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In Lamentations, we read of the unbearable grief experienced by a
group of believers. Leslie Allen suggests the book can be read as
the script of a liturgy performed to help the people of God come to
terms with the fall of Jerusalem and the national catastrophe it
entailed. It reveals God's sometimes hidden support for those who
grieve and for their caregivers.
In this unique commentary on Lamentations, respected Old Testament
scholar and volunteer hospital chaplain Leslie Allen appropriates
this oft-neglected book of the Bible to deal with a universal
issue. Incorporating stories of pastoral encounters with hospital
patients, Allen integrates Scripture and pastoral care to present a
biblical model for helping those coping with grief. The book
includes a foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff, author of "Lament for
a Son."
Inquiring about God is the first of two volumes of Nicholas
Wolterstorff's collected papers. This volume collects
Wolterstorff's essays on the philosophy of religion written over
the last thirty-five years. The essays, which span a range of
topics including Kant's philosophy of religion, the medieval (or
classical) conception of God, and the problem of evil, are unified
by the conviction that some of the central claims made by the
classical theistic tradition, such as the claims that God is
timeless, simple, and impassible, should be rejected. Still,
Wolterstorff contends, rejecting the classical conception of God
does not imply that theists should accept the Kantian view
according to which God cannot be known. Of interest to both
philosophers and theologians, Inquiring about God should give the
reader a lively sense of the creative and powerful work done in
contemporary philosophical theology by one of its foremost
practitioners.
The modern chasm between "secular" work and "sacred" worship has
had a devastating impact on Western Christianity. Drawing on years
of research, ministry, and leadership experience, Kaemingk and
Willson explain why Sunday morning worship and Monday morning work
desperately need to inform and impact one another. Together they
engage in a rich biblical, theological, and historical exploration
of the deep and life-giving connections between labor and liturgy.
In so doing, Kaemingk and Willson offer new ways in which Christian
communities can live seamless lives of work and worship.
Practices of Belief, the second volume of Nicholas Wolterstorff's
collected papers, brings together his essays on epistemology from
1983 to 2008. It includes not only the essays which first presented
'Reformed epistemology' to the philosophical world, but also
Wolterstorff's latest work on the topic of entitled (or
responsible) belief and its intersection with religious belief. The
volume presents five new essays and a retrospective essay that
chronicles the changes in the course of philosophy over the last
fifty years. Of interest to epistemologists, philosophers of
religion, and theologians, Practices of Belief should engage a wide
audience of those interested in the topic of whether religious
belief can be responsibly formed and maintained in the contemporary
world.
Inquiring about God is the first of two volumes of Nicholas
Wolterstorff's collected papers. This volume collects
Wolterstorff's essays on the philosophy of religion written over
the last thirty-five years. The essays, which span a range of
topics including Kant's philosophy of religion, the medieval (or
classical) conception of God, and the problem of evil, are unified
by the conviction that some of the central claims made by the
classical theistic tradition, such as the claims that God is
timeless, simple, and impassible, should be rejected. Still,
Wolterstorff contends, rejecting the classical conception of God
does not imply that theists should accept the Kantian view
according to which God cannot be known. Of interest to both
philosophers and theologians, Inquiring about God should give the
reader a lively sense of the creative and powerful work done in
contemporary philosophical theology by one of its foremost
practitioners.
For a century or more political theology has been in decline.
Recent years, however, have seen increasing interest not only in
how church and state should be related, but in the relation between
divine authority and political authority, and in what religion has
to say about the limits of state authority and the grounds of
political obedience. In this book, Nicholas Wolterstorff addresses
this whole complex of issues. He takes account of traditional
answers to these questions, but on every point stakes out new
positions. Wolterstorff offers a fresh theological defense of
liberal democracy, argues that the traditional doctrine of 'two
rules' should be rejected and offers a fresh exegesis of Romans 13,
the canonical biblical passage for the tradition of Christian
political theology. This book provides useful discussion for
scholars and students of political theology, law and religion,
philosophy of religion and social ethics.
For a century or more political theology has been in decline.
Recent years, however, have seen increasing interest not only in
how church and state should be related, but in the relation between
divine authority and political authority, and in what religion has
to say about the limits of state authority and the grounds of
political obedience. In this book, Nicholas Wolterstorff addresses
this whole complex of issues. He takes account of traditional
answers to these questions, but on every point stakes out new
positions. Wolterstorff offers a fresh theological defense of
liberal democracy, argues that the traditional doctrine of 'two
rules' should be rejected and offers a fresh exegesis of Romans 13;
the canonical biblical passage for the tradition of Christian
political theology. This book provides useful discussion for
scholars and students of political theology, law and religion,
philosophy of religion and social ethics.
