Recent Releases

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Publisher : Sheffield Phoenix Press Limited
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Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Recent Releases by : Geert Hallbäck

Download or read book Recent Releases written by Geert Hallbäck and published by Sheffield Phoenix Press Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between theology and film has always been a complicated one. When film was invented at the end of the nineteenth century, it quickly gained its place in popular culture, far from the orthodoxies of the scholarly world and of the Church. For the better part of the twentieth century popular cinema was considered off limits for serious studies of Bible and culture. Recently, however, there has been a growing understanding of how the Bible is being used in popular culture-not as a historical document or as an authoritative canon, but as part of the cultural intertext. Cinema is a vivid example of the role and impact of the Bible in contemporary society. In this well-theorized collection of essays the issue is treated from several angles. Using the methodology of theology, the question of the alleged escapism of popular cinema is explored. Using the methodology of media studies, the impact of the media on religious communication is analysed. And, using the methodology of religious studies, the influence of the cinema in the creation of new religions, religious behaviour and religious institutions is investigated. In addition, the book offers fruitful analyses of the cinematic use of biblical themes such as Eden, salvation, Mary Magdalene and Jesus-as well as of the cinematic application of ethical themes such as truth-telling, personal growth, suffering, the accomplishment of good and the creating of meaning for human beings.

Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802091776
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment by : John Christian Laursen

Download or read book Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment written by John Christian Laursen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, historians of early-modern European political thought have tended to neglect the concept of monarchy and monarchism, focusing instead on the development of republicanism during this period. Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment aims to correct this imbalance by illustrating that many thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in fact, saw monarchy as a solution to the instability, chaos, and even violence of experiments with republican government. Editors Hans Blom, John Christian Laursen, and Luisa Simonutti have brought together outstanding scholars in the field to correct many of the misleading stereotypes about monarchy, and to explore the variety and dynamism of this form of government, in early-modern Europe. Contributors explore four major themes: monarchisms in the political thought of Spinoza, Bayle, Fénelon, Hume, and Montesquieu; enlightened Christian and millenarian monarchisms; defending and resisting absolute monarchy; and, finally, reflections on the British monarchy. Fascinating and timely, Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment will be of interest to historians, political theorists, political philosophers, and political scientists.

Derrida and Religion

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415968881
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (688 download)

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Book Synopsis Derrida and Religion by : Yvonne Sherwood

Download or read book Derrida and Religion written by Yvonne Sherwood and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139459104
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe by : Conal Condren

Download or read book The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe written by Conal Condren and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking collection of essays the history of philosophy appears in a fresh light, not as reason's progressive discovery of its universal conditions, but as a series of unreconciled disputes over the proper way to conduct oneself as a philosopher. By shifting focus from the philosopher as proxy for the universal subject of reason to the philosopher as a special persona arising from rival forms of self-cultivation, philosophy is approached in terms of the social office and intellectual deportment of the philosopher, as a personage with a definite moral physiognomy and institutional setting. In so doing, this collection of essays by leading figures in the fields of both philosophy and the history of ideas provides access to key early modern disputes over what it meant to be a philosopher, and to the institutional and larger political and religious contexts in which such disputes took place.

Knockin' on Heaven's Door

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134649711
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Book Synopsis Knockin' on Heaven's Door by : Roland Boer

Download or read book Knockin' on Heaven's Door written by Roland Boer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knockin' On Heaven's Door offers a critically sophisticated and truly interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship between biblical studies and contemporary culture. Specific biblical texts are examined in the light of cultural criticism and areas of popular culture including pornography, heavy metal music and McDonald's hamburgers in the light of biblical criticism.

The Pastor

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Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9780800638016
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis The Pastor by : Gordon W. Lathrop

Download or read book The Pastor written by Gordon W. Lathrop and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned liturgical theologian Gordon Lathrop has composed a rich, meditative, and explicitly ecumenical spirituality for working pastors ? whatever and wherever they are called: preachers, priests, elders, ministers, seminarians.In Part One Lathrop urges pastors to become lifelong students of the Lord's Prayer, the Apostle's Creed, and the Commandments, continually inhabiting the questions, reversals and paradoxes of Christian life.In Part Two he elaborates on the pastor's chief activities ? presiding at the holy table, preaching, collecting for the poor ? "as the center and focus for pastoral identity and spirituality." Lathrop invites pastors to recenter their busy lives on God and fuel their ministry through prayer.

John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052165114X
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Book Synopsis John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture by : John Marshall

Download or read book John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture written by John Marshall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major intellectual and cultural history of intolerance and toleration in early modern Enlightenment Europe.

The Religious Enlightenment

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691188181
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis The Religious Enlightenment by : David Sorkin

Download or read book The Religious Enlightenment written by David Sorkin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In intellectual and political culture today, the Enlightenment is routinely celebrated as the starting point of modernity and secular rationalism, or demonized as the source of a godless liberalism in conflict with religious faith. In The Religious Enlightenment, David Sorkin alters our understanding by showing that the Enlightenment, at its heart, was religious in nature. Sorkin examines the lives and ideas of influential Protestant, Jewish, and Catholic theologians of the Enlightenment, such as William Warburton in England, Moses Mendelssohn in Prussia, and Adrien Lamourette in France, among others. He demonstrates that, in the century before the French Revolution, the major religions of Europe gave rise to movements of renewal and reform that championed such hallmark Enlightenment ideas as reasonableness and natural religion, toleration and natural law. Calvinist enlightened orthodoxy, Jewish Haskalah, and reform Catholicism, to name but three such movements, were influential participants in the eighteenth century's burgeoning public sphere and promoted a new ideal of church-state relations. Sorkin shows how they pioneered a religious Enlightenment that embraced the new science of Copernicus and Newton and the philosophy of Descartes, Locke, and Christian Wolff, uniting reason and revelation to renew faith and piety. This book reveals how Enlightenment theologians refashioned belief as a solution to the dogmatism and intolerance of previous centuries. Read it and you will never view the Enlightenment the same way.

