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Between the Icon and the Idol

Author : Artur Mrowczynski-Van Allen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610978161
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Between the Icon and the Idol written by Artur Mrowczynski-Van Allen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The totalitarian state clearly intends to eliminate all those forms of organic community that rival the absolute loyalty of the individual to the state. This god is a jealous god. . . . Mrowczy?ski-Van Allen's diagnosis is therefore no less relevant after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And his proposed cure is no less salutary. He appeals to the work of Grossman and other voices from the East to oppose the idolatry of the deified self with the icon, which opens up a distance in which giving and forgiving can occur. Eastern voices are so helpful because they refuse to quarantine theological questions; the borders between theology, politics, and literature are fluid and porous, because they are all a part of an integrated life. The holism of totalitarianism must be opposed by another kind of holism that replaces the idol with the icon. At the same time, the aspiration of secularism to separate politics from theology, and power from love, must be opposed by a politics based on an opening of human persons to God and to each other, the kind of self-donation found in Grossman, and for Christians, on the Cross. --From the Foreword by William T. Cavanaugh

Idols

Author : Margaret Stohl
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316279781
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Idols written by Margaret Stohl and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Icons came from the sky. They belong to an inhuman enemy. They ended our civilization, and they can kill us. Most of us. Dol, Ro, Tima, and Lucas are the four Icon Children, the only humans immune to the Icon's power to stop a human heart. Now that Los Angeles has been saved, things are more complicated - and not just because Dol has to choose between Lucas and Ro, the two great loves of her life. As she flees to a resistance outpost hidden beneath a mountain, Dol makes contact with a fifth Icon Child, if only through her visions. When Dol and the others escape to Southeast Asia in search of this missing child, Dol's dreams, feelings and fears collide in an epic showdown that will change more than just four lives -- and stop one heart forever. In this riveting sequel to Icons, filled with nonstop action and compelling romance, bestselling author Margaret Stohl explores what it means to be human and how our greatest weakness can be humanity's strongest chance at survival.

The Fetish of Theology

Author : Colby Dickinson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030407756
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Fetish of Theology written by Colby Dickinson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By delving into the history of the fetish-object among both modern and contemporary commentators, this book highlights the fetish-object’s role as a philosophical and religious concept of the highest significance. Historically, fetishes are implicated in specific struggles for sovereign (political) and/or religious (hierarchical) power, with their interwoven symbols defined as the primary location for transcendence in our world. This book defines the political consequences of fetish-objects within a western cultural, and primarily theological context through a comparative approach of various literatures on fetish-objects—anthropological to the psychological, Marxist to the theological. It reconceives of fetishes as a form of resistance to oppressive structures, something which motivated Christians themselves historically, and shaped our western understanding of the sacraments far more than has been acknowledged. Taking up this conversation likewise holds forth the possibility of reconceptualizing how fetish-objects and sacramental presences both speak profoundly to our late-modern selves.

From Icons to Idols

Author : David J Davis
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227906055
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book From Icons to Idols written by David J Davis and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1547, the young King Edward VI issued a series of religious injunctions that were intended to reform the Churches in England. Religious imagery was a tangible and permanent aspect of the landscape, both inside and outside churches. For many people, it was one of the first aspects of the Church to be reformed, and the degree to which it was reformed often was indicative of an individual's or community's theological leanings. Behind this destruction lay a longstanding debate over the nature, purpose, and appropriate uses of images, particularly in relation to worship and devotion. The Reformation lines between icon and idol, however, are much more difficult to identify than any single debate, event, or royal injunction would suggest. FromIcons to Idols tracks the image debate from the perspectives of both Protestants and Catholics across the period of religious change in England from 1525 to 1625. For scholars of the English Reformation, iconoclasm has played a major role in the historiographical disputes over the nature, length, and efficacy of Protestant reform. The fresh perspective of David J. Davis incorporates geography historical use and abuse, popular appeal, size, dimensions and what was represented.

