Imagining Our Neighbors As Ourselves
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Imagining Our Neighbors As Ourselves
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Author : Mary W. McCampbell
language : en
Publisher: Fortress Press
Release Date : 2022-04-19
Imagining Our Neighbors As Ourselves written by Mary W. McCampbell and has been published by Fortress Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-19 with Religion categories.
Anyone reading comments in online spaces is often confronted with a collective cultural loss of empathy. This profound loss is directly related to the inability to imagine the life and circumstances of the other. Our malnourished capacity for empathy is connected to an equally malnourished imagination. In order to truly love and welcome others, we need to exercise our imaginations, to see our neighbors more as God sees them than as confined by our own inadequate and ungracious labels. We need stories that can convict us about our own sins of omission or commission, enabling us to see the beautiful, complex world of our neighbors as we look beyond ourselves. In this book, Mary McCampbell looks at how narrative art--whether literature, film, television, or popular music--expands our imaginations and, in so doing, emboldens our ability to love our neighbors as ourselves. The prophetic artists in these pages--Graham Greene, Toni Morrison, and Flannery O'Connor among them--show through the form and content of their narrative craft that in order to love, we must be able to effectively imagine the lives of others. But even though we have these rich opportunities to grow emotionally and spiritually, we have been culturally trained as consumers to treat our practice of reading, watching, and listening as mere acts of consumption. McCampbell instead insists that truly engaging with artists who have the prophetic capacity to create art that wakes us up can jolt us from our typically self-concerned spiritual stupors. She focuses on narrative art as a means of embodiment and an invitation to participation, hospitality, and empathy. Reading, seeing, or listening to the story of someone seemingly different from us can awaken us to the very real spiritual similarities between human beings. The intentionality that it takes to surrender a bit of our own default self-centeredness is an act of spiritual formation. Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves presents a journey through initial self-reflection to a richer, more compassionate look outward, as narrative empowers us to exercise our imaginations for the sake of expanding our capacity for empathy.
Imagining The Kingdom Cultural Liturgies
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Author : James K. A. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Baker Books
Release Date : 2013-02-15
Imagining The Kingdom Cultural Liturgies written by James K. A. Smith and has been published by Baker Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-15 with Religion categories.
How does worship work? How exactly does liturgical formation shape us? What are the dynamics of such transformation? In the second of James K. A. Smith's three-volume theology of culture, the author expands and deepens the analysis of cultural liturgies and Christian worship he developed in his well-received Desiring the Kingdom. He helps us understand and appreciate the bodily basis of habit formation and how liturgical formation--both "secular" and Christian--affects our fundamental orientation to the world. Worship "works" by leveraging our bodies to transform our imagination, and it does this through stories we understand on a register that is closer to body than mind. This has critical implications for how we think about Christian formation. Professors and students will welcome this work as will pastors, worship leaders, and Christian educators. The book includes analyses of popular films, novels, and other cultural phenomena, such as The King's Speech, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, and Facebook.
Beauty Is Oxygen
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Author : Wesley Vander Lugt
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2024-06-18
Beauty Is Oxygen written by Wesley Vander Lugt 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 2024-06-18 with Religion categories.
Beauty is oxygen because it comes from the lungs of God. Isolating individualism, rank injustice, and everyday monotony threaten to suffocate our souls. But Wesley Vander Lugt shows how beauty can breathe life back into us. Written in a graceful cadence that invites readers to turn these pages slowly, Beauty Is Oxygen weaves together theological reflection, poetry, cultural criticism, and Scripture. Throughout, Vander Lugt shows how beauty can break us out of self-centered malaise, promote healing and hope for our broken world, and reenchant our lives. Beauty is about more than positive feelings or pleasing aesthetics. Beauty is as essential to our souls as oxygen is to our bodies. As readers encounter these traces of divine glory in Vander Lugt’s finely crafted meditations, they will find how Christ will “make all things new.”
