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Jewish philosophy is often presented as an addendum to Jewish religion, rather than as a rich and varied tradition in its own right. This volume explores the entire scope and variety of Jewish philosophy from the Bible as a source for philosophical interpretation up to Jewish feminist thought. It includes: * detailed discussions of the most important Jewish philosophers, from Moses Maimonides to Spinoza and Leo Strauss * chapters on key concepts in Jewish thought, such as mysticism, orthodoxy or zionism * descriptions of the social and cultural contexts in which Jewish philosophical thought developed throughout the centuries * a detailed and extensive bibliography * contributions by 40 leading experts from Britain, Israel and the United States The links between Jewish philosophy and its wider cultural context emerge, so that an accurate view of the place of Jewish philosophy in the development of philosophy as a whole results.
Authors of the Middle Ages is a series designed for research and
reference. The aim is to combine, in one compact work, a biography
of a medieval author with all the information needed for further
research. The series is divided into two sub-series. The first,
edited by M.C. Seymour, focuses on EnglishWriters of the Late
Middle Ages and the second, edited by Patrick Geary, deals with
Historical and Religious Writers of the Latin West. William Caxton
was the first English printer and publisher of printed books. He
translated many books into English and by the prologues and
epilogues added to many of his printed works he helped to establish
literary tastes and fashions at the end of the medieval period. The
life of Reginald Peacock, bishop, heretic and author, reflects the
many controversies of 15th-century England. Drawing on many
contemporary sources and based on fresh research. Wendy Scase
offers a new interpretation of an enigmatic writer. Douglas Gray
traces the lives of the two poets Robert Henryson and William
Dunbar. Among the several distinguished poets of late-medieval
Scotland. Henryson stands out for his humanity, learned wit and
imaginitive power; while Dunbar was one of the most spectacular,
flamboyant and versatile Scottish poets of the Middle Ages. This
study gives an account of the little that is known of their lives
and extensively details both their works and later scholarship.
John Capgrave (1393-1464) was an Augustinian friar, Cambridge
theologian, hagiographer and chronicler who became Prior Provincial
of his order. His life, presented here in the light of fresh
research and with full documentation, illuminates the importance of
the order in the troubled times of mid 15th-century England.
Most people, when they ponder what it means to be loved by God, do
not think God-centred thoughts. They think of the things that God
does for us but which, in their minds, don't have God as the
satisfying centre. But it wouldn't be loving of God to give us
everything but himself - and so his love doesn't do that. It gives
us himself for our enjoyment, and it gives us other things as means
of knowing him better and loving him more. In John Piper's
reflective, paradigm-challenging book, he drives home the point
that what is most loving about God is not his making much of us,
but his enabling us, at great cost to himself, to enjoy making much
of him forever.
This book examines the emergence of self-knowledge as a determining
legal consideration among the rabbis of Late Antiquity, from the
third to the seventh centuries CE. Based on close readings of
rabbinic texts from Palestine and Babylonia, Ayelet Hoffmann Libson
highlights a unique and surprising development in Talmudic
jurisprudence, whereby legal decision-making incorporated personal
and subjective information. She examines the central legal role
accorded to individuals' knowledge of their bodies and mental
states in areas of law as diverse as purity laws, family law and
the laws of Sabbath. By focusing on subjectivity and
self-reflection, the Babylonian rabbis transformed earlier legal
practices in a way that cohered with the cultural concerns of other
religious groups in Late Antiquity. They developed sophisticated
ideas about the inner self and incorporated these notions into
their distinctive discourse of law.
Volume II of the AUTHORS OF THE MIDDLE AGES series contains nos.
5-6 in the series: 'Peter Abelard' by Constant J. Mews and
'Honorius Augustodunensis' by V.I.J. Flint. PETER ABELARD
(1079-1142) was one of the most creative and controversial thinkers
of the 12th century. This study traces his life as a logician and
theologian, paying particular attention to the many scholarly
debates provoked by the Historia calamitatum and the celebrated
exchange of letters with Heloise. It contains a full survey of his
writings, listing the manuscripts in which they occur. HONORIUS
AUGUSTODUNENSIS, c. 1098-c. 1140, one of the most prolific and
widely read authors of the early 12th century, was a passionate
proselytiser on behalf of the Benedictines. This study sets out the
extraordinary features of his career and the nature of the battle
he fought through his writings. Few of his works have appeared in
modern editions, this study gives short accounts of each and their
manuscripts.
