The Second Naiveté

The Second Naiveté
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Publisher : Mercer University Press
Total Pages : 156
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ISBN-10 : 0865543801
ISBN-13 : 9780865543805
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis The Second Naiveté by : Mark I. Wallace

Saint Paul

Saint Paul
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 0804744718
ISBN-13 : 9780804744713
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Saint Paul by : Alain Badiou

This book revisits and revises some of the most basic concepts of time in the Judeo-Christian tradition, drawing on St. Paul's writings to rethink a new kind of radical faith in truth as an event, as the advent of the incalculable, a modality that remakes the pairing religious/secular.

Falling Upward

Falling Upward
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 9781118428566
ISBN-13 : 1118428560
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Falling Upward by : Richard Rohr

A valuable new companion journal for the best-selling Falling Upward In Falling Upward, Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves of life and to show them that those who have fallen, failed, or "gone down" are the only ones who understand "up." The Companion Journal helps those who have (and those who have not) read Falling Upward to engage more deeply with the questions the book raises. Using a blend of quotes, questions for individual and group reflection, stories, and suggestions for spiritual practices, it provides a wise guide for deepening the spiritual journey. . . at any time of life. Explains why the second half of life can and should be full of spiritual richness Offers tools for spiritual growth and greater understanding of the ideas in Falling Upward Richard Rohr is a regular contributing writer for Sojourners and Tikkun magazines This important companion to Falling Upward is an excellent tool for exploring the counterintuitive messages of how we grow spiritually.

The Shadow of the Galilean

The Shadow of the Galilean
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Publisher : SCM Press
Total Pages : 299
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ISBN-10 : 9780334047896
ISBN-13 : 0334047897
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis The Shadow of the Galilean by : Gerd Theissen

Combining New Testament study with the terseness of thriller writing, Theissen conveys the Gospel story in the imaginative prose of a novel. This is a story of our times, or how the gospels might have turned out if they were written by John Le Carre: racy, readable and full of incident.

The Political Theology of Paul

The Political Theology of Paul
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 0804733457
ISBN-13 : 9780804733458
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis The Political Theology of Paul by : Jacob Taubes

This highly original interpretation of Paul by the Jewish philosopher of religion Jacob Taubes was presented in a number of lectures held in Heidelberg toward the end of his life, and was regarded by him as his "spiritual testament.” Taubes engages with classic Paul commentators, including Karl Barth, but also situates the Pauline text in the context of Freud, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, and Rosenzweig. In his distinctive argument for the apocalyptic-revolutionary potential of Romans, Taubes also takes issue with the "political theology” advanced by the conservative Catholic jurist Carl Schmitt. Taubes’s reading has been crucial for a number of interpretations of political theology and of Paul--including those of Jan Assmann and Giorgio Agamben--and it belongs to a wave of fresh considerations of Paul’s legacy (Boyarin, Lyotard, Badiou, Zîzêk). Finally, Taubes’s far-ranging lectures provide important insights into the singular experiences and views of this unconventional Jewish intellectual living in post-Holocaust Germany.

Faith Beyond Belief

Faith Beyond Belief
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Publisher : Quest Books
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 9780835609050
ISBN-13 : 0835609057
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Faith Beyond Belief by : Margaret Placentra Johnston

Faith Beyond Belief gives a much-needed voice to the “good” people who have left their church but whose spirituality continues to mature. Johnston uses first-person stories as well as known spiritual authorities in describing various stages of religious growth. Some of these real-life accounts are by nonbelievers; others are by those among the growing numbers of the “spiritual but not religious.” All are thoughtful people with too much integrity to live what they consider a lie. The stories of the nonbelievers-including an ex-Catholic, a former Mormon, and a clandestine Muslim apostate who left his community after the attacks of 9/11-show how complete confidence in human reason can lead away from literal religious interpretation. But, while that step is a necessary one on the spiritual path, it is only intermediate. Her second set of stories are of people at the “mystic” level who can tolerate paradox and see truth and reality as multidimensional. Johnston’s book will help doubters to see things in a new light as well as those who are struggling to clarify their own spiritual vision. It also points beyond the atheist/believer controversy wrecking such divisive havoc in our culture today.

The Puppet and the Dwarf

The Puppet and the Dwarf
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 197
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ISBN-10 : 9780262261302
ISBN-13 : 0262261308
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis The Puppet and the Dwarf by : Slavoj Zizek

One of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the first revolutionary collective. Slavoj Žižek has been called "an academic rock star" and "the wild man of theory"; his writing mixes astonishing erudition and references to pop culture in order to dissect current intellectual pieties. In The Puppet and the Dwarf he offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He critically confronts both predominant versions of today's spirituality—New Age gnosticism and deconstructionist-Levinasian Judaism—and then tries to redeem the "materialist" kernel of Christianity. His reading of Christianity is explicitly political, discerning in the Pauline community of believers the first version of a revolutionary collective. Since today even advocates of Enlightenment like Jurgen Habermas acknowledge that a religious vision is needed to ground our ethical and political stance in a "postsecular" age, this book—with a stance that is clearly materialist and at the same time indebted to the core of the Christian legacy—is certain to stir controversy.

The Iconoclastic Deity

The Iconoclastic Deity
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Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 0838750699
ISBN-13 : 9780838750698
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis The Iconoclastic Deity by : Clyde A. Holbrook

This book explores the meanings of images, with particular reference to the images of God found in the Bible, and surveys the various images found. It critically reviews theories of images, as distinguished from symbols, and argues that images are more forceful representations of the deity than are symbols.

Imagining Theology

Imagining Theology
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Publisher : Baker Academic
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1540961923
ISBN-13 : 9781540961921
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Imagining Theology by : Garrett Green

The imagination is where the Creator chooses to meet his creatures, says renowned theologian Garrett Green. The Word of God and the work of the Holy Spirit set the imagination free for genuine and creative knowledge of God, the world, others, and the self. Green explains that theology is best understood as human imagination faithfully conformed to the Bible as the paradigmatic key to the Christian gospel. He unpacks the implications of the imagination for a variety of theological issues, such as interpretation, aesthetics, eschatology, and the relationship between church and culture.