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Wiser Than Despair

Author : Quentin Faulkner
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0313296456
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Wiser Than Despair written by Quentin Faulkner and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses a highly complex and elusive matter: why the Christian Church was able to contribute so generously to music from its earliest days through the 18th century and why it has suffered since that time from a creeping artistic paralysis. Modern attitudes and assumptions often find the values and accomplishments of the Christian worldview enigmatic, even repellant, and church music has come to be one of the primary areas in which the tension between conflicting worldviews continues to be worked out on a daily basis. This thoughtful work investigates the historical interaction of theology, philosophy and music, and will be of interest to church musicians, theologians, music historians and cultural anthropologists. In its concluding chapter this work explores a number of basic questions: In what sense, if any, can the arts (and then the fine arts) be considered profoundly significant for modern society? Is there a meaningful role for artists of genius and total commitment? Do the arts (and then the fine arts) have any profound significance for the Church in the modern world? Of what significance, if any, to the Church in the modern world are the great Christian artistic accomplishments of the past? This exploration is by means of excerpts from historical sources, quotations from modern authors, and commentary on both. It calls upon historical, philosophical, theological, liturgical, anthropological, and musical sources and concepts in an attempt to develop a comprehensive understanding of musical developments that have served the Christian church for centuries and that have also provided a rich heritage of art music.

A Lily Among the Thorns

Author : Miguel A. De La Torre
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0787997978
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book A Lily Among the Thorns written by Miguel A. De La Torre and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way for Christians to think about sexuality Author Miguel De La Torre, a well-respected ethicist and professorknown for his innovative readings of Christian doctrine, rejectsboth the liberal and conservative prejudices about sex. He insteaddevelops an ethic that is liberative yet grounded soundly in theBible; a sexuality that celebrates God’s gift of great sex byfostering intimacy, vulnerability and openness between lovingpartners. In A Lily Among the Thorns, De La Torre examines theBible, current events, history and our culture-at-large to show howand why racism, sexism, and classism have distortedChristianity’s central teachings about sexuality. The authorshows how the church’s traditionally negative attitudestoward sex in general—and toward women, people of color, andgays in particular—have made it difficult, if not impossible,to create a biblically based and just sexual ethic. But when theBible is read from the viewpoint of those who have beenmarginalized in our society, preconceived notions aboutChristianity and sex get turned on their heads. Taking onhot-button topics such as pornography, homosexuality, prostitution,and celibacy, the author examines how “reading from themargins” provides a liberating approach to dealing withissues of sexuality.

Introductory Lectures on Modern History

Author : Thomas Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Introductory Lectures on Modern History written by Thomas Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reimagining Discipleship

Author : Robert Cotton
Publisher : SPCK
ISBN 13 : 0281067201
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Discipleship written by Robert Cotton and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following an encounter with an African bishop - who believed all who lived in his diocese (and not only congregations and clergy) should be loved and cared for - Robert Cotton became convinced that Christian disciples in this country need to be assured that they have something vital to communicate to the well-being of their local communities. We are all, to some extent, 'vicars' - vicarious disciples who cannot help but influence those around us. Indeed, it may be beneficial to think of ourselves as public actors for the faith, housed in a theatre of meaning, the Church, and putting on a divine play for which there is an eager audience. The audience may consist of people of other faiths or none: the author encourages us to have confidence in a theology that does not limit salvation to those inside the Church; he believes that we can come close to the presence of God in active engagement with people of goodwill. And, of course, as Christians it behoves us to respond to others' agendas and concerns with generosity and grace. This gentle, beautifully written volume packs quite a punch. Taken seriously, it will revitalize our personal and corporate vision of Christian living as, inspired by the Holy Spirit, we seek to bring light and joy to the cities, towns and villages in which we live.

