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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567094179
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (941 download)
Download or read book Nicene & Post-Nicene Series 2 Vol 8 written by and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1980-05-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Awabdy
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004409831
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Leviticus written by Mark Awabdy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Leviticus Awabdy offers the first commentary on the Greek version of Leviticus in Codex Vaticanus (4th century CE), illuminating its diverse messages and theology through an interpretation of its format, lexical forms and textual variants, syntax and pragmatics.
Author : David B. Kopel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440832781
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Morality of Self-Defense and Military Action written by David B. Kopel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shedding new light on a controversial and intriguing issue, this book will reshape the debate on how the Judeo-Christian tradition views the morality of personal and national self-defense. Are self-defense, national warfare, and revolts against tyranny holy duties—or violations of God's will? Pacifists insist these actions are the latter, forbidden by Judeo-Christian morality. This book maintains that the pacifists are wrong. To make his case, the author analyzes the full sweep of Judeo-Christian history from earliest times to the present, combining history, scriptural analysis, and philosophy to describe the changes and continuity of Jewish and Christian doctrine about the use of lethal force. He reveals the shifting patterns of thought in both religions and presents the strongest arguments on both sides of the issue. The book begins with the ancient Hebrews and Genesis and covers Jewish history through the Holocaust and beyond. The analysis then shifts to the story of Christianity from its origins, through the Middle Ages and the Reformation, up the present day. Based on this scrutiny, the author concludes that—contrary to popular belief—the legitimacy of self-defense is strongly supported by Judeo-Christian scripture and commentary, by philosophical analysis, and by the respect for human dignity and human rights on which both Judaism and Christianity are based.
Author : Christopher Ben Simpson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567301141
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (673 download)
Download or read book Merleau-Ponty and Theology written by Christopher Ben Simpson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophical contributions of French phenomenologist, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, carry great untapped potential for theologians thinking through some of the central affirmations of the Christian faith. This exploration is structured against the background of the fundamental interrelation between three "bodies" in Merleau-Ponty's thought and in Christian theology: the material as such or "nature" (the corporeal), the human body as a living body (the corporal), and the social body (the corporate-including language and tradition). Merleau-Ponty's philosophy offers a finessed and non-reductionistic understanding of the relations between these orders of bodies. Appropriating Merleau-Ponty's thought helps one think through Christian doctrines of creation, theological anthropology, Christology, ecclesiology, and eschatology.
Author : Margaret E Ramey
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718845803
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)
Download or read book The Quest for the Fictional Jesus written by Margaret E Ramey and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost two millennia, Jesus' story has been retold in various forms and fashions but in the last century a new way of reimagining the man from Galilee has sprung up in the form of novels about the life ofJesus. While the novels themselves are asvaried as their authors, this work aims to introduce readers to some common literary strategies and theological agendas found in this phenomenon by surveying a few prominent examples. It also explores the question of what happens when we examine theintertextual play between these reimaginings and their Gospel progenitors as we allow these contemporary novels to pose new questions to their ancient counterparts. An intriguing hermeneutical circle ensues as we embark on our quest for the fictional Jesus and accompany his incarnations as they lead us back to re-examine the canonical portraits of Jesus anew.
Author : Scot McKnight
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418576131
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Fasting written by Scot McKnight and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2010-12-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fasting is the body talking what the spirit yearns, what the soul longs for, and what the mind knows to be true.” — Scot McKnight Christianity has traditionally been at odds with the human body. At times in the history of the church, Christians have viewed the body and physical desires as the enemy. Now, Scot McKnight, best-selling author of The Jesus Creed , reconnects the spiritual and the physical in the ancient discipline of fasting. Inside You'll Find: In-depth biblical precedents for the practice of fasting; How to fast effectively—and safely; Different methods of fasting as practiced in the Bible; Straight talk on pitfalls, such as cheating and motivation. Join McKnight as he explores the idea of “whole-body spirituality,” in which fasting plays a central role. This ancient practice, he says, doesn’t make sense to most of us until we have grasped the importance of the body for our spirituality, until we can view it as a spiritual response to a sacred moment. Fasting—simple, primitive, and ancient—still demonstrates a whole person’s earnest need and hunger for the presence of God, just as it has in the lives of God’s people throughout history. The Ancient Practices There is a hunger in every human heart for connection, primitive and raw, to God. To satisfy it, many are beginning to explore traditional spiritual disciplines used for centuries . . . everything from fixed-hour prayer to fasting to sincere observance of the Sabbath. Compelling and readable, the Ancient Practices series is for every spiritual sojourner, for every Christian seeker who wants more.
