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Huguenots and French Opinion, 1685-1787
The Enlightenment Debate on Toleration
Häftad, 1991
357 kr
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The decision of Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes and thus liquidate French Calvinism was well received in the intellectual community which was deeply prejudiced against the Huguenots. This antipathy would gradually disappear. After the death of the Sun King, a more sympathetic view of the …
Religion in History / La Religion Dans L'histoire
The Word, the Idea, the Reality / Le Mot, L'idée, La Realité
Av Michel Despland, Gérard Vallée
Häftad, 1992
387 kr
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The history of the concept of ""religion"" in Western tradition has intrigued scholars for years. This important collection of eighteen essays brings further light to the ongoing debate. Three of the invited participants, W.C. Smith, M. Despland and E. Feil, has each previously written impressive …
Love and the Soul
Psychological Interpretations of the Eros and Psyche Myth
Häftad, 1992
387 kr
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The Eros and Psyche myth has, over the course of the twentieth century, received nearly as much attention from depth psychologists as has the Oedipus story. In their attempt to better understand this popular story, scholars have proposed various interpretations, which have generally followed …
Religious Dreamworld of Apuleius' Metamorphoses
Recovering a Forgotten Hermeneutic
Häftad, 1999
575 kr
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Apuleius' Metamorphoses is probably best known as the literary source for the myth of Eros and Psyche and as a primary source of information about mystery religions in the ancient world. There is another realm of the Metamorphoses which has, until now, received relatively little attention - namely, …
God and the Chip
Religion and the Culture of Technology
Häftad, 1999
500 kr
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Our ancestors saw the material world as alive, and they often personified nature. Today we claim to be realists. But in reality we are not paying attention to the symbols and myths hidden in technology. Beneath much of our talk about computers and the Internet, claims William A. Stahl, is an …
Lord, Giver of Life
Toward a Pneumatological Complement to George Lindbeck's Theory of Doctrine
Inbunden, 2006
1012 kr
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George Lindbeck once characterized postliberalism, which received its initial structure from his book The Nature of Doctrine, as an attempt to recover pre-modern scriptural interpretation in contemporary form. In Lord, Giver of Life: Toward a Pneumatological Complement to George Lindbeck's Theory …
From Logos to Christos
Essays on Christology in Honour of Joanne McWilliam
Av Ellen M. Leonard, Kate Merriman
Inbunden, 2010
1011 kr
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From Logos to Christos is a collection of essays in Christology written by friends and colleagues in memory of Joanne McWilliam. McWilliam was a pioneer woman in the academic study of theology, specializing in Patristic studies and internationally recognized for her work on Augustine. For countless …
Doctrine of Humanity in the Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr
Av Kenneth Morris Hamilton, Jane Barter Moulaison
Inbunden, 2013
1119 kr
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Reinhold Niebuhr was a twentieth-century American theologian who was known for his commentary on public affairs. One of his most influential ideas was the relating of his Christian faith to realism rather than idealism in foreign affairs. His perspective influenced many liberals and is enjoying a …
Fifty Years of Religious Studies in Canada
A Personal Retrospective
Inbunden, 2014
1088 kr
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In Canadian universities in the early 1960s, no courses were offered on Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Only the study of Christianity was available, usually in a theology program in a church college or seminary. Today almost every university in North America has a religious studies department that …
Fifty Years of Religious Studies in Canada
A Personal Retrospective
Häftad, 2014
404 kr
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In Canadian universities in the early 1960s, no courses were offered on Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Only the study of Christianity was available, usually in a theology program in a church college or seminary. Today almost every university in North America has a religious studies department that …
Understanding the Consecrated Life in Canada
Critical Essays on Contemporary Trends
Inbunden, 2015
1119 kr
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The story of the consecrated life in Canada since the 1960s should be about much more than numerical decline. Although the falling numbers are significant among Catholic religious in communities that pre-date Vatican II, many communities continue to show stability and even growth. This book …
New Canadian Pentecostals
Av Adam Stewart
Häftad, 2015
387 kr
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The New Canadian Pentecostals takes readers into the everyday religious lives of the members of three Pentecostal congregations located in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Using the rich qualitative and quantitative data gathered through participant observation, personal interviews, and …
Five Aggregates
Understanding Theravada Psychology and Soteriology
Häftad, 1995
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If Buddhism denies a permanent self, how does it perceive identity? According to Buddhist texts, the entire universe, including the individual, is made up of different phenomena, which Buddhism classifies into different categories: what we conventionally call a ""person"" can be understood in terms …
Call of Conscience
French Protestant Responses to the Algerian War, 1954-1962
Häftad, 1998
467 kr
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Initially, when the government in Paris responded with force to the November 1, 1954 insurrection of Algerian nationalists, French public opinion offered all but unanimous support. Then it was revealed that hundreds of thousands of Muslims were herded into resettlement camps in Algeria; that …
Faith and Fiction
A Theological Critique of the Narrative Strategies of Hugh MacLennan and Morley Callaghan
Av Barbara Pell
Häftad, 1998
489 kr
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Is it possible to write an artistically respectable and theoretically convincing religious novel in a non-religious age? Up to now, there has been no substantial application of theological criticism to the works of Hugh MacLennan and Morley Callaghan, the two most important Canadian novelists …
Clinical Pastoral Supervision and the Theology of Charles Gerkin
Theology of Charles Gerkin.
Häftad, 1998
495 kr
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In the last twenty years, the number of texts written on clinical pastoral supervision has accelerated. Thomas St. James O'Connor analyzes these texts, nearly 300 of them, in light of three fundamental questions about the praxis of clinical pastoral supervision: (1)what is distinctive about the …
Edward Schillebeeckx and Hans Frei
A Conversation on Method and Christology
Häftad, 2001
523 kr
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What is ""theological method""? Can there be more than one method? If so, how do you choose between them? How does method relate to experience? Would experience affect your choice of method and method affect experience? Abdul-Masih offers a three-part proposition. The first is that theological …
Radical Difference
A Defence of Hendrik Kraemer's Theology of Religions
Av Tim S. Perry
Häftad, 2001
523 kr
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It is commonly assumed that all religions are essentially alike, that they are all common members of the genus Religion. But what if religions are not fundamentally similar after all? What if, on the contrary, it is better to presuppose a radical difference among the world's various religious …
Hindu Iconoclasts
Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Sarasvati, and Nineteenth-Century Polemics Against Idolatry
Av Noel Salmond
Inbunden, 2004
1011 kr
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Why, Salmond asks, would nineteenth-century Hindus who come from an iconic religious tradition voice a kind of invective one might expect from Hebrew prophets, Muslim iconoclasts, or Calvinists? Rammohun was a wealthy Bengali, intimately associated with the British Raj and familiar with European …
Costa Rican Catholic Church, Social Justice, and the Rights of Workers, 1979-1996
Av Dana Sawchuk
Inbunden, 2004
1011 kr
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Provides a new understanding of the relationship between Church and State in 20th-century Costa Rica. Understanding the relationship between religion and social justice in Costa Rica involves piecing together the complex interrelationships between Church and State - between priests, popes, …
His Dominion"" and the ""Yellow Peril
Protestant Missions to Chinese Immigrants in Canada, 1859-1967
Av Jiwu Wang
Inbunden, 2006
1011 kr
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A history of Chinese immigrants encounter with Canadian Protestant missionaries, ""His Dominion"" and the ""Yellow Peril"": Protestant Missions to Chinese Immigrants in Canada, 1859-1967, analyzes the evangelizing activities of missionaries and the role of religion in helping Chinese immigrants …