The Sacramentality of Music

Author : Christina Labriola
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666959367
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book The Sacramentality of Music written by Christina Labriola and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-08-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steeped in the Catholic spiritual tradition, The Sacramentality of Music argues that musical experience, in its appeal to the entirety of the human person, can serve as a locus of encounter with the divine and an occasion of God’s self-revelation in love, with spiritually nurturing, ultimately transformative, ends. Christina Labriolacontends that this dynamic might most aptly be understood as sacramental, an all-encompassing perspective of the cosmos permeated by the divine creative, salvific, sustaining presence. Through its participation in the mysteries of beauty and creativity, its bodily and affective engagement, and impact on the inner life, music operates sacramentally: manifesting divine realities through the tangible stuff of human experience. In a thematic theological exploration that interweaves pastoral theology, theological aesthetics, and mysticism, the reader is invited to contemplate music’s sacramental potentiality and to engage the sacramentally charged music of Beethoven, Bartok, MacMillan, Messiaen, Mozart, Ešenvalds, Bach, Pärt, and Hildegard. In attending to musical ways of relating to God, this book invites readers into a deepening awareness of the sacramental nature of reality itself as that in which the spiritual resonance of music is grounded and reveals afresh, taking musical beauty seriously in the spiritual order with repercussions for Christian living.

Introductory Lectures on Modern History

Author : Thomas Arnold
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382176467
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Introductory Lectures on Modern History written by Thomas Arnold and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

A Matter of Belief

Author : Vibha Joshi
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857456733
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book A Matter of Belief written by Vibha Joshi and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Nagaland for Christ’ and ‘Jesus Saves’ are familiar slogans prominently displayed on public transport and celebratory banners in Nagaland, north-east India. They express an idealization of Christian homogeneity that belies the underlying tensions and negotiations between Christian and non-Christian Naga. This religious division is intertwined with that of healing beliefs and practices, both animistic and biomedical. This study focuses on the particular experiences of the Angami Naga, one of the many Naga peoples. Like other Naga, they are citizens of the state of India but extend ethnolinguistically into Tibeto-Burman south-east Asia. This ambiguity and how it affects their Christianity, global involvement, indigenous cultural assertiveness and nationalist struggle is explored. Not simply describing continuity through change, this study reveals the alternating Christian and non-Christian streams of discourse, one masking the other but at different times and in different guises.

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion

Author : John Corrigan
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195170210
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion written by John Corrigan and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects essays under four categories: religious traditions, religious life, emotional states, and historical and theoretical perspectives. They describe the ways in which emotions affect various world religions, and analyse the manner in which certain components of religious represent and shape emotional performance.

Introductory Lectures on Modern History, Delivered in Lent Term, MDCCCXLII.

Author : Thomas Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Introductory Lectures on Modern History, Delivered in Lent Term, MDCCCXLII. written by Thomas Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Good Taste, Bad Taste, & Christian Taste

Author : Frank Burch Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195158724
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Good Taste, Bad Taste, & Christian Taste written by Frank Burch Brown and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians frequently come into conflict with themselves and others over such matters as music, popular culture, and worship style. Yet they usually lack any theology of art or taste adequate to deal with aesthetic disputes. In this provocative book, Frank Burch Brown offers a constructive, "ecumenical" approach to artistic taste and aesthetic judgment--a non-elitist but discriminating theological aesthetics that has "teeth but no fangs." While grounded in history and theory, this book takes up such practical questions as: How can one religious community accommodate a variety of artistic tastes? What good or harm can be done by importing music that is worldly in origin into a house of worship? How can the exercise of taste in the making of art be a viable (and sometimes advanced) spiritual discipline? In exploring the complex relation between taste, religious imagination, and faith, Brown offers a new perspective on what it means to be spiritual, religious, and indeed Christian.

The Return of King Arthur

Author : Beverly Taylor
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0859911365
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book The Return of King Arthur written by Beverly Taylor and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1983 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revival of interest in Arthurian legend in the 19th century was a remarkable phenomenon, apparently at odds with the spirit of the age. Tennyson was widely criticised for his choice of a medieval topic; yet The Idylls of the Kingwere accepted as the national epic, and a flood of lesser works was inspired by them, on both sides of the Atlantic. Elisabeth Brewer and Beverly Taylor survey the course of Arthurian literature from 1800 to the present day, and give an account of all the major English and American contributions. Some of the works are well-known, but there are also a host of names which will be new to most readers, and some surprises, such as J. Comyns Carr's King Arthur, rightly ignored as a text, but a piece oftheatrical history, for Sir Henry Irving played King Arthur, Ellen Terry was Guinevere, Arthur Sullivan wrote the music, and Burne-Jones designed the sets. The Arthurian works of the Pre-Raphaelites are discussed at length, as are the poemsof Edward Arlington Robinson, John Masefield and Charles Williams. Other writers have used the legends as part of a wider cultural consciousness: The Waste Land, David Jones's In Parenthesis and The Anathemata, and the echoes ofTristan and Iseult in Finnigan's Wake are discussed in this context. Novels on Arthurian themes are given their due place, from the satirical scenes of Thomas Love Peacock's The Misfortunes of Elphin and Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court to T.H. White's serio-comic The Once and Future King and the many recent novelists who have turned away from the chivalric Arthur to depict him as a Dark Age ruler. The Return of King Arthurincludes a bibliography of British and American creative writing relating to the Arthurian legends from 1800 to the present day.

