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3 produkter
3 produkter
Del 71 - Brill's Series in Church History
Episcopacy, Authority, and Gender
Aspects of Religious Leadership in Europe, 1100–2000
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
2 159 kr
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What is the base of religious leadership and how has it changed over the centuries? This volume presents a range of actors, both men and women, who, in a variety of historical contexts, claimed to be the living voices or intermediaries of God. The essays analyse the foundation of their authoritative claims and ask how and how far they succeeded in securing obedience from the Christians to whom they addressed their message. Religious authority is not understood as a monolithic entity but as something derived from many sources and claims. Whatever the national background, whether ordained or supposedly appointed through divine intervention, the histories of the people portrayed underline the long-term manifestations and multifaceted nature of Christian identity.
Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin
Facts and Fictions in Science, Religion, and Art
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
1 593 kr
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From time immemorial, thunder and lightning were seen as a wrathful Deity's instruments of punishment. But then, in 1752, came Benjamin Franklin's paradigm-shifting invention of the lightning rod, and the way we view God and nature was changed forever.
Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin
Facts and Fictions in Science, Religion, and Art
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
257 kr
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Thunder and lightning have been seen from time immemorial as God's instruments of punishment. Until the invention of the lightning rod by Benjamin Franklin in 1752. In Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin. Facts and Fictions in Science, Religion, and Art Jan Wim Buisman shows how the Enlightenment and Romanticism have changed our scientific, religious and artistic image of natural violence forever. In the eighteenth century, thunderstorms are experienced less and less as a threat and more and more as something extraordinary. The image of God and the image of nature changed radically. The religion of enlightened people, for example, was more determined by joy than by fear. And nature was almost experienced as a girlfriend. That had significant consequences because those who no longer had to be afraid of the thunderstorm could play with it without hesitation. That's what poets, painters and musicians did to their heart's content. Never before the beauty of the storm was depicted as much in the western culture as during the transition from the Enlightenment to Romanticism.