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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.

Evil in Joint Action

Author : Hans Bernhard Schmid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000091511
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evil in Joint Action written by Hans Bernhard Schmid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joining insights from social science and philosophy, this book offers a nuanced view on the discourse of evil, which has been on the rise in the West in recent years. Exploring the famous ‘Pear Theft’ episode in St Augustine’s Confessions, it looks beyond the theological implications of the event to focus instead on the secular insights that it offers when the event is placed in the context of social thought. With attention to Augustine’s lengthy reflections on a seemingly marginal episode, the author contends that it is possible to discern the elements of a convincing account of intentional evil action, the Pear Theft representing a case of joint radical improvisation that lacks collective deliberation. As such, a new perspective emerges on familiar and more intuitive forms of evil in joint action that involve group identification and institutional action. Evil in Joint Action will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory and philosophy with interests in ethics, collective action and concepts of evil.

Poisons

Author : Peter Macinnis
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611450144
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Poisons written by Peter Macinnis and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses history, science, and fun poison facts to make lively reading of all things lethal. The Boston...

The Bad Taste of Others

Author : Jennifer Tsien
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081220512X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Bad Taste of Others written by Jennifer Tsien and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-05-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An act of bad taste was more than a faux pas to French philosophers of the Enlightenment. To Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and others, bad taste in the arts could be a sign of the decline of a civilization. These intellectuals, faced with the potential chaos of an expanding literary market, created seals of disapproval in order to shape the literary and cultural heritage of France in their image. In The Bad Taste of Others Jennifer Tsien examines the power of ridicule and exclusion to shape the period's aesthetics. Tsien reveals how the philosophes consecrated themselves as the protectors of true French culture modeled on the classical, the rational, and the orderly. Their anxiety over the invasion of the Republic of Letters by hordes of hacks caused them to devise standards that justified the marginalization of worldy women, "barbarians," and plebeians. While critics avoided strict definitions of good taste, they wielded the term "bad taste" against all popular works they wished to erase from the canon of French literature, including Renaissance poetry, biblical drama, the burlesque theater of the previous century, the essays of Montaigne, and genres associated with the so-called précieuses. Tsien's study draws attention to long-disregarded works of salon culture, such as the énigmes, and offers a new perspective on the critical legacy of Voltaire. The philosophes' open disdain for the undiscerning reading public challenges the belief that the rise of aesthetics went hand in hand with Enlightenment ideas of equality and relativism.

The Language of Violent Jihad

Author : Paul Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108369219
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Violent Jihad written by Paul Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do violent jihadists use language to try to persuade people to carry out violent acts? This book analyses over two million words of texts produced by violent jihadists to identify and examine the linguistic strategies employed. Taking a mixed methods approach, the authors combine quantitative methods from corpus linguistics, which allows the identification of frequent words and phrases, alongside close reading of texts via discourse analysis. The analysis compares language use across three sets of texts: those which advocate violence, those which take a hostile but non-violent standpoint, and those which take a moderate perspective, identifying the different uses of language associated with different stages of radicalization. The book also discusses how strategies including use of Arabic, romanisation, formal English, quotation, metaphor, dehumanisation and collectivisation are used to create in- and out-groups and justify violence.

Papers on Disturbances of the Taste Function

Author : Wilhelm Sternberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Papers on Disturbances of the Taste Function written by Wilhelm Sternberg and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Taste of the Classics -

Author :
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830857621
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book A Taste of the Classics - written by and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-07-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Taste of the Classics Series, Dr. Kenneth Boa encapsulates and discusses the classic works that helped shape Western civilization: books like The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis, The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer and The Love of God by Bernard of Clairvaux, giving you a synthesis of the key things you will want to know: The life and times of the author The timeless contribution of the book Key quotations from the book that reveal the power of the book and illustrate its underlying worldview Brief insights after each of the key quotations Compelling applications for our lives

The Sovereignty of Taste

Author : James S. Hans
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252093283
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Sovereignty of Taste written by James S. Hans and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002-01-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging prevailing trends toward aesthetic neutrality, James S. Hans argues that there is such a thing as good and bad taste, that taste is something one is born with, and that it is firmly rooted in the mechanics of biology. Taste is everything, Hans says, for it produces the primary values that guide our lives. Taste is the fundamental organizing mechanism of human bodies, a lifelong effort to fit one's own rhythms to the rhythms and patterns of the natural world and the larger human community. It is an aesthetic sorting process by which one determines what belongs in--a conversation, a curriculum, a committee, a piece of art, a meal, a logical argument--and what should be left out. On the one hand, taste is the source of beauty, justice, and a sense of the good. On the other hand, as an arbiter of the laws of fair and free play, taste enters into more ominous and destructive patterns--but patterns nonetheless--of resentment and violence. Hans develops his conception of taste through astute readings of five literary landmarks: Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Sophocles' Oedipus the King, William Faulkner's Light in August, and the poetry of Emily Dickinson and the Polish Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz. These texts explore the art of soulmaking and the quest for personal expression: the costs as well as the fruits that come from acceding to the imperatives of one's being. They also reveal how the collision of personal and collective rhythms, whether in the Greek citadel or the Mississippi countryside, leads to violence and ritualized sacrifice. Elegant, principled, and provocative, The Sovereignty of Taste is an essential book that restores taste to its rightful place of influence, shoring up the ground beneath civilization's feet and offering hope for the future of integrity, value, and aesthetic truth.

Taste of Torah

Author : Ahud Sela
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 166678026X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Taste of Torah written by Ahud Sela and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studying Torah can be difficult for anyone. Finding meaning and relevance in an ancient text can be daunting. The author’s hope is that these short teachings will be both meaningful and easy to study in a short period of time. Divided according to the weekly Torah portion and by holiday, each Taste of Torah gives you a bite-sized piece of wisdom and something deeper to chew on.

