The Lure Of Transcendence And The Audacity Of Prayer
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The Lure Of Transcendence And The Audacity Of Prayer
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Author : Samuel E. Balentine
language : en
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Release Date : 2022-06-24
The Lure Of Transcendence And The Audacity Of Prayer written by Samuel E. Balentine and has been published by Mohr Siebeck this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-24 with Religion categories.
The discourse of prayer responds to the abiding lure of transcendence. From Gilgamesh to the primordial human beings in Eden to Odysseus, the quest for ultimate truths has summoned forth all manner of human effort - courageous, desperate, pious, impious, successful, failed, invited, forbidden - and like all such lures, one can never be certain whether the glimmer of transcendence is that of a bright and shining star that illuminates the shadows or only a shiny object that seduces one into an inescapable darkness (a fishing lure, for example). In this study, Samuel E. Balentine demonstrates how prayer's invocation of God transgresses the limits of human beings. The author shows how inviting, let alone commanding God to speak may be the "acme of bardic pretention," but in the ancient world such transgression characterizes the audacity of prayer.
Jewish Culture And Creativity
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Author : Eitan P. Fishbane
language : en
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Release Date : 2024-02-20
Jewish Culture And Creativity written by Eitan P. Fishbane and has been published by Academic Studies PRess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-20 with Social Science categories.
Jewish Culture and Creativity honors the wide-ranging scholarship of Prof. Michael Fishbane with contributions of his students on subjects that cover the gamut of Jewish studies, from biblical and rabbinic literature to medieval and modern Jewish culture, and concluding with case studies of the creative application of Prof. Fishbane’s thought and theology in contemporary Jewish life. The innovative scholarship represented in this volume offers critical new perspectives from antiquity to contemporary Judaism and will serve as a stimulus for new directions in and beyond the field of Jewish studies.
Theology Of The Hebrew Bible Volume 2
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Author : Soo Kim Sweeney
language : en
Publisher: SBL Press
Release Date : 2024-10-18
Theology Of The Hebrew Bible Volume 2 written by Soo Kim Sweeney and has been published by SBL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-18 with Religion categories.
This follow-up to Theology of the Hebrew Bible, Volume 1: Methodological Studies, focuses on readers’ engagement with the text and their communities. Part 1 offers fresh interpretations of divine images and theological concepts drawn from various theophanies in the text. Part 2 focuses on how these insights can form new overarching structures, serving as reading strategies or foundations for alternative theologies. Part 3 emphasizes the bond between readers and their communities, highlighting the active participation of both ancient and modern readers through an analysis of past literature. Contributors, each an expert in their field, include Rachel Adelman, Samuel E. Balentine, Shelly L. Birdsong, Ginny Brewer-Boydston, Johanna Etzberger, Frances Flannery, David Frankel, Barry R. Huff, Hyun Chul Paul Kim, Barbara Leung Lai, J. Richard Middleton, Hye Kyung Park, Kris Sonek, Brent A. Strawn, David E. S. Stein, Marvin A. Sweeney, Soo Kim Sweeney, Joseph Sykora, Daniel C. Timmer, and Beat Weber. This collection of essays guides readers, including those well-versed in theology, to explore innovative and unexpected depictions of divine beings and how human characters respond to them.
The Lure Of The Transcendent
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Author : Dwayne Huebner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-12-06
The Lure Of The Transcendent written by Dwayne Huebner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Education categories.
In 1969, Bill Pinar was privileged to study with Dwayne Huebner at Teachers College. In a large room with 70 others, he watched an extraordinary figure in the distance--speaking a tongue few of them grasped--whom they all found compelling. They knew they were in the presence of a most remarkable and learned man. Huebner helped create the world which contemporary curriculum scholars now inhabit and labor to recreate as educators and theoreticians. His generative influence has been evident in many discourses, including the political, the phenomenological, the aesthetic, and the theological. This volume situates Huebner's work historically, emphasizing the ways it foreshadowed the reconceptualization of the field in the 1970s.
Kontext Und Dialog
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Author : Clemens Wustmans
language : de
Publisher: Kohlhammer Verlag
Release Date : 2024-05-28
Kontext Und Dialog written by Clemens Wustmans and has been published by Kohlhammer Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-28 with Religion categories.