The Interfaith Imperative

Author : Ross Thompson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498241913
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book The Interfaith Imperative written by Ross Thompson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globally we seem torn between local, exclusive forms of religion, which can cause immense spiritual and physical damage to people, and a bland secularism that confines the religions to safe havens, each offering its own private options for "spirituality" within a secularized global politic. In this context the religions tolerate one another but cannot engage in mutually challenging and transforming dialogue. Thompson argues that it is only through dialogue that the distinctive truths of the faiths emerge. Moving beyond the threefold paradigm that has limited dialogue, and challenging modern secularism and postmodern relativism alike, he argues for a dialogue-based realism that is rooted in the Christian doctrines of creation and Trinity. Turning to recent theological approaches, Thompson both affirms and criticizes narrative and postliberal theologies, liberation theology, and the revival of negative theology. The transfiguration of Jesus provides a model for the way theology proceeds in dialogue, from an initial naivety, through metaphysical construction and deconstruction, to a new metaphorical "interillumination." Thompson sets forth a utopian hope for "the interreligious city of God, shining with the divine, interilluminative rainbow light reflected from the many faiths, including the secular faith."

The Phenomenology of Revelation in Heidegger, Marion, and Ricoeur

Author : Adam J. Graves
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793640580
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Phenomenology of Revelation in Heidegger, Marion, and Ricoeur written by Adam J. Graves and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Phenomenology of Revelation in Heidegger, Marion, and Ricoeur provides a critical framework for understanding the phenomenology of revelation through a series of close readings that serve as the basis for an imagined dialogue between Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Marion, and Paul Ricoeur. Adam J. Graves distinguishes between two dominant approaches to revelation: a “radical” approach that seeks to disclose a pre-linguistic experience of revelation through a radicalization of the phenomenological reduction, and a “hermeneutical” one that characterizes revelation as an eruption of meaning arising from our encounter with concrete symbols, narratives, and texts. According to Graves, the radical approach is often driven by a misplaced concern for maintaining philosophical rigor and for avoiding theological biases, or “contaminations.” This preoccupation leads to a process of “counter-contamination” in which the concept of revelation is ultimately estranged from the phenomenon’s rich historical and linguistic content. While Ricoeur’s hermeneutic phenomenology may do a better job of accommodating the concrete content of revelation, it does so at the price of having to renouncing the kind of “presuppositionlessness” generally associated with phenomenological method. Ultimately, Graves argues that a more nuanced appreciation of the complex nature of our linguistic inheritance enables us to reconceive the relationship between revelation and philosophical thought.

Spiritual Modalities

Author : William FitzGerald
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271069031
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Modalities written by William FitzGerald and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold recasting of prayer as a rhetorical art, Spiritual Modalities investigates situations, strategies, and performative modes of discourse directed to divine audiences. Examining how prayer “works,” Spiritual Modalities reads prayer’s situations and strategies, its characteristic acts and attitudes, to advance an understanding of prayer as a basic expression of our rhetorical capacities for communication and communion. This groundbreaking analysis demonstrates how prayer draws on fundamental capacities to engage other beings rhetorically to argue that we are never more human than when we address the nonhuman. Spiritual Modalities is notable in its aim to articulate a critical rhetoric of prayer in a secular idiom. It draws on contributions to rhetorical theory from Kenneth Burke along with a broad range of classical and contemporary perspectives on audience, address, speech acts, and modes of performance. The book also takes a multicultural and multimodal approach to prayer as rhetorical performance. The texts and practices of prayer represented range across religious traditions and historical eras and include both verbal and physical modes of divine address. The book will be of interest to scholars researching religious language, Burkean approaches to discourse, practices of memory, and media studies.

