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63 produkter
Meeting God on the Cross
Christ, the Cross, and the Feminist Critique
Inbunden, 2010
2123 kr
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The cross of Christ has proven to be no less of a ¨stumbling block¨ for Christians living in the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, than it was in the first century, when the newly established community of friends and followers of Jesus Christ sought to define the …
Monks in Motion
Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea
Inbunden, 2020
1540 kr
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Chinese Buddhists have never remained stationary. They have always been on the move. In Monks in Motion, Jack Meng-Tat Chia explores why Buddhist monks migrated from China to Southeast Asia, and how they participated in transregional Buddhist networks across the South China Sea. This book tells the …
Enfolding Silence
The Transformation of Japanese American Religion and Art under Oppression
Inbunden, 2016
1894 kr
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This book demonstrates how Japanese Americans have developed traditions of complex silences to survive historic moments of racial and religious oppression and how they continue to adapt these traditions today. In order to examine Japanese Americans' complex relationship to silence, Brett Esaki …
Journey Back to God
Origen on the Problem of Evil
Häftad, 2015
715 kr
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Journey Back to God explores Origen of Alexandria's creative, complex, and controversial treatment of the problem of evil. It argues that his layered cosmology functions as a theodicy that deciphers deeper meaning beneath cosmic disparity. Origen asks: why does God create a world where some suffer …
Meaning in Our Bodies
Sensory Experience as Constructive Theological Imagination
Inbunden, 2017
2215 kr
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Movement, smell, vision, and other perceptual experiences are ways of thinking and orienting ourselves in the world. And yet the appeal to experience as resource for theology, though a significant shift in contemporary scholarship, has seldom received nuanced investigation. How do embodied …
Longing and Letting Go
Christian and Hindu Practices of Passionate Non-Attachment
Inbunden, 2016
1894 kr
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Longing and Letting Go explores and compares the energies of desire and non-attachment in the writings of Hadewijch, a thirteenth-century Christian Beguine, and Mirabai, a sixteenth-century Hindu bhakta. Through an examination of the relational power of their respective mystical poetics of longing, …
Types of Pentecostal Theology
Method, System, Spirit
Häftad, 2016
748 kr
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In the first critical study of the major theologians of pentecostalism, one of the fastest growing and most influential religious traditions in the world, Christopher A. Stephenson establishes four original categories to classify pentecostal theologians' methodologies in systematic/constructive …
Interpreting Islam in China
Pilgrimage, Scripture, and Language in the Han Kitab
Inbunden, 2017
1718 kr
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During the early modern period, Muslims in China began to embrace the Chinese characteristics of their heritage. Several scholar-teachers incorporated tenets from traditional Chinese education into their promotion of Islamic knowledge. As a result, some Sino-Muslims established an educational …
The Goodness of Home
Human and Divine Love and the Making of the Self
Inbunden, 2018
2352 kr
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In a modern world characterized by a precarious job market, class inequality, and a global migrant crisis, Natalia Marandiuc asks the question: How does home affect one's identity? In this wide-ranging contribution to Christian theological anthropology, Marandiuc argues that love attachments …
Unsaying God
Negative Theology in Medieval Islam
Av Aydogan Kars
Inbunden, 2019
2260 kr
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What cannot be said about God, and how can we speak about God by negating what we say? Traveling across prominent negators, denialists, ineffectualists, paradoxographers, naysayers, ignorance-pretenders, unknowers, I-don't-knowers, and taciturns, Unsaying God: Negative Theology in Medieval Islam …
The Bonds of Freedom
Feminist Theology and Christian Realism
Inbunden, 2001
2031 kr
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In this constructive study, Miles proposes a new feminist theological ethic, drawing together the contributions of Reinhold Niebuhr, Sharon Welch, and Rosemary Ruether. Seeking to critically reappropriate the Christian realism articulated by Niebuhr, she reinterprets solutions to problems emergent …
The Specter of Speciesism
Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals
Av Paul Waldau
Inbunden, 2003
1463 kr
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This new study looks at how non-human animals have been viewed in the Buddhist and Christian religious traditions. The concept of speciesism, coined in 1970 as an analogy to racism and discussed almost exclusively within philosophical circles, is used to explore very basic questions about which …
Incarnation and Physics
Natural Science in the Theology of Thomas F. Torrance
Av Tapio Luoma
Inbunden, 2002
2948 kr
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The relationship between natural sciences and religion has fequently been hostile and confrontational While many have sought to bridge the divide between the two disciplines, few have been successful. Thomas F. Torrance, Professor Emeritus of Chirstian Dogmatics at the University of Edinburgh, is …
Of Borders and Margins
Hispanic Disciples in Texas, 1888-1945
Inbunden, 2003
1005 kr
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The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), like many other Protestant churches in the United States, lives in an uneasy and tension-filled relationship with its Hispanic constituency. In this engagingly written work, Daisy L. Machado locates the historical underpinnings of this relationship …
Hsieh Liang-Tso and the Analects of Confucius
Humane Learning as a Religious Quest
Inbunden, 2005
1408 kr
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Hsieh Liang-tso (c.1050-c.1120, known as master Shang-ts'ai) was one of the leading direct disciples of Ch'eng Hao and Ch'eng I, the two brothers who were the early leaders of the Confucian revival known as Neo-Confucianism in Northern Sung China. Hsieh was thus among the first to recognize and …