The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

Author :
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Teaching Twelfth Night and Othello

Author : Peggy O'Brien
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743288513
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Twelfth Night and Othello written by Peggy O'Brien and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOLGER Shakespeare Library THE WORLD'S LEADING CENTER FOR SHAKESPEARE STUDIES The Folger Shakespeare Library is one of the world's leading centers for scholarship, learning, and culture. The Folger is dedicated to advancing knowledge and increasing understanding of Shakespeare and the early modern period; it is home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection and one of the leading collections of books and materials of the entire early modern period (1500-1750). Combining a worldclass research library and scholarly programs; leadership in curriculum, training, and publishing for K-12 education; and award-winning performing arts, exhibitions, and lectures, the Folger is Shakespeare's home in America. This volume of the Shakespeare Set Free series is written by institute faculty and participants, and includes the latest developments in recent scholarship. It bristles with the energy created by teaching and learning Shakespeare from the text and through active performance, and reflects the experience, wisdom, and wit of real classroom teachers in schools and colleges throughout the United States. In this book, you'll find the following: Clearly written essays by leading scholars to refresh teachers and challenge older students Effective and accessible techniques for teaching Shakespeare through performance and engaging students in Shakespeare's language and plays Day-by-day teaching strategies for Twelfth Night and Othello that successfully and energetically immerse students of every grade and skill level in the language and in the plays themselves -- created, taught, and written by real teachers

Dr. Arnold's lectures on modern history. Dr. Arnold's life and correspondence. Laing's German Catholic schism. Laing on peasant proprietorship, etc. Unsound social philosophy. Principles of taxation. England as it is. Mary Barton. Investments for the working classes. English socialism. Progress and hopes of socialism. Alison's history of Europe

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Author : William Rathbone Greg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Dr. Arnold's lectures on modern history. Dr. Arnold's life and correspondence. Laing's German Catholic schism. Laing on peasant proprietorship, etc. Unsound social philosophy. Principles of taxation. England as it is. Mary Barton. Investments for the working classes. English socialism. Progress and hopes of socialism. Alison's history of Europe written by William Rathbone Greg and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Encyclodedia of Christianity, Vol. 5

Author : Erwin Fahlbusch
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 080282417X
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclodedia of Christianity, Vol. 5 written by Erwin Fahlbusch and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading scholars from around the world, the articles in this volume range from sin, Sufism and terrorism to theology in the 19th and 20th centuries, Vatican I and II and the virgin birth.

The Enduring Quest, a Christian's Attempt to Explain Other Religions, Jesus, and Christian Practices

Author : Francis W. Vanderwall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781608604913
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Enduring Quest, a Christian's Attempt to Explain Other Religions, Jesus, and Christian Practices written by Francis W. Vanderwall and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There can only be peace on earth when there is peace between religions and their adherents. By reaching out to the young thinkers who have yet to allow their faith to evolve into prejudices that govern their lives, The Enduring Quest encourages tolerance and understanding between the various religions of the world. In non-technical language, Author Francis W. Vanderwall explores the central beliefs of the world's major religions while providing a Christian connection to those beliefs when possible. By focusing on the dreams common to all rather than issues that divide, The Enduring Quest attempts to bring the people of the world together again. Author Bio: Francis W. Vanderwall is a college professor. He also leads retreats/workshops and has been a spiritual director for over thirty years. Raised in Sri Lanka with friends who were Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and various Christian denominations, he has a unique understanding and experience of the world's religions. He was a member of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits) for almost thirty years. Francis currently resides in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. James Houk, Ph.D wrote the current status of the various world religions sections.

Resounding Truth

Author : Jeremy Begbie
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 0801026954
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Resounding Truth written by Jeremy Begbie and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world-renowned scholar and musician helps Christians respond with theological discernment to music.