Bodies of Thought

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199236194
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis Bodies of Thought by : Ann Thomson

Download or read book Bodies of Thought written by Ann Thomson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `The church in danger' : latitudinarians, socinians, and hobbists -- Animal spirits and living fibres -- Mortalists and materialists -- Journalism, exile, and clandestinity -- Mid-eighteenth-century materialism -- Epilogue: Some consequences.

Rationality in Science, Religion, and Everyday Life

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Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268091676
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Book Synopsis Rationality in Science, Religion, and Everyday Life by : Mikael Stenmark

Download or read book Rationality in Science, Religion, and Everyday Life written by Mikael Stenmark and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mikael Stenmark examines four models of rationality and argues for a discussion of rationality that takes into account the function and aim of such human practices as science and religion.

The Triune Identity

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579109624
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)

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Book Synopsis The Triune Identity by : Robert W. Jenson

Download or read book The Triune Identity written by Robert W. Jenson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-05-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a bold venture in theology, combining a presentation, explanation, analysis, and reinterpretation of trinitarian language. Rejecting the assumption that traditional trinitarian discourse is useless in an age of cults and sects, Jenson points to a profound and provocative renewal of trinitarian piety and reflection understood as a remedy for spiritual desolation and powerlessness. Proceeding on the premise that any radical analysis of the formula ÒFather, Son, and Holy SpiritÓ must work from biblical statements, Jenson investigates the significance of two biblical identifications of God: ÒGod is whoever freed us from EgyptÓ and ÒGod is whoever raised Jesus from the deadÓ. In opposition to the notion that God is to be understood simply as timeless being, Jenson shows how the memory of God's acts and the presence of God in Christ leads to a hope for the future based on the promise of the spirit.

Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139435302
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment by : T. J. Hochstrasser

Download or read book Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment written by T. J. Hochstrasser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major addition to Ideas in Context examines the development of natural law theories in the early stages of the Enlightenment in Germany and France. T. J. Hochstrasser investigates the influence exercised by theories of natural law from Grotius to Kant, with a comparative analysis of the important intellectual innovations in ethics and political philosophy of the time. Hochstrasser includes the writings of Samuel Pufendorf and his followers who evolved a natural law theory based on human sociability and reason, fostering a new methodology in German philosophy. This book assesses the first histories of political thought since ancient times, giving insights into the nature and influence of debate within eighteenth-century natural jurisprudence. Ambitious in range and conceptually sophisticated, Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment will be of great interest to scholars in history, political thought, law and philosophy.

Rival Enlightenments

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521792657
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Book Synopsis Rival Enlightenments by : Ian Hunter

Download or read book Rival Enlightenments written by Ian Hunter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-11 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2001 reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history, treating the civil and metaphysical philosophers as rival intellectual cultures.

Close-up. Terrorism

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Publisher : Gyldendal Uddannelse
ISBN 13 : 870206846X
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Close-up. Terrorism by : Catherine Watson

Download or read book Close-up. Terrorism written by Catherine Watson and published by Gyldendal Uddannelse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: På baggrund af bl.a. vidneberetninger, taler, digte og nyhedsartikler gives indblik i nogle af de største terrorangreb i historien med særlig fokus på de engelsktalende lande

A Revolution of the Mind

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691152608
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis A Revolution of the Mind by : Jonathan Israel

Download or read book A Revolution of the Mind written by Jonathan Israel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Declaration of Human Rights.

A Religion against Itself

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725227096
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Book Synopsis A Religion against Itself by : Robert W. Jenson

Download or read book A Religion against Itself written by Robert W. Jenson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western religion today is as phony as an aluminum Christmas tree or a celluloid carnation. Our culture in its customs, laws, and creative arts no longer reckons seriously with supernatural realities--although it pretends to. According to Robert W. Jenson, the present epoch of phony religion gives the church the task and opportunity of making explicit the antireligious nature of the gospel. Indeed, Christian faith is antireligious religion. Dr. Jenson takes up the theme of religionless Christianity and works it out in relation to theology, worship, ethics, parish structure, missionary motivation, and faith. The final chapter consists of sermonic attempts to do what A Religion against Itself says must be done. Three excursuses show how the author's thought differs from that of Thomas J. J. Altizer, William Hamilton, and Harvey Cox. For Christians repelled by their own religion, here is a book that comes to grips with the "logic and music of our condition," in the hope of helping the church make sense of the gospel to itself and perhaps also to others.

Scientism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351815393
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Book Synopsis Scientism by : Mikael Stenmark

Download or read book Scientism written by Mikael Stenmark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 20/11/2001: The intellectual and practical successes of science have led some scientists to think that there are no real limits to the competence of scienece, and no limits to what can be achieved in the name of science. This view (and similar views) have been called Scientism. In this book, scientists' views about science and its relationship to knowledge, ethics and religion are subjected to critical scrutiny. A number of natural scientists have advocated Scientism in one form or another - Francis Crick, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, and Edward O. Wilson - and their impact inside and outside the sciences is considered. Clarifying what Scientism is, this book proceeds to evaluate its key claims, expounded in questions such as: is it the case that science can tell us everything there is to know about reality? Can science tell us how we morally ought to live and what the meaning of life is? Can science in fact be our new religion? Ought we become "science believers"? The author addresses these and similar issues, concluding that Scientism is not really science but disguised materialism or naturalism; its advocates fail to see this, not being sufficiently aware that their arguments presuppose the previous acceptance of certain extra-scientific or philosophical beliefs