Theology And The Kinesthetic Imagination

Download Theology And The Kinesthetic Imagination full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Theology And The Kinesthetic Imagination ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Theology and the Kinesthetic Imagination

Author : Kathryn Reklis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199373078
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Theology and the Kinesthetic Imagination by : Kathryn Reklis

Download or read book Theology and the Kinesthetic Imagination written by Kathryn Reklis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty, bodily knowledge, and desire have emerged in late modern Christian theology as candidates to reorient and reinvigorate reflection. In this Reklis describes the theological meaning of the body's ecstasy as "kinesthetic imagination," a term which extends beyond the Great Awakening to trace the way bodily ecstasy continues to be coded as the expression of a primitive, hysterical, holistic, or natural self almost always in contrast to a modern, rational, fragmented, or artificial self. Edwards, she shows, is an excellent interlocutor for the exploration of kinesthetic imagination and theology, especially as it relates to contemporary questions about the role of beauty, body, and desire in theological knowledge. He wrote explicitly about the role of the body in theology, the centrality of affect in spiritual experience, and anchored all of this in a theological system grounded in beauty as his governing concept of divine reality. This book offers an innovative reading of one of the most widely known American theologians and offers this reading as provocation for debates within contemporary conversations.

Theology and the Kinesthetic Imagination

Author : Kathryn Reklis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199373086
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Theology and the Kinesthetic Imagination by : Kathryn Reklis

Download or read book Theology and the Kinesthetic Imagination written by Kathryn Reklis and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty, bodily knowledge, and desire have emerged as candidates to reorient theological reflection by subverting the fragmentation of the self wrought by Western Enlightenment philosophies and the political and economic regimes those philosophies fund. Reklis returns to a particular moment in the history of Protestant Christianity and its collusion with the creation of this modern, rational subject: the publicly rehearsed theological debates regarding the series of 18th century Atlantic world revivals known as the Great Awakening and the work of pro-revivalist theologian Jonathan Edwards.

Imagination and the Playfulness of God

Author : Robin Stockitt
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498271162
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Imagination and the Playfulness of God by : Robin Stockitt

Download or read book Imagination and the Playfulness of God written by Robin Stockitt and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human imagination is a reflection of and a participation in the divine imagination; so mused the romantic poet, philosopher and theologian Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His thinking was intuitive, dense, obscure, brilliant, and deeply influenced by German philosophy. This book explores the development of his philosophical theology with particular reference to the imagination, examining the diverse streams that contributed to the originality of his thought. The second section of this book extrapolates his thinking into areas into which Coleridge did not venture. If God is intrinsically imaginative, then how is this manifested? Can we articulate a theology of the ontology of God that is framed in imaginative and creative terms? Drawing on the groundbreaking work of Huizinga on 'play,' this study seeks to develop a theological understanding of God's playfulness.

Imagining God

Author : Garrett Green
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802844842
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (448 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Imagining God by : Garrett Green

Download or read book Imagining God written by Garrett Green and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garrett Green examines the point at which divine revelation and human experience meet, where the priority of grace is acknowledged while allowing its dynamics to be described in analytical and comparative terms as a religious phenomenon.

Between the Image and the Word

Author : Trevor Hart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317174941
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Between the Image and the Word by : Trevor Hart

Download or read book Between the Image and the Word written by Trevor Hart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central contention of Christian faith is that in the incarnation the eternal Word or Logos of God himself has taken flesh, so becoming for us the image of the invisible God. Our humanity itself is lived out in a constant to-ing and fro-ing between materiality and immateriality. Imagination, language and literature each have a vital part to play in brokering this hypostatic union of matter and meaning within the human creature. Approaching different aspects of two distinct movements between the image and the word, in the incarnation and in the dynamics of human existence itself, Trevor Hart presents a clearer understanding of each and explores the juxtapositions with the other. Hart concludes that within the Trinitarian economy of creation and redemption these two occasions of ’flesh-taking’ are inseparable and indivisible.

