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Book Synopsis Saintly Influence by : Edith Wyschogrod
Download or read book Saintly Influence written by Edith Wyschogrod and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of her first book, the first about Levinas published in English, Edith Wyschogrod has been at the forefront of continental philosophy and philosophy of religion.In this volume, twelve scholars examine and display the influence of Wyschogrod's work in essays that take up the thematics of influence in a variety of contexts: Christian theology, the saintly behavior of the villagers of Le Chambon sur Lignon, the texts of the medieval Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia, the philosophies of Levinas, Derrida, and Benjamin, the practice of intellectual history, the cultural memory of the New Testament, and pedagogy.
Book Synopsis The Saintly Defense by : Brian Starr
Download or read book The Saintly Defense written by Brian Starr and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis More Saintly Solutions to Life's Common Problems by : Joseph M. Esper
Download or read book More Saintly Solutions to Life's Common Problems written by Joseph M. Esper and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holy wisdom to help you solve 30 of life's common problems. In this book you'll encounter over 400 saints who, by their example and intercession, will help you resist temptations, resolve problems, and bear with grace, good cheer, and Christian hope the ones you can't break free of.
Download or read book Saint Clotilda written by Godefroid Kurth and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes by : Daphna Ephrat
Download or read book Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes written by Daphna Ephrat and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes explores the creation, expansion, and perpetuation of the material and imaginary spheres of spiritual domination and sanctity that surrounded Sufi saints and became central to religious authority, Islamic piety, and the belief in the miraculous.
Book Synopsis Saint Bonaventure: The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order by : Laurence Costelloe
Download or read book Saint Bonaventure: The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order written by Laurence Costelloe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Saint Bonaventure: The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order', Laurence Costelloe delves into the life and teachings of the esteemed theologian and philosopher, Saint Bonaventure. Costelloe presents a detailed exploration of Saint Bonaventure's significant contributions to the Franciscan Order, highlighting his emphasis on mysticism and the pursuit of spiritual perfection. The book is written in a scholarly tone, providing in-depth analysis of Saint Bonaventure's writings and their impact on medieval theology. Costelloe also contextualizes Saint Bonaventure's work within the broader intellectual and religious landscape of the time, shedding light on the intricacies of his thought. This book is a must-read for those interested in understanding the theological developments of the Middle Ages and the enduring legacy of Saint Bonaventure. Laurence Costelloe, a respected scholar of medieval theology, brings his expertise to bear in this illuminating study of a pivotal figure in Christian history.
Download or read book Abiding Faith written by Scott Cowdell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian theologian Scott Cowdell explores how "having faith" has changed under the influence of modernity and post-modernity in the West. He returns faith from pious sentimentality and arid philosophy of religion to the realm of "participating knowing," "paradigmatic imagination," and personal transformation where it belongs as a "form of life," shaped by encounter with Jesus Christ and worked out through the Eucharistic community. This is shown to have been the typical understanding of faith from Saint Paul to the Fathers to the medieval monastic theologians. Since the rise of nominalism, however, modern individuals reflecting a God newly remote from the world have struggled to maintain this participatory vision of faith as a formative habitat. Mysticism is as close as modernity got, while "officially" faith was annexed by modern Western culture, coming to share its anxious need for certainty and control--systemic, exclusive, and violent-tending. Scott Cowdell has written a wide-ranging book, bringing together several normally separate debates while tackling the problem from a distinctive perspective. He explores faith against the backdrop of secularization, the collapse of community, and the encroachment of an intentionally destabilizing consumer culture. He expounds the nature of desire in terms of imitation and rivalry, and the violent false-sacred roots of cultural formation evident in the modern West's many victims, all according to the uniquely comprehensive vision of Rene Girard. Finally, he dismisses today's growing mood of militant religious skepticism as philosophically outdated and out of its depth before the resilient confidence of a genuine living faith. What Cowdell calls "abiding faith" emerges as a venerable yet strikingly contemporary possibility. This is good news for today's "homeless hearts"--there is the gift of a secure identity and a mature spirituality on offer, within a liberating, inclusive, world-affirming, ecclesial form of life.
Book Synopsis Translating Europe in ?lfric's Lives of Saints by : Luisa Ostacchini
Download or read book Translating Europe in ?lfric's Lives of Saints written by Luisa Ostacchini and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translating Europe in ?lfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places, and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed works. It examines the Lives of Saints as a unified collection whose various items work cumulatively and concurrently to provide audiences with teachings far beyond the scope of an individual homily or saints' life. In doing so, it demonstrates that ?lfric's European characters and settings served not merely as a convenient skeleton on which to frame his hagiographical narratives, but rather lay at the heart of his didactic praxis and pedagogic aims. Luisa Ostacchini systematically compares each of the 30 plus items that comprise ?lfric's Lives of Saints to their Latin sources and to one another to highlight previously unnoticed patterns and formulae within collection. In so doing, she demonstrates that ?lfric's interest in community was both inward and outward looking: he sought on the one hand to situate England within the wider Christian world, and on the other hand to promote the internal unity of the English kingdom and the reformed monastic establishment. This book sheds new light on the ways that ?lfric wrote about the Christian world and England's place within it, and further illuminates of the didactic praxis and ideology of one of the most influential and significant authors of the early medieval period. Luisa Ostacchini is a college lecturer at St John's College, Oxford, where she teaches Old and Middle English literature.
