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This volume explores the ways in which Jerusalem is represented in
Psalms - from its position in the context of liturgical and pilgrim
songs to its role as metaphor. Jerusalem in the Book of Psalms is
the site of scenes of redemption, joy, and celebration of the
proximity to God and the house of the Lord. But it is also the
quintessential locus of loss, marked by cries over the devastating
destruction of the Temple. These two antithetical poles of
Jerusalem are expressed in both personal terms as well as within a
collective framework. The bulk of the articles are devoted to
questions of reception, to the ways in which the geographies of the
Book of Psalms have travelled across their native bounds and
entered other historical settings, acquiring new forms and
meanings.
Are we looking mostly to please God or ourselves? The myth of
Narcissus describes a young man who dies because he falls in love
with his own reflection. When surrounded by the Narcissistic
messages of contemporary societyyouve got to believe in yourself we
need to listen to a Bible teacher from a past age who can drag us
back to reflecting less on ourselves and more on God. Jonathan
Edwards, perhaps the greatest of all American Bible teachers, was
so God-centered. In The God-Centered Life, Dr. Josh Moody calls us
to listen to Edwards in order that we might stop living for
ourselves and start living the God-centered life. How to do church,
teach the Bible, have a healthy family, deal with failure, engage
postmodernism, assess spiritual experiences and more are envisioned
through the eyes of Jonathan Edwards with freshness and
accessibility. A study guide is included and further resources can
be found at . Josh Moody (PhD, University of Cambridge) is Senior
Pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, New Haven, Connecticut, serving
the Yale community and surrounding New England region. He is also
the author of Authentic Spirituality and Jonathan Edwards and the
Enlightenment. The God-Centered Life is a graced prescription for
truly engaging todays culture.... R. Kent Hughes, Senior Pastor
Emeritus, College Church in Wheaton Tremendous. Extremely
well-written. It will be a blessing for many.... I heartily commend
this work as a timely and valuable resource.... David S. Dockery,
President, Union University Josh Moody is uniquely qualified to
bring the reader along the path of a greater joy of knowing God and
loving God through a person whose life was ablaze for this Triune
God of glory and grace.Paul Lim, Assistant Professor of the History
of Christianity, Vanderbilt University Potent, thoughtful, and
constructive.... R. Albert Mohler, Jr., President, Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary At last, someone who stands in the tradition
of Edwards as a pastor-scholar, interpreting and applying the
lessons from Jonathan Edwards for today.... E. David Cook, Holmes
Professor, Wheaton College, Fellow, Green College, Oxford I
recommend this book most highly, praying that Josh Moodys labors
will encourage the kinds of Edwards influenced lives and
congregations that our world so desperately needs.... Douglas A.
Sweeney, Associate Professor of Church History, Trinity Evangelical
Divinity School Josh Moody (PhD, University of Cambridge) is Senior
Pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, New Haven, Connecticut, serving
the Yale community and surrounding New England region. He is also
the author of Authentic Spirituality and Jonathan Edwards and the
Enlightenment.
The Karamazov Correspondence: Letters of Vladimir S. Soloviev
represents the first fully annotated and chronologically arranged
collection of the Russian philosopher-poet's most important
letters, the vast majority of which have never before been
translated into English. Soloviev was widely known for his close
association with Fyodor M. Dostoevsky in the final years of the
novelist's life, and these letters reflect many of the qualities
and contradictions that also personify the title characters of
Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov. The
selected letters cover all aspects of Soloviev's life, ranging from
vital concerns about human rights and the political and religious
turmoil of his day to matters related to family and friends, his
love life, and early drafts of his works, including poetic
endeavors.
This edited volume discusses critically discursive claims about the
theological foundations connecting Islam to certain manifestations
of violent extremism. Such claims and associated debates become
even more polarizing when images of violent acts of terrorism
performed in the name of Islam circulate in the global media. The
authors argue that the visibility of such mediated violent
extremism, in particular since the emergence of ISIS, has created a
major political and security challenge not only to the world but
also to the global Muslim community. This is particularly true in
relation to the way Islam is being understood and characterized in
the modern world. Existing studies on radicalization generally deal
with causes and strategies to address violent extremism. The book
will appeal to scholars, researchers and students in political
science, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.
