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Making Memory (Hardcover)
Alana Vincent; Foreword by David Jasper
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The central themes of this collection of essays are the mystery of
time past, present and future, and the problem of redemption. They
are concerned with modern literature, with the threat of
meaninglessness in the postmodern condition, and with the
possibility of salvation. In an age of deferral and difference,
this book addresses itself to eschatology and apocalypse, and
redemption in, through, but particularly of, time itself. Hell and
madness are never far away, yet the refiguration of time and the
breaking in of the transcendent continue to suggest theological
possibilities beyond the wastelands of the twentieth century. To
those possibilities we look in hope.
This exploration of the relationship between literature and
religion adopts a series of different strategies and perspectives,
aiming to provide an introduction to the variety of ways in which
literature, literary theory and theology are related. The doctrine
of the Resurrection, morality and ethics, aesthetics, hermeneutics
and issues of intentionality and referentiality are all discussed
in the belief that, in literature, we glimpse at times the
fulfilment of our nature, cast in the imaginative genius of great
art and continuing to persuade us of the value and ultimate truth
of the theological enterprise.
This volume is the fourth instalment of the 'Report on the state of
the European Union' series. Its shows that if the EU does not want
to be ruled by crisis any longer, it must invest in sustainability,
political, economic, social and environmental. Europe must turn
this elusive and ever-threatening 'crisis' into a chosen and
meaningful transition.
This volume is both a tribute to and study of the French economist
Jean-Paul Fitoussi. Fitoussi's pluralistic scholarship has shaped
modern macroeconomics, political economy, economics of inequality
and, more recently, the economics of sustainability.
Contemporary thought is marked by heated debates about the
character, purpose and form of religious thinking and its relation
to a range of ideals: spiritual, moral, aesthetic, political and
ecological, to name the obvious. This book addresses the
interrelation between theological thinking and the complex and
diverse realms of human ideals. What are the ideals appropriate to
our moment in human history, and how do these ideals derive from or
relate to theological reflection in our time? In Theological
Reflection and the Pursuit of Ideals internationally renowned
scholars from a range of disciplines (physics, art, literary
studies, ethics, comparative religion, history of ideas, and
theology) engage with these crucial questions with the intention of
articulating a new and historically appropriate vision of
theological reflection and the pursuit of ideals for our global
times.
In 1879, the late medieval poem now known as The Lay Folks' Mass
Book - a guide to the Mass -- was edited for the Early English Text
Society by Canon Thomas Frederick Simmons. It remains the standard
edition of what, to modern tastes, can seem a simple work of
conventional Middle English devotion. Yet, as this book shows, the
poem had a remarkable afterlife. The authors demonstrate how
Simmons' interest in and presentation of the text was related
profoundly to contemporary concerns and heated debates about
worship in the Church of England, at a time when Anglican clergymen
could be imprisoned for their ritual practices. Simmons, educated
at Oxford during the height of the Oxford Movement, was recognised
by contemporaries as a leading authority on liturgy, a topic that
troubled prime ministers as well as archbishops, and the authors
bring out the ways in which Simmons himself used his medievalist
researches as the basis for what was to be the most important
attempt at Prayer Book revision between the Reformation and the
twentieth century.
This book examines a number of landmark shifts in our account of
the relationship between human and divine existence, as reflected
through the perception of time and corporeal experience. Drawing
together some of the best scholars in the field, this book provides
a representative cross-section of influential trends in the
philosophy of religion (e.g. phenomenology, existential thought,
Biblical hermeneutics, deconstruction) that have shaped our
understanding of the body in its profane and sacred dimensions as
site of conflicting discourses on presence and absence,
subjectivity and the death of the subject, mortality, resurrection
and eternal life.
Examining the roots of the relationship between literature and
theology, this book offers the first serious attempt to probe the
deep theological purposes of the study of literature. Through an
exploration of themes of evil, forgiveness, sacrament and what it
means to be human, David Jasper draws from international research
and discussions on literature and theology and employs an
historical and profoundly personal journey through the later part
of the last century up to the present time. Combining fields such
as bible and literature, poetry and sacrament, this book sheds new
light on how Christian theology seeks to remain articulate in our
global, secular and multi-faith culture.
