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Partial Faiths

Author : John A. McClure
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820336602
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Partial Faiths written by John A. McClure and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritual conversions figure heavily in such novels as Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, Toni Morrison's Paradise, and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine. What connects such varied works is that their convert-characters are disenchanted with secularism yet apprehensive of dogmatic religiosity. Partial Faiths is the first study to identify a body of contemporary fiction in such terms, take the measure of its structures and strategies, and evaluate its contribution to public discourse on religion's place in postmodern life. Postsecularism is most often associated with philosophers and theorists such as Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, William Connolly, Jürgen Habermas, and Gianni Vattimo. But it is also being explored and invented, says John A. McClure, by many novelists: Leslie Marmon Silko, Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje, and N. Scott Momaday among others. These novelists, who are often regarded as belonging to different domains of contemporary fiction, are fleshing out the postsecular issues that scholars treat more abstractly. But the modes of belief elaborated in these novels and the new narrative forms synchronized with these modes are dramatically partial and open-ended. Postsecular fiction does not aspire to any full "mapping" of the reenchanted cosmos or any formal moral code, nor does it promise anything like full redemption. It is partial in another sense as well: it is emphatically dedicated to progressive ideals of social transformation and well-being, in repudiation of resurgent fundamentalist prescriptions for the same.

A Partial Enlightenment

Author : Avram Alpert
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231553390
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book A Partial Enlightenment written by Avram Alpert and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many ways, Buddhism has become the global religion of the modern world. For its contemporary followers, the ideal of enlightenment promises inner peace and worldly harmony. And whereas other philosophies feel abstract and disembodied, Buddhism offers meditation as a means to realize this ideal. If we could all be as enlightened as Buddhists, some imagine, we could live in a much better world. For some time now, however, this beatific image of Buddhism has been under attack. Scholars and practitioners have criticized it as a Western fantasy that has nothing to do with the actual experiences of Buddhists. Avram Alpert combines personal experience and readings of modern novels to offer another way to understand modern Buddhism. He argues that it represents a rich resource not for attaining perfection but rather for finding meaning and purpose in a chaotic world. Finding unexpected affinities across world literature—Rudyard Kipling in colonial India, Yukio Mishima in postwar Japan, Bessie Head escaping apartheid South Africa—as well as in his own experiences living with Tibetan exiles, Alpert shows how these stories illuminate a world in which suffering is inevitable and total enlightenment is impossible. Yet they also give us access to partial enlightenments: powerful insights that become available when we come to terms with imperfection and stop looking for wholeness. A Partial Enlightenment reveals the moments of personal and social transformation that the inventions of modern Buddhism help make possible.

Christian Faith, Comprehensive, Not Partial; Definite, Not Uncertain

Author : William Edward Jelf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Faith, Comprehensive, Not Partial; Definite, Not Uncertain written by William Edward Jelf and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Christian faith, comprehensive, not partial; definite, not uncertain, sermons at the lecture founded by John Bampton

Author : William Edward Jelf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Christian faith, comprehensive, not partial; definite, not uncertain, sermons at the lecture founded by John Bampton written by William Edward Jelf and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thomas Pynchon in Context

Author : Inger H. Dalsgaard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108752705
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Pynchon in Context written by Inger H. Dalsgaard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pynchon in Context guides students, scholars and other readers through the global scope and prolific imagination of Pynchon's challenging, canonical work, providing the most up-to-date and authoritative scholarly analyses of his writing. This book is divided into three parts. The first, 'Times and Places', sets out the history and geographical contexts both for the setting of Pynchon's novels and his own life. The second, 'Culture, Politics and Society', examines twenty important and recurring themes which most clearly define Pynchon's writing - ranging from ideas in philosophy and the sciences to humor and pop culture. The final part, 'Approaches and Readings', outlines and assesses ways to read and understand Pynchon. Consisting of Forty-four essays written by some of the world's leading scholars, this volume outlines the most important contexts for understanding Pynchon's writing and helps readers interpret and reference his literary work.

Imagining Judeo-Christian America

Author : K. Healan Gaston
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022666385X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Judeo-Christian America written by K. Healan Gaston and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Judeo-Christian” is a remarkably easy term to look right through. Judaism and Christianity obviously share tenets, texts, and beliefs that have strongly influenced American democracy. In this ambitious book, however, K. Healan Gaston challenges the myth of a monolithic Judeo-Christian America. She demonstrates that the idea is not only a recent and deliberate construct, but also a potentially dangerous one. From the time of its widespread adoption in the 1930s, the ostensible inclusiveness of Judeo-Christian terminology concealed efforts to promote particular conceptions of religion, secularism, and politics. Gaston also shows that this new language, originally rooted in arguments over the nature of democracy that intensified in the early Cold War years, later became a marker in the culture wars that continue today. She argues that the debate on what constituted Judeo-Christian—and American—identity has shaped the country’s religious and political culture much more extensively than previously recognized.

Partial Truths and Our Common Future

Author : Donald A. Crosby
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438471351
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Partial Truths and Our Common Future written by Donald A. Crosby and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that a pluralistic understanding of truth can foster productive conversations about common concerns involving religion, science, ethics, politics, economics, and ecology without falling into relativism. In this book, Donald A. Crosby defends the idea that all claims to truth are at best partial. Recognizing this, he argues, is a necessary safeguard against arrogance, close-mindedness, and potentially violent reactions to differences of outlook and practice. Crosby demonstrates how “partial truths” are inevitably at work in conversations and debates about religion, science, morality, economics, ecology, and social and political progress. He then focuses on the concept in the discipline of philosophy, looking at a number of distinctions that are taken to be strictly binary—those between fact and value, continuity and novelty, rationalism and empiricism, mind and body, and good and evil—and demonstrates how in all of these cases, each on its own can offer only an incomplete picture. Partial Truths and Our Common Future invites ongoing dialogue with others for the sake of mutual enlargements of understanding rather than mere civility, and provides incentive for continuing open-minded and shared inquiries into the important issues of life. Donald A. Crosby is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Colorado State University and the author of many books, including More Than Discourse: Symbolic Expressions of Naturalistic Faith; Nature as Sacred Ground: A Metaphysics for Religious Naturalism; and The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Seven Types of Everyday Miracle, all published by SUNY Press.