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Karl Barth and Comparative Theology
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Martha L. Moore-Keish, Christian T. Collins Winn; Contributions by Chris Boesel, Francis X. Clooney, Christian T. Collins Winn, …
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Building on recent engagements with Barth in the area of theologies
of religion, Karl Barth and Comparative Theology inaugurates a new
conversation between Barth's theology and comparative theology.
Each essay brings Barth into conversation with theological claims
from other religious traditions for the purpose of modeling deep
learning across religious borders from a Barthian perspective. For
each tradition, two Barth-influenced theologians offer focused
engagements of Barth with the tradition's respective themes and
figures, and a response from a theologian from that tradition then
follows. With these surprising and stirringly creative exchanges,
Karl Barth and Comparative Theology promises to open up new
trajectories for comparative theology. Contributors: Chris Boesel,
Francis X. Clooney, Christian T. Collins Winn, Victor Ezigbo, James
Farwell, Tim Hartman, S. Mark Heim, Paul Knitter, Pan-chiu Lai,
Martha L. Moore-Keish, Peter Ochs, Marc Pugliese, Joshua Ralston,
Anantanand Rambachan, Randi Rashkover, Kurt Richardson, Mun'im
Sirry, John Sheveland, Nimi Wariboko
In Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian
Religious Thought, Jennifer Newsome Martin offers the first
systematic treatment and evaluation of the Swiss Catholic
theologian's complex relation to modern speculative Russian
religious philosophy. Her constructive analysis proceeds through
Balthasar's critical reception of Vladimir Soloviev, Nicholai
Berdyaev, and Sergei Bulgakov with respect to theological
aesthetics, myth, eschatology, and Trinitarian discourse and
examines how Balthasar adjudicates both the possibilities and the
limits of theological appropriation, especially considering the
degree to which these Russian thinkers have been influenced by
German Idealism and Romanticism. Martin argues that Balthasar's
creative reception and modulation of the thought of these Russian
philosophers is indicative of a broad speculative tendency in his
work that deserves further attention. In this respect, Martin
consciously challenges the prevailing view of Balthasar as a
fundamentally conservative or nostalgic thinker. In her discussion
of the relation between tradition and theological speculation,
Martin also draws upon the understudied relation between Balthasar
and F. W. J. Schelling, especially as Schelling's form of Idealism
was passed down through the Russian thinkers. In doing so, she
persuasively recasts Balthasar as an ecumenical, creatively
anti-nostalgic theologian hospitable to the richness of
contributions from extra-magisterial and non-Catholic sources.
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Sisters in Mourning
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Su Yon Pak, Mychal B Springer; Foreword by Mary Gordon
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Debates about the unique, the singular, and the individual raise
epistemological, hermeneutical, metaphysical, ethical, and
theological problems. They are often discussed in separate
discourses without attention to the multiple relationships that
exist among these issues. This volume seeks to remedy this by
linking three areas of discussion: the theological and metaphysical
debates about divine uniqueness, the epistemological and
hermeneutical debates about issues of singularity and
(in)comparability, and the ethical debates about issues of human
individuality and ethical formation. Taken together, this
highlights the complex background of the current singularity debate
and shows that it is worth paying attention to debates in other
fields where similar questions are explored in a different way.
Jung's correspondence with one of the twentieth century's leading
theologians and ecumenicists On Theology and Psychology brings
together C. G. Jung's correspondence with Adolf Keller, a
celebrated Protestant theologian who was one of the pioneers of the
modern ecumenical movement and one of the first religious leaders
to become interested in analytical psychology. Their relationship
spanned half a century, and for many years Keller was the only
major religious leader to align himself with Jung and his ideas.
Both men shared a lifelong engagement with questions of faith, and
each grappled with God in his own distinctive way. Presented here
in English for the first time are letters that provide a rare look
at Jung in dialogue with a theologian. Spanning some fifty years,
these letters reveal an extended intellectual and spiritual
discourse between two very different men as they exchange views on
the nature of the divine, the compatibility of Jungian psychology
and Christianity, the interpretation of the Bible and figures such
as Jesus and Job, and the phenomenon of National Socialism.
Although Keller was powerfully attracted to Jung's ideas, his
correspondence with the famed psychiatrist demonstrates that he
avoided discipleship. Both men struggled with essential questions
about human existence, spirituality, and well-being, and both
sought common ground where the concerns of psychologists and
theologians converge. Featuring an illuminating introduction by
Marianne Jehle-Wildberger, On Theology and Psychology offers
incomparable insights into the development of Jung's views on
theology and religion, and a unique window into a spiritual and
intellectual friendship unlike any other.
