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Internationally acclaimed theologian Graham Ward is well known for
his thoughtful engagement with postmodernism. This volume, the
fourth in The Church and Postmodern Culture series, offers an
engaging look at the political nature of the postmodern world.
In the first section, "The World," Ward considers "the signs of the
times" and the political nature of contemporary postmodernism. It
is imperative, he suggests, that the church understand the world to
be able to address it thoughtfully. In the second section, "The
Church," he turns to practical application, examining what faithful
discipleship looks like within this political context. Clergy and
those interested in the emerging church will find this work
particularly thought provoking.
From two times number one Sunday Times bestselling author, James
Smith, comes HOW TO BE CONFIDENT – the third instalment in
James’ no-nonsense guides to gaining the tools to empower your
decision-making and change your life. Now, more than ever, we are
so often lost within a cycle of negativity – from comparing
ourselves to others and doom scrolling on social media, to a
paralysis of choice and chasing external gratification that does
nothing to nurture authentic happiness. We need confidence to
master our true ambitions, realise our genuine strengths, and
achieve the life we need, but might not know we want. Luckily, with
his candid, no-nonsense advice, experience, and passion, James is
here to lead the way.
In this addition to the acclaimed The Church and Postmodern Culture
series, leading practical theologian Christian Scharen examines the
relationship between theology and its social context. He engages
with social theorist Pierre Bourdieu to offer helpful theoretical
and theological grounding to those who want to reflect critically
on the faith and practice of the church, particularly for those
undertaking ministry internships or fieldwork assignments. As
Scharen helps a wide array of readers to understand the social
context of doing theology, he articulates a vision for the church's
involvement with what God is doing in the world and provides
concrete examples of churches living out God's mission.
This book is devoted to the reintroduction of the remarkable
approach to sociological inquiry developed by Harvey Sacks. Sacks's
original analyses - concerned with the lived detail of action and
language-in-interaction, discoverable in members' actual activities
- demonstrated a means of doing sociology that had previously
seemed impossible. In so doing, Sacks provided for highly
technical, detailed, yet stunningly simple solutions to some of the
most trenchant troubles for the social sciences relating to
language, culture, meaning, knowledge, action, and social
organisation. In this original collection, scholars working in a
range of different fields, including sociology, human geography,
communication and media studies, social psychology, and
linguistics, outline the ways in which their work has been
inspired, influenced, and shaped by Sacks's approach, as well as
how their current research is taking Sacks's legacy forward in new
directions. As such, the collection is intended to provide both an
introduction to, and critical exploration of, the work of Harvey
Sacks and its continued relevance for the analysis of contemporary
society.
How do the arts inform and cultivate our service to God? In this
addition to an award-winning series, distinguished philosopher
Bruce Ellis Benson rethinks what it means to be artistic. Rather
than viewing art as practiced by the few, he recovers the ancient
Christian idea of presenting ourselves to God as works of art,
reenvisioning art as the very core of our being: God calls us to
improvise as living works of art. Benson also examines the nature
of liturgy and connects art and liturgy in a new way. This book
will appeal to philosophy, worship/liturgy, art, music, and
theology students as well as readers interested in engaging issues
of worship and aesthetics in a postmodern context, including
Christian artists and worship leaders.
In this addition to the award-winning Church and Postmodern Culture
series, respected theologian Daniel Bell compares and contrasts
capitalism and Christianity, showing how Christianity provides
resources for faithfully navigating the postmodern global economy.
Bell approaches capitalism and Christianity as alternative visions
of humanity, God, and the good life. Considering faith and
economics in terms of how desire is shaped, he casts the conflict
as one between different disciplines of desire. He engages the work
of two important postmodern philosophers, Deleuze and Foucault, to
illuminate the nature of the postmodern world that the church
currently inhabits. Bell then considers how the global economy
deforms desire in a manner that distorts human relations with God
and one another. In contrast, he presents Christianity and the
tradition of the works of mercy as a way beyond capitalism and
socialism, beyond philanthropy and welfare. Christianity heals
desire, renewing human relations and enabling communion with God.
