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Conflict In Early Stuart England: Studies In Religion And Politics 1603-1642 (PDF)
by Richard Cust Ann HughesThis important collection of essays, based on extensive original research, presents a vigorous critique of 'revisionist' analyses of the period, and reasserts the importance of long term ideological and social developments in causing the outbreak of the civil war.
The Conflict of Faith and Experience in the Psalms: A Form-Critical and Theological Study (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)
by Craig C. BroylesIn a penetrating analysis, Broyles breaks open the category of the psalms of 'lament', arguing that this conventional grouping encloses two quite different kinds of psalms. Not only are there the psalms of 'plea', which affirm the praise of God and belong theologically on the side of faith, but there are a darker group, the psalms of 'protest' or 'complaint', which depict God as absent or hostile. These psalms portray the conflict between the traditions of faith and the religious experience of the psalmist. The study, a revision of the author's Sheffield PhD thesis, thus proposes a realignment of the form-critical categories in the Psalms, and at the same time engages with a much neglected element in Hebrew piety, the charge against God.
The Consciousness of the Historical Jesus: Historiography, Theology, and Metaphysics (T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology)
by Austin StevensonIn this book, Austin Stevenson argues that it is not the 'divinity' of Jesus that causes problems for historians, but his humanity. To insist that Jesus was fully human, as both theologians and historians do, still leaves us with the question of what it means to be human. It turns out that theologians and historians often have different answers to this question on both a philosophical and a theological register. Furthermore, historians frequently misunderstand the historiographical implications of classical Christology, and thus the compatibility between traditional beliefs about Jesus and critical historical inquiry. Through close engagement with the thought of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–74), this book offers a new path toward the reconciliation of these disciplines by focusing on human knowledge and subjectivity, which are central issues in both historical method and Christology. By interrogating and challenging the normative metaphysical assumptions operative in Jesus scholarship, a range of possibility is opened up for approaches to Jesus that are genuinely historical, but not naturalistic.
The Critical Spirit and the Will to Believe: Essays in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Religion (pdf)
by D. Jasper Sharon McGuire T R Wright
David's Social Drama: A Hologram of Israel's Early Iron Age (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)
by James W. FlanaganTaking an interdisciplinary approach, Flanagan deals with methodological issues in his discussion of not just Davidic studies but also the whole area of what he terms 'social world studies' - his label for social scientific analyses of ancient Israel. Also addressed in this book are the traditions of biblical history as well as archeological and literary information and how it pertains to David.
Death and Afterlife (Library of Philosophy and Religion)
by Stephen T. DavisThis book began as a series of papers at a conference called "Death and Afterlife" held in Claremont, California in January, 1987 under the auspices of the Department of Religion of the Claremont Graduate School. The responses to each paper and several comments are also included.
The Democratization of American Christianity
by Professor Nathan O. HatchIn this prize-winning book Nathan O. Hatch offers a provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic, arguing that during this period American Christianity was democratized and common people became powerful actors on the religious scene. Hatch examines five distinct traditions or mass movements that emerged early in the nineteenth century—the Christian movement, Methodism, the Baptist movement, the black churches, and the Mormons—showing how all offered compelling visions of individual potential and collective aspiration to the unschooled and unsophisticated. "Rarely do works of scholarship deserve as much attention as this one. The so-called Second Great Awakening was the shaping epoch of American Protestantism, and this book is the most important study of it ever published."—James Turner, Journal of Interdisciplinary History "The most powerful, informed, and complex suggestion yet made about the religious, political, and psychic 'opening' of American life from Jefferson to Jackson. . . . Hatch's reconstruction of his five religious mass movements will add popular religious culture to denominationalism, church and state, and theology as primary dimensions of American religious history."—Robert M. Calhoon, William and Mary Quarterly "Hatch's revisionist work asks us to put the religion of the early republic in a radically new perspective. . . . He has written one of the finest books on American religious history to appear in many years."—James H. Moorhead, Theology Today The manuscript version of this book was awarded the 1988 Albert C. Outler Prize in Ecumenical Church History from the American Society of Church History Awarded the 1989 book prize of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic for the best book in the history of the early republic (1789-1850) Co-winner of the 1990 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize given by the American Studies Association for the best book in American Studies Nathan O. Hatch is professor of history and vice president for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Notre Dame.
Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society
by Akbar S. AhmedFirst published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society
by Akbar S. AhmedFirst published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Early Christian Rhetoric and 2 Thessalonians (The Library of New Testament Studies #30)
by Frank Witt Hughes2 Thessalonians is one of the most enigmatic letters in the New Testament, primarily because of its repeated insistence on its authorship by Paul, coupled with its warnings against forgery of Pauline letters. Modern scholarship has made a number of advances in the study of this letter, but the question of the authorship and purpose remain quite open. Hughes gives a detailed investigation of Graeco-Roman rhetorical traditions and their relationship to letters, and develops a consensus model for the identification of the various conventional parts of rhetorical discourses. He then offers an interpretation of 2 Thessalonians according to these rhetorical traditions. Given the rhetoric thus identified in the letter, an innovative theory is developed against Paul's authorship of 2 Thessalonians. In his final chapters, he suggests ways in which the pseudo-Pauline letters of the New Testament witness to a multiplicity of Pauline theologies after the Apostle's death-a diverse and pluriform 'legacy of Paul'.
Early Christian Rhetoric and 2 Thessalonians (The Library of New Testament Studies #30)
by Frank Witt Hughes2 Thessalonians is one of the most enigmatic letters in the New Testament, primarily because of its repeated insistence on its authorship by Paul, coupled with its warnings against forgery of Pauline letters. Modern scholarship has made a number of advances in the study of this letter, but the question of the authorship and purpose remain quite open. Hughes gives a detailed investigation of Graeco-Roman rhetorical traditions and their relationship to letters, and develops a consensus model for the identification of the various conventional parts of rhetorical discourses. He then offers an interpretation of 2 Thessalonians according to these rhetorical traditions. Given the rhetoric thus identified in the letter, an innovative theory is developed against Paul's authorship of 2 Thessalonians. In his final chapters, he suggests ways in which the pseudo-Pauline letters of the New Testament witness to a multiplicity of Pauline theologies after the Apostle's death-a diverse and pluriform 'legacy of Paul'.
The Earth and the Waters in Genesis 1 and 2: A Linguistic Investigation (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)
by David Toshio TsumuraEnormous amounts of interpretive efforts have gone into the first book of the Hebrew Bible. In modern critical studies of Genesis, for instance, it is often suggested that the nature of the "earth-waters" relationship in Chapter 1 is totally different from that in Chapter 2. Professor Tsumura here offers a linguistic analysis of some key terms related to the initial situation of the earth in its relationship with the waters in Gen 1:2 and Gen 2:5ff that helps to clarify some of the hermeneutic issues at stake.
Ecclesiastes (Old Testament Guides)
by R. Norman WhybrayEcclesiastes is at once a strange book and a modern one, at once enigmatic and curiously familiar. Here we find a man detached from the world and yet intensely aware of it, setting down in writing his thoughts about human life. Yet from the very first his readers have been unable to agree about his basic attitude to life. Whybray sorts through the options by asking questions regarding the author, his times, his language and his ideas.
Gandhi's Significance For Today
by John Hick Lamont Hempel Joanne Clarke Dillman John D Maguire Conrad Edick Wright
God-Relationships With and Without God: Relationships With And Without God (Library Of Philosophy And Religion Ser.)
by J Kellenberger
A History of Women Philosophers: Medieval, Renaissance and Enlightenment Women Philosophers A.D. 500–1600 (History of Women Philosophers #2)
by Mary Ellen Waitheaspirations, the rise of western monasticism was the most note worthy event of the early centuries. The importance of monasteries cannot be overstressed as sources of spirituality, learning and auto nomy in the intensely masculinized, militarized feudal period. Drawing their members from the highest levels of society, women's monasteries provided an outlet for the energy and ambition of strong-willed women, as well as positions of considerable authority. Even from periods relatively inhospitable to learning of all kinds, the memory has been preserved of a good number of women of education. Their often considerable achievements and influence, however, generally lie outside even an expanded definition of philo sophy. Among the most notable foremothers of this early period were several whose efforts signal the possibility of later philosophical work. Radegund, in the sixth century, established one of the first Frankish convents, thereby laying the foundations for women's spiritual and intellectual development. From these beginnings, women's monasteries increased rapidly in both number and in fluence both on the continent and in Anglo-Saxon England. Hilda (d. 680) is well known as the powerful abbsess of the double monastery of Whitby. She was eager for knowledge, and five Eng lish bishops were educated under her tutelage. She is also accounted the patron of Caedmon, the first Anglo-Saxon poet of religious verse. The Anglo-Saxon nun Lioba was versed in the liberal arts as well as Scripture and canon law.