Beyond the Analogical Imagination

Author : Barnabas Palfrey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009020242
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Beyond the Analogical Imagination by : Barnabas Palfrey

Download or read book Beyond the Analogical Imagination written by Barnabas Palfrey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at advanced students and upwards, this tightly organised international collection from theological experts forms a coherent and creative introduction to the most widely influential English-speaking Roman Catholic theologian of the past fifty years. It fills a gap in up-to-date commentary on the breadth and ambition of Tracy's ongoing thought.

The Theological Imagination

Author : Gordon D. Kaufman
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664243937
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (439 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Theological Imagination by : Gordon D. Kaufman

Download or read book The Theological Imagination written by Gordon D. Kaufman and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this challenging work, Gordon Kaufman asserts that the prime task of theology is the imaginative construction of the doctrine of God. Kaufman maintains that both the absoluteness of the divinity and our own necessity demand that we construct the doctrine of God critically and in a manner appropriate to our own time and place. In thorough examinations of God and theology, Christ and christology, and of the ultimate foundations of religious thought, he shows how this construction can be accomplished faithfully and in full realization of our own humanity.

Theopoetic

Author : Amos N. Wilder
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 172523372X
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Theopoetic by : Amos N. Wilder

Download or read book Theopoetic written by Amos N. Wilder and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's crucible of myths, theology has a special problem. Ancient scenarios provided by Scripture are especially vulnerable to the modern outlook. Amos Wilder, a distinguished scholar and critic, here relates the Christian faith, in depth, to the changes in modern man's sense of reality, and to the powerful new forms of spirituality that reflect these changes. The focus is upon the deeper dynamics of the religious situation--that is, upon its myths and dreams, symbols and arts--rather than upon its doctrines and social forms. A total vision requires a mythopoetic and not only isolated visions and epiphanies. The testimony of contemporary poets and believers demonstrates that world-old myths and sagas can still have living power. As Wilder writes, "Before the message, the vision; before the sermon, the hymn; before the prose, the poem. The discursive categories of theology as well as the traditional images of sermon and prayer require a theopoetic."

Theological Method and Imagination

Author : Julian Hartt
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725217325
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Theological Method and Imagination by : Julian Hartt

Download or read book Theological Method and Imagination written by Julian Hartt and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of reality can be perceived when the core problems of theology are freed from dependency upon highly technical and arcane ways of thinking and speaking? Writing with the logical clarity and critical acumen for which he is well-known in theological circles, Julian N. Hartt demonstrates the reality of theology's problems and shows how they can be perceived as part of a divine restiveness in living. Hartt finds the demands of revelation to be most profoundly registered upon the imagination--that power of the spirit by which the shape of things to come is grasped. Sensing a great hunger for fresh approaches to fundamental theological concerns, Hartt presents a boldly original scholarly work. In it the persistent theological puzzles about method are clarified, the elements of that method are described and major historical controversies about method are critiqued. Topics discussed include: beliefs and reasons, knowing and proving God, faith and hope, authority and scripture, revelation and historical evidence. A significant contribution to theology, this book shows that theological method entails describing the ways in which faith makes sense. Doing this, it speaks about incorrigible beliefs, those convictions so fundamental that without them the very sense of life and world would disappear. Sensing that society has begun to think of theological matters as mere inventions of theologians, Hartt seeks to return to those fundamental questions that are the concrete situation of the serious-minded Christian in the contemporary world.

The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards

Author : Douglas A. Sweeney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019106890X
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards by : Douglas A. Sweeney