Imagining The Academy
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Author : Susan Huddleston Edgerton
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2005
Imagining The Academy written by Susan Huddleston Edgerton and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Education in popular culture categories.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Rethinking Sympathy And Human Contact In Nineteenth Century American Literature
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Author : Marianne Noble
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-28
Rethinking Sympathy And Human Contact In Nineteenth Century American Literature written by Marianne Noble 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 2019-03-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s. It will appeal to undergraduates and scholars seeking new approaches to canonical American authors, psychological theorists of sympathy and empathy, and philosophers of moral philosophy.
Unfettered
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Author : Mandy Smith
language : en
Publisher: Brazos Press
Release Date : 2021-05-18
Unfettered written by Mandy Smith and has been published by Brazos Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-18 with Religion categories.
"Smith's sage advice will aid Christians in recognizing the simple joys of practicing their faith."--Publishers Weekly Western culture is in a tailspin, and Christian faith is entangled in it: we do kingdom things in empire ways. Western approaches to faith leave us feeling depressed, doubting, anxious, and burned out. We know something is wrong with the way we do faith and church in the West, but we're so steeped in it that we don't know where to begin to break old habits. Popular pastor and speaker Mandy Smith invites us to be unfettered from the deeply ingrained habits of Western culture so we can do kingdom things in kingdom ways again. She explores how we can be transformed by new postures and habits that help us see God already at work in and around us. The way forward isn't more ideas, programs, and problem-solving but in Jesus's surprising invitation to the kingdom through childlikeness. Ultimately, rediscovering childlike habits is a way for us to remember how to be human. Unfettered helps us reimagine how to follow God with our whole selves again and join with God's mission in the world. Foreword by Walter Brueggemann.
Up Against The Wall
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Author : Edward S. Casey
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-09-01
Up Against The Wall written by Edward S. Casey and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with Social Science categories.
As increasing global economic disparities, violence, and climate change provoke a rising tide of forced migration, many countries and local communities are responding by building walls—literal and metaphorical—between citizens and newcomers. Up Against the Wall: Re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border examines the temptation to construct such walls through a penetrating analysis of the U.S. wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as investigating the walling out of Mexicans in local communities. Calling into question the building of a wall against a friendly neighboring nation, Up Against the Wall offers an analysis of the differences between borders and boundaries. This analysis opens the way to envisioning alternatives to the stark and policed divisions that are imposed by walls of all kinds. Tracing the consequences of imperialism and colonization as citizens grapple with new migrant neighbors, the book paints compelling examples from key locales affected by the wall—Nogales, Arizona vs. Nogales, Sonora; Tijuana/San Diego; and the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. An extended case study of Santa Barbara describes the creation of an internal colony in the aftermath of the U.S. conquest of Mexican land, a history that is relevant to many U.S. cities and towns. Ranging from human rights issues in the wake of massive global migration to the role of national restorative shame in the United States for the treatment of Mexicans since 1848, the authors delve into the broad repercussions of the unjust and often tragic consequences of excluding others through walled structures along with the withholding of citizenship and full societal inclusion. Through the lens of a detailed examination of forced migration from Mexico to the United States, this transdisciplinary text, drawing on philosophy, psychology, and political theory, opens up multiple insights into how nations and communities can coexist with more justice and more compassion.
Rhetoric And Composition As Intellectual Work
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Author : Gary A. Olson
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2002
Rhetoric And Composition As Intellectual Work written by Gary A. Olson and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
Unity Pulpit
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
Unity Pulpit written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with Sermons, American categories.
Interrogating The Language Of Self And Other In The History Of Modern Christian Mission
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Author : Man-Hei Yip
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2020-08-05
Interrogating The Language Of Self And Other In The History Of Modern Christian Mission written by Man-Hei Yip 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 2020-08-05 with Religion categories.
This book offers a critical analysis of the use of language in mission studies. Language and Christian missionary activity intersect in complicated ways to objectify the other in cross-cultural situations. Rethinking missiological language is both urgent and necessary to subvert narratives that continue to fetishize the other as cultural stereotypes. The project takes a step forward to reconceptualize otherness as gift, and such an affirmation should create a pathway for human flourishing and furthermore, open new avenues for missiological exploration to address issues arising from a world dominated by bigoted discourses, lies, and hate speech.