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Ethology to the ancients was the study of character; to the moderns
it is the study of human beings through the behavioural patterns of
animals. These studies in fact have a common genealogy with
classical writers convinced that the dimorphism of gender was
naturally ordered with all its consequent inequalities in strength,
virtue and above all in the location of reason. In the encounter
between Jesus and the Syrophoenician women in the Gospel of Mark
this ethology dominates the story. Women are described as dogs.
This highly original work utilises the common emphases of ancient
and modern ethology to unlock new dimensions of the story. It
demonstrates that in the Syrophoenician critique of Jesus,
delivered by a woman and her daughter, exalted reason must yield
its monopoly to the equally privileged life of the body. The author
is a New Testament Biblical Scholar at Australian Cathollic
Univeristy in Canberra, Australia. The book won the Lynlea Rodger
Australasian Theological Book Prize in 2009 for the best
Theological Book written in 2008/2009.
The object of this book is to provide an opportunity for voices of
other religions to be heard as Australia celebrates its first
Catholic saint, Mary MacKillop of the Cross. It is the first
publication that seeks to bring together a representative
collection of contributions. Here are reflections on sainthood and
heroes of faith from within different religious traditions and
different Christian denominations. The direction given to
contributors was that they illustrate how holy persons and heroes
are esteemed in their own tradition and how this might frame that
tradition's appreciation of Mary MacKillop. From this, it is hoped
that the collection will provide an example of how she might
contribute to the wider Australian religious landscape. Herein, the
reader will find critical yet appreciative reflections from
Catholic and Seventh Day Adventist to Jewish and Muslim writers.
Some have taken the brief as an opportunity to reveal more of the
heroes and saints of their own tradition and how they came to be
esteemed. Others have directly described how their own tradition
esteems saints and heroes in general in order to bring distinct and
evocative appreciations of Mary MacKillop, now given hues from a
Protestant, Orthodox or Lutheran palette. But whether Baptist or
Anglican or traditions beyond Christianity, the writers have
extended the capacity of Australians to appreciate Mary MacKillop
as an Australian saint and hero, albeit remaining within a
religious framework.
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Fragments of Colossae (Paperback)
Cabra Collective Cabra Collective, Alan Cadwallader
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R1,411
R742
Discovery Miles 7 420
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An engagingly visual guide book to a lost city from a scholar at
the forefront of research on Colossae. Alan Cadwallader distils
information, insights and interpretation into a rich collection of
evidence from Colossae and its environs, giving us access to a
fascinating and under-researched city. Together with a significant
chapter by Rosemary Canavan, Cadwallader's often ground-breaking
work gives us unprecedented access into the life and context of
this city. A book for all who enjoy time travel with expert guides!
The previous volume of essays, Five Uneasy Pieces was warmly
received. People of faith and spirituality were looking for
liberating understandings of the Bible in engagement with their own
sexualities and those of friends, family and beyond. The book
demonstrated clearly that oppressive uses of selected texts from
the Bible were invalid. But more is needed. The obligation upon
scriptural scholars is to establish scripture s hospitable
inclusion of those whose sexual identities have been subjected to
such oppression. Pieces of Ease and Grace retrieves biblical texts
as actively embracing gays and lesbians within the community of
faith. Their stories profoundly intersect with those of scripture.
Here is a collection of biblical essays on sexuality and welcome
that restores the Bible as a book of grace to those whose sexual
identities had previously been lost, or condemned, in
interpretation.
The previous volume of essays, Five Uneasy Pieces was warmly
received. People of faith and spirituality were looking for
liberating understandings of the Bible in engagement with their own
sexualities and those of friends, family and beyond. The book
demonstrated clearly that oppressive uses of selected texts from
the Bible were invalid. But more is needed. The obligation upon
scriptural scholars is to establish scripture s hospitable
inclusion of those whose sexual identities have been subjected to
such oppression. Pieces of Ease and Grace retrieves biblical texts
as actively embracing gays and lesbians within the community of
faith. Their stories profoundly intersect with those of scripture.
Here is a collection of biblical essays on sexuality and welcome
that restores the Bible as a book of grace to those whose sexual
identities had previously been lost, or condemned, in
interpretation.
Alan Cadwallader explores the intricate tensions and conflicts that
infused the work of revision of the Authorised Version of the Bible
between 1870 and 1885. The Promethean aspirations of the venture
actually generated one of the most bitter instances of the
political manoeuvres involved in the translation of a sacred book.
Cadwallader reveals how the public avowal of unity and fraternal
harmony that accompanied the public release and marketing of the
New Testament revision in 1881 and the Old Testament revision in
1885, masks fraught historical realities that threatened the
realization of the project from the beginning. Through a thorough
examination of private correspondence, notebooks kept by various
members of the New Testament Revision Companies in England and the
United States, and other previously unstudied primary sources,
Cadwallader examines and presents the complexities of the political
situation surrounding the translation. He exposes the competing
interests of an imperial, sovereign nation and a seriously divided
Established Church floundering over its continued relevance; the
ambitions and significance of Nonconformity in a nation's highly
contested religious environment; the agonistic conflicts that
erupted from assertions of national and international prestige and
responsibilities; and the ultimate control exercised by publishing
houses that fundamentally flawed the process of revision and the
public acceptance of the final product.
Alan Cadwallader explores the intricate tensions and conflicts that
infused the work of revision of the Authorised Version of the Bible
between 1870 and 1885. The Promethean aspirations of the venture
actually generated one of the most bitter instances of the
political manoeuvres involved in the translation of a sacred book.
Cadwallader reveals how the public avowal of unity and fraternal
harmony that accompanied the public release and marketing of the
New Testament revision in 1881 and the Old Testament revision in
1885, masks fraught historical realities that threatened the
realization of the project from the beginning. Through a thorough
examination of private correspondence, notebooks kept by various
members of the New Testament Revision Companies in England and the
United States, and other previously unstudied primary sources,
Cadwallader examines and presents the complexities of the political
situation surrounding the translation. He exposes the competing
interests of an imperial, sovereign nation and a seriously divided
Established Church floundering over its continued relevance; the
ambitions and significance of Nonconformity in a nation's highly
contested religious environment; the agonistic conflicts that
erupted from assertions of national and international prestige and
responsibilities; and the ultimate control exercised by publishing
houses that fundamentally flawed the process of revision and the
public acceptance of the final product.
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Fragments of Colossae (Hardcover)
Cabra Collective Cabra Collective, Alan Cadwallader
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R1,644
R873
Discovery Miles 8 730
Save R771 (47%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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An engagingly visual guide book to a lost city from a scholar in
the forefront of research on Colossae. Alan Cadwallader distils
information, insights and interpretation into a rich collection of
evidence from Colossae and its environs, giving us access to a
fascinating and under-researched city. Together with a significant
chapter by Rosemary Canavan, Cadwallader's often ground-breaking
work gives us unprecedented access into the life and context of
this city. A book for all who enjoy time travel with expert guides!
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