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards written by Douglas A. Sweeney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards offers a state-of-the-art summary of scholarship on Edwards by a diverse, international, and interdisciplinary group of Edwards scholars, many of whom serve as global leaders in the burgeoning world of research and writing on 'America's theologian'. As an early modern clerical polymath, Edwards is of interest to historians, theologians, and literary scholars. He is also an interlocutor for contemporary clergy and philosophical theologians. All such readers—and many more—will find here an authoritative overview of Edwards' life, ministry, and writings, as well as a representative sampling of cutting-edge scholarship on Edwards from across several disciplines. The volume falls into four sections, which reflect the diversity of Edwards studies today. The first section turns to the historical Edwards and grounds him in his period and the relevant contexts that shaped his life and work. The second section balances the historical reconstruction of Edwards as a theological and philosophical thinker with explorations of his usefulness for constructive theology and the church today. In part three, the focus shifts to the different ways and contexts in which Edwards attempted to realize his ideas and ideals in his personal life, scholarship, and ministry, but also to the ways in which these historical realities stood in tension with, limited, or resisted his aspirations. The final section looks at Edwards' widening renown and influence as well as diverse appropriations. This Handbook serves as an authoritative guide for readers overwhelmed by the enormity of the multi-lingual world of Edwards studies. It will bring readers up to speed on the most important work being done and then serve them as a benchmark in the field of Edwards scholarship for decades to come.

Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts

Author : Sarah Covington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429671385
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts by : Sarah Covington

Download or read book Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts written by Sarah Covington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reformation was one of the defining cultural turning points in Western history, even if there is a longstanding stereotype that Protestants did away with art and material culture. Rather than reject art and aestheticism, Protestants developed their own aesthetic values, which Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts addresses as it identifies and explains the link between theological aesthetics and the arts within a Protestant framework across five-hundred years of history. Featuring essays from an international gathering of leading experts working across a diverse set of disciplines, Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts is the first study of its kind, containing essays that address Protestantism and the fine arts (visual art, music, literature, and architecture), and historical and contemporary Protestant theological perspectives on the subject of beauty and imagination. Contributors challenge accepted preconceptions relating to the boundaries of theological aesthetics and religiously determined art; disrupt traditional understandings of periodization and disciplinarity; and seek to open rich avenues for new fields of research. Building on renewed interest in Protestantism in the study of religion and modernity and the return to aesthetics in Christian theological inquiry, this volume will be of significant interest to scholars of Theology, Aesthetics, Art and Architectural History, Literary Criticism, and Religious History.

Jonathan Edwards and the Trinitarian Shape of Beauty

Author : John Cunningham
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329185145
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (291 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Jonathan Edwards and the Trinitarian Shape of Beauty by : John Cunningham

Download or read book Jonathan Edwards and the Trinitarian Shape of Beauty written by John Cunningham and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is a theological analysis of the trinitarian shape of Jonathan Edwards' aesthetics of beauty. The contributions of this dissertation lie chiefly in three areas. The primary aim of this study is to advance the burgeoning field of the study of Jonathan Edwards by elucidating his views of beauty. In so doing, I present him as a rich source for the theological engagement of beauty, which could serve not only the field of Edwards studies, but also that of theological aesthetics more broadly.

Dreams, Doubt, and Dread

Author : Zachary Thomas Settle
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498223087
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dreams, Doubt, and Dread by : Zachary Thomas Settle

Download or read book Dreams, Doubt, and Dread written by Zachary Thomas Settle and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Films are modern spiritual phenomena. They function as such in at least three profound ways: world projection, thought experiments, and catharsis (i.e., as dreams, doubt, and dread). Understanding film in this way allows for a theological account of the experience that speaks to the religious possibilities of film that far extend the portrayal of religious themes or content. Dreams, Doubt, and Dread: The Spiritual in Film aims to address films as spiritual experiences. This collection of short essays and dialogues examines films phenomenologically--through the experience of the viewer as an agent having been acted upon in the functioning of the film itself. Authors were invited to take one of the main themes and creatively consider how film, in their experiences, has provided opportunities for new modes of thinking. Contributors will then engaged one another in a dialogue about the similarities and differences in their descriptions of film as spiritual phenomena. The intended aim of this text is to shift contemporary theological film engagement away from a simple mode of analysis in which theological concepts are simply read into the film itself and begin to let films speak for themselves as profoundly spiritual experiences.