Healing in the History of Christianity

Author : Amanda Porterfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198035748
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Healing in the History of Christianity written by Amanda Porterfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amanda Porterfield offers a survey of ideas, rituals, and experiences of healing in Christian history. Jesus himself performed many miracles of healing, and Christians down the ages have seen this as a prominent feature of their faith. Indeed, healing is one of the most constant themes in the long and sprawling history of Christianity. Changes in healing beliefs and practices offer a window into changes in religious authority, church structure, and ideas about sanctity, history, resurrection, and the kingdom of God. Porterfield chronicles these changes, at the same time shedding important new light on the universality of religious healing. Finally, she looks at recent scientific findings about religion's biological effects, and considers the relation of these findings to ages-old traditions about belief and healing.

TASTE

Author : Andrea Pavoni
Publisher : University of Westminster Press
ISBN 13 : 1911534335
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book TASTE written by Andrea Pavoni and published by University of Westminster Press. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taste usually occupies the bottom of the sensorial hierarchy, as the quintessentially hedonistic sense, too close to the animal, the elemental and the corporeal, and for this reason disciplined and moralised. At the same time, taste is indissolubly tied to knowledge. To taste is to discriminate, emit judgement, enter an unstable domain of synaesthetic normativity where the certainty of metaphysical categories begins to crumble. This second title in the ‘Law and the Senses’ series explores law using taste as a conceptual and ontological category able to unsettle legal certainties, and a promising tool whereby to investigate the materiality of law’s relation to the world. For what else is law’s reduction of the world into legal categories, if not law’s ingesting the world by tasting it, and emitting moral and legal judgements accordingly? Through various topics including coffee, wine, craft cider and Japanese knotweed, this volume explores the normativities that shape the way taste is felt and categorised, within and beyond subjective, phenomenological and human dimensions. The result is an original interdisciplinary volume – complete with seven speculative ‘recipes’ – dedicated to a rarely explored intersection, with contributions from artists, legal academics, philosophers, anthropologists and sociologists.

An American Dictionary of the English Language

Author : Noah Webster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An American Dictionary of the English Language written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grow Up in Christ

Author : David C Cook
Publisher : David C Cook
ISBN 13 : 0830776737
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Grow Up in Christ written by David C Cook and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These lessons help kids understand how they can grow up in Christ by searching for and finding God's goodness, discovering ways to show Christ's love, and telling about their hope in Jesus. A 52-Week Bible Journey–Just for Kids!Route 52™ is a Bible-based journey that will take kids through the Bible every year from age 8 to 12. Every lesson features: Scripturally sound themes Culturally relevant, hands-on activities Age-appropriate Bible-learning challenges Reproducible life-application activity pages Route 52™ Bible lessons will help kids learn the Bible and how to apply it to their lives at their own level of spiritual development. These reproducible Bible lessons are appropriate for Bible school, children's church, youth group, kids club, and midweek Bible study programs.

Taste the Grace

Author : Barbara Patton Unger
Publisher : Hope Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9781932717198
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Taste the Grace written by Barbara Patton Unger and published by Hope Publishing House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Philosophy of the Daodejing

Author : Hans-Georg Moeller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231136781
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of the Daodejing written by Hans-Georg Moeller and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, the ancient Chinese philosophical text the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) has fascinated and frustrated its readers. While it offers a wealth of rich philosophical insights concerning the cultivation of one's body and attaining one's proper place within nature and the cosmos, its teachings and structure can be enigmatic and obscure. Hans-Georg Moeller presents a clear and coherent description and analysis of this vaguely understood Chinese classic. He explores the recurring images and ideas that shape the work and offers a variety of useful approaches to understanding and appreciating this canonical text. Moeller expounds on the core philosophical issues addressed in the Daodejing, clarifying such crucial concepts as Yin and Yang and Dao and De. He explains its teachings on a variety of subjects, including sexuality, ethics, desire, cosmology, human nature, the emotions, time, death, and the death penalty. The Daodejing also offers a distinctive ideal of social order and political leadership and presents a philosophy of war and peace. An illuminating exploration, The Daodejing is an interesting foil to the philosophical outlook of Western humanism and contains surprising parallels between its teachings and nontraditional contemporary philosophies.

From Materialism to Idealism

Author : John O'Loughlin
Publisher : Centretruths Digital Media
ISBN 13 : 1446112977
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book From Materialism to Idealism written by John O'Loughlin and published by Centretruths Digital Media. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book of aphoristic philosophy, diagrams are sometimes used to delineate and elucidate complex philosophical propositions which would otherwise lack linear perspective or schematic definition, but the text remains by and large self-explanatory as it grapples with a variety of quadruplicities having some connection with a presumption of antitheses between materialism and idealism on the one hand, and naturalism and realism on the other. Hence the title 'From Materialism to Idealism'.

Collected Supernotational Writings Vol.I

Author : John O'Loughlin
Publisher : John O'Loughlin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1066 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Supernotational Writings Vol.I written by John O'Loughlin and published by John O'Loughlin. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Volume 1 of a projected two-volume philosophy project, author John O'Loughlin has combined the titles 'Devil and God', 'From Materialism to Idealism', 'Towards the Supernoumenon', and 'Elemental Spectra', all of which date from the mid-late 1980s, with a view to bringing some kind of strict chronology to bear on a series of writings that he dubs 'supernotational', to distinguish them from essays on the one hand and strictly aphoristic or maximistic material on the other hand, thereby treading a kind of half-way path between essays and aphorisms in the interests of what became a gradual progression towards an enhanced sense of philosophical logic commensurate, so he believes, with 'Supertruth' and, ultimately, a kind of plateau of aphoristic purism. – A Centretruths Editorial