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The existence of God as demonstrated from motion has preoccupied
men in every age, and still stands as one of the critical questions
of philosophic inquiry. The four thinkers Father Buckley discusses
were selected because their methods of reasoning exhibit sharp
contrasts when they are juxtaposed. Originally published in 1971.
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Already Scripture asks many questions regarding anthropological
problems. In the 20th century, the scholarly field of anthropology
has become a lot more complex heuristically, methodically and
hermeneutically. Therefore, modern research needs to answer arisen
questions considering a wide range of disciplines: Sociology,
Philosophy, Ethics and also Empirical Research. This volume is an
interdisciplinary project within theology. Contributions seek to
not only reflect the state of the art in anthropological research
from a theological point of view, but also provide a theological
interpretation of one virulent question: What is a Human?
In the face of globalized ecological and economic crises, how do
religion, the postsecular, and political theology reconfigure
political theory and practice? As the planet warms and the chasm
widens between the 1 percent and the global 99, what thinking may
yet energize new alliances between religious and irreligious
constituencies? This book brings together political theorists,
philosophers, theologians, and scholars of religion to open
discursive and material spaces in which to shape a vibrant
planetary commons. Attentive to the universalizing tendencies of
"the common," the contributors seek to reappropriate the term in
response to the corporate logic that asserts itself as a universal
solvent. In the resulting conversation, the common returns as an
interlinked manifold, under the ethos of its multitudes and the
ecology of its multiplicity. Beginning from what William Connolly
calls the palpable "fragility of things," Common Goods assembles a
transdisciplinary political theology of the Earth. With a nuance
missing from both atheist and orthodox religious approaches, the
contributors engage in a multivocal conversation about sovereignty,
capital, ecology, and civil society. The result is an unprecedented
thematic assemblage of cosmopolitics and religious diversity; of
utopian space and the time of insurrection; of Christian socialism,
radical democracy, and disability theory; of quantum entanglement
and planetarity; of theology fleshly and political.
A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors
draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and
psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from
our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. They explain what
happened to the goddess, when, and how she was excluded from
western culture, and the implications of this loss.
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Daughter Zion
(Paperback)
Joseph Ratzinger; Translated by J.M. McDermott
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This volume makes available for the first time in English full
translations of Book 1 of Peter Lombard's "Sentences," the work
that would win the greatest teacher of the twelfth century a place
in Dante's Paradise and would continue to excite generations of
students well beyond the Middle Ages.
The restless heart and searching mind of this influential early
church father can offer spiritual and intellectual companionship
for your spiritual journey. Augustine of Hippo (354–430),
theologian, priest, and bishop, is one of the most important
figures in the development of Western Christianity. He is known as
much for his long interior struggle that ended with conversion and
baptism at age thirty-two as for his influential teachings on human
will, original sin and the theology of just war. Cherished as a
model for the pursuit of a life of spiritual grace and criticized
for his theory of predestination, Augustine is recognized as a
living expression of the passion to understand and communicate the
deeper meanings of human experience. With fresh translations drawn
from Augustine's voluminous writings and probing facing-page
commentary, Augustinian scholar Joseph T. Kelley, PhD, provides
insight into the mind and heart of this foundational Christian
figure. Kelley illustrates how Augustine’s keen intellect,
rhetorical skill and passionate faith reshaped the theological
language and dogmatic debates of early Christianity. He explores
the stormy religious arguments and political upheavals of the fifth
century, Augustine’s controversial teachings on predestination,
sexuality and marriage, and the deep undercurrents of Augustine’s
spiritual quest that still inspire Christians today.
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All These Vows
- Kol Nidre
(Paperback)
Catherine Madsen, Annette M Boeckler, Eliezer Diamond, Ellen M. Umansky, Erica Brown, …
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Including a Foreword by The Rt Revd Dr Graham Tomlin, this volume
examines the theology and practice of baptism. It contains a
narrative introduction that highlights the different approaches
taken to baptism, and the various issues that come with them. The
volume also covers how the changing cultural context within Britain
has influenced responses to baptism. At the heart of the book is a
detailed examination of the theme of covenant running through the
Bible and how this shapes its understanding of baptism. Gordon
Kuhrt and his son Stephen explore several controversial issues
associated with baptism. Believing in Baptism contains an in-depth
discussion of the sacramental issues surrounding baptismal
'efficacy', for instance, as well as infant or family baptism. The
authors also examine the 'Baptist' view, discrimination in Baptism
and the issue of 'Rebaptism'. Finally, they consider the issue of
'Baptism and its Completion?', and make practical recommendations
on the ways in which baptism should be taught and lived in the
local church.
In this fascinating and rare little book, a leading Italian
feminist philosopher and the Archbishop of Milan face off over the
contemporary meaning of the biblical commandment not to kill. The
result is a series of erudite and wide-ranging arguments that move
from murder and suicide to just war and drone strikes, from
bioethics and biopolitics to hermeneutics and philology, from
Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer to Hannah Arendt and Michel
Foucault, from Torah and Scripture to art and literature, from the
essence of human dignity and the paradoxes of fratricide to
engagements with Levinasian ethics. Less a direct debate than a
disputation in the classical sense, Thou Shalt Not Kill proves to
be a searching meditation on one of the unstated moral premises
shared by otherwise bitterly opposed political factions. It will
stimulate the mind of the novice while also reminding more advanced
readers of the necessity and desirability of thinking in the
present.
In this first English translation of the prize-winning Dutch title
Leven is Een Kunst, Paul van Tongeren creates a new kind of virtue
ethics, one that centres on how to 'live well' in our contemporary
world. While virtue ethics is based on the moral philosophy of
Aristotle, it has had many interpretations and iterations
throughout history and features prominently in the thinking of the
Stoics, Christian narratives and the writings of Nietzsche. The Art
of Living Well explores and expands upon these traditions, using
them as a basis to form a new interpretation; one that foregrounds
art and creativity as paramount to the struggle to act in an
authentic and moral way. Acting as both a clear introduction to
virtue ethics and moral philosophy and a serious work of original
philosophy, this book connects philosophy with real lived
experience and tackles, head-on, the perennial philosophical
question: 'how do we live well?'
This book was written during the lockdown caused by the Covid
crisis: streets were emptied, churches closed down, and all of a
sudden we began to hear the sounds of nature. A new relationship
with nature developed in which new questions arose: is God present
in nature? Is communion with God in nature possible? Is there a
relationship between the God of creation, the God of history and
the God we worship in Sunday liturgies. This book seeks to explore
some of these questions by going back to the Bible. In the Old
Testament it discovers texts that talk about Nature praising God.
In the Christian tradition it shows that nature is understood as a
living community, is graced by God, and has a sacramental character
to it. More particularly the Incarnation of the Word made flesh in
Jesus is of profound significance for a new understanding of nature
and the way we worship. The Incarnation reveals the integrity of
nature, the sacred character of the natural world and the presence
of some form of 'interiority' in the life of nature An awareness of
nature praising God stands out as a rebuke of humanity's
self-absorption at the expense of other creatures, a critique of a
man-centred view of liturgy, and an invitation to join the cosmic
choir in giving glory to God . The overall result of these
explorations is the outline of a new theology of nature praising
God, with lessons for the way we worship God in our churches today.
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