Sozialethik einer typischen Bochumer Prägung> verknüpft Grundfragen der Ethik und Fundamentaltheologie mit Forschung zum sog. Ruhrgebietsprotestantismus und materialethischen Schwerpunkten & immer gekennzeichnet durch ihre Rückbindung an die biblischen Texte und mit den jeweils gegenwärtigen Herausforderungen von Diakonie und Kirche als Zielpunkt. Dabei hat sie nichts an Aktualität eingebüßt und sich im Laufe der Zeit immer wieder neuen, gesellschaftlich relevanten Themen zugewandt: Stehen traditionell Wirtschafts- und Arbeitsethik im Vordergrund, rücken in jüngerer Zeit auch Fragen von Nachhaltigkeit und Ökologie sowie Diversität und Rassismuskritik in den Fokus. Traugott Jähnichen steht paradigmatisch für diese Ausrichtung evangelischer Sozialethik: Grund genug, anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstages Beiträge, die die ganze Spannbreite seines Forschungsfeldes aufzeigen, im vorliegenden Band zu versammeln.
The Christian Invention Of Time
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Author : Simon Goldhill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-03
The Christian Invention Of Time written by Simon Goldhill 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 2022-02-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time has been transformed through industrialisation, trade and technology. But the first such life-changing transformation – under Christianity's influence – happened in late antiquity. It was then that time began to be conceptualised in new ways, with discussion of eternity, life after death and the end of days. Individuals also began to experience time differently: from the seven-day week to the order of daily prayer and the festal calendar of Christmas and Easter. With trademark flair and versatility, world-renowned classicist Simon Goldhill uncovers this change in thinking. He explores how it took shape in the literary writing of late antiquity and how it resonates even today. His bold new cultural history will appeal to scholars and students of classics, cultural history, literary studies, and early Christianity alike.
Divine Action And The Human Mind
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Author : Sarah Lane Ritchie
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-25
Divine Action And The Human Mind written by Sarah Lane Ritchie 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 2019-07-25 with Religion categories.
Is the human mind uniquely nonphysical or even spiritual, such that divine intentions can meet physical realities? As scholars in science and religion have spent decades attempting to identify a 'causal joint' between God and the natural world, human consciousness has been often privileged as just such a locus of divine-human interaction. However, this intuitively dualistic move is both out of step with contemporary science and theologically insufficient. By discarding the God-nature model implied by contemporary noninterventionist divine action theories, one is freed up to explore theological and metaphysical alternatives for understanding divine action in the mind. Sarah Lane Ritchie suggests that a theologically robust theistic naturalism offers a more compelling vision of divine action in the mind. By affirming that to be fully natural is to be involved with God's active presence, one may affirm divine action not only in the human mind, but throughout the natural world.
Cultural Techniques
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Author : Bernhard Siegert
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2015-05-01
Cultural Techniques written by Bernhard Siegert and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-01 with Social Science categories.
In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so as to redefine the concept through something more fundamental than the empiricist study of a medium’s individual or collective uses or of its cultural semantics or aesthetics. Rather, Siegert seeks to relocate media and culture on a level where the distinctions between object and performance, matter and form, human and nonhuman, sign and channel, the symbolic and the real are still in the process of becoming. The result is to turn ontology into a domain of all that is meant in German by the word Kultur. Cultural techniques comprise not only self-referential symbolic practices like reading, writing, counting, or image-making. The analysis of artifacts as cultural techniques emphasizes their ontological status as “in-betweens,” shifting from firstorder to second-order techniques, from the technical to the artistic, from object to sign, from the natural to the cultural, from the operational to the representational. Cultural Techniques ranges from seafaring, drafting, and eating to the production of the sign-signaldistinction in old and new media, to the reproduction of anthropological difference, to the study of trompe-l’oeils, grids, registers, and doors. Throughout, Siegert addresses fundamental questions of how ontological distinctions can be replaced by chains of operations that process those alleged ontological distinctions within the ontic. Grounding posthumanist theory both historically and technically, this book opens up a crucial dialogue between new German media theory and American postcybernetic discourses.
Magic In Western Culture
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Author : Brian P. Copenhaver
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-09-09
Magic In Western Culture written by Brian P. Copenhaver 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 2015-09-09 with History categories.
The story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian phase in the Middle Ages. Centering on the Renaissance and Marsilio Ficino, this richly illustrated and groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were distinctly philosophical.
A Patriot S History Of The United States
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Author : Larry Schweikart
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2004-12-29
A Patriot S History Of The United States written by Larry Schweikart and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-29 with History categories.
For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.