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The Christian Imagination
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Author : Willie James Jennings
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2010-05-25
The Christian Imagination written by Willie James Jennings and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-25 with Religion categories.
Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social divisions? In this ambitious and wide-ranging work, Willie James Jennings delves deep into the late medieval soil in which the modern Christian imagination grew, to reveal how Christianity's highly refined process of socialization has inadvertently created and maintained segregated societies. A probing study of the cultural fragmentation-social, spatial, and racial-that took root in the Western mind, this book shows how Christianity has consistently forged Christian nations rather than encouraging genuine communion between disparate groups and individuals. Weaving together the stories of Zurara, the royal chronicler of Prince Henry, the Jesuit theologian Jose de Acosta, the famed Anglican Bishop John William Colenso, and the former slave writer Olaudah Equiano, Jennings narrates a tale of loss, forgetfulness, and missed opportunities for the transformation of Christian communities. Touching on issues of slavery, geography, Native American history, Jewish-Christian relations, literacy, and translation, he brilliantly exposes how the loss of land and the supersessionist ideas behind the Christian missionary movement are both deeply implicated in the invention of race. Using his bold, creative, and courageous critique to imagine a truly cosmopolitan citizenship that transcends geopolitical, nationalist, ethnic, and racial boundaries, Jennings charts, with great vision, new ways of imagining ourselves, our communities, and the landscapes we inhabit.
The Christian Imagination
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Author : Leland Ryken
language : en
Publisher: Shaw Books
Release Date : 2002-02-19
The Christian Imagination written by Leland Ryken and has been published by Shaw Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02-19 with Religion categories.
The Christian Imagination brings together in a single source the best that has been written about the relationship between literature and the Christian faith. This anthology covers all of the major topics that fall within this subject and includes essays and excerpts from fifty authors, including C.S. Lewis, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Sayers, and Frederick Buechner.
The Christian Imagination
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Author : Thomas C. Peters
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
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Here is a new look at imagination and the arts from the point of view of one of Western civilization's most insightful observers - G.K. Chesterton. Gilbert Chesterton had the rare gift of being able to understand situations from the "inside" - that is, to see through the hidden assumptions, lapses in logic, and other follies of even his own social and occupational situations. He was a journalist, and yet an unsparing critic of journalism. He was a poet, a story-teller, a novelist, a playwright, and an illustrator. Among the most imaginative of men who ever lived, Chesterton had much of value to say about the arts, imagination, and the Christian faith. Thomas Peters takes the reader on a guided tour of Chesterton's observations and opinions regarding human imagination and its various manifestations in the arts. Using ample quotations in order to let Chesterton speak for himself, Peters explores the master's views on imagination, culture, and faith, as well as his fascinating opinions on everything from styles of painting to meter in poetry, from bohemian lifestyles to materialist philosophy, from singing at the bank to waiting for the train.
Boredom And The Religious Imagination
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Author : Michael L. Raposa
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 1999
Boredom And The Religious Imagination written by Michael L. Raposa and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Psychology categories.
The Gospel of Mark depicts a prayerful and passionate Jesus juxtaposed with his drowsy disciples in Gethsemane. Their failure to discern what is happening in their midst, Raposa suggests, is a powerful example of what medieval Christian theologians called "acedia," their term for boredom with the rituals of spiritual devotion. But these descriptions of acedia bear a striking resemblance to mystical accounts of the "dark night," a terrifying although necessary stage in the mystic's spiritual journey. Drawing on this notion and others from Eastern and Western religious traditions, Raposa asks us to see boredom as playing an ambivalent role in spiritual life, often serving as a metaphorical midwife for the birth of religious knowledge.
The Christian Imagination
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Author : Leland Ryken
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2002-02-19
The Christian Imagination written by Leland Ryken and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02-19 with Religion categories.
The Christian Imagination brings together in a single source the best that has been written about the relationship between literature and the Christian faith. This anthology covers all of the major topics that fall within this subject and includes essays and excerpts from fifty authors, including C.S. Lewis, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Sayers, and Frederick Buechner.
The Christian Imagination
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Author : Leland Ryken
language : en
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group (MI)
Release Date : 1981
The Christian Imagination written by Leland Ryken and has been published by Baker Publishing Group (MI) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Religion categories.
"The essays in this volume," writes the editor, "represent essays that I have found essential to my own thinking about Christianity and the arts." He recommends them as "the materials from which anyone can build a solid Christian approach to the arts." The articles are clustered around these topics: a philosophy of the arts, literature, eight literary forms (myth, tragedy, satire, comedy, the novel, poetry, drama, film), the writer, the visual arts, and music. All contributions offer Christian perspectives on these subjects. - Back cover.
Heaven In The Christian Imagination
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Heaven In The Christian Imagination written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Heaven categories.
The Religious Use Of Imagination
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Author : Elias Henry Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901
The Religious Use Of Imagination written by Elias Henry Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1901 with Christianity categories.