How The Doctrine Of The Incarnation Shaped Western Culture
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How The Doctrine Of The Incarnation Shaped Western Culture
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Author : Patricia Ranft
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2013
How The Doctrine Of The Incarnation Shaped Western Culture written by Patricia Ranft and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
In recent years numerous scholars in disciplines not traditionally associated with theology have promoted an interesting thesis. They maintain that one particular Christian doctrine, the Incarnation, had an inordinate influence on the shape of Western culture. The doctrine, they say, was so radical that it mandated an epistemological break with pagan society's perception of the universe and forced Christians to form a new culture. As medieval society worked out the consequences of the doctrine, it gave birth to those attitudes, institutions, and actions that define modern Western culture. The claims are well argued, but it is a historically untested thesis. How the Doctrine of Incarnation Shaped Western Culture is a response to the situation. It investigates whether the presence of the doctrine had the definitive effect on Western culture that so many scholars claim it did. It searches early Christian and medieval sources for evidence and concludes that the doctrine had a dominant effect on the developing culture. No other idea was as omnipresent or pervasive in Western society during its formative stage as the Incarnation doctrine. The doctrine was influential in the establishment of every major facet of Western culture. Its paradox, irrationality, and juxtaposition of opposites created a tension that cried out for resolution, and society responded accordingly. The ideas within the doctrine acted as catalysts for cultural change. As a result, the West developed its most characteristic traits and forged a path that was uniquely its own.
Connections A Lectionary Commentary For Preaching And Worship
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Author : Joel B. Green
language : en
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 2019-09-17
Connections A Lectionary Commentary For Preaching And Worship written by Joel B. Green and has been published by Westminster John Knox Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-17 with Religion categories.
Designed to empower preachers as they lead congregations to connect their lives to Scripture, Connections features a broad set of interpretive tools that provide commentary and worship aids on the Revised Common Lectionary. This nine-volume series offers creative commentary on each reading in the three-year lectionary cycle by viewing that reading through the lens of its connections to the rest of Scripture and then seeing the reading through the lenses of culture, film, fiction, ethics, and other aspects of contemporary life. Commentaries on the Psalms make connections to the other readings and to the congregations experience of worship. Connections is published in partnership with Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Art And Mysticism
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Author : Louise Nelstrop
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-06-12
Art And Mysticism written by Louise Nelstrop and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-12 with Religion categories.
From the visual and textual art of Anglo-Saxon England onwards, images held a surprising power in the Western Christian tradition. Not only did these artistic representations provide images through which to find God, they also held mystical potential, and likewise mystical writing, from the early medieval period onwards, is also filled with images of God that likewise refracts and reflects His glory. This collection of essays introduces the currents of thought and practice that underpin this artistic engagement with Western Christian mysticism, and explores the continued link between art and theology. The book features contributions from an international panel of leading academics, and is divided into four sections. The first section offers theoretical and philosophical considerations of mystical aesthetics and the interplay between mysticism and art. The final three sections investigate this interplay between the arts and mysticism from three key vantage points. The purpose of the volume is to explore this rarely considered yet crucial interface between art and mysticism. It is therefore an important and illuminating collection of scholarship that will appeal to scholars of theology and Christian mysticism as much as those who study literature, the arts and art history.
Gastro Modernism Food Literature Culture
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Author : Derek Gladwin
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-10
Gastro Modernism Food Literature Culture written by Derek Gladwin and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Gastro-Modernism ultimately shows how global literary modernisms engage with the food culture to express anxieties about modernity as much as to celebrate the excesses modern lifestyles produce.
Interfaith Engagement Beyond The Divide
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Author : Johannes M. Luetz
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-12-02
Interfaith Engagement Beyond The Divide written by Johannes M. Luetz and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-02 with Education categories.