All you need to know about the theory and practice of teaching
primary science. If you are training to be a primary school
teacher, a knowledge of the primary science curriculum is not
enough, you need to know HOW to teach science in primary schools.
This is the essential teaching theory and practice text for primary
science. It takes a focused look at the practical aspects of
teaching and covers the important skills of classroom management,
planning, monitoring and assessment, and relates them specifically
to primary science. This new edition now includes a new chapter on
creative curriculum approaches.
*The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller James Smith has already changed
thousands of lives with his international phenomenon Not A Diet
Book. Are you ready to change yours? Are you sick of always wearing
black and getting undressed in the dark? Are you fixated with a
number on the scales? Are you afraid to step into the gym and
commit to a routine? Is your confidence at an all-time low? Is all
of this having a negative impact on your life, relationships and
happiness? With every tool you'll ever need to learn to reset your
current mindset and attitude towards your diet and training,
chapters include: * Fat loss versus muscle gain * Metabolism and
'body types' * Protein targets and calorie tracking * Common
fitness fallacies * Female fat loss * Supplements * Training versus
exercising * The importance of sleep * Forming habits This book
will put you back in control. It is not a fad diet or a short-term
training plan. It will empower you to adopt better habits that will
allow you to take charge of your life.
Christianity Today Book Award Winner The digital revolution has
ushered in a series of sexual revolutions, all contributing to a
perfect storm for modern relationships. Online dating, social
media, internet pornography, and the phenomenon of the smartphone
generation have created an avalanche of change with far-reaching
consequences for sexuality today. The church has struggled to
address this new moral ecology because it has focused on clarity of
belief rather than quality of formation. The real challenge for
spiritual formation lies in addressing the underlying moral
intuitions we carry subconsciously, which are shaped by the
convictions of our age. In this book, a fresh new voice offers a
persuasive Christian vision of sex and relationships, calling young
adults to faithful discipleship in a hypersexualized world. Drawing
from his pastoral experience with young people and from
cutting-edge research across multiple disciplines, Jonathan Grant
helps Christian leaders understand the cultural forces that make
the church's teaching on sex and relationships ineffective in the
lives of today's young adults. He also sets forth pastoral
strategies for addressing the underlying fault lines in modern
sexuality.
The follow up to James Smith's international number one bestseller,
Not a Diet Book. Do you love your job? Does your future excite you?
Are your relationships working for you? In this book, James Smith
is back to challenge everything you thought you knew about the path
to fulfilment and happiness. With hard-hitting home truths and a
helping of tough love, be prepared to reset your outlook, redefine
your goals and unlock your potential. Now, more than ever, is the
time to take back control. Are you ready to change your life?
This book is devoted to the reintroduction of the remarkable
approach to sociological inquiry developed by Harvey Sacks. Sacks's
original analyses - concerned with the lived detail of action and
language-in-interaction, discoverable in members' actual activities
- demonstrated a means of doing sociology that had previously
seemed impossible. In so doing, Sacks provided for highly
technical, detailed, yet stunningly simple solutions to some of the
most trenchant troubles for the social sciences relating to
language, culture, meaning, knowledge, action, and social
organisation. In this original collection, scholars working in a
range of different fields, including sociology, human geography,
communication and media studies, social psychology, and
linguistics, outline the ways in which their work has been
inspired, influenced, and shaped by Sacks's approach, as well as
how their current research is taking Sacks's legacy forward in new
directions. As such, the collection is intended to provide both an
introduction to, and critical exploration of, the work of Harvey
Sacks and its continued relevance for the analysis of contemporary
society.
Following his successful "Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?" leading
Christian philosopher James K. A. Smith introduces the
philosophical sources behind postliberal theology. Offering a
provocative analysis of relativism, Smith provides an introduction
to the key voices of pragmatism: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Richard
Rorty, and Robert Brandom.
Many Christians view relativism as the antithesis of absolute truth
and take it to be the antithesis of the gospel. Smith argues that
this reaction is a symptom of a deeper theological problem: an
inability to honor the contingency and dependence of our
creaturehood. Appreciating our created finitude as the condition
under which we know (and were made to know) should compel us to
appreciate the contingency of our knowledge without sliding into
arbitrariness. Saying "It depends" is not the equivalent of saying
"It's not true" or "I don't know." It is simply to recognize the
conditions of our knowledge as finite, created, social beings.
