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The Materiality of Divine Agency

Author : Beate Pongratz-Leisten
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501502301
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Materiality of Divine Agency written by Beate Pongratz-Leisten and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two topics of current critical interest, agency and materiality, are here explored in the context of their intersection with the divine. Specific case studies, emphasizing the ancient Near East but including treatments also of the European Middle Ages and ancient Greece, elucidate the nature and implications of this intersection: What is the relationship between the divine and the particular matter or physical form in which it is materially represented or mentally visualized? How do sacral or divine "things" act, and what is the source and nature of their agency? How might we productively define and think about anthropomorphism in relation to the divine? What is the relationship between the mental and the material image, and between the categories of object and image, image and likeness, and likeness and representation? Drawing on a broad range of written and pictorial sources, this volume is a novel contribution to the contemporary discourse on the functioning and communicative potential of the material and materialized divine as it is developing in the fields of anthropology, art history, and the history and cognitive science of religion.

The Materiality of Divine Agency

Author : Beate Pongratz-Leisten
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501502263
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume I

Author : William J. Abraham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198786506
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume I written by William J. Abraham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This study lays the groundwork for a constructive contribution to the contemporary debate regarding divine action. It charts the history of debate about divine action among key Anglophone philosophers of religion, and observes that they were largely committed to this erroneous understanding of divine action as a closed concept.

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume III

Author : William J. Abraham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192561731
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume III written by William J. Abraham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume III of a tetralogy devoted to Divine Agency and Divine Action articulates a comprehensive vision of systematic theology focused on divine action from creation to eschatology. Volume I developed the foundational conceptual work by showing that the concept of action is a radically open concept that readily makes possible the appropriation of divine action for today. Volume II explained that in exploring divine action one needs to specify the actual divine actions under review and thus showed that there could be no progress with extensive soundings across the tradition from Paul to Molina. Work on divine action requires extended work in doctrinal criticism rooted in the history of theology as a prelude to normative work that communicates a normative vision of divine action for today. This vision is best explored by taking up the great themes of systematic theology from creation to eschatology yet treating them in a deflationary manner that sees systematic theology as university-level, postbaptismal, Christian instruction. Leading scholar William J. Abraham recognises that we live in a golden period of theological studies-the range and depth of material is extraordinary-yet we also live in a period of disorientation and confusion that calls for a fresh engagement with the demands of systematic theology. Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume III meets that demand by insisting that systematic theology has its own content and modes of inquiry; that it belongs intimately to the journey of faith; and that it requires authentic academic clarity and rigor. It reclaims the rightful place of systematic theology as the center of gravity for theological studies but does so in a manner that makes it available to both the church and to the academy.

On the nature of divine agency in reference to the inspiration of the Scriptures [&c.].

Author : Stephen Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book On the nature of divine agency in reference to the inspiration of the Scriptures [&c.]. written by Stephen Davies and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mystery and Agency of God

Author : Frank G. Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451479778
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Mystery and Agency of God written by Frank G. Kirkpatrick and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two philosophical commitments requisite to Christian belief: that God is the ultimate mystery and that God is present and active in the world. Attempting to avoid the trappings of a radical distantiation and the immanent collapse of God and world, Frank Kirkpatrick argues for a theory of agency and action that preserves the mystery of God while providing a philosophically robust account of divine action in created time and space. Kirkpatrick proposes a way around the stalemates that have stymied thought on divine agency and enters into conversation with significant figures in systematic theology.

What’s in a Divine Name?

Author : Alaya Palamidis, Corinne Bonnet, Julie Bernini, Enrique Nieto Izquierdo, Lorena Pérez Yarza
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111327566
Total Pages : 1167 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book What’s in a Divine Name? written by Alaya Palamidis, Corinne Bonnet, Julie Bernini, Enrique Nieto Izquierdo, Lorena Pérez Yarza and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 1167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

“A Community of Peoples”

Author : Mahri Leonard-Fleckman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004511539
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book “A Community of Peoples” written by Mahri Leonard-Fleckman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “Community of Peoples” draws together a diverse community of scholars to honor the career of Daniel E. Fleming. Through a diversity of methods and disciplines, each contributor attempts to touch a sliver of ancient Middle Eastern history.