Author : Robert Emmet Meagher
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630874523
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Killing from the Inside Out written by Robert Emmet Meagher and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armies know all about killing. It is what they do, and ours does it more effectively than most. We are painfully coming to realize, however, that we are also especially good at killing our own "from the inside out," silently, invisibly. In every major war since Korea, more of our veterans have taken their lives than have lost them in combat. The latest research, rooted in veteran testimony, reveals that the most severe and intractable PTSD--fraught with shame, despair, and suicide--stems from "moral injury." But how can there be rampant moral injury in what our military, our government, our churches, and most everyone else call just wars? At the root of our incomprehension lies just war theory--developed, expanded, and updated across the centuries to accommodate the evolution of warfare, its weaponry, its scale, and its victims. Any serious critique of war, as well any true attempt to understand the profound, invisible wounds it inflicts, will be undermined from the outset by the unthinking and all-but-universal acceptance of just war doctrine. Killing from the Inside Out radically questions that theory, examines its legacy, and challenges us to look beyond it, beyond just war.
Author : Mika Ojakangas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623567203
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)
Download or read book The Voice of Conscience written by Mika Ojakangas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Western thought, it has been persistently assumed that in moral and political matters, people should rely on the inner voice of conscience rather than on external authorities, laws, and regulations. This volume investigates this concept, examining the development of the Western politics of conscience, from Socrates to the present, and the formation of the Western ethico-political subject. The work opens with a discussion of the ambiguous role of conscience in politics, contesting the claim that it is the best defense against totalitarianism. It then look back at canonical authors, from the Church Fathers and Luther to Rousseau and Derrida, to show how the experience of conscience constitutes the foundation of Western ethics and politics. This unique work not only synthesizes philosophical and political insights, but also pays attention to political theology to provide a compelling and innovative argument that the experience of conscience has always been at the core of the political Western tradition. An engaging and accessible text, it will appeal to political theorists and philosophers as well as theologians and those interested in the critique of the Western civilization.
Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532634110
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book The Early Church at Work and Worship - Volume 3 written by Everett Ferguson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume of Ferguson's collected essays, and includes some of his most memorable work, especially on "laying on of hands."
Author : Christopher Pierson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199673284
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Just Property written by Christopher Pierson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the complex lineages of thinking about private property from ancient to modern times. It challenges a number of deep-seated assumptions we make about the incontestability of private property by building a careful and extended account of where these assumptions came from.
Author : Thomas G. Weinandy
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506406297
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Athanasius and His Legacy written by Thomas G. Weinandy and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap., and Daniel A. Keating introduce readers to one the key thinkers of the fourth century and the chief architect of Christian doctrine: Athanasius. The authors carefully illuminate Athanasius‘s crucial text Against the Arians, unfolding the Trinitarian and incarnation framework of Athanasius‘s paramount concern (soteriology), and providing, in the second part, a robust map of the reception and influence of Athanasius‘s thought-from its immediate impact on the late fourth and fifth centuries (in the Cappadocians and Cyril) to its significance in the Eastern and Western traditions and its reception in contemporary thought.