The Companion Encyclopedia of Theology provides a comprehensive guide to modern theological thought. An international team of theologians and practitioners of both Christian and Jewish faiths investigate and consider aspects of theology in 48 self-contained articles. Neither partisan and denominational, nor detached and abstract, this Companion explores the resources and applications of theology in the light of Christianity's place in the modern world. The Structure The Companion Encyclopedia of Theology is divided into six parts. The first three deal with major foundational aspects of Western theological reflection: * the Hebrew and Christian Bible * the Tradition * the contribution of Philosophy The second half of the Companion is concerned with application: * in relation to Spirituality * in relation to contemporary Ethics * in relation to issues in and aspects of present-day theological construction The 48 essays are descriptive, informative and analytical; their wide-ranging content is bound into a unified perspective by the editors' general introduction and the introductions to each of the six parts. At the end of each article, there are suggestions for further reading and the work is concluded with a comprehensive index. This Companion Encyclopedia is a valuable source of reference for students, teachers and both lay and clerical practitioners of Christian and Jewish theology. Key Features * Broad Coverage - contains 48 in-depth essays covering both the history and application of Western theological thought * International Authorship - written in non-technical language by a distinguished team of editors and authors from both Christian and Jewish faiths * Balanced Approach - discusses and analyses the key issues without imposing any single viewpoint * Clearly Presented - at the end of each article, there are suggestions for further reading and the work contains a comprehensive index eBook available with sample pages: 0203414039
This volume, the second in the series of Marie-Therese d'Alverny's
selected articles to be published by Variorum, gathers the majority
of her studies on the understanding of Islam in the West from the
early Middle Ages until the mid-13th century; some related works
will be included in a further selection. In the 12th century, as
she shows, a serious effort was for the first time made to learn
something of the reality behind the fabulous and scurrilous stories
about Muhammad and Islam. A collection of translations from Arabic,
including the Koran, was commissioned in 1140 by Peter the
Venerable of Cluny, and d'Alverny found the manuscript in which his
secretary wrote these out. This discovery led her to explore other
translations into Latin of the Koran and other Islamic texts, to
identify the work of the translators Hermann of Carinthia, Robert
of Ketton and Mark of Toledo, and to depict the milieu in which
this work was possible.
Controversy, especially religious controversy, was the great
spectator sport of Victorian England. This work is a study of the
biggest and best of Victorian religious controversies. Essays and
Reviews (1860) was a composite volume of seven authors (six of them
Anglican clergymen) which brought England its first serious
exposure to biblical criticism. It evoked a controversy lasting
four years, including articles in newspapers, magazines and
reviews, clerical and episcopal censures, a torrent of tracts,
pamphlets and sermons, followed by weightier tomes (and reviews of
all these), prosecution for heresy in the ecclesiastical courts,
appeal to the highest secular court, condemnation by the
Convocation of the clergy and a debate in Parliament. Essays and
Reviews was the culmination and final act of the Broad Church
movement. Outwardly the conflict ended inconclusively; at a deeper
level, it marked the exhaustion both of the Broad Church and of
Anglican orthodoxy and the commencement of an era of religious
doubt. This controversy illustrates the pathology of Victorian
religion in its demonstration of the propensity to controvert and
the methods of controversialists. It is both the greatest Victorian
crisis of faith and the best case study of Victorian religious
controversy.
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Acts
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Craig S. Keener
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Discovery Miles 9 980
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As the earliest narrative source for the origins of Christianity,
Acts is of unrivalled importance for understanding early
Christianity and the mission that originally brought it from Judea
and Galilee to gentiles, and even the heart of the Roman Empire.
This volume is an abridged version of Keener's monumental,
four-volume commentary on Acts, the longest and one of the most
thorough engagements with Acts in its ancient setting. Sensitive to
the work's narrative unity, Keener's commentary is especially known
for its direct engagement with the wide range of ancient Jewish and
Greco-Roman sources. The original commentary cited some 45,000
references from ancient extrabiblical sources to shed light on the
Book of Acts. This accessible edition, aimed at students, scholars,
and pastors, makes more widely available the decades of research
that Keener has devoted to one of the key texts of Early
Christianity.
This study contributes to the debate over the function of Davidic
sonship in the Gospel of Mark. In contrast to William Wrede's
paradigm, Max Botner argues that Mark's position on Jesus's
ancestry cannot be assessed properly though isolated study of the
name David (or the patronym son of David). Rather, the totality of
Markan messiah language is relevant to the question at hand.
Justification for this paradigm shift is rooted in observations
about the ways in which ancient authors spoke of their messiahs.
Botner shows that Mark was participant to a linguistic community
whose members shared multiple conventions for stylizing their
messiahs, Davidic or otherwise. He then traces how the evangelist
narratively constructed his portrait of Christ via creative use of
the Jewish scriptures. When the Davidssohnfrage is approached from
within this sociolinguistic framework, it becomes clear that Mark's
Christ is indeed David's son.
This book, a record of the Clark Conference sponsored by the APA,
consists of a series of papers on psychoanalytic education. The
book is dedicated to the memory of Helen Block Lewis, who realized
the necessity for detailed re-examination and further development
of all ideas in psychoanalysis.