Incomprehensible Certainty

Author : Thomas Pfau
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268202478
Total Pages : 1268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Incomprehensible Certainty written by Thomas Pfau and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pfau’s study of images and visual experience is a tour de force linking Platonic metaphysics to modern phenomenology and probing literary, philosophical, and theological accounts of visual experience from Plato to Rilke. Incomprehensible Certainty presents a sustained reflection on the nature of images and the phenomenology of visual experience. Taking the “image” (eikōn) as the essential medium of art and literature and as foundational for the intuitive ways in which we make contact with our “lifeworld,” Thomas Pfau draws in equal measure on Platonic metaphysics and modern phenomenology to advance a series of interlocking claims. First, Pfau shows that, beginning with Plato’s later dialogues, being and appearance came to be understood as ontologically distinct from (but no longer opposed to) one another. Second, in contrast to the idol that is typically gazed at and visually consumed as an object of desire, this study positions the image as a medium whose intrinsic abundance and excess reveal to us its metaphysical function—namely, as the visible analogue of an invisible, numinous reality. Finally, the interpretations unfolded in this book (from Plato, Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius, John Damascene via Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonaventure, Julian of Norwich, and Nicholas of Cusa to modern writers and artists such as Goethe, Ruskin, Turner, Hopkins, Cézanne, and Rilke) affirm the essential complementarity of image and word, visual intuition and hermeneutic practice, in theology, philosophy, and literature. Like Pfau’s previous book, Minding the Modern, Incomprehensible Certainty is a major work. With over fifty illustrations, the book will interest students and scholars of philosophy, theology, literature, and art history.

Dodging Angels on Saturday

Author : Graeme Garrett
Publisher : ATF Press
ISBN 13 : 9781920691394
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book Dodging Angels on Saturday written by Graeme Garrett and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of many surprising experiences that life has brought, two stand out for me - God and children. Neither turned out to be anything like I had been lead to expect. God was big in my family of origin; big enough to lure me into a life of faith. But I hardly knew what I was getting into. Then I married and had two daughters. At the time I thought you had children while you got on with the rest of your life. That idea turned out to be wide off the mark as well. Parents sometimes ask their children, usually in the light of some misdemeanor: What have you got to say for yourself? But that question can as readily be put the other way. After all we bring our children without consultation into the world. They have to live with the circumstances we create until age and stage give them a choice. This book is an attempt at an answer to the implied questions of the rising generation. Of all possibilities available why did you choose to live as a believer? And what on earth has that to do with us? The author an Anglican theologian at St Mark's National Anglican Theological College in Canberra, Australia and has previously written for Liturgical Press in the US.

The Theology of Louis-Marie Chauvet

Author : Glenn P Ambrose
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317014251
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Theology of Louis-Marie Chauvet written by Glenn P Ambrose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theology of Louis-Marie Chauvet provides a much needed accessible introduction to the philosophical and theological foundations of Chauvet's sacramental theology. Particular attention is given to his appropriation of Heidegger and use of the Social Sciences to elucidate the nature of the symbolic exchange that lies at the heart of the sacramental tradition. This book highlights the prophetic, deconstructive and even iconoclastic message for contemporary society and the church implicit in the Eucharistic liturgy. Common conceptions of God's presence and sacrifice are critically analyzed and the connection between sacramental worship and ethics is emphasized.

Images of the Divine

Author : Ambrosios Giakalis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004474455
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Images of the Divine written by Ambrosios Giakalis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of the arguments for and against icons presented at the Seventh Ecumenical Council of 787 provides a fresh insight from an Eastern Orthodox point of view into the role of icons as channels communicative of divine life.

New Directions in Rhetoric and Religion

Author : James W. Vining
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793622833
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Rhetoric and Religion written by James W. Vining and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Directions in Rhetoric and Religion reflects the complex and fluid natures of religion, rhetoric, and public life in our globalized, digital, and politically polarized world by bringing together a diverse group of rhetorical scholars to provide a comprehensive and forward-looking collection on rhetoric and religion. This volume addresses these topics in three separate sections: 1. Rhetorics of religion at work in public activism, 2. Rhetorics of religion in contemporary public discourse, and 3. Ways that rhetoric scholars study religion. Scholars of rhetoric, religion, and social sciences will find this book particularly interesting.

