|
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Theology
Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983), founder of Reconstructionism and
the rabbi who initiated the first Bat Mitzvah, also produced the
longest Jewish diary on record. In twenty-seven volumes, written
between 1913 and 1978, Kaplan shares not only his reaction to the
great events of his time but also his very personal thoughts on
religion and Jewish life. In Communings of the Spirit: The Journals
of Mordecai M. Kaplan Volume III, 1942-1951, readers experience his
horror at the persecution of the European Jews, as well as his joy
in the founding of the State of Israel. Above all else, Kaplan was
concerned with the survival and welfare of the Jewish people. And
yet he also believed that the well-being of the Jewish people was
tied to the safety and security of all people. In his own words,
"Such is the mutuality of human life that none can be saved, unless
all are saved". In the first volume of Communings of the Spirit,
editor Mel Scult covers Kaplan's early years as a rabbi, teacher of
rabbis, and community leader. In the second volume, readers
experience the economic problems of the 1930s and their shattering
impact on the Jewish community. The third volume chronicles
Kaplan's spiritual and intellectual journey in the 1940s. With
candour and vivid detail, Kaplan explores his evolving beliefs
concerning a democratic Judaism; religious naturalism; and the
conflicts, uncertainties, and self-doubts he faced in the first
half of the twentieth century, including his excommunication by the
ultra-Orthodox in 1945 for taking a more progressive approach to
the liturgy. In his publications, Kaplan eliminated the
time-honored declarations of Jewish chosen-ness as well as the
outdated doctrines concerning the resurrection of the dead. He
wanted a prayer book that Jews could feel reflected their beliefs
and experiences; he believed that people must mean what they say
when they pray. Kaplan was a man of contradictions, but because of
that, all the more interesting and significant. Scholars of Judaica
and rabbinical studies will value this honest look at the
preeminent American Jewish thinker and rabbi of our times.
This reader shows why Edward Schillebeeckx remains one of the most
influential Catholic theologians of the 20th century. Spanning more
than half a century and including several texts that appear in
English for the first time, it enables students to understand how
Edward Schillebeeckx's thought resonates with current debates in
theology, for instance on ecology and secularization. T&T Clark
Reader in Edward Schillebeeckx includes selections from both pre-
and post-Conciliar texts that illustrate the evolution in
Schillebeeckx's thought, while also pointing towards the deep
underlying continuity which comes from his essential commitment to
his faith. His Christological Trilogy, which was a touchstone for
doctrinal controversy and methodological progress, is represented
here, as well as important works on ministry, the sacraments,
hermeneutics, secularization, and the environment. These complex
theological topics are broken down in every chapter with the help
of explanatory notes, discussion questions and further reading
suggestions. This reader is an essential resource which will enable
students to contextualize and unpack the rich layers within
Schillebeeckx's theology.
 |
The Nightingale
(Hardcover)
Saint Bonaventure; Translated by Robert Nixon
|
R549
R504
Discovery Miles 5 040
Save R45 (8%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
A thought-provoking contribution to the renaissance of interest in
Bergson, this study brings him to a new generation of readers.
Ansell-Pearson contends that there is a Bergsonian revolution, an
upheaval in philosophy comparable in significance to those that we
are more familiar with, from Kant to Nietzsche and Heidegger, that
make up our intellectual modernity. The focus of the text is on
Bergson's conception of philosophy as the discipline that seeks to
'think beyond the human condition'. Not that we are caught up in an
existential predicament when the appeal is made to think beyond the
human condition; rather that restricting philosophy to the human
condition fails to appreciate the extent to which we are not simply
creatures of habit and automatism, but also organisms involved in a
creative evolution of becoming. Ansell-Pearson introduces the work
of Bergson and core aspects of his innovative modes of thinking;
examines his interest in Epicureanism; explores his interest in the
self and in time and memory; presents Bergson on ethics and on
religion, and illuminates Bergson on the art of life.
Winner of the 2022 Nautilus Book Award in Religion / Spirituality
of Western Thought (#24B) Mark Clavier examines a series of
paradoxes that lie at the heart of Christian faith: eternity and
time, silence and words, and wonder and the commonplace. In an
intellectual reflection on an overnight trek on Cadair Idris in
Wales and other wilderness walks, he explores the oft-hidden
connections between faith, society, and nature. Each reflection
ranges widely through history, folklore, poetry, philosophy, and
theology to consider what these paradoxes can teach us about God,
ourselves, and our world. Drawing on the recent upsurge in interest
in the personal experience of landscapes and memory, this book
invites readers to walk with Clavier in the Appalachians, Norway,
Iceland, the Alps, and around Britain as he discovers the ways in
which Christianity is profoundly earthed. By weaving together
nature-writing, memoir, social commentary, and theological
reflection A Pilgrimage of Paradoxes uses a memorable mountain
journey in the ancient landscape of Wales to draw readers into
reflecting about what it means to belong. Please find the study
guide for this book here:
https://convivium-brecon.com/a-pilgrimage-of-paradoxes/
Did Jesus want there to be a Church that would continue his work?
What is her message, what constitutes it? How should the Church
proclaim the gospel of Christ? What structure is there for the
sacred, the mystery? In this book Paul Avis presents his answer to
these questions as a fruit of more than twenty years of research
and reflection. He argues that there is something solid and
dependable at the foundation of the Church's life and mission. The
Church is often battered and divided, but at its core is a treasure
that is indestructible.Jesus did want a church in a sense, but not
as we know it. What is clear is that Jesus himself proclaimed the
gospel of the Kingdom and that his disciples proclaimed the gospel
whose content was Jesus Christ himself, the Kingdom in person. So a
chapter is devoted to the relationship between the Church and the
gospel that it confesses. A complementary approach to the mystery
of Christianity is the quest for the essence of Christianity, a
classic gambit of modern theology. The last major study of this
question was by Stephen Sykes in 1984 and that left several matters
hanging in the air. This quest brings us back to Jesus with the
formula, 'Christianity is Christ'. But this proves to be not the
simplistic slogan that it first appears, as it opens up into a set
of concepts that elucidate the structure of Christian belief, the
texture of faith. When these are articulated in a critical way,
they reveal the abiding structure of Christian theology, in which
certain polarities (nature and grace, reason and revelation,
immanence and transcendence) are inescapable. But the more we probe
these, the more we come up against the limits of human thought
about the divine, so the book concludes with a reflection on
paradox and mystery.
|
|