The Adventure Into the Unknown and Other Sermons Preached in Westminster Abbey

Author : Robert Henry Charles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Adventure Into the Unknown and Other Sermons Preached in Westminster Abbey written by Robert Henry Charles and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religion and the Mind of Today

Author : Joseph Alexander Leighton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Mind of Today written by Joseph Alexander Leighton and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Holiness Through Faith

Author : Robert Pearsall Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holiness Through Faith written by Robert Pearsall Smith and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Communion of Radicals

Author : Jonathan McGregor
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807176516
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Communion of Radicals written by Jonathan McGregor and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or God-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of Christian leftist thought and creative work. In Communion of Radicals, Jonathan McGregor offers the first literary history of theologically conservative writers who embraced political radicalism, as their reverence for tradition impelled them to work for social justice. Challenging recent accounts that examine twentieth-century American literature against the backdrop of the rising Religious Right, Communion of Radicals uncovers a different literary lineage in which allegiance to religious tradition fostered dedication to a more just future. From the Gilded Age to the Great Depression to the civil rights movement, traditional faith empowered the rebellious writing of socialists, anarchists, and Catholic personalists such as Vida Scudder, Dorothy Day, Claude McKay, F. O. Matthiessen, and W. H. Auden. By recovering their strain of traditioned radicalism, McGregor shows how strong faith in the past can fuel the struggle for an equitable future. As Christian socialists, Scudder and Ralph Adams Cram envisioned their movement for beloved community as a modern version of medieval monasticism. Day and the Catholic Workers followed the fourteenth-century example of St. Francis when they lived and wrote among the disaffected souls on the Bowery during the Great Depression. Tennessee’s Fellowship of Southern Churchmen argued for a socialist and antiracist understanding of the notion of “the South and the Agrarian tradition” popularized by James McBride Dabbs, Walker Percy, and Wendell Berry. Agrarian roots flowered into creative expressions encompassing the queer and Black medievalist poetry of Auden and McKay, respectively; Matthiessen’s Catholic socialist interpretation of the American Renaissance; and the genteel anarchism of Percy’s southern comic novels. Imaginative writing enabled these Christian leftists to commune with the past and with each other, driving their radical efforts in the present. Communion of Radicals chronicles a literary Christian left that unites deeply traditional faith with radicalism, and offers a usable past that disrupts perceived alignments of religion and politics.

No Establishment of Religion

Author : T. Jeremy Gunn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199986010
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book No Establishment of Religion written by T. Jeremy Gunn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Amendment guarantee that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" rejected the millennium-old Western policy of supporting one form of Christianity in each nation and subjugating all other faiths. The exact meaning and application of this American innovation, however, has always proved elusive. Individual states found it difficult to remove traditional laws that controlled religious doctrine, liturgy, and church life, and that discriminated against unpopular religions. They found it even harder to decide more subtle legal questions that continue to divide Americans today: Did the constitution prohibit governmental support for religion altogether, or just preferential support for some religions over others? Did it require that government remove Sabbath, blasphemy, and oath-taking laws, or could they now be justified on other grounds? Did it mean the removal of religious texts, symbols, and ceremonies from public documents and government lands, or could a democratic government represent these in ever more inclusive ways? These twelve essays stake out strong and sometimes competing positions on what "no establishment of religion" meant to the American founders and to subsequent generations of Americans, and what it might mean today.

The Christian Faith

Author : Friedrich Schleiermacher
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Christian Faith written by Friedrich Schleiermacher and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1928 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the opinion of competent thinkers the Christian Faith of Schleiermacher is, with the exception of Calvin's Institutes, the most important work covering the whole field of doctrine to which Protestant theology can point. To say this is not necessarily to adopt either his fundamental principles or the detailed conclusions to which these principles have guided him. On all such matters a nearly unbroken controversy has long prevailed. Indeed, at the moment a formidable attack is being delivered upon his main positions by a new and active school of thought in Germany. But, whether for acceptance or rejection, it is necessary for serious students to know what Schleiermacher has to say."--Editors' preface, page [v]

Old and new

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Old and new written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Outlook

Author : Alfred Emanuel Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outlook written by Alfred Emanuel Smith and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Outlook

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Unorthodox Faith

Author : Kurt Struckmeyer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498234526
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book An Unorthodox Faith written by Kurt Struckmeyer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time is ripe for a new Christian reformation--a profound transformation of theological substance, not just liturgical style. Jesus never intended to create a new religion of rites, creeds, and dogma that offered an eternal reward in heaven. Instead he announced the subversive arrival of the kingdom of God--a social and economic revolution of the heart based on a lifestyle of radical love, lavish generosity, extravagant forgiveness, inclusive hospitality, compassionate action, selfless service, a passion for justice, creative nonviolence, and simple living. He invited his followers to transform their lives and change the world. A postmodern Christianity will call people to engage in the Jesus revolution--a conspiracy of love that rises up against the unjust systems of the world through everyday acts of kindness, compassion, and resistance. An Unorthodox Faith provides a framework for a faithful life based on the Way of Jesus--a way of living authentically and humanely for the sake of others. It offers countless people--those who remain in the church, those who have left, and those who have never ventured near--with a life of faith that is meaningful, intelligent, and passionate.