Book Synopsis Picturing the 'Pregnant' Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550 by : Professor Penny Howell Jolly
Download or read book Picturing the 'Pregnant' Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550 written by Professor Penny Howell Jolly and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining innovations in Mary Magdalene imagery - including her dress - in northern art 1430 to 1550, Penny Jolly explores how the saint’s widespread popularity drew upon her ability to embody oppositions and embrace a range of paradoxical roles: sinner-prostitute and saint, erotic seductress and holy prophet. Analyzing paintings by Rogier van der Weyden, Quentin Massys, and others, Jolly investigates artists’ and audiences’ responses to increasing religious tensions, expanding art markets, and changing roles for women.
Book Synopsis The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena by : F. Thomas Luongo
Download or read book The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena written by F. Thomas Luongo and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Catherine of Siena (1347–1380) has become a defining figure in the history of medieval religion and one of the main exemplars of the "feminine turn" in late medieval religious culture. Despite a hagiographical tradition and historiography that has placed Catherine at a mystic remove from the politics of her day, Catherine's public authority was shaped by politics, both locally in Siena and broadly within late-fourteenth-century contests between the papacy and the Republic of Florence for hegemony in central Italy. In The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena, F. Thomas Luongo combines literary-critical readings of Catherine's letters—she was the author of one of the largest collections of medieval letters—with political and social analysis. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Luongo investigates how Catherine's spiritual authority and sanctity were linked with contemporary political and cultural developments. He shows how the political situation of the church in Italy and a culture that privileged female spirituality and prophetic speech facilitated Catherine's emergence into a public role. The Catherine who emerges from Luongo's well-written pages is a splendid example of what can result when a historian asks fresh questions about a familiar figure's life and brings new materials and methods to bear in formulating answers. The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena offers a woman more complex and interesting than the figure portrayed in most contemporary scholarship.
Book Synopsis On Certain Conditions of Nervous Derangement, Somnambulism--hypnotism--hysteria--hysteriod Affections, Etc by : William Alexander Hammond
Download or read book On Certain Conditions of Nervous Derangement, Somnambulism--hypnotism--hysteria--hysteriod Affections, Etc written by William Alexander Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Architectural Setting of the Cult of Saints in the Early Christian West c.300-c.1200 by : John Crook
Download or read book The Architectural Setting of the Cult of Saints in the Early Christian West c.300-c.1200 written by John Crook and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2000-01-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the way in which church architecture from the earliest centuries of Christianity has been shaped by holy bones - the physical remains or 'relics' of those whom the Church venerated as saints. The Church's holy dead continued to exercise an influence on the living from beyond the grave, and their earthly remains provided a focus for prayer. The memoriae, house-churches and crypts of early Christian Rome; the elaborately decorated monuments containing the bodies of the bishops of Merovingian Gaul; the revival of ring crypts in the Carshingian empire; the crypts, 'tomb-shrines', and later high shrines of medieval England, all demonstrate how the presence of a holy body within a church influenced its very architecture. This is the first complete modern study of this hitherto somewhat neglected aspect of medieval church architecture in western Europe.
Book Synopsis State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan by : Christine Noelle
Download or read book State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan written by Christine Noelle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of two short periods of direct British intervention during the Anglo-Afghan Wars of 1839-42 and 1878-80, the history of nineteenth-century Afghanistan has received little attention from western scholars. This study seeks to shift the focus of debate from the geostrategic concern with Afghanistan as the bone of contention between imperial Russian and British interests to a thorough investigation of the sociopolitical circumstances prevailing within the country. On the basis of unpublished British documents and works by Afghan historians, it lays the groundwork for a better understanding of the political mechanisms at work during the early Muhammadzai era by analysing them both from the viewpoint of the center and the pierphery.
Book Synopsis Embattled Saints by : Kenneth P Lizzio
Download or read book Embattled Saints written by Kenneth P Lizzio and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the West, Islam has replaced Communism as the new bugbear, while Sufism, Islam’s mystical dimension, is often dismissed as the delusions of an irrational and backward people. Ken Lizzio corrects such misperceptions in this firsthand account of the year he spent in 1991 living with the head of the Naqshbandis, Afghanistan’s largest Sufi order. He presents the order in all its dimensions—social, economic, political, and spiritual—at a pivotal moment in history. He also gives a rare glimpse of everyday life in an Afghan Sufi school and of how the school has coped with the upheavals in its country. Poignantly, the Naqshbandi way of life faces threats to its very existence. One threat lies in the creeping secularization of Islamic society, another in the dismissal of Sufism by various fundamentalist Islamic sects claiming the franchise on truth. But historically, Lizzio points out, Sufism has always been Islam’s wellspring for spiritual revival. And because Sufis deal in matters that transcend time and cultures, they help outsiders understand not only the true nature of Islam, but the deeper meaning of all religions. The sound of that meaning echoes throughout this eloquent and fascinating memoir.
Book Synopsis The Saint of Beersheba by : Alex Weingrod
Download or read book The Saint of Beersheba written by Alex Weingrod and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-02-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jones traces the St. Nicholas legend from its origins in 4th c. Asia Minor through the Middle Ages to its form in 19th c. New York. A reprint of the 1978 original. Investigates the yearly pilgrimage and celebration at the grave of Rabbi Chayam Chouri (1885-1957), a Tunisian Jewish leader who emigrated to Israel in 1955. Weingrod (anthropology, Ben Gurion University, Beersheba, Israel) pursues historical and anthropological questions of sainthood and devotion in modern Israel. Includes photographs. Paper edition (unseen), $10.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Book Synopsis The Women of the Gael by : James Francis Cassidy
Download or read book The Women of the Gael written by James Francis Cassidy and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by :
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