A Sacerdotal Poetics

Author : Kathryn Wills
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666708267
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book A Sacerdotal Poetics written by Kathryn Wills and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new way of understanding the old conflict between iconophiles and iconoclasts by exploring the way images in poetry are used by one poet, W. B. Yeats, and his translator, Yves Bonnefoy. Using the phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion as a tool of interpretation, the book suggests further that translation is a significant act in which one entire theological world of a Protestant poet may become a completely different, Catholic one when the translation is performed by a culturally Catholic poet. For Bonnefoy, therefore, the act of translation becomes a profound act of hope.

Giving Blood

Author : Leonard Sweet
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310515408
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Giving Blood written by Leonard Sweet and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Groundbreaking Resource for Preaching If the church wishes to converse effectively with a culture, it must learn the culture’s language. Today, shifts in technology mean that language is increasingly one of symbols and metaphors, stories and images—not words. So what does this mean for the sermon, that long-standing, word-based tradition of Christianity? In this ground-breaking resource, bestselling author Leonard Sweet offers an alternative to traditional models of preaching, one that is fitting to a new culture and a new mode of thinking. The first book of its kind to move preaching beyond its pulpit-centric fixation and toward more interactive, participatory modes of communication, Sweet presents both a challenge and a path forward for a church struggling to maintain its relevance in a post-modern, media-saturated culture.

God Without Being

Author : Jean-Luc Marion
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226505411
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book God Without Being written by Jean-Luc Marion and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-06-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Luc Marion advances a controversial argument for a God free of all categories of Being. Taking a characteristically postmodern stance, Marion challenges a fundamental premise of both metaphysics and neo-Thomist theology: that God, before all else, must be. Rather, he locates a "God without Being" in the realm of agape, of Christian charity or love. This volume, the first translation into English of the work of this leading Catholic philosopher, offers a contemporary perspective on the nature of God. "An immensely thoughtful book. . . . It promises a rich harvest. Marion's highly original treatment of the idol and the icon, the Eucharist, boredom and vanity, conversion and prayer takes theological and philosophical discussions to a new level."—Norman Wirzba, Christian Century

Faith, Reason, and Beyond Reason

Author : Mark J. Boone
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666788295
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Faith, Reason, and Beyond Reason written by Mark J. Boone and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between faith and reason is multifaceted. Faith transcends reason in that it is more than reason alone can contain or fully guarantee, yet it is neither unreasonable nor something to which reason is irrelevant—and reason says some pretty fine things about it! This volume updates nine previously published articles on faith and reason by a Christian philosopher who has been studying these matters for two decades, alongside one new essay and a philosophical dialogue. These articles explain and integrate key ideas on faith and reason, including Alvin Plantinga’s account of how Christian belief can be knowledge even without evidence; defenses of faith from Augustine and William James; accounts of empirical evidence for faith from different world religions; the distinction between faith and sight in the New Testament; the structure of the evidence for the authority of the Bible; the idea that faith transcends reason because some articles of faith are beyond human comprehension, even if we have evidence that they are true; and the nature of faith as a total commitment beyond what the evidence alone can guarantee.

Images of the Divine: The Theology of Icons at the Seventh Ecumenical Council - Revised Edition

Author : Ambrosios Giakalis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047407288
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Images of the Divine: The Theology of Icons at the Seventh Ecumenical Council - Revised Edition written by Ambrosios Giakalis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, newly revised and updated, examines the Eastern Church's theology of icons chiefly on the basis of the acta of the Seventh Ecumenical Council of 787. The political circumstances leading to the outbreak of the iconclast controversy in the eighth century are discussed in detail, but the main emphasis is on the theological arguments and assumptions of the council participants. Major themes include the nature of tradition, the relationship between image and reality, and the place of christology. Ultimately the argument over icons was about the accessibility of the divine. Icons were held by the iconophiles to communicate a deifying grace which raised the believer to participation in the life of God.