Jonathan Edwards within the Enlightenment: Controversy, Experience, & Thought

Author : John T. Lowe
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647564885
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Jonathan Edwards within the Enlightenment: Controversy, Experience, & Thought by : John T. Lowe

Download or read book Jonathan Edwards within the Enlightenment: Controversy, Experience, & Thought written by John T. Lowe and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her Epilogue entitled "What Is His Greatness?", Ola Elizabeth Winslow stated in the first serious modern biography of Jonathan Edwards: "In a word, it is the greatness of one who had a determining art of initiating and directing a popular movement of far-reaching consequence, and who in addition, laid the foundations for a new system of religious thought, also of far-reaching consequence." After two and a half centuries since Edwards's death, Winslow's statement is undoubtedly true, and perhaps, more so now than ever. The recovery of Edwards pioneered by Perry Miller, Ola Winslow, and Thomas Schafer, among others, has become what is often referred to as an "Edwards renaissance," and has been made even more popular among lay people by John Piper, Stephen Nichols, and the like. Since the free online access of The Works of Jonathan Edwards by Yale University, dozens of books, and articles, as well as numerous dissertations, each year are written to seek a facet of Edwards's "greatness," and thus as an exemplar of his continued "far-reaching consequence." Jonathan Edwards, more than any other pre-revolutionary colonial thinker, grappled with the promises and perils of the Enlightenment. Organized by John T. Lowe and Daniel N. Gullotta, Jonathan Edwards within the Enlightenment brings together a group of young and early career scholars to present their propping the life, times, and theology of one of America's greatest minds. Many of these subjects have been seldom explored by scholars while others offer new and exciting avenues into well covered territory. Some of these topics include Edwards' interaction with and involvement in slavery, colonialism, racism, as well as musings on gender, populism, violence, pain, and witchcraft.

The Analogical Imagination

Author : David Tracy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Analogical Imagination by : David Tracy

Download or read book The Analogical Imagination written by David Tracy and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plunges into the rich pluralism of modern religion--and comes up with a daring strategy of which each major religious tradition can be articulate its claiming to religious truth. Newsweek

Edwards the Mentor

Author : Rhys S. Bezzant
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190221208
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Edwards the Mentor by : Rhys S. Bezzant

Download or read book Edwards the Mentor written by Rhys S. Bezzant and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among his many accomplishments, Jonathan Edwards was an effective mentor who trained many leaders for the church in colonial America, but his pastoral work is often overlooked. Rhys S. Bezzant investigates the background, method, theological rationale, and legacy of his mentoring ministry. Edwards did what mentors normally do--he met with individuals to discuss ideas and grow in skills. But Bezzant shows that Edwards undertook these activities in a distinctly modern or affective key. His correspondence is written in an informal style; his understanding of friendship and conversation takes up the conventions of the great metropolitan cities of Europe. His pedagogical commitments are surprisingly progressive and his aspirations for those he mentored are bold and subversive. When he explains his mentoring practice theologically, he expounds the theme of seeing God face to face, summarized in the concept of the beatific vision, which recognizes that human beings learn through the example of friends as well as through the exposition of propositions. In this book the practice of mentoring is presented as an exchange between authority and agency, in which the more experienced person empowers the other, whose own character and competencies are thus nurtured. More broadly, the book is a case study in cultural engagement, for Edwards deliberately takes up certain features of the modern world in his mentoring and yet resists other pressures that the Enlightenment generated. If his world witnessed the philosophical evacuation of God from the created order, then Edwards's mentoring is designed to draw God back into an intimate connection with human experience.

Theological Aesthetics

Author : Richard Viladesau
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019512622X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Theological Aesthetics by : Richard Viladesau

Download or read book Theological Aesthetics written by Richard Viladesau and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Richard Viladesau contrues Christian theology as a "theological aesthetics." He examines Christian revelation and its rational presuppositions in relationship to three interconnected meanings of the "aesthetic" in modern thought: human cognition as feeling and imagination; the realm of the beautiful; and the arts. In each area, examples from the arts are correlated with classical and contemporary theological themes.