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Desiring Divinity
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Author : M. David Litwa
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Desiring Divinity written by M. David Litwa and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Religion categories.
Perhaps no declaration incites more theological and moral outrage than a human's claim to be divine. Those who make this claim in ancient Jewish and Christian mythology are typically represented as the most hubristic and dangerous tyrants. Their horrible punishments are predictable and still serve as morality tales in religious communities today. But not all self-deifiers are saddled with pride and fated to fall. Some who claimed divinity stated a simple and direct truth. Though reviled on earth, misunderstood, and even killed, they received vindication and rose to the stars. This book tells the stories of six self-deifiers in their historical, social, and ideological contexts. In the history of interpretation, the initial three figures have been demonized as cosmic rebels: the first human Adam, Lucifer (later identified with Satan), and Yaldabaoth in gnostic mythology. By contrast, the final three have served as positive models for deification and divine favor: Jesus in the gospel of John, Simon of Samaria, and Allogenes in the Nag Hammadi library. In the end, the line separating demonization from deification is dangerously thin, drawn as it is by the unsteady hand of human valuation.
Desiring Divinity
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Author : M. David Litwa
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-03
Desiring Divinity written by M. David Litwa and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-03 with Religion categories.
Perhaps no declaration incites more theological and moral outrage than a human's claim to be divine. Those who make this claim in ancient Jewish and Christian mythology are typically represented as the most hubristic and dangerous tyrants. Their horrible punishments are predictable and still serve as morality tales in religious communities today. But not all self-deifiers are saddled with pride and fated to fall. Some who claimed divinity stated a simple and direct truth. Though reviled on earth, misunderstood, and even killed, they received vindication and rose to the stars. This book tells the stories of six self-deifiers in their historical, social, and ideological contexts. In the history of interpretation, the initial three figures have been demonized as cosmic rebels: the first human Adam, Lucifer (later identified with Satan), and Yaldabaoth in gnostic mythology. By contrast, the final three have served as positive models for deification and divine favor: Jesus in the gospel of John, Simon of Samaria, and Allogenes in the Nag Hammadi library. In the end, the line separating demonization from deification is dangerously thin, drawn as it is by the unsteady hand of human valuation.
Desire Violence Divinity In Modern Southern Fiction
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Author : Gary M. Ciuba
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2007
Desire Violence Divinity In Modern Southern Fiction written by Gary M. Ciuba and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
"In this study, Gary M. Ciuba examines how four of the South's most probing writers of twentieth-century fiction - Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percy - expose the roots of violence in southern culture. Ciuba draws on the paradigm of mimetic violence developed by cultural and literary critic Rene Girard, who maintains that individual human nature is shaped by the desire to imitate a model."--BOOK JACKET.
Desire In Ren Girard And Jesus
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Author : William L. Newell
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2012-03-22
Desire In Ren Girard And Jesus written by William L. Newell and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-22 with Philosophy categories.
William L. Newell presents a comprehensive analysis of René Girard’s work on the origins of culture and the depths of human desire. Girard makes no claim toward a theory of religion, but he lays the groundwork for a postmodern theory of it. Girard’s desire concerns fallen humanity, those insanely imitating what they lacked, and his use of the Bible brings back into play the idea of the holy in secular academia. Newell challenges Girard’s interpretation of Jesus’s Passion as non-sacrificial and he offers a close reading of Girard’s works on mimetic desire, scape-goating, and sacrifice, and Newell creates breakthrough theology on Jesus in the Excursus. Girard makes no claim to having a theory of religion, but he lays the groundwork for a postmodern theory of it, and in this book, Newell seeks to begin a theory of “the end of the sacred” and what will be in its place: the holy.
Desiring The Kingdom Cultural Liturgies
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Author : James K. A. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Baker Academic
Release Date : 2009-08-01
Desiring The Kingdom Cultural Liturgies written by James K. A. Smith and has been published by Baker Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-01 with Religion categories.
Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans--as Augustine noted--are "desiring agents," full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love. James K. A. Smith focuses on the themes of liturgy and desire in Desiring the Kingdom, the first book in what will be a three-volume set on the theology of culture. He redirects our yearnings to focus on the greatest good: God. Ultimately, Smith seeks to re-vision education through the process and practice of worship. Students of philosophy, theology, worldview, and culture will welcome Desiring the Kingdom, as will those involved in ministry and other interested readers.
Women
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Author : Marie Anne Mayeski
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1988
Women written by Marie Anne Mayeski and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
InWomen: Models of Liberation, Marie Anne Mayeski presents women of spirit, intelligence and accomplishment from the Christian heritage. With this anthology of selected writings of well-known women, Mayeski recaptures the importance and relevance of these Christian heroines.
Posthuman Transformation In Ancient Mediterranean Thought
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Author : M. David Litwa
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-07
Posthuman Transformation In Ancient Mediterranean Thought written by M. David Litwa and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-07 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Ancient theories of posthuman transformation can shape, chasten, and reform modern (biotechnical) theories of posthuman enhancement.
Desire And Truth
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Author : Patricia Meyer Spacks
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1990-04-20
Desire And Truth written by Patricia Meyer Spacks and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-04-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Desire and Truth offers a major reassessment of the history of eighteenth-century fiction by showing how plot challenges or reinforces conventional categories of passion and rationality. Arguing that fiction creates and conveys its essential truths through plot, Patricia Meyer Spacks demonstrates that eighteenth-century fiction is both profoundly realistic and consistently daring.
Desire Love And The Rule Of St Benedict
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Author : Andrew Clitherow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Desire Love And The Rule Of St Benedict written by Andrew Clitherow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Desire categories.
Drawing on the Rule of St Benedict, Andrew Clitherow explores our desires in relation to the sometimes unpredictable nature of love, and suggests ways in which we might come to terms with our humanity and divinity. He offers suggestions for practical exercises and prayers to help us reflect on the interplay between desire and love as the basis of a new way of life.
Official Bulletin
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Author : University of Chicago
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Official Bulletin written by University of Chicago and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Universities and colleges categories.