The Image of Mesopotamian Divine Healers

Author : Irene Sibbing-Plantholt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004512411
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis The Image of Mesopotamian Divine Healers by : Irene Sibbing-Plantholt

Download or read book The Image of Mesopotamian Divine Healers written by Irene Sibbing-Plantholt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first in-depth analysis of Mesopotamian healing goddesses and their relationship to asûs, “healers”. Through this, Sibbing-Plantholt provides unprecedented insight into the diverse Mesopotamian medical marketplace and how professional healers operating within it legitimized themselves.

The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East

Author : Kiersten Neumann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000436470
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East by : Kiersten Neumann

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East written by Kiersten Neumann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook is a state-of-the-field volume containing diverse approaches to sensory experience, bringing to life in an innovative, remarkably vivid, and visceral way the lives of past humans through contributions that cover the chronological and geographical expanse of the ancient Near East. It comprises thirty-two chapters written by leading international contributors that look at the ways in which humans, through their senses, experienced their lives and the world around them in the ancient Near East, with coverage of Anatolia, Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Persia, from the Neolithic through the Roman period. It is organised into six parts related to sensory contexts: Practice, production, and taskscape; Dress and the body; Ritualised practice and ceremonial spaces; Death and burial; Science, medicine, and aesthetics; and Languages and semantic fields. In addition to exploring what makes each sensory context unique, this organisation facilitates cross-cultural and cross-chronological, as well as cross-sensory and multisensory comparisons and discussions of sensory experiences in the ancient world. In so doing, the volume also enables considerations of senses beyond the five-sense model of Western philosophy (sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell), including proprioception and interoception, and the phenomena of synaesthesia and kinaesthesia. The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East provides scholars and students within the field of ancient Near Eastern studies new perspectives on and conceptions of familiar spaces, places, and practices, as well as material culture and texts. It also allows scholars and students from adjacent fields such as Classics and Biblical Studies to engage with this material, and is a must-read for any scholar or student interested in or already engaged with the field of sensory studies in any period.

Beyond the Romans

Author : Irene Selsvold
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789251397
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Romans written by Irene Selsvold and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest volume in the TRAC Themes in Theoretical Roman Archaeology series takes up posthuman theoretical perspectives to interpret Roman material culture. These perspectives provide novel and compelling ways of grappling with theoretical problems in Roman archaeology producing new knowledge and questions about the complex relationships and interactions between humans and non-humans in Roman culture and society. Posthumanism constitutes a multitude of theoretical positions characterised by common critiques of anthropocentrism and human exceptionalism. In part, they react to the dominance of the linguistic turn in humanistic sciences. These positions do not exclude “the human”, but instead stress the mutual relationship between matter and discourse. Moreover, they consider the agency of “non-humans”, e.g., animals, material culture, landscapes, climate, and ideas, their entanglement with humans, and the situated nature of research. Posthumanism has had substantial impacts in several fields (including critical studies, archaeology, feminist studies, even politics) but have not yet emerged in any fulsome way in Classical Studies and Classical Archaeology. This is the first volume on these themes in Roman Archaeology, aimed at providing valuable perspectives into Roman myth, art and material culture, displacing and complicating notions of human exceptionalism and individualist subjectivity. Contributions consider non-human agencies, particularly animal, material, environmental, and divine agencies, critiques of binary oppositions and gender roles, and the Anthropocene. Ultimately, the papers stress that humans and non-humans are entangled and imbricated in larger systems: we are all post-human.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Material Religion in the Ancient Near East and Egypt

Author : Nicola Laneri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350280828
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook of Material Religion in the Ancient Near East and Egypt written by Nicola Laneri and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions spanning from the Neolithic Age to the Iron Age, this book offers important insights into the religions and ritual practices in ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern communities through the lenses of their material remains. The book begins with a theoretical introduction to the concept of material religion and features editor introductions to each of its six parts, which tackle the following themes: the human body; religious architecture; the written word; sacred images; the spirituality of animals; and the sacred role of the landscape. Illustrated with over 100 images, chapters provide insight into every element of religion and materiality, from the largest building to the smallest amulet. This is a benchmark work for further studies on material religion in the ancient Near East and Egypt.