Pragmatism, says Smith, helps us recover a fundamental Christian
appreciation of the contingency of creaturehood.
This addition to an acclaimed series engages key thinkers in modern
philosophy with a view to ministry and addresses the challenge of
relativism in a creative, original way.
How does Christianity change the way we view the natural world? In
this addition to a critically acclaimed series, renowned theologian
Norman Wirzba engages philosophers, environmentalists, and cultural
critics to show how the modern concept of nature has been deeply
problematic. He explains that understanding the world as creation
rather than as nature or the environment makes possible an
imagination shaped by practices of responsibility and gratitude,
which can help bring healing to our lands and communities. By
learning to give thanks for creation as God's gift of life,
Christians bear witness to the divine love that is reconciling all
things to God. Named a "Best Theology Book of 2015," Englewood
Review of Books "Best Example of Theology in Conversation with
Urgent Contemporary Concerns" for 2015, Hearts & Minds
Bookstore
The 1930s is frequently seen as a unique moment in British literary
history, a decade where writing was shaped by an intense series of
political events, aesthetic debates, and emerging literary
networks. Yet what is contained under the rubric of 1930s writing
has been the subject of competing claims, and therefore this
Companion offers the reader an incisive survey covering the
decade's literature and its status in critical debates. Across the
chapters, sustained attention is given to writers of growing
scholarly interest, to pivotal authors of the period, such as
Auden, Orwell, and Woolf, to the development of key literary forms
and themes, and to the relationship between this literature and the
decade's pressing social and political contexts. Through this, the
reader will gain new insight into 1930s literary history, and an
understanding of many of the critical debates that have marked the
study of this unique literary era.
The late James Smith was a polymath scholar and critic, known to a
large circle of readers for one or two critical articles of great
weight and acuteness. As a busy professor in the University of
Fribourg, he published very little more, but was working all his
life on two uncompleted books, one on Shakespeare, one on the
tradition of English literature. At his death, a good deal was in
draft. Originally published in 1974, this volume, edited by
Professor E. M. Wilson, presents a coherent body of essays on
Shakespeare's comedies, and adds at the end five of the essays for
which Smith was already well known. This is more than a literary
memorial to a highly self-critical scholar who published little. It
is a body of studies which was welcomed and prized by those
familiar with Smith's name. New readers meanwhile will find in this
principal critical work the expression of a vigorous and sensitive
critical mind.
This book is an important study of European love poetry from Dante
to Milton. It contrasts some of the ways whereby major Renaissance
poets express a conflict between sensual love and spiritual love.
For these poets love arouses metaphysical disquiet, throwing into
relief the frailties and contradictions of human nature. The
argument grows out of a close comparison of passages in Dante's
Divina Comedia, and Milton's Paradise Lost. The extensive survey of
conceptions of sacred and secular love is the basis for studies of
other major texts: Petrarch's I Trionfi, Michelangelo's love poems,
Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Donne's love
poetry and prose writings, Caroline lyrics, Vaughan's Silex
Scintillans, and Milton's Paradise Regained. Though presenting a
wide-ranging account of the evolution of ideas of love from the
twelfth to the seventeenth century, the book is essentially
concerned with the way in which contrasting attitudes are
experienced and proved in the poetry, and contribute to each poet's
distinctive understanding of love.
This book examines the philosophical foundations of the realist
view of the progress of science as cumulative. It is a view that
has recently been faced with a number of powerful attacks in which
successive scientific theories are seen, not as extending their
scope and honing their explanations, but as incommensurable. There
is, it is held, in principle no way of establishing that they are
about the same things. From the voluminous literature on the topic,
Dr Smith has selected relevantly and incisively and his exposition
of the contending arguments is vigourous and clear, without undue
technicality. As an explication and defence of realism it will
interest all those concerned with this basic question in the
philosophy of science and the philosophy of language.