This book reflects on major themes present at the interface between
religion and human security in Africa. It probes the extent to
which religion is both a threat to and a resource for human
security in Africa by examining specific issues occurring across
the continent. A team of contributors from across Africa provide
valuable reflections on the conceptualisation and applicability of
the concept of human security in the context of religion in Africa.
Chapters highlight how themes such as knowledge systems, youth,
education, race, development, sacred texts, the media, sexual
diversity, health and others have implications for individual and
group security. In order to bring these themes into perspective,
chapters in the first section reflect on the conceptual, historical
and contextual factors at play. The chapters that follow
demonstrate the theories put forward by means of case studies from
countries such as Zimbabwe, Kenya, Botswana and Ghana that look at
African religion, Islam and Christianity. This is a detailed and
informative volume that provides new insights into the discourse on
religion and human security. As such, it will be of significant use
to any scholar of Religion and Violence, Religion in Africa and
Religious Studies, as well as African and Security Studies more
generally.
What has Luce Irigaray's statement that women need a God to do with
her thoughts on the relation between body and mind, or the sensible
and the intelligible?
Using the theological notion 'incarnation' as a hermeneutical key,
Anne-Claire Mulder brings together and illuminates the
interrelations between these different themes in Luce Irigaray's
work. Seesawing between Luce Irigaray's critique of philosophical
discourse and her constructive philosophy, Mulder elucidates
Irigaray's thoughts on the relations between 'becoming woman' and
'becoming divine'. She shows that Luce Irigaray's restaging of the
relation between the sensible and the intelligible, between flesh
and Word, is key to her reinterpretation of the relation between
woman and God. In and through her interpretation of Luce Irigaray's
thoughts on the flesh she argues that the relation between flesh
and Word must be seen as a dialectical one, instead of as a
dualistic relation. This means that 'incarnation' is no longer seen
as a one-way process of Word becoming flesh, but as a continuing
process of flesh becoming word and word becoming flesh. For all
images and thoughts - including those of 'God' - are produced by
the flesh, divine in its creativity inexhaustibility, in response
to the touch of the other. And these images, thoughts, words in
turn become embodied, by touching and moving the flesh of the
subject.
This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume "A History
of Religious Ideas." Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought
out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the
Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffusion of Islam
from approximately the sixth through the seventeenth centuries.
Eliade's vast knowledge of past and present scholarship provides a
synthesis that is unparalleled. In addition to reviewing recent
interpretations of the individual traditions, he explores the
interactions of the three religions and shows their continuing
mutual influence to be subtle but unmistakable.
As in his previous work, Eliade pays particular attention to
heresies, folk beliefs, and cults of secret wisdom, such as alchemy
and sorcery, and continues the discussion, begun in earlier
volumes, of pre-Christian shamanistic practices in northern Europe
and the syncretistic tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. These
subcultures, he maintains, are as important as the better-known
orthodoxies to a full understanding of Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam.
After 9/11, many writers have posited the relationship between
Islam and violence as either elemental or anomalous. Khaleel
Mohammed defines Islam as transcending the usual understanding of
religion, being instead like a 'sacred canopy' that provides
meaning for every aspect of life. In addition, he shows that
violence has both physical and psychological dimensions and
expounds at length on jihad. He traces the term's metamorphosis of
meaning from a struggle in any worthy cause to war and finally to
its present-day extension to include martyrdom and terrorism.
Finally, he covers the dimensions of violence in the Islamic law
and the institutional patriarchy.
This account of evil takes the Book of Job as its guide. The Book
of Job considers physical pain, social bereavement, the origin of
evil, theodicy, justice, divine violence, and reward. Such problems
are explored by consulting ancient and modern accounts from the
fields of theology and philosophy, broadly conceived. Some of the
literature on evil - especially the philosophical literature - is
inclined toward the abstract treatment of such problems. Bringing
along the suffering Job will serve as a reminder of the concrete,
lived experience in which the problem of evil has its roots.
The unsettling language of blood has been invoked throughout the
history of Christianity. But until now there has been no truly
sustained treatment of how Christians use blood to think with.
Eugene F. Rogers Jr. discusses in his much-anticipated new book the
sheer, surprising strangeness of Christian blood-talk, exploring
the many and varied ways in which it offers a language where
Christians cooperate, sacrifice, grow and disagree. He asks too how
it is that blood-talk dominates when other explanations would do,
and how blood seeps into places where it seems hardly to belong.
Reaching beyond academic disputes, to consider how religious
debates fuel civil ones, he shows that it is not only theologians
or clergy who engage in blood-talk, but also lawmakers, judges,
generals, doctors and voters at large. Religious arguments have
significant societal consequences, Rogers contends; and for that
reason secular citizens must do their best to understand them.
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