This book examines a number of landmark shifts in our account of
the relationship between human and divine existence, as reflected
through the perception of time and corporeal experience. Drawing
together some of the best scholars in the field, this book provides
a representative cross-section of influential trends in the
philosophy of religion (e.g. phenomenology, existential thought,
Biblical hermeneutics, deconstruction) that have shaped our
understanding of the body in its profane and sacred dimensions as
site of conflicting discourses on presence and absence,
subjectivity and the death of the subject, mortality, resurrection
and eternal life.
Contemporary thought is marked by heated debates about the
character, purpose and form of religious thinking and its relation
to a range of ideals: spiritual, moral, aesthetic, political and
ecological, to name the obvious. This book addresses the
interrelation between theological thinking and the complex and
diverse realms of human ideals. What are the ideals appropriate to
our moment in human history, and how do these ideals derive from or
relate to theological reflection in our time? In Theological
Reflection and the Pursuit of Ideals internationally renowned
scholars from a range of disciplines (physics, art, literary
studies, ethics, comparative religion, history of ideas, and
theology) engage with these crucial questions with the intention of
articulating a new and historically appropriate vision of
theological reflection and the pursuit of ideals for our global
times.
Examining the roots of the relationship between literature and
theology, this book offers the first serious attempt to probe the
deep theological purposes of the study of literature. Through an
exploration of themes of evil, forgiveness, sacrament and what it
means to be human, David Jasper draws from international research
and discussions on literature and theology and employs an
historical and profoundly personal journey through the later part
of the last century up to the present time. Combining fields such
as bible and literature, poetry and sacrament, this book sheds new
light on how Christian theology seeks to remain articulate in our
global, secular and multi-faith culture.
The essays in this book represent ten years of the work of the
Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology and the Arts in the
University of Glasgow. Seemingly diverse, they are bound together
by a common belief that theology flourishes in an interdisciplinary
and transcultural environment. It cannot be an abstract concern,
but is rooted in political circumstances, and responds to
developments in society and the arts. That is why there are essays
on film and contemporary artists like Mona Hatoum, as well as more
traditional studies of theology read through and in literature. The
Centre has always been an international meeting place, and
contributions range well beyond the Western Christian, seeking new
roots for theological thinking in the arts and culture of a
postmodern world.
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that
spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more
short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including
biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than
three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious
critical edition of her work.
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (1828-97) had a wide-ranging and
prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote
some 98 novels, over fifty short stories, twenty-five works of
non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European
cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. As the
self-styled 'general utility woman' for Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine, often contributing both fiction and literary reviews to
the same issue, she became a major critical voice for her
generation. Her influence, usually cast on the side of 'the common
reader', was such that it provoked fellow novelists such as Anthony
Trollope, Henry James and Thomas Hardy to savage fictional
portraits by way of retaliation. The scholarly interest that her
work now receives is hampered by difficulty in accessing the full
range of her oeuvre: whilst her most famous fictional series, 'The
Chronicles of Carlingford', together with a handful of her tales of
the supernatural, have gone in and out of print in recent years,
the bulk of her fiction and critical writing remains uncollected.
This is the most ambitious scholarly critical edition of Oliphant's
work ever undertaken.
The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology is a
defining volume of essays in which leading international scholars
apply an interdisciplinary approach to the long and evolving
relationship between English Literature and Theology. The volume
first offers a chronological account of key moments in the
formation of the tradition; goes on to demonstrate literary ways of
reading the Bible, theological ways of reading literature, and
literary conceptions of theological texts; and finally explores the
great themes that have preoccupied the Jewish and Christian
traditions. Framing editorial essays describe the history, the
cultural implications, and the methodological issues of this now
popular interdisciplinary study, before speculating as to its
possible futures in a postmodern, multicultural world.
This volume is both a tribute to and study of the French economist
Jean-Paul Fitoussi. Fitoussi's pluralistic scholarship has shaped
modern macroeconomics, political economy, economics of inequality
and, more recently, the economics of sustainability.
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