Author : William C. Ingle-Gillis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351880934
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Trinity and Ecumenical Church Thought written by William C. Ingle-Gillis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some hundred years from inception, the ecumenical movement is stagnating. William C. Ingle-Gillis argues that the problem lies in modern ecumenism’s treatment of denominational Churches as provisional entities requiring reunion to be more fully Christ’s Body. In a work unique both to ecumenical studies and to trinitarian theology, the author redefines ecclesial life from the premise that God’s essence is personhood-in-communion and that the ultimate calling of human persons is to share as fully in the divine life as Christ himself. Concluding that the Churches are, by the Spirit’s action, a tangible, dynamic event, wherein God makes visible his on-going reconciliation of the world to himself, Ingle-Gillis argues that the Churches’ true life lies in coming-together, rather than being-together. This conclusion places ecumenism at the heart of Church life and witness.
Author : James D. Gifford Jr.
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630879622
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Perichoretic Salvation written by James D. Gifford Jr. and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two thousand years, Christian theologians have struggled to explain the believer's union with Christ. What sort of union is it? How can it be fully described? This book is an attempt to join the conversation to explore exactly what it means to be in union with Christ. This book will argue that the believer's union with Christ can rightly be presented as a third type of perichoresis. Perichoresis is a word that describes the way the persons of the Trinity interrelate, without losing their essential oneness nor without being absorbed into each other. In short, the doctrine of perichoresis preserves the unity and diversity within the Godhead. It is also used to describe the hypostatic union of the divine and human in Christ. In Perichoretic Salvation, James Gifford argues that the union of the believer and Christ is a relationship of the same kind, though of a third type. Arguing from a perspective that is rooted biblically, historically, and theologically, the book will allow the union to be explained more fully than in the past while remaining within the bounds of what the church has taught over the centuries. It may prove to be a basis for understanding the work of Christ afresh for the twenty-first century.
Author : Philip Schaff
Publisher : Bloomsbury T&T Clark
ISBN 13 : 9780567094179
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (941 download)
Download or read book Nicene & Post-Nicene Series 2 Vol 8 written by Philip Schaff and published by Bloomsbury T&T Clark. This book was released on 1980-05-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David G. Horrell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567266850
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (672 download)
Download or read book Ecological Hermeneutics written by David G. Horrell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars reflect critically on the kinds of appeal to the Bible that have been made in environmental ethics and ecotheoloogy and engage with biblical texts with a view towards exploring their contribution to an ecological ethics. The essays explore the kind of hermeneutic necessary for such engagement to be fruitful for contemporary theology and ethics. Crucial to such broad reflection is the bringing together of a range of perspectives: biblical studies, historical theology, hermeneutics, and theological ethics. The thematic coherence of the book is provided by the running focus on the ways in which biblical texts have been, or might be, read. This volume is not about ecotheology, but is instead about ecological hermeneutics. Indeed, some essays show where biblical texts, or particular approaches in the history of interpretation, represent anthropocentric or even anti-ecological moves. One of the overall aims of the book is to suggest how, and why, an ecological hermeneutic might be developed, and the kinds of intepretive choices that are required in such a development.
Author : Karen R. Keen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467465348
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)
Download or read book The Word of a Humble God written by Karen R. Keen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Scripture is a spring of life-giving, life-altering truth, but when we don’t understand how and why it came to us, we end up misusing it.” How did we get the Bible? And why does it matter? History reveals that Scripture can be used for both life-giving and destructive purposes. Discovering the Bible’s origins makes all the difference for fostering redemptive interpretation of Scripture. Bringing together both historical criticism and theology, this investigation examines ancient scribal culture through the lens of faith. What we find is a divine-human collaboration that points to the character of God and the value of human agency. In this concise presentation of a breadth of scholarship usually only found across multiple volumes, Karen Keen offers a vital introduction to the material origins of the Bible, theories of inspiration, and the history of biblical interpretation—with reflections on what this all means for us as we read Scripture today. Through the ins and outs of these important topics, and with the aid of thought-provoking questions and learning activities at the end of each chapter, Keen argues that the Bible and its origins reveal a humble God who invites us to imitate that humility—a humility that is itself the most powerful antidote to the misinterpretation and abuse of Scripture.
Author : Saint Augustine
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813211867
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Four Anti-Pelagian Writings (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 86) written by Saint Augustine and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No description available