Yves Congar's Theology of the Holy Spirit
Inbunden, 2004
2994 kr
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The French Dominican theologian Yves Congar is recognized by many as the most important Roman Catholic ecclesiologist of the 20th century. He was the thinker behind some of the major decrees of the Second Vatican council. He was also a leader in the ecumenical movement in Europe throughout most of …
Coming to the Edge of the Circle
A Wiccan Initiation Ritual
Inbunden, 2005
478 kr
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This book offers an ethnographic study of the initiation ritual practiced by one coven of Witches located in Ohio. The participants are members of the religious community that describes itself as Wicca, the Old Religion, or the Craft. Within this community, initiation is seen both as the ceremony …
Gregory of Nyssa and the Concept of Divine Persons
Inbunden, 2005
1408 kr
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The concept of personhood is central to a wide range of contemporary issues, ranging from reproductive rights to the death penalty and euthanasia. We may think that the concept of person is a modern discovery. In fact, however, this idea does not originate with our discovery of human rights, …
Graham Greene's Catholic Imagination
Av Mark Bosco
Inbunden, 2005
1628 kr
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Much has been written about Graham Greene's relationship to his Catholic faith and its privileged place within his texts. His early books are usually described as 'Catholic Novels' - understood as a genre that not only uses Catholic belief to frame the issues of modernity, but also offers …
The Ethics of Animal Experimentation
A Critical Analysis and Constructive Christian Proposal
Av Donna Yarri
Inbunden, 2005
1720 kr
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The ethical treatment of animals has become an issue of serious moral concern. Many people are challenging long-held assumptions about animals and raising questions about their status and their treatment. What is the relationship between humans and animals? Do animals have moral standing? Do we …
Paul in Israel's Story
Self and Community at the Cross
Inbunden, 2006
748 kr
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In this book, John Meech reflects on St. Paul's construal of Christian identity in light of what has become known as the 'new paradigm' in Pauline studies, which stresses the communal aspects of Paul's thought and his narrative understanding of the self. Then he offers a pivotal analysis of Rudolph …
Crossing the Ethnic Divide
The Multiethnic Church on a Mission
Inbunden, 2007
693 kr
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It is commonly accepted that the way to build church growth is to target specific ethnic or racial groups. People prefer to worship with their own, the theory goes, and if growth is what you want you have to accept that fact. In this book Kathleen Garces-Foley challenges the accepted wisdom and …
God and the Victim
Traumatic Intrusions on Grace, and Freedom
Inbunden, 2007
876 kr
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Christian tradition holds that an individual's ability to respond to God's graceto love both God and neighboris not wholly vulnerable to earthly contingencies, such as victimization. Today, however, trauma theory insists that situations of overwhelming violence can permanently damage a person's …
Creative Suffering of the Triune God
An Evolutionary Theology
Inbunden, 2007
950 kr
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The global reality of suffering and death has demanded an authentic theological response in every era and has impelled debate concerning Gods relationship to suffering and the conceivability of the suffering of God. The scope and impact of this suffering in the last century have driven this debate …
A Theology of Criticism
Balthasar, Postmodernism, and the Catholic Imagination
Inbunden, 2008
1940 kr
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A number of critics and scholars argue for the notion of a distinctly Catholic variety of imagination, not as a matter of doctrine or even of belief, but rather as an artistic sensibility. They figure the blend of intellectual, emotional, spiritual and ethical assumptions that proceed from Catholic …
Disability and Christian Theology
Embodied Limits and Constructive Possibilities
Inbunden, 2009
1940 kr
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Attention to embodiment and the religious significance of bodies is one of the most significant shifts in contemporary theology. In the midst of this, however, experiences of disability have received little attention. This book explores possibilities for theological engagement with disability, …
Incarnation Anyway
Arguments for Supralapsarian Christology
Inbunden, 2008
2031 kr
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This book raises in a new way a formerly central but recently neglected question in systematic theology: what is the divine motive for the incarnation? Throughout Christian history theologians have agreed that God's decision to become incarnate in the person of Jesus Christ was made necessary by …
Troeltsch's Eschatological Absolute
Inbunden, 2020
1319 kr
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Ernst Troeltsch is widely recognized as having played an important role in the development of modern Protestant theology, but his contribution is usually understood as largely critical of traditional modes of theological inquiry. He is best known for his historicist critique of dogmatic theology, …
Drifting through Samsara
Tacit Conversion and Disengagement in Goenka's Vipassana Movement
Inbunden, 2022
1119 kr
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In Drifting Through Samsara, Masoumeh Rahmani provides a fieldwork-based study of Goenka's Vipassana meditation movement in New Zealand. This group is distinguished by its refusal to identify as Buddhist and by a rich rhetorical repertoire for repackaging Theravada Buddhist teachings in …
Melville's Wisdom
Religion, Skepticism, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America
Inbunden, 2021
1287 kr
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In Melville's Wisdom: Religion, Skepticism, Literature in Nineteenth-Century America, Damien B. Schlarb explores the manner in which Herman Melville responds to the spiritual crisis of modernity by using the language of the biblical Old Testament wisdom books to moderate contemporary discourses on …