This book features reflections by scholars and practitioners from diverse religious traditions. It posits that the global challenges facing humanity today can only be mastered if humans from diverse faith traditions can meaningfully collaborate in support of human rights, reconciliation, sustainability, justice, and peace. Seeking to redress common distortions of religious mis- and dis-information, the book aims to construct interreligious common ground ‘beyond the divide’. Organised into three main sections, the book features sixteen conceptual, empirical, and practice-informed chapters that explore spirituality across faiths and cultures. Chapter 1 delineates the state of the art in relation to interfaith engagement, Chapters 2–8 advance theoretical research, Chapters 9–12 discuss empirical perspectives, and Chapters 13–16 showcase field projects and recount stories and lived experiences. Comprising works by scholars, professionals, and practitioners from around the globe, Interfaith Engagement Beyond the Divide: Approaches, Experiences, and Practices is an interdisciplinary publication on interreligious thought and engagement: Assembles a curated collection of chapters from numerous countries and diverse religious traditions; Addresses interfaith scholarship and praxis from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives; Comprises interfaith dialogue and collaborative research involving authors of different faiths; Envisions prospects for peace, interreligious harmony in diversity, and a world that may be equitably and enduringly shared. The appraisal of present and future challenges and opportunities, framed within a context of public policy and praxis, makes this interdisciplinary publication a useful tool for teaching, research, and policy development. Chapter 16 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Powers Principalities And The Spirit
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Author : Esther E. Acolatse
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2018-02-27
Powers Principalities And The Spirit written by Esther E. Acolatse and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-27 with Religion categories.
Among the many factors that separate churches in the West from those of the global South, there may be no greater difference than their respective attitudes toward supernatural “powers and principalities.” In this follow-up to her book For Freedom or Bondage? African theologian Esther Acolatse bridges the enormous hermeneutical gap not only between the West and global Christianity but also between the West and its own biblical-theological heritage.
Relationship Is The Transformative Space
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Author : Darryl Wooldridge
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2016-02-09
Relationship Is The Transformative Space written by Darryl Wooldridge and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-09 with Religion categories.
This book affirms relationship as the shared human elemental pursuit and proposes relationship as the transformative space. Wonderfully, the author asserts, it is God's intention to fulfill this intrinsic human desire in the present in all of us and universally. This desire is an often inarticulate, innate desire and pursuit to enjoy and reflect the divine image in which every human being was created. In this book, this pursuit is referred to as proleptic spiritual transformation (PrōST). That is, this book demonstrates that what is too often relegated to eternity is available now. Relationship is the Transformative Space considers God's heart, in relationship, and its implication toward human spirituality and how this intent has been interrupted and restored. God is actively interested in the recovery of a fully expressed image in humanity.
The Doctrine Of The Incarnation
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Author : Robert L. Ottley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
The Doctrine Of The Incarnation written by Robert L. Ottley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Incarnation categories.
v.1. To the Council of Nicea.- v.2. To the present day.
Humanism And Religion
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Author : Jens Zimmermann
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-26
Humanism And Religion written by Jens Zimmermann 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 2012-01-26 with Religion categories.
The question of who 'we' are and what vision of humanity 'we' assume in Western culture lies at the heart of hotly debated questions on the role of religion in education, politics, and culture in general. The need for recovering a greater purpose for social practices is indicated, for example, by the rapidly increasing number of publications on the demise of higher education, lamenting the fragmentation of knowledge and university culture's surrender to market-driven pragmatism. The West's cultural rootlessness and lack of cultural identity are also revealed by the failure of multiculturalism to integrate religiously vibrant immigrant cultures. A main cause of the West's cultural malaise is the long-standing separation of reason and faith. Jens Zimmermann suggests that the West can rearticulate its identity and renew its cultural purpose by recovering the humanistic ethos that originally shaped Western culture. In tracing the religious roots of humanism from patristic theology, through the Renaissance into modern philosophy, we find that humanism was originally based on the correlation of reason and faith. In this book, the author combines humanism, religion, and hermeneutic philosophy to re-imagine humanism for our current cultural and intellectual climate. The hope of this recovery is for humanism to become what Charles Taylor has called a 'social imaginary', an internalized vision of what it means to be human. This vision will encourage, once again, the correlation of reason and faith in order to overcome current cultural impasses, such as those posed, for example, by religious and secularist fundamentalisms.
Theology Of Peter Damian
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Author : Patricia Ranft
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2012-10-31
Theology Of Peter Damian written by Patricia Ranft and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- One: Italy at the Millennium -- Two: Establishing Fundamental Principles -- Three: The Mature Theologian -- Four: Standards for Church Reform -- Five: Renewal of Religious Life -- Six: Reflections on Secular Society -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendixes -- Appendix 1: Subject Index to the Writings of Peter Damian -- Appendix 2: Addresses of the Letters of Peter Damian -- Appendix 3: Subject References and Topics in Peter Damian's Sermon and Letters -- Appendix 4: Biblical Citations in Peter Damian's Letters -- Bibliography -- Index.