Practices of Belief, the second volume of Nicholas Wolterstorff's
collected papers, brings together his essays on epistemology from
1983 to 2008. It includes not only the essays which first presented
'Reformed epistemology' to the philosophical world, but also
Wolterstorff's latest work on the topic of entitled (or
responsible) belief and its intersection with religious belief. The
volume presents five new essays and a retrospective essay that
chronicles the changes in the course of philosophy over the last
fifty years. Of interest to epistemologists, philosophers of
religion, and theologians, Practices of Belief should engage a wide
audience of those interested in the topic of whether religious
belief can be responsibly formed and maintained in the contemporary
world.
This book discusses the ethics of belief that Locke developed in the last book of his Essay: how we ought to govern our opinions, especially on matters of religion and morality. Wolterstorff shows that this concern was instigated by the collapse of a once-unified moral and religious tradition in Europe into warring factions. After presenting Hume's powerful attack on Locke's recommended practice, Wolterstorff argues for Locke's originality and emphasizes his contribution to the "modernity" of post-sixteenth-century philosophy.
The canonical texts and traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam claim that God speaks, but philosophers usually mistakenly treat such speech as revelation. Wolterstorff argues that contemporary speech-action theory offers a fascinating approach to the claim. He develops an innovative theory of interpretation along the way opposing the current near-consensus of Ricoeur and Derrida that there is something wrong-headed about interpreting a text to find out what its author said.
How do you continue to find God as dementia pulls your loved one
into the darkness? Nothing is simple for a person suffering from
dementia, and for those they love. When ordinary tasks of
communication, such as using a phone, become complex, then
difficult, and then impossible, isolation becomes inevitable.
Helping becomes excruciating. In these pages philosopher Douglas
Groothuis offers a window into his experience of caring for his
wife as a rare form of dementia ravages her once-brilliant mind and
eliminates her once-stellar verbal acuity. Mixing personal
narrative with spiritual insight, he captures moments of lament as
well as philosophical and theological reflection. Brief interludes
provide poignant pictures of life inside the Groothuis household,
and we meet a parade of caregivers, including a very skilled
companion dog. Losses for both Doug and Becky come daily, and his
questions for God multiply as he navigates the descending darkness.
Here is a frank exploration of how one continues to find God in the
twilight.
Cemeteries are the repositories of history and personal narrative,
places of comfort and beauty. Beginning in 1994, photographer and
installation artist Kathy T. Hettinga began a fourteen-year project
to document an unknown body of funerary folk art displayed in the
cemeteries of the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. The book
begins with the author's story of death and loss as a young widow
living in the San Luis Valley. Years later, the beauty of the
valley was relentless in calling her back to document the places
and the ways people honor those that have died. Grave Images
recounts Hettinga's spiritual and artistic journey to find meaning
in the cemeteries of rural and largely Hispanic communities of the
San Luis Valley. Her photographs of unique grave markers made of
wood, concrete, metal, sandstone, glass and other materials by
individuals or families to commemorate the passing of loved ones
capture the ethereal beauty of the cemeteries and serve as a
touchstone for our common understanding of loss, grief, and the
need to memorialize and pay tribute. Hettinga's illuminating
narrative articulates the meaning of this visual record from the
perspective of an artist and provides religious and historical
perspectives on the San Luis Valley as final resting place. This
book will appeal to artists, art historians, ethnographers,
historians, scholars of religion and general audiences interested
in photography, folk art, and the history of the San Luis Valley.
This important book will do much to reestablish the significance of Thomas Reid for philosophy today. Nicholas Wolterstorff has produced the first systematic account of Reid's epistemology. Relating Reid's philosophy to present-day epistemological discussions the author demonstrates how they are at once remarkably timely, relevant, and provocative. There is no competing book that both uncovers the deep pattern of Reid's thought and relates it to contemporary philosophical debate. It must be read by historians of philosophy as well as all philosophers concerned with epistemology and the philosophy of mind.
Although numerous studies have examined biblical and theological
rationales for using the visual arts in worship, this book by Lisa
J. DeBoer fills in a piece of the picture missing so far - the
social dimensions of both our churches and the various art worlds
represented in our congregations. The first part of the book looks
at Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Protestantism in turn - including
case studies of specific congregations - showing how each
tradition's use of the visual arts reveals an underlying
ecclesiology. DeBoer then focuses on six themes that emerge when
Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant uses of the visual arts are
examined together - the arts as expressions of the church's local
and universal character, the meanings attributed to particular
styles of art for the church, the role of the arts in enculturating
the gospel, and more.