The Lost Ethnographies reports on the methodological lessons learnt
from ethnographic projects that, viewed superficially, failed.
Experienced researchers write about projects they planned, and were
excited about, which then never began, had to be abandoned, or took
such unexpected directions that it became a different piece of work
altogether. The topics and settings are varied and disparate, but
the lessons learnt have important similarities. This collection
focuses on absences; topics and settings that remain under
researched; taken for granted aspects of social life that have not
been scrutinized, and finally the potential insights that are
gained when absences are carefully examined and explored. Readers
will learn a great deal about research design, fundraising, writing
up, access negotiations, serendipity in the field, and the complex
interaction between the body and the brain of the ethnographer and
the realities of ethnographic research. Maximising learning from
the 'failings' of ourselves and of others is the positive message
of the collection. The most poignant chapters are those in which
the author 'returns' to reread and reflect on a past project;
something that is not done often enough, partly because it can be
painful. The accounts of projects which had to be abandoned or
radically changed offer hope to researchers facing difficulties in
their own investigations. These reflections, on projects that were
never even begun, show how to gain fresh energy and social science
insight from apparent rejection, and the collection approaches the
whole concept of lost ethnography in provocative ways.
The philosophies of French thinkers Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault
form the basis for postmodern thought and are seemingly at odds
with the Christian faith. However, James K. A. Smith claims that
their ideas have been misinterpreted and actually have a deep
affinity with central Christian claims.
Each chapter opens with an illustration from a recent movie and
concludes with a case study considering recent developments in the
church that have attempted to respond to the postmodern condition,
such as the "emerging church" movement. These case studies provide
a concrete picture of how postmodern ideas can influence the way
Christians think and worship.
This significant book, winner of a "Christianity Today" 2007 Book
Award, avoids philosophical jargon and offers fuller explanation
where needed. It is the first book in the Church and Postmodern
Culture series, which provides practical applications for
Christians engaged in ministry in a postmodern world.
Explores the drama of proximity and co-presence in Shakespeare's
plays Key Features Brings together the rare pairing of
philosophical ethics and performance studies in Shakespeare's plays
Engages with the thought of philosophers including Ludwig
Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, Paul Ricoeur, Stanley Cavell, and
Emmanuel Levinas This book celebrates the theatrical excitement and
philosophical meanings of human interaction in Shakespeare. On
stage and in life, the face is always window and mirror,
representation and presence. It examines the emotional and ethical
surplus that appears between faces in the activity and performance
of human encounter on stage. By transitioning from face as noun to
verb - to face, outface, interface, efface, deface, sur-face -
chapters reveal how Shakespeare's plays discover conflict, betrayal
and deception as well as love, trust and forgiveness between faces
and the bodies that bear them.
The High North is a groundbreaking collection of essays that shakes
up widely accepted narratives about marijuana legalization in
Canada. Featuring contributions from cannabis scholars and
“practitioners,” activists and advocates, these pieces examine
public policy on cannabis, assess consumer perceptions, and revisit
the history of the legalization movement. From the first appearance
of cannabis in Canada and the advent of current-day dispensaries,
to the mental health implications of legal weed and the plight of
workers in the cannabis economy, The High North offers a
comprehensive critique of the many aspects of legalization.
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All six episodes from the fourth series of the award-winning BBC
satirical political comedy drama written and directed by Armando
Iannucci. In this series, world-weary Secretary of State for Social
Affairs, Peter Mannion (Roger Allam), is none too enthusiastic
about launching his Coalition partner Fergus (Geoffrey
Streatfield)'s new 'Networked Nation' policy. Meanwhile, over in
the opposition camp, attack-dog policy enforcer Malcolm Tucker
(Peter Capaldi) continues his relentless quest to undermine/oust
newly installed leader, Nicola Murray MP (Rebecca Front).
All you need to know about the theory and practice of teaching
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This is the essential teaching theory and practice text for primary
science. It takes a focused look at the practical aspects of
teaching and covers the important skills of classroom management,
planning, monitoring and assessment, and relates them specifically
to primary science. This new edition now includes a new chapter on
creative curriculum approaches.
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