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Truth Therapy (Paperback)
Peter J Bellini; Foreword by Howard A Snyder
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The X-Manual (Paperback)
Peter J Bellini; Foreword by Stephen A. Seamands
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The X-Manual (Hardcover)
Peter J Bellini; Foreword by Stephen A. Seamands
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Unleashed (Paperback)
Peter J Bellini; Foreword by Mark Chironna, Randy Clark
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Unleashed (Hardcover)
Peter J Bellini; Foreword by Mark Chironna, Randy Clark
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This is an in-depth analysis of the malaise of contemporary Western
civilization, based upon its modern and post modern ideological and
philosophical underpinnings. And, from that grounding, it is a
study that proceeds to offer a cogent diagnosis of an (if not the)
intellectual problem lying at its epicenter.The author identifies
that challenge as the demise of a concern for ontology amid a
preoccupation with epistemology which, as he demonstrates,
characterizes the philosophical consensus dominating that
civilization, particularly since the Enlightenment. The author sets
forth as a valuable resource for remedying that dilemma an Eastern
ascetic theologian, who is shown to provide resource for rethinking
a theology of mission for the present day, viewed within the
parameters of the theology of John Wesley. Bellini's work addresses
all of the above, and does so within the framework of recovering
the apostolic concept of participation in Christ, from the
standpoint of what he calls a Radical Orthodoxy perspective. In
short, this is a study that does not stop with a cogent cultural
evaluation and critique, but also offers a prescriptive response.
He finds in Maximus the Confessor a "participatory view of
ontology, in continuity with a Christological ontology of
participation," which has special relevance for the global
Christianity of the twenty first century. Following Maximus, as
well as Wesley's prevenient grace, Bellini champions a worldview
that discerns within every culture some "point of similarity" or
contact, "however vague, wounded or fallen," with the universal
witness of the Holy Spirit.
Depression is difficult to define. It is commonly described as a
chemical imbalance, a subjective experience of despondency, or even
a semiotic construct. The various theories of
depression-biochemical, psychological, cultural-often reflect one's
philosophical anthropology. How one defines the human person is
telling in how one defines mental disorder. Philosophy and the
sciences tend to offer reductive explanations of what it means to
be human, and such approaches rarely consider that we may be
spiritual beings and so fail to entertain a theological
approach.Peter J. Bellini invites us to reimagine the person in
light of the image of God in Christ, the divine enfleshed in human
weakness. The Cerulean Soul responds to real challenges in the
sciences and philosophy and offers a relational theological
anthropology shaped by a cruciform framework that assumes and
affirms human contingency, limitation, and fallenness. With
reference to Christ's incarnation, Bellini reveals how depression
is inexorably tied to our relationship with God as his created
beings: original, fallen, and renewed. Despondency serves as a
biosocial and spiritual marker for our human weakness, brokenness,
and spiritual struggle for meaning and wholeness. Further, it is a
call to grow, to be restored, and to be made holy in the image of
God in Christ. What emerges is a therapeia of the imago for
depression that fills the gaps in our present attempts to determine
the malady's etiology and treatment. Taking the missio Dei of union
with the risen Christ as its goal, The Cerulean Soul opens up the
perennial problem of human despondency to an eschatological
trajectory of hope and peace, redemption and transformation, given
freely in Christ through the healing and sanctifying work of the
Holy Spirit. Christoformity, informed by the subversive kingdom of
God, gives new form to all persons, "abled" and "disabled".
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