Hymnen und Gebete der Religion des Lichts: Iranische und türkische liturgische Texte der Manichäer Zentralasiens (Abhandlungen der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften)
by Hans-Joachim KlimkeitDie hier vorgelegten Hymnen und Gebete der Manichäer Zentralasiens sind Neubearbeitungen jener gnostischen Texte, die von den vier Preußischen "Turfan Expeditionen " zwischen 1902 und 1914 vornehmlich in der Oase T urfan am nörd lichen Rand der Taklamakan-Wüste gefunden und von diversen Wissenschaftlern seit 1904 bearbeitet wurden. Hinzu kommen einige von Sir AUREL STEIN und PAUL PELLIOT in Tun-huang geborgene türkisch-manichäische Texte. Die Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin machte es sich in den ersten Jahrzehnten dieses Jahrhunderts zur besonderen Aufgabe, die neugefundenen manichäischen Texte, auf deren allgemeine Bedeutung kein geringerer als der Theologe RUDoLF BULTMANN verweisen sollte, zu erschließen. Ist diese Arbeit, die bereits 1904 durch die ersten Publikationen von F. W. K. MÜLLER eingeleitet wurde, vornehmlich in den zwanziger und dreißiger Jahren vorangetrieben worden, wobei Iranisten wie F. C. ANDREAS, W. B. HENNING und W. LENTZ (in Verbindung mit E. W ALDSCHMIDT) und Turkologen wie A. VON LE COQ, W. BANG und A. VON GABAIN maßgeblich be teiligt waren, so war doch angesichts des Fortschritts der Iranistik und Turkologie, zu dem teils diese Wissenschaftler und ihre Schüler selbst beigetragen haben, eine Neubearbeitung der teilweise vor mehr als sechzig Jahren übersetzten Texte not wendig.
An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent
by J. HickA new and groundbreaking investigation which takes full account of the finding of the social and historical sciences whilst offering a religious interpretation of the religions as different culturally conditioned responses to a transcendent Divine Reality. Written with great clarity and force, and with a wealth of fresh insights, this major work (based on the author's Gifford Lectures of 1986-7) treats the principal topics in the philosophy of religion and establishes both a basis for religious affirmation today and a framework for the developing world-wide inter-faith dialogue.
Into the Hands of the Living God (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)
by Lyle EslingerInto the Hands of the Living God is Lyle Eslinger's second study of Deuteronomistic literature. This book is devoted to studies of key texts (Joshua 1-9; Judges 1-2; 1 Samuel 12; 1 Kings 8; 2 Kings 17) or concepts (the success/failure of the conquest; the exile and theodicy) in these narratives. Eslinger's readings are unorthodox and challenging, both for readers from the communities of faith and for critical scholarship. The Deuteronomistic narratives are here shown to be far from being a vindication of the ways of God at Israel's expense. Rather, in these narratives God, no less than Israel's leaders, has his hands soiled in the machinations that end in Babylon. What the Deuteronomistic history offers is, rather, dispassionate analysis of the problems, some unavoidable, that predetermined the failure of the covenant relationship. The collection of carefully worked out close readings of the biblical text in this volume provides a new critical vantage point from which one can reassess conventional historical-critical readings of these colourful books.
The Invisible Medium: Public, Commercial and Community Radio (Communications and Culture)
...the book is recommended and should be read by every member of the IRTC. Those working in radio will also find it rewarding.' - Playback
Italian Christian Democracy: The Politics of Dominance
by Robert Leonardi Douglas A. WertmanA study of the Italian Christian Democratic Party from its birth to the present day. It is the most successful political party in any Western democracy and has been in power since 1945. This book analyzes its ideological foundations, electorate, organization and ties to the Catholic world.
Jewish Communities of the World
by Anthony LermanThis fourth edition attempts to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive guide to Jewish life and institutions in 98 national communities worldwide. Entries include a brief historical outline and sections on legal status, communal organizations, religious life, education and welfare.
Jews in Contemporary East Germany: The Children of Moses in The Land of Marx
by Robin OstowThis book is the result of a series of interviews of Robin Ostow with Jews in the German Democratic Republic. For the first time since the founding of the East German state in 1949 Jews have been allowed to speak openly. Jewish men and women of different ages were interviewed.