Divine Agency and Divine Action

Author : William James Abraham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191828799
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Divine Agency and Divine Action written by William James Abraham and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that in order to understand divine action, one must begin with the array of specific actions predicated of God in the Christian tradition

Romans and Barbarians Beyond the Frontiers

Author : Sergio Gonzalez Sanchez
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785706071
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Romans and Barbarians Beyond the Frontiers written by Sergio Gonzalez Sanchez and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first thematic volume of the new series TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology brings renowned international experts to discuss different aspects of interactions between Romans and ‘barbarians’ in the north-western regions of Europe. Northern Europe has become an interesting arena of academic debate around the topics of Roman imperialism and Roman:‘barbarian’ interactions, as these areas comprised Roman provincial territories, the northern frontier system of the Roman Empire (limes), the vorlimes (or buffer zone), and the distant barbaricum. This area is, today, host to several modern European nations with very different historical and academic discourses on their Roman past, a factor in the recent tendency towards the fragmentation of approaches and the application of post-colonial theories that have favoured the advent of a varied range of theoretical alternatives. Case studies presented here span across disciplines and territories, from American anthropological studies on transcultural discourse and provincial organization in Gaul, to historical approaches to the propagandistic use of the limes in the early 20th century German empire; from Danish research on warrior identities and Roman-Scandinavian relations, to innovative ideas on culture contact in Roman Ireland; and from new views on Romano-Germanic relations in Central European Barbaricum, to a British comparative exercise on frontier cultures. The volume is framed by a brilliant theoretical introduction by Prof. Richard Hingley and a comprehensive concluding discussion by Prof. David Mattingly.

Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection

Author : Christopher Metcalf
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 164602009X
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection written by Christopher Metcalf and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a series of volumes publishing the Sumerian literary texts in the Schøyen Collection, this book makes available, for the first time, editions of seventeen cuneiform tablets, dating to ca. 2000 BCE and containing works of Sumerian religious poetry. Edited, translated, and annotated by Christopher Metcalf, these poems shed light on the interaction between cult, scholarship, and scribal culture in Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BCE. The present volume contains fourteen songs composed in praise of the various gods of the Mesopotamian pantheon; it is believed that these songs were typically performed in temple cults. Among them are a song in praise of Sud, goddess of the ancient Mesopotamian city Shuruppak; a song describing the statue of the protective goddess Lamma-saga in the “Sacred City” temple complex at Girsu; and a previously unknown hymn dedicated to the creator god Enki. Each text is provided in transliteration and translation and accompanied by hand-copies and images of the tablets themselves. Expertly contextualizing each song in Babylonian religious and literary history, this thoroughly competent editio princeps will prove a valuable tool for scholars interested in the literary and religious traditions of ancient Mesopotamia.

Art/ifacts and ArtWorks in the Ancient World

Author : Karen Sonik
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1949057119
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Art/ifacts and ArtWorks in the Ancient World written by Karen Sonik and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to Dr. Holly Pittman, Bok Family Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania and curator of the Near Eastern Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum). It was conceived to honor her extraordinary contributions to the field of Near Eastern studies as archaeologist, art historian, mentor, professor, and friend--Foreword.

Women of Substance in Homeric Epic

Author : Lilah Grace Canevaro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192560808
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Women of Substance in Homeric Epic written by Lilah Grace Canevaro and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Greek epic are treated as objects, as commodities to be exchanged in marriage or as the spoils of warfare. However, women in Homeric epic also use objects to negotiate their own agency, subverting the male viewpoint by utilizing on their own terms the very form they themselves are thought by men to embody. Such female objects can transcend their physical limitations and be both symbolically significant and powerfully characterizing. They can be tools of recognition and identification. They can pause narrative and be used agonistically. They can send messages and be vessels for memory. Women of Substance in Homeric Epic offers a new and insightful approach to the Iliad and Odyssey, bringing together Gender Theory and the burgeoning field of New Materialisms, new to classical studies, and thereby combining an approach predicated on the idea of the woman as object with one which questions the very distinction between subject and object. This productive tension leads us to decentre the male subject and to put centre stage not only the woman as object but also the agency of women and objects. The volume comes at a turning point in the gendering of Homeric studies, with the publication of the first English translations by women of the Iliad in 2015 and the Odyssey in 2017, by Caroline Alexander and Emily Wilson respectively. It makes a significant contribution to scholarship by demonstrating that women in Homeric epic are not only objectified, but are also well-versed users of objects; this is something that Homer portrays clearly, that Odysseus understands, but that has often escaped many other men, from Odysseus' alter-ego Aethon in Odyssey 19 to modern experts on Homeric epic.