Family Stories from the Attic: Bringing letters and archives alive through creative nonfiction, flash narratives, and poetry, Craig Christi, Rivero Lisa
Автор: Kwazu, Fidelis Chineme Bayo Название: Developing a viable strategy of solving the problems of poverty in the light of human rights ISBN: 3631642962 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631642962 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 78150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book analyses the connection of poverty and Human Rights. It specifically describes how Human Rights infringements and abuses create conditions of poverty in areas of Nigeria, particularly Igboland. The work aims at alerting governments to administrative inadequacies that are contrary to social ethics and have given rise to poverty.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Christians details the processes through which LGBT Christians resolve the fraught tensions between their religious, sexual and gendered identities, and examines the associated changes to their religious practice in the pursuit of "authenticity." The book moves between richly described first-person accounts and clear theoretical analysis, contextualising the disucssion within contemporary theories of religion and same-sex attraction. Through careful qualitative research with LGBT Christians in the Australian Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), and the Uniting Church, Bronwyn Fielder and Douglas Ezzy show that although painful self-questioning and struggle is experienced by some LGBT Christians, many people ultimately find a resolution and a sense of peace with their sexual identity as LGBT Christians.
The pursuit of authenticity is shown to be driven by participants' essentialist understanding of sexuality and gender, and the centrality of religiosity to their sense of self. Offering insight into how participants transform their relationships, emotions, beliefs, and ritual practices in order to make this authentic life possible, this study is an important contribution to the field of religion and sexuality.
Автор: David du Toit, Christine Gerber, Christiane Zimmermann Название: Soteria: Salvation in Early Christianity and Antiquity: Festschrift in Honour of Cilliers Breytenbach on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday ISBN: 9004331093 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004331099 Издательство: Brill Цена: 264320.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: In Soteria: Salvation in Early Christianity and Antiquity , an international team of scholars assembles to honour the distinguished academic career of New Testament scholar Cilliers Breytenbach. Colleagues and friends consider in which manner concepts of salvation were constructed in early Christianity and its Jewish and Graeco-Roman contexts. Studies on aspects of soteriology in the New Testament writings, such as in the narratives on Jesus’ life and work, and theological interpretations of his life and death in the epistolary literature, are supplemented by studies on salvation in the Apostolic Fathers, Marcion, early Christian inscriptions and Antiochian theology. The volume starts with some exemplary studies on salvation in the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea scrolls, the Septuagint, and popular Graeco-Roman literature and philosophy. Furthermore, some contributions shed light on the ancient cultural background of early Christian soteriological concepts.
Автор: Miikka E. Anttila Название: Luther`s Theology of Music: Spiritual Beauty and Pleasure ISBN: 3110310198 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110310191 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 123910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The sweetness of music is something that has puzzled Christian theologians for centuries. In this study, Luther’s theology of music is approached from the point of view of pleasure. It examines the significance of joy, beauty and pleasure in relationship with music and Luther’s theology. The notion of music as the supreme gift of God requires also a discussion about the idea of ‘gift’. Music opens up new perspectives into Luther’s thinking. Luther has seldom been reckoned among aesthetic theologians. Nevertheless, Luther has a peculiar view on beauty, understanding faith as a kind of aesthetic contemplation.
This book discusses the Lord’s Resistance Army’s (LRA) use of Old Testament texts and motifs in their rhetoric to mobilise and sustain the rebellion in Northern Uganda, specifically in Gulu district, the area that has been particularly affected by the LRA’s actions throughout more than two decades. This book also delves into the much-ignored religious dimension of studies on the LRA, which forms the core of the LRA's ideology. The LRA uses biblical motifs to legitimize its ideology and practice and this is the first study which goes into a detailed empirical and hermeneutical analysis of the same. More importantly, this book proposes an ethical gender-sensitive model for reading and interpreting the Bible. The book can be used by students of political science, anthropology, religious studies, contemporary religions and new religious movements as well as by biblicists, theologians and general readers whose interests lie in understanding how issues have evolved.
Автор: Joseph Westfall Название: Authorship and Authority in Kierkegaard`s Writings ISBN: 1350163813 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350163812 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 34840.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Authorship is a complicated subject in Kierkegaard's work, which he surely recognized, given his late attempts to explain himself in On My Work as an Author . From the use of multiple pseudonyms and antonyms, to contributions across a spectrum of media and genres, issues of authorship abound.Why did Kierkegaard write in the ways he did? Before we assess Kierkegaard’s famous thoughts on faith or love, or the relationship between 'the aesthetic,' 'the ethical,' and 'the religious,' we must approach how he expressed them. Given the multi-authored nature of his works, can we find a view or voice that is definitively Kierkegaard’s own? Can entries in his unpublished journals and notebooks tell us what Kierkegaard himself thought? How should contemporary readers understand inconsistencies or contradictions between differently named authors? We cannot make definitive claims about Kierkegaard’s work as a thinker without understanding Kierkegaard’s work as an author. This collection, by leading contemporary Kierkegaard scholars, is the first to systematically examine the divisive question and practice of authorship in Kierkegaard from philosophical, literary and theological perspectives.
Автор: Miikka E. Anttila Название: Luther`s Theology of Music: Spiritual Beauty and Pleasure ISBN: 3110552159 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110552157 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 24730.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Lutheran theology is joyous spirituality, that fully appreciates the beauty of the world and is deeply affective by nature, cherishing the human emotions and imagination. Music was for Luther an excellent gift of God that was close to theology.
Автор: Pierre-Andre Stucki Название: La reciprocite et l`alternance ISBN: 3034315988 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034315982 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 66390.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: La reciprocite est habituellement concue comme une structure d'echange ou ce que l'on rend est de valeur a peu pres equivalente a ce que l'on recoit. Il en est ainsi de la traditionnelle regle d'or, «Ne fais pas a autrui ce que tu ne voudrais pas qu'il te fasse», et de la loi du Talion, «?il pour ?il, dent pour dent». L'idee tres repandue de la juste retribution exprime cette maniere de penser. Des l'origine, le christianisme fait valoir une autre optique : le don ne recompense pas forcement le merite, il arrive qu'il soit gratuit, et le pardon repond a la faute. C'est donc une interaction asymetrique qui est ainsi impliquee par cette tradition et notre logique habituelle s'en trouve deroutee. Pour pallier cette carence, le present ouvrage propose de recourir au calcul matriciel elementaire. Il y puise une petite serie de modeles assez simples et il examine s'il est plausible de les appliquer a des manifestations typiques de la pensee chretienne. Il en resulte l'idee de l'alternance : a tel moment, la conscience est focalisee sur le monde, a tel autre, sur l'ecoute de l'Evangile. Un tableau metaphysique integral est hors de portee.