Since the spectacular rise of South Africa's Nelson Mandela and the
remarkable election of Barack Obama as president of the United
States, the phrase "hopeful politics" has dominated our public
discourse. But what happens when that hope disappoints? Can it be
salvaged? What is the relationship between faith, hope, and
politics? In this book Allan Boesak meditates on what it really
means to hope in light of present political realities and growing
human pain. He argues that hope comes to life only in situations of
vulnerability - in struggles for justice, dignity, and the life of
the Earth. Dare We Speak of Hope? is a critical, provocative,
prophetic - and, above all, hopeful - book.
Wide-ranging and ambitious, "Justice" combines moral philosophy
and Christian ethics to develop an important theory of rights and
of justice as grounded in rights. Nicholas Wolterstorff discusses
what it is to have a right, and he locates rights in the respect
due the worth of the rights-holder. After contending that
socially-conferred rights require the existence of natural rights,
he argues that no secular account of natural human rights is
successful; he offers instead a theistic account.
Wolterstorff prefaces his systematic account of justice as
grounded in rights with an exploration of the common claim that
rights-talk is inherently individualistic and possessive. He
demonstrates that the idea of natural rights originated neither in
the Enlightenment nor in the individualistic philosophy of the late
Middle Ages, but was already employed by the canon lawyers of the
twelfth century. He traces our intuitions about rights and justice
back even further, to Hebrew and Christian scriptures. After
extensively discussing justice in the Old Testament and the New, he
goes on to show why ancient Greek and Roman philosophy could not
serve as a framework for a theory of rights.
Connecting rights and wrongs to God's relationship with
humankind, "Justice" not only offers a rich and compelling
philosophical account of justice, but also makes an important
contribution to overcoming the present-day divide between religious
discourse and human rights.
Arguments about the "evidences of Christianity" have consumed the
talents of believers and agnostics. These arguments have tried to
give—or to deny—Christian belief a "foundation." Belief is
rational, the argument goes, only if it is logically derived from
axiomatic truths or is otherwise supported by "enough evidence."
Arguments for belief generally fail to sway the unconvinced. But is
this because the evidence is flimsy and the arguments weak—or
because they attempt to give the right answer to the wrong
question? What, after all, would satisfy Russell's all for
evidence? Faith and Rationality investigates the rich implications
of what the authors call "Calvinistic" or "Reformed epistemology."
This is the view of knowledge-enunciated by Calvin, further
developed by Barth-that sees belief in God as its own foundation;
in the authors’ terms, is it properly "basic" in itself.
Love and justice have long been prominent themes in the moral
culture of the West, yet they are often considered to be almost
hopelessly at odds with each other. In this book acclaimed
Christian philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff shows that justice and
love are perfectly compatible at heart, and he argues that the
commonly perceived tension between them reveals something faulty in
our understanding of each. This paperback publication adds a new
preface and Scripture index to the original hardcover edition.
Building upon Wolterstorff's expansive discussion of justice in his
earlier Justice: Rights and Wrongs and charitably engaging
alternate views, this book focuses in profound ways on the complex
yet ultimately harmonious relation between justice and love.
Arguments about the "evidences of Christianity" have consumed the
talents of believers and agnostics. These arguments have tried to
give-or to deny-Christian belief a "foundation." Belief is
rational, the argument goes, only if it is logically derived from
axiomatic truths or is otherwise supported by "enough evidence."
Arguments for belief generally fail to sway the unconvinced. But is
this because the evidence is flimsy and the arguments weak-or
because they attempt to give the right answer to the wrong
question? What, after all, would satisfy Russell's all for
evidence? Faith and Rationality investigates the rich implications
of what the authors call "Calvinistic" or "Reformed epistemology."
This is the view of knowledge-enunciated by Calvin, further
developed by Barth-that sees belief in God as its own foundation;
in the authors' terms, is it properly "basic" in itself.
This book offers a new approach by combining the disciplines of
history, psychology, and religion to explain the suicidal element
in both Western culture and the individual, and how to treat it.
Ancient Greek society displays in its literature and the lives of
its people an obsessive interest in suicide and death. Kaplan and
Schwartz have explored the psychodynamic roots of this problem--in
particular, the tragic confusion of the Greek heroic impulse and
its commitment to unsatisfactory choices that are destructively
rigid and harsh. The ancient Hebraic writings speak little of
suicide and approach reality and freedom in vastly different terms:
God is an involved parent, caring for his children. Therefore,
heroism, in the Greek sense, is not needed nor is the individual
compelled to choose between impossible alternatives. In each of the
first three sections, the authors discuss the issues of suicide
from a comparative framework, whether in thought or myth, then the
suicide-inducing effects of the Graeco-Roman world, and finally,
the suicide-preventing effects of the Hebrew world. The final
section draws on this material to present a suicide prevention
therapy. Historical in scope, the book offers a new psychological
model linking culture to the suicidal personality and suggests an
antidote, especially with regard to the treatment of the suicidal
individual.
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Natasha Duquette; Foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff
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