions between the 1570s and the early eighteenth century. It offered all of the Psalms paraphrased in verse with appropriate tunes, together with an assortment of other scriptural and non-scriptual hymns, and was rapidly (if unofficially) adopted by the established English Church. Yet, despite the significant impact of the Whole Booke of Psalmes upon English culture and literature, this is the first book-length study of it, and the first sustained critical examination of the texts of which it comprises. By tracing the ways in which historical contingency, religious fervor and the print marketplace together created and were changed by one of the most successful books of English verse ever printed, this study opens a new window through which to view the intellectual and ecclesiastical culture of Tudor England.

Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil

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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802826978
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (269 download)

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Book Synopsis Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil by : Peter Van Inwagen

Download or read book Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil written by Peter Van Inwagen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers some of the most meaningful recent reflections on the problem of evil.

The Problem of Evil

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004459030
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Evil written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an intercultural exploration of the full scope of evil. The problems of evil have beset humanity throughout the ages and continue to trouble us. The studies here examine evil in Asian thought, in Western theory, in the cosmic order, in human psychology, and in social practice. Insights are added to the philosophical discussions from religion, culture, history, law, technology, and literature.

John Wesley's Scriptural Christianity

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Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 031075321X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis John Wesley's Scriptural Christianity by : Thomas C. Oden

Download or read book John Wesley's Scriptural Christianity written by Thomas C. Oden and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important work condenses the teachings of John Wesley--18 massive teachings and writings--into one remarkably consistent, highly accessible volume for the masses. This first book in a series is based primarily on Wesley's sermons. Later books will deal with his pastoral and ethical teachings. *Lightning Print On Demand Title

The School of Hawthorne

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195363027
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The School of Hawthorne written by Richard H. Brodhead and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990-02-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The School of Hawthorne, Brodhead uses Hawthorne as a prime example of how literary traditions are made, not born. Under Brodhead's scrutiny, the Hawthorne tradition opens out onto a wide array of subjects, many of which have received little previous attention. He offers a detailed account of Hawthorne's life in American letters, showing how authors as varied as Melville, Howells, James, and Faulkner have learned from Hawthorne's model while all the while changing the terms in which he has been read. As he traces Hawthorne's continued life among his heirs, Brodhead also reflects on the ways in which writers receive and resist official tradition, how their work is conditioned by the institutionalized pasts that surround them, and how they go about creating new traditions to counter existing ones. An important contribution to literary history, The School of Hawthorne also establishes new ways in which literary history itself can be understood.

Supralapsarianism Reconsidered

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567714799
Total Pages : 257 pages
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Book Synopsis Supralapsarianism Reconsidered by : Phillip A. Hussey

Download or read book Supralapsarianism Reconsidered written by Phillip A. Hussey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phillip A. Hussey examines the scholarship of Jonathan Edwards and interrogates the relationship between Christ and the decree within Reformed Theology; and reveals the contemporary theological significance of supralapsarian Christology. In a late notebook entry, Jonathan Edwards offered a programmatic statement on the relation between Christ and predestination: “In that grand decree of predestination, or the sum of God's decrees...the appointment of Christ, or the decree respecting his person...must be considered first.” This work unpacks the scope of Edwards's statement, both in terms of setting forth an interpretation of Edwards's own theology on the relation between Christ and the decree, as well as drawing out the larger insights of Edwards's reasoning for current theological reflection.