"His Hiding Place is Darkness" explores the uncertainties of faith
and love in a pluralistic age. In keeping with his conviction that
studying multiple religious traditions intensifies rather than
attenuates religious devotion, Francis Clooney's latest work of
comparative theology seeks a way beyond today's religious and
interreligious uncertainty by pairing a fresh reading of the
absence of the beloved in the Biblical Song of Songs with a
pioneering study of the same theme in the Holy Word of Mouth (9th
century CE), a classic of Hindu mystical poetry rarely studied in
the West.
Remarkably, the pairing of these texts is grounded not in a general
theory of religion, but in an engagement with two unexpected
sources: the theopoetics, theodramatics, and theology of the
20th-century Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the
intensely perceived and written poetry of Pulitzer Prize winner
Jorie Graham. How we read and write on religious matters is
transformed by this rare combination of voices in what is surely a
unique and important contribution to comparative studies and
religious hermeneutics.
This volume provides an overview of the nature and scope of the
concept of Sunna both in pre-modern and modern Islamic discussions.
The main focus is on shedding more light on the context in which
the term Sunna in the major works of Islamic law and legal theory
across all of the major madhahib was employed during the first six
centuries Hijri.
A groundbreaking new theory of religion Religion remains an
important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are
still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. This
book advances an innovative theory of religion that goes beyond the
problematic theoretical paradigms of the past. Drawing on the
philosophy of critical realism and personalist social theory,
Christian Smith explores why humans are religious in the first
place-uniquely so as a species-and offers an account of
secularization and religious innovation and persistence that breaks
the logjam in which religious scholarship has been stuck for so
long. Certain to stimulate debate and inspire promising new avenues
of scholarship, Religion features a wealth of illustrations and
examples that help to make its concepts accessible to readers. This
superbly written book brings sound theoretical thinking to a
perennially thorny subject, and a new vitality and focus to its
study.
The book considers some of the solutions proposed by Muslim
activists and thinkers in their attempts to renew (tajdid) their
ways of life and thought in accord with the demands of the age in
which they lived. The two ways of reacting are studied - the
movements led by men of action and inspiration, and the thoughts of
quietist scholars who laid greater emphasis on calm continuity.
These two streams have often collided and particularly so in the
contemporary age of greater violence. Other related problems are
also considered: how a non-Muslim should regard the religion of the
'other'; the ways modernization have been dealt with; and the two
root causes of Muslim 'rage' today - the invasions of the West and
the failure to reach an equitable solution to the problem of
Palestine. Building on the author's sixty-year experience
researching the history of Islam, the book will appeal to students
and scholars across the fields of Islamic studies, religious
history and Middle Eastern politics.
This book offers an in-depth presentation of traditional Jewish
approaches to interpersonal conflict resolution. It examines the
underlying principles, prescriptive rules, and guidelines that are
found in the Jewish tradition for the prevention, amelioration, and
resolution of interpersonal conflicts, without the assistance of
any type of third-party intermediary. Among the topics discussed
are the obligations of pursuing peace and refraining from
destructive conflict, Rabbinic perspectives on what constitutes
constructive/destructive conflict, judging people favorably and
countering negative judgmental biases, resolving conflict through
dialogue, asking and granting forgiveness, and anger management. It
also includes detailed summaries of contemporary approaches to
interpersonal conflict resolution, theories and research on
apologies and forgiveness, and methods of anger management.
Through examining Douglass's and Fanon's concrete experiences of
oppression, Cynthia R. Nielsen demonstrates the empirical validity
of Foucault's theoretical analyses concerning power, resistance,
and subject-formation. Going beyond merely confirming Foucault's
insights, Douglass and Fanon expand, strengthen, and offer
correctives to the emancipatory dimensions of Foucault's project.
Unlike Foucault, Douglass and Fanon were not hesitant to make
transhistorical judgments condemning slavery and colonization.
Foucault's reticence here signals a weakness in his account of
human being. This weakness sets him at cross-purposes not only with
Scotus, but also with Douglass and Fanon. Scotus's anthropology
provides a basis for transhistorical moral critique; thus he is a
valuable dialogue partner for those concerned about social justice
and human flourishing.
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